Thinking about that Dirty Girls basement Spike scene. Faith exaggerates, we know this. And then I watch Hannibal and there's this quote:
"All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story or tell a story about them." - writer Karen Blixen (pen name Isak Dinesen)
Faith isn't going to therapy but she can tell her stories. Then she's in control of the narrative, and how people see her. Faith is desperate to tell her stories.
Check thisyearsgirl3 post on the scene if you need a refresher, and esp how we see Faith just be herself for a moment before she realizes Spike is down in the basement too.
Faith sees Spike's chains and says: "Hey, to each his own, man. This one guy I ran with, he liked me to dress up like a school girl and take this friggin' bull-whip, and I'd be like..."
Spike: "I got dangerous for a while." Read jewishsuperfam post on that scene Faith paints, and the comments in the reblogs too. Now I can buy that Faith is actually older than Buffy, but not by much. Even if she is older than Buffy, point still stands, Faith drops some traumatic shit in her easy breezy comments, including this one.
Faith tells these stories right? In fact we don't even hear the rest of her story bc Spike interrupts her very seriously. Like her vibe is "hey fun wild story" and his vibe is "serious times fellow warrior." (Yeah I know later the vibe changes but pre-reminiscing about the champagne line.)
"All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story..."
Gah get her some therapy already!