In Fray, isin't it also that Vampires haven't been around, either?
Maybe it's a whole balance thing.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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DCJensen - Aug 13, 2003 1:27:25 pm PDT #4531 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
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.
tina f. - Aug 13, 2003 2:34:09 pm PDT #4536 of 10001
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.
DavidS - Aug 13, 2003 2:35:03 pm PDT #4537 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Cindy - Aug 13, 2003 2:44:50 pm PDT #4538 of 10001
Nobody
But remember, that, like, ten year old softball player? With the power shot? She got her Slayer kicks.
First period - ON my twelfth birthday. 10.5 year old neice, got hers for the first time, this year. Aunt was 11, and that was back in the 40s, in a single family, living on peanut butter and white bread. Ten year old softball players menstruating isn't the anomaly people like dh - who was flabbergasted that aforementioned neice had started might think.
esse - Aug 13, 2003 2:47:32 pm PDT #4539 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Huh. Okay.
Cindy - Aug 13, 2003 2:53:35 pm PDT #4540 of 10001
Nobody
Huh. Okay.
Oh, no. Was that the "Huh. Okay." of what-the-funck-ever-you-brow-beater-Cindy?