Angel and Spike have an interesting relationship. It's a sort of bro-romance. Except that they aren't really related, well except by vampire blood.
Angel struggles with Spike much the same way anyone who has a sibling struggles with one. You see the similarities and you see the differences. In the show and here, Spike is in a way a mirror to Angel.
Unlike Angel, Spike does not believe it's all about him. Or caused by him. Or all his fault. He doesn't believe he deserves to be a champion or chosen or the leader. He's just trying to survive and trying to save others. A reluctant hero of sorts. But like Angel, he can't save anyone. Everything and everyone he touches rots. Or goes nuts. Or something.
Spike isn't a big picture guy. He focuses on those closest and nearest. The people he saved and is directly responsible for. Illyria. Connor - who he's become responsible for.
He's not concerned with the PTB or care. Actually is a little annoyed with them. Nor does he require their approval or Angel's. His achillees heel is women. And he gets close to Illyria because she reminds him of himself - she's a demon with a human personality - more to the point, a human personality and essence that was once a woman who tried very hard to save Spike and believed Spike was worth saving, even when Spike himself, did not.
Spike reflects Angel's doubts. His self-loathing. His need for family. His caring for his son. Spike is the reverse negative of Gunn. Spike unlike Gunn isn't concerned with being the big player on the field, or the "chosen" one. He is concerned with saving and protecting Fred who appears to reside inside Illyria and surviving.
Spike's not better or worse than Angel or Gunn, he's just not as confident and sure of himself. HE doesn't see himself as the big hero. Hence the nervous chattiness, the bravado, the self-deprecating humor. He's always a bit surprised when he does take the hero role.
Angel wants to be important, to be a legend. Spike just wants to be loved and have fun. The legend status isn't that big a deal to him, well except to aggravate Angel. He wouldn't mind having it for that.
Re: Angel...-and Spike
Angel struggles with Spike much the same way anyone who has a sibling struggles with one. You see the similarities and you see the differences. In the show and here, Spike is in a way a mirror to Angel.
Unlike Angel, Spike does not believe it's all about him.
Or caused by him. Or all his fault. He doesn't believe he deserves to be a champion or chosen or the leader.
He's just trying to survive and trying to save others.
A reluctant hero of sorts. But like Angel, he can't save anyone. Everything and everyone he touches rots. Or goes nuts. Or something.
Spike isn't a big picture guy. He focuses on those closest and nearest. The people he saved and is directly responsible for. Illyria. Connor - who he's become responsible for.
He's not concerned with the PTB or care. Actually is a little annoyed with them. Nor does he require their approval or Angel's. His achillees heel is women. And he gets close to Illyria because she reminds him of himself - she's a demon with a human personality - more to the point, a human personality and essence that was once a woman who tried very hard to save Spike and believed Spike was worth saving, even when Spike himself, did not.
Spike reflects Angel's doubts. His self-loathing. His need for family. His caring for his son. Spike is the reverse negative of Gunn. Spike unlike Gunn isn't concerned with being the big player on the field, or the "chosen" one. He is concerned with saving and protecting Fred who appears to reside inside Illyria and surviving.
Spike's not better or worse than Angel or Gunn, he's just not as confident and sure of himself. HE doesn't see himself as the big hero. Hence the nervous chattiness, the bravado, the self-deprecating humor. He's always a bit surprised when he does take the hero role.
Angel wants to be important, to be a legend. Spike just wants to be loved and have fun. The legend status isn't that big a deal to him, well except to aggravate Angel.
He wouldn't mind having it for that.