Post by Faith Lehane on Dec 15, 2007 5:46:29 GMT -7
First Name: Faith
Last Name: Lehane
Alias or Nick-name: Rogue Slayer
Age: 26
Height/Weight: 5'6", 145 lbs.
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: Brunette
Persuasion: Good-Neutral-Evil….Depends on the day.
Type of Creature: Slayer
Powers/Weapons: Normal powers. Faith is a Slayer and thus has the usual powers of one, including superhuman strength, healing, speed and reflexes. Other powers. Although Faith never explicitly displayed the power of prophetic dreams as displayed by Buffy on many occasions, Faith does appear to have some level of supernatural extent to her subconscious. In the season three finale, Buffy experiences a dream in which Faith appears to Buffy, making a cryptic reference to the arrival of Dawn and Buffy's impending death in the season finale of season five, as well as making several other cryptic references relevant to both Buffy and herself. Later, in the season 4 two parter we witness several portions of Faith's dreams in which she converses with Mayor Wilkins and overcomes a dream version of Buffy to awaken from her coma.
History: Faith was brought up in South Boston. She saw her father but only at a young age. She was looked after by her mother, who was an alcoholic, and her grandfather. As a child she was told by her mother that her father had died. In fact he had gone to prison.
Her Watcher was Diana Dormer, a professor of folklore and mythology at Harvard University. Dormer informed Faith that there was a second slayer in Sunnydale, California. After Kakistos kills Dormer, Faith runs away, unable to afford a ticket to Sunnydale she goes to New York instead. She must have spent the summer running from place to place with the ultimate goal of arriving in Sunnydale.
She makes several references to her mother's alcoholism and possible allusions to childhood abuse. She was traumatized by the murder of her Watcher at the hands of a powerful, ancient vampire. Early on, Faith harbored strong feelings of envy towards Buffy for having a loving relationship with her mother and friends, the same one she had always wanted. Jealousy later changed into self-hatred as she realized the power and accountability she has over her own life. By Season 7, self-hatred had faded into self-acceptance; she had learned to accept the consequences of her past actions. Faith often suggests that killing gives her a drug-like euphoria, and even suffers from addictive withdrawal symptoms when she is not able to inflict pain.
Faith also displays signs of promiscuity and an inability to share trust and intimacy with a man, describing herself as "a loser magnet" who attracts kleptomaniacs and "slackers". Faith was later responsible for Xander Harris losing his virginity and sleeps with Buffy's boyfriend Riley Finn in a later season, after switching bodies with Buffy herself, first.
Before initially coming to Sunnydale, Faith experiences a number of failed relationships with "losers" who have destroyed her faith in men: "Ronnie, deadbeat. Steve, klepto. Kenny, drummer. Eventually I just had to face up to my destiny as a loser magnet. Now it is strictly get some, get gone. You can’t trust guys." Although she is sexually aggressive, she avoids emotional intimacy.
It is unknown when Faith was contacted and began training with her Watcher, though she appears to have been recruited as a teenager like Buffy (rather than as a child, which is considered ideal for a Slayer.)
When Faith first arrives in Sunnydale, she has been traumatized by helplessly watching the vampire Kakistos gruesomely murder her Watcher, explaining to Buffy that "they don't have a word for what he did to her." She has run away from trouble since childhood, but begins dealing with those issues after staking Kakistos. Faith feels like an outsider in Buffy's world even though she initially endears herself to Buffy's mother and friends. Buffy, who is still recovering from the trauma of killing Angel, maintains emotional distance from Faith and withholds Angel's return from her. Although Buffy resents Faith's carefree attitude toward violence, she still trusts Faith enough to leave her to protect her mother at Christmas and even shows hints of being attracted by Faith's wilder way of slaying. Faith perceives that Buffy does not trust her, further alienating the two. Faith's isolation heightens when her new Watcher, Gwendolyn Post, abuses her trust to plot an evil scheme. She then accidentally kills the Deputy Mayor, Allan Finch and goes into denial. When it becomes clear that Buffy intends to reveal what happened, she tells Giles that Buffy had killed Finch. Giles plays along to avoid pushing her too far. The Scooby Gang decides to help Faith. Xander visits Faith's motel room to reason with her, but she nearly strangles him instead. Angel arrives in time and takes her to his mansion and tries to reason with her.
Meanwhile, Buffy's new watcher, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, hears of her crime and tries to arrest Faith with the help of a group of Council Operatives. Faith attacks them inside their armored car and escapes. Isolated and bitter, she secretly turns to Mayor Wilkins, the major antagonist of the third season, filling the void of Wilkins' "right hand man" left by the vampire Mr. Trick, whom Faith has recently dusted. Faith and the Mayor develop an affectionate, emotional closeness, and she comes to see him as a father-figure. While serving the Mayor undercover, she kills a smuggler and a bookseller demon. She kidnaps Willow Rosenberg at knife-point and wants to kill her. She also kills a geology professor at the Mayor's order, without question. Her duplicity is exposed when she tries to rob Angel of his soul. Despite her actions, Faith is somewhat surprised when Willow tells her that she is beyond help.
