OK. Here. We know that in Fray the magic and vamps all got sucked in the vortex - so that is why the Slayer line ended. Because demons and magic were all banished. That way you can have multiple slayers into the future and still explain them being gone when Mel is called.

If that works, it is my first wank.

If that's true, that it's all used up, it was a really dangerous spell.

I'm thinking it's the plot bunny between Chosen and Fray. How Buffy or somebody Buffylike killed off all the vamps on earth.

I though all current potentials were activated

In which case we're back to two-year-olds with Slayer strength, which is... an amusingly evil thought for me, but then I've never been a parent.

In which case we're back to two-year-olds with Slayer strength, which is... an amusingly evil thought for me, but then I've never been a parent.

Eh. It seems like girls are potentials form the time they're born, but can't become slayers at least until puberty. (The youngest Potential we saw activated was Softball Girl, who looked 11 or 12.)

What I would wonder about would be 80-year-old Slayers.

Heh. It would be nice, wouldn't it, if the skipped over potentials got a little surprise too.

I think the age thing would still stay pretty much the same. You still have girls getting called in puberty and dying young - because they are still warriors. Joss has said Buffy was the story of the best Slayer that ever lived, and with the dying and coming back, very unique. I still gotta think that most slayers aren't going to last more than a few years, even if there is a mess of them.

In Fray, isin't it also that Vampires haven't been around, either?

Maybe it's a whole balance thing.

It is all murky in Fray about vampires. It is clear that vamps, demons and magicks were all sucked into a void along with a slayer and her magical friends. But then demons and vamps come back. Except the vamps are called lurks. And I don't think it is ever clear how they got back. (Is it?)

It is also clear that there have been potentials/slayers before Mel, it is just that she got found and actually told she was a slayer. It is NOT clear if there will be slayers after her though. And that - I'm confused as hell about that.

eta: I just contradicted my earlier wank. Damnit!

In which case we're back to two-year-olds with Slayer strength, which is... an amusingly evil thought for me, but then I've never been a parent.

No, no, no. Puberty brings it on. It's womanhood. Two year olds don't need slayer strength.

signed,

knackered and nervous

But remember, that, like, ten year old softball player? With the power shot? She got her Slayer kicks.