Poll: Sexuality, Faith edition.

[thevera]

So, I started thinking, about Faith, and realized that her sexual orientation is one of the things where there's no clear fandom consensus. I've heard everything - Faith's a closeted lesbian, Faith's bisexual, Faith's straight and it's kinda offensive to think that she's bisexual... - so I decided to make a poll! ms_scarletibis  made a similar poll on Spike and

Comments

[me_llamo_nic]

I picked complicated because I wasn't sure if you were asking what the canon seems to imply (and if the comics count) or what I prefer to think of her as. Okay, did you edit, or am I just really bad at reading descriptions?

If it were just the TV show canon, I'd say there's plenty of leeway for assuming she's bi, even if some people are offended by the stereotyping.

When the comics canon is included, she seems pretty clearly straight. I base this on her line, "Hey, I likes me some kink, but if you think I'm going downtown on this chick, you chose the wrong Chosen One." Although, one could make a case for the emphatic denial as "methinks the lady doth protest too much".

What I prefer to think of her as: bi. Or, at minimum, straight, but gay for Buffy. ;-)

[thevera]

Okay, did you edit, or am I just really bad at reading descriptions?

LOL, no editing involved. ;) Yeah, I meant canon, though one doesn't have to take it at face value. You know, like Ethan's Giles' old friend, though he's obviously his old lover (*g*), or Faith only does boys, though there might be something else happening off-screen (or not, I'm still not sure where I stand).

As for the comics: canon or not? debate, I'll leave that to everyone's interpretation.

I'm in the TV show's the only canon camp, but now that you mention it, I think the directions they decided to take Buffy and Faith are interesting. Like, before them, most people would think of TV!Buffy as the straight one and TV!Faith the bi/experimenting one, and the comics reversed that.

[ceciliaj]

Comics are canon as far as I'm concerned, but only because I <3 <3 <3 Buffy/Satsu. Also, I am all for Kennedy and Willow getting a complex story.

But! I think a given season never makes conceptual sense until it's over, so I don't think the comics need to be understood as canon yet, if that makes sense.

[me_llamo_nic]

I adored Buffy/Satsu in my second reading!

Still don't like Willow/Kennedy as a couple.

I prefer to view season 8 the same way I view fan fiction: a fun little exercise for the characters, but the show is what matters.

[me_llamo_nic]

Giles/Ethan were totally buggering each other senseless behind the scenes every time he turned up. *nods*

Joss is always trying to subvert expectations. Buffy and Satsu seemed like such a shock value thing at first, but multiple readings and a little distance give them a lot more value, IMHO.

I camp out in TV show land as well, though I've been known to wander into the other campsite and have a look around.

[beer_good_foamy]

When the comics canon is included, she seems pretty clearly straight. I base this on her line, "Hey, I likes me some kink, but if you think I'm going downtown on this chick, you chose the wrong Chosen One." Although, one could make a case for the emphatic denial as "methinks the lady doth protest too much".

See, this is where you need an actress delivering that line. There's a huge difference between "If you think I'm going downtown on this chick..." and "If you think I'm going downtown on this chick..." ;-)

[stormwreath]

True - or even that while S8 Faith is quite happy to have sexyfuntimes with a woman on general principles, she draws the line at doing it with a woman she's been sent to assassinate.

[angearia]

Good point.