#kendra young

[biancalawsongifs]

Look at me, Deary. Be...in my eyes. Be...in me.

[buffysource]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

2.10 | What's My Line?

[whatisyourchildhoodtrauma]

BIANCA LAWSON as KENDRA YOUNG Buffy the Vampire Slayer - 2.09 | 2.10 | 2.21

[onegirlinallthewrld]

KENDRA YOUNG - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2019)

[shiverandqueeef]

hope it's clear to everyone when i say that buffy has more chemistry with her female foils then she ever had with an actual boyfriend that spike doesn't count. he was buffy's girlfriend

[dailybtvs]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

[finalgirl1984]

We talk about Faith “smiles with a knife to her throat “ Lehane. But I think it’s slept on how much of a freak, and i mean that affectionately, Kendra was. She really locked angel up for him to watch the sun slowly rise to kill him. She did not have to do all of that she literally could have just staked him. The little laugh when angel is like “just tell me what you know and nobody gets hurt”. Hiding in the bushes at night to test another slayers, who might i remind you is trained to kill things that jump out in the dark, reflexes. She likes to hit. Girl of all time.

[voices-not-echoes]

btvs au where kendra survived drusilla’s attack and now there’s three slayers but kendra is still absent from the btvs narrative bc she is busy in her spinoff hunting drusilla across the globe. dru is psycho sexually obsessed with her and has offered to turn her at least five times.

[the-sparkling-diamond-satine]

Before I go, let go of the ghost Just let her disappear And then maybe you'll see me While I'm still here I’m still here Before I go, let’s give up the ghost Just be with me instead I know I might be dying But I'm not dead I'm not dead

— "Before I Go," Kimberly Akimbo

Buffy the Vampire Slayer + theatre — 7/?

Screencaps from here.

[biancalawsongifs]

#a completely valid response

[thechosenthree]

I’ve been thinking so much lately about how even though Kendra is barely mentioned after her death, she is haunting the narrative for the rest of the show.

Every time Faith is on screen or mentioned, Kendra’s ghost is right there with her. The fact that if Kendra’s hadn’t died, Faith wouldn’t be a slayer, means Kendra is never really forgotten. Faith is a living reminder of Kendra’s tragedy.

And Buffy continues to use Mr. Pointy!! In a way it makes sense to me that Buffy wouldn’t want to bring her up with other people? (I obviously understand the actual reasons but I’ve been trying to make it make sense in universe.) After all nobody else in Sunnydale knew her like Buffy did. They were freaks together!! And then Buffy was alone again.

Faith shows up and Buffy’s got someone who understands!! But it’s not the first time she’s had that, and I keep thinking of how in early s3, Faith must be a constant reminder for Buffy of the friend she lost.

And I can’t imagine Buffy bringing Kendra up to Faith? How would she go about that without it being this weird thing of having to acknowledge Faith replaced Kendra? That Buffy and Faith wouldn’t even know each other if Kendra hadn’t died?

So instead Buffy mourns Kendra alone. And keeps her stake with her, a way of holding onto her long after she’s gone. She brings Kendra with her into battle every time. She’s never really alone. Except that Kendra is dead, and Buffy must feel even more alone than she did before she met her.

And in The Wish Buffy is dressed so similarly to how Kendra was in Becoming when she died!! Wishverse!Buffy is so Kendra AND Faith coded, in different ways. It makes it feel like they’re all three in that episode.

And Wishverse!Buffy died right before Giles smashed the power source. Which means Kendra was called!! For like half a second of course before everything went back to reality. But being that she was raised to be The Slayer, it’s possible Wishverse!Kendra was actually aware she was called? I don’t know exactly how that works. But it’s different than the council needing to go find Buffy and tell her her destiny when she was called.

It’s just!!! They are the chosen three!!

They’re technically never all three on screen together— unless you count one conversation in s3 where Kendra is mentioned in front of them both. But Faith showing up cements Kendra’s place haunting the narrative for the rest of the show. If she’d died and there’d been no other slayer called, she could have faded away…

Faith’s literal existence as a character in the show ensured that she didn’t.

[angelamoores]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 2.10 What's My Line? Part Two

[buffysource]

And you are called?

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

2.10 | What's My Line?: Part 2

[literalite]

second half of the six eleven sims challenge

these were all requests from dogcrew, can't remember who asked for what but we have dick grayson (nightwing) from dc, jolyne cujoh from jjba, cleo de nile from monster high, ukitake from bleach, dean winchester from supernatural, and kendra young from buffy

[onegirlinallthewrld]

NO LONGER IS BUT ONE CHOSEN. THE POWER ITSELF BECOMES THE CHOSEN ONE… AND THE ONE WHO CHOOSES.

[yarboyandy]

The Slayer and her Watcher.