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.

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.

She got her Slayer kicks.

I have a whole little story about her in my head and how she really needed slayer power that day because some boy in the stands had made fun of her for being a weak girl who couldn't hit. And then he saw her hit the longest homerun in softball history and was too scared to even look at her ever again.

In other words, the Getting of the Strength was maybe sooner than it might have been in other cases.

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

The script specifically notes she's on the edge of puberty.