Oh man, such a fun poll! I so don't have time to do this but I'm going to anyway...
1. Cute pajamas, tank top/PJ bottoms combo
2. PJ pants, boxers, nothing. I think Buffy would inadvertently domesticate him into occasionally wearing bottoms of some sort.
3. Yes, they both care. I don't think it's that they care so much, though, as that they fall into a pattern.
4. Spike. I think the comfort/contentment of being with Buffy would put him out pretty fast.
5. Buffy. Keeps to a more human schedule.
6. Spike reads, once they've become domestic enough to sleep together without always having sex beforehand.
7. They both hog.
8. Yes, totally! Buffy wouldn't cuddle every night instinctively, but Spike is such a tactile creature that he would snuggle automatically, and she would be fine with it.
9. Neither snores.
10. Oh man, how am I supposed to choose! I love the sexytimes, but my favorite are the sexytimes that have the emotional underpinning and aren't just about sex...there has to be light and fluffy talk and/or meaningful discussion, too. I chose understated bedtime rituals, since that implies couple-y-ness and the combination of everyday sexytimes/talking/cuddling.

I so love imagining their future together. Lovely poll! :)

2. That scenario is adorable, especially Buffy shopping for them. I've seen Spuffy domesticity described as similar to porn before, and it is so, so true for me, at least.

6. Oh yeah, I didn't think of magazines. I can definitely see that. Spike would do a running commentary on the books he read and the lunacy of the characters, with Buffy going "uh huh, dear"/"mm" as she read her magazine. Hee, Cosmo couple quiz! Spike would love reading Cosmo. He'd be alternately entertained/disgusted/lewd ("I like this article, "10 tips on how to please your man," let's read this one"); which would be crass, but he'd also always carefully read the "how to get your man to hit your kinks" or whatever articles and be adorably anxious about making sure Buffy was satisfied, so it would even out.

LOL, can you tell that I spend way too much time imagining their future together?

OK, I had to write a story based on this comment in particular. :)

It's not like they have strong preferences about which side, it's just that consistency is useful. I mean, otherwise, how do you know which bedside table to put your stuff** on??

My thoughts exactly.

Spike's got reading glasses

Really? Do you think he needs them or just likes them aesthetically?

Buffy definitely has her phone and the clock, and she also has her magazines (which comes from a discussion with Gabs above) and chapstick, tissues, hair ties, and handcream. Spike has his books and a lamp and a bottle of lube that Buffy always tells him to put in the drawer because having it out in the open is crass, but Spike always conveniently "forgets." *g*

Oh, I like that explanation. :D

Noooo, he totally needs them! Exhibit A, Dalton - proves that vampires can need glasses, even in vamp face. Exhibit B, Spike has trouble reading Giles's handwriting and complains it's too small, while Dawn reads his journal easily. Exhibit C, when Spike is reading a book in AYW, he's holding it at arm's length, as farsighted people tend to do when reading without glasses. Case closed!

(Oh, and Buffy thinks they're hot, too.)

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I think Spike wouldn't care about the side itself, per se, but he would fall into a pattern because his books would consistently be on one side of the bed.

Spike wants to be on whatever side Buffy's on.

:D That is his main focus in life.

Spike wants to be on whatever side Buffy's on.

Aww. :)

1. Buffy used to sleep with tank top/flannel bottoms combo, but Spike sleeps naked and likes Buffy to sleep naked too, so now she doesn't wear anything to bed, except when it is lingerie or sometimes the top of Spike's silk pajamas that she bought him for Christmas so he'd have something to lounge around the house in.

2. Spike sleeps naked. He'd not mind walking around the house naked too, but, now he likes his silk pajamas because Buffy bought them for him and he likes the way she looks when he can tell she likes seeing them on him.

3. At first there were no designated sides as it was lots of wild sex and tangled exhaustion, but after a certain amount of conflict over space and the occasional evening when one or the other of them went to bed slightly less than ready to cuddle, they decided that having sides would be a good option.

4. Buffy makes Spike feel secure and content and he'll reliably drift off quickly and easily if she is in the bed. Buffy is more prone to lay awake worrying and a bit restless.

