Ah I thought it was the Assistant Mayor's grave! I keep forgetting about the professor. This story brings back that argument they had in Consequences:
" People need us to survive. In the balance, nobody's gonna cry over some random bystander who got caught in the crossfire."
" I am."
" Well, that's your loss."
Of course we know that Buffy was right about Faith not showing her "true face". Odd that so few tics (in fact I'm struggling to think of one besides yours) are about Faith dealing with this specific act. Allen Finch was an accident, after all. Killing the professor darkened her soul.
Lovely, simple ending: I love Buffy simply being there for Faith and holding her in silence because she knows the uselessness of words in this moment.
How many had died because she had couldn't...
That guilt is a reminder that Buffy is a good person or else she wouldn't feel it. She's have to be a psychopath or a robot. And at the same time, it's an impossible burden to lay one person. the Shadowmen/WC clearly never considered that.Brava
I think a lot of people forget the trauma Faith had experienced even before the burden of Slayerhood laid the guilt she felt at her Watcher's death on her. Unlike many I believe she was not long past sixteen when her world exploded in S3 (also when she happened upon Xander).
Adding i don't actually believe the incident with the Priest happened, or at least not in the fashion she describes it in Faith, Hope and Trick.
We got to see a more robotic Buffy in The Wish, and she seemed to be looking for a quick way out of the life she was stuck with.
And I hadn't even noticed the typos but very glad I could help!
I'm thinking up a banner concept for this and one little thing occurred to me - is the title set in stone? I hate to ask but I just realized I did artwork for shapinglight's spuffy story "Casablanca" last year. Not that this one is anything like the other.
Out of curiosity what is the significance of that city outside of the film?
Am feeling like I'll just echo what red_satin_doll said, but she said it well - that it's a glimpse into the ghosts that haunt Faith that we don't usually get to see.
And since we're echoing, you're included in the plural referred to above. It hadn't occured to me, but I think a lot of people forget the Professor. Must write about Faith and Wesley dealing with their demons; mutual and personal too.
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" People need us to survive. In the balance, nobody's gonna cry over some random bystander who got caught in the crossfire."
" I am."
" Well, that's your loss."
Of course we know that Buffy was right about Faith not showing her "true face". Odd that so few tics (in fact I'm struggling to think of one besides yours) are about Faith dealing with this specific act. Allen Finch was an accident, after all. Killing the professor darkened her soul.
Lovely, simple ending: I love Buffy simply being there for Faith and holding her in silence because she knows the uselessness of words in this moment.
How many had died because she had couldn't...
That guilt is a reminder that Buffy is a good person or else she wouldn't feel it. She's have to be a psychopath or a robot. And at the same time, it's an impossible burden to lay one person. the Shadowmen/WC clearly never considered that.Brava
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Adding i don't actually believe the incident with the Priest happened, or at least not in the fashion she describes it in Faith, Hope and Trick.
We got to see a more robotic Buffy in The Wish, and she seemed to be looking for a quick way out of the life she was stuck with.
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This is now done.
Meantime, thank you. Your support (your as in plural) means so much.
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I'm thinking up a banner concept for this and one little thing occurred to me - is the title set in stone? I hate to ask but I just realized I did artwork for shapinglight's spuffy story "Casablanca" last year. Not that this one is anything like the other.
Out of curiosity what is the significance of that city outside of the film?
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Am feeling like I'll just echo what red_satin_doll said, but she said it well - that it's a glimpse into the ghosts that haunt Faith that we don't usually get to see.
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And since we're echoing, you're included in the plural referred to above. It hadn't occured to me, but I think a lot of people forget the Professor. Must write about Faith and Wesley dealing with their demons; mutual and personal too.
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