mood:

Here’s a quick drawing I did of vampire Willow. Not my fav drawing I’ve done but i figured I should post it anyway. Will probably try to draw her again soon tho

ALYSON HANNIGAN as VAMPIRE WILLOW BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 1997-2003

WILLOW: “It's horrible! That's me as a vampire? I'm so evil and... skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay.”

BUFFY: “Willow, just remember, a vampire's personality has nothing to do with the person it was.”

ANGEL: “Well, actually...

*gets a look from Buffy*

That's a good point.”

Can we discuss how ‘Doppelgängland’ presents a study case for Vampire Willow being like human Willow if Willow was suddenly missing an internal moral compass? I talk about Willow’s repressed sadism a lot and some overwhelming evidence for it is that there exists a vampire version of her in canon that’s a literal sadist and is just as evil as Angelus is. That enjoys inflicting torture and pain purely for fun. That has a good old time being indisputably sadistic.

Dark Willow - even though she has a soul and is human - thrives in the killing and the torturing of Warren and Rack. Yeah, she’s corrupted by black magic and feels nothing but vengeance, anger and hate. And yes, the people she does end up actually killing deserved it. But the point is that this is what she can be like even when HUMAN, even when ENSOULED. So Vampire Willow is interesting because that’s a Willow that isn’t either human or ensouled and how sadistic and evil she can be without an internal moral compass and without her humanity is reminiscent of Dark Willow.

And so I can’t help thinking that maybe that vampire has nothing to do with the demon that “possesses” Willow. Maybe the reason why that particular vampire is “so evil… and skanky… and kinda gay” is because that’s the human that the vampire is informed by. That it’s because it’s Willow why Vampire Willow is like that.

And I know it’s just for jokes why they had Angel start to say what he did in response to Buffy’s comment to Willow in trying to reassure her that that vampire is just an evil demon and has no bearing on her character at all… But I really wish we had got to hear what he was going to say. If I had to guess I feel like he was going to say something like “Well, actually… that’s not quite true. A vampire’s personality is still informed by the human that died even if it is not the person it was.”

But with Vampire Willow… the question is just how much of alternative human Willow informs her and how much is really just a demon from the ethers “possessing” the body of the alternative human Willow that died? You would think adding this particular situation on to the soul lore would be in support for it being demon possession… but I’m not so sure that that is so when much of the Willow that we see later on is what we get with Vampire Willow.

See for me, ‘Doppelgängland’ comes off more as foreshadowing than it does in being an addition to the soul lore that provides evidence for the perspective that vampires are a demon possession of a dead human because it does the entire opposite in telling and showing that to be the truth as they give us a significant look in to what Willow would be like both without a soul and without her humanity - which for me don’t mean the same thing because I don’t think of the soul that way. See, I have a very specific understanding of what a “soul” is and I don’t think of it as the human itself or as the person itself. I think of it as an internal moral compass for the human or person.

Which then further means if that human or person is suddenly bit by a vampire and dies - it doesn’t come back as a vampire because its body is possessed by a demon. It comes back as a vampire because IT IS a demon. A newly created or newly born demon in a human body that is informed by both the demon AND the human respectively. That’s why and how it can’t be a possession by the demon or human because possession means it’s an entirely different entity from the demon or human. And a vampire isn’t because it’s a half-breed of both the demon and the human. So it is still the same entity that died all the while becoming a newly created entity. It is, essentially, a resurrection or reincarnation of the human or person that died but just with personality traits and qualities that are only evil and sadistic in nature depending on what the human or person could be capable of that the newly created demon exacerbates in them with abandon.

Vampire Willow is a very interesting study case for this because what she is depends on whether human Willow can be capable of being that evil and sadistic all the while being a human. And… she can… as Dark Willow eventually and inevitably shows us. Yes, for her to get there it required the themes of power corruption, addiction and vengeance… but the point is that she was still capable of it. And, for me, it only just proves that if somebody that pure can become that evil and sadistic as a human… then so could we all.

