What is "Vampire" Love? Should Humans Be on the Receiving End?

[garfan]

The souls are the vampires' souls, at least from what we know. Otherwise, yes, sticking random souls into vampires would be wrong.

The human who became the vampire doesn't deserve to suffer the guilt of the vampire's actions

The only reason I'm cool with Angel being re-ensouled in Becoming is because he had a century to fall on a stake or stroll into the sun if that existence was that unacceptable to him

 

[NotASlayer]

The human who became the vampire doesn't deserve to suffer the guilt of the vampire's actions

The only reason I'm cool with Angel being re-ensouled in Becoming is because he had a century to fall on a stake or stroll into the sun if that existence was that unacceptable to him

That's an argument for the first thing being done to Spike when it is discovered he has a soul is to stake him. Admittedly, he suffered no guilt.

 

[garfan]

That's an argument for the first thing being done to Spike when it is discovered he has a soul is to stake him. Admittedly, he suffered no guilt.

Once ensouled though, Spike can nake that decision for himself
Spike's early season behavior suggests otherwise. As I put it in another post, I consider Spike a poser

 

[AlphaFoxtrot]

Love and the Soul are the two most complex topics in philosophy, it's not that this series tried and failed, it's that they tried at all.

Re: Sacrifice; in re Spike. The Divine beings in the Buffy verse, Glory, Jasmine, Illyria, they all have a way of instilling awe and love in people. Perhaps the same is true of the Key and her Scooby cult? Spike can love Dawn because she's the Key, and can love Buffy because she's "Summer's blood?" Something to ruminate.

The Moira Blood being consumed by a non-ensouled vampire has never been explored. They call themselves "Dark Warriors," which frankly, doesn't make any sense. My head canon is, the Ether spoken of in the Ritual of Restoration is some sort of limbo you stay in when you're soul/life is being theived by an undead entity, you are still tethered, and the Moira Blood would recall you and purify the demonic entity. I don't think vamps would become non-responsive soulless entities, waiting for something to take possession.