I am Aware that I am repeating things that have been said a hundred times even since before I was born but like. Watching through season 3 yet again (this time with my parents) actually has me thinking about just How Sexual the Buffy/Faith dynamic is from the very get-go.
Like maybe I'm talking out of my ass here, but at least up through/till season 3, Faith and Buffy talk about sex more than literally any other pair of people. Willow and Xander touch on the subject twice, Xander and Cordy and Willow and Oz talk to each other about it like once or twice despite literally Being In Relationships. Willow and Buffy only really bring it up to each other like when talking about Angel's curse. Buffy and Xander only talk about how he doesn't take advantage of her in Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered.
Meanwhile, Faith and Buffy. In Faith's introduction scene, she talks about Slaying making her hungry and horny. Not just is this a sex talk, it's explicitly about Slaying, their shared activity, the thing that only the two of them can do, unites them by making them both horny. In that very episode, later when the two of them slay a vampire, this is called back on when Buffy says "You hungry?" and Faith says "Starved." Then just an episode or two later, Faith's talking to Buffy about Scott, about how he gives her that "good down low tickle?" "How low?" Then later she asks Buffy about sex with Angel. And later she asks Buffy if she'd ever had sex with Xander ("all that sweating nightly, side-by-side action, and you never put in for a little after hours...", wonder what she's thinking of, hmmm). Again she brings sex back into their slaying, talking about how Buffy is just itching for a vamp. She tells Buffy "Tell me you don't get off on this." The scene of them slaying is contrasted immedeatley with them dancing and Faith grinding on some dudes. She talks about how the slaying gets Buffy horny AND about the fact that she loved the sex and danger with Angel. The fact that just in season 3, Faith sleeps with Xander and tries to sleep with Angel, the two men closest to Buffy (a pattern that she continues throughout the show, by being freaky with Spike in Buffy's body and later having sex with Principal Wood.)
My point here isn't just that like, Faith is into Buffy, because of course she is, everyone knows that, (besides all this there's always the there's my girl when buffy hits her, the give us a kiss, the actual forehead kiss that was meant to be a real one). Like I'm preaching to the choir obviously, Faith's attraction to Buffy is just straight up the text. I guess my point is that like, the dynamic between the two of them is a lot more Sexual and focused on Sex than literally any other dynamic on the show up till that point, more than even the canon relationships like Cordy/Xander, Willow/Oz, or Buffy/Angel.
Which I think is both neat and really interesting.
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