Bisexual characters in the Whedonverse

[sombrefan]

Buffy
Angel
Spike
Fred
Inara

No? Yes? Anymore?

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[rua1412.livejournal.com]

WILLOW!!!!!!!!

[nonbeliever93.livejournal.com]

An argument could be made for Darla and Dru. And also, Willow obviously.

[gillo]

Andrew? He seems to code as gay, but in TGIQ goes out with two lovely women.

Jonathan too, possibly?

As others have said, Willow indubitably. And if Spike and Angel have been an item, as Joss suggests, then Darla and Dru have to be a strong possibility.

[sternwieser.livejournal.com]

Faith.

[boot-the-grime.livejournal.com]

Buffy is definitely not bisexual. Season 8 made that clear. The reason why she didn't continue her relationship with Satsu was because she wasn't really into girls, Willow said it to Satsu and we get a confirmation in #40 where Buffy is happy to be out of 'girlville' and able to look at cute guys again. It's most likely that she wouldn't have experimented at all if she hadn't been surrounded by women almost exclusively for about a year (during which she continually fantasized about men only). And she hasn't shown any desire to either continue sleeping with Satsu or try out sex with women again.

A similar thing can be said about Spike and Angel. A little experimentation doesn't make one bisexual any more than having had heterosexual experiences in the past means that a gay person is not gay.

I don't think there's been any really bisexual characters on Buffy/Angel, since even Willow identifies as gay, even though she seemed bi during season 4. Or if there are, we don't know it yet.

I don't know about Firefly or Dollhouse since I haven't seen them yet.

[boot-the-grime.livejournal.com]

Only in fanfic. In canon she's straight, and she's confirmed it twice (her comments to Spike in Dirty Girls and to Giles in No Future For You).

[boot-the-grime.livejournal.com]

Andrew is pretty obviously gay and closeted. Going out with two friends doesn't change that (in fact it only makes it less likely than it would be if he was going out with one woman).

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

Fred? What did I miss?

Definitely Willow. The show tried to say she turned gay, but I will always think of her as bi.

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

I get why you have everyone else on your list but why is Fred on it?

[gillo]

I agree that Andrew is predominantly gay, but I think there's enough evidence that he lacks self-awareness sexually and at least tries to engage with females to suggest a closet bisexuality there. (His reaction to Warren's powers in Dead Things, for example.)

[simonf.livejournal.com]

Remember that awkwardness in Orpheus?

[simonf.livejournal.com]

Remember Orpheus?

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

That's reaching. Willow was coming on to her. That's awkward if you're not taken by surprise and not interested. I never got the sense from that that Fred was interested in Willow.

[simonf.livejournal.com]

She was sending out signals as well until Willow shot her down.

[electrcspacegrl.livejournal.com]

Willow was misreading the signals. That was the whole joke of it.

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to agree with electrcspacegrl. Awkward signals do not a bisexual make. If that were so, you'd have nearly every Whedonverse character on your list.

I notice you omitted Lorne. Any reason why?

[simonf.livejournal.com]

I forgot about Lorne that's why. I always saw him as asexual for some reason.

[simonf.livejournal.com]

I don't think she was misreading the signals. I think Fred was attracted to her.