Thus speaks a Spuffy fan!! Well there's a reason I'm a Spuffy too... *g* The thing to remember is that Spike and Angel have such hugely different personalities. And that Angel had *no one* when he got his soul. One reason, I think, that he drifts for a century is that he just doesn't know what to do.
Spike remarks how odd a Slayer Buffy is, since she has family and friends... well he himself is (by S4, 5, 6, 7) a very odd vampire too, working/bonding with humans. When he gets his soul he has somewhere to go, someone to show him the way forward.
Buffy of course does the same for Angel in S1-3, but he is so much more set in his ways, and the split between demon and soul so much larger, that it takes a lot longer. Actually you could see Buffy's acceptance of her Slayerness as going hand-in-hand with Angel's acceptance of who *he* is, in those early seasons.
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Well there's a reason I'm a Spuffy too... *g* The thing to remember is that Spike and Angel have such hugely different personalities. And that Angel had *no one* when he got his soul. One reason, I think, that he drifts for a century is that he just doesn't know what to do.
Spike remarks how odd a Slayer Buffy is, since she has family and friends... well he himself is (by S4, 5, 6, 7) a very odd vampire too, working/bonding with humans. When he gets his soul he has somewhere to go, someone to show him the way forward.
Buffy of course does the same for Angel in S1-3, but he is so much more set in his ways, and the split between demon and soul so much larger, that it takes a lot longer. Actually you could see Buffy's acceptance of her Slayerness as going hand-in-hand with Angel's acceptance of who *he* is, in those early seasons.