- PLAYER INFORMATION
NAME: Juli
AGE: 17
PRONOUN OF CHOICE: She-type things
EMAIL ADDRESS: convictedly@gmail.com
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- CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Buffy Anne Summers
CODENAME:
SERIES/SOURCE: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
AGE: 23
GENDER: Female
ROLE: Staff - school counsellor and mentor
BACKGROUND:
DO I HAVE TO
Buffy was the oldest child of Hank and Joyce Summers, a businessman and art dealer respectively, and was followed by her younger sister Dawn. Her parents were divorced but her father’s occasional visits were the highlight of her life. Buffy’s mutation surfaced at the age of 15, which coincided with her family's move to Sunnydale. Intent on keeping her powers a secret and living a ‘normal life’ she was eventually found out by her two friends Willow and Xander and a man named Rupert Giles, who was her first mentor and taught her to hone her powers to the very best of her ability. It was around this time that her father abandoned their family altogether, preferring to leave for Spain with his secretary - as she called it, ‘living the cliché’.
It was also during this time that she met Angel, a reformed vampire who would eventually become her first love. They were happy until he reverted back to his old ways again, endangering her family, friends and everyone else in Sunnydale. He wanted to open a portal to an alternate dimension that could potentially destroy the entire world. It was here that Buffy made her decision to accept her powers and use them to protect people, and in the end she kills him to stop the portal from opening and dies for the first time in the process, drowning in a pool of water. She is technically dead for at least fifteen minutes until she is revived by Xander by way of resuscitation. Depressed by the loss of Angel she leaves shortly after to Los Angeles where she will remain for the rest of the summer.
Instead, Buffy attends college with Willow and tentatively starts up a relationship with a boy named Parker, although it turned out that he was really only using her. During this time she begins patrolling the streets, stopping crimes in progress and the like in Sunnydale which seems to have a higher crime rate than any other city in California other than Los Angeles itself. Some time passes and she eventually falls in love with Riley and their relationship lasts a long time - until she realizes that Riley has a dual identity, and that he’s involved in a secret military project aimed at capturing and studying mutants and so...that relationship goes out the window. He leaves for a mission halfway around the world.
She joined the X-Men in 2004 and was part of the roster up until it was disbanded, after which an emergency called her home. Dawn had been kidnapped and was going to be used as a sacrifice in a ritual until it was interrupted by Buffy and company. She dies in the ensuing fight when a building collapses on her.
Despite being dead for nearly six months, her friends hatch a plan to bring her back. Willow has reality-bending powers that are tied to her willpower, and manages to raise her from the dead, although this did not go without punishment. Firstly, Buffy was left inside the coffin and subsequently had to dig her way out and secondly, that the act of being revived was traumatic and rearranged her molecular structure until she was a little less than human. Enough to fool electronic sensors, anyways.
Needless to say it takes a toll on her mental health and after a severe bout of depression she falls into some self-destructive habits but keeps them hidden from the rest of her friends. She acts grateful that they brought her back when in reality she’s quite the opposite. Dawn is the only one with the power to pull her out of that state, but it takes time. A year and a half’s worth of time, to be exactly.
Speaking of Dawn, they’re having money troubles. Buffy takes the job teaching at the newly rebuilt mansion because of this. It was either teaching or working at the Doublemeat Palace.
And that hat has a chicken on it, for god’s sakes.
PERSONALITY:
"I've been through more battles with Buffy than you all can ever imagine. She's stopped everything that's ever come up against her. She's laid down her life—literally—to protect the people around her. This girl has died two times, and she's still standing. You're scared? That's smart. You got questions? You should. But you doubt her motives, you think Buffy's all about the kill, then you take the little bus to battle. I've seen her heart, and this time—not literally. And I'm telling you, right now, she cares more about your lives than you will ever know. You gotta trust her. She's earned it."
- Xander Harris
Buffy is a study in paradoxes. She can be both an incredibly strong character and an incredibly vulnerable (although never weak if she can help it) one at the same time. She yearns for a normal life and yet knows that her destiny lies in heroing and that she’ll never have the white-picket fence fantasy. She doesn’t even know if she wants that. She’s invincible at times and the complete opposite at others.
