RE: [buffywantswillow] Unconventional Faith Shipping, An Overview

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Cute! Are you going to do Cordilla ship soon?

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Subject: [buffywantswillow] Unconventional Faith Shipping, An Overview



Cordy: "OK, the formalities...

Title: Unconventional Faith Shipping, An Overview
Disclaimer: Joss owns us. No one's making any money off of this. It's a 
lot like working for Angel..."

Willow: "Cordelia... On topic, please?"
Cordy: "Let me vent, all right? Anyway...

Notes: This continues from Unconventional Buffy Shipping, Parts 1 and 2,
and 
Unconventional Willow Shipping. A lot of variety in the titiles, huh?"

Willow: "Cordelia..."
Cordy: "OK, OK!!... 

Spoilers: Um, some mild ones for various episodes and lots of fanfic. Oh, 
and some old musical and an old Reeces commercial.
Warnings: Like these lists need warnings... Consentual sexual situations 
involving two women, three women, two women and one man, etc..
Distribution: Do I have to say this? Shouldn't this be Faith's?"

Willow: "Well, yeah, but she's, you know, occupied..."
Cordy: "OK... Want, take, have, but let E know, first."
Willow: "Are we ready?"
Tara: "I'm not sure... I mean..."
Willow: "I know.. Don't worry about it. We've all slept with her..."
Dru: "It's like that song in The King And I, about the bee and the 
buttercups..."
Tara: "Wouldn't she be a buttercup?"
Dru: "Oh yes... She's a buttercup that flies, from buttercup to 
buttercup... You remember that commercial for peanut butter cups, where the

two people would run into each other, and one would be eating peanut butter,

and one would be eating chocolate...?"
Cordy: "See, told you!"
Willow: "Smug, vision girl... So, are we ready to start?"
Tara: "Well, um, the Slayers... They're... um... over there..."
Willow: "Well, someone needs to get their attention."
Cordy: "Don't look at me!"
Willow: "Sigh..." (Goes to Buffy'n'Faith, who are making out) "Ahem!!"
Faith: "Hmm?"
Buffy: "Huh? Willow! C'mere..."
Willow: "Hey!!! No, no, we can't!! Not now!!! We're on!"
Faith: "Oh!!! Damn, OK..."
Buffy: "We're ready."

Thank you. Yes, we're back to look at more unconventional relationships in 
Buffy fanfic, this time focusing on Faith. Most FaithFic ships are going to

be unconventional, as she hasn't really had any relationships on the show, 
unless you count Xander. 

Willow: "Well, that wasn't really what I'd call a relationship, so we can 
count it as an unconventional one." 

Ok, then. In F/X stories, sometimes things go differently, and Faith
doesn't 
try to strangle him.

Buffy: "How many times to I have to tell you... Safeword..."

In others, she repents, and he forgives her. And, of course, in some, she 
shares Xander with her fellow Slayer...

Buffy: "Damn straight!"
Faith: "Hell, yeah!"
Tara: "Are they going to start that, again?"

Probably. Which brings us to...

Faith/Buffy

Faith: "Ohhh, yeah!!!"

This one is so popular that the majority of FathFic involves it, to a
degree. 
Even when Faith is being shipped with someone else, she's often thinking 
about Buffy.

Buffy: "As she should be."

This ship came about because it's almost qualifies as a conventional one. 
>From Faith's introduction on the show, their scenes have reeked with
subtext. 
B/F shippers even got support from Joss, himself, who liked the idea.
We've 
covered B/F shipping before, so we won't rehash it all...

Faith: "I'm the only one who understands her... Who knows what it's
like... 
Being the perfect preditor, loving the hunt, the kill, the sex..." (Sings)

"She's a complicated girl, but no one understands her but her woman..."
Cordy: "Please!!! Don't sing that. These writers are twisted enough, 
already..."

B/F fic can be angsty and intense, light and fun, and always sexy. 

Faith: "Well, with a couple of hungry, horny, Slayers, what do you expect?"

And, we've also covered Faith/Willow...

Buffy: "But we can never get enough Willow.."

True. One popular trend, recently, is to have stories featuring Buffy and 
Faith as a couple, and Willow and Tara as a couple...

Faith: "So, when do we get a foursome?"

It'll happen, I'm sure. There are, however, many Faith fans who are rather 
hostile towards Willow...

