What does FiveByFive mean?

[Faith5byFive]

I say fivebyfive in response to if people ask me if im okay.
God i love Faith/Eliza haha my friends have all nicknamed me Faith now.

[midwesternwatcher]

According to the semi-canonical novel "Go Ask Malice," Faith learned this phrase from her father when she visited him in prison. Faith grew up believing that her father was deceased, but through her first Watcher, Diana Dormer, she learned that he was serving 25-to-life for the murder of a police officer. You'll find the story of her meeting with her father starting on p. 186.

Midwestern Watcher

[Eric]

Apr 6, 2010 19:47:34 GMT -5 midwesternwatcher said:

According to the semi-canonical novel "Go Ask Malice," Faith learned this phrase from her father when she visited him in prison. Faith grew up believing that her father was deceased, but through her first Watcher, Diana Dormer, she learned that he was serving 25-to-life for the murder of a police officer. You'll find the story of her meeting with her father starting on p. 186.

Midwestern Watcher

Thanks for the info, but I don't understand why you describe Go Ask Malice as "semi-canonical".

[midwesternwatcher]

Well, the whole concept of "canon" doesn't quite compute for me, but there are people who won't quite believe anything that didn't show up on the TV series. Check out the Buffy wiki and their discussion on the "Faith" page. Much of the information there does come from "Go Ask Malice," but it's clear there is some unhappiness with that among the people who contribute to that site (I'm one of them). Especially, Go Ask Malice gives Faith's birthdate as December 14, 1980, which would make her older than Buffy. Some fans, including myself, find this idea jarring.

If you want to know where I'm coming from, I think the whole idea of "canon" should be abandoned and forgotten. But that puts way on the "radical left" of the fandom. If I'm going to talk to other fans, I figure I have to use that notion, even if it makes me queasy. "Go Ask Malice," for instance, is a better experience IMHO than most of the episodes of the TV show.

[wiccawhowonta]

Wow, I always thought 5x5 meant "square" like when people say "we're square." Everything's cool between us. But the actual definition makes sense as well.

[Silver]

I've always thought it meant everythings 'cool' or 'okay'. I surprised that everyone in Sunnydale knew what it meant as it was only Faith who used it and as far as I am aware the one who bought on to the scene.