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PLAYER
NAME: Raven
AGE: 25
PERSONAL LJ: koohii_cafe
EMAIL ADDRESS: easternelvenlady@yahoo.com
AIM SCREENAME: tapeable heart
CHARACTER
NAME: Buffy Anne Summers
CANON SOURCE: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
TIMELINE: Mid series finale, Chosen. Just before she jumps onto the bus.
CANON ABILITIES: Buffy has all the abilities of a Slayer, most of which are focused around fighting vampires, demons, and other supernatural monsters. All of her senses are superior to a normal human, and she has advanced speed, strength, and healing. In addition, she also has an aptitude for weapons and combat styles that is a natural part of being the Slayer, as well as the ability to experience prophetic dreams and to sense where her opponents are in battle at times, even without being able to see them.
PERSONALITY:
On the surface, Buffy is a rather cheerfully sarcastic, everyday girl from California. She’s one of those who cares overly about superfluous things such as the latest fashions and how she looks, and often times she does nothing to dissuade the valley girl image people are wont to have of her. She cares deeply for her friends and family though, and values loyalty over many other traits. There isn’t much she wouldn’t do to protect the people she cares about; she has the mentality almost of a mother bear with her cubs, when it comes to her loved ones. Even the world comes in second place. For those she is closest to, the people she loves the most, Buffy also tends to be rather blind to their misdoings, to the that point that she will easily forgive things she would never think of forgiving in another.
Buffy is also very dedicated to her calling as a Slayer, protecting the world, and defeating the forces of evil. It’s a broad calling, one that might seem almost unreal to most, but to her, it is a battle she has been fighting tooth and nail for over seven years. Those years of fighting have caused her to accept the need for sacrifice, sometimes even of life, as was proven once when she sacrificed Angel, and again when she sacrificed herself for her duty. Despite that, she will always look for a better way if at all possible, and she won’t take another human life herself.
Morals are something that’s very important to her also, as well as forgiveness for people who have repented of their wrong doings. She’s seen the darkness in almost everyone she cares about, as well as within herself, and she doesn’t harbor any ill feelings simply for it existing. After all, it’s part of what makes a person human, in her eyes. Instead, if a person can find within themselves to truly repent, Buffy is someone who can come to truly forgive them, even when it’s she herself who has been wronged.
It’s almost contradictory though, because despite her heavy support on the people she loves and cares for, Buffy can also be somewhat solitary at times. It’s a mentality she has grown into due to her years as the Slayer, as she has been forced into the role of leader and come to settle there. She doesn’t do well following others, especially not if their wishes and beliefs contradict her own, and she often tends to hide her own deep and dark feelings and emotions from her loved ones. It’s hard sometimes for her to be able to open up completely to someone, without hiding anything, because she tends to wear her cheerful and strong façade even for the people who have been by her side for years.
CANON HISTORY: Buffy Summers was only fifteen years old when her life was turned upside down by the arrival of an older British gentleman upon the steps of her high school, claiming that she had been chosen as the Slayer, one girl in all the world with the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and forces of darkness. She didn’t believe him at first, but it didn’t take long for the prophetic dreams that began to plague her nights to convince her otherwise. Merrick, the gentleman who claimed to be her Watcher, taught and trained Buffy in the basics of her new calling before being killed by Lothos, a master vampire who had taken up residence in Buffy’s hometown of LA. In turn, Buffy defeated and killed Lothos, burning down her high school gym in the process.
It was a bit of a turbulent time for Buffy afterwards. Going from an average California teenager to a girl destined to fight monsters was hard enough. Losing Merrick, who she’d come to view as a sort of father figure was hard on her as well. It was enough to make her run away with Pike, a friend who had helped her in the final fight, to hunt for vampires. When she returned and tried to explain to her parents what had happened, they had her hospitalized in a mental asylum until she retracted her story, and then ended up getting a divorce shortly after. Joyce Summers, her mother, was given custody of Buffy and decided, for the good of them both, that it would be better to begin a new life somewhere other than LA, so Buffy could start over.
