CANON WOOT
This will be updated as I think of things/clarify things/get bored and feel like it.
Hokay, so we're playing SEASON THREE Buffy. This means a lot of things. Here are some of the big ones:
1. Buffy has not hooked up with Spike. She doesn't really like Spike.
2. Buffy has not hooked up with Riley. He doesn't yet exist. And he can stay that way.
3. Buffy has died once.
4. Buffy does not sing.
5. Buffy has no sister.
6. Willow is not a lesbian; Tara does not exist.
7. Angel only just left.
8. Buffy has not jumped the shark. Woot.
So if you don't know any Buffy, I'm going to do my best to tell you about it. I'm going to come right out and say it: I don't think I've seen all of the first three seasons. Yes, I am ashamed. Yes, I will totally see all of the first three seasons, I've been working on it because knowing my own canon is awesome. What does this mean for this canon summary? I use Google a lot to ensure my memory hasn't failed me as it has so many times before. Woot.
So. Buffy is a SLAYER. This much we gather from the title. Giles does a little spiel about every generation having a Slayer and the way she kicks vampire ass. In our generation, it's Buffy, California high school blonde who likes boys and clothes and shoes, but also the beat down. She's well balanced like that. Slayer basically means she has superstrenght and superendurance and superspeed and it's her job to deal with all the crazy supernatural stuff. Anyway. So Buffy comes to a town called Sunnydale, which is on this thing called a Hellmouth, which means crazy shit is always happening there. She meets up with Giles, school librarian and Watcher (guru, trainer, source of vampire info), Willow, nerd and witch-in-training, and Xander, loveable goofball. They fight crime.
Big Events in Season One:
1. Angel appears. Angel is broody vampire/Buffy's luvah! He's cursed so that he has a soul, which is why he isn't evil like the other vampires on the show.
2. Buffy dies. Very briefly. Xander CPRs her back to life. Buffy angsts and turns into a ho for the start of the first season.
3. The Master's around. He's kinda boring. He tries to open the Hellmouth, Buffy slays him. Cuz he's a vampire, see.
Big Events in Season Two:
1. New vampires Spike and Drusilla show up. Spike's snarky, Dru's insane, and they're both good fun. Spike knows Angel from back in the day because Angel sired him. People slash them liek fucking WOAH.
2. Buffy and Angel sleep together. The world moves. Unfortunately, it moves in the "Angel loses his soul and becomes evil" direction. Don't you hate that?
3. Since Buffy died, there's another Slayer. Her name is Kendra. Her stake's name is Mr. Pointy. Good times.
4. Angel, Spike and Dru team up to be the Big Bad for this season. Can we all tell my Season Two-fu pwns my Season One? Good.
5. People die evil, blah blah. Angel decides to use this sealed demon to release hell on earth. Score. Spike allies himself with Buffy cuz he likes the world and Angel is macking on his girlfriend.
6. More people die. Kendra is one of them. Buffy stabs Angel into a Hell Dimension right after he regains his soul. I cry. Seriously. The end of Season Two is such a downer.
7. Buffy runs from her duties D:
Big Events in Season Three:
1. Buffy tries living as a homeless person and then rediscovers her Slayerness.
2. Buffy's school principal is a snarky dick. The mayor is also a dick.
3. There's another new Slayer named Faith. She's a ho. After killing a man, she allies herself with the mayor, who is involved in some sort of demon ritual.
4. Angel comes back. He and Buffy date again.
5. Wacky antics.
6. Angel decides Buffy deserves someone with a pulse. They argue about it for a while, Buffy angsts, Angel broods.
7. Hellhounds attack prom. Buffy gets the Class Protector Award, complete with gold umbrella. She's totally moved. She and Angel dance and he says he's moving to LA to get his own show the minute this season ends. "Wild Horses," as covered by the Sundays, plays, which explains Buffy's LJ name. I love that episode. Which is why it gets more points than most of the season.
