darla's love for connor

[merytankh]

i was re-watching "lullaby" the other day, and when i came to the rooftop scene, where angel finds darla again after she runs down and scatters the grapplar demons with his car and drives off, something stood out for me. as darla tries to explain why she is reluctant to allow herself to give birth, she says: "angel, i don't have a soul. it does,

Comments

[pyleanelf]

Interesting question! I always assumed it was that the memory would be different. And is the whole vampire kills the person completely really true? Re what Angel says on the matter in Doppelgänger?

[slaymesoftly]

Some of "b" and some of "c" ? That would be my guess.

[lynnenne]

I always took it to mean that she would remember it in an academic sense, but she wouldn't be able to remember what that love felt like, because she would revert back to her evil, unfeeling self who lacks compassion for everyone.

[smurfindisguise]

B - when Angel lacks a soul, he only remembers his feelings for Buffy with distaste.

[rpowell]

I really don't see how the possession of a soul would guarantee the course of a character's moral compass.

Think of all the human beings with souls who are capable of great evil and have displayed that capacity for evil.

Hell, Spike has always been capable of love, regardless of whether he had a soul or not.

I think Darla actually believed she was incapable of love without a soul. But I suspect she would have been wrong.