Because she’s the worst person in the world and loves to hurt me, @brbtherescookies says to me, WHILE I’M ALREADY VULNERABLE FROM BUCKY FEELS IN FATWS, “Criminal Bucky but before he met Steve.”
And if I have to suffer this angst, so do all of you
rewatching ‘consequences’ for an edit and just revisiting faith’s scenes with buffy + the end scene where she turns to the mayor… it’s so fucking sad to think about how all she wanted was to be buffy. for buffy to see her as an equal. and she makes one mistake on patrol and doesn’t know what to do other than the only thing she’s ever been good at which is to run away. and everyone starts voicing their concerns and giving her pity looks and she can’t handle it because it’d mean that no, she is not the same as buffy. this thing wouldn’t have happened to buffy. all faith has in her life is slaying. it’s the thing that gives her a reason to live, and now she can’t even do that right? they have real reasons to be worried about her but through their attempts to chain her and lock her up + the final denial from buffy at the docks, they further cement in her mind that she can’t be good. because the good slayer wouldn’t have killed a man on patrol. she thinks that maybe she was never good at all, that she was just pretending to be good. so she turns to evil, because why not? isn’t that more fitting for someone like her?
