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Following protests angry about the death of Tara, Whedon and the writing team made a decision to keep Willow gay.

In 2002, he told The Advocate about the possibility of Willow having a relationship with a man, " We do that now, and we will be burned alive.

And possibly justifiably.

We can't have Willow say, ' Oh, cured now, I can go back to cock!

' Willow is not going to be straddling that particular fence.

She will just be gay.

" Kennedy is markedly different from Tara.

She is younger, outspoken, and aggressively pursues Willow, who hesitates to become involved again.

When they first kiss in the episode " The Killer in Me ", Willow's realization that she let Tara go reacts with a curse put upon her by another witch named Amy Madison ( Elizabeth Anne Allen ), turning Willow into Warren, Tara's murderer.

The spell is broken when Willow acknowledges her guilt and Kennedy kisses her again.

Kennedy expresses that she does not understand the value of magic and assumes it involves tricks, not the all-consuming energy that Willow is capable of.

When Willow eventually exhibits what power she has, it briefly frightens Kennedy.

Willow worries about becoming sexually intimate with Kennedy, unsure of what may transpire if she loses control of herself.