Buffy Summers

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buffy SUMMERS

she never slows down, she doesn't know why but she knows that when she's all alone, feels like it's all coming down.
she won't turn around, the shadows are long and she fears if she cries that first tear, the tears will not stop raining down.

so stand in the rain, stand your ground
stand up when it's all crashing down
you stand through the pain, you won't drown
and one day what's lost can be found
you stand in the rain

Contents 1 Information 1.1 → stats 1.2 → in-depth 1.2.1 personality 1.2.2 abilities 1.2.3 background 2 Social 2.1 → relationships 2.1.1 family 2.1.2 friends & acquaintances 2.1.3 romantic 2.1.4 enemies 3 Miscellaneous 3.1 → random facts 3.2 → in-game events

Information

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• Name: Buffy Anne Summers.
• Nickname(s): Buffster, Destructo Girl, Goldielocks, B, Buff.
• Location: Los Angeles, California.
• Date of Birth: January 19, 1981.
• Age: 27 28.
• Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual.
• Height: 5'2".
• Weight: 115lbs.
• Hair Colour: Blonde.
• Eye Colour: Hazel.
• Spoken Language(s): English. Various words in Italian and butchered French.
• Image Song(s): Stand In The Rain by Superchic[k].

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personality

Sarcasm and quick wit in the form of one liners are tools of the trade for Buffy. For all intents and purposes, Buffy really is a sweet girl, and is capable of great acts of kindness. Those who truly know her, have seen this in between the shades of her occasional bitchiness and orders she's given out in her time. She wants to help, and will do all that she can to help, even if others may say that it is better if she just leaves things as they are. If she sees the good in someone, it takes a hell of a lot for her to actually give up on them. Buffy is stubborn by nature, and only follows the rules (especially ones set in the past by the Council and her life as the Slayer) if they suit her, otherwise she makes them up as she goes along. But this does not mean that she is willing to actually break human rules, like killing humans, because she doesn't believe that they're just casualties of war, being caught in the crossfire. When her mind is set on something, it takes a lot to change her mind, and even still she may think that what she thought all along was right. Even with her stubborn ways, she does know when to ask for help, even if sometimes that happens to be a little further along down the line and when she should have asked for help much sooner.

For the most part, Buffy likes to tote herself off as a dumb blonde, which will occasionally get a joke from herself or others at her expense on this. And this isn't entirely true because she actually is intelligent, but she's also known for her lapses in judgment and isn't usually one for doing all the thinking and research. She's just the girl that goes around and hits things and sticks pointy objects into them. This could be seen as selling herself short, deciding to give into the stereotype of being a slayer as someone who's only good for violence, but her intelligence does shine through with her leader skills. Buffy has had to make tough decisions for the bulk of her teenage years and her young adult life, and while her decisions haven't always been sound, she has made the gutsy calls that some people who, if they only relied on their intelligence instead of their instincts, would not be able to make.

Not being as a typical slayer would be up until the time she was called, Buffy has made a point to balance her life as a Slayer and her 'normal' life as best as possible. This includes getting her friends involved in research and even going out on patrol with her, helping her to take out the bad guys. Instead of letting the slayer life completely take over, Buffy knows when it is time to work and when it is time to go out and have some fun. This has a tendency to lapse when she has to take on the role of General Buffy, near the end of that last year in Sunnydale but she's worked to fix that throughout the years. Sometimes you just have to learn when to push all the badness going on in the world and let off a little steam. Otherwise you'll crack under the pressure, and in Buffy's case that usually is the spice of badness. It'll either land her into a comatose state, or she'll just close herself off from everyone around her.

With her destiny as a Slayer and her sense of responsibility, Buffy has a martyr complex. When it comes down to it, she would give up her life if it meant that her family and friends would be happy and healthy. She has given herself up for the world before, in place of her sister Dawn whenever the Hell God Glory opened a portal where dimensions began to bleed together with Dawn's blood that brought Hell onto Earth and she would do it again, if it ever came down to it. There have been times where she's needlessly risked her life for the mission, but in the end when things turn out the way she was aiming for, she believes it to be worth it. If her death meant bringing the end of evil in some form, then so be it. At least the world would be a better place for the ones she loved to live in.

