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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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〈 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.