Character
Biography:
Season One
A picture of Buffy Summers as a child
Buffy Summers was born on January 19th,
1981 to Hank and Joyce Summers in Los Angeles, California. Her parents had been
the ones to feed her, clothe her, and keep a roof over her head. Childhood was
fairly normal for Buffy—she was an only child and her parents were together.
Buffy did fairly well in school and easily made friends. During her childhood
Buffy and her cousin Celia had accepted each other for who they were, cared
about each other, and developed a close friendship with each other and they
enjoyed playing with each other. They would often play superhero together in
which Buffy pretended to be the DC comic hero Power Girl. Shortly after Buffy’s
eighth birthday Celia was sick and taken to the hospital. She was visiting Celia in the hospital one day
when Celia suffered some sort of seizure and then died before Buffy’s eyes.
Though Buffy was unaware that Celia had been murdered in her hospital bed by
Der Kindestod, a demon who killed sick children and was only visible to those
who were ill, the experience instilled Buffy to have a fear of hospitals.
Growing up, Buffy got interested in figure skating
and gymnastics. She had idolized Olympic ice skater Dorothy Hamill and she had
taken ice skating lessons herself. This love of ice skating had come from her
father Hank who took her to an ice show every year and Buffy had loved ice
skating ever since then.
In fifth grade, Buffy had a crush on sixth grader
Billy Fordham. Buffy and he had accepted each other for who they were, cared
about each other, and were friends with each other. Though they were friends
with each other, he never returned her romantic feelings to him.
Buffy began to attend Hemery High School in 1995.
She became a cheerleader and came to be popular. Buffy did get elected both
Prom Princess and Fiesta Queen during her time there. She enjoyed eating junk
food, flirting with cute boys, going shopping, hanging out with her friends,
partying, and watching television. Her only major concerns were on things that
she had loved meaning boys, clothes, hair products; make up, perfume, and
shoes.
A picture of Buffy Summers right after she has been called and Merrick comes to her
Buffy had started to have violent dreams about women
from different periods of history slaying monsters when she was fifteen years
old. It was all explained to her when she was approached at her school as she
sat on the school steps waiting for her ride home with a lollipop in her mouth
by Merrick, a mysterious man, who had revealed to her who she really was as the
Slayer and that it was her destiny as the Chosen One to fight against demons,
evil vampires, and the forces of darkness to protect humankind. He became her
first Watcher. Buffy and Merrick initially butted heads with each other due to
his intolerance of her teenage-girlishness. However the pair eventually came to
accept each other for who they were, care about each other, and developed a mutual
fondness for each other as he trained her for battle against the vampire king
Lothos.
Her increasingly strange behavior started to
alienate Buffy from her peers, including her boyfriend Jeffery, which led her
to begin to accept fellow social outcast Oliver Pike for who he was, befriend
him, and care about him. She relied on him for support after Merrick had
sacrificed himself to protect her from Lothos. Though she had little training,
Buffy managed to defeat Lothos and his minions at her school dance by tricking
Lothos into touching a cross--
subsequently using her hairspray as a makeshift flamethrower—and then
staking him, while she proclaimed that his defeat as being both for Merrick and
the girl she had been before becoming the Slayer. Unfortunately, she had burned
down the high school gym in the process, for which she was subsequently
expelled from Hemery High School.
Buffy and Pike took an impromptu trip to Las Vegas
to hunt vampires shortly after her expulsion from Hemery High School. She had returned
home and told her parents the truth about who she was and her destiny as the
Slayer and what had happened at Hemery High School. They refused to believe her
since they instead thought that she was losing her mind and sent her to be
committed at an insane asylum. Shortly after her arrival at the insane asylum
Buffy realized that it was better not to tell the truth about her being the
Slayer to other people and she was released from the insane asylum after a few
short weeks there by telling the doctors what they wanted to hear from her.
Buffy and her parents never spoke of it again.
Buffy’s parents,
who had been experiencing marital troubles for years, finalized their divorce
and Joyce got custody of Buffy. Joyce had tried to find another school to enroll
Buffy in, but the only public school that would do so was Sunnydale High School
which meant the two of them had to move. Buffy had moved with her mother to a
house at 1630 Revello Drive in Sunnydale which was a small town in California.