Thanks in part to her responsibility, and the danger that her life presents to those that she cares about, Buffy has been known to push them away from her in hopes of keeping them safe. This doesn't mean that she doesn't love them, it just means that she loves them so much that she doesn't want to see them hurt, or even worse, dead. Part of this is because of slayer isolationist crap, the feeling of being alone in the world because her loved ones do not know what it's like being her. The other part is, feeling like she's not worthy of their love. Through time, with the fact that there are more slayers in the world and she's not the only one carrying the burden of the world on her shoulders, she's learned to be a little less guarded and is less into keeping people at an arms length of her, letting herself become more available to the people around her when in the past she wouldn't because she thought it would keep them 'safer' that way.

One would think with all the death and badness she's seen in her life that Buffy would be able to handle it better, but the loss of people she cares about is something that she does not take well at all. The deaths of people she loves has a tendency to bring about reactions in the form of her bottling everything up inside to remain strong for everyone else, being so traumatized that she's run away from home for a period of months at a time, become destructive to herself or property, and just depression altogether. It's safe to say that losing people is not an option that Buffy likes to deal with, and whenever the people she considers hers (her family, her friends, her boyfriend, etc) are put in danger, be prepared to deal with a thoroughly pissed off slayer. In those cases, Buffy is not a force to be reckoned with, and will not let them off easily. In other words, you don't want to mess with the people Buffy cares about, if you honor your life and limbs.

abilities

As with all Slayers, Buffy has the usual powers that come with that. There are just bonuses in the slayer package, topped off with the not so stellar expiration date attached to it all. Some of these abilities include supernatural strength, supernatural speed, supernatural agility, supernatural durability, accelerated healing, prophetic dreams, collective memories and heightened awareness usually of vampires or demons in the area, but also of impending danger in the area. The effectiveness of these powers have grown over time, strengthening as Buffy has become older and gotten more in touch with the Slayer mythos. The more she trains, the more attuned her powers become.

Thanks to the spell that Willow did to activate the Slayer power within the Potentials which led Willow to feeling the other slayers when they were activated, Buffy and Willow share a strong mystical link.

As far as other talents go, Buffy knows how to ice skate, due to her training as a Slayer she knows quite a bit of fighting forms, and knows how to accessorize even on a limited budget. While not particularly scholarly, she is able to get down and research with the rest of the gang, although she's been known to not be as helpful as the more knowledgeable or more book-friendly members of the Scooby Gang. Even though she studied it in high school, Buffy is horrible at French and only learned enough Italian when living in Rome to at least ask for simple things like for instance where some of the shops are. If there is a choice on who should get behind the wheel and drive, never ask Buffy to take over because while she took the class and knows how to drive.. she sucks at it. Really. For the safety of others, it would be best to let Buffy remain an avid pedestrian.

background

January 19, 1981 was not only the birth of Buffy Anne Summers to Hank and Joyce Summers, but it was the day that one of the longest living and longest active Slayers was born. When Hank and Joyce laid eyes on their blonde haired, hazel eyed baby girl they did not see before them the girl that would help change the world through gutsy decision making and leadership skills, but instead they probably saw a girl that they hoped would become a future doctor, lawyer, or even the President of the United States. Whatever it is that parents look forward to for their children. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Buffy's early years weren't particularly noteworthy, just your typical upbringing by her two parents in an at-the-time stable house hold. Buffy would play 'Power Girl' with her cousin Celia (a precursor to her destiny later in life) and it was when her cousin died at a young age when she was eight years old in the hospital due to a strange demon (later to be known as Der Kindestod) that Buffy got her first taste of what her life would later become and it also ingrained within her a fear of hospitals. She would carry on in her years growing up, looking up to Dorothy Hammil and wanting to become the Olympic ice skater down to even getting the embarrassing haircut that went along with it, while also crushing on boys older than her in middle school (Billy Fordham).

It was at 15 while on the steps of Hemery High School that Buffy was visited by her soon-to-be watcher, Merrick (Jamison-Smythe). This man informed her that she was the Slayer, the Chosen One and was picked to beat the forces of darkness back to Hell. Buffy had been having dreams before this moment of women fighting monsters and vampires, but thought it was all because she had seen way too many horror movies as of late. This would begin the late night sneaking out, cutting school, fights, and strange occurrences that would soon become the focal point of Buffy's life. Her watcher's influence was cut short because to help save her, he had to kill himself to prevent to save her. This traumatized her, and made her briefly quit slaying until the vampire's minions went to attack the gym at Hemery during a school dance.

