Buffy Anne Summers was born to Hank and Joyce Summers on January 19, 1981, in Los Angeles, California. The episodes in which she celebrates her birthday in season two and three aired on January 19 and the ones from the rest of the series aired on dates closest to the 19th. In season four, Buffy informs Riley that she is a "Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius." (In "I, Robot... You, Jane", computer screens show Buffy's birthdate as October 24th, 1980 and as May 6th, 1979. However, in at least four other episodes of the first season, i.e. spring 1997, Buffy and/or her mother say she is sixteen.)

At the age of eight, Buffy was close friends with her cousin Celia, and enjoyed playing superhero with her; Buffy pretended to be Power Girl, a prophetic choice of alter ego. She looked on helplessly as Celia was murdered by Der Kindestod, a demon that kills sick children and is only visible to those tremendously ill. This experience instilled a fear of hospitals in Buffy.

Buffy came to idolize the Olympic ice skater Dorothy Hamill as she learned the sport. She became a popular cheerleader at Hemery High, a high school in Los Angeles. During her time at Hemery (1995-1997), she was elected both Prom Princess and Fiesta Queen. At fifteen, Buffy began having strange, violent dreams about women from different periods in history slaying monsters. One day, she was approached by a mysterious man named who revealed her destiny as a vampire "Slayer". This man, Merrick, became her first Watcher. With little training, Buffy defeated her first major enemy, a vampire leader named Lothos, but not before the death of Merrick. In a battle with Lothos' vampiric lackeys, Buffy set fire to the high school gym and was subsequently expelled. After this encounter, Buffy confided in her parents about what really had happened and her destiny as the Slayer. Worried that she was losing her mind, Buffy's parents sent her to a mental institution. While there, Buffy realized that attempts to persuade others of the existence of demonic forces would be futile. She kept quiet and was released after a couple of weeks. Buffy and her parents never spoke of it again.

Her parents, who had been experiencing marital troubles, eventually divorced. Buffy moved with her mother to Sunnydale, a small town in California. The exact address was 1630 Revello Drive.

 

Sunnydale

In Season 1, Buffy's character develops as she begins to accept the responsibilities and dangers of her calling as Slayer. Hoping to be a regular student, she enrolls in the local high school and meets her future best friends, Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg, as well as her new Watcher, Rupert Giles. She also meets Cordelia Chase, an arrogant, condescending cheerleader like the old Buffy, and Angel, a mysterious stranger who eventually reveals himself as a vampire with a soul. Buffy is quickly forced back into the role of Slayer as she and her new friends battle vampires, monsters, and demons. She grows closer to her Watcher, eventually coming to view him as a father-figure. The first season centers on Buffy's battle with a thousand-year-old vampiric leader, the Master, his protégé the Anointed One, and his bloodthirsty army of the Order of Aurelius. On learning that the Pergamum Codex prophesies her death at the hands of the Master, Buffy contemplates leaving town, but accepts her fate after Willow discovers bodies of her friends slaughtered inside the school. She is overpowered and left to drown in a pool of water in the Master's dwellings; her death frees the Master and opens the Hellmouth, but Angel and Xander find her in time for Xander to resuscitate her. A strengthened Buffy shoves the Master off the roof of Sunnydale High, impaling him on the wooden remnants of a broken desk. After the school year ends, Buffy spends the summer with her father in Los Angeles.

In the show's second season, Buffy's character continues to come to terms with her destiny as the Slayer with the help of Giles and her friends. She finds forbidden love with Angel and clashes with Spike and Drusilla, the new vampires in town. She also meets and befriends Kendra, the Vampire Slayer who had been called when Buffy drowned in Season 1. Eventually, she loses her virginity to Angel, unknowingly ending the Kalderash curse placed on him a century earlier and causing him to lose his soul; without his soul, he reverts to Angelus, the most infamously evil vampire in history. He becomes obsessed with destroying Buffy's life, as he had done to Drusilla a century before. He joins Spike and Drusilla, who have reconstructed a supernatural monster called The Judge. Buffy, aided by Xander's mystical insights into militarism and weapons, foils their plans and defeats The Judge, although Angelus's pathological abuse continues to take a heavy toll on Buffy and her friends. He kills Giles' new love, Jenny Calendar, before she is able to restore his soul, and he develops a plan to destroy the world. After her friends are attacked by Drusilla and a gang of vampires, Buffy (the chief suspect in the investigation), accepts an alliance with Spike, who also wants to stop Angelus. While strategizing with Spike, Buffy is forced to stake a vampire in front of her mother, who is unable to come to terms with the revelation that her daughter is the Slayer. Joyce demands that Buffy stay home and discuss matters with her (telling her that if she leaves now, not to come back); Buffy, however, has "to go save the world. Again." Meanwhile, Drusilla, who has killed Kendra, helps Angelus trick a tortured Giles into revealing how to activate the statue of Acathla, the gate to a hell dimension. Willow manages to reensoul Angel, but not before he opens the hell vortex. Because Angel's blood is the only way to close the vortex, Buffy runs him through with a sword, sending him to hell and saving the world. Traumatized by her ordeal and alienated from her mother, Buffy escapes to Los Angeles.