5. That said, Buffy wakes up first. Human/vampire thing, mostly.

6. Spike reads, regularly, often in the evenings. He keeps a book by the bed and usually gets through a few verses or a chapter while Buffy is getting ready for bed. (Buffy takes kind of a long time to get ready for bed Spike thinks. Brushing for the requisite 2 minutes, flossing, putting her clothes away, laying out clothes for the next day, doing who-knows-what in front of the bathroom mirror. But it all works out because Spike likes to read before bed anyway.)

7. Clearly Buffy is a covers-hog. Spike doesn't really notice changes in body temp so he doesn't fight her for them. However...

8. Spike is a nighttime cuddler. If Buffy hogs covers, Spike hogs Buffy and she'll often wake up to find him fully on her half of the bed, draped over her or spooning her or otherwise being as close to her as possible. Sometimes she shoves him off, sometimes she just slips out and goes to his side of the bed for some space and sometimes she lets him hold her.

9. Buffy has a tiny snore that Spike knows better than to tell her about. It is usually cute and endearing, but sometimes Spike has to poke her until she rolls over so he can go back to sleep. Spike tends to stop breathing at all when he falls deeply asleep, so snoring isn't as much of an issue.

10. All Spuffy bedtime activities are the best ones. I do like the understated rituals as they reveal so much about their relationship. Also, sexytimes, FTW.

Well, you started it with your awesome poll. And your idea of silk pajamas which had me going - Silk PJs? For Spike? No way. Oh, wait - maybe if Buffy bought them for him and asked him to wear them and told him he looked sexy in them. Then Spike would wear silk pajamas. Yup. And then there is Spike, sitting on the bed in his silk pajamas, reading and waiting for Buffy to finish so she can come take them off him. (Which she obviously likes to do.) And I don't think I have to tell you how pleasant that train of thought was... :)

Well, clearly Spike wears nothing. Why are there even other options?!

I suppose he was wearing something in Harsh Light of Day. But I like to forget about that.

I don't tend to think about the little things of the Spuffy relationship so these answers are very instinctual.

1. Cute flannel and tank top/pj bottoms. She needs comfort and flexibility in case of middle of the night slayage. Plus she just looks cute in pjs and tanks.

2. Spike, otoh, sleeps nude. Because he just does. And also, he doesn't want to miss a thing. /pervy

3. Buffy requires a certain side, Spike just prefers the side next to Buffy. Everyone wins.

4. Buffy. I think Slayers probably require more sleep because of the massive energy they expend slaying.

5. Spike. I have no reason why, he just strikes me as the one who'd get up first.

6. Spike. He likes to read, especially around bedtime.

7. Buffy probably bogarts the covers.

8. Somehow, I think they both like their space because they're sprawlers.

9. Isn't it canon that Buffy snores?

10. Light and fluffy pillow talk. If there was one thing these two knew how to do, it was banter. And I could totally see their banter/fights going all the way until Buffy falls asleep.

4/5. My thought was that Buffy is more likely asleep last because she's the responsible one. Spike, I can imagine rising with a certain amount of interest in what each day will bring.

Spike would prefer to wear nothing to bed, but once the kids come along he grudgingly adopts PJ bottoms.

Interesting how there's such consensus on some of these, and such lack of same on others.

What a great poll. :)

1. No silk PJs for Buffy? Did she grow out of that phase after S2? (I honestly can't remember -- S2 had the most Buffy bedroom scenes, so that's the only clear mental picture I have.) Tank top and pajama bottoms seems plausible, and also something Spike would love for its Slayer-ness.

2. I don't think Spike wears underwear, so that's out. Nakedness is always an option. I laughed at the mental image of Spike in silk PJs, but it could happen, if Buffy liked them.

3. There are couples that don't have sides? Interesting. Every relationship I've been in, there have been sides, by mutual agreement.

4. Buffy, for sure.

5. Buffy, for sure. Spike is lazy.

6. I can't picture either of them reading in bed, for some reason. Buffy's a light sleeper -- she'd be pissed if Spike was reading while she was trying to sleep!

