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julz
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posted 27-05-2000 09:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for julz   Click Here to Email julz     Edit/Delete Message     Reply w/Quote
Another way of looking at the "why doesn't the council... army of slayers" question could be, these are people who've worked for years around ancient prophecies and mysticisms and have a fanatical respect for the old traditions. These are therefore *not* people who will want to try to second-guess the forces of good who they worship

Also, if the identity of the slayers is determined before they are called, it may be that they just get called earlier -- maybe Kendra was always going to be called after buffy, and faith after kendra - it just happened sooner. If so, at some point you're going to have 8-year old slayers toddling around in your army. Carry that argument through and eventually you're calling slayers that don't even *exist* -- which probably just means that when they are eventually born, they already have their powers.

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Vox
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posted 27-05-2000 11:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Vox   Click Here to Email Vox     Edit/Delete Message     Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by julz:
Carry that argument through and eventually you're calling slayers that don't even *exist* -- which probably just means that when they are eventually born, they already have their powers.

That's an interesting point. Who'd want to be pregnant with a baby with Slayer-strength?

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posted 02-06-2000 01:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Opiumia     Edit/Delete Message     Reply w/Quote
It rather presumes that the next slayer will be more or less up to speed when the current one pops her clogs. We've already been told that Slayers don't last very long and so you never see one trying to dust vamps with a wooden zimmer frame. So...what would happen if the next one was only 3 years old? Would they have a demi-Slayer who could fill the gap, or would Watchers have to defend the world against the bad guys until the Slayer was ready?

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posted 02-06-2000 11:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Vox   Click Here to Email Vox     Edit/Delete Message     Reply w/Quote
Well, so far as we know, whatever force calls each Slayer has limited itself to calling proto-Slayers between a certain age. There's not necessarily an order that the Slayers are called in, perhaps the force uses its discretion at the point the Slayer dies, surveys the candidates and picks the new one.

But still, if you're going to create this army then the Force choosing them will eventually run out of proto-Slayers in the right age-bracket and have to go for ones either older or younger.

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