In Season 3, Buffy's character must reconnect to her calling, her friends, and her family after her departure, as well as make difficult life decisions regarding her relationship with Angel. In L.A., Buffy waits tables in a diner under a false identity (she uses her middle name, Anne), trying to turn her back on her Slayer destiny. However, after rescuing a runaway Buffy returns to Sunnydale to face her own demons. She reunites with her loved ones and tries to find closure to her relationship with Angel. However, he returns mysteriously (by intervention of the Powers That Be, as revealed in Season One of Angel), and Buffy is still drawn to him. Meanwhile, a new, rebellious Slayer, Faith, who had been activated upon Kendra's death, arrives in town. Faith is initially a powerful ally for Buffy, but their opposing personalities lead to antagonism and acrimony as Faith indulges her dark side. Buffy tries to help Faith, who becomes increasingly destructive and disloyal. Alienated from the Scoobies, Faith finds a friend in the affable yet sinister Mayor Richard Wilkins, who had initially founded Sunnydale as a haven for demons to feed. As the Mayor uses Faith to help him prepare to Ascend on Sunnydale High School's Graduation Day, Buffy works first to thwart his efforts, then to organize a resistance. When Buffy learns that Angel, who is on the verge of death, must drink the blood of a Slayer in order to survive, she attempts to sacrifice Faith to save him. Their battle leaves Faith in a coma, and Buffy ultimately saves Angel with her own blood. She then leads her classmates in a climactic battle against the Ascended Mayor and his minions, culminating in an explosion that destroys the Mayor as well as Sunnydale High School. After the smoke clears, Angel leaves for Los Angles so that Buffy can try to have a more normal life without him.

In Season 4, Buffy's character must balance her Slayer duties with her life as a college student. Her difficulty adjusting to college life is further complicated by mystical threats (including, among other things, a demonic roommate, campus werewolves, and enchanted beer), the return of Spike, and a disastrous one-night stand with Parker, a charming playboy. In the meantime, Faith wakes from her coma and, with the help of a mystical device left to her by the Mayor, switches bodies with Buffy. Buffy, in Faith's body, is captured by members of the Watchers' Council, who attempt to send her to England. Eventually Buffy manages to escape and convince Giles that she is herself, and with Willow's and Tara's help, transfers herself back in to her own body. Faith escapes to L.A., where Buffy is dismayed to find her under the protection of Angel, who hopes to rehabilitate her. Buffy's character also experiences some disconnect from her friends, who all seem to be moving in different directions. Buffy eventually attracts the sincere attention of Riley Finn. She is initially pleased to have a boyfriend who is ordinary and normal, although she soon discovers that Riley is a member of the Initiative, a U.S. government task force created to research mystical and demonic creatures. Buffy briefly joins forces with Riley's team, which is led by Dr. Maggie Walsh, head of the covert military organization and UC Sunnydale psychology professor. However, Riley and Buffy become disillusioned with the Initiative after Dr. Walsh betrays Buffy, and eventually, Buffy, Riley, and the Scoobies discover that Dr. Walsh is creating a race of superwarriors from the fruits of the Initiative's demon research. Her first project is Adam, a human-demon-cybernetics hybrid. Buffy must also contend with Spike, who returns to Sunnydale only to be captured by the Initiative, who implant a chip in his head, rendering him unable to harm humans. He provides assistance and information to Buffy and the Scooby Gang in exchange for protection, and Buffy tolerates his presence but recognizes that he cannot be trusted, a suspicion that is confirmed when he temporarily allies himself with Adam in a desperate attempt to get the chip removed from his head. Although the Scooby Gang has been drifting apart, Buffy, Xander, Willow, and Giles reconcile and combine their essences through a spell that helps Buffy destroy Adam. The government then decides to shut down the disaster-ridden Initiative, and Riley receives an honorable discharge from the Army.