7. All women hog the covers! But I can see Spike trying to hog them too.

8. Spike demands his cuddle time.

9. Buffy snores, Spike doesn't breathe.

10. The problem with sexytimes is that most people (me included, present company excepted) don't know how to write it. I am a huge sucker for understated bedtime rituals, though.

1. tank top/pj bottoms. Lingerie if she's feeling like making Spike lose his verbal capabilities.

2. Nothing. Until the day Buffy said something along the lines of, "Um, Honey? Do you think it would be possible for you to start wearing something to bed? You know I don't mind, but some of the guys, well mostly Dawn, have expressed some concern that coming over first thing in the morning could lead to some...uncomfortable situations." and then he starts to occasionally wear pj bottoms.

3. Yes. They both care. They start out just sleeping where they fall after the sexytimes, but then they start to go to sleep without sexytimes, and they have to figure out who sleeps where. And because they're them, it turns into an intense discussion, and when they finally work it out they both care which side because they fought hard for that side damn it!

4. Buffy usually falls asleep first. I imagine Spike as always being a little bit unsure that she really does want to be with him, and live with him, and he ends up staying awake until after she's asleep most nights.

5. Buffy gets up earlier. Human/vampire thing.

6. Spike reads. Sometimes he reads poetry out loud and it leads to sexytimes.

7. Yes. They both hog the covers, because they can't turn off the sparring even while they sleep.

8. I said yes, but I don't see them tangling completely together. Sometimes they do, but usually they stay on their own sides, except for their feet and legs. They wake up with their lower limbs tangled up al the time.

9. No. But only because I can't remember any instance of either of them snoring.

10. All of them, but mostly the rituals. I'm not sure what category it falls in but I really like imagining them having little couple conversations while they're falling asleep. Eyes closed, faces half in pillows, two seconds from sleeping, and they're still mumbling to each other.

"Your feet're cold..."

" 'm a vampire..."

***

"d'you set the alarm?"

"mmhmm"

***

"what're you doing?"

"playing with your hair."

"Mmm. S'nice"

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I see Spike as a reader, but reading is something very private to him. I don't think he'd ever be comfortable reading when he could be watched. I don't see Spike reading before going to bed, though I can see him reading covertly after Buffy's fallen asleep. I also suspect he'd tip-toe away to do it.

Can you see it now? Buffy snoring away, Spike slipping out with a flashlight and the last Harry Potter? I can!

Also, Spike never stopped composing poetry; he only stopped writing his poems down. He just composes them in his head now. Can't let a Big Bad like himself get caught writing poetry now, could he?

I'm half tempted to write a post now on the secret literary lives of fandom characters. I see Mal from Firefly also being a secret reader.

I think Spikes reads aloud to Buffy....which leads to more sexytimes!

For the last question I sorta lied. Sexytimes is great, but so is snuggling, talking, play bickering and pillow-talk. Most Spuffy in bed is good for me.

I don't think Spike cares about the covers, on account of not having a body temperature as such, but he's probably a tiny bit bothered about modesty, since we always see him with at least a sheet when we see him sleeping.

I think a lot of times they both wear nothing in bed, having removed every stitch from each other first. However, they probably both have trackpants and tshirts to hand in case of visitors, the need to go to the bathroom, sudden demon emergencies and the like. I rather like the idea of Spike in silk pjs too.

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This picture wins the comment section.

*looks around*

*licks*

What a fun poll :)

Here via a tumblr link and, oh man, I LOVE this poll! Buffy/Spike bedtime domesticity is basically my favorite and I'm in the middle of trying to write a Buffy/Spike bedtime scene, so it totally speaks to my current interests :)

1 & 2. I'm such a sucker for canon, so I went with Buffy wearing whatever the current "normal" pj thing is (in this case tank top and pj bottoms, just like she was doing the Nick&Nora pjs when those were hip) and Spike going with the naked sleeping thing (like in "Wrecked")

8. This was the one I debated on (for probably way longer than was necessary, haha), because cuddling bothers me because it's kind of cliché and sweeter than I usually picture them, but I figure Spike couldn't resist being all touchy even when he was unconscious :)

10. These are all great choices! But the understated bedtime rituals (that then lead to sexytimes?) is by far my favorite; I just really love the idea of the two of them being all couple-y and normal (but also sexy!)