#but i am creating a doctoral thesis about the malleability of the disembodied spirit here and i am using everything at my disposal

[july-19th-club]

filed under soul studies: scene in tabula rasa where spike re-finds out he’s a vampire and without any prior knowledge of who he’s supposed to be, only what he’s feeling in the moment, automatically connects ‘don’t want to kill friendly stab-happy human being currently straddling me’ and ‘have killed another vampire some time within the last hour’ and just concludes that he’s like a chill vampire who does noble things and oh of course he must have a soul, which is part ‘gag about angel the show’ and part ‘stripped of self-knowledge we are capable of only our most base intent and that intent means something’

#i KNOW i KNOW soul worldbuilding in the buffyverse is all the hell over the place and you just have to kinda roll with it #but i am creating a doctoral thesis about the malleability of the disembodied spirit here and i am using everything at my disposal #buffy the vampire slayer #soul studies