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]

"I'm not afraid of...me." But perhaps she should be. "Besides, worst case scenario? You might have to decide you like it. There's always the slim chance this'll never actually be reversed."

[heroatypical]

"Maybe Willow will fancy a new girlfriend."

Lightly. Yet horrified under the skin. Never would he want to be stuck like this.

[deadhero]

"You wouldn't..."

Surely, some things were sacred. Friendship, for one of them. But perhaps what made her lid flip the most was the hovering implication that Spike would even for a moment consider anything...intimate. With her body. And anyone else's body.

"Slayer package or not? I'd kick your ass. My ass. Whatever. Ass would be kicked."

[heroatypical]

"I'd just about owe it to her. I disappointed the poor girl when I wasn't able to bite her four years ago."

[deadhero]

"I'm not Willow's type! A-and Willow's not mine!"

Buffy hesitated. That was a bit of future knowledge she still felt iffy about. "That is, if I had a type. A female type."

[heroatypical]

"This is about me, love. Me and my potentially miserable life trapped for all of time as the bloody Slayer."

[deadhero]

"Y-yeah? Well. Should you be so lucky, you should also realize that you don't just get to have your pick of all the ladies.

Th-though, admittedly, types aside? Will's a very good choice."

[heroatypical]

"Speaking of good choices, stay here. I don't trust you to dress me anymore than you me."

He stood up to go find something from his room that she could wear. There would be no wearing of Jack's clothing.