Faith then shoots Angel with a poisoned arrow, deliberately missing his heart to ensure protracted suffering and to distract Buffy's efforts before the Ascension. The only antidote is draining the blood of a Slayer. Buffy visits Faith's apartment to kill her, intending to sacrifice Faith to save Angel, but Buffy only manages to stab Faith in the gut with her own knife, a gift from the Mayor. Faith jumps from the apartment building roof onto a moving truck and escapes. However, their fight leaves Faith in a coma for several months. During that time, Buffy and Faith share a series of psychic dreams.
Faith awakes in the middle of Season 4. She learns what has happened while she was gone, gravely injures the girl who tells her, and surprises Buffy on the college campus. Faith is angry at Buffy's attempt to sacrifice her for Angel, and devastated about the death of the Mayor. After a fight, Faith escapes from the approaching police and later attacks Joyce, Buffy's mother, at her house. As Buffy is about to win the ensuing battle, Faith uses a magical device, a gift from the Mayor, to swap bodies with Buffy. Buffy, in Faith's body, is kidnapped by the Watchers' Council's Special Ops team to be taken to England, while Faith (as Buffy) plans to flee the country. Tara Maclay realizes something was wrong and tells Willow. Faith sleeps with Buffy's boyfriend, Riley and flirts with Spike. She is torn between her desire to flee and her sense of duty to rescue a group of churchgoers taken hostage by vampires. When she chooses to save the hostages, she also encounters Buffy (who arrives on the scene with the same goal). During their confrontation, Faith savagely beats her own body, expressing extensive self-hatred. With Tara's help, Buffy manages to undo the body switch and Faith flees Sunnydale by hopping a freight train.
In Los Angeles, she rampages through the underworld, stealing and squatting in her victims' apartments. She is approached by Wolfram & Hart, who have learned that a "rogue Slayer" was in town, about killing Angel. She shows Angel her "evil" side by kidnapping Wesley and brutally torturing him. In a subsequent fight with Angel, she insists that he must kill her because she's "bad." Angel repeatedly refuses, and Faith eventually breaks down crying, begging Angel to kill her until she can't fight anymore. Angel begins the task of saving Faith's soul, forgiving her and working to break down her emotional walls. Just as Faith begins to feel remorse for her crimes, Buffy arrives looking for revenge. In the meantime, the Watchers Council also shows up, intending to kill Faith. Faith decides to surrender to the police and face the consequences for her actions, eventually being sentenced in a women's prison, where Angel is shown occasionally visiting her. Faith, ironically, finds some level of stability in her prison life, noting that at least she has three meals a day and an occasional movie. Although capable of escaping at any time, the penitent Faith chooses to cooperate with the terms of her confinement.
In Season 4 of Angel, Faith is attacked by a Bringer in prison; although Buffy and the Scooby Gang in Sunnydale are aware of the threat posed by the Bringers, they fail to warn Faith of the danger. Soon after, she is recruited by Wesley to help find a soulless Angelus and assist in restoring his soul yet again. Without hesitation, she breaks out of prison. Wesley later tells her that "it had to be you" because of her determination to save Angel without killing him. She battles Angelus, defeating him by tricking him into drinking her blood, after secretly injecting herself with a powerful drug, while Willow works a spell to restore his soul. This incapacitates both combatants, almost killing her, but during a mental link with Angel/us she is persuaded by the Angel persona not to give up, because for them, the act of atonement never ends.
After Angel's re-ensoulment, Faith travels with Willow to Sunnydale to battle the First Evil. She initially follows Buffy's command even though she has some doubts about Buffy's decisionmaking (Faith: "I'm with you. Drop me in the hornet's nest, what the hell"). Buffy is less than enthusiastic at Faith's return, but recognizes that reinforcements are desperately needed, and Faith shows dedication to being "one of the good guys." However, when Buffy loses the confidence of the group and is kicked out of the house, the Potentials turn to Faith for leadership. She reluctantly agrees to lead, but her first attack leads the potential Slayers into a trap. Faith is badly wounded but is saved by Buffy and the surviving Potentials. When the Potentials complain about Faith's decision, Buffy defends her, and she and Buffy finally make peace, noting that the friction in their relationship is perhaps due to the fact that under normal circumstances, two Slayers are never supposed to live at the same time. Faith plays a pivotal role in the final battle with the First Evil's army, 'holding the line' after Buffy is stabbed by one of the Turok-Han.
