He wakes up in the morning, brushes his teeth, puts his pants on one leg at a time and goes to school. And gets a gun pulled on him. Or tries to get a little nooky, and almost gets the life sucked out of him. He is more than a slayer. He is ..... Jonathan. I love Jonathan. "Why?" you might ask, "He's only been in like, 10 episodes." The reason I love Jonathan (besides his natural cheek-pinching cuteness) is the perspective he gives to every episode he's in.

Dorkily cute.

We all may identify with a member in the Scooby Gang in particular, but I think we are all more like Jonathan in reality. He's just your average kid doing the average things we all did in high school. Except of course for that pesky Hellmouth, which kind of screws everything up. But I think he reacts to them the same way we would. He is the "everyman" in the show, which is why, even if he's a bit character, I think he's integral to the way that we view the characters in the Buffyverse and even Sunnydale as a whole.

Even in Superstar, when he turned the entire world into his fan club, he did it as just an outreach of his own insecurities. And when it really came down to doing the right thing, he didn't want to do it, but he changed the world back anyway. Which is how anyone else would do it: reluctantly, but knowing that it was the right thing to do. Even Buffy, who ended up being his lapdog, wasn't really hurt by this because she knew that if she were a normal girl caught in that situation, that's how she would have acted as well.

And oh so studious

So the next time you see Jonathan, whether it's slurping a smoothie by the stairs, or giving an award, smile. Because Jonathan is the Buffyverse's symbol for us, the normal people out there.