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Character Basics:

Character Name: Faith Lehane
Journal: watcherless
Age: 19 (December 14, 1980 - canon point in May 2000)
Fandom: Buffyverse
Canon Point: Angel 1x19
Debt:

Class A:

150 counts murder (estimated vampires slain)
1 count murder (Kakistos)
1 count betrayal (Gwendolyn Post)
1 count murder (deputy mayor)
1 count murder (Mr. Trick)
1 count rape (Xander - unsuccessful sexual assault)
1 count betrayal (trying to seduce/steal angel)
1 count betrayal (joining Team Mayor)
5 count espionages (feigning recovery while working for Mayor - one for each person)
1 count murder (fence demon)
1 count murder (volcanologist)
1 count espionage (Joyce - bodyswap)
1 count espionage (Tara - bodyswap)
1 count espionage (Willow - bodyswap)
1 count espionage (Spike - bodyswap)
1 count espionage (Giles - bodyswap)
1 count espionage (Anya - bodyswap)
1 count espionage (Riley - bodyswap)
1 count betrayal (letting the council's spec ops take buffy in her body)
1 count rape (Riley as Buffy - false pretenses)
1 count rape (Buffy - sex while stealing her body)

Class B:

500 counts various thefts, assaults, frauds (estimated)
1 count fraud ("watcher's retreat")
1 count assault (Angel - revelations)
1 count assault (Buffy - revelations)
1 count burglary (weapons shop - bad girls)
1 count fraud (lying to the police - consequences)
1 count assault (Xander - consequences)
3 counts assault (council - consequences)
1 count assault (Buffy - enemies)
1 count kidnapping (Willow - choices)
1 count assault (Willow - choices)
1 count assault (Angel - graduation day)
1 count assault (Buffy - graduation day)
1 count assault (girl in the hospital)
1 count robbery (girl in the hospital's clothes)
1 count assault (Joyce - this year's girl)
1 count theft (Buffy's body)
1 count assault (Buffy in Faith's body)
1 count assault (sketchy guy in the LA bus station)
1 count robbery (sketchy guy in the LA bus station)
1 count assault (Angel - in W&H)
1 count assault (torturing Wesley)
1 count assault (Angel - during the rescue of Wesley)

Class C:

15 counts attempted murder (angel and buffy in addition to escaped vampires)
1000 counts conspiracy to commit murder (helping mayor wilkins turn into a giant snake to eat everyone)
500 counts trespassing (slaying, sneaking, stealing)
500 counts vigilantism (slaying outside of the law)
100 counts property damage (while slaying, while stealing, while partying, etc.)
1 count impersonation (buffy)
1 count escaping custody (bad girls)
4 counts encouraging/enabling criminal activity (encouraging Buffy to ditch school, steal, bust out of police custody, and lie to the police)
20 counts misuse of magical forces (slayer abilities)
1 count running away (enemies)
1 count running away (graduation day)
1 count attempted suicide (graduation day)
1 count escaping custody (hospital)
1 count misuse of magical forces (bodyswap)
1 count running away (who are you)
1 count torture (wesley)
1 count attempted suicide (asking angel to kill her)
1 count running away (sanctuary)

GRAND TOTAL: 615 years, 2 months

Canon Character Section:

History: Wiki

Personality:

Much of Faith's personality is set-up to directly foil for Buffy. Whereas Buffy thinks first, plans, and then acts, Faith recklessly jumps into any situation with no consideration of the consequences - and her jumping in usually involves some kind of violence. Faith earned the title of rogue Slayer by taking a little too much enjoyment out of her job and turning it into a sport. She unapologetically celebrates the violence and the rush it gives her, and uses it to escape her feelings of loneliness.