Joyce opened up an art gallery to run as her own business and put Buffy in
Sunnydale High School. Little did they know that the town of Sunnydale was
located on a Hellmouth and Buffy’s presence there was predestined.
A picture of Buffy Summers at her first day of school at Sunnydale High School where she finds out that Rupert Giles is her new Watcher
Buffy started her
sophomore year at Sunnydale High School. There she accepted red-headed and
green-eyed Willow Rosenberg and black-haired and green-eyed Xander Harris for
who they were, became friends with them, and cared about them as well as her
new Watcher brown-haired and green-eyed with hazels flecks in them Rupert
Giles. She also met Cordelia Chase, a brown-haired and brown-eyed superficial
cheerleader reminiscent of Buffy become she became the Slayer, who had seemed
to be impressed with Buffy’s knowledge of what was cool or uncool (like John
Tesh being the devil), but Cordelia quickly stopped Buffy from being in any
popular groups when she saw her being friends with Willow and Xander. The other
person she also met was Angel, a black-haired and brown-eyed handsome and
brilliant mysterious stranger who aided Buffy with cryptic advice and the gift
of a cross for her to wear around her neck.
She tried to ignore
herself being the Slayer and snapped at Giles, “Prepares me for what? For
getting kicked out of school? For losing all of my friends? For having to spend
all of my time fighting for my life and never getting to tell anyone because I
might endanger them? Go ahead! Prepare me.” Though she initially tried to have
a normal life without slaying in it, Buffy was forced to accept her duties as
she had to rescue Jesse, Willow, and Xander from a group of vampires when she
tried to meet them at the local nightclub. She was intercepted inside a crypt
by a vampire named Luke who she managed to fight to a standstill. That was
enough for Jesse, Willow, and Xander to escape from the group of vampires, but
Jesse was quickly recaptured by them. Buffy tried to rescue Jesse from them,
but it was too late as he had been sired into a vampire. With the help of
Giles, Xander, and Willow Buffy successfully stopped the vampire ritual known
as the Harvest by the Order of Aurelius, a vampire cult under the rule of the
ancient and powerful vampire the Master, who was trapped underground in
Sunnydale. Together, Buffy, Giles, Willow, and Xander formed the “core four” of
the “Scooby Gang” and they continued to investigate the various supernatural
mysteries that occurred on the Hellmouth.
A picture of Buffy Summers with her friends Willow and Xander
Buffy attempted to
try out for the cheerleading squad and briefly dated fellow student Owen
Thurman in her wish to have a social life separate from her Slayer duties, but
these attempts of hers’ at normalcy were quickly thwarted by supernatural
activity. She was nearly raped by Xander when he was possessed by the hyena
spirit. Xander’s attempt to sexually assault Buffy failed when she knocked him
unconscious with a desk and locked him in the book cage in the library.
A picture of Buffy Summers discovering that Angel is a vampire
Buffy gradually
accepted Angel for who he was, cared about him, and developed a deep attraction
to him and she was horrified when she came to realize that he was a vampire.
Though initially reluctant to slay him, she ultimately decided to do so when it
appeared that Angel had attacked her mother. She relented upon discovering that
he had a human soul as a result of being cursed by a Gypsy clan as punishment
for his vicious crimes. She also found out that Angel had in fact been set up
by the vampire Darla of the Order of Aurelius, Angel’s sire and Joyce’s true
attacker, who was staked by Angel in the ensuing confrontation.
Buffy had to kill a demon called Moloch who had
become trapped inside a robot body that Willow had thought was a boy Malcolm
that she was having a relationship with on the Internet. People’s nightmare started coming true in
Sunnydale by “lucky nineteen” which manifested Buffy’s guilt over her parents’
divorce along with her being buried alive by the Master and briefly transformed
into a vampire. When a string of odd occurrences started to occur in Sunnydale
which made what was believed to be the oncoming apocalypse; Giles warned Buffy
that she would eventually be forced to battle the Master as the Hellmouth would
open.
