#Buffyverse lore wool gathering

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Thinking about Buffyverse lore again. What if we just all agreed to throw out all that soul nonsense? Because we already have the whole vampires are just dead humans possessed by demons. Great, wonderful, love it, but then the whole soul thing makes it over complicated. Tbh, it reads like an agnostic version of the idea that you need religion to be able to do good things. Like, without the fear of damnation, human instinct is to be utterly depraved and monstrous. Anyway, if a vampire acting against their evil tendencies is a matter of a demon having a change of heart, isn’t that so much more meaningful?