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✢ The Player
Player Name: Emily
Age: 23
LJ: iluvroadrunner6
AIM / MSN / Y!M: iluvroadrunner6
E-mail: iluvroadrunner6@gmail.com
Other Characters: N/A
✢ The Character
Character Name: Buffy Summers
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Canon Point: At the end of the Season 8 comics, Last Gleaming Part V.
Age: ~ 25
Appearance: Buffy is your usual petite blond. She’s about 5’4” with green eyes and long blond hair that she usually keeps back in a ponytail. She likes to wear a lot of color, and is usually pretty fashionable when those clothes aren’t being torn apart by a demon/vampire/other big bad. She takes a bit of pride in her appearance, taking the extra time to go shopping, do her hair, et cetera, so she usually looks pretty well put together.
Abilities / Powers: Buffy is a Vampire Slayer which comes with a pretty impressive list of skills. She has enhanced speed (she doesn’t drive when she needs to get somewhere, she runs), strength (she’s been seen lifting large planks of wood and weapons most humans wouldn’t be able to think of carrying with ease), agility and healing (broken limbs heal up in a few days as oppose to a few weeks). She is also trained in pretty much every weapon imaginable, with the exception of a gun (guns never help), as well as most forms of hand-to-hand combat.
Being a Slayer also comes with a super metabolism so she doesn’t gain weight as easily, but the downside is that to keep up with it, she has to eat a lot. That metabolism also means she need to drink/smoke/use a lot of any given narcotic in order to actually feel drunk/high. Her body burns through it too quickly to really feel any of the effects unless it’s an unusually high dosage, that that also applies to medications.
Buffy also receives prophetic dreams on occasion, as well as the dreams of the lives of the Slayers who have come before her. These probably won’t be as applicable in the Arkham (OR MAYBE IT COULD if the mods want to use it as a plot point), since I’m assuming that Buffy is cut off from her Powers that Be, but regardless they are mostly seen as omens that Bad is going to happen.
Inventory:
1 - pair of fashionable yet sensible shoes
1 - pair of jeans
1 - standard white tank top
1 - hoodie
1 - underwear/bra set
1 - stake, made of wood
1 - wallet with forms of identification/credit cards/spare cash
1 - cross necklace
1 - cell phone
Personality: In terms of Buffy the girl, she is, in her nature, a happy person. She is optimistic, perky, and has a big heart. She's always going to be the kind of girl who sticks up for someone in trouble - ie. befriending Willow when she first came to Sunnydale, even though she was being picked on by Cordelia, and Buffy wanted to fit in. As a result, Buffy gained one of the best friends she's ever had. She is also shown to be confident, sure of herself and her abilities, and a genuinely friendly person, who likes to do things every normal girl does-even if she herself isn’t entirely normal. While she does like to try her best to blend in with the crowd, she also strives to be her own person, and not be a cookie cutter copy of the girl next to her. She is also smart, a lot smarter than people credit for, but she also likes to be underestimated-it gives her an upper hand on the competition, especially when they think they’re just dealing with a tiny little blond.
On a superficial consideration, her most defining trait is her use of language. A quick wit, a large smattering of pop culture references and most of the time not being grammatically correct, Buffy gets her point across in a way that sets her apart from most other girls around her, giving herself her own unique voice, even if isn’t always discernable. According to Giles, “her abuse of the English language is such that [he] can only understand every other sentence” (314: Bad Girls).
Over the course of her seven years in Sunnydale, she went through the same identity struggles and growing up process of any other teenager growing into a young adult, but she also managed to do it with the fate of the world resting in her hands every day. Overall, Buffy did her best to define herself as person later became without the mantle of the Slayer on her shoulders, but that doesn’t mean her responsibilities as a Slayer didn’t seep their way in. She is always one to stand up for those who need it, regardless of who the Big Bad is-an adult who’s in the wrong, a school bully, or a vampire/demon/monster/et cetera bent on destroying the world.
Buffy is also the Slayer, but she does her best to make sure that isn’t all she is. She wants to be a girl who also has this important destiny, rather than the Important Destiny, who also happens to be a girl. That, in itself, is Buffy’s main struggle for most of show. She struggles a lot with this destiny that she needs to keep a secret from everyone else around her and longs for a life that isn’t “all-slay all the time” (306: Band Candy), but she also understands that this is what she needs to do. She has a strong sense of responsibility, to Sunnydale and to the world as a whole. She wants to make things better for the people around her, and her efforts as Slayer don’t go unnoticed. Before graduating Sunnydale High, she was appointed by the rest of the senior class as “Class Protector,” a title she still treasures, even to this day. For her, that was the ultimate sign of respect and love from her peers, which was something she also strived for.