A picture of Buffy confronting the Master in her white prom dress
Upon learning that the infallible Pergamum Codex
prophesied her death at the hands of the Master a sadden and terribly fearful
Buffy temporarily quit being the Slayer and contemplated leaving town, but she
accepted her fate after Willow discovered the bodies of their classmates
slaughtered inside the school. She discovered Giles preparing to go after the
Master himself and she ended up knocking him out. Buffy descended down the
sewers with the Anointed One to confront the Master at his lair armed with a
crossbow and wearing a white prom dress. She was overpowered by the Master’s
thrall and the Master preceded to bite her once Buffy discovered it was her
that would set the Master free as her Slayer blood gave him the power to do so.
The Master then left Buffy to drown to death in a pool of water in the Master’s
dwellings, but Xander resuscitated her. When she awoke Buffy felt stronger and
she confronted the Master once more where she managed to defeat him and
effectively close the Hellmouth once more.
Another picture of Buffy Summers in her white prom dress
Season
Two
Buffy had been able
to spend her summer with her father Hank in Los Angeles. During her time there
she went out to eat at restaurants and go to see movies with her father and he
took her shopping at the mall. She did not slay a single vampire while she was
there, though, after her fatal experience Buffy suffered from post-traumatic
stress disorder and would take out on it by lavishingly spending money on new
clothes and shoes while she remained distant from others. Buffy returned to
Sunnydale and her situation of post-traumatic stress disorder showed such as
her using her slaying to wield her anger and her acting rudely towards her
friends. This came to an end when she recovered emotionally after she had destroyed
the Master’s skeleton herself with a hammer into powder when his remaining
followers attempted to resurrect him by offering her friends in a ritual.
Buffy confronts her enemy Spike for the first time
In her junior year
of high school life continued to be difficult for Buffy as she came into
conflict with some of Angel’s former partners in crime who the vampire couple
Spike (a blonde-haired and blue-eyed handsome, intelligent, and funny British
vampire) and Drusilla (a brown-haired and blue-eyed beautiful, but completely
insane vampire) and deal with Principal Snyder telling her mother Joyce how
much of a troublemaker she was. Spike and Drusilla had arrived on the Hellmouth
with the intent of making havoc in Sunnydale and in particular for Spike, “the
Slayer of Slayers” who had killed two previous slayers himself, to kill Buffy
so she would be his third. Spike
attacked the school during a Parent-Teacher conference with a bunch of minions
of the Order of Aurelius and he battled against Buffy for the first time. He came
close to killing Buffy, but he was defeated by Joyce who hit Spike over the
head with a fire axe and he ended up escaping. Buffy still tried to up the
level of normalcy in her life during the stress of being the Slayer by lying to
Giles so that she could attend a frat-boy party though it came out when her
life was put into danger again by supernatural activity. The following weeks
after his failed attempt to kill Buffy at the Parent-Teacher Conference Spike
was Buffy’s principal opponent mainly because he had taken a different route
when in his attempt to defeat Buffy as he made vampires film her fighting style
so that he would know what he was getting in a fight with her beforehand. Spike
tried to kill her again when Ethan Rayne’s Chaos spell turned Buffy into a
ditzy and witless noblewoman from 1775 on Halloween, but he failed when Giles
broke the spell and got his butt kicked by Buffy. Then he made a deal with Buffy’s friend Billy
Fordham where he agreed to make Ford become a vampire in exchange for him
handing Buffy over to him instead of him dying from his brain tumor. Ford tried
to lead Buffy into a trap where his vampire cult would be food for Spike’s
minion and he would give Buffy over to Spike, but Buffy was able to foil his
plan by threatening Spike that she would stake Drusilla if he did not let the
vampire worshippers go free.
