Which, on the other hand, is easier for Faith in another way - it's something that's easy to feel bad about, it's far more black and white than Willow. Faith can unequivocally feel bad for what she did; Willow can't.
Definitely. It's ironic that Willow colour-codes herself whereas Faith...doesn't, because the Willow's actions are ultimately more...complicated than Faith's bad actions within s3 are (though the reasons are very complicated both times) -- the Mayor's plan was pretty straight-up evil, and Faith pretty willing to support that because she didn't see any other options. Willow was -- well, like Faith, pretty willing to be evil because she didn't see a lot of options left, but there was a real sense that the world would be better off without Warren & Rack (& the others in the Trio), and a twisted kind of belief that everyone would be happier if Dawn were re-Keyed including Dawn herself, and that her friends were kind of getting in her way, and finally that the world needed to end.... The only things she really accomplished were killing Warren and Rack, but even the goals have a hint of righteousness, instead of falling in with an unapologetically evil father figure who treated her well. (Well, I guess, Rack is the closest thing to the Mayor in the s3/s6 parallels, and Willow killed him, so....)
And I do think the shift is a lot about s3 vs. s6, and the absence of authority figures for good or for ill (no Mayors left).
Well, since we know she can print text on her skin (as in the transformation sequence), I think she'd take a page from Eskimo!Willow's book ("maybe you should just say 'shrug'") and just have her cheeks say "blush." :)
Well, didn't the text show up only because she sucked it from the books? Perhaps if she carried around a book with "blush" printed on it -- maybe some of her old fanfic. :)
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Definitely. It's ironic that Willow colour-codes herself whereas Faith...doesn't, because the Willow's actions are ultimately more...complicated than Faith's bad actions within s3 are (though the reasons are very complicated both times) -- the Mayor's plan was pretty straight-up evil, and Faith pretty willing to support that because she didn't see any other options. Willow was -- well, like Faith, pretty willing to be evil because she didn't see a lot of options left, but there was a real sense that the world would be better off without Warren & Rack (& the others in the Trio), and a twisted kind of belief that everyone would be happier if Dawn were re-Keyed including Dawn herself, and that her friends were kind of getting in her way, and finally that the world needed to end.... The only things she really accomplished were killing Warren and Rack, but even the goals have a hint of righteousness, instead of falling in with an unapologetically evil father figure who treated her well. (Well, I guess, Rack is the closest thing to the Mayor in the s3/s6 parallels, and Willow killed him, so....)
And I do think the shift is a lot about s3 vs. s6, and the absence of authority figures for good or for ill (no Mayors left).
Well, since we know she can print text on her skin (as in the transformation sequence), I think she'd take a page from Eskimo!Willow's book ("maybe you should just say 'shrug'") and just have her cheeks say "blush." :)
Well, didn't the text show up only because she sucked it from the books? Perhaps if she carried around a book with "blush" printed on it -- maybe some of her old fanfic. :)