Question For The Floor

[redbrunja]

Does Faith/Wesley count as a good boy/bad girl pairing?

Comments

[streussal.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I wouldn't? By season four, Wesley is kind of a bad boy himself. And I don't see people shipping it prior to that, so. More like morally ambiguous boy/morally ambiguous girl.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I've read stuff written post Angel season one, so it does have that good boy/bad girl dynamic, but as you mention, by the end of the show they're morally in a very similar place.

[qualapec.livejournal.com]

I'd say it's a proper boy/bad girl ship.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I see what you did there.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I would say that, at the heart, it would.

[lokifan]

I lean towards 'no'; AtS season 4 is morally-ambiguous!boy and good!girl, and that's when we get the most intense stuff with them. Obviously they cycle and switch, but I wouldn't really call it good boy/bad girl. Idk, I suppose it comes down to which aspects of that trope you prioritise, and Faith in Wesley's lap as she tortures him and that history certainly qualifies. But the most memorable Faith/Wesley moment for me (and not necessarily in a good way) is him sneering at her that she wasn't always squeamish about torture and they have to be ruthless.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods*

As I said above, this pairing feels like a good boy/bad girl at the beginning of Angel, and then they both wind up at close to the same moral place, imho.

[ever-neutral.livejournal.com]

What everyone else said about morally ambiguous boy/morally ambiguous girl. Actually, I'd say Lilah/Wesley fits more neatly into good boy/bad girl because of their being on opposing sides.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Good point.