Riverview App

[whattingawhat]

player information
● name: Kristi
● age: 44
● contact: rageblackouts or email rageiscute@gmail.com
● other characters: NA

character information
● name: Buffy Summers
● canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
● canon point: beginning of S10 comics
● age: 28

● (canon) background: here
● (original) world:

● abilities: super strength, speed and agility. She’s also got accelerated healing as well. She has a sort of sixth sense when things monsters are afoot. It’s more from experience than from anything related to being a slayer (she should have a spidey sense when it comes to vampires, but canon says hers is broken; she later is shown to get a bad feeling when monsters and things are afoot. I explain this as experience). She doesn’t need nearly as much sleep as most humans (2-4 hours a night will do her).

● strengths: Buffy is amazing when it comes to thinking on her feet. She’s resourceful and she’s often underestimated, which she makes good use of. She’s also good at acting as a leader. She’s learned to work with a diverse group of people and she knows her limits and powers. She won’t hesitate to throw herself into the fray or sacrifice herself for someone else. She’s not afraid to do the hard things. Her learning curve when it comes to weapons and combat is off the charts, though her style is often unique to say the least. She is loyal and determined. The word quit isn’t even in this girl’s vocabulary. Despite everything that’s happened to her, Buffy is generally optimistic. She knows how to keep her head in a battle and her humor up.



● weaknesses: Buffy can be a control freak. She can also be a bitch. She’s not good with authority figures or taking orders from people she doesn’t respect and her respect is earned. She’s prone to taking off and doing her own thing if she doesn’t agree with the thing being done. She’s horrible at any sort of subterfuge. She’s stubborn and independent, which can be weaknesses or strengths depending on the circumstance. The people she loves can be a weakness and can be used against her. She’s quick to throw herself to the wolves, convinced that she can come back leading the pack (she’s usually right, but it sometimes prevents her from looking at other options). Buffy isn’t great with tech (though she’s managed the basics) nor does she particularly care for change. She’s often impatient, horrible at waiting and she uses flippancy to cover how much she cares, to foster a (false) sense of her incompetence with others (IE she’ll sit and examine her nails when she’s supposed to be keeping watch; she is keeping watch, but she knows that having someone underestimate her works in her favor).

● skills (optional): leadership, resourcefulness, expert with most weapons (though she doesn’t like guns and will choose other more primal weapons), excels at hand-to-hand combat, ability to teach others. She won't be arriving with anything from home. In fact, she'll be wearing an orange jumpsuit and not have any weapons. She'll make do though. She always does. She'll eventually want to join perimeter guard when she realizes there's a need for it, and even before she joins she'll probably do her own patrols because that's what she's used to doing and what she's comfortable doing.

● housing (optional): Community housing is perfect for me.

CRAU from Alpha Complex:

• Buffy was immediately put on the Very Special Forces squad when she arrived in Alpha Complex

• She and Derek Hale bonded as they were room mates; they discovered they had a great deal in common including the supernatural angle as well as the belief that their memories were not glitches as the computer told them but memories from a former life. Derek bought her a gas mask (earning some of her loyalty) and they immediately set up a routine of exploring after lights were out and they were supposed to be gassed to sleep. Nothing particular really came of these explorations, but it did form a quick bond between she and Derek.

• Buffy eventually, grudgingly gained respect for Steve Rogers (her boss) and begin to work with him rather than simply attempting to annoy him (she begin to annoy him as well as work with him).

• Buffy meets Alcide when he arrives and joins the army part of things. He is her other room mate. During a drugged bout with coffee, Buffy and Alcide let go of their inhabitations and end up sleeping together. Afterwards, things are awkward and Buffy feels guilty because back home she’s got a good relationship with Spike. This evolves into a push-pull back and forth sort of UST between she and Alcide. She likes him but guilt (and a general wariness of romantic relationships) has her keeping him at a distance romantically, but they become great friends.

• Buffy makes herself an integral part of the VSF in Alpha. She becomes someone trusted to lead. There are riots and attacks almost daily that she deals with in the Complex. She has to adjust to fighting without her powers. She catches someone who shoots Steve Rogers.

• In an attack on the Specials in the Complex, she gets a burst of her powers and accidentally kills a human in the process. She will be dealing with this when she comes to Riverview. It’s the first time she’s ever killed a human so she’s going to feeling a big dose of guilt and she might freeze up if she has to attack something humanoid looking.


