“I know you’re afraid. I know the world feels like a hard place, sometimes. But you’ve got people who love you. Your dad and I, we have all the faith in the world in you. We’ll always be with you. You have got a world of strength in your heart. I know you do. You just have to find it again. Believe in yourself.”
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I am an intelligent, eloquent, well-mannered young woman who just so happens to say “fuck” a lot.
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are you trying to kill people
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the gypsy curse has always bugged me
yes we will torture angelus by putting the innocent human soul of liam into his body so that he feels all the guilt for the things angelus did and oh by the way if he stops feeling guilty at any point he’ll lose that soul and become angelus again putting more people in danger this is such a good plan there is no way this could go wrong at all we are so smart
My no-basis-in-reality theory is that it’s not actually Liam’s soul that Angelus is cursed with. I think it’s the soul of the Kalderash girl he killed. Angel (even during season 2 of AtS) and Angelus are far more different from one another than Spike, Darla and Harmony are with and without a soul. They change, but their changes make sense given what they actually go through. None of them immediately have a different personality. Plus, it makes absolutely no sense for Angelus to remember the Beast when Angel doesn’t unless they’re literally two different people. In the comics (which I mostly disavow) Angel was apparently just a test to see if re-ensoulment was even possible, because the Kalderash believed that another vampire was the subject of the Shanshu prophecy - but obviously, even if you buy that, he was being punished as well. The re-ensoulment didn’t work on the second vampire, which leads me to believe that it’s not actually possible to give a vampire their original soul back with a curse. It worked on Angel because the people involved had such an intense emotional connection to someone who’d recently died, giving them the power to call back HER soul. I don’t actually think they know they did this, so they don’t know why it never worked on another vampire.
Anyway, leaving aside my different-soul theory and the comics’ test-run explanation, I think the curse’s cruelty to the innocent soul depends on the exact nature of the soul in the Buffyverse, which is something I’m not even sure Joss knows and I KNOW the characters don’t have it figured out. Does a soul have its own independent consciousness? Is it even capable of suffering, or can it only inflict or relieve suffering with its presence or absence? How much does a soul even really matter? The Kalderash clan’s answers are more important than the actual truth of the matter, and I have no idea what their beliefs might have been at the time they cursed him.
Allowing the possibility of Angelus returning is obviously a terrible idea, but I can see the logic behind it. There’s no better way to ensure Angel stays miserable forever than hanging the possibility of Angelus over his head, but they obviously couldn’t just tell him that because in the early days, Angel would have done whatever possible to rid himself of the soul. The Kalderash watched over him and if his moment of perfect happiness had occurred within a decade or two of the original curse, the people who had originally cursed him could have done it again right away without any problems. Losing his soul again would presumably scare him away from seeking out happiness ever again, and their job would be done. Unfortunately, they didn’t know Angel and didn’t anticipate a lot of things, and I think the 100 year wait left them more unprepared than they expected to be when they originally cast the curse. Granted, it’s still an awful idea, but I think there was some logic to it.
that’s… a really cool theory. i haven’t read any of the comics so I wouldn’t know about their explanation but this makes a lot of sense, actually.
(whispers) its a-ok to rely on fictional characters to get you through your life bc life is hard ok if it makes you happy stick w/ it and anybody who says otherwise can go fuck themselves (pets u gentlee)
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“Tobias Fünke” - Illustration by Sam Spratt
Have a happy Arrested Development binge-viewing everyone.
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the judge’s death is my favourite scene ever ok
the gypsy curse has always bugged me
yes we will torture angelus by putting the innocent human soul of liam into his body so that he feels all the guilt for the things angelus did and oh by the way if he stops feeling guilty at any point he’ll lose that soul and become angelus again putting more people in danger this is such a good plan there is no way this could go wrong at all we are so smart
“i’m naming all the stars”
“you can’t see the stars love. that’s the ceiling. also, it’s day”
“i can see them. but i’ve named them all the same name, and there’s terrible confusion”
at the beginning of innocence angel bites a woman who’s smoking and blows the smoke out himself and i wanna know if angelus spent 200 years perfecting the trick of ripping open people’s throats and drinking their blood whilst simultaneously breathing the air in their lungs to smoke it as a party trick to impress the other vamps
idris elba looks like how good cologne smells
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