A not related question: have you seen the preview pages of #22?
I think I have... is that the one with Kennedy and Satsu?
Saying that Spike has helped her reconcile with her demon side doesn't mean she's all baked!!
No, that's not what I meant. I meant that the Angel/Spike inversion of losing/gaining a soul is what frees her from the burden of her relationship with Angel. That allows her to begin the baking process, finding out who she is as an independent woman, instead of defining herself by the men in her life. It's not the end of it where she's all baked. But it seemed like you felt the need to bring Spike back into the picture to resolve her outstanding issues, so the question is, does she really have independence yet, or are we still defining her by her relationship to Spike?
You're the writer: wouldn't you have to know these things to know how to write a post-Chosen Buffy?
Yes, definitely, but the thing about fanfic is that there's no one right answer. As the writer, you get to make up the answers yourself. :) Especially in a case like this, where we don't know the canon answer, but even if we did, there's no reason I can't write a post-Chosen fic that goes off in a different direction. How I would answer those questions would depend on what kind of story I wanted to tell.
As a reader of the comics, however, you want to know the one right answer (meaning the canon answer), so you know how to interpret what you're reading. But, as we've seen, Joss doesn't always give that to us.
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I think I have... is that the one with Kennedy and Satsu?
Saying that Spike has helped her reconcile with her demon side doesn't mean she's all baked!!
No, that's not what I meant. I meant that the Angel/Spike inversion of losing/gaining a soul is what frees her from the burden of her relationship with Angel. That allows her to begin the baking process, finding out who she is as an independent woman, instead of defining herself by the men in her life. It's not the end of it where she's all baked. But it seemed like you felt the need to bring Spike back into the picture to resolve her outstanding issues, so the question is, does she really have independence yet, or are we still defining her by her relationship to Spike?
You're the writer: wouldn't you have to know these things to know how to write a post-Chosen Buffy?
Yes, definitely, but the thing about fanfic is that there's no one right answer. As the writer, you get to make up the answers yourself. :) Especially in a case like this, where we don't know the canon answer, but even if we did, there's no reason I can't write a post-Chosen fic that goes off in a different direction. How I would answer those questions would depend on what kind of story I wanted to tell.
As a reader of the comics, however, you want to know the one right answer (meaning the canon answer), so you know how to interpret what you're reading. But, as we've seen, Joss doesn't always give that to us.