As Irish-American names go, "Lehane" is quite exotic, although Eliza and thus Faith are, to my eyes, very Eastern European looking and should have names sounding like from that region, Problem is the only ones most folks recongize as such are Slavic and calling Albanians Slavs is semi-insulting.
I agree that Faith/Eliza looks Eastern European but I have a German last name but I am not German nor do I look it. Sometimes people look much more like one parent over the other and sometimes people end with the names of a step and/or adoptive parent. Faith is from Boston, which has one of the largest populations of Americans of Irish descent. In the comics, her father was named Pat Lehane and he was a member of the Irish mob, which means that she probably gets her looks from her mother who likely isn't of Irish origin.
Eliza herself is of Scandinavian and Albanian ancestry.
But then again you said that she "should" have an Eastern European name due to her looks, which if you know names then you would know that that's not necessarily the case.
"should " in a literary sense, i get tired of the endlessly WASPy names in mass media like TV, even though i have such a name myself. i gave my second Mary Sue in my fics a Slovak name to be contrary, even though I don't have that particular ancestry in my "genepile." Before Joss came out with Lehane as official, i was calling her Faith Wyrofsky in my fics.
What i have to decide, *if* i do my Fuffy ficverse at all, do i have Buffy and Faith go over all the envy issues between them before or after the first time they get horizontal.
Decisions, decisions. I think there are benefits and downsides to both, but I'd vote for the latter. Makes their first time more intense if there is some jealousy and resentment there. It all depends on how you want to write their realtionship though.
Faith literally almost killed Angel and then forced Buffy into being the cure for his own poison…. I don’t get how people think they’re so good whenever Faith is too toxic to care about anyone else!
Faith is the best of both worlds. She’s got some monster in her and yet isn’t a vampire. Meaning she doesn’t have the problems of Angel or Spike but is more than Riley.
No one is really innocent on this show but Faith takes accountability and atones for her actions. She turns herself in to the police in the end.
She had a shitty childhood, was given superpowers and not a lot of boundaries and the Mayor, weirdly enough, was probably the most stable parental figure she'd ever had.
People are complicated.
Also, I watched it back then when it aired. Faith was hot. Really, really hot.
“Thank God we’re hot chicks with superpowers.”
takes the edge off
Comforting
nods mmmhmm
This scene is probably how Scott Hope got people to think Buffy was gay.
Since her last name is Lehane, I propose changing the ship name to "Fluffy".
Like some people are trying to turn Spuffy to Bike?
Bike is obvious. It's right there.
Kock is also a right for Spock/Kirk, yet somehow modern fandom got stuck with Spirk lol.
Except for the fact that Faith is the one who said riding a biker.
I always read their ship name in my head as 'fluffy', Fuffy is a mouthful lol
same
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As Irish-American names go, "Lehane" is quite exotic, although Eliza and thus Faith are, to my eyes, very Eastern European looking and should have names sounding like from that region, Problem is the only ones most folks recongize as such are Slavic and calling Albanians Slavs is semi-insulting.
I agree that Faith/Eliza looks Eastern European but I have a German last name but I am not German nor do I look it. Sometimes people look much more like one parent over the other and sometimes people end with the names of a step and/or adoptive parent. Faith is from Boston, which has one of the largest populations of Americans of Irish descent. In the comics, her father was named Pat Lehane and he was a member of the Irish mob, which means that she probably gets her looks from her mother who likely isn't of Irish origin.
Eliza herself is of Scandinavian and Albanian ancestry.
I know about names
But then again you said that she "should" have an Eastern European name due to her looks, which if you know names then you would know that that's not necessarily the case.
"should " in a literary sense, i get tired of the endlessly WASPy names in mass media like TV, even though i have such a name myself. i gave my second Mary Sue in my fics a Slovak name to be contrary, even though I don't have that particular ancestry in my "genepile." Before Joss came out with Lehane as official, i was calling her Faith Wyrofsky in my fics.
You know what they say, the couple that slays together, stays together.
What i have to decide, *if* i do my Fuffy ficverse at all, do i have Buffy and Faith go over all the envy issues between them before or after the first time they get horizontal.
Decisions, decisions. I think there are benefits and downsides to both, but I'd vote for the latter. Makes their first time more intense if there is some jealousy and resentment there. It all depends on how you want to write their realtionship though.
Which means i need to decide how much time goes by between their first time and when Buffy invites Faith to move from the couch to the master bedroom
During?
I'm thinking of it happening in a steam bath so might be impractical
This episode inspired so many Buffy/Faith slash-fics.
As well it should.
Why isn’t it buffaith
fuffy is a great ship and I found some good fanfic.
2 .Everything Is Different Now https://archiveofourown.org/works/15238320/chapters/35342598
Alone Together https://archiveofourown.org/works/15529920/chapters/36050241
Still Want, Take, Have Girl by Quillbard https://chosentwofanfic.com/viewstory.php?sid=318&ageconsent=ok&warning=3
I liked this story by alicewonderbra https://archiveofourown.org/works/27091678/chapters/66152056
Oh man…. Wait til you read Alice In Wonderbra’s Flowers for a Ghost Series (or her Omegaverse Series) on Chosen Two
ALONE TOGETHER MENTIONED!!! this fic is so freaking good
Faith literally almost killed Angel and then forced Buffy into being the cure for his own poison…. I don’t get how people think they’re so good whenever Faith is too toxic to care about anyone else!
Faith is the best of both worlds. She’s got some monster in her and yet isn’t a vampire. Meaning she doesn’t have the problems of Angel or Spike but is more than Riley.
But I can fix her!!!
No one is really innocent on this show but Faith takes accountability and atones for her actions. She turns herself in to the police in the end.
She had a shitty childhood, was given superpowers and not a lot of boundaries and the Mayor, weirdly enough, was probably the most stable parental figure she'd ever had.
People are complicated.
Also, I watched it back then when it aired. Faith was hot. Really, really hot.