faith + 1, 3, 7, 16 & 21
HEADCANOES TIME.
Status: YISSSS
1. Their physical weak spots
Faith’s actually very capable of taking hits, so her weak spots are pretty few, and her body is upkept obsessively, as in she works out almost constantly and without fail, but she’s prone to shots from behind or to the backs of her knees. She doesn’t watch her six as well as she should at all. Which means, of any of the Slayers on patrol on any given night, Faith always comes home with the most injuries.
3. Scars or painful spots
Faith’s only sustained scar is the unsightly collection of raised scar tissue across her stomach, mostly to the left where Buffy managed to impale her with the jackal. Of all injuries she’s sustained, that’s the only one that never healed. As for painful spots, this also counts as one-- occasionally, the tissue aches.
7. Their tickle spots
Faith is actually seldom ticklish, but at the back of her neck, occasionally, if touched too lightly, her shoulders bunch up and she does the entire shrug of a shudder to wiggle away.
16. Dark secrets/’skeletons in the closet
Faith suffers constant dark intrusive thoughts about killing or harming the people around her, almost constantly. She thinks perpetually about it, and she has almost no control over it, though she actively tries to suppress it. The result is that she’s perpetually considering bodily harm to everyone in her life, being her brain demands she ruin everything positive. Skeletons in closets: specifically, even if she’d known the body-swap with Buffy was going to do what it did, she still would’ve done it. She’s not proud of it, but she still would’ve. There are a lot more, but that’s basically a five page headcanon.
21. Turning points in their life
In prison, the most significant turning point in Faith’s life, and the most significant turning point of her life, was the point she first realized she was angry at her mother, really and truly, and furthermore, angry at the people who had abused her. It wasn’t her usual passive yeah well my life sucked. It was during a discussion with her therapist ( @defenestratio because why can’t I just use my own blog for this) that she’d understood and learned it was okay to feel angry about what had been done to her. It was also the first time she’d ever understood her thought process was strongly different from everyone else’s, and it was the first time, with the right counselor, she ever realized she was sick, but not in the way everyone kept insisting where she could never improve, and she needed help.
