I can't understand why Anya is around. You clearly favor Spike. It feels as though you picked up Anya just to do it or to prevent someone else from doing so. To be fair the Xander player is extremely inactive so I am sure that is frustrating for you. Right now she is reading as pointless to me. Worse yet she has been presented as extremely boring which is not like the character whatsoever. The canon point you pulled her from may have something to do with this but as a player you should be taking steps to correct it and pull her out of that rut by forging new CR or resolving personal conflict that is causing her to come off so flat around here. I see by your above response that you plan to canon review and I think this is a wise decision. Anya is a hard character to nail down.
Your Spike is another story. Someone has already brought up the issue of his accent so I won't bother on that front. I understand that this character is obsessive about his love interests but he has become such a creeper here that I am put off by him altogether. I think that Buffy's mun is at fault here somewhat for never really interacting with her cast and dropping threads so that nothing ever gets resolved. She has done this with more than just Spike and she should be held accountable in that respect. At the same time there comes a point where you just need to drop that dynamic especially now that Spike has a soul and that the current incarnation of Buffy is so much younger and a different person entirely to the Buffy that Spike knows from later in canon. Regardless of the fact that Buffy's mun has proven to be so unreliable I don't see him obsessing about her as they both are now. It feels like you are playing a shell of what Spike should be or what Spike was rather than molding him to fit and adapt to the atmosphere of the game. On a related not I have noticed that if Spike isn't getting his Buffy fix in other games you will often drop him so I also have to wonder if you simply play him for your favorite ship.
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Your Spike is another story. Someone has already brought up the issue of his accent so I won't bother on that front. I understand that this character is obsessive about his love interests but he has become such a creeper here that I am put off by him altogether. I think that Buffy's mun is at fault here somewhat for never really interacting with her cast and dropping threads so that nothing ever gets resolved. She has done this with more than just Spike and she should be held accountable in that respect. At the same time there comes a point where you just need to drop that dynamic especially now that Spike has a soul and that the current incarnation of Buffy is so much younger and a different person entirely to the Buffy that Spike knows from later in canon. Regardless of the fact that Buffy's mun has proven to be so unreliable I don't see him obsessing about her as they both are now. It feels like you are playing a shell of what Spike should be or what Spike was rather than molding him to fit and adapt to the atmosphere of the game. On a related not I have noticed that if Spike isn't getting his Buffy fix in other games you will often drop him so I also have to wonder if you simply play him for your favorite ship.