Also, re: Spike's mommy issues, have you ever come across the speculations (based on Dru talking about 'Little Anne' in "What's My Line") that Dru's real name might also be Anne, like Spike's mother's (and Buffy's)? :)

No, but I'd be perfectly willing to believe it. (My fanon about Darla btw, is that her original name is some derivative of "Elizabeth", because many girls born when she was would have been named after the Queen, but if her mother was also a streetwalker, it would have been something like Bess or Lizzie. Of course, "Buffy" also hails from Elizabeth, though our Buffy has the derivative in her birth certificate.)

The "Darla is jealous of Angel liking Spike more" and Spike as Angel's "favourite childe" (which both do still are quite popular, btw, at least from what I've seen) are among my least favourite bits of fanon in A/S fic because canon doesn't support it at all.

*headdesk* Quite. Tell me at least the exclamations of "Mine!" are gone?