8. Mayor does the demon ritual, Buffy blows up the school to kill him. Also cuz that's how she rolls.
Which brings us to camp! Because every girl wants to spend the summer after her senior year in Lousiana with the zombies.
Important Characters:
Giles: I fangirl Giles so much. Giles is an awkward British librarian who used to be a rebelious British guy. He's fun and I luv him. Um. Yeah. I suck at coherency. Giles is the book guy as well as the only adult to whom Buffy can go with Slayer issues. He's also the one who tells her what's up with whatever she's fighting.
Willow: Willow is a teenaged witch. She's also awkward and nerdy and big into computers. She has a werewolf for a boyfriend and will later be a lesbian. Willow is Buffy's closest female friend, and she goes to her with boy complaints and the like. She's also helpful with the witchery, though not really with the fighting.
Xander: Xander's a goofball. Since it's season three, he's still mainly endearing about it. He's not really very useful in terms of...well, anything, but he's fun. He had/has a massive crush on Buffy, but she didn't return his feelings so he mainly just lusts as a side thing. He has some fun relationships with girls he hates and hooks up with Willow briefly. He's Buffy's other best friend, and he, Willow, Giles, and Buffy are the core Scooby Gang.
Angel: Oh god Angel. Angel's broody. So very broody. He doesn't have that much of a personality beyond the brooding. He shows up randomly when he and Buffy aren't dating to warn of DOOM. Buffy loves him. He loves Buffy. But he thinks that she deserves someone she can grow old with and have a family with. Buffy doesn't agree, he leaves and gets his own show. It's tragic.
Cordelia: Cordelia's the popular girl. She's kind of a bitch, but she ends up being an ally somehow. Buffy doesn't really like her that much, but she's with them anyway, and she helps out sometimes, and doesn't other times. You know how it is.
Oz: I also love Oz. He's a werewolf and he's awesome. He and Buffy don't really interact that much, but he's Willow's boyfriend and he's fun. And he's here cuz I love him. Yeah. Shallow whut.
Spike: Buffy still doesn't much like Spike at this point in canon. He helped her out when Angel was evil, but he's still a bitch. Later they will hook up, but a lot happens between then and now.
...With very little confidence. Since I'm not as down with the show as I really should be, so I am honestly not at all confident about my characterization. Just so you all know going into this rambly and incoherent section.
Buffy is zen about being the Slayer. Kicking ass is comfort food, and she likes it. She's not overly fond of it, and at times she does just want to be a normal girl, but she's okay with it. That said, she sees there are a lot of freaky things at camp, including zombies, vampires, demons, and other things she's canonically fought. In theory, she should be fighting them, but for the moment she's willing to accept that they're not really hurting anyone (zombies included. As far as she can see, they don't do much) and go with the live and let live principle, partly because she feels like killing other campers is probably not a good idea.
In terms of relating to people, Buffy is being relatively friendly and snarking whenever the oppurtunity arises. She does not think she is in any kind of state for a relationship so soon after Angel left, but she's happy to be meeting people who, like her, have freaky powers. On that note, Buffy is also not hiding being a Slayer, although in the series, she is not subtle about it. I did think about having her not mention it, but I decided that, since she was in a situation with both a lot of undead and a lot of other hero-types, she wanted people to know that, should Bad Shit Happen, she was in a position to kick the bad shit's ass.
Buffy talks a good fight. I, however, do not write a good fight, so Buffy talks about sparring, and should the sparring ever start, I will probably suck at it. Just so you know.
I'm playing Buffy as snarky and sarcastic as I can, with a side of caring for people she likes, and people she doesn't in a general sense. She's got a saving people thing, as far as I'm concerned, and while she's willing to do things like loan Wednesday a crossbow, she's pretty sure Wednesday won't be able to kill Ash because it can't be so easy, and she wouldn't ever take a shot at him herself. She's concerned about the plague generally because people dying = bad and specifically because her friends dying = even more bad, though not necesarily more bad. So most of Buffy's serious actions are towards the end of people not dying.
