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.
I'll just jump in my time machine, go back to the twelfth century, and ask the vampires to postpone their ancient prophesy for a few days while you take in dinner and a show.
Giles ,'Selfless'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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§ ita § - Aug 13, 2003 2:33:16 pm PDT #4535 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
DavidS - Aug 13, 2003 2:55:41 pm PDT #4541 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
of what-the-funck-ever-you-brow-beater-Cindy?
pours Cindy another glass of wine and starts massaging her feet I think it's just SA accepting the information with enlightenment. See the lightbulb over her head?
Cindy - Aug 13, 2003 2:56:33 pm PDT #4542 of 10001
Nobody
pours Cindy another glass of wine and starts massaging her feet I think it's just SA accepting the information with enlightenment. See the lightbulb over her head?
(I see two. I think it's the wine. Shhhhhh.)
esse - Aug 13, 2003 3:36:38 pm PDT #4543 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I think it's just SA accepting the information with enlightenment. See the lightbulb over her head?
Yes, this.
JoeCrow - Aug 13, 2003 6:15:24 pm PDT #4544 of 10001
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Still, you've gotta figure that all the info we have on Slayer history in Fray is from someone who wasn't there. Wossname the Demon!Watcher said all they had was legends about what happened. All they knew for certain was that there hadn't been a actual powered up Slayer for centuries. He said there'd been potentials, but none had been called. That's why the Watcher's Council became such a bunch of nutters. They'd been without an actual purpose for centuries. Kinda hard to persuade girls that it's their destiny to fight vamps they can't find with powers they ain't got. As for where the lurks came back from, well...
...all you need to do is miss one vamp in the cleanup. They're like roaches.
(All the following is utter fanwank, BTW)
All that's why I think that Willow burnt out the Slayer Spell powering up all the potentials. The battery of power the Slayers draw from has been seriously overdrained and there aren't going to be any new Slayers called for a long time. See, it's been established for a while now that while Willow is Large With The Power, she's NSM with the Thinking Shit Through Beforehand. So now, they've got one generation to cleanse the earth of all demons and vamps, because when the last Slayer of this generation goes down, there will be Nobody to "stand between us and the forces of darkness." Not for a long time.