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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 5698894" data-attributes="member: 4936">Hee hee, okay Zombie...let us hash this out. In my corner is Nerdgirl, who's got that pastor for a father and so on, rah rah. Not terribly assertive, but in my mind she's kind of sour and sarcastic towards the mainstream she feels rejected by. Not the cheerful, chirpy Willow-ish sort at all.Now, unless I'm mistaking you, in your corner is the athletic...perhaps even jocktastic...sporty girl, who is a bit 'durr' in matters cranial, but well versed in matters related to jumping and running and climbing...and perhaps kicking and hitting as well. Not at all a cheerleader, she plays on more than one of the school teams. One shall be the slayer. The other shall be...NOT the slayer. Spunky sidekick? Mmmmaybe. Something like that. Though either has potential to supply.In my mind, the nerdgirl-slayer idea is entertaining mainly because of the role reversal, where the decidedly non-physically inclined girl is thrust into a situation where the qualities she views as her strengths are more or less irrelevant, and she's forced to rely on abilities that may very well be heretical. However, I can also see how it results in a character who "has it all" in some ways...possessing the superhuman physical characteristics of the slayer, as well as the developed intellect of the Nerd. Even if that were desirable, and I'm not sure it is, the system likely wouldn't support that.The only potential issue with sporty-slayer and her nerdish BFF is that it walks perilously close to the dynamic of the TV show...though I recognize that the actual characters are quite distinct. Even so, I'm not sure I'd be satisfied with being the one who does some research up front, then vanishes during all of the action...unless I was abducted or in other ways made into a plot point. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Of course, I suppose that's true for anyone who would play a normal human in a game of demons and half-demons.So...not sure where that leaves us.Hee</blockquote>

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