From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   https://screenrant.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-willow-growth/   
      
      
   10 Ways Willow Changed From Season 1 To Season 7   
      
   Few characters evolved as much as Willow did over the course of Buffy The   
   Vampire Slayer's seven-season run, and here's how.   
      
   BY AMELIA BRANTLEY   
   APR 02, 2020   
      
       [the caps are not mine]   
      
   WILLOW ROSENBERG IS BUFFY'S BEST FRIEND FROM DAY ONE. ON BUFFY'S FIRST DAY   
   AT SUNNYDALE HIGH, SHE AND WILLOW RUN INTO EACH OTHER AND BECOME FAST   
   FRIENDS, MUCH TO WILLOW'S SURPRISE, CONSIDERING SHE HAD SEEN BUFFY HANGING   
   OUT WITH CORDELIA EARLIER AND AT THAT TIME, WILLOW AND CORDELIA RUN IN VERY   
   DIFFERENT SOCIAL CIRCLES.   
      
   BUFFY DOESN'T CARE THOUGH, SHE LIKES WILLOW AND WOULD MUCH RATHER BE HER   
   FRIEND THAN STAND BY AND WATCH CORDELIA TEAR WILLOW DOWN. HAVING BUFFY IN   
   HER LIFE AND ALL OF THE ADVENTURES THEY FACE TOGETHER CHANGES WILLOW.   
   WILLOW'S TRANSFORMATION OVER THE SEVEN SEASONS OF Buffy The Vampire Slayer   
   IS ONE OF THE MOST DRASTIC OF THE ENTIRE SERIES.   
      
      
   10   
   Dresses More Confidently   
      
   When we first meet Willow in the pilot episode, "Welcome to the Hellmouth",   
   she is wearing a plaid overall dress and a collared shirt. Cordelia   
   approaches Willow at the water fountain and comments on her look telling   
   Willow, "It's good to know you've seen the softer side of Sears." Willow   
   tells Cordelia her mom picked it out. As the show progresses, Willow's style   
   evolves. She always keeps things on the more modest side, unless it's   
   Halloween and she decides to dress scandalously, but by the end of the   
   series, it's obvious Willow's mom is no longer picking out her outfits.   
      
      
   9   
   She Falls In Love   
      
   From the very beginning, it's a known fact that Willow has a crush on her   
   best friend, Xander. It's your typical school girl crush and Willow is too   
   shy to tell Xander how she feels. When Willow meets Oz in season two,   
   everything changes. There is instant chemistry between the two and Willow   
   comes out of her shell.   
      
   The two lovebirds quickly become high school sweethearts, and Willow   
   blossoms, even enjoying the occasional public display of affection in the   
   halls of Sunnydale High or at lunch in the cafeteria. Willow grows up a lot   
   while dating Oz and even loses her virginity to him.   
      
      
   8   
   She Breaks Hearts   
      
   WILLOW QUICKLY GOES FROM BEING THE GIRL WITH A CRUSH WHO CAN'T EVEN ADMIT TO   
   IT, TO BEING THE GIRL CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A LOVE TRIANGLE, OR MORE LIKE   
   A LOVE SQUARE. WHILE WILLOW IS DATING OZ, XANDER IS DATING CORDELIA, BUT   
   HAVING COME OUT OF THEIR SHELLS A BIT MORE,   
   Xander AND WILLOW REALIZE THEY STILL HAVE FEELINGS FOR EACH OTHER AND THEY   
   START HOOKING UP BEHIND THEIR SIGNIFICANT OTHERS' BACKS. WILLOW FINALLY   
   GIVES IN TO HER FEELINGS FOR HER BEST FRIEND, EVEN THOUGH SHE KNOWS IT'S   
   WRONG, SHOWING THAT THE SMART AND SHY GIRL CAN HAVE A BAD SIDE AS WELL.   
      
   7   
   Becomes A Witch   
      
   Willow starts to dabble with magic as early as the first season, but with   
   every new season, her powers grow stronger and stronger. Willow uses spells   
   to do a lot of good things, like the enjoining spell she does to give Buffy   
   even greater power when she fights Adam, or something simpler, like the   
   first time Willow and Tara join forces to move a vending machine against a   
   door when they're being chased by The Gentlemen.   
      
