daredevil muffin-y genius ([info]monanotlisa) wrote,
@ 2006-03-06 20:49:00
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[info]ascian3 once said I could bring everything back to Faith. She's right.
I blame [info]xanphibian, who inspired me. Also my icon here.


BtVS Double Drabble. Set in the middle of S 3. Rated PG-13.






Faith uses them when she has to; anything else would be stupid, and she's not. But she doesn't like them, hasn't ever craved their easy power -- not even when she was a scraggy child with a key on a string around her neck.

Bows and arrows and crossbows and knives -- yeah. They involve strength and skills and agility, want a warrior's hands. She's always loved the way wood feels under her fingers. How a metal hilt warms under her touch even when the blade is gleaming-cold.

"You don't do guns? Why not?" Xander's voice held that note, the one that'd sometimes make her cross her arms under her chest or lean forward a little, always had her put on her best smile, the one that promised everything and gave nothing.

"Feels like cheating."

Willow looked over at her then, wide-eyed, quick mouse glance, and Faith wanted to slap the surprise right off her face. Of course, yeah, she's all about tricks instead of honest work, their troublemaker. Little Miss-Demeanour.

Not that she can spell that, but who cares? She knows what she means, makes sure others know what she means, too.

She doesn't need a firearm for that.




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[info]stultiloquentia
2006-03-06 09:06 pm UTC (link)
Yeah.

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[info]monanotlisa
2006-03-06 09:41 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. *beam*

Here I thought everybody else had forgotten Faith, or that my Faith didn't work well. *g*

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[info]minim_calibre
2006-03-06 09:48 pm UTC (link)
Oh, NICE!

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[info]monanotlisa
2006-03-06 09:50 pm UTC (link)
THANK YOU! (Min-praise! Whee!)

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[info]solvent90
2006-03-06 10:40 pm UTC (link)
Oh, yes. That's exactly season 3 Faith. I've always thought of her as one of the most satisfyingly herself characters on BtVS -- I love how you capture her voice here. And this image -- a scraggy child with a key on a string around her neck -- is wonderful at going behind that voice, something I wish they'd done more of on the show. Ties in really well with the "little firecracker" thing. *sigh* Really nice work.

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[info]monanotlisa
2006-03-06 10:59 pm UTC (link)
Oh, yes. That's exactly season 3 Faith.

Thank you. Makes my day (previously full of unmotivated studyin').

I've always thought of her as one of the most satisfyingly herself characters on BtVS -- I love how you capture her voice here.

Yes -- such a strong presence, as flawed and erring as she is, or maybe just because of that; I've loved her from the moment she came on-screen in Faith, Hope & Trick.

And this image -- a scraggy child with a key on a string around her neck -- is wonderful at going behind that voice, something I wish they'd done more of on the show. Ties in really well with the "little firecracker" thing. *sigh*

Again, so glad this works -- I mentally ran through a number of images, but I didn't want to fall into the cliché trap of alcoholic mothers and deadbeats fathers and life in paper boxes on streets and went for a simpler yet still evocative picture.

Really nice work.

Means a lot to me, coming from you. & :-)

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[info]xanphibian
2006-03-07 03:22 am UTC (link)
Ooh. I like this a lot. (yay, i inspired you!)

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[info]monanotlisa
2006-03-07 10:43 am UTC (link)
Thank you!! Ah, Faith...

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[info]lunasky
2006-03-08 04:25 pm UTC (link)
I've watched such an odd assortment of BTVS - most of it wasn't in any kind of sequential order, but I know enough to know that this sounds exactly like Faith. She always sturck me as scrappy, as the kind of girl who knew how to take care of herself, even if she had to use her hands to do it.

with a key on a string around her neck.

I just love how that suits her perfectly. You have a gifted way with words, my dear. :)

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[info]monanotlisa
2006-03-08 04:50 pm UTC (link)
this sounds exactly like Faith#

Thank you! She was the first character whose voice came to me naturally, unbidden, and I still love her dearly in a near-narcissistic sense, namely that she always feels like a mirror image of mine, in a Through A Glass Darkly Lit way.

She always sturck me as scrappy, as the kind of girl who knew how to take care of herself, even if she had to use her hands to do it.


Yes. Especially then.

with a key on a string around her neck.

I just love how that suits her perfectly.

Cheers! And oh, gifted way with words...hardly. But I try! & :-P

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[info]mmmchelle
2006-10-28 04:57 pm UTC (link)
I really like this, such a perfect Faith voice.

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[info]monanotlisa
2006-10-28 05:01 pm UTC (link)
Thank you! I was very proud of this one; glad it worked for you, too.

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[info]mmmchelle
2006-10-28 05:04 pm UTC (link)
I adore Faith, but I've never been willing to tackle her voice. You did a marvelous job with her.

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