GIP

[doyle]

As part of the Alice in Wonderland/Rabbithole day craziness, sdwolfpup's journal has been turned over to the pure love of Buffy and Owen (from season 1's Never Kill a Boy on the First Date)

This works out nicely for me, because I love the episode, love Owen and his proto-Rileyness, and I got to snag me a snazzy new icon. Offy 4eva.

:ponders what might have been:


ETA: suddenly thought of a variation on the rants meme. Sort of. Gimme a pairing, I'll burble about why they're awesome, even if it's Angel/Clem.

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[wisdomeagle]

suddenly thought of a variation on the rants meme. Sort of. Gimme a pairing, I'll burble about why they're awesome, even if it's Angel/Clem.

Hmm, um... Buffy/Cordy and/or Buffy/Gunn, since those were winning your rare Buffy pairings poll last time I checked.

[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

I've been rewatching season 1, and Buffy/Cordy's just there. It actually surprised me how much screentime they have together; it wasn't something I'd picked up on first time through the show. And I get why it was written that way, besides Cordelia's role as the Mean Girl Nemesis - they're both great in these scenes, both on the surface level of the chemistry and snark, and in the peeling back of layers (Out of Mind Out of Sight being the example that leaps to my mind).

Buffy *was* Cordelia not so long before we first met her - she says as much to Angel in Helpless. And Cordelia (somewhat) becomes Buffy as she gets the visions and her own mission.

Angel, if I'm not the Slayer, what do I do? What
do I have to offer? - Buffy, Helpless
Sure I hate looking and feeling like this, but - if I lose the visions, I wouldn't be able to help you anymore. You wouldn't need me. - Cordelia, That Vision Thing

Getting beyond the fact that they're not-dissimilar hot chicks with superpowers (well, for some of canon, in Cordy's case) - they'd be *fun*. There'd be endless bitchy arguments and fashion clashes and shopping for shoes. Cordelia, like Gunn (tying nicely into my next squee) would keep Buffy grounded, stop her from getting too far into her I Am the Mission, I Am the Law bit.

In conclusion, I would kill for a long, plotty story that puts them together some time in the high school years. And people should send me stuff for Volcano Girls (http://www.exitseraphim.net/volcanogirls) or join buffycordelia.