Who is your favorite Joss-verse character

Mal is a great character. He really cares for his crew and loves them like family. Once you are part of the crew there isn't anything he wouldn't do. I love how he has that squishy side of him but hates to admit it....for example,the ending of "Safe":

Simon: Captain, why did you come back for us?
Mal: You're on my crew.
Simon: Yah but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back?
Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talkin 'bout this?

Aww.....Mal....

I think my favorite male character is Xander. Even though he can be such a jerk sometimes...he's loyal to the end. He may complain, and see himself as only a carpenter, but he's always willing to help out and put himself in harms way.
I love the scene in "Potential" when he tells Dawn, "They'll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn't chosen. To live so near to the spotlight and never step in it. But I know. I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me. I saw you last night. I see you working here today. You're not special. You're extraordinary."
I such a cheeseball I swear it makes me cry everytime I see it!

That scene with Dawn and Xander is just so dead on. I mean, who hasn't felt like that at some point in your life? Poeple out there do better than us, but we keep working and striving to be better and (to borrow a quote from my favorite guy) that makes us mighty.

Joss just has an amazing gift to write characters that are so easy to relate to. that's what makes us love him so much!

Do you have a crush on Mal, or a crush on the actor? Or maybe both? You know he has a new series starting soon called Drive, right?

For me I think it's a little bit of both. Nathan Fillion is a hilarious guy. He has a myspace page and writes some great blogs.
I'm looking forward to Drive actually. And it's alwyas nice to see some of the crew in any capacity.

Well, the actor is the face, but my crush is more on the character. Nathan Fillion is a pretty goofy guy, but I'm a sucker for Mal's heroics.^_^

Fray is actually a comic about a slayer in the future (way far down the slayer line) named Meleka Fray. Though this was written before Buffy Season 7 when all the potentials were "activiated", so it's a little off normal continuity now. I included her since she is a character that Joss made. You can get the comics in Trade paper back. It's a pretty good story and she's a cool character....not surprising...we are talking about Joss here:-)
I'm such a fan girl:-)

Ahhh. You ARE a true fan!

I know what you mean! It's so hard to put into words. I never feel I do justice to how important a character Buffy is to me.

Absolutely. I've always had trouble putting into words why exactly I loved the series, and, trust me, I've been asked a lot of times before. At one of my old job, though, there was this guy that always came in, and he had daughters my age and older, but he loved the show, too, and not just because of Buffy's body, or whatever. He got it, and we'd always talk about it. It's hard to describe it unless that other person gets where you're coming from, and even then it's hard.

Good point. Each character is lieable in their own way. Even some of the villians are oddly likeable because they are clever, or just impressively smart. Or sometimes they are just interesting because they are so evil, like Warren.

I know! Even as I was posting this question I could barely make a decision myself. The characters are so varied, and yet I feel like each one relates to a part of me.