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BIO: Buffy Summers
Buffy Summers
"You know me, not much with the damseling."
After a mishap in LA - involving burning down the school gym - got her expelled, she and her mother moved to Sunnydale California, where Buffy hoped to make a new start as a Normal Girl. Unfortunately for her, Sunnydale happened to be situated right on top of the Mouth of Hell, and was a source of a great deal of demon activity. Over her years going to high school there, Buffy fought against an array of vampires and demons, including the Master of Vampires, The Mayor of Sunnydale as a Giant Snake, and her own high school lover, Angel in his vampiric form, Angelus.
The chaos didn't seem to stop for Buffy, who even had to fight vampires while attending the local college. Here, she paired up with a government institution known as The Initiative. Though in the end The Initiative project failed, while it was running it was a powerful tool of the government for some time, tracking, cataloguing and creating demons. It gave Buffy a bit of a mistrust for military operations, hence its relevance here.
This last year for Buffy has been a rough one – her mother fell ill, and Buffy was forced to drop out of school in order to care for her. Though in the end, her efforts were in vain and her mother passed away, it wasn't even half of the trauma that Buffy suffered. Several monks, in order to hide a great mystical force known simply as The Key, wove a spell to have Buffy be the keeper of their energy, and the Slayer's memories were altered to make her feel as though all her life she had had a sister, named Dawn. While this eventually was discovered by Buffy (and her friends) to be false, Buffy still feels as though Dawn is a part of her, and by the end of the chaos she had even made the decision to sacrifice herself so that Dawn could live (well, Dawn and the rest of the world, but who really pays attention to them anymore?)
Unable to live without Buffy – or without the knowledge of where she was – best friends Willow and Xander performed a magic spell to pull Buffy from the afterlife, leaving her in a confused, and pained state. She had finally been at peace, and being tossed back into the middle of a war caused her an overwhelming depression. She had a rough year of her life that caused her to distance herself from friends and family in a dangerous way - she developed relationships with people that she was later not very proud of and struggled with her sense of self-identity. She did, however, eventually managed to overcome it.
Which was a good thing, because the world was soon hit with its worst battle yet - The First evil returned to torment Buffy again, and this time it brought some friends along with it. Its intentions was to kill off all the Slayers - not just Buffy and Faith, but any girl who could potentially become the Slayer after their deaths, which meant that Buffy was forced to lead a small army of Potential Slayers into a war that she wasn't quite ready for.
But really, by that point? That was pretty much par for the course.
Buffy has been through her fair share of pain and suffering. She's seen a great deal of good people die, and has sometimes been the cause of it. She has had difficulty keeping a steady boyfriend, or leading a normal life in any way because of her duties to the surreal world of Vampire Slaying, and that has left her quite bitter. At this point in her life, she is struggling to find a place in the world that she thought she left behind earlier in the year. She'd really rather just disappear into it. Though, in her true form without the depression hanging over her head, she is a skilled leader able to come up with ingenious plans, and witty retorts.
Buffy can be too trusting. Not that she is naive, but she likes to see the good in people, and believe that they have the ability to repent when they might not be able to. She has a hard time killing outside of the heat of a battle, so if she and an enemy engage in conversation, she would be hard pressed if she had to kill them afterwards, and would feel guilty about it. She has a slight superiority complex which she only partially acknowledges which leads her to believe that she is always right, and when she gets focused on an idea she has a difficult time letting go of it. However, she has few to no physical weak points – at least, when dealing with an average fighter.
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It worked, initially, but over time the lab rats began to grow discontent. Subjects from the same realities grew closer, patients with similar augmentations began training together in secret, and ultimately the Alliance learned an extremely important lesson: when you mistreat people with incredibly powerful abilities, you will get burned. Those dragged into a world where they never belonged have taken up residence on the once-abandoned planet of Miranda and, with great effort, hijacked the technology used to bend reality. They may not be able to seal the rifts in time and space, but they have been able to prevent the world from collapsing and redirect most rifts to the commandeered planet so newcomers aren't stranded without assistance in a vast, new universe.
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