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Character Information

Character Name: Buffy Anne Summers
Character Series: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Character Age: 22
Character Gender: Female.

Original Canon
Canon Point: After S7E22, "Chosen." Buffy has just defeated The First, causing Sunnydale to collapse into a giant sinkhole. After a powerful ritual performed by Willow, the Slayer's power has been activated in all the potential Slayers around the world. Buffy is no longer the only one.

Background Link: Buffy @ the Buffyverse Wiki

Personality:
Buffy Summers is a complicated person. Before she became the Slayer, Buffy was once the peppy, blonde popular girl. She had the boys lining up in high school, had the potential to be homecoming queen, with the title of head cheerleader to boot. Her life was really quite shallow—her thoughts didn’t really go past what she was going to wear to school the next day or where she was going to go on Friday night. Buffy was all about friends and a good time.

It all changed when she was called to be a Slayer. It was pretty much like getting hit with a ton of bricks, and interrupted her life in the worst possible way. She had no choice in the matter—she was simply chosen as the next Slayer in a generations-long war. Becoming the Slayer gave her responsibilities that were not normal of every teenager in the world—she was now responsible for keeping the world safe and save it from supernatural apocalyptic doom. It required her to keep secrets from everyone in her life that she cared for, to the point that it changed her life completely. She was no longer the peppy, popular girl in high school. All the secrets she kept eventually led to her parents’ divorce, and Buffy even blamed herself for it, even though it was her father who was unfaithful.

Her feelings about being the Slayer are mixed at best, although she has grown to accept and embrace her destiny as she continued to mature, even going to lengths to learn of the Slayer’s origins. Buffy is different from other Slayers in the fact that she refuses to give up her life—family and friends—for her destiny. In fact, she cherishes these relationships because she feels that it keeps her human, that it keeps her grounded, otherwise she would be no better than the things that she fights. She knows that she is not alone, and refuses to be alone. Even so, Buffy is aware of the divide that separates what she is and what is “normal,” which sometimes leads her to alienate herself from her family and friends by keeping secrets or going off to battle because she knows she is the only one that can.

Her relationship to the Watchers’ Council is non-existent. Buffy has never responded well to being “controlled” and dictated by the organization, though she did appeal to them for help numerous times. She has never agreed with the Council’s methods regarding her role as the Slayer, but was successful at changing the relationship between herself and the Council, stating that they need her to even exist.

It is important to know that while Buffy fights to keep the world from being overrun by demons, she still abides by human law—refusing to kill a human, even though they can be just as horrible as a demon. Though she believes this, she has made a few exceptions to this. She was perfectly willing to kill Faith to save Angel (but only ended up putting her in a coma), as well as Caleb, who acted as a vessel for The First.

Buffy is not immune to self-loathing and self-destruction. One of the largest catalysts for this is her second death, and then subsequently being resurrected from it. Buffy feels that she is wrong-- damaged—and cannot connect to the human part of her anymore. She believes that she was torn away from heaven, but cannot tell her friends because she believes she will disappoint them. It subsequently leads her down a path of self-destruction. She becomes withdrawn from the world around her, and is unwilling to notice the most obvious things about her friends and family.

Her relationship to her sister, Dawn, is a bit of a complicated one as well. Buffy had to take the reins and take on the role as “mother” after their own mother died. Buffy had a hard time dealing with this, unsure of how to handle her sister’s outcries for attention. Even so, this only strengthened Buffy’s role as her sister’s protector. Even when she and Dawn find out what Dawn really is, Buffy still feels the bond between herself and her sister (“This is Summers blood.”), realizing that because of this, she can save her sister’s life by sacrificing her own.

She is fiercely protective of Dawn, but with good reason to be. Buffy is reluctant and even downright refuses to include her in the “Slayer business.” She just wants her sister to live a normal life, without demons and monsters, but she eventually resigns to this later on. Buffy even eventually begins to train her sister in fighting vampires.

Buffy and romance don’t exactly go hand-in-hand. She is attracted to dangerous men—Angel, Riley, and Spike are three of the most poignant examples. It is safe to assume that she is attracted to men that she can sympathize with; that she can share her secrets with, even though her relationships usually end on a sour note. It seems to be vicious cycle for her. Buffy can’t seem to reconcile her romantic relationships with her job. She has been accused of being selfish in a relationship—being better than her significant other. It leaves her romantic relationships strained. She feels that she is not quite ready for a real, committed relationship yet—that she is still in the process of growing in that department (“I’m cookie dough… I’m not finished being whoever the hell it is I’m gonna turn out to be… and maybe one day, I turn around and realize I’m ready. I’m cookies. And then if I want someone to… enjoy warm, delicious, cookie me, then that’s fine. That’ll be then. When I’m done.”).

She often comes off as snarky and likes to use clever puns when fighting demons. It has actually become somewhat of a trademark to her personality. It keeps her on her toes, and shows how confident she is that she will win. She has even gone so far as to call herself the law, when it comes to demons and the things she fights.

Abilities:
The Slayer possesses a multitude of abilities, that activated themselves when Buffy received her calling. Superhuman strength, speed, reflexes, and stamina are the common Slayer abilities, as is accelerated healing. Others include precognition in dreams, telepathy, and the ability to sense the presence of demons to a minor extent.

As a fighter, Buffy has been trained in a few martial arts, as well as with the use of various weapons (swords, axes, crossbows, stakes, knives, etc.). She is an adept student, having no apparent trouble in picking up these arts. Often, Buffy tends to use an improvised fighting-style, using objects to her advantage in a fight. The only weapon she backs away from are guns—she believes that “using these never end well.” It could possibly be an aversion of hers from the days of her working with the Initiative, but only strengthened after she was shot and almost killed by Warren Mears, and due to Tara’s death over the same circumstances.

Buffy has settled into her role as a leader, and possesses strong leadership abilities. She sometimes overrules group decisions with her own, making it hard for anyone to argue against her otherwise. Although she tends to keep up the “dumb blonde” exterior, she is actually rather smart. She possesses great tactical abilities to some extent, and is able to “put the pieces together” in a timely fashion.

Sample Entry:
Buffy stared at the ceiling. She didn’t know what time it was, but she didn’t care. She didn’t care whose house this was, where they were, or what drove them out. She didn’t care about tomorrow, about her future, or how the rest of this war was going to go. She didn’t care about anything right now. She was done fighting, done leading… done with everything. She was kicked out of the fold, and now what other option was there but to quit?

Everything was wrong. Sunnydale was getting ready for its biggest apocalypse ever, and Buffy just… she was desensitized to it all. She built up an army, but what good were they? She brought these girls to their death. Soon the entire line of potential Slayers would be wiped out, and it would all be her fault. She was death—death was her gift, and she would be bringing that gift in mass amounts to rain down upon all the potential Slayers, her friends, and her allies.

Anger, loneliness, and disappointment—it was all she felt. Relinquishing her leadership to Faith unwillingly was not the way she wanted things to happen, but she was outnumbered and unanimously voted out. Buffy knew that had cut herself off from the rest of the world. Sure, she had friends, her sister… but there was always a wall, a burden that she alone could only bear. They could never know or understand what she was going through. It just made the loneliness grow stronger.

Buffy was tired. She was ready for this to be over, and maybe, just maybe this was her chance. Giving up wasn’t her style but… maybe this was the only way out. If they didn’t want her—didn’t need her anymore, then maybe it was time for her to stop.