With Merrick gone, this left Buffy to only have help in the form of one of her classmates at Hemery, Oliver Pike. Buffy burned down the gym at Hemery to defeat Lothos' army and upon her slaying the vampire king, Buffy ended up being expelled from school due to destruction of property and the other issues she'd had in school up to that point. After this, Buffy and Pike ran off to Las Vegas to fight more vampires, only to return a short time after and Buffy's parents were looking for explanations. To help explain the odd occurrences in her life, she reached out and told her parents about her destiny as the Vampire Slayer, but they thought that she was crazy and had her committed for a brief time in a local mental institution. To be released, Buffy stopped speaking about vampires and her destiny as The Chosen One. This seemed to be the breaking point in her parents' relationship, because around this time her parents had separated and divorced, and to this day Buffy is convinced that her father was most likely cheating on her mother prior to leaving them.

Seasons 1-7 of Buffy happened. Yada yada, the crap from the show goes here. You know what happened :D.

Once the gang was able to regroup and everyone's wounds were treated, it was time to start their new lives post-Sunnydale. They touched base with Angel and co. in Los Angeles, informing them that the second front was not needed, but upon the knowledge that Angel was the head of Evil, Inc, it was decided that it was best for them all to try and keep all that they could about the current goings on in their lives as quiet as possible. The less in the way of details that Angel and his people actually knew about what they were all doing post-Sunnydale, the better. It was during this time that the gang all took off for different corners of the world, and Buffy and Dawn chose to go to Rome, Italy. Buffy had promised her little sister that she would show her the world, and it seemed that they were going to start off with a life in Rome. Buffy didn't mind it, she figured that they could always see the rest of the world later, because now there were more opportunities open to them. They weren't held in only one place anymore, they didn't have to stay positioned over one central location due to a job or duty. The First Evil had been thwarted, and while evil was still alive in this world and would always be, it had also been dealt a major blow to its ego in that last battle in Sunnydale. While in Rome, Buffy shares an apartment with her sister and any of the rest of the gang when they find themselves passing through Rome, usually crashes there to a point of almost overstaying. It's here in Rome that Buffy begins to 'find the fun' in a way, allowing herself to let go of some of the responsibilities she'd been carrying for the past eight years, and actually be a twenty-something young woman in a place that is all new and exciting to her. Shopping is one of Buffy's main concerns, always finding new things to place into her closet, and eventually she meets up with the mysterious being The Immortal. What starts off as his attempt at charming her and Buffy's attempt at trying to ward him off, not knowing his deal and therefore not sure if she could trust him.. eventually she does give into his charms, but it is not something that lasts. Buffy's not looking for a relationship, and she's also still on the side of unsure of whether or not he was actually evil or good, or looking for a way into her inner circle. But he was a really great dancer, she had to give him that much. In the midst of her cutting loose for a little while, it becomes apparent to Buffy that even with their no longer living on the Hellmouth otherwise known as Sunnydale, that her life and the lives of others was still in danger. It was all something that she was counseled on briefly and she realizes that even with her slayer abilities, that she has to take precautions especially for the safety of those that she considers hers. And even protection against those she once considered allies, like Angel and his gang with their running Evil, Inc. This is when the decoys running around pretending to be her begin to be implemented, and Buffy also changes her appearance at least for a little while. So instead of seeing the real Buffy in Rome with the Immortal, Angel and Spike actually see a decoy Buffy, while the real Buffy is keeping a low profile and has begun to start rounding up all the slayers that had been awakened thanks to Willow's spell, starting with Rome. She'd had time to unwind after years of fighting the forces of darkness, and it was now time for her to resume that. At least to get the newbies on track anyway.

