IF someone could delete the above comment i made, its the same as this one, only this has an extra part.......
but thats what makes them so different to me. that they act so different. thats like saying faith and buffy are the same character. which, by the way, so not.
You are totally missing the point that i am making.
The differences of these two characters are born from how they tackle the same situations.
Angel/us With his head.
Spike with his heart.
IF Angel/us tackled the situations he is placed in in the way that Spike does, and Spike did took them on using his head, the characters would be reversed.
Angelus would have a thirst for the Slayer blood.
Its the romantic notions of Spike that leads him to confront the two(three Buffy) Slayers, the searching out of your true enemy, and fighting to the death, thats where the romance, the heart lies.
Where as Angelus, he knew that he could learn from Darla originally, and this lead him to use his head, play the mind games on Dru, play the gameswith Holtz, ultimately that night with the Gypsies.
Neither Angelus or Spike are typical vampires, where generally the the Vampire runs on Instinct,these two use their humanity to be the better Vampire, and thats where the horror of what they were lies.
Thusly, had Spike used his mind and Angelus used his heart in the situations,they would have still got to that Alley, on that night, but taken the almost identical(obviously some differences) route of the other person.
Thats another reason why these two could never ever get on, as though sometimes the head and the heart work together, they never agree on whats theywant and whats best.
As for Faith and Buffy,Buffy herself acknowledges that there is 'Faith' inside her, the only difference is where Buffy fights it because she has reasonto,Faith doesnt.
The whole point of Faith was to show that Buffy was one version, and Faith was an alter ego, so to speak.....
Slayer versus Humanity.
There was alot of darkness to Faith granted, but her real issue isnt that she was Evil, its that she didn't have a human connection.
IF Faith had the family and the scoobs, she would have been 'Buffy'.
Faiths 'evil' isn't born from an evil within her, its born from rejection, loss, darkness and ultimately being alone.
The Slayer itself is ment to live alone, fight the good fight, but thats where its flaw is.
Look at the evidence, most Slayers live fast, die young, but we have two, two that have a connection that live past the usual sell by date.
Buffy who has all those people around her, and Nikki Wood.
Nikki Wood, is older then any Slayer we have previously seen or heard about. Granted she isnt THAT old, but there is a reason why the show made her look at least mid 20's.....24-27....she had a connection.
The fact she was a Slayer with a connection didnt make her invulnerable, but as Spike says in Fool for love about Buffy, It gave Nikki a Reason.
She still finally succumbed to the fight, but she gave it a fairer shot then most.
Back to Faith, the first time we actually see that she is ruled by her Slayer is by the Body Swap.
She could have left, made a life for her somewhere else, but instead, what does she do.
She fights the Vampires that leads to her being turned back to herself.
Then in LA, finally, the Slayer side has fought her darkness, its winning the battle within because sheis given what she wants....Help, finally someone on her side....a Connection....Angel.
Its his intervention that helps her make the decision to give herself up, its his belief that she is a better person that allows her to accept the Slayer, thus become human again...and its only him that is strong enough to allow her to rehabilitate herself enough to breakout of Prison and save him.
Again, Faith was always destined to fight alongside Buffy, even though its one girl in all the world, they have this bond beyond the Slayer, they have the inner darkness.....