Buffy’s
relationship with Angel heated up shortly afterwards and the pair officially
started dating. During a school career fair, Buffy was confirmed to be
qualified for law enforcement. She was targeted around this time by the Order
of Taraka who were an order of assassins hired by Spike to kill her so that she
would not interrupt a ritual to heal a sickly and weak Drusilla. While she was
hiding in Angel’s apartment, Buffy met Kendra Young, a sixteen-year-old black
girl with black hair and brown eyes who was a second Slayer that had been
mystically activated when Buffy had temporarily drowned to death. The two of
them quickly proved to be near-polar opposites of one another with Kendra’s
complete devotion of her Slayer duties contrasting to Buffy’s emotions and her
loyalty to her family and her friends. They eventually accepted each other for
who they were, became friends with each other, and cared about each other and
Kendra helped Buffy rescue Angel after he was kidnapped by Spike to complete
the ritual to heal Drusilla with his life for hers. Buffy and Kendra stopped
Spike from killing Angel while he performed the ritual at the church to heal
Drusilla and the ensuing fight between them ended when Spike was crushed under
a collapsing pipe organ which left him paralyzed from the waist down for
several months. From this experience Kendra taught Buffy to appreciate that
being a Slayer was a part of who she was and not just a burden.
Angel gave Buffy a
claddagh ring as a birthday gift and Buffy lost her virginity to Angel when
they slept together for the first time on the night of her seventeenth
birthday. By causing Angel to experience a moment of true and utter happiness,
she unknowingly lifted the curse placed on him a century earlier. This caused
Angel to lose his soul and revert back to the evil Angelus the most notoriously
evil vampire in recorded history.
Angelus, who was
unable to accept Buffy for who she was, cared nothing for her, and hated her
with a burning passion, became obsessed with destroying Buffy’s life in revenge
for her making him feel human . He joined back up with Spike and a restored
Drusilla, who had reconstructed an invincible demon called the Judge to destroy
humanity. Buffy managed to defeat the Judge when she confronted Angelus,
Drusilla, and the Judge at the Mall with a stolen rocket launcher that Xander
had given to her. She tracked down Angelus and the two of them fought it out
with Buffy gaining the upper hand in the fight and her ready to kill Angelus.
Though her resolve to do so faltered and Angelus taunted her on it. She wound
up repaying his insults to her by kicking him in the groin and told him, “Give
me time,” when it came to her killing him.
A picture of Buffy Summers using a stolen rocket launcher against the Judge
Angelus began to
taunt Buffy and his pathological abuse continued to take a heavy toll on Buffy
and her friends over the months through the form of creepy letters, drawings,
sending her roses, and threatening to endanger her family and her friends. He
even revealed their intimate night together to her mother Joyce, forcing Buffy
to go through “the talk” with her, thought she came to an understanding with
her mother about it as Joyce was as nervous as she was. It climaxed when
Angelus murdered the Scoobies’ ally and Giles’ love interest Jenny Calendar to
stop her from restoring his soul with the spell that would restore it. This put
Giles in danger when he tried to kill Angelus in retribution for Jenny’s
murder, nearly getting himself killed before Buffy saved his life, not wanted
to lose him, especially at a time such as this. When faced with Angelus’s
subsequent plan to destroy the world by awakening Acathla, Buffy was fully
willing to kill him if she had to do so to save the world, but she also relied
on Willow to try to re-ensoul him as a last resort after they discovered the
spell to do so in Jenny’s office. She was challenged to a duel with Angelus as
they tried to do the spell to restore Angel’s soul to him where she was tricked
again when he staged an attack against Willow and the others which culminated
to the death of Kendra at the hands of Drusilla and Giles’s kidnapping. Buffy
took off running when she realized that she had been tricked by Angelus to come
to the scene of the crime where she became a suspect for Kendra’s murder and
resisted arrest, making her a target to the Sunnydale police force.
