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Buffy Summers is the lead character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She was selected to combat demons, vampires, and dark forces, yet she also needed to have a normal life as a girl. She desired to attend school, have her friends, go to dances, and fall in love. Buffy struggled with the burden of her responsibilities and the normal life she could never fully have.
Even though she had abilities, the story showed that she was a normal person with feelings and dreams. She frequently stated her need for family, tranquility, and everyday pleasures. These scenes disclosed her heart and her fight.
Disclaimer: This article contains the writer's opinion. Reader's discretion is advised.
Here is the list of 7 times Buffy Summers wanted a normal life instead of slayer life in Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
7. Persistent desire for normal life (Season 1 onwards)
In her high school days in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy Summers constantly states that she desires a normal life. In her time, she is the Slayer, the one chosen for battling vampires and demons. She battles all those dark forces yet hopes for the same ordinary existence her friends enjoy. Despite the powers that Buffy has, she only desires normalcy. She desires going out, attending school, having companions, and possibly dates.
Buffy tries to blend in with other girls her age while battling her inner demons. She longs for sleepovers, school dance nights, and the pure joy of adolescence. She has the same desires as the other teenage girls. This longing never quite goes away. This demonstrates that she is human amidst all the heroism. The tension of existing as a teen girl and a strong demon slayer illustrates just how much she desires a simple, quiet existence. This desire is at her core from season 1 onward.
6. Disillusionment with slayerhood (Season 5 Episode 16)
In Season 5, Episode 16, Buffy gets fed up with the tough existence of being a Slayer. Joyce is no more, and Buffy has no one else to look out for Dawn. Buffy becomes the parent and the defender. Her adolescent life and academic performance are sacrificed to ensure Dawn's safety. Buffy only wants a normal life, a family, and peace because she is worn out from her responsibilities.
She wants to go to school, relax, sleep in, maybe laugh, and not think about fighting monsters. Instead she has to battle and defend each day and night. She wants to spend regular days taking care of her family rather than fighting otherworldly threats. Here, she exhibits just how heavy her existence is. She longs in vain to be ordinary, free from the burden that comes with being the Slayer.
5. Hallucinating normal life (Season 6 Episode 17)
In Season 6, Episode 17, Buffy is poisoned by a demon and thinks that she's not the Slayer. Rather, she believes she has spent six years as a patient at a mental health facility. During the illusion, she is at home with her parents, who are married. She thinks she never left that clinic. She shakes off all of her thoughts about Sunnydale. She even says,
“Back when I saw my first vampires... I got so scared... they sent me to a clinic.”
And she wonders,
“What if I'm still there? What if I never left that clinic?”
She is there, loved and safe. No demons. She gets a glimpse into her family's normal existence in a serene home. No destruction of the world. She almost thinks that existence is real. But she quickly makes her way back to her friends. This scene illustrates how much she wants a normal existence more than battling.
4. Choosing Slayer life over normal (Season 6 Episode 17)
In the same episode, Buffy has to decide between the delusion of a quiet life in a clinic and her tough yet real life as the Slayer. The prospect of a calm life with her mother and father enticed her. But her heart remained among her friends. In her mind, Buffy hears her inner voice, that of her mother. The voice reassures her that she is strong, loved, and that she must trust in herself and persevere.
Buffy decides to shake off the hallucination. She gets back to Sunnydale and kills the demon that's endangering her friends. She makes up her mind to continue being the Slayer despite her desire for peace. This decision illustrates that Buffy desires a normal kind of life. However, she knows deep down that saving others is a part of who she is. She wouldn't exchange that kind of life, no matter how difficult it is.
3. “I just want a tea-cozy life” moment (Season 3 Episode 1)
In Season 3, Episode 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy is fed up with her role. She has eloped out of her Sunnydale home. She changes her name to Anne. She works in a quiet kitchen. She desires a peaceful and secure life. She informs Willow and Xander that she does not like slayer work. She says,
"I just want to be alone and quiet in a room ..........and a tea cozy... I don't even know what a tea cozy is, but I want one."
This is the line where she can feel the lack of simple joy and peace. Buffy has battled numerous evil creatures. She has lost friends. She has faced hard choices. Here, she longs to experience a normal life. She desires to read a book on her couch. She would have liked to have tea by a fire without being feared. She wants a place where she can recuperate and relax without having fights in the future. It is a heartfelt scene. The scene reveals her humanness with her responsibility.
2. Facing powers lost (Season 3 Episode 12)
In Season 3, Episode 12, a trial by the Watcher's Council robs Buffy of her slayer power. She is defenseless and weak. Buffy is fearful and curious about the idea of existing as a normal girl. She thinks about what it would be like not to have power. She makes a list of tiny normal joys in a deleted scene.
She establishes a definition for a normal girl's life as not worrying about bleeding, killing, and death, and not needing to go shopping for dresses and deciding whether or not dresses are battle-worthy. That list reflects her longing for normalcy and everyday decisions. She fights despite that to save her mom. But she longs for safe days when no monster looms.
1. Balancing love and slaying (Season 1, Episode 5)
In Season 1, Episode 5, Buffy Summers faces the dilemma of choosing between dating and fighting evil. As a Slayer, she enslaves vampires worldwide. However, she also wants to lead a typical existence. She tries to ask a boy she likes out on a date. She goes as far as to inform Giles that she can kill and date at the same time. Giles also tells her that being a Slayer makes it difficult to live a normal social life. He says he may have to take a time machine.
In response, Buffy says she can do both because she lives in the 1990s. All she wants is a date. She wants a break from danger. She claims that the Slayer, who is in a bad mood, is careless and that she has recently been unable to take the day off. In this episode, Buffy reveals that she misses basic life and social time. Nevertheless, her heroic life constantly drags her into fighting monsters.
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy Summers was in two worlds. One was reeking with risk, fights, and sacrifice. The other was what she wanted to be in life, comfortable, loving, and ordinary days. In every moment, she tried to be ordinary, but fate dragged her back to her role. She frequently had a dream of not living a slayer life, but she would always come back to save others.
That was the battle that characterized her personality, and her story was strong. Even in times when she was weighed down by the greatest of burdens, Buffy demonstrated that she is a human being when she desired to lead a normal life.
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