elisi | A small random observation.

Just watched the very end of 'Potential' (Xander's speech to Dawn) and noticed something that never really registered before:

XANDER: "Seven years, Dawn. Working with the slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful. A witch. A demon. Hell, I could fit Oz in my shaving kit, but come a full moon, he had a wolfy mojo not to be messed with. Powerful. All of them. And I'm the guy who fixes the windows."

Did Xander just include Spike on a list of his friends? I can't think who else would fit the 'demon' description. It just made me happy! :)

ETA: Well since everyone seems to have answered the same way, I'm just going to answer everyone at the same time (I know, lazy!).

The reason I thought about Spike was that Xander used the words 'demon' and 'powerful'. Anya was a demon of course, but in the time she knew Xander she was only Anyanka for a short while (post-Hells Bells - Selfless) and when she was human, she never had any powers (except a great knowledge of demons). It just struck me as odd that he'd describe her as someone 'getting more and more powerful'.

And I wish there had been more Xander/Spike bonding in s7 as well. I liked when they worked together in 'Him' although the funniest scene by far was Buffy with the bazooka! :)

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Sorry, pretty sure he's talking about Anya.

I've always thought he meant Anya, but then, strictly speaking she's human at that point, so you never know.

::sigh:: I'm really not writing an essay here, am I? Hee! So easily distracted. ;)

My guess would be Anya, as well. :)

Clem.

I also think he was talking about Anya. She'd be someone he'd think of as a part of the group of people he's describing. Spike, not so much, even setting aside the fact that Xander's positive feelings towards Spike never got much beyond tolerating and feeling sort of sorry for him in S7.

I, too, have to come down on the side of him meaning Anya. However, just as with Buffy in S7, Xander did seem to have reevaluated Spike. The way he gave that encouraging/sympathetic pat on the shoulder in LMPTM, varying looks he gave to Spike where you could see Xander evaluating what and who he now saw. He noted lack of snarkage at certain moments (such as First Date, he did not say a word about Buffy going to check on Spike while he, Xander, was the one stabbed and not ragging on Spike when he took on Faith after they drove Buffy out.).

I will always regret certain things that were left undone by there not being a S8. Xanders progress towards maturity and thoughtfulness was one of them.

I think he always liked Spike, just refused to admit it because he didn't want to like him. Xanders issues were with vampires and males who Buffy was attracted to, in that order. Spike, as a being, didn't factor in. When Buffy was dead he and Xander seemed to have reached a form of friendship (same with Giles and Spike). Xander couldn't see a vampire as being of worth because of his regret over his friend Jesse, and the whole Angel/Angelus situation.

Kathleen

Sad to say, I suspect he was talking about Anya.

I always thought it was Anya too.

Um, what they all said. Sadly, I'm pretty sure he's talking about Anya. I can't imagine Xander ever calling Spike a friend.

Ditto to the Anya reference. But yeah, I'm with you on wishing that we'd seen more Spike and Xander friendship - that pair always struck me as being more alike than different, and I remember practially bouncing in my chair at the prospect of fun bonding scenes when they were set up as roommates again. It's about the only thing I look back fondly on that episode "Him" for. Well, that and the image of Anya cat-burgling.

I have to agree with everyone about Anya here, and It is pretty understandable that he would have her first on her thoughts - and Willow.

No, he didn't count Spike as his friend, but the best thing in "Him" was the moments when he is starting to tolerating Spike after the end of s6, and in Sleeper he is actuallly worried about him, and he is not mean or angry with him afterwards. He isn't friendly, but he is... understanding.

Naaaaaaaah! It was Spike - lalalalalalala :)
Off to read your fic now - yay! :)

the funniest scene by far was Buffy with the bazooka! :)
Agreed! That was hilarious...especially when you include the scene before it when Willow matter-of-factly tells Xander that Buffy's going to kill Principal Wood. And then Wood's just quietly listening to music, unaware that Buffy is sneaking up to the window holding this ginormous bazooka, getting ready to shoot him like it's no big deal. LOL!! Xander and Spike's oh so sophisticated plan for getting the jacket from RJ was great too. :D

As for the rest of your post, yeah, I always assumed he was talking about Anya, although you're right that she didn't have any powers for the majority of the time that he knew her. It just seems to me that if he were to refer to Spike, he would have said "vampire." Maybe it's just me, but when I hear "demon," I don't automatically think of vampires, even though they're included in the term. :T Too bad. They were so cute working together. :P

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