Cordy: "Oh, yeah... I guess Willow had no right to be offended by Faith 
putting a knife to her throat..."

Fanfic doesn't always have to be logical...

Faith: "Well, y'know, she stole B from me..."
Buffy: "You're right about the logic thing. Look at how much action Angel 
gets. Soul escape clause? What soul escape clause?"

One nice thing about writing fanfic is you don't neccessarily have to follow

the rules...

Buffy: "Except that's the whole reason Angel left me..."
Faith: "I thought it was because he knew you belonged with me, or Red, or 
the Prom Queen, or whoever..."

Speaking of the brooding vampire, we have...

Faith/Angel...

Faith: "Yeah! Why should she be the only one who gets to boink the
undead?"

This is based on the sexual tension between the two of them, and the idea 
that Angel is the only one who understands Faith, having been psychotic, 
himself...

Cordy: "Except, he had the excuse of not having his soul... And isn't
Buffy 
sufficiantly sociopathic?"
Buffy: "Look, I said I was sorry about almost killing you in the first 
episode! Aren't you over that, yet?!!"
Cordy: "Am I the only one who's noticed that you've clocked or almost
killed 
every Scooby except Willow? And this is on the actual show!"
Faith: "Hey, those are the risks... Besides, I took care of clocking 
Willow, so B doesn't have to..."

Angel is another one Faith and Buffy have shared. Then, there's...

Faith/Spike...

I sort of blame myself for this one. I spent a lot of bandwith on the 
newsgroup going on about what a perfect couple they'd be, suggesting double 
dates with Buffy and Angel. My reasoning was that Faith embodies everything

Spike loves about Buffy. They both love violence, sex, and leather. I also

suspect a conversation there led to another ship. I was joking that, with 
all the B/F and B/W shipping, Cordy needed her turn with Buffy. Another 
poster joked that she saw subtext in Homecoming when they were looking so 
lovely in the limo together. The next thing I knew, someone had started a 
series on that basis...

Willow: "So, that was your fault?"

Maybe. I don't know. Recently, I was encouraging a Willow/Harmony ship, so

we'll see what happens...

Willow: "You're evil..."

Oh, and the Slayers sometimes share Spike, too. To complete Faith's vampire

lust, we have...

Faith/Dru...

Dru: "Yes! We complete each other, depend on each other..."
Buffy: "...Get each other killed..."
Cordy: "Great. TWO psychos..."

Well, you aparently don't mind, as there is also...

Faith/Cordy...

Cordy: "Well, there should be one sane person in a relationship."

There's also been Faith/Oz, based on the hostility some FaithFic writers
feel 
towards Willow. That's also led to Faith/Tara...

Buffy: "What?!! You've gotten some, already?"
Faith: "Yeah..."
Buffy: "Damn.. Gotta talk to these writers..."

And, of course, there's Faith/Giles, based on the Watcher and Slayer finding

a connection. This is another one where the Slayers have shared. There's 
even been Faith/Veruca...

Buffy: "Um, wasn't Veruca dead while Faith was in a coma?"

Yes, but she got better, only to have Faith kill her again since she was 
planning to stalk Willow, which would have upset Buffy...

Faith: "The things I do for ya, B.."

Finally, we have, in the most twisted love triangle I've seen in Buffy 
fanfic...

Cordy: "And that's saying something..."

Faith/Joyce...

Tara: "WHAT?!!!! You... you..."

Basically, Faith gets upset with Buffy over something or other, in one case 
walking in on Buffy and Angel having sex...

Buffy: "What?!!! You screwed Xander..."
Faith: "Yeah, but that was different. I didn't have feelings for him..."
Buffy: "And that makes it OK?!!!"

...So, Faith ends up, in various circumstances, in Joyce's bed. She's still

in love with Buffy, though...

Buffy: "You... You mother..."
Willow: "Buffy!!! Language..."
Faith: "Come on, B... You know I have no control over what these writers
do 
to me..."
Cordy: "And it's not like she's the only one..."
Buffy: "OK, OK... I know about Giles... What other lovers of mine have 
been sleeping with my mother?"
Willow: "Well, there's Xander..."
Buffy: "Is there anyone Xander HASN'T been shipped with?"
Willow: "I don't think so. Oh, and Angel... And Spike..."
Buffy: "And she lectures me about MY sex life?!!!" 








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