I just have a lot of feelings, Yes! Spike likes taking care of people (and has so...

Yes! Spike likes taking care of people (and has so since William), and particularly someone as helpless as a child. And that’s an integral aspect of who he is. *nods* (sidebar heads-up: I’ve been meaning to talk to you about comics things because I’ve been reading some of what you’ve been saying in the BS9 tag and I want to taaalk but I got sidetracked by fandom today…so anyway. Expect me. ;)
I’m good with either, though I think there’s a certain poetry to a female slayer birthing another female (slayer?). But if it’s a boy, I would like him very much to look just like Buffy- but, y’know, male. :D
I WUB YOU TOO (and this is really only being published bc I wanted to answer the rest of these and wanted to keep this but I don’t have the battery power to start up Photoshop to edit this image to remove your ask SO ANYWAY WUB YOU THE MOSTEST <333)
I don’t think Joss has ever said that- in fact, it’d be incredibly awful PR to do that when Buffy/ endgame is so polarizing- and it’s just something people assume? Can there be such a thing as fandom privilege? Not necessarily as a bad thing- I think that default ship tends to be BA because it came first and is most media-friendly, so people don’t question that it’s the best/the most shipped/endgame etc, while other ships don’t come to the same automatic assumption because they don’t take it quite as for granted that they’re the ultimate BtVS ship?