Categories: Season 2
Characters: Ensemble
Summary:
In a challenge that I just seconded, MOMNESIA wrote something that gave me an idea for another challenge. I asked permission to quote part of her challenge.
... momnesia wrote:
Jenny should stress that Angel was attracted to innocence (i.e., a virginal young girl), and that the curse was intended to make Angel lose his soul and kill the object of HIS love, as he killed the favored gypsy child THEY loved.. In other words, his innocent, virginal lover. How that would make Angelus suffer is beyond me, since Angelus would have revelled in Buffy's death, so as a loophole, it really sucked big time.
.... My idea:
What if the death of said lover in his soulless state is a trigger to return his soul, THAT is the curse: find true love/perfect happiness; lose soul; kill her; soul returns; guilt and pain ensues. Except that he didn't kill Buffy, so the return part of the curse didn't get triggered.
How can this become known? Who is the girl (coz it's not going to be Buffy)? How long does it take for Angel to find/kill her afterwards, days, weeks, months? What did he do to terrorize the townspeople and Buffy between losing his soul and triggering the clause to get it back? Is the poor girl under Buffy's and/or Kendra's protection? Does Spike help to protect her or just sit back and watch the fun? What does Dru think of it all?
If you DO decide to go with Buffy, it would have to be something of a recoverable death, like drowning again.
This is a Spuffy site, so happy Spuffy eventually, obviously, but how does this whole thing open the eyes of the Scoobies? How and what do they learn from all of this? Is it the soul thing? The curse? Angel being a dick with and without? Spike helping them even tho he doesn't have a soul?