I had a rougher deal before I got called, though. I was a dirt poor runaway from the foster system with no power over anybody who wanted to hurt me. At least when I suddenly got the abilities I could hit people hard enough to make them reconsider. [She shrugs. It's more Buffy's thing, thinking of it all as a curse. A set of responsibilities, the weight of the world on your shoulders, the inability to live a normal life.
Of course, a normal life for girls like her and a normal world for girls like Faith was always going to be pretty different. Dark Slayer or a homeless orphaned nobody, both would have ended in prison or dead.] If I died when I wanted, it'd all go to some other girl. Might have ruined her life, might have saved it. Can't say that I really cared at the time.
...Though, gotta say, that sounds like a whole clusterfuck. [She furrows her brow.] Reminds me of a Vengeance Demon, honestly.
[And Alex - Or Malice, as she ended up being called.]
cw for talk of past suicide
I had a rougher deal before I got called, though. I was a dirt poor runaway from the foster system with no power over anybody who wanted to hurt me. At least when I suddenly got the abilities I could hit people hard enough to make them reconsider. [She shrugs. It's more Buffy's thing, thinking of it all as a curse. A set of responsibilities, the weight of the world on your shoulders, the inability to live a normal life.
Of course, a normal life for girls like her and a normal world for girls like Faith was always going to be pretty different. Dark Slayer or a homeless orphaned nobody, both would have ended in prison or dead.] If I died when I wanted, it'd all go to some other girl. Might have ruined her life, might have saved it. Can't say that I really cared at the time.
...Though, gotta say, that sounds like a whole clusterfuck. [She furrows her brow.] Reminds me of a Vengeance Demon, honestly.
[And Alex - Or Malice, as she ended up being called.]