That new life was to begin in Sunnydale, a small and relatively peaceful town a bit south of LA. Unfortunately, appearances were deceiving. Upon beginning her sophomore year at Sunnydale High, Buffy found another older British gentleman in her path, this time under the guise of school librarian. Rupert Giles informed her that her calling her brought her to Sunnydale not by accident, but because she was needed, before she rebuffed him in favor of spending time with two new friends she’d met, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg. It was only the death of a third new friend, Jesse McNally, at the hands of vampires that forced Buffy to accept her fate as the Slayer once more, this time with the help of her new friends as well as her Watcher.
It was a new sort of take on the role of the Slayer. No Slayer before her had worked so openly with others, not hiding her identity from her closest friends and still continuing to live her life, but it was truly that choice that made her stand out, and able to handle her calling. Xander and Willow provided firm support when and where it was needed, and Giles guided her. Additionally, Buffy soon gained the support of an ensouled vampire named Angel, with whom she also fell in love. With their help, against an ancient vampire known as ‘the Master’ and a prophecy that condemned her to death, Buffy managed to not only defeat the uprising of vampires in Sunnydale, but eventually to kill the Master himself. The prophecy only came true in that after being bitten by the Master, she lost consciousness and fell face first into a pool of water, and she drowned only to be revived by Xander shortly afterwards.
Her junior year, they worked together to face down a vampire named Spike who had been sired by Angel’s line, and then Angel himself when making love to Buffy caused him to lose his soul and become Angelus. It was a long and arduous fight, but in the end, Buffy sent her own lover to a hell dimension in order to save the world.
Her senior year, Buffy first worked with the newest Slayer Faith, who had been called after the death of Kendra, the Slayer who had been called after Buffy’s brief stint with death. Faith had a rather negative impact on Buffy at first, causing her to lose control and disregard her friends and family, until Faith accidentally killed a human and tried to lay the blame on Buffy. Giles’ faith in Buffy was enough to restore her to control, and later to fight against Faith herself when she went rogue and began to work with the Mayor of Sunnydale, a man who turned out to be a sorcerer bent on becoming a pure demon. In the end, Buffy put Faith in a coma in an attempt to save Angel’s life, and then went on to defeat the demonized Mayor by blowing up the high school with him in it on graduation day.
The next year marked Buffy’s freshman year of college, where she attended University of California, Sunnydale along with Xander, Willow, and Willow’s boyfriend Oz. As Angel had left Sunnydale after her graduation, so that she could live a normal live, Buffy became close to a man named Riley Finn during that year, who turned out to be an incognito soldier in a unit that operated out of UC Sunnydale called the Initiative and experimented on supernatural creatures. With his help, as well as the help of a young Wicca named Tara, it was discovered that a scientist within the Initiative named Maggie Walsh had created a super hybrid monster of human and demon parts named Adam. Adam killed Dr. Walsh, his ‘mother,’ and proceeded to terrorize Sunnydale with the aid of the vampire Spike, who had returned to Sunnydale and been caught by the Initiative. At the end of the year, a powerful spell was used to magically fuse Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles in order to defeat Adam.
During her sophomore year of college, Buffy gained a sister in the form of Dawn Summers. At first, Dawn seamlessly blended into the life of Buffy and her friends, and there was no hint that the young teenager had only just appeared. It was soon discovered during the course of a spell to see outside reality that Dawn wasn’t actually Buffy’s little sister, and then later that she was the human embodiment of a mystical energy called the Key that was being hunted by a Hell Goddess named Glory. The death of Joyce due to an aneurism hit both Summers girls very hard, and was pivotal in Buffy’s final decision not to kill her sister to stop the multidimensional portal her blood had opened, and instead to sacrifice her own life in Dawn’s place.