In Season 5, Buffy's character faces her greatest dangers yet, while finally fully embracing her destiny. A younger sister named Dawn mysteriously appears in Buffy's household. Her existence has seamlessly integrated with the memories of Buffy, her friends, and her mother, whose health is beginning to deteriorate. Buffy first discovers that Dawn is not her sister while in a mystical trance, and she soon learns that a group of monks "created" a human body in order to hide a Key, cosmic energy that can open interdimensional portals, from a mentally unstable and dangerous hell-god Glory. Glory wants to use the Key to open the portal between Earth and her home dimension and seek vengeance on those who had exiled her; she is unconcerned that the barriers separating Earth from all hells will be torn apart as well, destroying the fabric of reality. The monks have chosen Buffy to protect the Key because she is the Slayer; they know that she will protect her sister with her life. In the meantime, Spike realizes that he has fallen in love with her. He becomes a more regular and reliable presence in her Slayer life, assisting in the fight against demons; however, he also becomes a nightly fixture on her front lawn, much to her irritation. Giles takes her on a vision quest to the desert, where the spirit of the orignial Slayer tells her that death is her gift to the world, a message she has difficulty understanding. Her relationship with Riley falls apart, primarily because she is unable to give him the emotional intimacy he craves. While Buffy recovers from the blow of another failed relationship, she is repulsed to notice the extent of Spike's obsession with her and uninvites him from her house. She is devestated when her mother Joyce suddenly dies of complications from a brain tumor. As Glory gets closer to discovering the Key, Buffy and her friends take Dawn and run, with Glory as well as an army of knights in pursuit. After an extended standoff in the desert, Dawn is captured by Glory and taken to be sacrificed. Buffy, blaming herself for losing Dawn, retreats into her subconscious, and Willow must enter Buffy's mind to draw her back out. Afterwards, Buffy, Spike, and the Scooby Gang attack Glory's stronghold in full force. Dawn is tied to a high tower where, despite everyone's efforts, a demon uses Dawn's blood to open the interdimensional portal. Buffy fights Glory, beating her severely and, finally understanding the meaning of the message from the original Slayer, saves Dawn and sacrifices her own life by diving into the magical vortex, closing the portal and saving the world. She is buried on the outskirts of Sunnydale with the epitaph, "She saved the world. A lot." Finally able to rest, she ascends to Heaven and finds peace.

In Season 6, Buffy's character faces her own dark side as she deals with depression and loss. Buffy is resurrected by her friends in a dark ritual led by Willow. Her friends believe that the ritual is unsuccessful, but Buffy wakes up in her casket and is forced to dig herself out. Her transition back to her life is difficult; she experiences the pain of having been ripped from Heaven, as well as the added responsibilities of raising Dawn and paying bills. Because her friends believe that they have rescued her from a hell dimension, she confides only to Spike that she had been in Heaven, and insists that he keep her secret from her friends. With the added burden of maintaining that lie, Buffy falls into a deep depression. She begins a violent sexual relationship with Spike, which leaves neither of them satisfied. Buffy later admits to Spike that she is just using him, and breaks things off because it is killing her. He later corners her in her bathroom and makes aggressive sexual advances; she fights him off, and he, horrified by his actions, leaves Sunnydale in search of his soul. Buffy is also forced to deal with the disintegration of the relationships around her, as well as her sister's kleptomania and Willow's growing addiction to magic. She is further frustrated by the ongoing efforts of the Trio — Warren Mears, Andrew Wells, and Jonathan Levinson — whose comically nerdy crimes grow darker as the season progresses. Eventually Warren, furious that Buffy had foiled his plans yet again, shoots Buffy (on purpose) and Tara (accidentally). Willow uses her powers to heal Buffy and remove the bullet, but she is unable to save Tara. The grief-stricken Willow becomes psychotic with dark magicks, exacting revenge against Warren and planning to destroy the world. Xander eventually gets through to Willow, convincing her to back down. After fighting alongside Dawn against monsters raised by Willow, Buffy promises to change her self-destructive behavior in order to be there for her sister.

In the seventh (and final) season, Buffy's character develops a new perspective on her destiny when she is confronted with the threat of the First Evil, which she had first encountered in season three. The Bringers, agents of the First, are tracking down and killing all the potential Slayers in the world in an attempt to wipe out the Slayer line. Buffy's home quickly becomes filled with teenage Potentials, who come to Sunnydale for protection. Buffy is the natural leader for the Potentials, who initially look up to her with respect. She works to train the Potentials into an army to stand against the First; however, her methods, tactics, and decisions soon begin to alienate the terrified girls. Sunnydale eventually becomes a ghost town as people (and lesser demons such as Clem) flee the increasing demonic activity. When Buffy realizes that their current forces are insufficient to defeat the vast armies of the First Evil, she seeks guidance and assistance from the Shadow Men, who created the original Slayer by binding a pure demon's heart to a young girl. Buffy refuses their offer to increase her own power by filling her with the essence of a demon, which would take away part of her humanity. The Potentials continue to lose faith in her leadership as the dangers around them increase, leading to a mutiny; Giles, Dawn, her friends, and the Potentials all choose Faith as the new leader, and Dawn asks Buffy to leave the house. Spike alone remains loyal to her, and she spends two nights with him before the final battle against the armies of the First. Buffy, acting alone, rescues the Potentials after Faith leads them into a disastrous trap, earning back their trust. Angel comes to town intending to help in the fight, but Buffy sends him back to L.A.; they discuss their relationship, and Buffy admits that Spike is now in her heart. She expresses hope that she and Angel could have a relationship in the distant future, and Angel leaves a mystical amulet with Buffy, who gives it to Spike to wear in the upcoming battle. Her experiences with the Shadow Men lead her to re-examine the parameters of her destiny, and she asks Willow to use her powers to activate every potential Slayer in the world. The band of Potentials transforms into an army of Slayers, who take on the armies of the First. Spike, with the aid of the mystical amulet, sacrifices himself to destroy the armies of vampires and close the Hellmouth. Before she leaves him to die, Buffy tells Spike that she loves him. She and the survivors barely escape as Sunnydale crumbles into a huge crater.


    

 

 


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