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{{quote| ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|We will meet]] [[Frankenstein|in the realm of eternal light.]]''}}

 

 

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.

* [[Fantastic Religious Weirdness]]: Especially common in ''Schism'', but also elsewhere at times.

** Dena Greer is a Christian fundamentalist of the Charismatic variety. She understands her Slayer abilities in terms of a divine calling and tends to interpret them as miracles. Prophetic dreams? Check. Speaking in tongues? Check. (She has no idea what she's saying, or what the context is, so sometimes played for laughs.) Super-strength? Check. (She notes that when she first got her powers, she was afraid to style her hair, let alone cut it--as per Samson.)

** Regan Stacey is Wiccan (that is, she practices Wicca as a religion, and is not merely a witch in the supernatural sense). Though she is pacifist in most cases, she makes an exception for vampires, concluding that they're outside the cycle of life and death. Other Wiccan characters are not so certain about her belief on the subject and question whether she's not being unduly influenced by Dena.

** Sadha Kaur, Watcher and ensouled vampire, is attempting to return to the Sikh faith after over a century. She has the advantage of not having any strict dietary requirements, but (aside from having been evil in the moral sense) she's discarded certain ritual items she was supposed to keep at all times (and the one she still has is a dagger, of a ritual type usually no longer used as a real weapon), and she needs to stay covered up if outside during the day (Sikh women are not supposed to cover themselves as some Muslims do). In addition, Sikhism states that all beings are capable of redemption, which conflicts with the standard beliefs espoused by the Watchers. In spite of her problems, once she finally manages to contact a temple in Houston, the religious leaders there welcome her back and try to accommodate her.