After dying, Buffy found herself in Heaven with her mother, Joyce, and was content to rest eternally. Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be, as Willow, Tara, Xander, and ex demon Anya resurrected her through the power of a spell. Returning to earth was extremely hard for Buffy, and it seemed like hell to her in many ways. She refused to tell her friends that she had been in heaven, however, and used Spike as a way to cope with her pain, in a desperate sexual relationship. It was a destructive and abusive relationship on all sides that only ended when Spike almost raped Buffy. Soon enough, however, evil reared its head again, in the form of three of Buffy’s former schoolmates who fancied themselves as supervillians. They tested Buffy as the Slayer, and eventually plotted to kill her as well. Instead, in an attempt to shoot her, they landed a grazing shot through her shoulder than killed Tara, and caused Willow to go on a destructive spree of magic that nearly destroyed the world before Buffy was forced to fight against her and Xander talked her down.
When Willow was sent away to England with Giles to recover and learn how to control her own magic, Buffy stayed in Sunnydale with Xander and Dawn to guard the Hellmouth. The next year was marked by chaos when upon Dawn’s first day at the new Sunnydale High, the Hellmouth was discovered to be active, and Buffy had prophetic dreams about an evil force that ‘From beneath you, it devours.’ Willow’s return to Sunnydale marked the restoration of the ‘Scooby Gang,’ who quickly began to research the new evil, only to discover that it was the First Evil that had tried to take Angel’s life years before, and was now attempting to end the Slayer line. The following few months, Sunnydale was turned into a battlefield between Buffy and the First, and potential Slayers flocked to her home for protection. Buffy herself faced much opposition from everyone she loved, due to her stand alone mentality about being the Slayer, and was even thrown from her own home in favor of the returned Faith after several Potential’s died in battle and Xander was injured. It was Spike that helped return Buffy’s faith in herself, and she went on to lead the forces of good into the Hellmouth to take on the First’s army. In the end, they won the battle, and activated all the Potential Slayers in the world, but Sunnydale was destroyed in the process, and Spike died bringing down the entire town, just after Buffy confessed her love for him.
NAME: Raven
AGE: 25
PERSONAL LJ: koohii_cafe
EMAIL ADDRESS: easternelvenlady@yahoo.com
AIM SCREENAME: tapeable heart
CHARACTER
NAME: Buffy Anne Summers
CANON SOURCE: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
TIMELINE: Mid series finale, Chosen. Just before she jumps onto the bus.
CANON ABILITIES: Buffy has all the abilities of a Slayer, most of which are focused around fighting vampires, demons, and other supernatural monsters. All of her senses are superior to a normal human, and she has advanced speed, strength, and healing. In addition, she also has an aptitude for weapons and combat styles that is a natural part of being the Slayer, as well as the ability to experience prophetic dreams and to sense where her opponents are in battle at times, even without being able to see them.
PERSONALITY:
On the surface, Buffy is a rather cheerfully sarcastic, everyday girl from California. She’s one of those who cares overly about superfluous things such as the latest fashions and how she looks, and often times she does nothing to dissuade the valley girl image people are wont to have of her. She cares deeply for her friends and family though, and values loyalty over many other traits. There isn’t much she wouldn’t do to protect the people she cares about; she has the mentality almost of a mother bear with her cubs, when it comes to her loved ones. Even the world comes in second place. For those she is closest to, the people she loves the most, Buffy also tends to be rather blind to their misdoings, to the that point that she will easily forgive things she would never think of forgiving in another.
Buffy is also very dedicated to her calling as a Slayer, protecting the world, and defeating the forces of evil. It’s a broad calling, one that might seem almost unreal to most, but to her, it is a battle she has been fighting tooth and nail for over seven years. Those years of fighting have caused her to accept the need for sacrifice, sometimes even of life, as was proven once when she sacrificed Angel, and again when she sacrificed herself for her duty. Despite that, she will always look for a better way if at all possible, and she won’t take another human life herself.
