What if?...

[shadowscast]

And now I've watched S3 again through to the end of Graduation Day.

I get goosebumps down my back and tears in my eyes when I watch the students throw off their grad gowns to show that they've become an army. Every single time.

But this time the big question that I'm asking is: how would everything have been different if Buffy had succeeded in her attempt to kill Faith and feed her to Angel?

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[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

That's the jumping off point I started from with my "Life in Shadow" fic, but of course I then made a further large non-canon jump.

I think the main difference it would have made at first would have been to Buffy. It would have mentally scarred her.

Angel would still have left. The Graduation Day battle would have gone as canon. S4 would have proceeded without the body-swap, of course, and Spike would never have fallen in love with Buffy. He'd probably have fallen for Willow instead, or else gone with Drusilla back to LA. And Glory would have got hold of the Key and the world would have ended in May 2001.

[mentalstaples.livejournal.com]

I get goosebumps down my back and tears in my eyes when I watch the students throw off their grad gowns to show that they've become an army. Every single time.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one.