Everyone knows the canonical life-story of Buffy Summers, the Sunnydale Slayer; it's an epic tale of heroism, tragic romance, mental trauma, and survival despite often-impossible odds.
But everyone is the hero of their own life-story. Whether it's an epic, a tragedy, or a grim warning tale with an unhappy ending, is up to them. Of course, they also have to realise that their story is often a footnote to someone else's... or a sequel to another epic that they've never heard.
As a Slayer, Buffy is a hero from a long lineage of heroes. Here, we start to examine the story of her predecessor, wiser and stronger in some ways, more foolish and frail in others, but no less a hero, and no less beset by the odds.
You've already seen the Scooby Gang. Now, meet the Napier Volunteers.
"The most dangerous people on the planet are True Believers. […] most of the do-gooders today? They're doing it out of anger."
– Beau of the Fifth Column, Let's talk about a cop asking me for training....
But everyone is the hero of their own life-story. Whether it's an epic, a tragedy, or a grim warning tale with an unhappy ending, is up to them. Of course, they also have to realise that their story is often a footnote to someone else's... or a sequel to another epic that they've never heard.
As a Slayer, Buffy is a hero from a long lineage of heroes. Here, we start to examine the story of her predecessor, wiser and stronger in some ways, more foolish and frail in others, but no less a hero, and no less beset by the odds.
You've already seen the Scooby Gang. Now, meet the Napier Volunteers.
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"The most dangerous people on the planet are True Believers. […] most of the do-gooders today? They're doing it out of anger."
– Beau of the Fifth Column, Let's talk about a cop asking me for training....
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