#the potentials

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 7.21 "End of Days"

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[whatshisfaceblogs]

BUFFTOBER DAY 19 - “the Potentials”

Molly, Vi and Amanda were the only potentials worth surviving and two out of the three died 😭, can you recognise any of them? (Also a happy accident they look similar to the little Buffys I drew when doing the “every outfit” series lol) Xx

[cantstandlosingyou]

there's only two episodes left til i finish buffy the vampire slayer im gonna cryy.

i honestly did not expect to love this show so muchh. i really trully fully love how well developed most of the characters are, even some that start kind of start as unimportant side characters (such as anya, or darla, even spike), end up having so much depth and it makes the show very unique and realistic.

and buffy is definetely one of (if not the) best protagonists in media ever. she's so loveable and genuinely good, and her entire character is a very interesting turn on the whole "chosen one" cliché, because the show recognizes all of the cons and sacrifices of being a slayer. also, i feel like she's a character that's constantly evolving, to the point where she manages to be better, when you already think she's the best.

the only thing i'm not really loving about this last season so far is that it's kind of very fast-paced. like bringing faith back this late in the season, or kennedy's and willow's entire relationship. even buffy both getting and losing her job like, i don't know, i feel like there's a lot going on, it's still pretty okay-ish (even though i kind of hate most of the potentials), i just think there's too many things going on in too little time.

[caffeinefree]

The audacity to kick Buffy out of her own house. I'm sorry whatever your opinion on who was right is, they were so out of line, absolutely crazy. Like gtfo if you don't like what's happening, get off my property. The type of gall I'm actually shook by.

[killerqueen1984]

Ive been thinking about the parallels between buffy and the potentials. I think its confirmed kennedy knew she was a potential for awhile, maybe from birth like kendra. But we know some of the others didn’t know about any of this. They were living their lives and then one day a random british man showed up on their doorstep saying if they didn’t leave they'd be hunted down and killed. They are thrust into this war, with an adult telling them to shape up and get with it because this is what they have to do. I’m thinking about the girl who killed herself. How they saw her body hanging in that room, and some of them probably had to sleep right under that spot. How they know buffy got rid of the body, they don’t know where, but im guessing they don’t think she shipped it to the girls family. This is their fate, to die and be tossed into a shallow grave by this stranger. Think about buffy in the early seasons. She was like this. She was a normal girl. She was 16 years old and she didn’t want to die. She fought back and didn’t listen to giles and when did anyone give a shit about anything wesley had to say. I think it would have been interesting for these similarities to be brought to the forefront. Maybe have giles and buffy start to fix their relationship by him teaching her to teach them.

[tara-fantastico]

No hate to Kennedy (really, she is amazing) but Willow was so NOT ready for a new relationship so soon after Tara's death!!! If they wanted a romance between a potential and one of the original scoobies, couldn't they have had it be with Dawn? She deserved her own little adventure after everything she'd been through, and she has basically no arcs of her own in season seven. She mostly just helps out in the background, occasionally revealing that she has taught herself another dead language. Granted, if it was Kennedy she should probably be a bit younger since Dawn is like 17, but I can see that working out!

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Back to an earlier point about Buffy Season 7 having way too many Potential Slayers, tbh, last night I learned that there was a Colleen and Caridad who also became full-fledged Slayers and survived the battle of the Hellmouth.

And in reading the "Chosen" novelization, I remembered the Potential "Shannon," and in Googling her, I guess she survived, as well.

I feel like when people are talking about the Potentials who survived season 7 as full Slayers, we always talk about Kennedy, Vi, Rona, and Chao-Ahn (but I think even Chao-Ahn is sometimes forgotten about), but I've never seen anyone mention Caridad, Colleen, or Shannon.

There are also some unnamed ones who made it, too:

Injured Girl

An unidentified girl was a Potential Slayer who fought beside the Scooby Gang, activated into a Slayer in 2003 during the battle at the Hell