Yeah I fanwank enough myself that I guess I should be more understanding of others doing it lol, but some Xander fans seem to really cling to Jesse's death being something deeply traumatic that is behind all of Xander's subsequent reactions to vampires, but there's just no basis for that on the show when the character never gets mentioned again after the pilot. Xander's dislike of Angel was always framed as jealously, when he first sees the guy and before he knows about him being a vampire, he's complaining to Willow about what an attractive man Angel is as they watch Buffy approach him in the Bronze
And yeah I thought they really took it too far with Anya in season 7 where they made such a joke out of her being rejected by everyone and practically begging Spike to sleep with her again, wtf! I really liked their scenes together in Entropy too, but the treatment of her character was mostly pretty crappy in season 7 sadly
And I wouldn't be surprised if Xander's doubts were partly about whether he could make it work with someone like Anya definitely. When they're singing their true feelings about one another in OMWF he acknowledges that he's not attracted to things like how greedy she is, and in the flash forwards from HB it's Anya who he imagines as having cheated on him with a demon. There were a lot of hints like that that he didn't see her as the ideal partner for him. Of course his doubts on the wedding day were panic about whether he would turn into his parens marriage, but even those doubts were kind of tied up in whether Anya would drive him to that behaviour through her cheating and nagging, and making their family a hostile place with her half demon kids
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And yeah I thought they really took it too far with Anya in season 7 where they made such a joke out of her being rejected by everyone and practically begging Spike to sleep with her again, wtf! I really liked their scenes together in Entropy too, but the treatment of her character was mostly pretty crappy in season 7 sadly
And I wouldn't be surprised if Xander's doubts were partly about whether he could make it work with someone like Anya definitely. When they're singing their true feelings about one another in OMWF he acknowledges that he's not attracted to things like how greedy she is, and in the flash forwards from HB it's Anya who he imagines as having cheated on him with a demon. There were a lot of hints like that that he didn't see her as the ideal partner for him. Of course his doubts on the wedding day were panic about whether he would turn into his parens marriage, but even those doubts were kind of tied up in whether Anya would drive him to that behaviour through her cheating and nagging, and making their family a hostile place with her half demon kids