” See, I've had a lot of people talking at me in the last few days. Everyone just lining up to tell me how unimportant I am. And I've finally figured out why. Power. I have it. They don't. This bothers them. “
Still, it all comes down to power. Who has it and who doesn’t. Buffy is a woman who has had a lot of horrible things happen in her lifetime, and this has led to an almost insatiable need to have control over her own life. She’ll often be the first one taking charge in a situation, and years of being a leader have conditioned her to make those hard, quick decisions that no one else will. She is both an idealist and infinitely practical, and those two sides of her have clashed more than once throughout her life. People rely on her, and she has a hard time dealing with that because she doesn’t always know what she’s doing. She’s not always strong, but she pretends that she is for the sake of everyone else. But that’s a source of her insecurity, that she’ll ultimately fail in protecting those that she loves and…everyone else. Because the aforementioned idealism in her? It manifests in her need to save everybody and solve all of the world’s problems, and it’s so frustrating to deal with the truth that she can’t. She’s tried to be a cold-hearted general-type person and pretend that the loss of life didn’t faze her but she failed so, so badly at that. It all comes down to power and control and her balancing her abilities with the greater…forces of the universe, per say.
”You feel that, right? How the anger gives you fire.”
The face that most people see is the confident, strong young woman, but deep down she does have a lot of insecurities stemming from many, many things. Firstly, love, passion and emotions in general - they’re a very scary thing to her. Every single one of her relationships in life have failed, and failed horribly. It’s her tragic flaw - when she loves, she loves too hard and when she hates, she does that too. Her judgement is easily impaired because of emotional issues that cause her to do reckless things. She wonders if she’ll ever have a stable, normal relationship and whether or not she’s destined to be alone all of her life but she also…wouldn’t give up her emotions for the world. Without them, life would be infinitely dull, wouldn’t it?
Two, she thinks she’s dumb. She doubts her ability and sometimes rightly so. She doubts her humanity and her own self worth, disillusioned by years of letdowns and traumas. Yet she’ll always eventually get back up and refuse to be beaten, even if it takes her a while. Emotional obstacles are harder because she can’t simply punch them out of the way, but it’s in her nature to emerge in one piece, if not victorious.
Her life has been defined by death and abandonment and she herself has died twice, which has changed her outlook on things. Her humor is best described as gallows humor, and her propensity to crack jokes while in the middle of a daunting situation may be unnerving to people. But really, that’s just how she deals. It makes her appreciate the remaining friends and family that she does have very much, and she’s so incredibly loyal to them. She’s very insular while still being outgoing - she’ll be alright with making small talk and the like but to really, really let someone new in is hard for her. When she loves, she gives away bits of herself and she’s been hurt too many times to do that too easily. Still, it’s worth it to overcome these obstacles to earn her friendship - she’s devoted enough to the people she loves to sacrifice her own life for them rather than see them die.
Speaking of which, Buffy is technically a ‘needs of the many before the few’ person, but when it comes to putting the needs of ‘the many’ before her friends or most importantly her sister Dawn, she can’t do it. She’s incredibly hypocritical at points because of this and other points where she doesn’t exactly practice what she preaches.
Giles: If the ritual is complete, every living creature in this dimension will suffer unimaginable torment and death. Even Dawn.
Buffy: Then the last thing she'll see is me protecting her.
Buffy can also be incredibly self-righteous at times (which is a large source of hatred for her in fandom). She’s opinionated and won’t hesitate to tell you when she thinks you’re wrong, although to her credit she manages to stick to her own code of ethics and can be incredible compassionate and kind. She can be obnoxious at times and poke fun of things when it’s not exactly appropriate. She has a superiority complex and thinks she’s better than her friends and others because she has powers, and yet believes at the same time that she’s the lowest of the low, not worthy of their love. She can be bossy and pushy and even bitchy, sometimes refusing to take other’s advice when she’s stubbornly (or pigheadedly) convinced of something. She’s also reluctant to take orders, and even when it’s absolutely necessary she’ll end up interjecting with her own opinions and plans.
