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.
Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!
River ,'War Stories'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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DavidS - Aug 13, 2003 1:10:57 pm PDT #4526 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Katie M - Aug 13, 2003 1:12:49 pm PDT #4527 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
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.
Lyra Jane - Aug 13, 2003 1:14:46 pm PDT #4528 of 10001
Up with the sun
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.
§ ita § - Aug 13, 2003 1:15:37 pm PDT #4529 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Heh. It would be nice, wouldn't it, if the skipped over potentials got a little surprise too.
tina f. - Aug 13, 2003 1:17:18 pm PDT #4530 of 10001
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.
DCJensen - Aug 13, 2003 1:27:25 pm PDT #4531 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
In Fray, isin't it also that Vampires haven't been around, either?
Maybe it's a whole balance thing.
tina f. - Aug 13, 2003 1:37:03 pm PDT #4532 of 10001
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!
Cindy - Aug 13, 2003 2:20:55 pm PDT #4533 of 10001
Nobody
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
esse - Aug 13, 2003 2:30:23 pm PDT #4534 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
But remember, that, like, ten year old softball player? With the power shot? She got her Slayer kicks.
§ ita § - Aug 13, 2003 2:33:16 pm PDT #4535 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But we've all heard the horror stories of the girls who were bleeding from then.
And I hadn't thought she was as young as ten, till you mentioned it.
She looks older than I did at 14, anyway.