The Secret Circle: 1.13 – Medallion

On the flipside, there’s TSC‘s brunette Phoebe Tonkin, who has managed to make us lovelovelove her Faye, the bitchtastic sexbomb with a purr like spiked honey and a thing for dark magic. Imagine an early Blair Waldorf in a Wicca wonderland and hot leather jackets. Not only does this one look like trouble, she is trouble, and while Faye is totally the anti-Caroline, we’re as enchanted by Tonkin’s ability to bring the mean-girl nastiness as we are by the lost-girl loneliness simmering beneath those perfectly arched eyebrows. Of course, Faye may not be so lonely after last night’s steamy mashup with Jake the Ken-Doll witch hunter, but you can bet your best cauldron that there’s gonna be a lot of nastiness to come once “creepy little Stepford ghoul” Cassie and company find out. (Source)

What we didn’t expect was the rise of “Fayana” fans — those viewers rooting for bad girl Faye (Phoebe Tonkin) and her voice-of-reason frenemy Diana (Shelley Hennig) to get together. The enthusiasm of these fans hasn’t gone unnoticed — Phoebe, Shelley, and even executive producer Andrew Miller have had a blast watching fan videos and reading tweets.

This week, Zap2it visited the cast in Vancouver, where the show is filmed. Even though it was her day off, Shelley met us for coffee before heading to her dance lessons. Of course, we had to ask her about the Fayana fans and the impact they’ve had.

“I don’t know where this began. I mean, it obviously started on Twitter, where all of a sudden they ‘shipped’ our names,” she says. She and Phoebe have had fun playing up the ‘Fayana’ for the fans.

“Phoebe and I hang out a lot in real life. When we have the same days off, we work out together or go to Whole Foods together, or have a sleepover the night before we get on a flight to LA,” she explains. “So we’d Twitter a picture of us doing our thing, and people caught on, because our characters hate each other but we’re really good friends in real life, and I think the fans dig that. So they’ve ‘shipped’ us, and now we continue to ‘ship’ ourselves.”

“I call Shelley ‘Fayana’ now,” Phoebe told us later when we met up with her on set. “When we’re together, we’re like ‘Fayana’s day out!’”

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6. Speaking of sizzle… Faye is flawless. We don’t even care about her accent anymore. Somehow, Phoebe Tonkin takes even mundane stories (we’re not entirely sure what happened with the witch-drugs last week) and elevates them with her particular brand of sass. We particularly love the way Faye turns up the Mean Girl factor to 11 when necessary — and drops it just as quickly as soon as anyone calls her out. She’s able to suss out exactly how far people will allow her to push them — and then she pushes them just a little extra. It doesn’t hurt that she’s got powerful chemistry with every. single. person. Which brings us to…

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