Buffy Summers

Buffy Anne Summers is the title character in the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the television show of the same name (though it should be noted that, being different interpretations of an original concept, these are actually two seperate entities, as explained below). The character was introduced in the financially unsuccessful movie in which she was played by Kristy Swanson. She gained popularity after being transferred to the small screen where she was played by Sarah Michelle Gellar.

The Legend

Buffy is not just "A" vampire slayer, she is the latest in the "long line of mystical warriors" known as THE Vampire Slayers. Legend speaks of Large Demons known as "The Old Ones" who walked the earth. Some of these demons were as tall as skyscrapers and were ferociously powerful. But they lost their purchase on this dimension and were driven out by certain magicks. The way was being paved for human beings. The last demon to leave was a smaller demon that fed off the blood of humans. It mixed it's blood with the human's and a new demonic breed was born called the Vampire. Many other demons bred with humans through some particular method causing the more "tainted", "human hybrid forms" of demons that walk the earth today. The Vampires, though not the strongest of half-breeds, spread quicker than possibly any other half-breed demon and still far surpassed the strength and speed of the strongest and fastest human could ever hope to acheive . The head elders of each village decided to take some action and create a power slightly stronger than the Vampires but one that they might be able to control. They took the power, essence and might of a demon. And they channeled it...into a young girl they had chained to the earth. The girl had no choice. This became her sacred duty and responsibility. For only SHE had the power to stand successfully against the forces of darkness. She was the first Vampire Slayer. However being only slightly superior to Vampires and other halfbreeds, the Slayer's life was often brutal and short-lived. The Elders (whose descendents went on to become the Watchers) had foreseen this and imbued this power with another speel to guarantee that it would live on. Like the First Slayer, there were hundreds of girls in each generation that had the potential to carry this power within their bodies. They tended to be girls who were physically fitter than most of their peers. When the First Slayer died in battle, the power was transferred to one of the potential girls. Down over the millenia with each girl inheriting the power....

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