After May of 2004, Buffy receives word that an apocalypse is beyond the 'just erupting' point and becoming hard to contain in Los Angeles, and that Angel and his people are involved. She isn't entirely sure of whether that means they are on the side of good or evil, but no matter.. Buffy decides it is time to head back to Los Angeles. If anything, she'll be putting a stop to Angelus' reign of evil and kicking bad guy ass as per usual. Even if she had gotten a little out of practice while she was in Rome. Maybe she shouldn't have reverted to a party-Buffy persona and trained a little harder while she spent her time off the job. But it would all come back to her in time. Of course, upon arriving in Los Angeles, she sees that the things that the others (and even she, although she had hoped that Angel hadn't truly turned evil once more) had thought about Angel and co. were wrong and that they were still fighting for the side of good, and that they had needed their help all along. Buffy and the group that she brought with her, helped to try and drive back the forces of evil that were trying to overrun Los Angeles, although it seemed that with each foe they faced off with and brought to its knees, another would rise up a moment later. Just like Sunnydale. Buffy knew that they would be facing unspeakable evil if Angel's group couldn't handle it all, but she didn't know she'd be bringing the group she'd brought with her to a bonafide war zone, one that reminded her a bit of that last year in Sunnydale with constant arrival of new potentials each day and the continuing rise of evil that surfaced each day as well. But that's the way war is. It's fast, hard, and unexpected. It takes you by surprise, and all you can do is either man up and try to do the best you can, or run away and hide like a coward. And Buffy wasn't a coward. Everything had already begun to go to Hell, the hope of humanity coming out of this starting to slip already through the cracks. But that's the thing about humanity, even when they're faced with the possibility of the end, it only makes them fight harder, not willing to give up no matter what the odds said. Lives were ended, most of them far too early for their time, but each day they carried on, an army standing down against their foe, convinced that they had to be the ones to come through this in the end. They were all the world had in ways of hope for surviving, and they were determined to see that through. When things seemed at least contained enough to where her presence wasn't entirely as needed as it had been when they arrived, Buffy knew that they had to take further steps to assembling the army they needed to continue combattling these foes coming against them.

Come 2005, Buffy has left Los Angeles and has brought a couple members of her group with her in what could only be seen as a 'road trip'. Only it wasn't so much out of fun or relaxation, but out of business. Buffy would much rather be making a trip across America out of fun, rather than rounding up a bunch of young women not much younger than her little sister to embark on a destiny that had been thrust onto them in the same way that her destiny had been thrust onto her. But this is something that is needed, due to the amount of young Slayers that were lost already in Los Angeles. She knew it was only adding more and more to the death count, and felt guiltier by the day knowing that she was the reason that these girls were finding themselves with this fate, but she wanted to save the world as they had done so many times before. Only this time, it was in a much, much more literal sense, because this Apocalypse seemed so much more like the permanent kind of Apocalypse, and not just some Big Bad trying to show off on how badass he is with how many disasters he can be responsible for. Along the way, they touch base with the group in Cleveland, dispatching a couple of the newest slayers off with the group there, while also comparing notes on what the latest badness is. After all, with Cleveland being on a Hellmouth as well, it means that it is prime in the evil energy, and they are looking just as worse for wear there as Los Angeles is. This road trip lasts for at least half the year, as they try to reach as many of the young Slayers as possible, knowing that they won't be able to reach everyone this way, but they could at least get a good start at reaching them. After much deliberation, it is decided that the group will head to Spain (really, Dawn just insisted on going and Buffy had a hard time saying no) and this is where they decide to set up base at least for a little while. Buffy has to have a place to train the slayers that they brought with them after all, and doesn't want to just shove them into battle against evil that is stronger than them, at least not until she feels that they are ready to be able to take on such a task. She may not have been as prepared as she could have been when she first started slaying at age fifteen, but it was the mistakes of her slaying career that she was using as a learning tool to ensure that the latest generation doesn't repeat them. As she feels that the girls are a little more ready, she receives word to return back to Rome, that another group of slayers has met up there, and Buffy once more, changes locations for what feels like the millionth time in a span of just a couple of years.

The beginning of 2006 comes and goes without much of an incident, just the battle with bad guys which has once more become a more usual occurrence in Buffy's life, and while hope is beginning to wear thin with the world, Buffy is convinced that things have to get better. They've gotten worse after all, right? The saying goes that things get worse before they get better, so.. where is the better? The better just had to be coming sooner or later, and they just had to wait it out. Life at this point is seeming to be one of those things that she goes through the motions with, the whole eat, sleep, train and get the new slayers into shape, and repeat. Although if she knew what would come next, she would have definitely preferred to have the mundane existence of things rather than what came next. Once Mid-2006 hit, tragedy also struck. Buffy had remained in contact with her friends all throughout the past couple of years, even stopping off to visit them every now and then, and Willow even eventually joined her on her travels, after deciding she'd had her fill of Brazil. The two hadn't heard very much from Xander in a long time, and were both wondering how he was doing, but didn't know that one day they wouldn't have to look very far. Because one day, when the two women least expected it, they found their best friend coming to them, as if trying to warn them of something, whatever it was, and he was unable to. No, the damage done to him was far too severe, and Xander Harris died in the arms of his two best friends, the two women he'd been attempting to look out for with his dying breath. And as with any other death of a loved one in Buffy's short life, she did not take this one very well. The loss of people she knew and cared about, she knew was something that could still happen, but she had never thought that she'd have to watch one of her best friends die right there before her. It was she who was the a Slayer, not them. She was the one with the expiration date on her life, one that meant that she could stop living at any moment due to a demon or other baddie getting the best of her. And it is because of her best friend's death, that Buffy begins to spiral downward, putting herself on auto-pilot and just trying to make it through the next day, and the next with the spark of hope that she was so desperately trying to cling to before, gone.

