31 Buffy The Vampire Slayer characters
11: The Kid
With the Scoobies out of high school for a year already, Dawn brought a mid-teens character back to the main cast of a teen show. Of course introducing a kid is tricky, and Dawn being a frequent hostage and written to be extremely annoying to our hero didn’t help win fans over.
But a trouble magnet can be fun to play, and a seemingly unremarkable friend or relative of an established central character could be a good choice for a player who prefers a supporting role.
Dawn is also special and important to the wider world, all the trouble of being a Chosen One with none of the empowerment. See also the kids in various Star Wars series, but note that Ezra, Baby Yoda Grogu and Omega are all introduced in their series’ first episodes so they’re part of the setup, so check before bringing something like that into an existing game.
(Inevitable The Watch House reminiscences: The online pilot of The Night Watch had the trainee Watchers find a “possessed” little girl was actually a Slayer reliving previous Chosen memories. And a guest player came in to TWH as someone marked for death by a cult through no fault of his own, so he got to be the “escort mission” target for his stay.)
Angel also has this with Connor - as a baby in particular, though the audition for the teen version is a scene where he argues with Angel who’s his sworn protector but not his father. They also established it can happen to others, with the blind seer children in season one and the marked-for-fate baby at the start of season two. Who should be out of college by now. Hmm...
Jodie Adams
Type: White Hat
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| Emily Alyn Lind |
Description: Young enough to make our teen heroes feel old
Example quote: “Ew. Ew. I repeat: Ew.”
Jodie is Lane’s cousin, and about to start high school so he was told to look out for her. Unfortunately this resulted in her tagging along in an impromptu ritual-disrupting outing and getting caught in the blowback, so now her blood calls to every vampire that can smell it, who could use it to complete the ritual and become True Demons unaffected by stake or sunlight. Lane’s pretty sure that this isn’t what Aunt Kath meant.
Strength 2
Dexterity 3
Constitution 2
Intelligence 3
Perception 4
Willpower 3
Skills (15 + 2 from Nerd)
Acrobatics 1
Art 1
Computers 1
Crime 0
Doctor 0
Driving 0
Getting Medieval 0
Gun Fu 0
Influence 2
Knowledge 3
Kung Fu 2
Languages 1
Mr. Fix-It 0
Notice 3
Occultism 1
Science 1
Sports 0
Wild Card 0
Qualities (15+ 4 from Drawbacks)
Acute Senses (Vision) (2)
Empathy (2)
Fast Reaction Time (2)
Nerd (3)
Resistance (Demonic Powers 5) (5)
Situational Awareness (2)
The Sight (3)
Drawbacks (4)
Adversary (every vampire with a nose) (1)
Secret (Teenage Monster Hunter, and not even on purpose) (1)
Teenager (2)
(Yes, plenty of other characters in this list are teenagers, but she’s the teen-est.)
Life Points 26
Drama Points 20
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