She bottles her problems and sometimes keeps major secrets for selfish reasons and has the tendency to somehow run away from her problems when they get too overbearing (but in her defence, when things get bad in Buffy canon, they get really bad). She hates to admit when she’s wrong. Buffy isn’t perfect as some people (Faith) may think her. She’s simply a woman, or a girl-woman, or somewhere in between.
And despite her doubts, she is still an ordinary person in many respects. She makes bad jokes and equally bad speeches. She breaks things because she doesn’t know her own strength. She lives for the times that she can kick back her stylish but affordable boots and watch cheesy kung-fu movies (she’ll always criticize the fighting styles) and eat greasy junk food and laugh with her friends and shop for shoes and clothes and have chocolate. Those little moments are what makes life good.
APPEARANCE: Buffy is a tiny (5’1), petite blonde woman with greenish eyes who can also coincidentally break you with her pinky. She tends to favour leather jackets and pants. Especially if the latter are red.It’s so blood doesn’t stain them, okay
POWERS:
Basically a very enhanced human. Buffy is super strong, fast, agile and aware of her surroundings (a…slayer sense) but not ridiculously so. For example she can punch a grown man through a brick wall and kick down solid metal doors but she cannot say, lift a building or even a car. She could run as fast as a car going a moderate speed, but is not a speedster. Her reflexes are also enhanced - she could dodge a bullet at point-blank range and snatch crossbow bolts from the air and jump a high metal gate without breaking a sweat. She has a healing factor, but it isn’t extreme. Major injuries such as stomach wounds take a few days to heal although most injuries are usually healed within the day. Buffy’s also more resilient to injuries than your average human - she gets punched around a lot but doesn’t show any bruises for it, and an electric shock that would have killed another person doesn’t even phase her. Her ‘Slayer senses’ let her know if there’s someone behind her and allows her to fight in the dark.
Buffy has occasional precognitive dreams but these are rare and only occur when there’s a huge upcoming disaster. Even then, these dreams are hardly specific - it takes a while for her to decipher the cryptic meaning of them.
ANYTHING ELSE?:
Thanks to Rupert Giles, she’s been trained in practically every weapon out there. She generally uses non-lethal weapons such as staffs and swords but is handy with a crossbow and her bare hands too.
- RP SAMPLES
First-person sample:
Hi. I’m Buffy Summers and I…guess I’m your new counsellor here. Come one, come all to offer up your heavy side-dish of angst and receive a complimentary lollipop and matching doily while quantities last. In all seriousness though, you can stop by if you need someone to talk to.
I even promise not to coffeeboard you.
[filtered to staff]
I didn’t get to watch the last episode of My Life as an Adult Mutant and they’re not showing reruns. Did I miss anything newsworthy?
Third-person sample:
As a…mentor, Buffy Summers has only one lesson that she wants her students to learn in her classes. One lesson that she will continue to drill into their heads until it becomes their own personal mantra, until they repeat it at night in their dreams and remember it the moment they wake up. That lesson?
It’s always real.
Half of these kids (although they’re only a few years younger than herself) think they’re superheroes already. This stuff is like something straight out of a video game or a movie, with fight scenes like the ones in the Matrix and that confuses Buffy because she had never really thought about it like that. Fighting had never been something cool, her powers were not a ‘gift’. She toes the line between resignation, acceptance and resolve.
They’re going to get hurt. They’re going to suffer and she knows this. The only thing one can do is take everything as it comes, thus the lesson. She’s tried to avoid problems far too many times in the past, and pretending that they’re not there doesn’t make them any less foreboding.
She watches students propel themselves into the air and chase each other like ordinary children would do on a football field and suddenly feels very old.
Uh-oh.
Buffy scans her mental book of solutions and turns to the page marked feeling old despite only being twenty three. It prescribes retail therapy and chocolate, but that’s too much of a lazy feeling right now. She has restless energy pumped up inside her from those few worries hidden at the back of her mind, and right now she just needs to move.
