redbrunja: (btvs | suffer for my sins)
redbrunja ([personal profile] redbrunja) wrote2013-05-12 10:03 pm

Question For The Floor

Does Faith/Wesley count as a good boy/bad girl pairing?
lokifan: black Converse against a black background (Wes/Faith bloodied)

[personal profile] lokifan 2013-05-13 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2013-05-13 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
*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.