Because, uh, hey! Magical portals aren’t supposed to exist anymore. This leaves everyone in more shock about Nina’s ability to dispatch of the hellhound than the fact that a hellhound just exploded through a magical portal. Nina is the week twin, Artemis is the protector. Yet, all anyone can see is the dynamic their mother raised. She is starting to feel other senses that are hard to dismiss.Īnd so, when a hellhound descends on the castle from a portal that is no longer supposed to exist? It is Nina, not Artemis that snaps its neck and saves them all. Even her twin sister doesn’t know that Nina has sensed a change within her. However, Nina is holding secrets of her own. Their mother has never made her feelings hidden as to who her favorite was. Artemis was saved in a fire while Nina was left behind, chosen to train as a watcher while Nina had to train as a healer.
However, in Slayer, their mother has raised them in ways to cause Nina to feel not just dismissed, but outright hated. WHAT?!Īrtemis and Athena (Nina) are thick as thieves, as twins will be. Hey, A Hellhound… Wait, Nina Killed It! Wait. … And I hate none of them as much as I hate Buffy. In the face of Buffy’s rouge behavior, they have done their best- and no one has missed that fact.īut now that the world is filled with slayers (Buffy’s fault), magic is dead (Buffy’s fault), and all interdimensional portals are dead (Buffy’s fault), things have changed yet again… And how do we risk our own lives, knowing what Slayers inevitably bring? Their gift is death. Here, they salvage what is left of their history, while tracking down any remaining threats.
Those that are far enough from the fallout’s epicenter escaped harm, taking refuge in an English castle, where they remain, including the descendents of Buffy’s watcher. Thus leaving the watchers and council to wither away to nannies, fight-club wannabes and longing history scholars, among other things. Without magic left, and a slew of slayers, and watchers destroyed in its wake, chaos ensued. Tearing the entire system of watchers and slayers in half when she destroyed the Seed of Wonder fighting the biggest of the big bads, thereby eradicating the world of magic. Slayer begins where Buffy left, erm, does what she does best and went rogue. As it stands, both have done so masterfully.
It is a very fine line that White and also, Diana Peterfreund ( Clue Series- In the Hall With the Knife) are walking between expanding universes with a cult following, and writing fanfiction. I try not to take advantage, but if they’re going to treat me like the castle pet just because I’m not all with the stabby-stab, at least I should get some perks. Slayer, Kiersten White’s first installment in the Buffyverse, Slayer series was easily going to go one of two ways for me, cringe worthy or HELL-YES! White had me at
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