(Meta) How Many Slayers?

[stormwreath]

I've been doing some number-crunching about how many Slayers there are in the Buffyverse. The headline figures are as shown below, the assumptions and hypotheses I made to arrive at the conclusions are under the cut. None of these numbers are set in stone - I had to make some fairly random guesses on some of the data - but they feel in the right

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[brutti_ma_buoni]

Another assumption I'm making, then, is that he rescued only "a handful" of the teenage Potentials, rather than saving most of them but leaving all the kiddies to die...

a) Meep. You know, I never thought of that.
b) Yes. Reasonable. We didn't see anyone under your '14-19' bracket dying.

Of course your numbers are open to all sorts of interpretation depending on whether you go with high or low estimates for your based numbers, but they broadly feel workable. As you say, could be out by 50% but probably not by x50. It makes me feel better about my post-Chosen Council, which clearly needs a cast of thousands to keep going but didn't have this as backup.

I like reading about practicalities...

[stormwreath]

Yeah, it was only when I was writing this that I thought "What happened to all the Watchers with five- and eight-year old Potentials

[deird1]

I reckon they'd end up in the Council, if they wanted to be. Otherwise, they'd just go on with their normal lives...

[stormwreath]

That would be logical... but

[mrteufel]

Hire them out as mercenaries to get funding?

Or perhaps they put them all through the 18th birthday test, whether they've awakened or not, just in case they were pretending all that time?

[stormwreath]

I can actually see them doing the Cruciamentum thing on all Potentials. Or at least the Mirrorverse version of the Council would...

[deird1]

Some random thoughts.

I've never thought Kendra's situation was all that common...