action + joint post ✪ out of some sentimental gain -- i wanted you to feel my pain

[herotypical]

[ buffy and spike have been out a-missioning -- only it hasn't gone quite as...merrily as they might have hoped. you see, they’re back a little early. spike decided to make an escape attempt and, in doing so, he’s brought malnosso justice down on both their heads. it’s all terribly unfair.

their punishment? one doozy of a bodyswap. spike is buffy and buffy is spike. and neither of them are too pleased about it.

sartre once claimed that 'hell is other people'; however, a situation like this makes a convincing argument that hell is, in fact, being other people. after they argue their way out of a proverbial wet paper bag and manage to find better clothing than the new feather garb they're initially given, they'll be available (throughout the next few days) to be mocked or sympathized with or awkwardly avoided all around town, depending on the individual.

find top comments below for either buffy's thread or spike's thread or -- if you’re looking for a thread with both of them -- buffy and spike. buffy’s tags will come from deadhero and spike’s tags will come from heroatypical. please don’t hesitate to tag all three options if that’ll float your boat. ]

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[deadhero]

Right back at you.

Thanks. By the way. For making me eatdrink.

[all7seas]

You'd have done the same for me, love.

[deadhero]

Have done. Often. Just with better tasting grub.

She shifted in her chair. Shook out her hand. Writing? Sore work. And she was never much of one...

But she'd write for him; she'd always written for him. You should bring some cards, too. Battleship and cards. And booze. Will you bring booze? This calls for copious amounts of spirits.

[all7seas]

You think that body can handle it any better than your actual one?

Because being Spike and being sick was way worse than just being Spike, in Jack's opinion.

[deadhero]

I've witnessed this body handling it better. Spike doesn't go far without his flask.

And maybe she might as well use this swap to see what the big deal was. All spirits tasted foul to her, but Spike drank whiskey like it was water.

And she suspected Jack would also benefit from a conveniently handy drink. Tomorrow wouldn't be simple for either of them.

Just realized I forgot to add no booze to my list of rules. For him. Crap.

[all7seas]

Tomorrow, then. Whiskey. We'll see what he's made of. And if he gets you besmuckered I'll decapitate him.


Later.

[deadhero]

How decent of you to wait.

And although she wondered whether Jack had taken her body to the bar, she also understood that it hadn't actually been her body at all. Just a copy.

But was that enough of a difference?

But I'd appreciate if you left the decapitating to me. It really messes with my vengeful riff if someone else steals my beatdown.