Post by ADMIN BRITT on Apr 2, 2011 19:33:22 GMT -6
As you can see, there are many different member groups on this site. There are three special ones on here that needed further clarifying. If you are applying for a slayer. a potential slayer, or a watcher please read all three groups to make sure you understand each one and what it entails. If you have any questions feel free to PM a staff member to receive further help or clarification.
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This site takes place after Willow activated the potentials, yes, however they don't know what they are and they don't know where their strength comes from. At the end (The very end of Season 7 Episode 22 Chosen, if you remember they (Willow, Xander, Faith, Dawn, Buffy, and Giles) are all talking and Dawn says 'We have to find them'...that's what they're doing now. The only Slayers that are currently activated are Buffy, Faith, those slayers that were in the 7th season (Vi, Rona, Kennedy, etc.). There are a few that were found directly after opening the slayer school in Rome and have finished their training. This being said, please do not make any slayers before speaking with an admin before hand UNLESS they are canon. We MIGHT accept a few OC's but it's highly unlikely.
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The way that BTVS was written (and the way that I've always taken it) was that the potentials were set up by age. So there was Buffy...then Kendra...Then Faith...that's the way that the slayer line went. Buffy was 15 when she was called...which means that Kendra was 14 when Buffy was called and Faith was 12 when Buffy was called.
As stated above, the only slayers that are activated are Buffy, Faith, Vi, Rona, Kennedy, and a hand full of others that were found directly after opening the Slayer school. The way that it works now (now that Giles is heading the Watcher's Council and Buffy is heading the Slayer School) is that the potentials are found and told about what they have the potential of being. They have three options, because Buffy didn't want to force anyone into anything.
Option 1, They can go to the Slayer School to be trained. The Slayer School is a boarding school in Rome which has regular classes (ones that you would take in HS or in College...even middle school)...and then it also has training classes to learn how to be a slayer. Option 2, They can have a watcher assigned to them and be trained where they are living now. Option 3, they can decline to become a slayer. In option 3, which has happened a few times, a witch (usually Willow) will cast a memory spell on them that erases the conversation about supernatural beings.
When making an application for a potential, please note that they will not be aware of their potential status. Buffy will find them (or Faith, etc.) and explain to them what is going on.
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Every Watcher is assigned a slayer OR a potential once the Watcher’s themselves graduate the Watcher’s Academy. While in the Watcher’s Academy they train with slayers such as Buffy, Faith, Vi, Rona and Kennedy. In order to graduate the academy they must have a certain amount of field time clocked in. They can only gain that field time with an established slayer (see list above). Once they have graduated, the head of the Watcher’s Council (Rupert Giles) and the head of the Slayer School (Buffy Summers) sit down and discuss the Watcher. From there they decide which Watcher and which Slayer will be a good team, and then they pair them up.
As stated above with the Slayers, there are very few actual Watcher’s at the present time. Rupert Giles had to start the Watcher’s Council from scratch seeing as the council before him was blown up. The Watchers are found several different ways. Like the potentials, certain Watchers are found by a seer in a coven that the Watcher’s Council and the Slayer School work closely with. However there are also those who are relatives of former council members and those who know about Slayers and Watchers and want to help.
Feel free to make a Watcher or a Watcher in training, just please remember. The only Watcher’s who are technically ‘graduated’ from the Academy have only been so for around 5 months. At this moment we have several potentials without watchers so please do not make a Watcher with a Potential in mind. Giles and Buffy (and until we get a Giles the staff) will determine which Potential goes with which Watcher.
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