Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-24859393-20190119205345/@comment-2059440-20190121211332

no, vamps in Buffy are legit demons - the human host is simply that.. a corpse.. the human soul is gone.. that's why vampires are "evil".

Buffy cosmos has it that the soul is what makes us empathic etc and without a soul we end up demonic and cruel - vampires are walking corpses animated by spiritual demons (rather than the physical "demons" Buffy is known for).

so Buffyverse vampires are demons.. neither monsters nor damned souls.

Angelus is a demon - as is proven in an Angel episode where he travels to another reality and Angelus manifests as a legit demon.. that is the demon that possesses Angel's body and makes him a vamp (the only reason Angel turns "good" is because he got cursed with a soul, which basically repressed (but never got fully rid of) Angelus, who is the demon inside).