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willow x faith

okay first things first season 7 is all about the mythology and lore of the slayers and yeah great buffy is here she's the main character so duh, these lameass no personality potentials are here okay...dam even sineya is here!! whole slayer party going on but i guess faith's invitation just got lost in the mail hmm ok yeah sure. and yeah yeah i know faith is busy busting out of jail and busting up angelus and getting herself into mystical comas....but oh my godd who cares about angel season 4. name one person who cares about angel season 4. exactly no one. because it's ass. (not you spin the bottle, not you orpheus, just everything else). anyways my point is faith's level of slayer iconicness and bisexual girlpower badassness should not have been wasted on the dumpster fire of angel season 4. she should have been in buffy season 7, you know the season focused on all the slayers?? and yes she was in season 7...for like 5 episodes at the end where she didn't do much expect begin a romance with.....robin wood? and like no hate to robin but god season 7 really was the season of forced romance wasn't it? willow and kennedy, faith and robin, xander and ashanti for some reason, (dare i say buffy and a certain blond vampire...) but i digress!!

back to willow and faith. okay so like i previously mentioned i would have preferred willow's arc this season to focus on her redemption and path towards good again. hmm who else is an ex-murderer, who was once evil, who is now on their redemption arc, who has great power but has trouble using it, hmm i guess no one sorry willow there's no one for you to relate to this season oh wait a damn minute there's faith lehane. faith lehane, who is very clearly bisexual, i mean anyone with eyes could see that. and then willow is of course a lesbian. they had more potential than the potentials. potential that got wasted, spat on and flushed down the drain. had i been in the writers room season 7 would have gone very differently for them.

episode 10ish faith arrives in sunnydale they fill her in on the goings-on and she joins the "let's beat the first" team woohoo. she's surprised to learn that willow is no longer the shy timid nerd she once was, instead she's actually....a misogynist-murdering lesbian ultra-witch badass? (faith's words, 100% canon), so she talks to willow. willow talks to her. they *gasp* bond?? they connect? willow detested faith and faith kidnapped willow and they're now understanding each other and confiding in each other about trauma and guilt??

and as the episodes progress...there's more than trauma-bonding and guilt-sharing in the air. what is that i smell? sexual tension? huh? and...romantic tension? between faith and willow? buffy asks willow if anything is going on but they just deny deny deny. they're not quite sure themselves yet. the killer in me episode goes ahead but with faith in kennedy's place. goes more or less the same however at the end, when willow is sobbing over the belief that she murdered tara by moving on, faith can empathise with her situation because she too knows what it's like to murder someone. they talk. about tara. about killing people. willow knows that tara would want her to be happy, and that finding love again doesn't erase any of her love for tara.

i'd like willow and faith to be a slow-burn, out of respect to tara and the beauty that was tillow/willara (or as i like to call it, clayrose), but you know not too slow as this all over the course of less than 15 episodes. i'd say they'd definitely help each other out with their respective redemptions, emotional moments here and there, go on missions together and save each other and tend to each other's wounds and obviously have sex. in the finale they have to split up and kiss goodbye and they promise to see each other again and then in the last scene it just shows them holding each other like the badass beautiful girlfriends they are.