#i mostly just hate how the fandom skews things to make buffy look like the bad guy

[momsopposed2theoccult]

You know I think it’s actually a lot more interesting to view the events of season three through the lens of “Faith had been failed by everyone in her life to the point where she had difficulty accepting friendship when it’s offered to her, even though she longs to belong. She craved Buffy’s love most of all, and in particular I think she wanted Buffy to be her girlfriend, but she probably would have settled for being her best friend. However, she was also deeply jealous of Buffy and wanted to literally be her in addition to wanting her love. Faith hates herself and wishes she was Buffy, because Buffy has close personal relationships, which Faith has difficulty forming. Faith has a complex about Buffy where she hates her, loves her, and wants to be her at the same time resulting from a combination of her repressed attraction to women, her dark childhood, her self-loathing, and her lack of understanding of how friendship works. Faith accidentally killing the Deputy Mayor made her feel like she could never be as good as Buffy or deserving of her love, so she turned to the Mayor as a way of giving into her self loathing. The Mayor acted as a father figure to her, which isn’t something she’s ever experienced before, so she was eager to do his bidding and commit increasingly more evil acts to impress him.” as opposed to “Buffy failed Faith on a personal level and it’s actually entirely Buffy’s fault that Faith went to the dark side. Buffy should have loved Faith more, and that would have quickly remedied Faith’s very dark personal history that led to her becoming the person she is when we meet her.”

#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #faith lehane #buffy summers #i really don’t like it when people paint buffy as the villain #buffy tried to reach out to faith and be her friend many times #but faith had a difficult time recognizing that because it’s not something she was used to #also i think faith had a bit of complex where she wanted to be Buffy’s Only Friend #and sort of resented buffy’s bond with the scoobies even though she’s known them for longer and has had more time to get close to them #i mostly just hate how the fandom skews things to make buffy look like the bad guy #i really don’t hate faith as a character at all #i also think it’s most interesting if faith’s greatest energy is herself #rather than pinning everything on other characters for Failing Her #faith was failed by people in her life prior to her run on the show #so even though the scoobies tried to reach out to her #it didn’t really work since she didn’t know how to accept that friendship #*greatest enemy