Having had to fight without her powers is going to make Buffy appreciate those powers a great deal. At the end of S7, she finally, finally came to terms with her powers and being The Slayer. There have been some complications and some issues with her and her powers (and how she feels about them) throughout recent years (S8 & 9 of the comics) but she’s always returned to that acceptance and comfort. Having those powers taken away from her made her examine her slayerness sans powers (IE she’s still the slayer without her powers; it’s not what she can do, it’s who she is). Despite having to cope with killing someone during a burst of power, she will be grateful to have her powers back. She’ll probably spend several days testing those powers to make sure they’re not going to blip in and out on her.

Meeting and forming close friendships with Derek and Alcide have taught her that she needs people, even if they aren’t (yet) her people. It makes her more apt to befriend new people, people from other realities and dimensions. Even the relationships she formed in AC that won’t be represented here (like the one with Steve Rogers) have affected her and changed her. She might be a little more apt to give someone in charge some slack because she’s learned to trust and respect someone that wasn’t from her world or her inner circle.

Buffy was in Alpha Complex a little bit longer than Derek and Alcide (about 3 weeks to a month) and while it made her a little more wary of computers and tech, most of what the experience taught her has had a positive impact.

● network username: theslayer

● network sample:

[The video clicks on to show a blonde girl leaning too close to the video. Even from what can be seen of her face, she looks ticked off. Her voice reflects the opposite.]

I think you've got the wrong slayer. I'm Buffy [Significant pause]

The blonde one [Another significant pause]

You know...the good one?

[Oh and there's a nose scrunch and her 'uh oh well I might have done something wrong' look]

Is this about Sunnydale? Because the town was full of vampi-asbestos. And okay it sort of destroyed the mall and that's definitely on the side of bad but everyone had already left...because of the asbestos.

[Another pause as she considers this]

Or the...no...Are you sure you're not some freaky deaky demon who decided pulling me into a Hell dimension was a good idea 'cause been there, done that and this doesn't look good for you.[Okay, so that sounded as pissed as she looks]

● prose/action sample:

Buffy is exhausted but then she thinks she's been exhausted since she was sixteen years old. Tired body does not mean tired mind and with everything that she's got to ponder over sleep is more elusive than a vampire ever tried to be so she climbs out the window to sit on the fire escape, grabbing her scythe on the way out. She doesn't think she's going to need to kill any baddies but it centers her, calms her—a little like valium with the potential to be lethal.

She killed Willow. Buffy runs the fingertips of her left hand over the curve of the scythe's blade. Blood springs to the tips of her fingers instantly like four tiny papercuts then runs her hand down the wooden shaft, smearing her blood along it. She buried this in Willow's body all the way up to the curved blade. She remembers how it felt, a little more resistance then if she'd used the blade. Witches don't dust, even the blackest of them but shove something sharp and pointy through their hearts...

you'dbesurprisedwhatastakethroughtheheartwillkill



Willow doesn't know and one day it will be Buffy's job to tell her. That's the thing about being The Slayer. The things that nobody else wants to do always fall on her shoulders and she wouldn't have it any other way no matter how much she hates it. It's part of protecting them and in the end, selfishly, she'll admit Dark Willow was right. It's not so much how you die as who kills you. It's who you'll let kill you. It's the last thing you want to remember and you do remember. She knows you remember in heaven and in hell. 

She reaches up and pinches the bridge of her nose with fingertips that are already half healed.

Death is your gift



And it can be dealt or told or screamed. It can be sacrificed and given. Death isn't always unwelcome and it's taken her a lot of years to learn that and even more to admit that. That doesn't mean it was easy to slide the scythe through Willow's heart and she's happy for the pain that resides somewhere just beneath her rib cage. When it stops hurting, when it stops making her throat close with tears she will never shed then she's not human anymore and she's not much of a slayer because love is pain and a slayer has to love. She has to love life. She has to love death. She has to love the world and the kill and the feel of a stake in her hand. 

She has to be the only weapon.

She has to be more than a weapon. 

There are rules and exceptions and they all get turned around in her head which is why she tells all the girls that instinct is best even when Giles poo-poos that advice. It's the way she's made it this far; instinct and heart and friends. She makes sure they know that's important too. Slayers need a reason to keep fighting. Slayers need friends.

And she's back full circle to the reason she's out here instead of in there. She killed Willow. Her best friend in the whole world.

And whether she likes it or not in the same situation, she'd have to do it again.

Maybe that's curse of the slayer, If you love it, if you want it, if it's not absolutely essential to your being then you have to kill it. You have to watch the light die and feel the body go limp. You have to have the blood of all the things you love on your hands.

Sugar and spice and the blood of everything nice. That's what slayers are made of.