Morals are something that’s very important to her also, as well as forgiveness for people who have repented of their wrong doings. She’s seen the darkness in almost everyone she cares about, as well as within herself, and she doesn’t harbor any ill feelings simply for it existing. After all, it’s part of what makes a person human, in her eyes. Instead, if a person can find within themselves to truly repent, Buffy is someone who can come to truly forgive them, even when it’s she herself who has been wronged.
It’s almost contradictory though, because despite her heavy support on the people she loves and cares for, Buffy can also be somewhat solitary at times. It’s a mentality she has grown into due to her years as the Slayer, as she has been forced into the role of leader and come to settle there. She doesn’t do well following others, especially not if their wishes and beliefs contradict her own, and she often tends to hide her own deep and dark feelings and emotions from her loved ones. It’s hard sometimes for her to be able to open up completely to someone, without hiding anything, because she tends to wear her cheerful and strong façade even for the people who have been by her side for years.
CANON HISTORY: Buffy Summers was only fifteen years old when her life was turned upside down by the arrival of an older British gentleman upon the steps of her high school, claiming that she had been chosen as the Slayer, one girl in all the world with the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and forces of darkness. She didn’t believe him at first, but it didn’t take long for the prophetic dreams that began to plague her nights to convince her otherwise. Merrick, the gentleman who claimed to be her Watcher, taught and trained Buffy in the basics of her new calling before being killed by Lothos, a master vampire who had taken up residence in Buffy’s hometown of LA. In turn, Buffy defeated and killed Lothos, burning down her high school gym in the process.
It was a bit of a turbulent time for Buffy afterwards. Going from an average California teenager to a girl destined to fight monsters was hard enough. Losing Merrick, who she’d come to view as a sort of father figure was hard on her as well. It was enough to make her run away with Pike, a friend who had helped her in the final fight, to hunt for vampires. When she returned and tried to explain to her parents what had happened, they had her hospitalized in a mental asylum until she retracted her story, and then ended up getting a divorce shortly after. Joyce Summers, her mother, was given custody of Buffy and decided, for the good of them both, that it would be better to begin a new life somewhere other than LA, so Buffy could start over.
That new life was to begin in Sunnydale, a small and relatively peaceful town a bit south of LA. Unfortunately, appearances were deceiving. Upon beginning her sophomore year at Sunnydale High, Buffy found another older British gentleman in her path, this time under the guise of school librarian. Rupert Giles informed her that her calling her brought her to Sunnydale not by accident, but because she was needed, before she rebuffed him in favor of spending time with two new friends she’d met, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg. It was only the death of a third new friend, Jesse McNally, at the hands of vampires that forced Buffy to accept her fate as the Slayer once more, this time with the help of her new friends as well as her Watcher.
It was a new sort of take on the role of the Slayer. No Slayer before her had worked so openly with others, not hiding her identity from her closest friends and still continuing to live her life, but it was truly that choice that made her stand out, and able to handle her calling. Xander and Willow provided firm support when and where it was needed, and Giles guided her. Additionally, Buffy soon gained the support of an ensouled vampire named Angel, with whom she also fell in love. With their help, against an ancient vampire known as ‘the Master’ and a prophecy that condemned her to death, Buffy managed to not only defeat the uprising of vampires in Sunnydale, but eventually to kill the Master himself. The prophecy only came true in that after being bitten by the Master, she lost consciousness and fell face first into a pool of water, and she drowned only to be revived by Xander shortly afterwards.
Her junior year, they worked together to face down a vampire named Spike who had been sired by Angel’s line, and then Angel himself when making love to Buffy caused him to lose his soul and become Angelus. It was a long and arduous fight, but in the end, Buffy sent her own lover to a hell dimension in order to save the world.
