lokifan: GD!Faith about to fall from the roof, text "quite a ride" (Faith: quite a ride)
lokifan ([personal profile] lokifan) wrote in [personal profile] itsnotmymind 2024-11-17 12:36 pm (UTC)

Yep. And both come to a realisation about the terrible thing they've done and leave. Faith still does more terrible things - her torture of Wesley - but my read on that is that it's done in large part because of her death wish by that point.

On the topic of Faith and sexual violence - I wish to God there was more discussion/acknowledgement of what Faith did to Riley. I get that on a storytelling level she doesn't know him, her relationship is with Buffy, but argh. I really don't think the show recognises that as a sexual assault on him, which sucks. I mean, it is completely fantastical and I can imagine him not experiencing it that way (and same for Buffy - could go either way) buuut. It's always difficult when you have the fantastical violations, I guess; Willow/Tara in Once More With Feeling is another one where I think both in-universe and out of it, you can see it either way.

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