(Meta) How Many Slayers?
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 ( Read more... )
1) How well do you think someone like Kendra would do in normal life? Especially if we consider pre-modern societies, which is presumably when the Council's rules were devised. Her Watcher didn't even allow her to speak with boys, and the only job (or marriage) skills she's acquired are how to slay bad guys in three hundred different ways using a variety of mediaeval and improvised weapons... If you were Quentin Travers would you really want someone like that wandering around loose?
2) If they offer them jobs, where are all these ex-Potential Watchers? The organisation seems pretty male-dominated to me; too much so for an organisation that has to find placements for a hundred or more women every year. Unless they recruit them all for their battalions of female ninja hidden away at their secret base in the Carpathians; but if they have those, why do they need the Slayer at all?
Unless, of course, that's the Council's dirty little secret, and why Giles was always given the brush-off despite being the Watcher to the actual Slayer, which you'd have thought would be quite a prestigious position. But not if the true power of the Council lies in its ex-Potential ninja warrior army, and the Slayer is just a quaint hold-over kept up for the sake of tradition... :-)
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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?
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I've never thought Kendra's situation was all that common...
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