A picture of Buffy Summers running back towards the school library after she realizes that she has been set up once again by Angelus
Buffy reluctantly
accepted an alliance with Spike to stop Angelus from awakening Acathla as he
had become increasingly annoyed of Angelus’s presence and he had no desire to
see the world end. She returned home with Spike where she killed a vampire in
front of Joyce so she was forced to reveal her identity as who she was as the
Vampire Slayer to her mother. Joyce reacted badly to the news and this started
an argument of confusion and disagreements between them where Buffy emotionally
declared to her mother about her being the Slayer, “No, it doesn’t stop! It
never stops! Do you think I chose to be like this? Do you have any idea how
lonely it is, how dangerous? I would love to be upstairs watching TV or
gossiping about boys or….God, even studying! But I have to save the
world….again.” This fight led to Joyce throwing Buffy out of the house on her
own accord. She returned to the library at Sunnydale High School where Kendra’s
murder had happened to acquire a mystical sword given to her by Kendra prior to
her death. While she was there the school’s unpleasant Principal Snyder arrived
and expelled her from Sunnydale High School.
A picture of Buffy confronting Angelus to defeat him from unleashing Acathla
Buffy confronted
Angelus, Drusilla, Spike, and their minions at the mansion where they were at
as Angel was about to awaken Acathla while Xander rescued the kidnapped Giles
and Willow unknowingly to Buffy worked a spell to return Angel’s soul to him.
She did fight against Angelus, Drusilla, and their minions and Spike ended up backing
her up by attacking Angelus. Angelus finally awakened Acathla and Angelus and
Buffy got into a heated swordfight. Though Spike was able to take off with an
unconscious Drusilla and the spell was successful in restoring Angel’s soul to
him, Buffy was forced to drive the sword through the re-ensouled Angel’s chest,
sending hum through the vortex to the hell dimension before he could even
remember Angelus’s siege against Sunnydale to close the vortex. Alone and
clearly traumatized, Buffy stopped back at her house to pack a duffle bag and
then boarded a bus out of Sunnydale and escaped to Los Angeles.
A picture of Buffy Summers leaving Sunnydale in a bus
Season Three
While she was in
L.A., Buffy spent the summer working as a waitress in a diner under a false
identity which was her middle name Anne and tried to turn her back on her
destiny. She developed a simple everyday routine: get out of bed, shower, get
dressed, brush teeth, clean out ears, deodorize, end up combing and drying
hair, eat breakfast, go to work, head back to the apartment, make dinner to
eat, watch TV, and sleep. The days passed by the same for Buffy though after
she rescued a runaway from a hell dimension which struck her into battle mode,
Buffy returned to Sunnydale to face her own demons.
A picture of Buffy returning to Sunnydale and reuniting with her mother Joyce
After a few
difficulties, namely her being caught trying to run away once more during her
welcome back party that was then attacked by zombies, Buffy reconciled with her
family and her friends. Her charges of suspicion of murder against her were
dropped. She was let back into Sunnydale High School even though Principal
Snyder initially prevented her return from happening to his own pleasure, but
he was overruled by the School Board.
At school Buffy was
required to improve her grades by doing several makeup tests, obtain a
recommendation from a member of the school staff that was not an “English
librarian,” and received counseling for a small time. She also started a
relationship with normal schoolmate Scott Hope which ended shortly after a
number of weeks. On the other hand, she discovered that Angel had returned from
his hell dimension in a feral state. She secretly rehabilitated him at his
mansion which helped him heal while she still found herself greatly drawn to
him. When the Scoobies discovered that she knew that Angel had returned without
telling them about it, they were confused, disgusted, and evidently furious at
Buffy, though they begrudgingly accepted him back into the team when he saved
Willow from being killed by a corrupt ex-Watcher.
A picture of Buffy with her new friend fellow Slayer Faith Lehane in her senior year of high school
Meanwhile, a
rebellious new Slayer, eighteen-year-old dark brown-haired and dark brown-eyed
beautiful and clever Faith Lehane arrived in town, immediately winning over
Buffy’s family and friends and providing Buffy with a new ally. Contrary to
Kendra who was the model slayer, Faith was a fun-loving brawler that threw
responsibility aside more so than Buffy did. Buffy discovered that under her
façade of the enthusiasm of the kill was fear, having escaped from Sunnydale
after the vampire Kakistos killed her Watcher and threatened to come after her.
After the averted the problem by slaying the vampire, Buffy and Faith started a
complicated sisterly relationship of learning about who each other was and of
each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
Though Buffy and
Angel attempted to simply be friends with each other and nothing more, they
eventually continued dating, though they took great care to keep their
relationship celibate.
