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I don’t really ship Fred and Wesley.

I never really saw the two of them as being very compatible— they’re both smart, that’s about it for me. There’s not much chemistry for me, especially physically. Not to mention, it’s one-sided for almost two seasons, even during Wesley’s relationship with Lilah (and don’t even get me started on Lilah dressing as Fred, and Wes going with it, that was so cringe-worthy). Two years with an unrequited crush is getting pretty obsessive— I mean, Fred was crazy about Angel at first, but she eventually respected the fact that Angel didn’t love her back in that way and let her crush go a lot sooner than Wesley did (hint: he never did). And then after all that, she suddenly has feelings for him out of nowhere? Oookay.

Honestly, I’ve been turned off from this pairing as early on as BIlly. Yes, Wesley was under BIlly’s spell when he went after Fred. But so was Gunn. Gunn tried to resist it, he tried to arm Fred. Also, while Gunn’s threats were purely physical and could have been said to anyone, a lot of what Wesley said was very deeply personal, and horrendously sexual in nature in a way that no other man’s words were. No one else— not the men at the crime scene, not the male cop he touches, not Gunn, not Gavin— said anything nearly as bad as:  ”You can’t come out into the open, can you? - No, you hide - you deceive. It’s nothing new. It goes all the way back to Eve. - You and the serpent plotting behind our backs. - ‘Here, honey, eat this. It’s just an apple.’ - That’s the problem with your sex - you’re all weak, and you’re all dirty and you won’t be satisfied until you’ve brought each and everyone of us out of the garden and down into the muck with you!” If I was her, if I was me, there’s absolutely no way I’d date someone who said that to me, outside influence or not. And, on some level, he does think this, because Billy brings out primal misogyny in men, he does not create it (see: Angel being unaffected).

I’ve only heard this from word of mouth since I stopped watching Angel in linear order once Cordy was possessed, but to add to all this, the only have one episode as an official couple, and Fred spend most of it dying. Not exactly romantic.

Maybe I would have liked it had it been handled differently, but as it is in the show, this pairing is just too unhealthy for me to enjoy.