Question: Spike's Role in the Comics?

[fenderlove]

Quick word: I won't be responding with my own opinions to any comments left in this post, so feel free to answer honestly without fear that I shall pounce upon you. I may have further questions to ask.

How would you describe Spike's role in the comics in Season Nine? And to go further, what is his literal role in the comics? What has he literally been doing? What has been clearly asked of him by any other character or characters? The key words for all this are definitely- literal specifics. I'm looking for less interpretation "if you turn it sideways and squint and read between the lines" type of examples and more for just what has been presented.

Like I said above, I won't be responding with my own opinions. I'm just curious to find out if I've missed something in translation.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/mad_brilliant_/]

I don't think he's human, but there's a theory that when he got Siphoned, his cold dead seed was "activated". And there's also a theory that he and Buffy had just had sexy times at the party. Which means: Baby Daddy! lol

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

But the party was before the Siphoning, so Spike would have had to have slept with her then when his seed was still cold and dead. Is the theory that Buffy never... bathed or used the bathroom in a few weeks so that his seed was still in her and got activated somehow?

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

At the risk of offending people, I'm not sure if they've thought it through in that level of detail. :)

(See also, the people suggesting that it's Angel's baby, and so Buffy has been pregnant for the last seven months without noticing anything odd...)

[http://users.livejournal.com/mad_brilliant_/]

Check out the timeline. The siphoning happened just a couple of days or so after the party, so it's a viable theory. The Angel space frak theory is just ridiculous on so many levels.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Let me try to make sure I understand. Are you saying that the theory is that because of the Siphoning, which may have somehow activated Spike's semen to being fast little swimmers again, happened a few days after the party at which Buffy conceived her child or that she didn't actually conceive the child until five days later? I have to admit that I'm very grossed out to imagine Spike's non-motile sperm staying in Buffy's area that longer and that Buffy didn't use any feminine hygiene products (or Plan B, for that matter) after the party. Although, since this is probably a mystical miracle baby, Plan B probably wouldn't have worked.

[http://users.livejournal.com/mad_brilliant_/]

The theory is that Spike and Buffy had sex at the party. A couple or so days later, the Siphoning caused Spike's semen to come alive inside of Buffy, and she conceived at that time. I don't know if Buffy douched, but that doesn't prevent pregnancy anyway (doesn't flush everything out, and some say it can even make conception easier.) Plan B, I dunno why Buffy didn't choose to use that, just in case.

Anyway it's a doable theory. Whether Joss is going there, I have no idea. If he does, he'll be my favorite fanfic writer of all time. ;-D

[http://users.livejournal.com/mad_brilliant_/]

And the preview for the next issue just came out. One cover has Spike/Buffy fighting back to back. It's rather shippy. The other cover is a flashback, with Nicki the slayer and Spike. We find out in the issue that Nicki had been going through her test, where the council drugs her to take away her powers, while she was pregnant. I think they're going to explain that's why her son had no special strength or power. AND, that foreshadows Buffy's baby as having slayer strength, IMO.

[http://users.livejournal.com/mad_brilliant_/]

Actually, it hasn't been a few weeks since the party. It's been just a couple of days or something. So the timeline works since conception can happen up to 5 days after sex.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Wait, it's only been five days, and Buffy/the writers are trusting a home pregnancy test and she's got morning sickness?

[http://users.livejournal.com/mad_brilliant_/]

Yeah, that's really fast morning sickness. lol

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, super healing abilities, super morning sickness. It all evens out, I guess.

I like that icon, by the by. Poor fluffy William. :D