30 Days of Buffy, Day #23

[itsnotmymind]

Day #01: Favourite season
Day #02: Favourite episode
Day #03: Favourite song used in an episode
Day #04: Favourite female character
Day #05: Least favourite female character
Day #06: Favourite male character
Day #07: Least favourite male character
Day #08: Favourite friendship
Day #09: Favourite romance
Day #10: Least favourite season
Day #11: Least favourite romance
Day #12: Least favourite episode
Day #13: Favourite potential slayer
Day #14: Favourite female villain
Day #15: Favourite male villain
Day #16: Episode you like that everyone else hates - Favourite piece of monologue
Day #17: Character you relate to the most
Day #18: Character who didn’t get enough screen time
Day #19: Character you like that everyone else hates
Day #20: Best Spike-centric episode
Day #21: Best Willow-centric episode
Day #22: Best Xander-centric episode
Day #23: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did
Day #24: Favourite example of 90s special effects
Day #25: Favourite Buffyverse saying
Day #26: Favourite Scooby moment
Day #27: Cutest moment
Day #28: Character you love to hate
Day #29: Episode you hate that everyone else loves
Day #30: What you think made Buffy so great


Day #23: Two characters you wanted to get together that never did
I went through a phase where I was a Faith/Spike shipper. This started before they even sort of met in "Who Are You". I'm not sure that they would work as a long-term couple, but they would be hot in the short-term.

Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Did you ever read snowpuppies' "Who are You (the Champagne remix)" from this past spring? It's got implied Faith/Buffy (Faith stealing/raping Buffy's body because she wants to be with Buffy, as opposed to canon's she wants to get revenge/escape her identity/be Buffy) and Faith/Spike. Good stuff.

I think Faith and Spike are just way too much alike - they'd implode on impact. Definitely short-term as you say.

Faith and Spike occupy such a similar place vis a vis Buffy as her dark mirror - it's brilliant the way their paths cross in WAY, sort of formalizing the "handoff" if you will, and foreshadowing Buffy's descent into darkness and the carnal turn her relationship with Spike will take. IF the culture had been different back in the day (and Joss had been bolder) Faith might have played that role entirely - you could redo the entire series with Faith in the role of Spike to Buffy, and have a very similar outcome. (Buffy's worst acts of violence are against the two of them, the worst violations visited upon her body - aside from being resurrected - are by Faith and Spike. etc)

I used to claim (loudly) that I could never see Buffy as bisexual or lesbian - now I'm writing my first Fuffy fics. I've tried to toy with the idea of Spike/Buffy/Faith, but I can't make it work in mind. Partly because I'm also turning into a Spangel shipper. (oy vey)

[kikimay]

The Spike/Faith combo doesn't work with me. I can see why people like it, but I can't find it attractive or interesting for some reasons (Maybe because Spike and Faith are so similar and they have the same role in Buffy's life) I prefer both with Buffy, in het or femslash.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Both Spike and Faith are pretty much shippable with ANY other character, IMO. They do have a lot of emotional issues in common, it's true, but I don't see that as an impediment to them being good together. Faith is to Buffy as Spike is to Angel, in a lot of ways, and it would help both of them to have somebody for whom they are the primary focus, after being in the shadow of others for so long. Plus, they could indulge in mischief while those around them played the dour and serious roles.

If you are looking for fic, try the Spike/Faith tag on justrewards.com. Everything by anaross is great!