I’m sorry, but Xander…Willow…who are these people again?
We see how that could be confusing, especially if you just joined us. Willow and Xander are, or were, actually, best friends since kindergarten and subsequently became best friends with Buffy after a hilarious incident involving vampires, the death of their longtime friend Jesse and many poor fashion choices on the part of all three. As time went on, the writers decided that Spike was hot and therefore needed more screen and banging the slayer time, so out of necessity the gang drifted apart until Willow and Xander were reduced to mere shadows of what they once were. Willow, once a sassy, nerdy redhead, became a neurotic recovering junkie lesbian and Xander, once the man who represented the normal joes, became a construction worker who played second fiddle to Andrew and whose claim to fame was that he used to bang Anya.