Hokay, so we're playing SEASON THREE Buffy. This means a lot of things. Here are some of the big ones:
1. Buffy has not hooked up with Spike. She doesn't really like Spike.
2. Buffy has not hooked up with Riley. He doesn't yet exist. And he can stay that way.
3. Buffy has died once.
4. Buffy does not sing.
5. Buffy has no sister.
6. Willow is not a lesbian; Tara does not exist.
7. Angel only just left.
8. Buffy has not jumped the shark. Woot.
So if you don't know any Buffy, I'm going to do my best to tell you about it. I'm going to come right out and say it: I don't think I've seen all of the first three seasons. Yes, I am ashamed. Yes, I will totally see all of the first three seasons, I've been working on it because knowing my own canon is awesome. What does this mean for this canon summary? I use Google a lot to ensure my memory hasn't failed me as it has so many times before. Woot.
So. Buffy is a SLAYER. This much we gather from the title. Giles does a little spiel about every generation having a Slayer and the way she kicks vampire ass. In our generation, it's Buffy, California high school blonde who likes boys and clothes and shoes, but also the beat down. She's well balanced like that. Slayer basically means she has superstrenght and superendurance and superspeed and it's her job to deal with all the crazy supernatural stuff. Anyway. So Buffy comes to a town called Sunnydale, which is on this thing called a Hellmouth, which means crazy shit is always happening there. She meets up with Giles, school librarian and Watcher (guru, trainer, source of vampire info), Willow, nerd and witch-in-training, and Xander, loveable goofball. They fight crime.
Big Events in Season One:
1. Angel appears. Angel is broody vampire/Buffy's luvah! He's cursed so that he has a soul, which is why he isn't evil like the other vampires on the show.
2. Buffy dies. Very briefly. Xander CPRs her back to life. Buffy angsts and turns into a ho for the start of the first season.
3. The Master's around. He's kinda boring. He tries to open the Hellmouth, Buffy slays him. Cuz he's a vampire, see.
Big Events in Season Two:
1. New vampires Spike and Drusilla show up. Spike's snarky, Dru's insane, and they're both good fun. Spike knows Angel from back in the day because Angel sired him. People slash them liek fucking WOAH.
2. Buffy and Angel sleep together. The world moves. Unfortunately, it moves in the "Angel loses his soul and becomes evil" direction. Don't you hate that?
3. Since Buffy died, there's another Slayer. Her name is Kendra. Her stake's name is Mr. Pointy. Good times.
4. Angel, Spike and Dru team up to be the Big Bad for this season. Can we all tell my Season Two-fu pwns my Season One? Good.
5. People die evil, blah blah. Angel decides to use this sealed demon to release hell on earth. Score. Spike allies himself with Buffy cuz he likes the world and Angel is macking on his girlfriend.
6. More people die. Kendra is one of them. Buffy stabs Angel into a Hell Dimension right after he regains his soul. I cry. Seriously. The end of Season Two is such a downer.
7. Buffy runs from her duties D:
Big Events in Season Three:
1. Buffy tries living as a homeless person and then rediscovers her Slayerness.
2. Buffy's school principal is a snarky dick. The mayor is also a dick.
3. There's another new Slayer named Faith. She's a ho. After killing a man, she allies herself with the mayor, who is involved in some sort of demon ritual.
4. Angel comes back. He and Buffy date again.
5. Wacky antics.
6. Angel decides Buffy deserves someone with a pulse. They argue about it for a while, Buffy angsts, Angel broods.
7. Hellhounds attack prom. Buffy gets the Class Protector Award, complete with gold umbrella. She's totally moved. She and Angel dance and he says he's moving to LA to get his own show the minute this season ends. "Wild Horses," as covered by the Sundays, plays, which explains Buffy's LJ name. I love that episode. Which is why it gets more points than most of the season.
