This is a post about the Slayer from Boston, not musings on religion, just in case you were wondering. :-)  For some reason I've got into the habit of writing things, but never actually getting around to posting them, so this is partially an attempt to break that. Also, the story about Faith I wrote two or three weeks ago, 'Fair Exchange Is No ( Read more... )

What was Faith's childhood like, before she came to Sunnydale? A while ago, I was involved in a conversation about that in the comments on deird1's LJ, and gave a fairly in-depth reply. I thought it would be interesting to take that, polish it up and add lots more examples and inferences, and post it here for everyone to read.

There's probably not ( Read more... )

I recently offered to do commentaries on any of my fics, and frogfarmasked me to do one for From Ancient Grudge. This was one of the first non-drabble fics I ever posted, and was also distinctive in being an all-dialogue fic. It was inspired by a discussion about how Willow and Faith felt about each other - and whether it would be at all realistic to pair ( Read more... )

Here's the second of the Faith ficlets I wrote over Christmas (the first is here if you missed it). Unlike 'Getting In the Game', 'Stockton Gala Days' is much less dark. I mean, it's still pretty bleak and depressing, since this is an episode from Faith's life, after all... but here's she's more able to take care of herself. And even, maybe, take ( Read more... )

Over the holidays I started jotting down some notes on Faith: her character, her relationship with Buffy, speculations on her early life, etc. However, I quickly realised that, for some reason, expressing my thoughts this time was much easier in the form of fic than as prose. This is one of the results.

I wrote this late on Christmas Day, a time of ( Read more... )