Danger Room it was. At least the Professor didn’t mind when she broke half the equipment, unlike Giles.
NAME: Juli
AGE: 17
PRONOUN OF CHOICE: She-type things
EMAIL ADDRESS: convictedly@gmail.com
AIM SCREENNAME & MAIN PERSONAL LJ ACCOUNT: so pledged |
reliantlyOTHER CHARACTERS: Claire Bennet | Heroes |
diedbefore- CHARACTER INFORMATION
NAME: Buffy Anne Summers
CODENAME:
SERIES/SOURCE: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
AGE: 23
GENDER: Female
ROLE: Staff - school counsellor and mentor
BACKGROUND:
Buffy was the oldest child of Hank and Joyce Summers, a businessman and art dealer respectively, and was followed by her younger sister Dawn. Her parents were divorced but her father’s occasional visits were the highlight of her life. Buffy’s mutation surfaced at the age of 15, which coincided with her family's move to Sunnydale. Intent on keeping her powers a secret and living a ‘normal life’ she was eventually found out by her two friends Willow and Xander and a man named Rupert Giles, who was her first mentor and taught her to hone her powers to the very best of her ability. It was around this time that her father abandoned their family altogether, preferring to leave for Spain with his secretary - as she called it, ‘living the cliché’.
It was also during this time that she met Angel, a reformed vampire who would eventually become her first love. They were happy until he reverted back to his old ways again, endangering her family, friends and everyone else in Sunnydale. He wanted to open a portal to an alternate dimension that could potentially destroy the entire world. It was here that Buffy made her decision to accept her powers and use them to protect people, and in the end she kills him to stop the portal from opening and dies for the first time in the process, drowning in a pool of water. She is technically dead for at least fifteen minutes until she is revived by Xander by way of resuscitation. Depressed by the loss of Angel she leaves shortly after to Los Angeles where she will remain for the rest of the summer.
Instead, Buffy attends college with Willow and tentatively starts up a relationship with a boy named Parker, although it turned out that he was really only using her. During this time she begins patrolling the streets, stopping crimes in progress and the like in Sunnydale which seems to have a higher crime rate than any other city in California other than Los Angeles itself. Some time passes and she eventually falls in love with Riley and their relationship lasts a long time - until she realizes that Riley has a dual identity, and that he’s involved in a secret military project aimed at capturing and studying mutants and so...that relationship goes out the window. He leaves for a mission halfway around the world.
She joined the X-Men in 2004 and was part of the roster up until it was disbanded, after which an emergency called her home. Dawn had been kidnapped and was going to be used as a sacrifice in a ritual until it was interrupted by Buffy and company. She dies in the ensuing fight when a building collapses on her.
Despite being dead for nearly six months, her friends hatch a plan to bring her back. Willow has reality-bending powers that are tied to her willpower, and manages to raise her from the dead, although this did not go without punishment. Firstly, Buffy was left inside the coffin and subsequently had to dig her way out and secondly, that the act of being revived was traumatic and rearranged her molecular structure until she was a little less than human. Enough to fool electronic sensors, anyways.
Needless to say it takes a toll on her mental health and after a severe bout of depression she falls into some self-destructive habits but keeps them hidden from the rest of her friends. She acts grateful that they brought her back when in reality she’s quite the opposite. Dawn is the only one with the power to pull her out of that state, but it takes time. A year and a half’s worth of time, to be exactly.
Speaking of Dawn, they’re having money troubles. Buffy takes the job teaching at the newly rebuilt mansion because of this. It was either teaching or working at the Doublemeat Palace.
And that hat has a chicken on it, for god’s sakes.
PERSONALITY:
"I've been through more battles with Buffy than you all can ever imagine. She's stopped everything that's ever come up against her. She's laid down her life—literally—to protect the people around her. This girl has died two times, and she's still standing. You're scared? That's smart. You got questions? You should. But you doubt her motives, you think Buffy's all about the kill, then you take the little bus to battle. I've seen her heart, and this time—not literally. And I'm telling you, right now, she cares more about your lives than you will ever know. You gotta trust her. She's earned it."
