#I don't want to see Buffy with a new love interest 💔

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Sarah Michelle will reprise her role as Buffy in a new Hulu series. It looks like she will be in a mentor role to a new Slayer, who will be the protagonist of the new show. It makes me super happy to know we will have Buffy back! At first I was a little disappointed, because I would have liked it for Buffy to be the protagonist (it'd be interesting to see how her life is like now as a mature adult), but I think I'm good with her having a smaller role, for selfish shipper reasons... I know it's unlikely for James Marsters to be in the show due to the fact that he is, well, not a vampire in real life, so our platinum blondie has aged, but I do NOT want to see Buffy with a random new, potentially human, love interest. Unless they explain somehow they "healed" Spike of his vampire curse, and is living with her as a human imagine he became a human and is living as Willian Pratt, an indie published poet, that'd be so cute, but I digress, then I don't want to see her with a love interest and I just KNOW they will try to give her one if she is the focus of the show.

I mean, it depends on how it's done, but my little Spuffy fangirl heart can't take it.

With that all said, I am over the moon with this announcement. I've been wishing for a sequel series since I first binged the show in 2017, and I feel like I'm getting my wish. But you know what they say, "be careful what you wish for", and so I do have my reservations. Mainly about how Spuffy is handled. Will she mention Spike? Will he still be around? Comics aside, I have always envisioned Spike to be the man that actually stays in Buffy's live. He changed for the better because of her, and he supports her. They fight side by side as equals, and I just love how their relationship evolved and turned into this healthy kind of relationship that I just don't think Buffy can have with anyone else, and not because of Buffy herself, let me make that clear, but because of how other men tend to become insecure pieces of shit around her because of her power and her status as the Slayer.

Spike can stand next to Buffy and be her rock, when everyone else (including friends) stand next to her and expect her to be their rock. Get it? And then there are others like Riley who felt useless because she didn't need him, like, in that she was stronger and more capable than him (and Riley missed the point so bad: she did need him, emotionally. He just didn't see it because he was too focused being insecure about himself around her, because she was the Slayer). She can be soft with Spike and she can be tough with him; they can stand as equals, and they can be vulnerable with each other, too. Buffy never even had that with Angel, who felt he couldn't be with her because of the soul curse thing; that would always be a shadow between them. Like Spike said, he saw the best and the worst of Buffy, and he was never spooked or put off; he still loved her. I think Spike loves Buffy's soul and will forever love it, and so it'd be a shame if the new show rolls along and reveals that at some point, he left her and she moved on without him. I don't want to see that. I want to see that they found each other again, and are still together. And if not romantically, then as allies. I can't fathom Spike not being in Buffy's life unless she actively removes herself from his presence for whatever reason. And yep, I do not want to see that.