you're just damage control;

[ever_neutral]

05 | the ship where your favorite scene is the most dysfunctional one

"I was your Watcher, Faith. I know the real you - and even if you kill me, there is just one thing I want you to remember."

"What's that, love?"

"You - are a piece of sh.."

"You should talk, huh?"

"Did you ever wonder if things would have been different - if we'd never met. What if you'd had Buffy - and Giles would have been my Watcher?
You think you'd still be here right now? Or would Giles be sitting in that chair? Or is it just like fate. You know, there is no choice.  You were gonna be here no matter what. You think about that stuff? Fate - and destiny.

I don't.

Not that any of this is your own fault. But since this may be the last chance we will have to unload on each other, I feel that it is kind of my duty to tell you that if you'd been a better Watcher, I might have been a more positive role model! Face it, Wesley, you really were a jerk. Always walking around as if you had some great big stake rammed up your English Channel.

... I think I want to hear you scream."

"You never will."

"... Admit it, Wesley, didn't you always kind of have the hots for me?"

= OTP

Honorable mentions:
+ that awkward moment when a knock-down-drag-out-fight is foreplay for house-destroying sex = yay
+ that awkward mid-coital attempted murder of small children (the things we do for love) = yay
+ that awkward moment when he snaps your brother's neck in front of you = yay
+ that awkward moment when he almost murders you at the same site of your parents' death = yay
+ that awkward boxing match ending in literal weeping and hugging = yay

comments? questions? insults?

Comments

[upupa-epops.livejournal.com]

Honorable mentions:
+ that awkward moment when a knock-down-drag-out-fight is foreplay for house-destroying sex = yay
+ that awkward mid-coital attempted murder of small children (the things we do for love) = yay
+ that awkward moment when he snaps your brother's neck in front of you = yay
+ that awkward moment when he almost murders you at the same site of your parents' death = yay
+ that awkward boxing match ending in literal weeping and hugging = yay

This is why we're friends.

Also: OMG the best Wes/Faith scene EVER. Never not favorite. If I accidentally happen to rewatch this episode today, I will come to you with feels.

[superkappa.livejournal.com]

ugh that torture scene. That was the moment I first started shipping them and I felt so weird for it because they didn't even have that many scenes before hand but ugh. the emotional intimacy of that scene. And then season 4 happened and OTP forever basically. I am too tipsy right now to be more coherent.

[rosaxx50.livejournal.com]

I'm covering my eyes for most of this, however:

+ that awkward moment when a knock-down-drag-out-fight is foreplay for house-destroying sex = yay
+ that awkward mid-coital attempted murder of small children (the things we do for love) = yay
+ that awkward moment when he snaps your brother's neck in front of you = yay
+ that awkward moment when he almost murders you at the same site of your parents' death = yay
+ that awkward boxing match ending in literal weeping and hugging = yay

ALWAYS.

But I must add some of my favs:
+ That time he forced blood down her throat, because she'll get over the hate and he can't lose her
+ That time she entered his serial killer closet with all his victims and then made doe eyes at him right there
+ That time they cheated on their SO's, and then she runs off to get married the next morning ♥

And,
+ I never loved you. It was always Stefan. (Lies. Heartbreak. Betrayal. Dreams dead.)

[local-max.livejournal.com]

Yesssss.

OK also egregious Faith-relevant self-pimp: speaking of dysfunctional....

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

Haha, I saw that earlier but was on my way out. Let it be known that that is my version of events in my heart of hearts. (Angel/Buffy pseudo-orgasming? WHO CARES!)

[elisi]

I don't know if I ship them as such - I just really love them together. Also have great appreciation for their S4 scenes...

[pocochina.livejournal.com]

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

<333

(I can't place that second awkward moment? what am I missing??)

[upupa-epops.livejournal.com]

That would be Jaime/Cersei :).

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU

♥ ♥

(And haha, Marta got it.)

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Yesssss. This.

(Her hand in his hair on the last one. Without the knife, so sexual and possessive. Hell, with the knife possibly both anyway.)

[stainofmylove.livejournal.com]

Oh, you.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

^^)

[bellonablack.livejournal.com]

That's a whole(some) amount of screaming. :)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

"Did you ever wonder if things would have been different - if we'd never met. What if you'd had Buffy - and Giles would have been my Watcher?
You think you'd still be here right now? Or would Giles be sitting in that chair? Or is it just like fate. You know, there is no choice. You were gonna be here no matter what. You think about that stuff? Fate - and destiny.

I don't.

I love this moment so much, completely devoid of any Wesley/Faith context (although don't get me wrong, I love that ship). I love that moment because of what it says about Faith, about how she feels she's been failed by the people in her life (which she has) and that she thinks about being a different person, and that she's trying to repress all those thoughts.

My bb.

[catteo.livejournal.com]

Torture OTP. Nobody quite does dysfunction like Faith.

And as for your honourable mentions? THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU!
But I would have to go with Kara/Lee from UB because that is mutual beating each other up as a metaphor for love dysfuntion. And it is my crack. ACTUALLY.

I would like to add that awkward moment where she says she always loved your brother just as you're about to get naked.
Also the one where your best friend quotes love poetry at you in front of the guy you're sleeping with.

I NEED TO DO THIS FUCKING MEME.

On a shallow note, this is very pretty.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

{ripped out hearts}

I THOUGHT YOU WOULD APPROVE OF THE KARA/LEE. One of my favourite "romantic" scenes from anything ever, trolololol. (♥)

I would like to add that awkward moment where she says she always loved your brother just as you're about to get naked.
Also the one where your best friend quotes love poetry at you in front of the guy you're sleeping with.
Both worthy contenders also.

DO THIS FUCKING MEME THEN.

And thank you!

[sarahblack.livejournal.com]

Mmm, Faith/Wesley. ♥

[agnes-bean.livejournal.com]

*more catch up comments*

I marathoned Angel in like two weeks, so I forget most of it. Thank you for reminding me why I love this ship so much.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

I don't think I knew you shipped this! \o/

♥

[agnes-bean.livejournal.com]

Well, since I watched Angel in such a quick manner, it's more of a "I really liked it for those two weeks" type situation. But I think I would ship it like burning if I spent more time with the canon. It's so perfectly fucked.