I personally kind of think that Buffy/Satsu is setting up for development of the relationship between Willow and Buffy, but I'm awful at forecasting so that's probably wrong. A not related question: have you seen the preview pages of #22?
Saying that Spike has helped her reconcile with her demon side doesn't mean she's all baked!! So she could totally sit there and say that she has to figure out who she is (maybe even more so now that she's just now getting past the Angel trauma and so on).
I don't write fanfiction, but if I were to write about Buffy going forward, it seems to me that I'd have to know what Buffy knew about Spike in order to be able to understand the character I was writing about. She spent virtually all of the series thinking Angel was The One. Is she over that? Does she now think Spike is The One? (There's room for her to have had an epiphany in the hellmouth). Or was she over Angel, happy to have loved Spike, but not in a long-haul kind of a way? Having answered those questions, we have the further question of whether she knows about Spike. If she doesn't know, there's a shoe to drop. Regardless of whether she was in love with him, he mattered -- it'd have to impact her to know he was back. If she does know, what does she know and how exactly did it come to be the case that she's sitting in Scotland feeling lonely? Is it because she feels rejected about Spike? Or because she realized that she did love him, but not that way and is carrying on. The answer to these questions changes the flavor to that scene of her missing home, for example; or how we understand her reaction to Ethan calling her pet; or the nature of her fear about knocking Xander's head off. You're the writer: wouldn't you have to know these things to know how to write a post-Chosen Buffy? And if you need to know them as a writer, don't we need to know them as readers?
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Saying that Spike has helped her reconcile with her demon side doesn't mean she's all baked!! So she could totally sit there and say that she has to figure out who she is (maybe even more so now that she's just now getting past the Angel trauma and so on).
I don't write fanfiction, but if I were to write about Buffy going forward, it seems to me that I'd have to know what Buffy knew about Spike in order to be able to understand the character I was writing about. She spent virtually all of the series thinking Angel was The One. Is she over that? Does she now think Spike is The One? (There's room for her to have had an epiphany in the hellmouth). Or was she over Angel, happy to have loved Spike, but not in a long-haul kind of a way? Having answered those questions, we have the further question of whether she knows about Spike. If she doesn't know, there's a shoe to drop. Regardless of whether she was in love with him, he mattered -- it'd have to impact her to know he was back. If she does know, what does she know and how exactly did it come to be the case that she's sitting in Scotland feeling lonely? Is it because she feels rejected about Spike? Or because she realized that she did love him, but not that way and is carrying on. The answer to these questions changes the flavor to that scene of her missing home, for example; or how we understand her reaction to Ethan calling her pet; or the nature of her fear about knocking Xander's head off. You're the writer: wouldn't you have to know these things to know how to write a post-Chosen Buffy? And if you need to know them as a writer, don't we need to know them as readers?