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1. She's Guilty By Design ('Cause It's Better Than Nothing) by prophecychick

   Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/F, Multi, Other
   • Complete Work

   19 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Buffybot/Willow Rosenberg
   • Tara Maclay/Willow Rosenberg
   • Buffybot (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
   • Willow Rosenberg
   • Tara Maclay
   • Implied Spike/Buffybot
   • brief mentions of vomiting
   • ambiguous consent
   • Set about a month after s5e22 The Gift
   • Smut
   • Angst
   • robotfucking
   • Guilt Sex
   • Grief Sex
   • proxy sex
   • Sex as robot maintenance
   • wireplay
   • Cheating with your dead best friend’s robot doppelgänger
   • Willow is a technophile
   • Willow has OCD but honestly she deserves to feel guilty about a lot of what she's doing
   • Willow was always kind of gay about Buffy
   • Willow cries before during and after sex
   • Tara gets empathically cucked
   • Buffybot still has her original ‘Spike’ programming
   • Buffybot is the only one having a good time
   • Xander almost died the night before this fic takes place but that’s not important right now but it also kind of is
   • Not a crackfic/crackship in the slightest but Buffybot’s dialogue and the general awkwardness is pushing it
   • Foreshadowing the Great Full Copper Repipe of ’01
   • Author’s thinly veiled technology lust
   • Yes beta we come back from the dead like Buffy Summers
   • Willow rearranges Buffybot's guts (literally)

   Summary

   Willow does maintenance on Buffybot.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Guilty By Design

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   6,456

   Chapters:

   1/1

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