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Fic: The Balance Condition

Jul 08, 2007 15:55

Title: The Balance Condition
Author: xlivvielockex
Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Buffy/Faith
Written For: swatkat24
Prompt: Bells and footfalls and soldiers and dolls
Brothers and lovers she and I were
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 5,216
Author's Notes: Post-Chosen. Not comics compliant. Written for innumerablehues

( They were like two magnets repelling... )

fic: standalone, char: btvs: faith, author: kelly, char: btvs: buffy, ficathon, pair: btvs: buffy/faith, 2007, rated: pg13, tv: btvs

Comments 38

skull_theatre July 9 2007, 01:04:10 UTC

You have effectively sold me on this pairing. Quite plausible - and I particularly groove to your lovely style - dialogue and erotica! It's a nice combo and your skill with combining the two impressive! This piece is so tight, so controlled...you say exactly what you set out to say - yes, Buffy needing something "different" to her world view - sexually, emotionally and physically - is completely plausible.

Great job!!! I love your Faith voice.

xlivvielockex July 9 2007, 01:23:47 UTC

You are totally going to give me a swelled head here. You always leave me such nice compliments. You are going to make me cocky. LOL

I am glad that it was plausible. I played around for a bit since the previous two Buffy/Faith pieces I wrote, the reader had to assume they were already in a relationship. I don't think Buffy would just be like "Oh, know what, I with Faith now." I think she would have to come to that realization. She isn't one for self-reflection so that is always the hardest part. I am really really glad that someone thought it worked.

Faith, totally easy to write for me. She is just right in my head, all the time. Her and Cordelia. Now if I could actually think of a way that was believable for Cordelia to get with Faith...yeah, that has to stay in non-canon, no way, fantasyland. LOL

stirfriedneedle July 9 2007, 01:07:16 UTC

You are a very good writer! I love, LOVE, love Fuffy and this was excellent. Hope to see more!

xlivvielockex July 9 2007, 01:26:23 UTC

Thank you so very much. I really appreciate the compliment. I am always really excited when new people come over, read what I wrote, and enjoy it. Then again, what writer isn't? LOL

I've written two other Fuffy pieces, if you are interested. One is light and funny, the other is pretty much smut.

MOM! Buffy's In The Closet!: http://community.livejournal.com/still_grrr/82543.html (Buffy/Faith find themselves trapped)

and then a racier piece:

Doing It Greek Style:
http://xlivvielockex.livejournal.com/46332.html (Faith is having a bit of an afterslay tingle and Buffy isn't around to relieve her tension)

stirfriedneedle July 9 2007, 01:34:48 UTC

OMG I have read these things and LOVED THEM! Please keep writing Fuffy <3

Maeg

xlivvielockex July 9 2007, 01:37:27 UTC

I could not stop even if I wanted to. I love Fuffy way too much. :)

rayruz July 9 2007, 02:12:23 UTC

WHOOOO!

It's so true that Buffy and Faith are kinda made for each other. Chosen for each other might be a better way of putting it. I'm so glad to find good Fuffy. Cause bad Fuffy without the reasoning behind it to make it fit...just sucks. But this is GOOD Fuffy. Yum yum yum.

xlivvielockex July 9 2007, 03:14:01 UTC

I think that is my biggest problem with a lot of Fuffy fics. It is just like okay, Buffy is gay. And I have started two fics with them right in the middle of a relationship so I am totally guilty of that. So I wrote out basically, how I thought they might get together. Stuck in a car together, Buffy actually forced to get some self-realization in because really, how much can she think about shoes? LOL

rayruz July 9 2007, 10:36:34 UTC

Yeah, though you know my thing with Fuffy is I don't think either of them are particularly gay, though I personally feel Faith would do anything remotely human. But with those two, it's this kinda... intense complicated connection they share being the last two slayers to come by their powers the original way.

xlivvielockex July 9 2007, 17:04:14 UTC

I don't think that Buffy is lesbian leaning either but I think it is more like, as you said, that intense complicated connection. Faith, totally reminds me of Samantha Jones. She is an omnisexual. Whatever feels good, baby. But I think Buffy was really hard on the guys she dated and let's face, she strung them along, which makes me think there has to be some kind of questioning going on. Sort of "I'll give you a call if I don't find something better." In my mind, Faith is at least that something better because again, the connection. Faith is the only one who can ever truly understand.

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bookgrrrl July 9 2007, 11:51:41 UTC

Oooh. This was nice! I prefer my Faith/Buffy with a little internal turmoil. I just don't buy the "I'm hot, you're hot, let's screw" mentality with this pairing...not to say it isn't there, just that there's a little angst mixed in.

You sold it. Good job.

xlivvielockex July 9 2007, 17:06:01 UTC

Thank you so much for commenting. :)

I have written the "I'm hot, you're hot, let's screw" before. Or rather, I started them from the point that the reader would know they already had their angst, they were together.

But naturally, this story feels more solid to me because it does have the buildup, it does have the angst. (But you know, "I'm hot, you're hot, let's screw" does have its place. *winks*)

Thank you again for leaving a comment. :)

lauratd July 9 2007, 14:31:23 UTC

Great job on making it believable (except for Santa Clara being the nearest hospital - Santa Clara is no where near Sunnydale. It is near Sunnyvale, where I grew up and there is some evidence that my high school was the hellmouth, but even then, El Camino Hospital in Mt. View is closer) but AR geographical nit picking aside this was a great story.

xlivvielockex July 9 2007, 17:01:39 UTC

Gah, thanks for pointing that out. All my notes say Santa Cruz, the outline, the notes, the rough rough draft. (At least, that is what google said would be the closest to fictional Sunnydale. Google is known to be wrong.) And then for some unknown reason, I typed in Santa Clara. I must have Santa Clara on the brain or something. But thank you for pointing that mistake out. I changed it to Santa Cruz.

lauratd July 9 2007, 17:53:19 UTC

Google is so very wrong. Sunnydale is near Santa Barbara according to Joss and nobody would go to Santa Cruz to go to a hospital. It's a lovely place, but not convenient from anywhere.

You can check out Wikipedia for more details.

If Santa Barbara went down with the Hellmouth, Ventura would be the next best bet hospitalwise.

I'm being all "comic-book guy" about this I know, but it's a fun topic of debate for Californian Buffy fans because there are aspects of several CA towns blended into Sunndale.

To be safe, you could just make up a Santa... We have a lot of Santas (f) and Sans (m) up and down the coast.

xlivvielockex July 9 2007, 19:05:32 UTC

Mmmm, internet, how often you have lied to me. LOL

And I would rather that someone corrected me on the details like that to be honest. I am not perfect and I would like for my stuff to be the best I could possibly make it rather than have some small glaring error. I took that part out completely and rewrote the sentence to make it a little better flow-wise.

I mean, as far as CA goes, I've only spent massive amounts of time in L.A. for work and pleasure, and that is it. Unless you count my annual trek to San Diego in the fall. My only friends in writing places I have never been are my road atlas and the net, which, has lied to me. That is it, I am breaking up with you intrawebbings! *shakes fist*