#xander harris shut up forever about buffy's love life at least until youve gone to therapy challenge

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I think one of the worst moments in buffy history is them framing xander's speech about riley in into the woods as like... correct in any way. it makes you really dislike Xander (even more). Buffy's boyfriend literally cheats on her with vampire prostitutes lol and then tells her that if she doesn't forgive him on the spot he's leaving forever. and then we're supposed to buy that Xander is correct in saying that it's all Buffy's fault and that she should run after Riley to beg him to stay?

It's sooo infuriating how Riley is framed as 'the one who got away' when really he's 'the one who was so cripplingly insecure that he couldn't handle his girlfriend being stronger than him and having her own problems because he's made his entire identity about his girlfriend instead of getting the fuck over himself'

the real reason why xander doesn't want buffy to dump riley's ass as she should is so clearly because he projects onto riley. subconsciously he thinks that if someone 'normal' like riley can be with buffy then he also has a shot. newsflash it wasn't riley being 'normal' it was riley being an insecure condescending freak just like u

#and i actually like xander. s7 xander starts to be better. comics xander is near flawless #xander harris shut up forever about buffy's love life at least until youve gone to therapy challenge #i do think buffy could be with someone normal but they would have to be extremely secure well adjusted and also just a chill person #which neither riley nor xander fits. #i dont think there's any buffyverse human male who fits this though tbf #btvs #btvs thoughts