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The vampire that results from Buffy's turning is dominated not by hedonism or simple bloodlust, but by Buffy's anger at the loss of any chance at a normal life and her overdeveloped sense of responsibility for the world. She continues her culling of the world's demons, adding to this a vampiric appetite for [[Cold-Blooded Torture|torture]]. Realizing that [[Mind Rape|psychological torture]] will harm Angel far more than physical pain, she maintains the fiction that she has succeeded at being good even without a soul. For this reason, she drinks only from willing humans, despite her increased requirement for blood to maintain her additional powers.

* [[Dead Like Me|Ellen Muth]] as "Dena Greer"

* Erica Hubbard as "Regan Stacey"

* Jenna Edwards as "November Hall"

* [[Rachel Billings]] as "Brittany Morgan"

* [[Percy Daggs]] III as "Gabriel Keller"

 

* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Regan Stacey (a Wiccan Slayer) is trying to be this. In practice, she wavers between this and a [[Reluctant Warrior]].

* [[Ascended Fanboy|Ascended Fangirl]]: November Hall, Slayer, is a Trekkie with a thing for Klingons. She attempts to use [[Improbable Weapon User|a wooden bat'leth.]] It doesn't work too well.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Subverted by Buffy (aside from the obvious pun). Both of Buffy's supernatural essences drive her to enjoy the rush of combat, but what remains of her human personality is desperate for an end to the fighting so that she can finally rest. Played straight by a number of Slayers.

* [[Boomerang Bigot]]: Vampire Buffy.

* [[Child Soldiers]]: An as-yet-unnamed Ugandan Slayer is working for Roger Wyndham-Price as his personal Slayer and bodyguard. When necessary, he threatens to reveal that her brother is in the country illegally so that he'll be sent back to Uganda and, most likely, end up as one of these.

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Solita Munoz, whose Slayer powers seem to have manifested exceptionally early (she's barely twelve). She's at least on a par with Dena, who's been a Slayer for several years, and she can leap out a five-story window or be hit by a speeding truck and barely notice. {{spoiler|Then it turns out she's not a Slayer at all...she's a demon.}}

* [[Dare to Be Badass]]: Played with by Brittany, who frequently dares Angel ''not'' to fight, but to find another, more effective solution to his (and the world's) problems.

* [[Dark Fic]]: Did you have to ask?

* [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?]]: This has become the standard modus operandi for dealing with Illyria's alien perspective, though it only works off and on. Most recently, {{spoiler|Xander manages to scam Illyria into saving Amy's soul from Korsheth...but she fails to outwit him, being behind the times on demon law.}}

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Played with and partially inverted by Dena, who loves to drive--and must be good at it, or she'd be in a lot more wrecks than she is. She terrifies passengers anyway.

* [[The Fundamentalist]]: Dena Greer, Slayer. See also [[Knight Templar]].

* [[Groin Attack]]: Harmony gives Xander a vampire-powered one {{spoiler|when she discovers he's under Buffy's thrall and he attacks her}}. Dena Greer delivers one to a jock who calls her a [[Curse Cut Short|"dy-"]].

* [[Hybrid Monster]]: Buffy still has all her Slayer powers. Some of them are stronger than before.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian|I'm A Vampire-tarian]]: {{spoiler|Drusilla}}'s fate, and not just in the blood-drinking way.

* [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad]]: {{spoiler|Drusilla}} certainly came to regret turning Buffy. Angel's not too pleased about his partial responsibility either.

* [[Script Fic]]: The two sideline plots, ''Schism'' and ''Haven'', are currently written in this format, as it was popular on BuffyWorld forums at the time the fic began. This may change.

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Buffy, oh so very much. The number of Slayers who also fit the trope is rising suspiciously fast. Hint: {{spoiler|Slayers dream of the lives of past (and present) Slayers. Wonder where those memories come from?}}

* [[Standard Female Grab Area]]: Utterly subverted. Grabbing a Slayer or female vampire this way will get you punched in the face or slammed against the wall, if you're lucky. Angel in particular makes this mistake with Brittany.

* [[Suicide Attack]]: [[Shout-Out|"We belong dead."]]

* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: Averted by Buffy...which makes the situation ''worse'' than it would be otherwise.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Inadvertantly created between Giles and Sadha Kaur (who, after all, does look like [[Aishwarya Rai]]). The author was soon asked for [[Lemon]] fic involving the pairing. Soon thereafter, though, Sadha left Giles' cast herd.

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