willow and tara got back together in seeing red.
when do willow and tara get back together?
seeing red
willow and tara get dressed and while hugging, tara notices xander and buffy in the backyard together. buffy and xander begin to discuss buffy's relationship with spike, and the two make up and reaffirm their friendship. as the two hug, xander spots warren entering the backyard with a gun. warren rants about his recent defeat and declares his intentions of revenge. he pulls out the gun, fires directly at buffy, then shoots randomly over his shoulder as he runs away. buffy and xander topple to the ground as the window to willow's bedroom is broken and a bullet strikes tara in the back as she's facing willow. the blood from her wound splatters on willow's shirt. tara stares at the stain and manages to say "your shirt..." before she collapses and dies. xander tries to staunch the bleeding of buffy's chest wound, while in the house, willow cries out as she holds tara's lifeless body and her eyes turn magically dark red with pain and fury.
seeing red (buffy the vampire slayer)
willow is more demonstrative in the beginning of her relationship with tara. where in her relationship with oz she described herself as belonging to him, tara states that she belongs to willow. willow finds in tara a place where she can be the focus of tara's attention, not having to appease or sacrifice as she has in the past. tara, however, eclipses willow's role as the moral center of the scoobies, and as willow becomes more powerful and less ethical, tara becomes a maternal figure for the group. willow acts as a sort of middle child between xander's immaturity and buffy's weighty responsibilities. she becomes completely devoted to and enamored of tara, and then manipulates her to avoid conflict when tara does not conform to what she wants. displeased with how willow abuses her power, especially toward herself, tara leaves willow while continuing to counsel dawn and buffy. long after tara's death, willow faces the choices she made: in the "season eight" episode "anywhere but here", willow tells buffy that she is responsible for tara's death. her ambition to bring back buffy from the dead inevitably led to tara getting shot and killed. in the one-shot comic, willow is offered tara as a guide for her mystical path to understanding her own powers, but rejects her as being an illusion, too much of a comfort, and not a guide who will force her to grow. she begins a relationship with kennedy.
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