Oh, I'm very bothered by the rape.
I don't care if it is an orgy of death, there's still such a thing as a napkin.
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Elena - Jan 16, 2004 6:41:20 pm PST #7198 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
JoeCrow - Jan 16, 2004 7:04:39 pm PST #7199 of 10001
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
What if spreading the power around to all the potentials put a full stop to the slayer line?
Squee!!
Someone else came up with my fanwank!! Independently, even!!
[sobs with relief]
I'm not a freak!! Yay me!
[hugs -T in gratitude]
Gleebo - Jan 17, 2004 3:07:54 am PST #7200 of 10001
"God...my brilliance is now becoming a bit of a burden...get back to me." Dr. Cox - Scrubs
I really need to buy all of Fray.
-t - Jan 17, 2004 3:19:02 am PST #7201 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
[hugs JoeCrow back]
Nice corner you got here :)
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 17, 2004 6:21:03 am PST #7202 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Oh, I'm in the camp that at least thinks it'll be a long time before the Slayer power recharges from what Willow did to it. However, considering that one Slayer has been sufficient to avert apocalypses in the past and at least keep vampires from unrestrained population explosion, I think that hundreds or thousands of them should be able to sweep the earth clean of everything less than D'Hoffryn-level monsters.
Gleebo - Jan 17, 2004 6:48:33 am PST #7203 of 10001
"God...my brilliance is now becoming a bit of a burden...get back to me." Dr. Cox - Scrubs
Wonder what the eye of Beljoxa has to say about that whole Slayer power transfer thing.
helentm - Jan 17, 2004 10:24:16 am PST #7204 of 10001
Religion isn't the cause of wars. It's the excuse. - Christopher Brookmyre
Maybe it's evil? It didn't tell them anything helpful, just stuff that would depress the crap out of them. And that'd explain what happened to the Slayer powers are out of whack theory, which just vanished. Maybe it wasn't real to start with.
DebetEsse - Jan 17, 2004 4:31:33 pm PST #7205 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
See, my thing with the thoery that, since there are lots of Slayers now, even if we don't get more for a while, it's all good is a thing we learned in Sociology that made me write "One girl in all the world" in the margin of my notes. All that build up is to say the thing in the next paragraph.
If there are other people who can help, any individual who could help is less likely to. That is, especially after the initial "killing vampires is so nifty", I bet that Slayer participation in Slaying is going to drop off. A lot of them are going to want normal lives, and those who are willing to Slay will get burnt out.
-t - Jan 18, 2004 4:41:42 am PST #7206 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Someone Else's Vampire?
Interesting idea. That could definitely make for problems. How much autonomy are the Slayers gonna get, now, anyway?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 18, 2004 6:07:15 am PST #7207 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
That is, especially after the initial "killing vampires is so nifty", I bet that Slayer participation in Slaying is going to drop off. A lot of them are going to want normal lives, and those who are willing to Slay will get burnt out.
The initial rush may be enough to do the trick. How many vampires and incarnate demons can there be in the world? My impression was that hundreds, if not thousands, of Slayers were called. If it averages out to five or ten demons per Slayer, I don't think many of them would burn out, and ones who band together to work would have an even easier time of it and less burnout/trauma. Certainly none of them is going to face the kind of crushing responsibility buffy had to for years.