Buffy is a study in paradoxes. She can be both an incredibly strong character and an incredibly vulnerable (although never weak if she can help it) one at the same time. She yearns for a normal life and yet knows that her destiny lies in heroing and that she’ll never have the white-picket fence fantasy. She doesn’t even know if she wants that. She’s invincible at times and the complete opposite at others.
Still, it all comes down to power. Who has it and who doesn’t. Buffy is a woman who has had a lot of horrible things happen in her lifetime, and this has led to an almost insatiable need to have control over her own life. She’ll often be the first one taking charge in a situation, and years of being a leader have conditioned her to make those hard, quick decisions that no one else will. She is both an idealist and infinitely practical, and those two sides of her have clashed more than once throughout her life. People rely on her, and she has a hard time dealing with that because she doesn’t always know what she’s doing. She’s not always strong, but she pretends that she is for the sake of everyone else. But that’s a source of her insecurity, that she’ll ultimately fail in protecting those that she loves and…everyone else. Because the aforementioned idealism in her? It manifests in her need to save everybody and solve all of the world’s problems, and it’s so frustrating to deal with the truth that she can’t. She’s tried to be a cold-hearted general-type person and pretend that the loss of life didn’t faze her but she failed so, so badly at that. It all comes down to power and control and her balancing her abilities with the greater…forces of the universe, per say.
The face that most people see is the confident, strong young woman, but deep down she does have a lot of insecurities stemming from many, many things. Firstly, love, passion and emotions in general - they’re a very scary thing to her. Every single one of her relationships in life have failed, and failed horribly. It’s her tragic flaw - when she loves, she loves too hard and when she hates, she does that too. Her judgement is easily impaired because of emotional issues that cause her to do reckless things. She wonders if she’ll ever have a stable, normal relationship and whether or not she’s destined to be alone all of her life but she also…wouldn’t give up her emotions for the world. Without them, life would be infinitely dull, wouldn’t it?
Two, she thinks she’s dumb. She doubts her ability and sometimes rightly so. She doubts her humanity and her own self worth, disillusioned by years of letdowns and traumas. Yet she’ll always eventually get back up and refuse to be beaten, even if it takes her a while. Emotional obstacles are harder because she can’t simply punch them out of the way, but it’s in her nature to emerge in one piece, if not victorious.
Her life has been defined by death and abandonment and she herself has died twice, which has changed her outlook on things. Her humor is best described as gallows humor, and her propensity to crack jokes while in the middle of a daunting situation may be unnerving to people. But really, that’s just how she deals. It makes her appreciate the remaining friends and family that she does have very much, and she’s so incredibly loyal to them. She’s very insular while still being outgoing - she’ll be alright with making small talk and the like but to really, really let someone new in is hard for her. When she loves, she gives away bits of herself and she’s been hurt too many times to do that too easily. Still, it’s worth it to overcome these obstacles to earn her friendship - she’s devoted enough to the people she loves to sacrifice her own life for them rather than see them die.
Speaking of which, Buffy is technically a ‘needs of the many before the few’ person, but when it comes to putting the needs of ‘the many’ before her friends or most importantly her sister Dawn, she can’t do it. She’s incredibly hypocritical at points because of this and other points where she doesn’t exactly practice what she preaches.
Giles: If the ritual is complete, every living creature in this dimension will suffer unimaginable torment and death. Even Dawn.
Buffy: Then the last thing she'll see is me protecting her.
Buffy can also be incredibly self-righteous at times (which is a large source of hatred for her in fandom). She’s opinionated and won’t hesitate to tell you when she thinks you’re wrong, although to her credit she manages to stick to her own code of ethics and can be incredible compassionate and kind. She can be obnoxious at times and poke fun of things when it’s not exactly appropriate. She has a superiority complex and thinks she’s better than her friends and others because she has powers, and yet believes at the same time that she’s the lowest of the low, not worthy of their love. She can be bossy and pushy and even bitchy, sometimes refusing to take other’s advice when she’s stubbornly (or pigheadedly) convinced of something. She’s also reluctant to take orders, and even when it’s absolutely necessary she’ll end up interjecting with her own opinions and plans.
