#vampire slayer

I still say the best spinoff they could possibly ever make would be all the Chosen Slayers getting deactivated, then Buffy and a Shanshu’d Angel (IMO, this plot really would only work with Angel, because it actually matches his story arc, not Spike’s, to want a human life and fatherhood) have a daughter who grows up not knowing the truth about her parents (and half-brother!) until it’s forced to come out.

I would particularly note that the first thing that happens to newly-called Slayers is their prophetic dreams. If ever there was a way to start breaking secrets to this new heroine that also serves as flashback exposition featuring the old shows, this seems custom-built for it. It’s exposition for the audience that never saw the old shows as well as an introduction to a key Slayer ability, but most importantly, it’s personal family revelations that go far deeper than historical flashbacks of unrelated persons or monsters that mean nothing personal.

These would be scandalous secrets for a baby Slayer, given Buffy was the rule-breaking Slayer who is most famous for having romantic relationships with the very creatures she’s supposed to slay. Angelus would be the worst family secret of all! This story has all the makings of an existential crisis before acceptance. That would also be a good place to drop in Connor’s history. Buffy never actually got to react to that bombshell either, so that would be an interesting drama with her, as well.

Buffy and Angel both tended to feature heavily in prophetic dreams, so it also just feels right to continue that.

If there’s some reason why David Boreanaz (who, let’s face it, is really not getting younger and SEAL Team can’t go on forever) can’t or is unwilling to appear, one could have an explanation that Wolfram & Hart has had him trapped in a holding dimension for years as punishment.

You could even build an arc around that with Buffy or the daughter trying to find him. Basically, a kind way of explaining Angel’s absence if necessary and Buffy unfortunately having to mirror her single mother (which was a fear of hers), despite it being no fault of Angel’s. It would be yet more cruelty for him to miss out on yet another child growing up, which would be a dramatic plot point itself. It could actually become a story where he does matter quite a lot, despite initial absence or mystery.

An even bigger shock than mom having Slayer superpowers and a world full of supernatural forces would be a reveal that dad is a 394+-year-old (depends on if you count hell–in a modern-day spinoff, Angel is rapidly approaching 400 years!) ex-vampire.

The most interesting and fitting story you could ever do with a maturing Buffy would be having her be a mother and trying to have a normal life.

This would also give Sarah Michelle Gellar a starring role that allows her to be age-appropriate, yet also having a younger generation that the original audience can still care about because she isn’t completely divorced from the two previous shows in the way that an unrelated Slayer spinoff would be. It allows the core storylines of *both* shows to truly matter, far more than a Buffy Steele-Gunn offspring would.

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Just a a few notes about my pitch for a continuation that works with the real ages of actors and their availability… I should also note that Xander (played by Nick, anyway–Kelly might work for a flashback) is a character who could never appear in live-action again, so maybe he could be used as another event that contributed to Buffy’s retirement besides pregnancy.

If the Shanshu and conception were directly post-NFA, any offspring would be 16 years old right now. IMO, if there were any plans to give SMG a series with her in a major supporting role, this just means that the space for how long between NFA and the Shanshu or how long Bangel got to be with each other widens for however many years it would take to revive the franchise.

I strongly believe that the best option for the franchise would be a back-to-the-suburbs story exploring age-appropriate Buffy facing motherhood, rather than trying to turn Buffy into a war general surrounded by nothing but subordinates (horribly alienating future for her) with a lack of equals or a grounded setting à la the season 8 comics. If you want to introduce the Buffyverse to a new audience whom you can’t expect to watch 24-year-old shows until they’re interested enough by the revival, you’re going to have to ground characters in a relatable reality.

As for how a new Slayer would be called after deactivation, I firmly believe the line is through Faith now anyway, so it would just take her dying for a minute à la Prophecy Girl for a new Slayer to be called. I would definitely want Faith in the show!

