I like Faith and Giles' canon relationship in the comics. It's not romantic (from what I remember), but it's close. Both of them are kind of outcasts and in Buffy's bad books (well, at that point in time)
Yeah, I get all that. I think my biggest problem is that it all cycles back to Buffy and Giles estrangement, which was bad enough in Season 6 & 7. (Despite my shipping preferences, I'm approaching this all from a purely platonic level right now.) If there had been no falling out, just a mutual agreement that they needed to be doing their separate things right now and, at least Faith would be with Giles to protect him, so Buffy wouldn't have to worry, that would be different. But without that groundwork, there is just something about Giles getting close to Faith, especially when he is on the outs with Buffy, that just reeks of replacement/rejection for me. (And I don't care how good the explanation might have been for Giles's will. That was just some messed up shit.) For me, even if it's not romantic, Buffy & Giles need to be together an a unit. It was one of my biggest problems with a large percentage of Spuffy fic, they either marginalized Giles or they turned him evil.
Then again, what do I know. I never made it past the first few pages of the comic book, with Giant Dawn. Just because you CAN do something storywise, doesn't mean you should! :-P
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Date: 2017-04-07 07:43 pm (UTC)Yeah, I get all that. I think my biggest problem is that it all cycles back to Buffy and Giles estrangement, which was bad enough in Season 6 & 7. (Despite my shipping preferences, I'm approaching this all from a purely platonic level right now.) If there had been no falling out, just a mutual agreement that they needed to be doing their separate things right now and, at least Faith would be with Giles to protect him, so Buffy wouldn't have to worry, that would be different. But without that groundwork, there is just something about Giles getting close to Faith, especially when he is on the outs with Buffy, that just reeks of replacement/rejection for me. (And I don't care how good the explanation might have been for Giles's will. That was just some messed up shit.) For me, even if it's not romantic, Buffy & Giles need to be together an a unit. It was one of my biggest problems with a large percentage of Spuffy fic, they either marginalized Giles or they turned him evil.
Then again, what do I know. I never made it past the first few pages of the comic book, with Giant Dawn. Just because you CAN do something storywise, doesn't mean you should! :-P