buffy.summers
Buffy Summers was born in January 1981 to Hank and Joyce Summers.
As a child, she went through a phase during which she idolized ice-skater Dorothy Hamill,
and was close friends with her cousin Celia until she died. Buffy started her high
school career at Hemery High in Los Angeles, where she was a popular cheerleader; in
1996 she was elected Prom Princess and Fiesta Queen.
That same year, Buffy was contacted
by a man named Merrick, who told her that she was the Chosen One, the Vampire Slayer.
But Merrick was killed, and in Buffy's attempts at slaying, she managed to burn down
her high school gym. Around that time, Joyce and Hank finalized their divorce, and Buffy
moved with Joyce to 1630 Revello Drive in Sunnydale. She enrolled at Sunnydale High
School, where the school librarian, Giles, informed her that he was her new Watcher.
Though reluctant, Buffy was sucked full force into the life of a Slayer. Buffy became
friends with Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, and to some extent, Cordelia Chase; and
later with Willow's boyfriend Oz, all of whom know that she is the Slayer (as does her
mother, finally) and often help in her
endeavors.
Buffy developed a relationship with Angel, a vampire cursed with a soul;
it ended when he he lost his soul, turning him back into his evil vampiric self, but
they got back together after his soul was restored again. Ultimately, Angel eventually
realized that as Buffy got older, their relationship would be doomed, and he left her,
for her own good.
During her freshman year at UC Sunnydale, Buffy roomed with Willow
and developed a relationship with Riley Finn. After about a year together, Riley
left Buffy and Sunnydale, feeling that Buffy didn't need nor love him. During her
sophomore year at college, Buffy survived several family crises first she discovered
that her 14 year-old sister (introduced in Season 5) isn't actually her sister,
but is a mystical "Key" just recently turned into human form and placed into Buffy's
life (false memories included) so that Buffy could protect her. Then her mother had a
brain tumor removed, only to later die from an aneurysm arising as a side effect from
her surgery. In the final fight against Glory, a hellgod seeking to use the Key,
Buffy sacrificed her life to save Dawn's and the world.
Brought back to life by her friends
the next season, Buffy fought herself and her pain of being 'pulled from heaven', and turned to
harmless vampire Spike for a violent relationship. Buffy was finally
snapped out of it when her one of her friends was murdered and Willow tried to end the world.
In the seventh and final season Buffy trains other 'potential' slayers and her sister Dawn,
about power and in the end figures out a way with Willow's help of sharing that power to
finally give up the burden of being the 'chosen ONE'.
