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entrancelogs2016-08-01 11:37 am
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and mama always said--
Who: Faith Lehane & training students & OTA
Where: Sparring Facility, Angel Investigations, a room on a floor of your choosing!
When: Aug/Sep Catch-all
Rating: PG-13, could increase
Summary: Faith is not handling her anniversary in Wonderland very well.
The Story:
faith usually asks her trainees for an extra few punches, higher kicks, or harder throws. she makes it clear that the name of the game is to walk out feeling better than when you came in, sure. but this month she takes people at their word when they tire out, instead of asking for more.
her movement's still crisp but she doesn't hit or push as hard as normal. the threshold varies per person, a mental note in faith's head to tell her who needs her to throttle back less or more. ]
when faith exits, it's with freshly-made bruises and drying blood that she hasn't quite cleaned up all the way. a sheen of sweat covers her, and she's pushing her hair out of her face like it's personally affronted her. ]
Where: Sparring Facility, Angel Investigations, a room on a floor of your choosing!
When: Aug/Sep Catch-all
Rating: PG-13, could increase
Summary: Faith is not handling her anniversary in Wonderland very well.
The Story:
sparring facility
[ she's going easy on everyone.faith usually asks her trainees for an extra few punches, higher kicks, or harder throws. she makes it clear that the name of the game is to walk out feeling better than when you came in, sure. but this month she takes people at their word when they tire out, instead of asking for more.
her movement's still crisp but she doesn't hit or push as hard as normal. the threshold varies per person, a mental note in faith's head to tell her who needs her to throttle back less or more. ]
hallway, pick a floor any floor
[ she comes here weekly, to this unmarked door, but it's not her room.when faith exits, it's with freshly-made bruises and drying blood that she hasn't quite cleaned up all the way. a sheen of sweat covers her, and she's pushing her hair out of her face like it's personally affronted her. ]
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[ did she not tell jo about prison? it slips out so easily now-- almost like an afterthought. faith starts hopping, foot to foot, to keep her muscles warm. ]
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See? Then you got this, easy.
[Wonderland doesn't even compare to regular prison, she's pretty sure.]
At least you don't have to spend that time eating crappy prison cafeteria food.
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[ faith smirks, a tight but not ice cold offering. she's realizing now what she'd revealed in a moment of manic energy. maybe adding to it with more self-awareness will help her feel less exposed? ]
Not that I'm knocking ramen and popcorn...
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Ah, the convenience store diet. Know that one well. I've eaten a lot of instant ramen and off-brand Bugles in motel rooms.
[She'd had better than that growing up, and she'd chosen the hunting life for herself, but still. She'd known lean times, and she's not always so sure that hunting had ever been as much of a choice as her mother made it out to be.]
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she huffs, and gestures to the room at large. ]
Can I just say? Like, at least prison had stupid organized activities? I hated them, but it made me not want to punch everyone in the face all the time.
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[She shrugs briefly before propping her hands against her hips. Self-defense classes are something of an organized activity, but she can see how that wouldn't be enough. Not for someone like Faith.]
Why do you think I work all the time, even though I'm not getting paid? Keeps me from going crazy. We could always put some kind of organized stuff together here.
[She smirks.]
Board game night? Boondoggle?
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I'm not the extra-curricular type. Well, unless it involves stakes and dust... [ uhhh hangon ] The hell's a boondoggy?
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[She only knows it by name, but it felt hokey enough to use as a teasing suggestion.]
Macaroni art instead, maybe?
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[ faith jabs a finger in the air to punctuate her acceptance of this very silly suggestion. ]
I draw the line at pottery though. I will exorcise the hell outta Patrick Swayze, no lie.
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[She grins, glad that her suggestions seem to be having the desired effect-- whatever is weighing Faith down at the moment, she can still joke.]
Hell, I'd help with the exorcism. I'm a professional, after all.
[Without the whole getting paid part.]
Technically, with ghosts, it's banishing.
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[ seriously jo can you just be cool about this? but no really fine faith will bite because this convo is way better than the stuff she'd been thinking about earlier. ]
What's the difference? If there's weird chanting I'm out.
