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lightdancer1 · 2 months

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Every time I see a 'Tara cheats on Willow with Buffy' scenario:

Which is a surprising bit, I just think that if you want Dark Willow to have an entirely valid axe to grind and to be pushed with the straw that breaks the camel's back in Season 4 or 5 that's exactly how you'd get it. Willow forgave Tara pretty swiftly for the events of Family......because in the end there was no literally smacking her in the trauma button with a sledgehammer. This scenario, after the way things ended with Oz, would 100% be that.

Though if I wrote it, it'd be the same casual 'secrets for me, transparency for thee' standard Tara kept up and biting her and Willow just shrugs, moves to L.A. and stays there quite happily and leaves the Scoobies to themselves in Season 4 and avoids the whole Dark Willow thing entirely while being drawn into everything with Angel Investigations instead thinking she was out but whoopsie.

Since it's also Willow I see her doing this in radio silence and deciding to repay the same treatment with compound interest and one fine day her friends just realize she didn't show up for a while and then she's in Los Angeles doing her own thing and leaving people to the mess they made in Sunnydale. Would it be an entirely rational response? No. This would reopen old wounds with someone who really didn't handle them well in the first place and as Willow gains the power to do increasingly greater damage without the Hellmouth to screw with her magic, she'd have no real reasons to go back to Sunnydale at all.

Doesn't mean the Scoobies would just sit back and accept this or that either Buffy or Tara would admit that maybe it was playing with fire to do this in the first place given canonically Buffy has the self perception of a rock and Tara at multiple points is a shameless hypocrite, though her own bad actions never went to 'destroy the world in a suicidal spasm' levels as Willow's did.

#willow rosenberg #tara maclay #tara x buffy #tara x willow #silly fanfic ideas #granted there actually is some potential for a shorter story on these lines #and how would Tara exactly handle the consequences of what would be a poorly thought through decision rebounding on her?#granted if this version cared what Willow thought at all she wouldn't be making this decision #and this'd be Buffy in one of her really bad friendship moments to Birdperson and Rick Sanchez level of bad friendships here #would this Tara just shrug and go 'well I got the hot girl' or would she be in panic mode that she broke up with her girlfriend?#would she blame herself or more likely blame Willow for overreacting?#Buffy 100% would blame Willow for deciding this is one step too far and bailing #it's a good idea but not if written where she just shrugs and decides this is 100% A-OK with her #we saw how badly she coped with it with Oz and Veruca when she went very dark very fast even if she stopped #something like that here would also be a pretty obvious result as well #Meanwhile the useless Frankenstein guy's just completely confused at something he didn't create happening and messing up his plans

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