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel
Last Name: Lehane
Alias or Nick-name: Rogue Slayer
Age: 26
Height/Weight: 5'6", 145 lbs.
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: Brunette
Persuasion: Good-Neutral-Evil….Depends on the day.
Type of Creature: Slayer
Powers/Weapons: Normal powers. Faith is a Slayer and thus has the usual powers of one, including superhuman strength, healing, speed and reflexes. Other powers. Although Faith never explicitly displayed the power of prophetic dreams as displayed by Buffy on many occasions, Faith does appear to have some level of supernatural extent to her subconscious. In the season three finale, Buffy experiences a dream in which Faith appears to Buffy, making a cryptic reference to the arrival of Dawn and Buffy's impending death in the season finale of season five, as well as making several other cryptic references relevant to both Buffy and herself. Later, in the season 4 two parter we witness several portions of Faith's dreams in which she converses with Mayor Wilkins and overcomes a dream version of Buffy to awaken from her coma.
History: Faith was brought up in South Boston. She saw her father but only at a young age. She was looked after by her mother, who was an alcoholic, and her grandfather. As a child she was told by her mother that her father had died. In fact he had gone to prison.
Her Watcher was Diana Dormer, a professor of folklore and mythology at Harvard University. Dormer informed Faith that there was a second slayer in Sunnydale, California. After Kakistos kills Dormer, Faith runs away, unable to afford a ticket to Sunnydale she goes to New York instead. She must have spent the summer running from place to place with the ultimate goal of arriving in Sunnydale.
She makes several references to her mother's alcoholism and possible allusions to childhood abuse. She was traumatized by the murder of her Watcher at the hands of a powerful, ancient vampire. Early on, Faith harbored strong feelings of envy towards Buffy for having a loving relationship with her mother and friends, the same one she had always wanted. Jealousy later changed into self-hatred as she realized the power and accountability she has over her own life. By Season 7, self-hatred had faded into self-acceptance; she had learned to accept the consequences of her past actions. Faith often suggests that killing gives her a drug-like euphoria, and even suffers from addictive withdrawal symptoms when she is not able to inflict pain.
Faith also displays signs of promiscuity and an inability to share trust and intimacy with a man, describing herself as "a loser magnet" who attracts kleptomaniacs and "slackers". Faith was later responsible for Xander Harris losing his virginity and sleeps with Buffy's boyfriend Riley Finn in a later season, after switching bodies with Buffy herself, first.
Before initially coming to Sunnydale, Faith experiences a number of failed relationships with "losers" who have destroyed her faith in men: "Ronnie, deadbeat. Steve, klepto. Kenny, drummer. Eventually I just had to face up to my destiny as a loser magnet. Now it is strictly get some, get gone. You can’t trust guys." Although she is sexually aggressive, she avoids emotional intimacy.
It is unknown when Faith was contacted and began training with her Watcher, though she appears to have been recruited as a teenager like Buffy (rather than as a child, which is considered ideal for a Slayer.)
When Faith first arrives in Sunnydale, she has been traumatized by helplessly watching the vampire Kakistos gruesomely murder her Watcher, explaining to Buffy that "they don't have a word for what he did to her." She has run away from trouble since childhood, but begins dealing with those issues after staking Kakistos. Faith feels like an outsider in Buffy's world even though she initially endears herself to Buffy's mother and friends. Buffy, who is still recovering from the trauma of killing Angel, maintains emotional distance from Faith and withholds Angel's return from her. Although Buffy resents Faith's carefree attitude toward violence, she still trusts Faith enough to leave her to protect her mother at Christmas and even shows hints of being attracted by Faith's wilder way of slaying. Faith perceives that Buffy does not trust her, further alienating the two. Faith's isolation heightens when her new Watcher, Gwendolyn Post, abuses her trust to plot an evil scheme. She then accidentally kills the Deputy Mayor, Allan Finch and goes into denial. When it becomes clear that Buffy intends to reveal what happened, she tells Giles that Buffy had killed Finch. Giles plays along to avoid pushing her too far. The Scooby Gang decides to help Faith. Xander visits Faith's motel room to reason with her, but she nearly strangles him instead. Angel arrives in time and takes her to his mansion and tries to reason with her.
Meanwhile, Buffy's new watcher, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, hears of her crime and tries to arrest Faith with the help of a group of Council Operatives. Faith attacks them inside their armored car and escapes. Isolated and bitter, she secretly turns to Mayor Wilkins, the major antagonist of the third season, filling the void of Wilkins' "right hand man" left by the vampire Mr. Trick, whom Faith has recently dusted. Faith and the Mayor develop an affectionate, emotional closeness, and she comes to see him as a father-figure. While serving the Mayor undercover, she kills a smuggler and a bookseller demon. She kidnaps Willow Rosenberg at knife-point and wants to kill her. She also kills a geology professor at the Mayor's order, without question. Her duplicity is exposed when she tries to rob Angel of his soul. Despite her actions, Faith is somewhat surprised when Willow tells her that she is beyond help.
