#KENDRA TALKS

[hazystars]

furniture shopping on fb marketplace and i’m sorry but this is just too funny

[kenharel]

Finished reading 2ha volume 1 and my soul is in p a i n

This is my first time reading the book and I'm loving it, but waiting for volume 2 next month is agonizing, especially where it's ended so far T.T

[sabertoothwalrus]

can you draw horses

Uhhh kinda

but lemme ask for help hold on

(that’s James Baxter)

[thechosenthree]

I am back with more Kendra haunting the narrative thoughts after watching Helpless.

This episode is all about slayers and tradition, it’s about the Watcher’s Council treating the slayers as expendable and disposable. Giles says “It's a test, Buffy. It's given to The Slayer once she— if she reaches her eighteenth birthday.”

This episode is about Kendra.

Even though the episode refuses to say her name, Kendra Young is everywhere! Not even a full season before this episode aired, we were shown— for the first time but far from the last— the tragedy of a slayer dying too young in the line of duty, another slayer rising from her grave and then her being seemingly forgotten about.

The show tries to forget Kendra the same way the council does. I’ve already talked in the post I linked above, about how Faith’s existence ensures that we don’t. But it’s more than that!! The tragedy of the slayers and what Buffy and Faith go through, the entire premise of the show, continues to remind the audience of the slayer who didn’t make it as far as them.

Buffy is going through an identity crisis this episode, she has lost her slayer powers and she doesn’t know why. Giles is in no big rush to figure it out, he doesn’t actually seem all that concerned, and Buffy grows increasingly adrift. She realizes she doesn’t know who she is if she’s not The Slayer.

She’s very aware of who she was before. She brings up Cordelia to make this comparison— her ex shadow self who is a representation of her childhood, of the Buffy she was before she was “Buffy, The Vampire Slayer”— and she seems ashamed of who she was then.

She doesn’t want to go back to being that person. She literally CAN’T go back, and she knows that. She has been changed by her experiences, even without her slayer powers, she is a different person than she was. Buffy says “I’ve seen too much. I know what goes bump in the night. Not being able to fight it— what if I just hide under my bed, all scared and helpless?”

She can’t return to the naïveté of the life she lived before she knew what was out there. I mean, she already tried that!! Buffy spent much of s1 trying to hold on to who she used to be, not wanting to let it go, not wanting to acknowledge that that girl and that life were already gone. Her death in Prophecy Girl goes hand in hand with her accepting that she can’t outrun her destiny, she can’t NOT be The Slayer.

Much of s2 was about accepting that being the slayer was a part of her life now. But Buffy continued to treat it like it was a job, one that had been chosen for her and that she’d accepted she needed to do, but a job nonetheless. She was at war with these two sides of herself, unable to see how they could possibly fit. Kendra played a big part in helping her along that journey. “You talk about slaying like it's a job. It's not. It's who you are,” Kendra tells her in What’s My Line.

Kendra who identified as “The Vampire Slayer” before identifying as Kendra. Kendra who never had a childhood or the chance to try and figure out who she was as a person. She was a weapon and a tool forged, used and discarded by the council (and the show). Being the slayer was not only who Kendra was, it was all she was allowed to be.

I can’t imagine the writers were unaware that writing an episode like this would remind people of Kendra. After all that same Buffy speech I quoted earlier includes the first mention of Kendra’s stake since it’s introduction in Becoming. “… Or what if I just become pathetic? Hanging out at the old slayer’s home, talking people’s ears off about my glory days. Showing them Mr. Pointy, the stake I had bronzed.”

Buffy is able to imagine living long enough to grow old IF she doesn’t have her powers. That isn’t the life of a slayer and she knows that, has seen the consequences of this life first hand. She herself has already died young, and a year later she watched her friend die. She goes from being unable to imagine any kind of future at all for herself to spiraling about the possible reality of a powerless one.

Buffy talks about all this while name dropping the stake a 17 year old slayer gave her just before her death… A slayer who didn’t even live long enough to be forced to endure this cruel test.

Reminding the audience of Kendra seems intentional. Which makes them refusing to say her name even more infuriating.

But she IS there, whether truly intentional or not, the show continues to remind me of her. She’s nowhere and everywhere all at once.