The months after the death of one of her best friends, and the continued decline of the state of the universe starts to weigh heavily on Buffy. Everything is going by hellishly slow, and she occasionally wishes for things to just end. Even if it's just for a second, she still wishes this. It had once been pointed out to her that all Slayers have a death wish, and as the world continues to spin into oblivion, the peace and warmth she felt when she died and went to Heaven would almost seem welcomed. She knew that her little sister, who wasn't so little anymore, would be in good hands because Willow was still around and would look out for her. Even if Willow was in almost as bad a state as she was. It was true, Xander had been the heart of the team. The one who saw everything, the things that everyone else didn't see. And the absence was obvious as the days went on. Every night, Buffy made a point of going patrolling on her own, finding no need for back up and for every baddie she came up against, her fight became more reckless, more erratic. This all continued, night after night, until one night Buffy gets so caught up in the fight that she doesn't realize that she is no longer fighting to the best of her ability. She always prided herself in that "I'm going to kick your ass" mentality, that as it began to fade, she never noticed that despite the fact she still actively fought back each night and fell her foes, she lacked the usual passion and conviction she normally did. And it was on this night that the woman known as Buffy Summers, a Chosen One, a Slayer, died. When the demon that she was facing off with managed to get the upper hand, Buffy gave into that death wish that she knew all along she had, and while not fully surrendering to the demon before her, he did snuff her life out with his hand, leaving her there to rot until later those that she loved who were still left, came looking for her. But she'd finally found peace, at least so she thought.

Flash forward a couple of years, to 2008 and the time Buffy had away from the world was cut short once more. Once again, Buffy was brought back, this time for the third time and after a much more extended period of time between her death and resurrection. Buffy was brought back, as were others from the world she knew, her friends and family, and they were all placed into a world that was unfamiliar to them yet strangely at the same time very familiar as it was beginning to take the shape of the world that she died in. Guess the world of a Slayer is never truly done, even after she's dead and buried.

Social

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family

• Hank Summers — absent; father (in the whole sperm donor sense).
• Joyce Summers — deceased; mother.
• Dawn Summers — The little sister.
• Willow Rosenberg — The best friend who is like a sister to her.
• Xander Harris — The best friend who is like the goofy brother.
• Rupert Giles — The surrogate father figure and watcher.

friends & acquaintances

• Faith Lehane
• Connor Reilly
• Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
• Daniel Osbourne
• Samuel Winchester

romantic

• Oliver Pike
• Angel
• Scott Hope
• Parker Abrams
• Riley Finn
• Spike
• The Immortal

enemies

• anyone evil
• The Master
• Mayor Wilkins
• Adam
• Glory
• The First

Miscellaneous

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• Distinguishing Marks — Vampire bite mark scar on the left side of her neck, this was given to her by The Master, and later on separate occasions both Angel and Dracula have bitten the same spot on her neck.

• Likes — Buffy has Gossip Girl and the new 90210 set up on her TiVo. She has become a pro at learning how to text, and it often leads to those pesky things called overages. Ice cubes on the back of her neck. Rock music. Pop music; current favorites include - The Veronicas, Rihanna, Superchic[k], Christina Aguilera's new song and Britney Spears' too. Techno music. Guys with wicked energy. Shopping. Shiny things. Slaying (yes, she likes it). Weapons. Dancing. Clubs. Bad ice skating movies.

• Dislikes — Preacher religious-y types. Hospitals. Guns. Insane asylums. Being drowned. Research. Garden gnomes. Twilight (it's totally lame, okay?). Vamps that don't get all dusty and are immune to stakeage.

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In the process of editing, kthnx.