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

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[author_by_night]

I'm not sure, because I did actually get a bit of a Buffy/Faith vibe during the third season on Faith's end... and this was with no knowledge that Buffy/Faith was a semi-popular ship. But a friend of pointed out that Faith's one of those people who seems like she's flirting with everyone. Plus, I kind of like to think of Buffy and Faith as feeling mutually non-romantic towards one another but still having a complex relationship, because it's a nice angle.

Faith actually reminds me of a friend I had in high school, and maybe that's one of the reasons why. (Killing the deputy mayor and going evil aside, that girl was such a season three Faith I might actually start calling her Faith to protect her anonymity.) She always did seem to almost flirt with girls, but not quite. I remember raising my eyes at her a few times. But I don't think she was bisexual, I think that's just how she was. Plus, if she were bi, I would've known. She was completely open about everything regarding her sex life/sexuality, and I do mean everything.

(Any chance you can flock this, or screen this comment? I'm not entirely comfortable with what I just typed being public, even though I doubt my HS friend knows what LJ is, much less would have any idea how to find this post.)

ETA: Actually, don't worry about it.

[eowyn_315]

But a friend of pointed out that Faith's one of those people who seems like she's flirting with everyone.

Hah, yeah. I tend to think that Faith sees her sexuality as power (because, I suspect, until she became a slayer, she thought that was all she had), and so she uses flirting either to reel someone in or to put them off-balance - either way, she is in control. She's terribly insecure about relationships, but she knows she's hot and she's learned that sex can get her what she wants.

I don't see her as being attracted to women, but she flirts with them (and might even go farther, depending on the situation) because otherwise, she's lost control. She'd be much more limited if she only dealt with men because she's heterosexual and didn't want to flirt with women.

That's also why I think she says what she does in S8, because she's matured and realized that sex isn't a weapon, and she doesn't want to use it as one (though she does slip into it a little once she's there, with the bathtub bonding).