[JMM] #15 - What is your job?
What is your job and why did you choose that path?
I'm a Slayer. Notice how I don't say The Slayer anymore since there are like a hundred thousand of us now. Okay, that might be a little exaggeration but there are definitely hundreds of us.
None of us chose the path we're on. It's part of our destiny to become the 'Chosen One'. Ironic right? We don't have a say in the choosing. I mean we can decide what we're going to do with it. We could ignore it, help people with it or like some of the rogue slayers use it to be brats but we never had a choice.
If you're asking why do I do what I do, then I really don't have an answer. Seriously, I don't. I mean I had a chance to walk away. When Sunnydale became a crater, I could have walked away and just been an ordinary girl. It's what I've always wanted to do and trust me I was very close to doing it. Then I realized something. Being a slayer isn't just what I am, it's a part of who I am. There is no way I could ignore the things that go bump in the night. Maybe if I'd been made a slayer through Willow's magic and I had no idea that demons and vampires existed I could have ignored it. Knowing what I know, I couldn't turn my back on vampire attacks, or apocalypses once a year. Ignorance really is bliss I guess.
The days when I'm getting my butt kicked from a demon I would gladly give it up and just lay on the beach somewhere with Daniel Craig giving me a massage. Mmmmm. Sorry, I went to a happy place there. On days when we're the ones kicking vampire butt I wouldn't trade what I do for anything.
I'm a Slayer. Notice how I don't say The Slayer anymore since there are like a hundred thousand of us now. Okay, that might be a little exaggeration but there are definitely hundreds of us.
None of us chose the path we're on. It's part of our destiny to become the 'Chosen One'. Ironic right? We don't have a say in the choosing. I mean we can decide what we're going to do with it. We could ignore it, help people with it or like some of the rogue slayers use it to be brats but we never had a choice.
If you're asking why do I do what I do, then I really don't have an answer. Seriously, I don't. I mean I had a chance to walk away. When Sunnydale became a crater, I could have walked away and just been an ordinary girl. It's what I've always wanted to do and trust me I was very close to doing it. Then I realized something. Being a slayer isn't just what I am, it's a part of who I am. There is no way I could ignore the things that go bump in the night. Maybe if I'd been made a slayer through Willow's magic and I had no idea that demons and vampires existed I could have ignored it. Knowing what I know, I couldn't turn my back on vampire attacks, or apocalypses once a year. Ignorance really is bliss I guess.
The days when I'm getting my butt kicked from a demon I would gladly give it up and just lay on the beach somewhere with Daniel Craig giving me a massage. Mmmmm. Sorry, I went to a happy place there. On days when we're the ones kicking vampire butt I wouldn't trade what I do for anything.