Faith then shoots Angel with a poisoned arrow, deliberately missing his heart to ensure protracted suffering and to distract Buffy's efforts before the Ascension. The only antidote is draining the blood of a Slayer. Buffy visits Faith's apartment to kill her, intending to sacrifice Faith to save Angel, but Buffy only manages to stab Faith in the gut with her own knife, a gift from the Mayor. Faith jumps from the apartment building roof onto a moving truck and escapes. However, their fight leaves Faith in a coma for several months. During that time, Buffy and Faith share a series of psychic dreams.
Faith awakes in the middle of Season 4. She learns what has happened while she was gone, gravely injures the girl who tells her, and surprises Buffy on the college campus. Faith is angry at Buffy's attempt to sacrifice her for Angel, and devastated about the death of the Mayor. After a fight, Faith escapes from the approaching police and later attacks Joyce, Buffy's mother, at her house. As Buffy is about to win the ensuing battle, Faith uses a magical device, a gift from the Mayor, to swap bodies with Buffy. Buffy, in Faith's body, is kidnapped by the Watchers' Council's Special Ops team to be taken to England, while Faith (as Buffy) plans to flee the country. Tara Maclay realizes something was wrong and tells Willow. Faith sleeps with Buffy's boyfriend, Riley and flirts with Spike. She is torn between her desire to flee and her sense of duty to rescue a group of churchgoers taken hostage by vampires. When she chooses to save the hostages, she also encounters Buffy (who arrives on the scene with the same goal). During their confrontation, Faith savagely beats her own body, expressing extensive self-hatred. With Tara's help, Buffy manages to undo the body switch and Faith flees Sunnydale by hopping a freight train.
In Los Angeles, she rampages through the underworld, stealing and squatting in her victims' apartments. She is approached by Wolfram & Hart, who have learned that a "rogue Slayer" was in town, about killing Angel. She shows Angel her "evil" side by kidnapping Wesley and brutally torturing him. In a subsequent fight with Angel, she insists that he must kill her because she's "bad." Angel repeatedly refuses, and Faith eventually breaks down crying, begging Angel to kill her until she can't fight anymore. Angel begins the task of saving Faith's soul, forgiving her and working to break down her emotional walls. Just as Faith begins to feel remorse for her crimes, Buffy arrives looking for revenge. In the meantime, the Watchers Council also shows up, intending to kill Faith. Faith decides to surrender to the police and face the consequences for her actions, eventually being sentenced in a women's prison, where Angel is shown occasionally visiting her. Faith, ironically, finds some level of stability in her prison life, noting that at least she has three meals a day and an occasional movie. Although capable of escaping at any time, the penitent Faith chooses to cooperate with the terms of her confinement.
In Season 4 of Angel, Faith is attacked by a Bringer in prison; although Buffy and the Scooby Gang in Sunnydale are aware of the threat posed by the Bringers, they fail to warn Faith of the danger. Soon after, she is recruited by Wesley to help find a soulless Angelus and assist in restoring his soul yet again. Without hesitation, she breaks out of prison. Wesley later tells her that "it had to be you" because of her determination to save Angel without killing him. She battles Angelus, defeating him by tricking him into drinking her blood, after secretly injecting herself with a powerful drug, while Willow works a spell to restore his soul. This incapacitates both combatants, almost killing her, but during a mental link with Angel/us she is persuaded by the Angel persona not to give up, because for them, the act of atonement never ends.
After Angel's re-ensoulment, Faith travels with Willow to Sunnydale to battle the First Evil. She initially follows Buffy's command even though she has some doubts about Buffy's decisionmaking (Faith: "I'm with you. Drop me in the hornet's nest, what the hell"). Buffy is less than enthusiastic at Faith's return, but recognizes that reinforcements are desperately needed, and Faith shows dedication to being "one of the good guys." However, when Buffy loses the confidence of the group and is kicked out of the house, the Potentials turn to Faith for leadership. She reluctantly agrees to lead, but her first attack leads the potential Slayers into a trap. Faith is badly wounded but is saved by Buffy and the surviving Potentials. When the Potentials complain about Faith's decision, Buffy defends her, and she and Buffy finally make peace, noting that the friction in their relationship is perhaps due to the fact that under normal circumstances, two Slayers are never supposed to live at the same time. Faith plays a pivotal role in the final battle with the First Evil's army, 'holding the line' after Buffy is stabbed by one of the Turok-Han.
Character is from (series, book, creator, or author, if it applies): Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel
