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Player Information
Player name: Kristi
Contact: rageblackouts@plurk or rageiscute@gmail.com
Other characters in the game: Ronan Lynch fictor & Matt Murdock preemptiveforgiveness
Reserve Link: (Link to Reserve)


Character Information
Character Name: Buffy Summers
Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Canon Point: mid Season 10
Species: Human (slayer)
History:

Pretty thorough

Personality

Buffy has layers. Like a blooming onion fried and complete with that spicy sauce at the middle, she'd tell you. It's true though. The outside layer is quirky, bouncy, ditzy and a little self absorbed. She has a tendency to make things about her even when they aren't really about her. The outside layer also has things that are a little deeper. She's self deprecating at times. She has a great, gallows sense of humor. She rolls with the punches and sometimes she pouts about how hard the punches hurt. She's confident, talkative to the point of rambling and open-minded. She's fiercely protective and there's little that invokes her wrath more than someone she cares about being harmed.



The second layer is comprised of things that are a little harder to admit to. She'd say those bits have been left in the fryer too long. She can be bitter, resentful and tactless. She's hard-headed and stubborn beyond the telling of it. One of Buffy's greatest strengths in battle is that she doesn't know how to quit. It's not even in the girl's vocabulary. She's been dead twice and that's only made her stronger. She's resourceful and this is also one of her greatest strengths. At the end of the day, she'll do what it takes to get the job done even if what it takes makes her question who she's become. She's loyal but she can be a bit of a control freak bitch. She can also be impulsive, working with her gut instinct and her heart more than her head. She says things she doesn't mean in a disagreement and she's very slow to take the words back. In fact apologies are something that Buffy sucks at. She can be self destructive when depressed—not a condition she usually finds herself in—pushing herself to the point of breaking and enduring things because she thinks it's what she deserves. She's wickedly possessive of everything from her scythe to her 'people'. Although she's learning to let go a little at a time. Living with a gaggle of girls has mellowed her possessiveness a bit. Sometimes she's contradictory and she has no idea what she wants. A normal life? Except then she starts craving slaying? Destiny spread out a bit to other people's shoulders? She misses being the only one. Some of this is lingering immaturity. Some of it is because her child hood was ganked from her so violently. Some of it is just that no one, least of all Buffy Summers, is a saint. 

She can be jealous, petty and selfish on a day to day basis but when the cards are down and everything counts Buffy is selfless. She has sacrificed the things she wants and the things she needs in order to save a thankless world. She carries around a boatload of guilt and regrets. Most people's should have's, would have's and what if's don't come with nearly the amount of weight that Buffy's do. She's not much of a brooder (she tends to shop her brood-worthy thoughts away) but she's always aware of that list of things she could have prevented or the people she could have saved if she were faster/stronger/better. On the nights those get to her, she hits something until they go away. In fact that's the way she handles most problems. It settles her, lets her think and gets rid of emotions that get in the way so she can deal with something more calmly.



Onto the third layer. Underneath all her faults (and there are many) Buffy is a true blue heroine. She's the girl that saves the day in spite of all the odds; the blonde that goes into the alley with monsters; the girl that everyone expects to die within the first five minutes of the movie and she surprises them all. She's unpredictable. She loves being an underdog because when everyone's expectations are low she can come out shining. When she sets a goal, she will meet it because she can't stand failing. It's too much like quitting and we've already discussed how she doesn't do that. She's a rebel. When someone says you can't, she responds with just watch me. Rules are made to be broken because in her experience rules are made by old men sitting in towers with cups of tea. Buffy will do what she thinks is right even when it's the hard decision because that's what heroes and leaders do. They make the hard decisions. She didn't ask to be made The Slayer but after years of living that life she's finally comfortable in her skin. She knows what she has to do. She knows that it's going to be ugly and she knows that if she doesn't do it someone else will have to. She'd rather protect the world in general from the kind of things she does. 

And at the bottom of all this (the crunchy, black fried bits left on the plate when you've eaten the entire blooming onion) Buffy has some very deep seated issues. There are Daddy issues, commitment issues, relationship issues, hero issues and a couple of issues of Seventeen she's ashamed to admit she read. Love is pain. It's something that life has taught her and an idea she embraces and believes. No she doesn't want it to be painful but part of her thinks it has to be. Otherwise it isn't love. This applies to all forms of love, not just romantically although it is doubled when it comes to romantic love. People leave. They disappoint you. They hurt you. They break up with you in inappropriate places. No one will ever be what you really want them to be and in a way she's okay with that because she doesn't think she's ever what anyone really wants or needs her to be anyway. She wears too many hats for that. She doesn't think about the future because her goal in life is to make 30. Not many slayers do. It's hard to plan a future around apocalypses and impending death. She's a bit of a masochist in all ways. As The General, she's solid, she's strong and while she struggles with 'why me' or 'I wish I were sixteen again', she's already buckled in and down. She's a little cold and hard because of this but she covers it (when not actively at war) with a veneer of ditsy, bubbly, blonde that never quite reaches her eyes these days. She's also a little hopeful right now. She may not be able to live a normal life ever but she is finally comfortable with her power. She's reached a kind of acceptance about her power and her life for the first time ever.
She tries too hard to be what everyone wants her to be, friend, hero, mentor, daughter, sister etc ad nauseum. It wears her out, wears her thin and it's a fruitless exercise. The fact that she continues the vicious cycle is part stubborn, part being human and part rebellion. If she stops trying to be what everyone needs her to be then she's compromised herself somehow and she's giving into in some way what the original Watcher's Council wanted her to be; a weapon and nothing more. She refuses to accept that for herself, for the other slayers and she's not going to give a bunch of dead (literally) English guys the satisfaction of 'having won'. She'll do this slayer thing on her terms, thank you very much because that's how she's always done it and it's worked so far.

Specialty Skills: Refer to the Specialty Skills post and list the traits that your character has shown in canon out beside each subheading
Action Skills

Management -
Hygiene, interrogation, moxie
Stealth -

Concealment, high alert, sneaking,
Violence -

agility, demolition, energy weapons, field weapons, hand weapons, projectile weapons, thrown weapons, unarmed combat, vehicular combat

Knowledge Skills

Hardware -

Weapon and armor maintenance

Software -

NA

Wetware -

NA

Other Skills (not listed) -

Strong leadership skills, natural at tactical strategy, resourcefulness, witty banter during stressful situations/combat

Mutant Abilities:

Super strength, enhanced speed/reflexes, natural ability with all weapons, enhanced aim, prophetic dreams, expert in hand-to-hand combat and most fighting styles, enhanced agility, enhanced durability, accelerated healing.

Service Firm and Position: Very special forces
Samples
Action Spam Samples:

Remember that time Buffy kissed Faith?

patrol is a thing she does

Prose Log Sample:

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Is fourth walling acceptable for your character? Absolutely. I love it.
If yes, are there any restrictions or notes you'd like other players to know? Not really. She knows she’s notorious as a slayer and she’ll assume that any and all internet, TV and book exposure is Andrew’s fault.
Would you like to volunteer your character to be a selected target of the Anti-Special Society (ASS)? Yup
Due to past trouble with Specials, some have been given specific trigger phrases to assist in controlling their traitorous tendencies. Does your character have a trigger phrase and if so, what is it? apple asparagus
Do you agree that your character will be held accountable to the terms of Treason and Punishment if they are found to be guilty of treason? Yes