#spangelus

[brekindelo]

some spangel(us) and spike studies bc i'm kinda in love with james marsters

[instant-star-09]

i actually refuse to buy into the “Angel and Angelus are completely different” propaganda. i’m not sure if that’s unpopular or not, so i’ll say that i refuse to believe that Spike buys into that.

like, he’s the one person in the world who understands the whole soul thing and also one of two people who knew Angelus well enough to know that he had a personality outside of murder. he had motivations and thoughts other than hurting people, i’m absolutely sure of that.

anyway i think Angel and Angelus are very similar. Angelus is just Angel without a conscience. like Liam was a bar brawler before he was sired; if someone upset him, his instinct was to fight. i think that translated very easily into Angelus’ sadistic tendencies. i think Angelus was based on Liam’s personality and Angel’s just. grown up since then. so he’s less of an instigator, but he’s still a very abrasive person.

they act differently but they’re as much the same person as a 70 year old man is to the guy he was at 26

in my head, Spike believes that too. he talks about “when we were evil”, not “when you were Angelus”. he blames Angel for making him a monster. he (like i mentioned in a prev post) still calls Angel “Angel” when he doesn’t have his soul. hell, he calls Angel “Liam” once! i think he categorises them as the same person, which is why he hates Angel so much. not in a “you’re a different person now” way but in a “you made me and then you changed your mind” way

[girlrottinginmyroomallday]

spike what do you mean you and angel have never been intimate, excpet that one time...

[honeycitrusrat]

I think this would greatly improve their relationship 🩸

[xaeyrnofnbe]

the kinda-actually-canon nature of spangel is endlessly delightful to me. ESPECIALLY factoring in little throwaway lines and stuff from the comics.

theyve canonically had sex at least once. theyve also canonically kissed at some point. angel liked spike's poetry. spike got flustered when faith said he and angel had a bromance. there exists an in-universe action movie in which they kissed on-screen (and spike was a woman). they have both (separately) seen this movie. angelus pretty blatantly expressed sexual desire towards spike when they first met. they're willing to die for each other.

[solarmane]

there is a very specific kind of panic that happens when someone comments

“can’t wait to see where this goes!”

and you’re sitting there like you and me both bestie.

[mmhhch]

missing good ol' times

[wishverse-angel]

I've made so many in the last couple weeks I'm almost positive someone is gonna think I'm a bot. But I'm not. I'll probably do the rest a few days.