Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born by Evan Ross Katz

Author:Evan Ross Katz [Ross Katz, Evan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Xander: You think we haven’t seen all this before? The part where you just cut us all out. Just step away from everything human and act like you’re the law. If you knew what I felt—

Buffy: I killed Angel! Do you even remember that? I would have given up everything I had to be with—I loved him more than I will ever love anything in this life. And I put a sword through his heart because I had to.

Willow: And that all worked out okay.

Buffy: Do you remember cheering me on? Both of you. Do you remember giving me Willow’s message: Kick his ass.

Willow: I never said that—

Xander: This is different—

Buffy: It is always different! It’s always complicated. And at some point, someone has to draw the line, and that is always going to be me. You get down on me for cutting myself off, but in the end the Slayer is always cut off. There’s no mystical guidebook. No all-knowing council. Human rules don’t apply. There’s only me. I am the law.

But as would soon be proven: there wasn’t only her.

Season 7 centered on the First Evil, the personification of the concept of evil itself, manifested from all evil in existence, which—shocker!—wants Buffy dead. And not Season 1 or Season 5 dead, but dead-dead, like never-to-be-seen-again dead. The First Evil is an incorporeal presence that can take the form of any person who has died. As a result, the First Evil appears as all of the show’s former Big Bads as well as Buffy and her mother, among others.

So how does one fight an undefeatable evil mega-force? Slayers, lots of ’em. Mystical forces choose lots of young girls and deem them Potential Slayers who are waiting to be activated if and when the Slayer is killed in battle. Kendra, for instance, had been assigned a Watcher from the time she was an infant to prepare her for the day she would assume her birthright. With the exception of Sineya, the First Slayer, all Slayers had once been Potential Slayers. Although, not all Potentials become a Slayer. At least, that was then. This was now.

These Potentials came from all over the world, and as a result, invited and embraced multiculturalism into the Buffyverse. “That’s probably the first time that I saw women up on the screen from all walks of life with different faces and skin tones, all of that, and realized how vast the Potentials could be in where they could come from,” says Cynthia Erivo. “And at the same time, part of me wished I could have seen that all the way through the series, the idea that a me or my sister or a friend of mine could be the next Slayer or could be a Slayer at the same time, and that we all have the potential within us to fight evil.” That evil would prove nearly insurmountable.

Frustrated by Buffy’s resurrection a year earlier, the First decided to dispatch its army of Harbingers of Death to kill as many Potentials around the world as possible, and their Watchers too.

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