A lot of her devil may care attitude is a front to disguise the damaged girl within, but in a lot of ways, Faith has learned to just not care. Not care about what anyone thinks, not care about anyone but herself, not care what happens to her. Faith, particularly post-prison, goes into every situation assuming that people aren't going to like to her. She's used to it, because no one's ever really treated her well except for Buffy and Angel, and Buffy's grown far too complicated to count now. So, she doesn't care - if she sets the bar low, she'll only ever be positively surprised. She doesn't care about anyone but herself, because caring about other people is how they get in to hurt her; either intentionally, or by being hurt/dying and making her feel that loss. She knows that people use and abuse her, and so she makes sure to care about herself because no one else is going to. And, she doesn't care what happens to her, because Faith's opinion of herself after the events of Bad Girls has hit rock bottom and given her a death wish. She knows she's terrible, that she screwed up, and for a great deal of time - often back and forth - she considers herself irredeemable, never able to make up for what she's done: who she's killed, how she's hurt the people who tried to reach out to her.

Every rule has exceptions. There are four people that Faith genuinely and completely cares about other than herself. The first and most significant is Angel, because he's never given up on her or doubted that she deserves a second chance, and he's done everything he can to make her see it. Buffy, who was the first real friend Faith ever had until she ruined it, a fact she fully realizes and a fact that makes her willing to do anything for Buffy without expecting something in return because she has a debt to pay. Giles, who did genuinely try to help her, and who she's seen be to Buffy what Faith has always wanted, and Wesley, who Faith also feels a great guilt towards, a great respect for, and a great understanding of.

While Faith is charismatic, outgoing and relaxed enough to make fast friends with anyone she encounters, she doesn't often make friends with people anymore. Her last attempt was with the Scoobies, who she realizes now Buffy holds her liable for stealing from her just because she'd tried to make friends with them. More than that, though, the people she's cared about have so often damaged her, or abandoned her, that she's used to being alone. She self-sabotaged things with Buffy and the Scoobies just because for Faith, alone is her equilibrium. She owns up to it in S7, and it's clear as early S3 that she hasn't had a lot of friendships in her life. In Who Are You, it's evident that the first time she's ever truly felt loved is feeling secondhand the love that Buffy's friends and loved ones have for her.

She is most likely to reach out for connections with a parental figure rather than with a friend, because Faith has deeply ingrained daddy issues. With a neglectful, alcoholic mother and a similarly alcoholic, deadbeat father who was absent on his best days, Faith subconsciously seeks out that kind of guidance. She found it with her Watcher, who Kakistos killed in front of her - she found it with the Mayor, who used her unerring loyalty to those she cares about to take advantage of her and use her as his killing machine - and in the S8 comics, she finds it with Giles, and kills for him, too, even knowing he's asking her to do it to save his real golden child, Buffy, rather than to look out for Faith and need her.

Romantic connections are something Faith particularly doesn't do. All of her boyfriends have been deadbeats, just like her father, and as a result, she creates this very controlling, hypersexual self that enjoys casual sex with multiple partners, but never settles down on monogamy, because monogamy means trust and it's not something she can give. As a teenager, Faith's need to be loved permeated all aspects of her life, causing her to put moves on Angel when he showed her attention and affection, because she tends to read every version of that as someone wanting sex from her because, as she asserts, she has the belief that "all men are beasts" who only play nice with you if they want something from you. While she seems to have tempered some of this through maturity, she makes a point to avoid romantic connections while she goes for frequent sexual relationships.

Once Faith does feel a connection to or love for someone, they get her indisputable loyalty. She will do anything for them, even kill. She hurt Buffy for the Mayor despite everything Buffy represented for her, she killed for him, and she did it all so that she wouldn't lose his positive attention because of her unhealthy perspective on interpersonal relationships.

At the same time as hero-worshipping and feeling immensely guilty about Buffy, she also passionately envies her. Much as Faith was a cautionary tale for Buffy, Buffy is the "what could have been" for Faith. She gets to peer in on how her life could have been if she weren't so damaged, if she'd had people there for her. Feeling that envy is what drives Faith to fall back on her "want, take, have" policy and try to take Buffy's friends as her own, Giles as her own, and eventually take Buffy's body and life as her own. She knows it's wrong, but she does it anyway because she wants to feel that love so badly.

