thinking about the difference between melodramatic, moody angel telling buffy he wishes he could see her in direct sunlight vs. spike just straight up scurrying around Sunnydale with a blanket over his head whenever he gets bored and wants to see buffy during the day
I really want a movie where there’s this Dark Brooding Male Hero who’s like, a total badass, and during all the fight scenes he keeps getting flashbacks to happy images of his wife, and like his whole narrative is framed around his wife, and all the other heroes on his team know that he’s got this passion and vengeance and think it all has to do with his dead wife… but then near the end of the movie his wife shows up and he’s like “hey babe” they’re all shocked and they’re like, “Wait I thought all your power and passion came from avenging your dead wife?” and he’s like “no bro, I just really love my wife, she’s really cool, she’s what keeps me going” like… a reverse fridge
this post has a quarter of a million notes and yet somehow did not reach the mission impossible writing team… I convinced myself if they had seen it things could have been DIFFERENT. now I’m just here to bitch about it
The reason why I’ve now hopped ship almost completely from Lucy/Wyatt to Lucy/Flynn is because of how much Lucy has grown as a character from the beginning of season one. S1 Lucy was a good fit for Wyatt. And Wyatt was what she needed then—she needed a soldier, a protector, she needed someone she trusted to fight these missions with her.
But as we’ve watched Lucy, and what she’s gone through, and how she’s tackled everything that’s been thrown at her, especially the situation with Wyatt, it would have felt unnatural for her to tell Wyatt she loves him tonight. Because with everything else she’s gone through, after having both her sister, her mother and now her best friend ripped from her, I think they’re now at completely different places as characters.
THIS is why she bonded with Flynn. They level with each other. He respects her, respects her space, and as of this finale episode, he’s seen her at her absolute most vicious and furious and he gets her. He understands her, he understands what it’s like to get to that place of rage and anger, the place of wanting to destroy the people who took everything from you. That’s who he’s been for such a long time that he knows to just hold Lucy and let her feel whatever she’s feeling. Underneath all his snark is someone who’s felt almost the exact same pain that Lucy is going through.
Lucy has grown beyond needing help, she’s proving herself more and more capable, she’s grown into her anger and fury, she’s learning to accept the pain that’s started to shape who she is. At the end of the day, Wyatt (with all his hurt with Jessica) is still not even on the same planet as Lucy. As much as he loves her, Flynn understands her at a different level. And not only that, Flynn is so respectful of Lucy and what she wants that he can barely even vocalize his feelings for her. He sees her with Wyatt and he gives them space.
I’ve been fighting it all season but really I can’t anymore. I’m all in for #Garcy.