Her senior year, Buffy first worked with the newest Slayer Faith, who had been called after the death of Kendra, the Slayer who had been called after Buffy’s brief stint with death. Faith had a rather negative impact on Buffy at first, causing her to lose control and disregard her friends and family, until Faith accidentally killed a human and tried to lay the blame on Buffy. Giles’ faith in Buffy was enough to restore her to control, and later to fight against Faith herself when she went rogue and began to work with the Mayor of Sunnydale, a man who turned out to be a sorcerer bent on becoming a pure demon. In the end, Buffy put Faith in a coma in an attempt to save Angel’s life, and then went on to defeat the demonized Mayor by blowing up the high school with him in it on graduation day.
The next year marked Buffy’s freshman year of college, where she attended University of California, Sunnydale along with Xander, Willow, and Willow’s boyfriend Oz. As Angel had left Sunnydale after her graduation, so that she could live a normal live, Buffy became close to a man named Riley Finn during that year, who turned out to be an incognito soldier in a unit that operated out of UC Sunnydale called the Initiative and experimented on supernatural creatures. With his help, as well as the help of a young Wicca named Tara, it was discovered that a scientist within the Initiative named Maggie Walsh had created a super hybrid monster of human and demon parts named Adam. Adam killed Dr. Walsh, his ‘mother,’ and proceeded to terrorize Sunnydale with the aid of the vampire Spike, who had returned to Sunnydale and been caught by the Initiative. At the end of the year, a powerful spell was used to magically fuse Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles in order to defeat Adam.
During her sophomore year of college, Buffy gained a sister in the form of Dawn Summers. At first, Dawn seamlessly blended into the life of Buffy and her friends, and there was no hint that the young teenager had only just appeared. It was soon discovered during the course of a spell to see outside reality that Dawn wasn’t actually Buffy’s little sister, and then later that she was the human embodiment of a mystical energy called the Key that was being hunted by a Hell Goddess named Glory. The death of Joyce due to an aneurism hit both Summers girls very hard, and was pivotal in Buffy’s final decision not to kill her sister to stop the multidimensional portal her blood had opened, and instead to sacrifice her own life in Dawn’s place.
After dying, Buffy found herself in Heaven with her mother, Joyce, and was content to rest eternally. Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant to be, as Willow, Tara, Xander, and ex demon Anya resurrected her through the power of a spell. Returning to earth was extremely hard for Buffy, and it seemed like hell to her in many ways. She refused to tell her friends that she had been in heaven, however, and used Spike as a way to cope with her pain, in a desperate sexual relationship. It was a destructive and abusive relationship on all sides that only ended when Spike almost raped Buffy. Soon enough, however, evil reared its head again, in the form of three of Buffy’s former schoolmates who fancied themselves as supervillians. They tested Buffy as the Slayer, and eventually plotted to kill her as well. Instead, in an attempt to shoot her, they landed a grazing shot through her shoulder than killed Tara, and caused Willow to go on a destructive spree of magic that nearly destroyed the world before Buffy was forced to fight against her and Xander talked her down.
When Willow was sent away to England with Giles to recover and learn how to control her own magic, Buffy stayed in Sunnydale with Xander and Dawn to guard the Hellmouth. The next year was marked by chaos when upon Dawn’s first day at the new Sunnydale High, the Hellmouth was discovered to be active, and Buffy had prophetic dreams about an evil force that ‘From beneath you, it devours.’ Willow’s return to Sunnydale marked the restoration of the ‘Scooby Gang,’ who quickly began to research the new evil, only to discover that it was the First Evil that had tried to take Angel’s life years before, and was now attempting to end the Slayer line. The following few months, Sunnydale was turned into a battlefield between Buffy and the First, and potential Slayers flocked to her home for protection. Buffy herself faced much opposition from everyone she loved, due to her stand alone mentality about being the Slayer, and was even thrown from her own home in favor of the returned Faith after several Potential’s died in battle and Xander was injured. It was Spike that helped return Buffy’s faith in herself, and she went on to lead the forces of good into the Hellmouth to take on the First’s army. In the end, they won the battle, and activated all the Potential Slayers in the world, but Sunnydale was destroyed in the process, and Spike died bringing down the entire town, just after Buffy confessed her love for him.