Faith's "want, take, have" lifestyle covers many aspects of her life, and reflects her tendency to disregard consequences when she goes for what she wants, and to neglect forethought. She's impatient and always lives in the moment, not holding anything back except pushing the damage behind a wall of impulsivity. Not having anyone who's loved her has made Faith learn to deal with her emotions poorly, and believe they don't have value. Rather than discuss her envy or her loneliness or welcome people's sympathy, she scorns it all. She deflects attempts to talk about her feelings, rejects sympathy and pity, and spurns the people who try to get close to her once she realizes they notice her damage for what it really is.

In this way, Faith is very self-destructive - any time she gets close to something she wants, she has to self-sabotage. She begins to bond with Buffy, drawing closer and closer to her as friends, and then she finds excuses to turn on her before Buffy does the same. She purposefully interprets Buffy's urgent want for Faith to come forward and address her guilt over the murder as Buffy betraying her, rather than keeping her secret, and it's her excuse to get Buffy out of her life before she has to accept something good into it. Her self-hate is generated by never feeling good enough and constant abuse from those around her, and she often externalizes it and takes it out on others - like Wesley, in Five by Five.

Faith's path toward redemption was awakened by Angel when he convinced her that people don't seek redemption because they deserve it, which worked because Faith never felt she deserved forgiveness, but because they want to be better. It's the conscious choice to not want to continue doing those terrible things, and it's a battle that Faith fights every day. In great part, her attempts for redemption hinge on denying her own bloodlust and holding herself back - something Wesley calls her on in Release.

She can't function properly as the Slayer while holding herself back, but she can't stay on the right path if she doesn't it, and it's a fine line that Faith has to walk - one that she frequently missteps and falls over, such as when she agrees to kill Gigi in S8 for Giles (and for Buffy's sake). She has to walk the line between doing her job, and not enjoying it too much and letting herself get carried away. Faith doesn't have the strong internal moral compass that Buffy does - she has a hard time telling what's right and wrong, or when the ends justify the means.

As the second Slayer, Faith's never needed to, really. Buffy's always been the leader, or the Council, or Angel, or so forth. She externalizes her moral compass, which is what makes it very hard for Faith to adopt the position of leader. She does it first in L.A. with the Beast and Angelus, and she does it successfully because it's very clear cut for her - Angel is her friend, she has to save him instead of kill him, and everyone else can burn.

In a way, she feels she's failed by adopting this moral compass, because she knows Buffy would be strong enough to kill Angelus because he's only going to hurt people while Faith mucks around. When she goes on to Sunnydale and stumbles into a position of leadership over the other Slayers, she freezes up and struggles with making the decisions because she's so used to her decisions only impacting her, she's so used to not having others rely on her moral compass, but the opposite. She doesn't like having people rely on her, and it's not something she's had to experience.

Powers/Abilities:

Standard Slayer fare. Super strength, super stamina, super durability, enhanced speed, enhanced reflexes, heightened awareness, fast healing. Additionally, it's been said Slayers have the combat experience of all the Slayers that came before them, and they also have post-cognitive and pre-cognitive dreamings, as well as dream-sharing with fellow Slayers (hi, Buffy).

Appearance:

Faith is 5'5", brown-haired, and brown-eyed with a fairly stocky but curvy build. She has a tattoo wrapping around her right arm from the events of Go Ask Malice and an ancient Slayer, Artemia, who had once fought Kakistos's spirit doing some whacky shit with Faith's body to get her vengeance - the tattoo remained after the spirit was dealt with. Her skin is tanned, and she usually wears dark lipstick and heavy eye make-up - though she wears overall little to no makeup to signify her 'redemption' process. She has a penchant for tanktops and leather jackets.

