B is for…Buffy!

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This is about the television series. We're going to pretend the movie was never made.
I can't remember if I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it was first on television. In the later 90s, I was living in Nome, Alaska, and was a bit disconnected from popular culture and television. What I do remember, is watching it a few years later with my older daughter when she was about five (and several times since).  We both loved it. Heck, she even had a credits dance to the Nerf Herder song.

I think what I loved (and still love) about Buffy, the character, was the way she messed with my
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-tendencies-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/expectations. She was little and pretty. She'd been a cheerleader. In my own judgy way, I'd expect her to shallow and uninteresting. But she had a calling, a calling that made her life dark and messy, full of weapons, stealth, and secrets. The show didn't hesitate to explore the toll the work took on the young woman: how it affected her relationships, her social life, her finances, and her soul. 
Buffy also had a fully realized supporting cast: The Scoobies. It's a reminder to me as I write my own superhero stories, that the people who surround your heroine are vital to the life's blood of the story. Their presence or absence, their expectations, support and disappointment, the pressure and conflict they provide: all the juicy stuff of story. 
I'm still a Buffy fan today. I've read some of the comics. I have the musical memorized. Buffy is definitely a hero who stuck with me. _____________________________________________________ This post is part of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. I'll be writing about superheroes I love all month. You can check out other bloggers and see their creative takes on the challenge here.

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