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<blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 713407" data-attributes="member: 354">Few comments.On the &quot;last guardian of the hellmouth&quot; thing. Ok, first slayer was a savage, because she was directly infused with the demon-power. Subsequent slayers have been getting the power passed along. Maybe it's akin to generations in Vampire: The Masquerade, and gets weeker through the generations? Maybe Buffy and Faith are the last two slayers with enough power in them to count for anything?Just a thought. I tend to look at it a different way, though... Buffy is the last guardian of the hellmouth, because she will either find a way to seal it or destroy it, or she will die and the world will be over run, thus making guarding the thing a moot point.I also am not sure I grok the whole &quot;We have to protect these potentials because they are all we have&quot; and the whole &quot;ending of the slayer line&quot; bit... Look at the potentials. I don't see that the &quot;gift&quot; is at all related to an actual genetic bloodline. It seems to look for &quot;traits&quot;. And who gets imbued when a slayer dies is the potential that has the best &quot;traits&quot; at the time. So, even if all the slayer potentials were slaughtered, and buffy and faith died, wouldn't &quot;the powers that be&quot; simply find the next young girl with the closest traits, and so on? I guess what I'm saying is, it's always seemed to me that *every* girl was a slayer *potential*, just some were more likely than others.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tsyr, post: 713407, member: 354"] Few comments. On the "last guardian of the hellmouth" thing. Ok, first slayer was a savage, because she was directly infused with the demon-power. Subsequent slayers have been getting the power passed along. Maybe it's akin to generations in Vampire: The Masquerade, and gets weeker through the generations? Maybe Buffy and Faith are the last two slayers with enough power in them to count for anything? Just a thought. I tend to look at it a different way, though... Buffy is the last guardian of the hellmouth, because she will either find a way to seal it or destroy it, or she will die and the world will be over run, thus making guarding the thing a moot point. I also am not sure I grok the whole "We have to protect these potentials because they are all we have" and the whole "ending of the slayer line" bit... Look at the potentials. I don't see that the "gift" is at all related to an actual genetic bloodline. It seems to look for "traits". And who gets imbued when a slayer dies is the potential that has the best "traits" at the time. So, even if all the slayer potentials were slaughtered, and buffy and faith died, wouldn't "the powers that be" simply find the next young girl with the closest traits, and so on? I guess what I'm saying is, it's always seemed to me that *every* girl was a slayer *potential*, just some were more likely than others. [/QUOTE]

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