She bottles her problems and sometimes keeps major secrets for selfish reasons and has the tendency to somehow run away from her problems when they get too overbearing (but in her defence, when things get bad in Buffy canon, they get really bad). She hates to admit when she’s wrong. Buffy isn’t perfect as some people (Faith) may think her. She’s simply a woman, or a girl-woman, or somewhere in between.
And despite her doubts, she is still an ordinary person in many respects. She makes bad jokes and equally bad speeches. She breaks things because she doesn’t know her own strength. She lives for the times that she can kick back her stylish but affordable boots and watch cheesy kung-fu movies (she’ll always criticize the fighting styles) and eat greasy junk food and laugh with her friends and shop for shoes and clothes and have chocolate. Those little moments are what makes life good.
APPEARANCE: Buffy is a tiny (5’1), petite blonde woman with greenish eyes who can also coincidentally break you with her pinky. She tends to favour leather jackets and pants. Especially if the latter are red.
POWERS:
Basically a very enhanced human. Buffy is super strong, fast, agile and aware of her surroundings (a…slayer sense) but not ridiculously so. For example she can punch a grown man through a brick wall and kick down solid metal doors but she cannot say, lift a building or even a car. She could run as fast as a car going a moderate speed, but is not a speedster. Her reflexes are also enhanced - she could dodge a bullet at point-blank range and snatch crossbow bolts from the air and jump a high metal gate without breaking a sweat. She has a healing factor, but it isn’t extreme. Major injuries such as stomach wounds take a few days to heal although most injuries are usually healed within the day. Buffy’s also more resilient to injuries than your average human - she gets punched around a lot but doesn’t show any bruises for it, and an electric shock that would have killed another person doesn’t even phase her. Her ‘Slayer senses’ let her know if there’s someone behind her and allows her to fight in the dark.
Buffy has occasional precognitive dreams but these are rare and only occur when there’s a huge upcoming disaster. Even then, these dreams are hardly specific - it takes a while for her to decipher the cryptic meaning of them.
ANYTHING ELSE?:
Thanks to Rupert Giles, she’s been trained in practically every weapon out there. She generally uses non-lethal weapons such as staffs and swords but is handy with a crossbow and her bare hands too.
- RP SAMPLES
First-person sample:
Hi. I’m Buffy Summers and I…guess I’m your new counsellor here. Come one, come all to offer up your heavy side-dish of angst and receive a complimentary lollipop and matching doily while quantities last. In all seriousness though, you can stop by if you need someone to talk to.
I even promise not to coffeeboard you.
[filtered to staff]
I didn’t get to watch the last episode of My Life as an Adult Mutant and they’re not showing reruns. Did I miss anything newsworthy?
Third-person sample:
As a…mentor, Buffy Summers has only one lesson that she wants her students to learn in her classes. One lesson that she will continue to drill into their heads until it becomes their own personal mantra, until they repeat it at night in their dreams and remember it the moment they wake up. That lesson?
It’s always real.
Half of these kids (although they’re only a few years younger than herself) think they’re superheroes already. This stuff is like something straight out of a video game or a movie, with fight scenes like the ones in the Matrix and that confuses Buffy because she had never really thought about it like that. Fighting had never been something cool, her powers were not a ‘gift’. She toes the line between resignation, acceptance and resolve.
They’re going to get hurt. They’re going to suffer and she knows this. The only thing one can do is take everything as it comes, thus the lesson. She’s tried to avoid problems far too many times in the past, and pretending that they’re not there doesn’t make them any less foreboding.
She watches students propel themselves into the air and chase each other like ordinary children would do on a football field and suddenly feels very old.
Uh-oh.
Buffy scans her mental book of solutions and turns to the page marked feeling old despite only being twenty three. It prescribes retail therapy and chocolate, but that’s too much of a lazy feeling right now. She has restless energy pumped up inside her from those few worries hidden at the back of her mind, and right now she just needs to move.
Danger Room it was. At least the Professor didn’t mind when she broke half the equipment, unlike Giles.
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