Vampire Willow is not a study case for vampires being entirely different from their human counterparts. It’s a study case for learning that they are or can be alike if they’re missing an internal moral compass and therefore their emotions or desires were not being repressed. Vampire Willow is an uninhibited entity. They make that very clear in the writing when using it in juxtaposition with human Willow’s inhibitedness. Willow even acknowledges that both her and Vampire Willow feel like the world’s “no fun” anymore but then recedes that acknowledgement in the final scene, realizing that being “reliable dog geyser person” isn’t so bad. That she could actually be the entire opposite to that and she never wants to be like Vampire Willow if this is the pain and damage that she could cause.

So Vampire Willow truly is what we would get if human Willow was completely free of all constraints on her good character. If she suddenly believed that she didn’t need to be the good person she always is and could do what she wants without any thought for the risks or consequences of her actions and choices and without any concern for any pain or damage she may cause through her carelessness and recklessness. It is very much in her capability and nature to become what we see of Vampire Willow’s appearance. And I think that if Xander had not have been able to save Willow in ‘Grave’, this is precisely what Willow would have become. Not simply just Dark Willow. But Evil and Sadistic Willow. She would have lost her humanity.

Fortunately… she still possessed an internal moral compass and so her humanity won over the battle and Vampire Willow remained just a fantasy in fan-fiction. But it does give me pause to realize that Willow’s selfishness, arrogance and entitlement in Season 6 would still inform everything that Vampire Willow is precisely because she is the human psyche for her.

under-the-willows, under an oak tree :3.

I was at the park and felt resplendent in the midday sum. It is blessing to feel the dance of the sun's warmth on my skin, though I wish it could be a pretty ladies hand.

Willow Rosenberg Icons

Like and reblog if you use

Don't repost without permission

Cordelia Chase is dead. The demon that replaced her takes its first breath. Blood, sweat, fear, food.

Her sire stands in front of her; a petite vampire in black with long red hair and an eager smirk. “Hopefully she’ll make a better vampire than a human, not that it’s saying much.”

“She’s not bad looking.” Her sire’s companion strokes a finger along Cordelia’s chin.

Somewhere deep inside, Cordelia feels a twist of longing and anger. She remembers them. The betrayal, the shame. How ironic that her sire wears the shell of the one who ruined everything in the first place.

Willow is absolutely the best character and idc you can't tell me otherwise

she's so my favourite

Book Rec!

Not sure if anyone who follows me is a Buffy fan, but if you are check out this book for real!

It’s set in an AU where Demons took over Sunnydale years ago and all the most evil characters are living together in their own perfect slice of hell.

Not quite a spoiler, cuz it’s on page one but …

Warren dies (yay) and Andrew and Jonathan have lost who they thought was the only person who could protect them from getting murdered by vampires.

Luckily, they hear a rumor about a new Big Bad coming to town (Buffy) and they make a plan to put together a Suicide Squad group of the most evil people in Sunnydale to take her out … and hopefully gain the protection of their rogue’s gallery along the way.

It’s super fun and has all the cameos and ANYA is a main character… and did I mention that Warren freaking DIES on page one?

READ IT!

Vampire Willow ~ Buffy the Vampire Slayer

I friggin love this episode to death, def one of my favs. I’ve debated making this sweater (I crochet and knit) but I just am not sure how to would do the add ons and the flowers. Either way, love the outfit and this episode. For sure want to draw vampire Willow too, sometime soon.

I don’t know why but I feel like vampire would take advantage of how nervous he was and make him look down her dress a say board now after he fainted and make him her new puppy after she tuned him and he would in joy it unlike angel loook how nervous this innocent little cinnamon roll is

Paper stars series masterlist

The version everyone has is that Jesse has been missing for a year and presumed dead for a month. The version Willow has is that Jesse is writing her notes and won’t explain anything to her. Or, Wishverse!Willow before becoming a vampire.

Paper stars, empty caskets - Read

Paper clouds, open windows - Read

Paper butterflies, something amiss - Read

In progress...

This gothic lesbian is gay for women with pointy ears and/or fangs!

I got all dressed up for a serious date and had the free time to take some fun photos.