   Willow also uses magic for not so good things, like when she casts a spell   
   on Tara to make her forget a fight they had the night before when Tara   
   confronts Willow about using too much magic. Eventually, Willow's obsession   
   turns into a dangerous addiction.   
      
      
   6   
   She Speaks Up For Herself   
      
   WILLOW FINDS HER VOICE MORE AND MORE AS SHE CHANGES THROUGHOUT EACH SEASON.   
   IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE LONGER SHE IS BY BUFFY'S SIDE THE BRAVER SHE GETS AND   
   THE LESS SHE'LL TOLERATE. IN AN EPISODE IN THE THIRD SEASON CALLED, "LOVER'S   
   WALK",Spike GOES TO WILLOW DEMANDING SHE CAST A LOVE SPELL FOR HIM SO HE CAN   
   GET DRUSILLA BACK. WILLOW AGREES, BUT SHE REFUSES TO PUT UP WITH SPIKE'S BAD   
   MANNERS AND PUSHY BEHAVIOR TELLING HIM, "NOW, HOLD ON! I'LL DO YOUR SPELL   
   FOR YOU, AND I'LL GET YOU, DRUSILLA, BACK... BUT THERE WILL BE NO 'HAVING'   
   OF ANY KIND WITH ME! ALL RIGHT?". WHEN WILLOW STANDS HER GROUND IT'S   
   EMPOWERING.   
      
      
   5   
   She Discovers Her Sexuality   
      
   In college, Willow meets a girl, also interested in magic, named Tara.   
   Willow and Tara start hanging out and bond over spells and Wiccan things.   
   From pretty early on, it seems these two are destined to be more than   
   friends. This storyline was one of the first of its kind for primetime   
   television and broke a lot of molds for how love is shown on network tv.   
      
   Part of its groundbreaking appeal is how right it seems for Willow and Tara   
   to be in love. Willow has had her heart broken in the past, but with Tara,   
   it's different, it's truer love and it's love Willow can rely on and open up   
   to.   
      
      
   4   
   She Becomes A Killer   
      
   AFTER TARA IS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT BY WARREN WHEN HE'S TRYING TO KILL BUFFY AT   
   THE END OF SEASON SIX, WILLOW IS GRIEF-STRICKEN, TO SAY THE LEAST. WILLOW   
   SETS OUT ON A HUNT FOR VENGEANCE USING ALL OF The Power She Has.   
      
   WILLOW TRACKS DOWN WARREN AND SHOWS HIM NO MERCY, EVEN THOUGH HE BEGS FOR   
   IT, MULTIPLE TIMES. THE WAY WILLOW KILLS WARNER, BY RIPPING HIS SKIN OFF   
   AFTER SLOWLY SHOVING A BULLET THROUGH HIS CHEST, IS BRUTAL. IT'S HARD TO   
   IMAGINE THAT THIS IS THE SAME PERSON WHO COULDN'T EVEN MAKE EYE CONTACT   
   PASSING WARREN IN THE HALLS AT SUNNYDALE HIGH, BUT LOSING SOMEONE YOU LOVE   
   WILL DEFINITELY CHANGE A PERSON, AND IN WILLOW'S CASE, THAT CHANGE WAS NOT   
   FOR THE BETTER.   
      
      
   3   
   She Becomes A Villain   
      
   Willow doesn't just stop with Warren. Killing Warren doesn't take away any   
   of the pain Willow is feeling, so she vows to destroy the world. Willow goes   
   from being Buffy's best friend to being the thing Buffy must save the world   
   from. Willow isn't afraid of Buffy though and manages to defeat Buffy rather   
   easily.   
      
   In fact, it's not Buffy who saves the world from Dark Willow, but Xander.   
   Xander finds Willow as she is open to killing everyone and everything on the   
   planet, and he appeals to her emotional side, which despite her evil nature,   
   is still intact. Xander tells Willow he loves her, and Willow falls to her   
   knees overcome by grief.   
      
      
   2   
   She Embraces Her Motherly Instincts   
      
   When Buffy dies, sacrificing herself so that her sister, can live, Dawn is   
   left an orphan. Buffy and Dawn's mother, Joyce died mid-way through season   
   five and Buffy is dead by the end of that same season. Dawn has lost   
   everyone, except for the Scooby gang, who step up to help the teenager   
      
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