8. Mayor does the demon ritual, Buffy blows up the school to kill him. Also cuz that's how she rolls.
Which brings us to camp! Because every girl wants to spend the summer after her senior year in Lousiana with the zombies.
Important Characters:
Giles: I fangirl Giles so much. Giles is an awkward British librarian who used to be a rebelious British guy. He's fun and I luv him. Um. Yeah. I suck at coherency. Giles is the book guy as well as the only adult to whom Buffy can go with Slayer issues. He's also the one who tells her what's up with whatever she's fighting.
Willow: Willow is a teenaged witch. She's also awkward and nerdy and big into computers. She has a werewolf for a boyfriend and will later be a lesbian. Willow is Buffy's closest female friend, and she goes to her with boy complaints and the like. She's also helpful with the witchery, though not really with the fighting.
Xander: Xander's a goofball. Since it's season three, he's still mainly endearing about it. He's not really very useful in terms of...well, anything, but he's fun. He had/has a massive crush on Buffy, but she didn't return his feelings so he mainly just lusts as a side thing. He has some fun relationships with girls he hates and hooks up with Willow briefly. He's Buffy's other best friend, and he, Willow, Giles, and Buffy are the core Scooby Gang.
Angel: Oh god Angel. Angel's broody. So very broody. He doesn't have that much of a personality beyond the brooding. He shows up randomly when he and Buffy aren't dating to warn of DOOM. Buffy loves him. He loves Buffy. But he thinks that she deserves someone she can grow old with and have a family with. Buffy doesn't agree, he leaves and gets his own show. It's tragic.
Cordelia: Cordelia's the popular girl. She's kind of a bitch, but she ends up being an ally somehow. Buffy doesn't really like her that much, but she's with them anyway, and she helps out sometimes, and doesn't other times. You know how it is.
Oz: I also love Oz. He's a werewolf and he's awesome. He and Buffy don't really interact that much, but he's Willow's boyfriend and he's fun. And he's here cuz I love him. Yeah. Shallow whut.
Spike: Buffy still doesn't much like Spike at this point in canon. He helped her out when Angel was evil, but he's still a bitch. Later they will hook up, but a lot happens between then and now.
...With very little confidence. Since I'm not as down with the show as I really should be, so I am honestly not at all confident about my characterization. Just so you all know going into this rambly and incoherent section.
Buffy is zen about being the Slayer. Kicking ass is comfort food, and she likes it. She's not overly fond of it, and at times she does just want to be a normal girl, but she's okay with it. That said, she sees there are a lot of freaky things at camp, including zombies, vampires, demons, and other things she's canonically fought. In theory, she should be fighting them, but for the moment she's willing to accept that they're not really hurting anyone (zombies included. As far as she can see, they don't do much) and go with the live and let live principle, partly because she feels like killing other campers is probably not a good idea.
In terms of relating to people, Buffy is being relatively friendly and snarking whenever the oppurtunity arises. She does not think she is in any kind of state for a relationship so soon after Angel left, but she's happy to be meeting people who, like her, have freaky powers. On that note, Buffy is also not hiding being a Slayer, although in the series, she is not subtle about it. I did think about having her not mention it, but I decided that, since she was in a situation with both a lot of undead and a lot of other hero-types, she wanted people to know that, should Bad Shit Happen, she was in a position to kick the bad shit's ass.
Buffy talks a good fight. I, however, do not write a good fight, so Buffy talks about sparring, and should the sparring ever start, I will probably suck at it. Just so you know.
I'm playing Buffy as snarky and sarcastic as I can, with a side of caring for people she likes, and people she doesn't in a general sense. She's got a saving people thing, as far as I'm concerned, and while she's willing to do things like loan Wednesday a crossbow, she's pretty sure Wednesday won't be able to kill Ash because it can't be so easy, and she wouldn't ever take a shot at him herself. She's concerned about the plague generally because people dying = bad and specifically because her friends dying = even more bad, though not necesarily more bad. So most of Buffy's serious actions are towards the end of people not dying.