Before meeting Willow, Tara had been painfully shy, in part due to a father who led her to believe that she was demonic.

Tara is killed when Warren Mears accidentally shoots her, launching Willow's spiral into Dark Willow.

* Tara Maclay, until she breaks up with Willow in " Tabula Rasa ".

When Glory assaults Tara, making her insane, Willow, in a magical rage that causes her eyes to turn black, finds Glory and battles her.

Willow and Tara move into the Summers house and raise Buffy's younger sister Dawn ( Michelle Trachtenberg ).

After failing Tara's challenge to go for one week without performing magic, Tara leaves Willow, and for two episodes Willow descends into addiction that almost kills Dawn.

As Willow gives a book report in front of her high school class, she discovers herself wearing the same mousy outfit she wore in the first episode of the show (" Welcome to the Hellmouth ") as her friends and classmates shout derisively at her, and Oz and Tara whisper intimately to each other in the audience.

No longer the conscience of the Scooby Gang, Willow cedes this role to Tara then revels in breaking more rules.

After Tara leaves Willow, Willow divulges to Buffy that she does not know who she is and doubts her worth and appeal — specifically to Tara — without magic.

Buffy earned international attention for its unflinching focus on the relationship between Willow and Tara Maclay.

In the fourth season episode " Hush ", Willow meets Tara, and to avoid being killed by a group of ghouls, they join hands to move a large vending machine telekinetically to barricade a door.

The scene was, upon completion, noticeably sensual to Whedon, the producers, and network executives, who encouraged Whedon to develop a romantic storyline between Willow and Tara, but at the same time placed barriers on how far it could go and what could be shown.

The actors were not told the end result of the Willow – Oz – Tara storyline, not sure what the eventual trajectory of the relationship would be, until Hannigan said, " Then finally it was, ' Great!

When Willow discloses to Buffy what she feels for Tara, she indicates that she has fallen in love with Tara, not that she is a lesbian, and avoids categorizing herself.

Scholar Farah Mendlesohn asserts that Willow's realization that she is in love with Tara allows viewers to re-interpret Willow's relationship with Buffy ; in the first three seasons, Willow is often disappointed that she is not a higher priority to Buffy, and even after Willow enters a relationship with Tara, still desires to feel integral to Buffy's cause and the Scooby Gang.

Some fans loyal to Willow reacted angrily as she chose to be with Tara when Oz made himself available, and they lashed out at Tara and Amber Benson on the fansite message boards.

His landscapes of this period, such as Pond in the Woods and Willow Mill, are quite different from his earlier watercolours.

The Willow Road and University Avenue junctions with Bayfront Expressway are at-grade intersections controlled by traffic lights ; there are two additional controlled intersections at Chilco Road and Marsh Road, and the Marsh Road interchange on U. S. 101 is a parclo.

Willow trees can reach a height of, and are valued for ornamental purposes.

In Latvia, Palm Sunday is called " Pussy Willow Sunday ", and pussy willows – symbolizing new life – are blessed and distributed to the faithful.

Due to the show's strong themes of female empowerment, the most powerful members of the team are often female ( Buffy and Willow ), while the men play passive roles such as that of father-figure ( Giles ) and supportive best friend ( Xander ).

Species that were once common but now are gone or endangered include the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher, Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Least Bell's Vireo, and Warbling Vireo.

The series begins as Buffy, Willow, and their friend Xander are in 10th grade and Willow is a shy and nerdy girl with little confidence.

They are mentored by the school librarian who is also Buffy's Watcher, Rupert Giles ( Anthony Stewart Head ), who often works closely with Willow in researching the various monsters the group encounters.

In the second season when the characters are in 11th grade, Willow becomes more sure of herself, standing up to the conceited Cordelia Chase ( Charisma Carpenter ), and approaching Xander, on whom she has had a crush for years, although it is unrequited as Xander is in love with Buffy.

Through the gamut of changes Willow endures in the series, Buffy studies scholar Ian Shuttleworth states that Alyson Hannigan's performances are the reason for Willow's popularity: " Hannigan can play on audience heartstrings like a concert harpist ... As an actress she is a perfect interpreter in particular of the bare emotional directness which is the specialty of writer Marti Noxon on form.

Willow appears to Buffy and Xander, who are in charge of thousands of Slayers, a year after the destruction of Sunnydale.

Willow is still involved with Kennedy through Season Eight, but becomes intimate with Aluwyn while they are together.

Both Dark Willow and even Willow herself state that Willow's sacrifices for her friends and lack of assertiveness are her undoing.

Some scholars see Willow as Buffy's sister-figure or the anti-Buffy, similar to Faith, another Slayer whose morals are less strict.

As a couple, Willow and Tara are treated by the rest of the Scoobies with acceptance and little fanfare.

Susan Driver writes that younger viewers especially appreciate that Willow and Tara are able to be affectionate without becoming overly sexual, thus making them objects of fantasy for male enjoyment.

In Season Eight, Kennedy and Willow are still romantically involved, but separated during Willow's self-exploration.

Among the best-known Razaf-Waller collaborations are Ain't Misbehavin ', Honeysuckle Rose, The Joint Is Jumpin, Willow Tree, Keepin ' Out of Mischief Now and ( What Did I Do to Be So ) Black and Blue.

The couple gives them shelter in their cottage after the Hobbits are rescued from Old Man Willow.

In all but one species ( the Willow Ptarmigan ), males are polygamous.

Particularly because Tara's death came at a point where Willow and Tara had reconciled and were shown following an apparent sexual encounter, the writers were criticized for representing the consequences of lesbian sex as punishable by death.

She is shown to look up greatly to Willow and Tara and have a crush on Xander.

Willow was shown and promoted at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.

Limited to what could be shown by the network, Tara and Willow are shown as consistently affectionate but not overly sexual.

Not until Buffy moved from the WB to UPN in 2001 were Tara and Willow shown in sexual situations.

This is best shown in " Conversations with Dead People " as the First appears to Dawn as her mother Joyce, appears to Andrew as Warren and appears to Willow as Cassie Newton, in an attempt to manipulated them all into serving its purpose.

* The Scooby Gang, shown towards the end of Season One of Angel that Angel and Cordelia are still in contact with Scooby Gang members Rupert Giles and Willow Rosenberg.

Later, Michael, Amy, and Willow — three witches — are shown performing a spell in a circle that surrounds the symbol Buffy found on the children's hands.

Willow is shown reciting the spell, and Buffy shuts the door in his face.

Willow asks Buffy what she saw, and the vision is shown to the viewer: Inside the Hellmouth, the First has an army made up of thousands of Turok-Han vampires.

* It is in this episode that Willow and Tara's relationship takes a romantic turn ; although no romantic affection is explicitly shown, it can be inferred from the quality of their interactions.

Tara shows her fear and stern belief that it is wrong to mess with the natural selection of life, but Willow is shown to be a little more lenient.