Buffy had to deal
with Angel into helping out Spike cast a love spell on Drusilla to get her to
take him back after their breakup after he had kidnapped Willow and Xander and
held them hostage in the factory. She ended up having to deal with an alternate
reality where the Master rose from the dead and the Harvest took over Sunnydale
when Cordelia wished to the blonde-haired and brown-eyed vengeance demon named
Anyanka. In this alternate reality Buffy was killed by the Master after he
snapped her neck, but Giles in that reality broke the spell after he destroyed
Anyanka’s amulet and everything returned to normal.
Shortly before her
eighteenth birthday, Buffy was de-powered in preparation for her Cruciamentum,
a Slayer rite of passage organized by the Watchers’ Council meant to test the
Slayer’s intelligence and practical capabilities. This pitted her against a
vampire manic named Zachary Kralik whom she initially avoided though she packed
the courage to take him on when he had abducted her mother Joyce and had been
holding her hostage and she ended up victorious as she relied on her brain and
cunning to defeat him by using his dependency on anti-psychotic medication
against him. Giles’ reluctance to see Buffy hurt and his subsequent
interference in the test led to him being fired as her official Watcher and
replaced with Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, though Buffy quickly rebelled against Wesley
and she refused to take him seriously when he turned out to be little more than
a bumbling idiot and a coward. Eventually, Faith led Buffy of a rebellious tour
of her side of Slayer, which did entice Buffy to some degree. This however
proved disastrous when Faith accidently killed the Deputy Mayor and she refused
to take responsibility for her actions. Buffy tried to make her own up to what
she had done, but her attempts to do so were shot down by Faith and Faith
herself tried to frame Buffy for her crime by lying to Giles, though he saw
through this. Buffy and Faith’s relationship would be then changed from that
point on.
As the Senior Prom
was closing in, Buffy expressed excitement in having her prefect high school
experience with Angel as her date. Angel broke up with Buffy the day before the
prom as he had realized that he could never give her a normal life. Despite
being extremely saddened by this, Buffy still made it her duty that she and her
friends enjoyed themselves at the event. She went forth to kill a number of
hellhounds released by a dateless nerd and went to the prom dressed in formal
wear. To her surprise she was presented with an award as the Class Protector in
the form of an ornately decorated parasol which acknowledged the countless
times that she had saved the student body. When just as she thought the night
could not get any better, Angel arrived in a tuxedo, not wanting to take her back,
but to give her the slow dance with him that she had desired to have with him.
A picture of Buffy where she is named "Class Protector" by her grateful classmates during the Senior Prom
Faith apparently
found acceptance for who she was, care for herself, and a friend in the affable
yet sinister Mayor of Sunnydale, who was preparing himself to become a pure-blood
demon on the Sunnydale High School Graduation Day and devour the student body
when she found herself increasingly alienated from the Scoobies. Buffy worked
first to thwart his plans and then to organize a resistance against him as the
Mayor relied on Faith to help him prepare for his ascension. Faith did impede
these efforts by poisoning Angel which left him on the verge of death. Buffy
ended up being disgusted and extremely furious when the Watchers Council
refused to help out Angel on the grounds that he was a vampire and she finally
decided to stop following the Watchers’ Council’s orders altogether. The
Scoobies learned that only the blood of a Slayer could save Angel’s life and
Buffy, in a black and red outfit, made an attempt to sacrifice Faith to save
him, willing to kill a human in this case. She fought against Faith and their
battle left Faith in a seemingly permanent coma after Buffy had stabbed her and
Faith then jumped off of the roof. Buffy ultimately saved Angel with her own
blood which also put her in the hospital though she quickly recovered.
A picture of Buffy using Faith's knife to anger the transformed Mayor during the climactic battle against him and his minions at her high school graduation
Buffy then led her
classmates in a climactic battle against the transformed Mayor and his minions
during their high school graduation. This culminated in an explosion that
destroyed the Mayor as well as Sunnydale High School. When the smoke had
cleared, Angel left for Los Angeles so that Buffy would be able to try to have
a more normal life without him.
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