Timeline for How do the vampires in Buffy know how to fight?
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| Mar 17, 2021 at 7:35 | comment | added | A. B. | (2/2) added, but otherwise it's the same person. You could say that if it's magic it might as well give them fighting skills at the same time - but I don't think it does, see my answer. | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 7:33 | comment | added | A. B. | -1. I don't think this actually is how it's supposed to work. Buffy said that, yes, but how would she know? Angel, in both states, always seemed to take it as read that he was the same person throughout the proceedings, and he ought to know if anyone would. So did Spike when he told Buffy about how he became a vampire, he referred to himself as "me" throughout: "I've never felt so alive as when I died". To me, they come across as the original human minds that have been crudely hot-wired: their sense or right and wrong is amputated and some kind of predatory instinct (1/2) | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 7:32 | comment | added | A. B. | Yes, whatever the actual position, Buffy's nightmare doesn't have to be true to it. She may even at the time have believed the thing about vampires being demons and not the original person (though she had heard Angel's story by that time - that'd be pretty good extra nightmare fuel, literally). But nightmares aren't always logical. If what she was picturing was how awful it would be if she, herself, was a vampire and going to kill people, that's what she'd get, whether that was normally possible or not. | |
| Jul 16, 2016 at 20:26 | vote | accept | Thirsty Kitty | ||
| Dec 28, 2015 at 23:43 | comment | added | Valorum | @J.F.Sebastian - Perhaps Buffy's nightmare is that she'll start acting like a vampire. | |
| Dec 28, 2015 at 23:36 | comment | added | jfs | @Richard: the nightmares themselves and elements in them are unknown by Billy. The boy makes the nightmares real regardless of their content, he doesn't control the specifics. A possible explanation: Buffy's nightmare is NOT that she becomes a vampire and the demon occupying her body slaughters her friends. | |
| Dec 28, 2015 at 23:08 | comment | added | Valorum | @J.F.Sebastian - Because the dreams are being manifested by a small boy. My guess is that since he has limited experience of vampires, he's basing it on Buffy's own fear about what being a vampire would be like. She's not a real vampire, she's a caricature of one. | |
| Dec 28, 2015 at 22:37 | comment | added | jfs | if the original owner of the body is gone then why Buffy-vampire is not evil in S01E10: Nightmares -- she has a bloodlust but she behaves as herself otherwise? | |
| Dec 28, 2015 at 17:19 | history | edited | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2015 at 17:12 | comment | added | Valorum | @nwp - It led her to a range of self-destructive behaviours though, joining the vamp cult, creating her own gang to kill the slayer, attacking Buffy through Dawn, etc etc. | |
| Dec 28, 2015 at 17:09 | comment | added | nwp | Maybe Harm's demon is just particularly smart, because being bad at fighting gave her significantly more life time around Buffy than most other vampires managed. | |
| Dec 28, 2015 at 16:00 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | The last paragraph may be speculative. Perhaps the demon that comes to inhabit the body is "chosen" by their affinity with the original owner's personality. So it is not that Harmony influenced the demon, the demon that took interest for Harmony's body had similar tastes. | |
| Dec 28, 2015 at 11:01 | history | edited | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 28, 2015 at 10:56 | history | answered | Valorum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |