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|| Player Information ||
Name: Tiffany
Personal Journal: arcesso
Time zone: Arizona (GMT -7 hours)
Contact: live.infamy [at] gmail.com / to boldly trek @AIM / invoke @plurk
Current Characters: big fat zero
|| Character Information ||
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Name: Buffy Anne Summers
Canon Point: Post-5.13 Blood Ties, so Dawn is aware she is the key and Glory has just been teleported in a general 'away' direction via Willow's spell.
Is this character dead? Not yet, no.
History: Buffy Summers @ Buffy Wiki
Personality: Prior to becoming the Slayer, Buffy was rather superficial and shallow, which was a point of great contention with her first Watcher, Merrick. She acted the part of the stereotypical valley girl, all about shoes and shopping and boys. However, after becoming the Slayer was when Buffy's growing up first started. She develops a sense of focus in her life, and while she's not quite soldier material, it definitely put her a rut up above most of her classmates on the responsibility scale.
Overall, she's a naturally snarky girl, who's a fan of quips and likes bantering with demons almost as much as she likes fighting them. She's somewhat klutzy and airheaded at times, but despite this she's shown to be highly intelligent when it comes to formulating plans, ingenuity and doing her job -- probably in part due to her Slayer abilities. She's also bull-headed and stubborn and once she's set her mind on something, she doesn't accept anything less. She makes her destiny what she wants to make of it and doesn't accept the "you are fated to this" crap.
Buffy has mixed feelings about her role as the Slayer. She grows to accept it through season 5 more than anything, and she really embraces it, but she doesn't let it define her and she had some initial resistance to the responsibility. She never really stops viewing it as a burden (even calling it that in season 7 when talking to Faith) and has repeatedly tried to reject her destiny in the past before embracing her role and really settling into it in season 5. However, she still has some lingering sentiments of wanting to return to her normal life, which are exploited in Normal Again, but conflict directly with her desire to hold onto her powers because she sees the Slayer as being such a huge part of her that she can't just let go of.
Her exposure to the supernatural has forced her to grow up rather quickly. It's through her destiny as the Slayer that Buffy learns the importance of duty and how to put it above other things, like her own feelings. She constantly proves herself capable of making the tough calls. However, that doesn't make her invulnerable to fear. When Buffy learned from Giles that her death was prophesized and that she would be killed by the Master, she tried to quit slaying and leave town. However, when other lives were put at stake by her decision, she came back to fulfill her duty. It showed that while Buffy does fear for her own life, she also puts the lives of others before herself. She's not entirely selfless, but she is definitely hero material.
In season 3, when she's alone and she has to fight against a superstrong demon by herself with no powers, she learns that when it comes down to it, it's just her. Just her and the demons. While she's always learned to rely on her friends, the Cruciamentum makes it clear that she doesn't get that luxury as a Slayer, and it's that rite combined with everything that she went through with Angel that really solidifies her isolation. Buffy is an island. She loves her friends, more than anything, but in the end the Slayer is always alone and she gets that. She's prepared to deal with it.
Through the trauma of dealing with Slayerdom, she's learned to rely on others like the Scooby Gang but she's also learned that she'll never be able to do that -- she understands that being the Slayer isn't something you can share with anyone. She has to understand that while she'll always want to be and try to be just a girl, she can't ever do that. Because she's not just a girl, she's the Slayer, and she has responsibilities and experiences and a weight on her chest that no one else can understand. It's a responsibility that Buffy has learned to take very seriously and put above her own wants and needs. She sees her duty as something that has to come before other things like school and boys.
When Buffy met Kendra, the second slayer, it was a big stepping stone for her. Meeting someone else who could do exactly what she did, and had the same fate as she did, and yet accepted it so much better than Buffy did changed her in a lot of ways. It helped her accept that being the Slayer didn't have to be a burden, but it could be a gift. Kendra, the dedicated soldier, showed Buffy that it was an honor to be chosen to save the world. However, Drusilla killed Kendra, and Buffy suffered the loss of a dear friend -- but Buffy kept Kendra's stake, Mr. Pointy, as a memory of her.
On the other hand, Faith taught Buffy some very different things. Faith taught Buffy that there is a line, and while Slayers are powerful enough to cross it, that doesn't make it right. She taught her to be more aware of her own boundaries and her own underlying urges. Buffy, just as Faith tried to argue with her several times, has a certain ruthless quality about her -- a killer instinct. All Slayers have it, and though Buffy covers it up with all her duty and her self righteousness about doing the right thing and killing the bad guys, she still has it. It's that violent urge that leads to her stabbing Faith in the gut, even though it was for the sake of saving the love of her life.
The other thing is that it proves how far she's willing to go for the ones she loves -- and it's a pretty scary length. She'd literally do anything to save someone she cares about, be it sacrificing her own life (Angel nearly kills her when she uses her own blood the cure the poison Faith introduces into his system) or sacrificing someone else's (she wanted to use Faith's blood). If the person means something to her to that degree, she'd destroy worlds -- and as the Slayer, she can.
However, Faith also taught her about forgiveness when people are looking for it. Buffy claimed that she had tried everything to help Faith when she first began her downward spiral, but it became clear that wasn't true when Angel started getting through to her and Buffy went to L.A. and found them together. Buffy was hurt and betrayed by her own immature and jealous feelings, but eventually came to accept that Faith was looking for forgiveness and trying to make right what she'd screwed up, and Buffy came to forgive her and even respected her decision to turn herself in.
That said, Buffy, despite how mature she's had to become, is still an intensely immature person. She often lets herself get distracted by petulance, jealousy and petty arguments. The smallest, most insignificant thing can become something that she fixates on and blows way out of proportion. She's very possessive, and doesn't let go of things easily -- even after she and Angel say their goodbyes, when she sees Faith with him in L.A., it kicks up the same jealous reaction she had when seeing them together in season 3 prior to their break-up. She doesn't like other people playing with her things, and she just generally doesn't like sharing.
It was one of the greatest contenders between her and Faith -- Buffy's only child complex. She has a hard time viewing the world outside the scope of her own wants, needs and desires. She doesn't like to share her things. Normally, it's not an issue, because her own desires and needs involve Slayerdom and therefore saving the world, but when it comes to the more day-to-day stuff, it can be a trial to deal with.
A part of this only child syndrome wears away after Dawn comes into play, in that it forces Buffy to grow up and take on a kind of mom role since Joyce dies around there. She learns how to have maternal instincts and while this is good for her because she has to be somewhat down to Earth and not go crazy overboard, and put others before herself instead of being her usual selfish Buffy, it's also part of what drives her to power-tripping. Buffy has a complex of having to take care of everyone and be everyone's mother. She's constantly the savior, constantly the one scolding people who screw up, and she just generally has to take on a whole lot of roles that she's not ready for.
Buffy is self-righteous. She's the very textbook definition of self-righteous. When it comes to Buffy, because of how much of a natural born leader she is and because of how seriously she takes her role as the Slayer, it's her way or the highway. It is what causes her to break ties with the Watcher's Council, and it's also what causes it to be tough for her to get along with certain people and butt heads. The potential Slayers in season 7 call her out on it and impeach her from being their leader because they can't tolerate it.
She doesn't know how to accept being wrong and she has a sense of pride that is often overwhelming and keeps her from admitting she's wrong when she does finally come to terms with the fact that she is. It's a part of that burden of being a Slayer. She can't share it with anyone, and no one can understand what it's like to be her, and they all admit it. However, it gives her this mentality that she's in a perpetual teenage girl state of mind that no one understands her and her life is an abyss of agony sometimes. That mentality is half of what alienates her from people, even if at a base level it's true and she won't ever be able to connect to them completely because of her calling.
Skills | Powers: ☑ super strength
☑ super stamina
☑ accelerated reflexes
☑ accelerated healing
☑ built Ford tough (enhanced durability)
☑ enhanced speed
☑ heightened awareness (almost like spidey sense)
☑ dream-sharing with fellow Slayers and precog/postcog dreaming about Slayer line-related events
☑ natural fighting talent, as well as training in fighting technique
☑ proficiency with numerous weapons including:☑ stakes
☑ daggers
☑ knives
☑ swords
☑ crossbows
☑ axes
First Person Sample: [ Buffy groans as she wakes up, Charon blinking into focus. At first, her brain doesn't process his words, but when he repeats them as she begins to climb to her feet -- without his help, thankyouverymuch, it sinks in. 'This is your stop.' Her eyes go wide and she goes on the defensive, sticking in the boat. ]
No. No, this is not my stop. My stop is -- is up. Very up. Not near as skull and bone-y and oh my God, would it kill ya to hire an interior decorator? Walking cliche, much? [ She looks him over, frowning, and Charon slowly points to a tablet-like device on the docks. Which is already turned on and picking up all of this. She frowns. ]
Well, gee, Chatterbox, talk my ear off, why don'tcha. [ She watches him with a critical eye as she climbs out onto the dock, picking the tablet up and turning it over in her hands. She doesn't watch as he starts to pull the boat away from the docks, just talking to -- well, him, but it mostly comes out to talking to herself. ]
So, what? This is my consolation prize? "Happy Death, we got you this ..." [ Long pause. ] What exactly is this, anyway? If I knew cellphones came this snazzy, I woulda gotten one a long time a--[ She turns back towards Charon only to find him ... gone. Entirely gone. Her expression deflates, and then her tone takes a turn for the whiny. ]
Hey, wait a minute! You can't just leave me here! I have -- I have things! Things that need doing and a sister that needs sistering and get back here, you bony little --
Third Person Sample: Here is a log from counted_stars. Buffy's canonpoint there is a few episodes earlier than the one I've chosen for her here, so if you'd like something more current, lemme know.
Name: Tiffany
Personal Journal: arcesso
Time zone: Arizona (GMT -7 hours)
Contact: live.infamy [at] gmail.com / to boldly trek @AIM / invoke @plurk
Current Characters: big fat zero
|| Character Information ||
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Name: Buffy Anne Summers
Canon Point: Post-5.13 Blood Ties, so Dawn is aware she is the key and Glory has just been teleported in a general 'away' direction via Willow's spell.
Is this character dead? Not yet, no.
History: Buffy Summers @ Buffy Wiki
Personality: Prior to becoming the Slayer, Buffy was rather superficial and shallow, which was a point of great contention with her first Watcher, Merrick. She acted the part of the stereotypical valley girl, all about shoes and shopping and boys. However, after becoming the Slayer was when Buffy's growing up first started. She develops a sense of focus in her life, and while she's not quite soldier material, it definitely put her a rut up above most of her classmates on the responsibility scale.
Overall, she's a naturally snarky girl, who's a fan of quips and likes bantering with demons almost as much as she likes fighting them. She's somewhat klutzy and airheaded at times, but despite this she's shown to be highly intelligent when it comes to formulating plans, ingenuity and doing her job -- probably in part due to her Slayer abilities. She's also bull-headed and stubborn and once she's set her mind on something, she doesn't accept anything less. She makes her destiny what she wants to make of it and doesn't accept the "you are fated to this" crap.
Buffy has mixed feelings about her role as the Slayer. She grows to accept it through season 5 more than anything, and she really embraces it, but she doesn't let it define her and she had some initial resistance to the responsibility. She never really stops viewing it as a burden (even calling it that in season 7 when talking to Faith) and has repeatedly tried to reject her destiny in the past before embracing her role and really settling into it in season 5. However, she still has some lingering sentiments of wanting to return to her normal life, which are exploited in Normal Again, but conflict directly with her desire to hold onto her powers because she sees the Slayer as being such a huge part of her that she can't just let go of.
Her exposure to the supernatural has forced her to grow up rather quickly. It's through her destiny as the Slayer that Buffy learns the importance of duty and how to put it above other things, like her own feelings. She constantly proves herself capable of making the tough calls. However, that doesn't make her invulnerable to fear. When Buffy learned from Giles that her death was prophesized and that she would be killed by the Master, she tried to quit slaying and leave town. However, when other lives were put at stake by her decision, she came back to fulfill her duty. It showed that while Buffy does fear for her own life, she also puts the lives of others before herself. She's not entirely selfless, but she is definitely hero material.
In season 3, when she's alone and she has to fight against a superstrong demon by herself with no powers, she learns that when it comes down to it, it's just her. Just her and the demons. While she's always learned to rely on her friends, the Cruciamentum makes it clear that she doesn't get that luxury as a Slayer, and it's that rite combined with everything that she went through with Angel that really solidifies her isolation. Buffy is an island. She loves her friends, more than anything, but in the end the Slayer is always alone and she gets that. She's prepared to deal with it.
Through the trauma of dealing with Slayerdom, she's learned to rely on others like the Scooby Gang but she's also learned that she'll never be able to do that -- she understands that being the Slayer isn't something you can share with anyone. She has to understand that while she'll always want to be and try to be just a girl, she can't ever do that. Because she's not just a girl, she's the Slayer, and she has responsibilities and experiences and a weight on her chest that no one else can understand. It's a responsibility that Buffy has learned to take very seriously and put above her own wants and needs. She sees her duty as something that has to come before other things like school and boys.
When Buffy met Kendra, the second slayer, it was a big stepping stone for her. Meeting someone else who could do exactly what she did, and had the same fate as she did, and yet accepted it so much better than Buffy did changed her in a lot of ways. It helped her accept that being the Slayer didn't have to be a burden, but it could be a gift. Kendra, the dedicated soldier, showed Buffy that it was an honor to be chosen to save the world. However, Drusilla killed Kendra, and Buffy suffered the loss of a dear friend -- but Buffy kept Kendra's stake, Mr. Pointy, as a memory of her.
On the other hand, Faith taught Buffy some very different things. Faith taught Buffy that there is a line, and while Slayers are powerful enough to cross it, that doesn't make it right. She taught her to be more aware of her own boundaries and her own underlying urges. Buffy, just as Faith tried to argue with her several times, has a certain ruthless quality about her -- a killer instinct. All Slayers have it, and though Buffy covers it up with all her duty and her self righteousness about doing the right thing and killing the bad guys, she still has it. It's that violent urge that leads to her stabbing Faith in the gut, even though it was for the sake of saving the love of her life.
The other thing is that it proves how far she's willing to go for the ones she loves -- and it's a pretty scary length. She'd literally do anything to save someone she cares about, be it sacrificing her own life (Angel nearly kills her when she uses her own blood the cure the poison Faith introduces into his system) or sacrificing someone else's (she wanted to use Faith's blood). If the person means something to her to that degree, she'd destroy worlds -- and as the Slayer, she can.
However, Faith also taught her about forgiveness when people are looking for it. Buffy claimed that she had tried everything to help Faith when she first began her downward spiral, but it became clear that wasn't true when Angel started getting through to her and Buffy went to L.A. and found them together. Buffy was hurt and betrayed by her own immature and jealous feelings, but eventually came to accept that Faith was looking for forgiveness and trying to make right what she'd screwed up, and Buffy came to forgive her and even respected her decision to turn herself in.
That said, Buffy, despite how mature she's had to become, is still an intensely immature person. She often lets herself get distracted by petulance, jealousy and petty arguments. The smallest, most insignificant thing can become something that she fixates on and blows way out of proportion. She's very possessive, and doesn't let go of things easily -- even after she and Angel say their goodbyes, when she sees Faith with him in L.A., it kicks up the same jealous reaction she had when seeing them together in season 3 prior to their break-up. She doesn't like other people playing with her things, and she just generally doesn't like sharing.
It was one of the greatest contenders between her and Faith -- Buffy's only child complex. She has a hard time viewing the world outside the scope of her own wants, needs and desires. She doesn't like to share her things. Normally, it's not an issue, because her own desires and needs involve Slayerdom and therefore saving the world, but when it comes to the more day-to-day stuff, it can be a trial to deal with.
A part of this only child syndrome wears away after Dawn comes into play, in that it forces Buffy to grow up and take on a kind of mom role since Joyce dies around there. She learns how to have maternal instincts and while this is good for her because she has to be somewhat down to Earth and not go crazy overboard, and put others before herself instead of being her usual selfish Buffy, it's also part of what drives her to power-tripping. Buffy has a complex of having to take care of everyone and be everyone's mother. She's constantly the savior, constantly the one scolding people who screw up, and she just generally has to take on a whole lot of roles that she's not ready for.
Buffy is self-righteous. She's the very textbook definition of self-righteous. When it comes to Buffy, because of how much of a natural born leader she is and because of how seriously she takes her role as the Slayer, it's her way or the highway. It is what causes her to break ties with the Watcher's Council, and it's also what causes it to be tough for her to get along with certain people and butt heads. The potential Slayers in season 7 call her out on it and impeach her from being their leader because they can't tolerate it.
She doesn't know how to accept being wrong and she has a sense of pride that is often overwhelming and keeps her from admitting she's wrong when she does finally come to terms with the fact that she is. It's a part of that burden of being a Slayer. She can't share it with anyone, and no one can understand what it's like to be her, and they all admit it. However, it gives her this mentality that she's in a perpetual teenage girl state of mind that no one understands her and her life is an abyss of agony sometimes. That mentality is half of what alienates her from people, even if at a base level it's true and she won't ever be able to connect to them completely because of her calling.
Skills | Powers: ☑ super strength
☑ super stamina
☑ accelerated reflexes
☑ accelerated healing
☑ built Ford tough (enhanced durability)
☑ enhanced speed
☑ heightened awareness (almost like spidey sense)
☑ dream-sharing with fellow Slayers and precog/postcog dreaming about Slayer line-related events
☑ natural fighting talent, as well as training in fighting technique
☑ proficiency with numerous weapons including:☑ stakes
☑ daggers
☑ knives
☑ swords
☑ crossbows
☑ axes
First Person Sample: [ Buffy groans as she wakes up, Charon blinking into focus. At first, her brain doesn't process his words, but when he repeats them as she begins to climb to her feet -- without his help, thankyouverymuch, it sinks in. 'This is your stop.' Her eyes go wide and she goes on the defensive, sticking in the boat. ]
No. No, this is not my stop. My stop is -- is up. Very up. Not near as skull and bone-y and oh my God, would it kill ya to hire an interior decorator? Walking cliche, much? [ She looks him over, frowning, and Charon slowly points to a tablet-like device on the docks. Which is already turned on and picking up all of this. She frowns. ]
Well, gee, Chatterbox, talk my ear off, why don'tcha. [ She watches him with a critical eye as she climbs out onto the dock, picking the tablet up and turning it over in her hands. She doesn't watch as he starts to pull the boat away from the docks, just talking to -- well, him, but it mostly comes out to talking to herself. ]
So, what? This is my consolation prize? "Happy Death, we got you this ..." [ Long pause. ] What exactly is this, anyway? If I knew cellphones came this snazzy, I woulda gotten one a long time a--[ She turns back towards Charon only to find him ... gone. Entirely gone. Her expression deflates, and then her tone takes a turn for the whiny. ]
Hey, wait a minute! You can't just leave me here! I have -- I have things! Things that need doing and a sister that needs sistering and get back here, you bony little --
Third Person Sample: Here is a log from counted_stars. Buffy's canonpoint there is a few episodes earlier than the one I've chosen for her here, so if you'd like something more current, lemme know.