Any Giles+Faith shippers?

[Karl]

or is it too weird because Giles is so...old? 😛

 

[Canon]

For me it's definitely too weird 😀 There's just a major 'ick' factor involved with that ship (in my opinion).

 

[Karl]

Lol, I figured. 😀 The idea came to me after I finished No Future For You (part 4). It wouldn't feel so icky in the comics, I think.

 

[Hello Cutie]

No, it's not ick because he's too old, it's ick because he's like everyone's surrogate father. Any ship involving anyone in Btvs (minus Joyce or Jenny) and Giles is just plain wrong because of the father-like guardian role he plays. It's called incest.

 

[Karl]

No, it's not ick because he's too old, it's ick because he's like everyone's surrogate father. Any ship involving anyone in Btvs (minus Joyce or Jenny) and Giles is just plain wrong because of the father-like guardian role he plays. It's called incest.

Wow! Personally, I never felt there was a father-daughter relaitonship between the two and I always laughed when Faith commented on Giles' 'youth and beauty'. 😀 I'm not even really supporting this ship, just throwing it out there.

 

[Joyce Summers]

I totally agree with Hello Cutie. He tends to play the surrogate Father role to everyone except, well, the adults. Joyce and Jenny are the only acceptable love interests for Giles in my opinion (As Olivia was just blah and weird) and any of the others....well, he's too Fatherly to them for it not to seem like incesty badness. I mean he was never an obvious Father role to Faith, but more like a reluctant one. And he definitely seems to have taken on Father-like Mentor Role in the comics...so yeah, a little too strange for me.

So, like I said- I agree with Hello Cutie 🙂

 

[Rebecca]

What about Giles and Anya? 😉 Even though they had no memories I still thought they were pretty cute on that table(?) together! He never seemed "surrogate father-y" to Anya either haha.

 

[Karl]

Perhaps just the fact that Faith is a slayer and Giles a watcher makes it seem bad. Too bad Anya is dead. 🙁

 

[Tueuse de Vampires]

It just doesn't feel right period! Like others have already said, with Giles I always associate being like a father for all the little grown-ups. Even for Faith. Okay, maybe this wouldn't be just as incesty, but more like Daddy's getting it on with youngster's friends, which is equally gross.
Anya is a slightly different case. On the one hand she's over a 1000 years old and didn't have this 'early' high school connection with Giles. On the other hand, she clearly is in need of guidance from time to time and the way she always hugged Giles (like in 'Grave') was just so daughterly. If there was ever the chance for a ship like this, it would've been early s4, when they couldn't stand each other and hadn't bonded yet.

 

[Rebecca]

I think Faith always did have a thing for Giles anyway lol. After all, if "she'd known they came *that* young and cute, she would've requested a transfer."

 

[Joyce Summers]

Oh I don't doubt Faith would willingly jump in the sack with Giles. Just I don't think Giles would ever be that way about Faith and that's what makes the concept icky. To imagine the couple would force me to warp Giles....and I don't wish to! Haha

 

[Kean]

No way I can't picture it and quite frankly I really don't want to. To be honest Giles with ANYONE kinda feaks me out...for basically the reasons Buffy gave 'Cuz it's gross and you're very very old'...it just has major ick factor for me. Like the girls have said, Giles is the father of the group but no-one wants to imagine him as the daddy if ya know what I mean...*shudders*.

 

[palabravampiress]

Well, in an unprecedented move, I'm going to disagree with Joyce Summers. Wow, huh?

I don't see Giles as a father figure to Faith. To the other kids, yes, but not to Faith. In the comics, he proposes more of a partnership between equals. Also, they have sort of bonded through the shared experience of having once been on the wrong side of this war. Plus, everyone knows I think Giles is hella hot. lol. I see no problem with a woman like Faith, who is in her mid-twenties by now, being attracted to a man like Giles, who is what? In his 50s somewhere? Cuz, really... he is quite attractive. They have some shared experiences and a shared purpose. I think it would be pretty natural for them to at least notice each other as attractive single people.

 

[TabulaRasa]

'Please God no' was my first response. He's too much like a dad to everyone.

 

[DarklyDreamingDrusilla]

I agree with palabravampiress on this one. I mean Giles is definatly an attractive man and I don't think he is like a father to Faith at all now if it was Buffy ewwwy, but with Faith not as big of a deal. Plus, Giles needs someone I mean who was the last girl he dated Oliva in like season 4, it has been a while so I kinda feel bad for Giles he is always left out of the love relationship type stuff. I think the only weird thing would be the Scoobs reaction to the relationship, but it could be funny. :smile:

 

[Karl]

Ah, there my be hope for Faith and Giles after all. 😀 I gotta admit, I find it really funny how people say that it's wrong for Giles to be with anyone, because it freaks them out. Buffy's reaction is the same as some people have mentioned already. The man needs some love. I really dug season 4, because we got to find out more about Giles' personal life and he became a more interesting character altogether (not that he wasn't interesting before).

 

[FaithyFivebyFive]

Well, I saw this new partner-ship developing into a father-figure type relationship, not anything else. So I say, EW to them as a couple. 😛

 

[Joyce Summers]

Ah, there my be hope for Faith and Giles after all. I gotta admit, I find it really funny how people say that it's wrong for Giles to be with anyone, because it freaks them out. Buffy's reaction is the same as some people have mentioned already. The man needs some love. I really dug season 4, because we got to find out more about Giles' personal life and he became a more interesting character altogether (not that he wasn't interesting before).

I have nothing wrong with Giles being with anyone. I loved him with Jenny and I adored him with Joyce. But Giles and people who were in mid-High School when he was in his mid-forties? That's creepy! Giles immediately took on a Father role to most if not all of the high school characters. At least he tried to anyway, and generally that face was accepted.
So any concept of a sexual relationship with those same high school characters makes my skin crawl with incest-like badness

 

[bufbuf]

I agree, even when faith said that if she knew they came that young and cute she would have requested a transfer, she was only playing around, i think mainly to get a reaction, which she got in form of a 'raise your hand if Ew' ... Giles wouldnt go for anyone in that age group anyway, its not in his nature, it'd make him seem less of giles and more like um lets say ethan...?

 

[Joyce Summers]

Hello Cutie agrees: Yay Karma for agreeingness! Also, Olivia was so meh... it should have been him and Joyce!

::hugs Hello Cutie for Pro-Joylesness::. Sorry, anyone who says Giles and Joyce should have been together gets a hug from me. And so far that's only been two other people so...feel special. 😀 Haha.
But yes, I did totally agree with your post. In a way of 'well, what do I say now?' Haha