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halfamoonTitle: One Girl in all the World
Author:veronyxk84
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Buffy Anne Summers
Content: Meta (490 words)
Written for:halfamoon
Theme: Day 3: Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Blood, sweat, and tears.
Among the many kicka** female characters who made (or had to make) that their life motto, there is one who’s very dear to my heart:
Buffy Anne Summers.
“Beloved sister. Devoted friend. She saved the world. A lot.”
The epitaph on her gravestone doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what this young woman had to endure since the moment when she was tasked with the mission reserved to the one girl in all the world:
“In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.”
A 15-year-old girl carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. A burden and path that she didn’t choose for herself, but that was chosen for her. And while she understandably struggled with the enormity of her responsibility—with all the dangers, risks, and strained relationships as a direct consequence—she always pulled through with her head held high, making life and death decisions for the greater good, often at the expense of her own happiness and health. Often putting the safety of her family, friends, her town, and—heck!—even the rest of the world before her own.
She died twice in the line of duty. She was brought back to life both times, and both times she had to push past her severe traumas and pick her duty back up, because that was what was expected of her: the Slayer.
She fought her way through the “real” demons outside while battling the way more insidious “demons” within.
But she also didn’t always get it right.
She fell hard and then got back on her feet.
She made mistakes, wrong calls, and some questionable decisions; she’s far from perfect, but it’s her imperfections that ultimately made her so real, human.
Because she might have been the Slayer, the Chosen One, but she was also just a girl on the verge of becoming a young woman who had to “save the world a lot” on top of growing up—which is one of the hardest tasks we all have to face in this journey called life.
She was a girl who had her heart broken in the worst ways possible; a friend who was sometimes betrayed but always gave second chances and her full trust back; a daughter who grieved the loss of her mother; a sister who had to push past her grief and become a mother figure.
She poured her blood and sweat in her tireless quest “against the demons and the forces of darkness.”
She shed her tears over heartbreaks and hardships that threatened to break her, but never quite did, because she found the strength to bounce back and rise above them.
Buffy Summers is all that and much more.
I believe that her thriving legacy after the show has been off the air for twenty years is a testament of that.
Author:
veronyxk84Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Buffy Anne Summers
Content: Meta (490 words)
Written for:
halfamoon Theme: Day 3: Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Blood, sweat, and tears.
Among the many kicka** female characters who made (or had to make) that their life motto, there is one who’s very dear to my heart:
Buffy Anne Summers.
“Beloved sister. Devoted friend. She saved the world. A lot.”
The epitaph on her gravestone doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of what this young woman had to endure since the moment when she was tasked with the mission reserved to the one girl in all the world:
“In every generation there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the vampires, the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the Slayer.”
A 15-year-old girl carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. A burden and path that she didn’t choose for herself, but that was chosen for her. And while she understandably struggled with the enormity of her responsibility—with all the dangers, risks, and strained relationships as a direct consequence—she always pulled through with her head held high, making life and death decisions for the greater good, often at the expense of her own happiness and health. Often putting the safety of her family, friends, her town, and—heck!—even the rest of the world before her own.
She died twice in the line of duty. She was brought back to life both times, and both times she had to push past her severe traumas and pick her duty back up, because that was what was expected of her: the Slayer.
She fought her way through the “real” demons outside while battling the way more insidious “demons” within.
But she also didn’t always get it right.
She fell hard and then got back on her feet.
She made mistakes, wrong calls, and some questionable decisions; she’s far from perfect, but it’s her imperfections that ultimately made her so real, human.
Because she might have been the Slayer, the Chosen One, but she was also just a girl on the verge of becoming a young woman who had to “save the world a lot” on top of growing up—which is one of the hardest tasks we all have to face in this journey called life.
She was a girl who had her heart broken in the worst ways possible; a friend who was sometimes betrayed but always gave second chances and her full trust back; a daughter who grieved the loss of her mother; a sister who had to push past her grief and become a mother figure.
She poured her blood and sweat in her tireless quest “against the demons and the forces of darkness.”
She shed her tears over heartbreaks and hardships that threatened to break her, but never quite did, because she found the strength to bounce back and rise above them.
Buffy Summers is all that and much more.
I believe that her thriving legacy after the show has been off the air for twenty years is a testament of that.
