The
First
Slayer was created by the Shadow Men, three very
old, black men, who spoke Swahili. They created the Slayer by merging into
a young girl the energy of a pure demon, its spirit, its heart, against
her will (Get it Done). As Dracula suggested (Buffy
vs Dracula), the Slayer's and vampire's origins are really the
same: rooted in darkness. The Shadow Men became the Watchers, who
watched the Slayers.
In each generation
there was a Chosen One. Alone, she had to fight the evil forces
that threatened the human kind. When she died, another was called immediately.
They were very young (15-18 years old) when the call happened — and, usually,
they died young, too, killed by their natural enemies, the vampires. Potential
Slayers — girls who had the potential for being called one day — could
be recognized and trained by Watchers, before being chosen. Slayers have
super strength and their wounds heal faster than a normal person's.
Get
It Done
(2003)
Principal [Robin Wood] gives Buffy an "emergency bag" that was owned by his mother,
the Slayer Spike killed in New York, in 1977. Inside the bag the Scoobies
find weapons, a large old book written in Sumerian, and a big, unopenable
box. Inside the box (which is open by Buffy), it is a copper turntable
device, a lamp, and some African-looking shadow puppets. According to the
book, you put them in motion, and they tell you a story — a Origin Myth.
The story of the very first Slayer.
First, there
is the Earth. Then there came the Demons. After demons, there came Men.
The Men found a Girl. The Men took the Girl. To fight all Demons. They
chained her to the Earth.
A portal is
open in the Summer's house and Buffy jumps in. She goes back in time; she
finds herself in a desert, and approaches a group of three men. The men
rock back and forth, chanting. She walks toward them. These are the Shadow
Men:
Shadow Men:
We have been here since the beginning. Now, we are almost at the end.
Buffy:
OK, and the "neat" of it just left me. End of what?
Shadow Man
3: You are the Hellmouth's last Guardian.
Buffy:
Tell
me what I need to know. I came to learn.
Shadow Man
1:
We cannot give you knowledge. Only power. We are at the beginning.
The source of your strength. The well of the Slayer's power. This is why
we have brought you here.
Buffy:
I
thought I brought me here.
The three men
pound their staffs into the ground, rhythmically, in unison, and chant,
as one of them steps forward holding a small, wooden box. He places it
on the floor, in the center of a painted symbol, and opens the box. All
three Shadow Men step away, and stand like guards, holding their staffs.
Shadow Men:
Herein
lies your truest strength. The energy of the Demon. Its spirit. Its heart.
Buffy:
This
is how you...
Shadow Man:
...Created
the Slayer? Yes.
And slowly,
a mist begins to rise from the open box
Shadow Men:
This
is how it was then. How it must be now. It must become one with you.
Buffy:
I
get a say in this and I'm saying no...
Shadow Man
2: Merge, live, and grow inside you.
Buffy:
No!
Shadow Man
1:
This is how it was then. How it must be now. You don't understand.
You need our power. To reject us is to disrupt the Slayer line.
Shadow Man
2:
You are making things worse.
Buffy:
Good.
The Shadow
Men lift their quarter staves, spread out, and attack Buffy. That's okay,
she's got the chain. And with her legs free, she's good with the kicking.
Buffy:
You
think I came all this way to get knocked up by some demon dust? Think again,
old guys.
Buffy refuses
taking the power offered by the Shadow Men; Willow reopens the portal and
the Slayer return home, safe and sound.
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In 2003, the
Slayer Buffy Anne Summers changed the rule "In each generation there was
a Chosen One". She decided to use the essence of the [Scythe],
a weapon that contained the energy and history of many Slayers, to change
the destiny of herself, Faith's, and the Slayers in Training. Thus, after
the powerful witch Willow did a spell on the Scythe, every girl in the
world who could be a Slayer, became a Slayer — then, and generations to
come (Chosen).
Slayers
All in A Row
The First
Slayer - Primitive girl, appeared on the Scoobies' dreams, and tried
to kill all them. She was evil.
Slayer from China - Killed
by vampire [Spike]
(he bit her) in 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, in a Buddhist temple
in China. Yet in Spike's arms, the girl says "Tell my mother I'm sorry...",
to what Spike answers: "I'm sorry, luv, I don't speak Chinese." Afterwards,
he has sex with his beloved [Drusilla]
— "You ever hear them saying the blood of a Slayer is a powerful aphrodisiac?",
he tells Dru.
Slayer from New York (Nikki)
- Killed by Spike (he broke her neck) inn 1977, in the subway (Fool
For Love). He took her black leather coat, which became his trade
mark. This Slayer had a 4-year-old son (Robin Wood), who was brought up
by her Watcher and ended up as Principal at the Sunnydale High. The First
Evil told him that was Spike who killed his mother, and Wood tried to revenge
her death by killing Spike — but failed (Lies My Parents Told Me).
Buffy Anne Summers - All-American
girl from Los Angeles, Slayer in Sunnydale since 1997. The Watcher Merrick
told her she was the Chosen One when she still lived in Los Angeles (Buffy,
The Vampire Slayer, the movie).
Kendra - From Jamaica, called
after Buffy died for the first time, in 1997 (Prophecy
Girl), in the hands of the Master. Killed by vampire Drusilla
in 1998 (Becoming 1).
Faith - American from Boston,
Massachusetts, called after Kendra died. Faith is the Slayer whose death
would call the next Chosen One.
**For more details on Buffy, Kendra,
Faith and Nikki see [Buffy
Characters]**
SITs - Slayers in Training
aka Potential Slayers. They were identified very early by the Watcher's
Council and trained by them; the Council wanted that the Chosen One was
already trained when her time came, what didn't happen with Buffy, for
instance.
In 2002, SITs from all over the world
(Turkey, England, Germany) started being killed (along with their Watchers)
by the [Harbingers],
the priests who worked for the [First
Evil]. So, three of them — Kennedy, Annabelle and Molly — were taken
by Giles to Sunnydale (Bring on the Night), in order for
Buffy to protect them.
In the following weeks, the Summers'
house was turned into a Board House for Slayers in Training — with dozens
of them arriving from everywhere: Chloe, Vi, Rona, Amanda, Chao-Ahn, Shannon,
and many, many others. While Amanda was a friend of Dawn's (both girls
attended Sunnydale High), Kennedy and Willow started a relationship.
In the course of the fight against
the First Evil, some of them died: Annabelle was killed by the [Turok-Han]
the First Evil had just released from the Hellmouth (Never Leave
Me); Chloe, influenced by the First, committed suicide (Get
it Done); Molly and a unnamed girl were killed by [Caleb]
(Dirty Girls); and Amanda and Chao-Ahn died in the final
battle against the Turok-Hans, in the Hellmouth (Chosen).
