...faith's 3rd season biography
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Name: Faith Lehane
Birthdate: December 14, 1982
Age: 24
Faith is Joss Wheadon's brainchild. The Slayer with a wild side, in essence the hooker with a heart, she is the romantic dream of the over-dramatic adolescent psyche, breezing into Sunnydale like a busty tornado,no watcher, no past (to speak of) and no one to answer to.
With barely so much as an introduction, Faith made herself a staple in the lackluster Season 3 Sunnydale, turning heads ad keeping Buffy occupied. From the beginning she showed signs of recklessness; an eagerness to fight and superstrength ironically built into a body with no air breaks, Faith accidentally but quickly became a danger to herself and those around her.
After awhile it was obvious that Faith was out of control, beating vampires to a bloody pulp and swiping whatever she fancied from whoever happened to have it.
It's safe to assume that whatever Faith did she did for attention. When you're passed over, ignored or neglected most of your life any attention becomes good attention. And attention she got, rising contempt in the easily aggravated Willow, pondering the meaning of the bad touch with Xander and dancing Buffy away from the high-horse down to the seedy underbelly of lesbian subtext.
All too soon the assumptions of her 'friends' are proven right when tragedy strikes Buffy and Faith during an ordinary patrol, when out of the patrols on all the nights HE had to walk into hers.
Alan Finch, the Mayor's unlikely right-hand man was in the wrong place at the wrong time. During a frenzied slay, Buffy mistook Alan from a vampire and tossed him in Faith's direction, realizing only a seconds later that he was human. But by that time it was too late, Faith had already staked him.
Paralized with fear, Faith didn't notice Buffy's desperate pleas with her to get help so that Alan wouldn't bleed to death, instead Faith insisted in a barely audible tone that she "didn't know" he was human. After a few moments of shock Alan is gone and the Slayer's have a problem.
Panic-stricken, Faith urges Buffy to flee the scene and both girls do exactly that, but while a crises keeps Buffy away, Faith makes her way back to the body, creeping up to it slowly and examining the wound. She would never recover from this.
Over the next few weeks Faith re-examines her relationships with the Scoobies, who up until now had never really accepted her into their exclusive and close-knit circle of friends. From the way Faith reacted to this up until now, it's safe to assume she was used to this kind of treatment, but with current events being what they were, Faith's exile from the group was beginning to take a heavy toll on her already fragile emotional and mental states.