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No weird chanting. Ghosts usually means burning the remains, or maybe a significant object that's keeping them tethered to this world. Exorcism is a lot of salt, iron and holy water. A little bit of Latin.
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Hold up, you get to burn shit? OK, I had it backwards-- banishing sounds right up my alley. [ hold up-- ] You ever get that kinda work here?
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It's not as glamorous as it sounds, but I gotta admit, there's something really satisfying about it.
[She pauses for a beat, and her smile fades a little.]
Haven't had to burn any bones here, but some of my world's monsters have come through. Hellhounds-- and we've had plenty of demons come and go. I've burned up a few zombies in my time here, at least. I try to keep myself as prepared as possible for any events that might sic any kind of monsters on Wonderland.
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〈 faith lets out a puff of air, nodding at jo's proclivity to be ready for anything. 〉
Never knew how much I actually hated research until Wonderland, actually. It's like-- there's infinite crap to have to plan for. I mean-- me, vampire slayer, right? 〈 also caveman apparently but moving along-- 〉 There are like a thousand different kinds out there and they're all weak to different crap. That's the actual nightmare...
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[Being a vampire slayer is something different, she knows. It's a calling rather than a job, but at the end of the day, they do the same thing, or they try to. They help people.]
I've always been good at the information stuff, but even then, no one person can know everything. There's too much out there, even if you're dealing with just one world. Forget someplace like this, where you have to worry about not just what it is, but where the hell it comes from. For the record, though, I find keepin' holy water, salt and iron on you goes a long way towards having all the basics covered. Silver, too.
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[ faith smirks with the compliment-- it's hard for her to deliver those without sounding like she's hitting on someone, but she doesn't say stuff like that just to say it. ]
We coulda traded knives like Pokemon.
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[She smiles, because she knows Faith wouldn't say something like that idly. She knows it means something.]
Watcher sounds kind of interesting, but I think I'd get tired of all the watching. Always have been more of a hands-on kind of girl. [She pauses, just for a beat, smile hitching wider.] Would have been nice to know someone like you in high school. Could've had a friend with similar interests. Someone to appreciate that knife collection of mine.
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The best one I had? He'd have dug your collection too.
[ she smiles fondly at the memories of giles jumping into frays he didn't look like he could handle that dredge up into her consciousness. ]
Hell, he might've been able to show you a thing or two, even. But yeah-- you'd have fit in like gangbusters.
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[She'd made the mistake of getting close to the wrong ones a time or two. Gordon, in particular, comes to mind.]
So what's a Watcher do, aside from train Slayers?
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[ faith chews at her lip, shrugging against the ache she's felt with giles gone. with the knowledge that he'd never been her watcher, not really. they'd just both been on buffy's shit list at the same time. when she speaks of watchers, it's never about the men in her life. it's always about diana. a distant memory of the first person who helped and the first faith let down. ]
It's a little different these days, though. They see a lot more action, cause there are more slayers to herd.
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[Sounds a little like what she used to do before she actually went out hunting proper-- and a lot like what Bobby has been getting up to the last decade or so. He's as close to an expert as it gets in the hunting community. Everyone went to him with their problems, and he always came through.
She watches Faith with interest, curious to know what she might be mulling over, but knowing better than to ask. This isn't the time, but maybe an opportunity would present itself later. Watchers seemed like a heavier subject than she was letting on, maybe.]
How many slayers are we talking? I know it used to be a pretty limited gig, you mentioned that-- got a whole army of them now or something?
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Started out with about 2000 or so I think, yeah. But you know what armies are for.
[ oh, a downer again? great job faith a+ for you. ]
The slayer line's a little funky now, too.
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[Hey. Hard to be in either of their positions and not be a downer when it comes to talking about the gig. Faith doesn't have to say it in full-- Jo knows exactly what armies are for.]
So what changed?
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[ faith shrugs-- she can acknowledge that she's terrible at exposition, but this time the story sounds close enough to home to make it clear she's purposely withholding details. this hurts to remember. it had been one thing to hear angel's voice come from twilight's masked face -- another to juggle his redemption arc with taking care of her squad. ]
Once the dust cleared, we were pretty depleted. A lot of slayers with serious baggage -- lot of survivor's guilt. Fortunately, I got some experience with that.