[chaos-potat]

.... I had some fun, Kendra is fun to draw, I might draw her some more

I wanted to show some Casey salt lol

Anyway, Kendra belongs to @zeawesomeness from his Kendratello Childhood au that I adore and is a little similar to mine in some ways lol

[los-ninos-tortugas]

I think Donnie and Splinter have the exact same type: Cute but Mean

[peach-moths]

Just a reminder to the fans of Hera (@junoinouterspace ) and I's ROTTMNT Teacher Au

Both hera and I are uncomfortable with the kendratello ship and will not have it in our AU

It's personally a ship that we don't like, nor do we think it would be a healthy one to have in our au. We also simply do not like Kendra's character and don't want to include her in the au beyond the role of "she exists, but we don't talk about her"

If you're a fan of kendra or kendratello, unfortunately, this is an au that isn't intended for you, and you will have to look elsewhere for that kind of content

Thanks for understanding much love x

Edit: if you have any issues or grievances with this statement, send them to me and not Hera, thanks!

[my-name-is-bunnyfoxy]

Random facts about random media I like 5#: Kendra has Donnie's adress-

In the episode The Purple Game in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, we learn that Kendra has Donnie's adress and knows where he lives and knows who his brothers are. And yet- she does NOT use this to like blackmail him or threaten him or take advantage of this. She could literally do anything with that information and yet just doesn't. I can't tell if this is just wasted potential or her actually having a heart and not being a devil. Pat on the back Kendra, pat on the back. Also apparently she was under house arrest or something idk.

[blye-flower]

Back with another DNAngel AU lore bit! I was asked about the principalities a while back and I decided to go the extra mile about it and created this aksjsjs

Also wanted to point out that I am a “friend’s oc enthusiast” so more than likely I’m gonna be throwing my friend’s ocs in my stories, so shout out to @sharkonaut-draws and @turtsmcgurts

(Note that the demon hierarchy isn’t as structured as the angel one, but I’ll get to that on another post lol)

[hazystars]

does anyone have that post about how to find lost pets saved anywhere?

[snoopernatural]

i’m so fucking irreversibly sad my brain is just made of toxic self hating sludge and i feel fucking horrible

[kenharel]

I'm finally doing what I've wanted to for a while now and building a PC, I'm totally new to this but I've been watching tons of videos and I think it's something I can do!

I've gotten most of the parts in the mail, just need the CPU, GPU, and motherboard to arrive. Maybe I can start building this weekend 👀

[chameleon8]

Just my thoughts about angsty Seth dragonwatch (with my headcanons)

[onejellyfishplease]

VELCRO MAN YOU EVIL EVIL EVIL VELCRO MAN

WH Y. WHHAATTH UH

WHEN I GET KENDRA WHEN I FUCKING CATCH KEDRA WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON HER

ME WHEN I FUCKING FIND HER

AND DON'T THINK THAT!!! IM NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THE ABSOLUTE FUCKIN PAIN THAT IS IN DONNIE RN!!!!! HE'S SO SURE THAT HIM LEAVING IS GONNA BE THE BEST OPTION!!??? HES SO CONVINCED THAT THIS IS FOR THE BETTER, THAT THIS IS WHAT'S GOOD FOR EVERYONE

BUT IT'S NOT!!! IT'S FUCKING NOT!!!! THEIR FAMILY!!!!! THEIR FUCKIN FAMILY!!!!! THEY'VE GONE THROUGH THE SHREDDER AND THE INVASION TOGETHER!!! THEY'VE GONE THROUGH THICK AND THIN!!!!! TOGETHER!!!!!! THEIR BROTHERS!!!!!!!

I KNOW YOU FEEL GUILTY AS FUCK DONNIE. I KNOW YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR SOME SORT OF MONSTER. BUT YOU'RE NOT!!! YOU'RE LITERALLY NOT!!!! YOU'RE FAMILY LOVES YOU UNCONDITIONALLY NO MATTER WHAT!!!! FUCKING. UGGGHFHFJFJHHHGTH!!!!! DONNIEEEE

I am evil yes :}

im glad that people hate Kendra so much! i was worried that she wouldnt come across as a horrid character and truly despicable and insane.

Im glad so many people was to rip her guts out :)

And about Donnie? uhhhh hes finally gonna get to go apeshit. things just gotta get a little worse first. you know how it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[zaritarazi]

big news for "there's got to be a secret third carter" truthers out there, all [looks at notes] 4 of us