Fascinating analysis. I loved your points about the differences in Vamp!Willow and Dark!Willow and this
Vamp!Xander is an Angelus in the making, and under the guidance of The Master he would have been exceptional. All of which made me wonder - where is all that in human Xander? It’s a side we rarely - if ever - see. Which I guess is something that ties him to Angel again... who - looking at Liam - could have guessed at what lay inside?
That's really interesting. I've never thought of similarities between Xander and Liam, but I wonder if their common characteristic is anger. Xander buries it, but it is there, and it can burst out in some quite nasty ways i.e. with Buffy in Dead Man's Party and Anya and Spike in Entropy. Liam always strikes me as an angry young man too, both with his father and with his life.
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Vamp!Xander is an Angelus in the making, and under the guidance of The Master he would have been exceptional. All of which made me wonder - where is all that in human Xander? It’s a side we rarely - if ever - see. Which I guess is something that ties him to Angel again... who - looking at Liam - could have guessed at what lay inside?
That's really interesting. I've never thought of similarities between Xander and Liam, but I wonder if their common characteristic is anger. Xander buries it, but it is there, and it can burst out in some quite nasty ways i.e. with Buffy in Dead Man's Party and Anya and Spike in Entropy. Liam always strikes me as an angry young man too, both with his father and with his life.