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I feel like SMG’s concern was less wanting to reprise the role entirely, but more concern that she’d be expected to play the same exact role in her 40s. This is giving her a role that fits a woman (and a mother in real life) who is in her 40s and is a major supporting role rather than he young lead whose story is being centered on.

As for the Angel situation, SMG might actually be more willing to return if she could beg DB to come back for perhaps an initially-limited role and the scenario is one I believe she’d actually support, as it fits with her preferences!

While it might seem that Buffy as a single mother retreads the original, Angel is obviously nothing like the Hank situation (not to mention Joyce and Hank being completely clueless), so the circumstances of the father would be quite different from Buffy’s own situation, while also feeding into her own stated fears about her future.

This also brings up all the conversations in Bad Eggs, The Prom and the Chosen cookie dough analogy (children are mentioned again) to the forefront. Unlike with the other options, it was something that came up repeatedly. Admittedly, it was always by Angel due to his infertility and the human life he most desired; all of which ended up being an important part of *his* story.

However, a part of Bad Eggs that is woefully underrated is that Buffy was disappointed when Angel told her vampires can’t have children. She immediately covers it up with a babble speech and then starts making excuses for why Slayers are unlikely to have that kind of future. Young Buffy did not disregard it because she didn’t want children ever at all, but because the person whom she saw that future with was someone who couldn’t have them.

Enter Nikki Wood, where Buffy learns that at least one Slayer was definitely a mother, which she was clearly surprised by.

That’s another reason why I can see Buffy, if she got her hopes up with post-Shanshu Angel and conceived, would do anything to be a good mom by not being all about “the mission”. She would never want her child to be raised without parents. And I think she’d be doubly sensitive to that, not just because of Nikki, but because of Hank leaving and Joyce dying.

Buffy also became surrogate mother to Dawn, who was made out of her (in a sense, she is her real mother), so Angel’s situation with Connor actually had a direct mirror in Buffy’s situation with Dawn.

But those conversations were also not just about wished-for children that couldn’t be conceived, but also asking Buffy to think about what she wants for her future if she took out the belief that Slayers don’t live long enough to have one.

This show would be the answer to what happens to a Slayer when she does live long enough to have the future she barely wanted to get her hopes up for before.

Buffy (ditto Angel) is the character for which this story actually has a ton of setup in the shows themselves. These characters talked about it! And the circumstances are really nothing like Joyce and Hank, even if the initial setup plays into both Buffy and Angel’s worst nightmare scenarios about parenthood: being a single mother and not getting to raise the miracle child you thought you’d never have. That kind of bittersweet writing that shirks too-good-to-be-true wish-fulfillment is a cornerstone of what makes it a Buffyverse storyline.

If the daughter’s family lied to her about their history to keep her safe and protect her from knowing what goes bump in the night (making them the polar opposites of Hank and Joyce in regards to knowing all too well–especially Angel’s experience of being the worst thing you could bump into at night, rather than utterly clueless), that would certainly be a conflict. Especially if she found out in a particularly shocking way (say, prophetic dreams).

And if Angel (I’d like to imagine he has the company of ghost!Wesley and maybe Illyria and Spike) has been taken for punishment by Wolfram & Hart, it might really confuse her if she doesn’t know that he didn’t just leave or some other excuse Buffy covered it up with.

Wolfram & Hart would also probably love the irony of Angel getting what he most desires (to be human and a father), only to punish him with it by wasting his remaining years separated from all that he loves.

So we all had an alright Christmas over here. We exchanged presents and we explained to Harper what the holiday was about and he thought that we were lying. Most people weren’t even religious, seeing as we have tangled with gods and most of us know how the world was actually formed.
Hell, Gary and Jasmine work for the Grim Reaper. Although I think Teddy is the most religious one here, seeing as he does regularly say praise to Bahamut.
 Anyways, we all agreed that we should spend the day relaxing and exchanging gifts.

Here’s what I got everyone.

