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[botias]

I often read sympathy for Spike about the way others treat him without any reference as to why the Scoobies or Buffy might reasonably find him disgusting, like the fact that he is a sadist, rapist, liar, stalker, drunkard, thief and murderer.

I often read about how Spike 'fixes' broken people who then abandon him. Spike is seemingly attracted to the broken, yet another less then stellar quality and with predictably poor results, but I've not known him to fix anyone.

I encounter Spuffy fans who are actually just Spike fans. They hate, hate, hate Buffy for abusing Spike, but Spike wants her, therefore he shall have her. I've definitely gone through my own phases where I wanted to feed our heroine to the pretty vampire.

Why am I a Spike fan? Why do I ship Spuffy? Some days I'm not sure. But I have dark suspicions.

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[liliaeth]

Well Wes was pretty nasty to Spike to, so I feel absolutely no pity for him in that regards. That whole talk they had about the shanshu and how it 'didn't speak of vampire ghosts' soured me even more against Wes.
But then again, Wesley was totally mancrushing on Angel, so anything he did or said to Spike was coloured in that.

And the nastiness to Xander... Xander gave as good as he got, worse even...