Struggle for a normal life aside, there is a sense of acceptance and normalcy for Buffy that comes with slaying. She stops an Apocalypse a year (give or take) and patrols for evil nightly, so there is a level of acceptance that this is part of her world and what she needs to do. Where most people, even in Sunnydale, would stare at her, stunned, as she stakes a vampire or takes down a demon, as far as Buffy’s concerned, that’s just another day in the week for her, and the way she handles situations reflects that. She keeps a cool head, takes care of business, and passes off fighting evil like another day at the office.
Buffy is also not a Slayer who plays by the rules. She frequently butts heads with the Watcher’s Council, the group assigned to look over the Slayers and keep them from going rogue. She finds their rules archaic and made by men who feared a woman who had power. She is known to play by the rules to appease Giles, or another person in her life she cares about, however by the end of it, she’s back to telling the Council to shove it. She knows she’s not perfect by their standards, but she’s perfect enough to do the job requested of her, and that, in and of itself, is what she’s most concerned about-not words of approval from a Council that does business thousands of miles away. When the First started to make his moves on the Slayer line and started killing potentials, the Watcher’s Council was also one of the places that he hit. A large amount of the Watchers and members of the Council were killed in an explosion at the headquarters, and they were pretty much eradicated as a ruling force, but if they had survived, it’s highly unlikely that they would have let Buffy go through with her plan.
Being the Slayer also turns her into a leader, whether she wants to be or not, and it became a position she became accustomed to, as well as rather good at. She’s used to making the hard decisions when they matter, something she takes on herself as oppose to spreading it out among the people with her. She likes being able to help, to do something in the face of adversity as oppose to having someone do something for her. If that leadership role is taken away from her, she feels like she loses her purpose. The most evident example of this is found in 719: Empty Places, where the Potentials rally around Faith as their leader instead of her, and Buffy is seen wandering on her own, mentally lost, if not physically as well. She can be pushy and stubborn when placed in a leadership positions, because she feels that her knowledge and experience is higher than the rest of the group’s, and usually it is. For a very long time, she was the Slayer as oppose to just a Slayer, and passing off or even sharing her responsibilities to/with someone else is a struggle for her, especially when trying to manage that situation has gotten her burned before. She can come back from a situation like that, however, so long as she can compartmentalize the emotional hurt away from her responsibilities as a leader.
At this current canon point, Buffy has essentially become the leader of all the Slayers, and those numbers are growing by the day. It’s a huge amount of responsibility for her, and she’s handling it with as much grace as she can. Buffy does have a habit of working too hard, more often than not, but after this past year and the building of the Slayer network, she’s become able to defer more, and let people pull her back when she’s going too far. What she has found, however, is that it’s very lonely at the top, and she often longs for the companionship of someone who doesn’t look at her like she’s this person who does this great thing. She still has her friends, but they’re starting to move on in their lives as well, so Buffy does feel like she’s a little stuck, but she’s working on moving through it in her own particular way.
Then, she made that all go away, by destroying this world’s magic.
She has landed herself in a point where she is at the closest she’s ever had to a normal life. She’s not the Queen of the Slayers anymore, she’s not the only Slayer with all this responsibility, she’s just-Buffy. The girl who lives on her sister’s couch, waitresses to make a living and occasionally does some slaying. She has also lost a lot of her support system, mainly in Willow, because of what she has done to destroy magic, but for the most part, Buffy is just a twenty something girl, living in the world.
At the root of it all, Slayer or not, Buffy is still a girl with friends, family, and who falls in love. The biggest indicator of who she is as a person, aside from her life as a Slayer, is the way she treats and relates to the people around her. When it comes to the people she cares about, she will do anything she can to make sure they’re safe, happy and healthy, even if that comes at a cost to herself-sometimes even to the ultimate extreme. She considers herself the protector of the people around her, and she doesn’t discriminate when it comes to shaving people, but there are certain people that she is especially protective of or have had more of an impact on her. Buffy does have a tough time maintaining romantic relationships. Being of a strong personality, she tends to keep her problems to herself, and deal with them herself, which can make it frustrating for the people around her who want to help her. Instead of letting herself lean on them a bit, she pushes them away and tries to handle things on her own, because she believes she can. This causes a lot of friction between the men in her life and herself, and can lead to her feeling abandoned and alone. A lot of the men in her life have wanted to be her hero as oppose to letting her save herself, and that makes it hard to maintain a relationship when she’s off saving the world on her own.
History: Here, written by me.
First Person Sample: Here, from another game.
Third Person Sample: Here, from another game. This log was prosed in AIM by both me and the Angelus player. All the Buffy sections are mine. Here is another example that’s all me.
Other: Hi! Also, I kind of love the activity check already. I’m a nerd.