Mary got some clothes that won’t rip when she shape shifts, especially a bra and panty set, this ain’t the fricking summer of love.
Gary got a set of expensive yo yos from Egypt.
Jasmine got the Blue Rays of every single current episode of Supernatural. 
Teddy was given a set of clothes that look exactly like what he wears now, but fire proof and blessed by the church of Bahamut.
Tom … I gave him a $100 gift card to Victoria’s Secret.
Kuwauso, well I got this little fella a few rings that store and play memories, made specifically to fit Otter hands.
Pin got a $100 gift card to iTunes.
Harper was forgiven for the few times I’ve caught him trying to smuggle humans off of Earth.
Brent got a new computer, mostly to replace the one that Pin … murdered.
Fallin … buying presents for this guy is hard, so I asked him where he HASN’T gone and he said Alaska … so I got him a ticket to Alaska.
Cavalt got a hit list with the locations of some powerful vampires I know he’s been hunting … he hugged me for a while.
Sheila was finally paid for everything I haven’t paid for and she was also given some contacts with merchants outside of Earth. 

 Ugh, anyways we sent the trainees home or back to wherever they like to hide out and then we had a great day.
I wrapped a gift for Sammy … put it in my closet, not the one that randomly teleports, but the one in my room. She would have liked being around everyone, hell maybe she was here, astral projecting or whatever.

 So that was our holiday. New Years should be fun, gonna set off some big ones, just gotta make sure it won’t be misinterpreted as an attack.
Have a good one everybody.

I see a bad moon rising ⚔️

Here’s some splash for my character V, a monster hunter with a specialty in vampire slaying :)

I want somebody that looks at me the way Spike looks at Buffy. Eyes full of love and admiration, the adorable head tilt he does every time he sees a different side of her. He adores her. ❤

So OK I got obsessed with BTVS a bit too much lately. So I downloaded some mods, one includes staking a vampire, and decided to do the whole slayer thing in a new save. I still didn’t arrange everything -vampires all around hehe- cause i am too impatient but my

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ready.

here is Carlie Steinfeld. the Vampire Slayer. *freaks out*

(I am actually looking for the purrfect ponytail for her and i think i found some)

normalhumanblogger:

What more people need to understand about Guillermo’s character is that he’s Insane. He is Not Normal. He delivers human sacrifices to vampires, he disposes of corpses HE PAYS TO LIVE THERE. he kills vampires yadda yadda bro his HUMAN body count is off the charts. He invites his virgin friend to a vampire orgy. He is not a good person, he’s literally if you found out that that one weird goth kid from high school joined a weird cult and was sacrificing your classmates he is Not Well. Like I love him he is my poor little meow meow etc but lets not pretend this guy is a victim here .. he is like if the joker was a girl if she was like a boy

Yes thank you. Like, I love Guillermo and I love that a chubby Latino guy is a sexy vampire slayer, but there is no way of looking at his situation where he comes off as a good or, indeed, mentally healthy person. Even if you agree that Nandor is at fault in their dysfunctional relationship, Guillermo is still the person who willingly became a familiar, and has spent the last twelve years delivering up victims to be killed in the hopes of one day doing the actual killing himself.

I think the reason this is easy to miss (beyond, obviously, the fact that the show works really hard to make the nonstop killing necessary to keep these people functional in the distant background) is that Guillermo may be mentally unwell, but unlike Nandor, Nadja, and Lazslo (and probably also Colin Robinson), he’s not a complete narcissist. He has self-awareness, and more importantly, he functions as the audience surrogate by commenting on the others’ insanity. Plus he’s competent and capable, which obviously looks good next to the vampires who are, literally, incapable of surviving without his support.

Which honestly feels like a part of his dysfunction. As much as he says that he wants to be a vampire, I think deep down Guillermo enjoys being the guy the vampires rely on (and, as in his conversation with Nandor at the end of S3, should maybe be afraid of). Whatever else this guy is, he isn’t some poor woobie.

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I was very inspired by the variation of Buffy created by the amazing @kevinwada in his cover art piece for the upcoming comic. Being the Buffy fan that I am, I decided I had to draw my own spin on it!