Samples:

Actionspam Sample:

here, here and here

"Our time's never up," huh? [ faith raises one hand to swipe her thumb over her bottom lip, then, chuckling a little, shakes her head and drops it, walking through the great hall. she gets it. she's got a lot more than the murder of one guy on her hands, no matter what california corrections says. it's the utopia part that doesn't jive. and mostly, there ain't nothing atum and his pals can say that she doesn't already know, but there is one thing that bears question. ]

Look, I get it. [ she stops in front of atum, hands up in a preemptive gesture of surrender. ] You got your system, we screwed up, here's the price. I can dig. Only thing I wanna know is what a pack of Camels and a lighter runs around here.

Prose Sample:

in Teleios:

She keeps to herself around the temple, for the most part. At first she'd been willing to chat people up, get information, carve herself a place here if she's gonna spend the next freaking millenium in it anyway. Then she figured out about Buffy. Blondie here changes the game - and not just that it's rough seeing her after what she did, either. There's guilt there, sure. Lots of it - and sometimes, more than she can take, but that's just the price she pays because of her own choices. She gets that now.

But, it's a scene she's stumbled on before. B's got a town, she's got friends, and ties. Best thing Faith can do to avoid digging her fingers in old, open wounds is take a step back and keep her hands off. They're not hers, nothing here is ever really gonna be hers the way that the run in L.A. had been. She'd done all right, done what needed to get done, even figured out to be a leader - sorta. But that was Angel's town, and this was as much Buffy's as Sunnydale was. Faith knows she's got no right to it, and this time she's not interested in taking it. That's the old her.

So, hands off. She keeps to herself, does her job, keeps her head down. Takes a smoke outside the temple and enjoys the sunlight that she hasn't gotten near the amount of time in that she'd have liked these past few years. Better that way.

Reused from Siren's Pull:

It's not supposed to be suffocating, y'know, it's supposed to go easy. Like this is what she does, so it's like, well, if she's destined then how come she's getting her ass kicked? But, destiny or not, whether it's supposed to or not, that's how it's going. Faith takes a messy dive to the pavement and grunts as she knocks her head on a stray brick.

Construction site. Not exactly graveyard levels of cliche, but demons seriously needed to figure out some better hangouts. A little less on the skeezy side. Beats the hell out of one of 'em showing up at the Bronze though. Sure, maybe she's not hero material. She's killer material. But that doesn't mean she wants a bunch of civs getting knocked around and beat down. Used against her. There we go, there's the real issue. It makes it complicated for her to have others around and well, Faith always worked best on her own anyway.

But Darkness monsters are different. They're different 'cause while some of 'em are the ones she was born to do this dance with, some of 'em aren't. Most of 'em aren't. Which means they're assholes and they're not out to just nail the Slayer and they don't know to run from her and it's a real bummer 'cause seriously? Building up a rep like that all over again is gonna be a serious bitch.

But she'll do it. Not just 'cause it's her job or whatever, and especially not 'cause timeworn Wes is there to try and pretend he's got any tie to keeping her in line -- there was an issue of she'd ever seen one. She wasn't ready for that kinda responsibility. Sure, she was making leaps and bounds and prison was the best thing for her, but that didn't mean she was ready for making the call of whether or not she owned up to … well. All of it.

He was probably pissed enough about the Mayor crap (and touching on that? whoo, daddy, not happening anytime this century) and happy for her coma, the last thing she wanted to do was break it to him that she turned him into her pin cushion so Angel would gank her. There went any hope of cooperation, y'know? But this, didn't matter if he hated her a little and thought she was off it, it worked. Beat the hell out of what she saw when she got out of the pen.

So, did she tell him or what? And why the hell was Wesley what she was thinking of when she was getting slammed around in the streets of Siren's Pull a little after midnight?

Issues. Faith Lehane was never short on those. She dragged herself to her feet and grabbed for one of the would-be support beams of the area, crushed by her back and crunched into jagged, disassembled driftwood. Bracing herself on the concrete behind her, she drove it up through the belly of the beast.