Maybe slayers also receive some sort of "joy in killing things" emotional response along with their physical abilities when they're called. Or that the girls who get called are automatically predisposed to enjoy the act of slaying. I think that all the slayers we were shown genuinely liked killing things, even Buffy who rarely admitted it.
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.
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Maysa - Jan 18, 2004 1:00:01 pm PST #7208 of 10001
Thomash - Jan 18, 2004 1:05:53 pm PST #7209 of 10001
I have a plan.
I forget the name of the episode. You know, locked in the crypt by B and S to kill their first vampire. But when the Potentials were put through their paces the one thing they all agreed on afterward was the rush they got from personal combat.
Elena - Jan 18, 2004 1:09:56 pm PST #7210 of 10001
Thanks for all the fish.
Certainly Amanda enjoyed beating up boys, even before she was turned. Though Buffy herself, pre-chosing, seemed more likely to want to shop than scrap.
Thomash - Jan 18, 2004 1:15:07 pm PST #7211 of 10001
I have a plan.
It all seemed to come as a realization to them. I guess it's the whole death-is-on-the-line jolt of power and confidence.
Connie Neil - Jan 18, 2004 2:35:53 pm PST #7212 of 10001
brillig
they all agreed on afterward was the rush they got from personal combat.
Tisn't only Slayers who get that. Ask any SCA fighter. Except for the fact that I hate sweating that much, I'd be out there still.
Vortex - Jan 18, 2004 6:24:20 pm PST #7213 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Lots of people enjoy an adrenaline rush. doesn't matter where they get it.
JohnSweden - Jan 19, 2004 12:05:46 pm PST #7214 of 10001
I can't even.
Tisn't only Slayers who get that. Ask any SCA fighter. Except for the fact that I hate sweating that much, I'd be out there still.
Word. Well, three, actually. [Pennsic field battle] And the sweat is of the good, it carries all those pheromones and stuff.
Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2004 12:08:59 pm PST #7215 of 10001
brillig
Of course, when Hubby's reliably back on his feet, I'll be a member of his siege engine crew. Still, it's few wives these days who can say they've stood on the field of battle side by side with their husband, covering each other's backs.
How do you find the old SCA fighter? War stories at the drop of a hat. Heck, we won't even wait for you to find a hat.
Miracleman - Jan 19, 2004 12:11:06 pm PST #7216 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I'd love to do SCA and partake in Pennsic. But I don't have the patience to squire or the moolah to make mine own armor.
Guess I'll have to be happy beating on my friends with bamboo and whalin' on a heavy bag with my fists.
Which does not, much to my disappointment, include wearing armor.
JohnSweden - Jan 19, 2004 12:15:28 pm PST #7217 of 10001
I can't even.
How do you find the old SCA fighter? War stories at the drop of a hat. Heck, we won't even wait for you to find a hat.
Hee. That hat hasn't a chance in hell of hitting the ground, in any case. No shit, there we were ...
Oh, speaking of which, did I tell the story of the time I went to the PBP 2002 instead of going to Estrella? Friends of mine found the website with the pictures of me with Buffy friends and Buffy celebs and photoshopped them. They put up an alternative site with a bunch of Estrella pics and me (from the PBP) inserted into them, as if I was in the desert instead of Hollywood. No, no, they weren't mad (or jealous) at all.
MM, did you see these pics when I linked earlier this year? Pennsic photos
You can see my purple shoulder, I'm the second from the left in that pic.