Faded90
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This is something I’ve always been intrigued by. For the purposes of the discussion I’m going to pretend that Angel wasn’t poisoned and even though Buffy doesn’t get Faith’s advice from her dream she still goes with the same plan of the student army plus blowing up the school.
Obviously Faith wanted to be a part of something and thought she had a better chance of that with The Mayor, she then obviously grew to enjoy his fatherly side. But what happens when he ascends and reality kicks in that he’s no longer the kindly (to her anyway) man who buys her ice-e’s and suggests mini golf - instead he’s a giant demon snake who kills people in a very visceral way. Does she have a moment like in the church in Who Are You when she realises ‘because it’s wrong’? I’ve always thought that she’d have the mental break she had at the end of Who Are You and in 5x5 and go on a suicidal death wish earlier and try to tempt either Buffy or Angel (or both) to kill her. There’s a good chance she’d have lost herself in the initial adrenaline of the fight and enjoyed that part but I think she may have crumbled at the sight of who The Mayor truly was. In my heart I’d have loved a Magneto style ‘you betrayed me’ ‘no I betrayed them’ but I think that’s probably a bit too fanfiction for even my Faith loving heart 😂
In a lot of ways it was probably a good thing for her that she was in a coma and forced out of the situation
Obviously Faith wanted to be a part of something and thought she had a better chance of that with The Mayor, she then obviously grew to enjoy his fatherly side. But what happens when he ascends and reality kicks in that he’s no longer the kindly (to her anyway) man who buys her ice-e’s and suggests mini golf - instead he’s a giant demon snake who kills people in a very visceral way. Does she have a moment like in the church in Who Are You when she realises ‘because it’s wrong’? I’ve always thought that she’d have the mental break she had at the end of Who Are You and in 5x5 and go on a suicidal death wish earlier and try to tempt either Buffy or Angel (or both) to kill her. There’s a good chance she’d have lost herself in the initial adrenaline of the fight and enjoyed that part but I think she may have crumbled at the sight of who The Mayor truly was. In my heart I’d have loved a Magneto style ‘you betrayed me’ ‘no I betrayed them’ but I think that’s probably a bit too fanfiction for even my Faith loving heart 😂
In a lot of ways it was probably a good thing for her that she was in a coma and forced out of the situation