Buffy Looks Similar to Lone Slayer

[Lukee]

I noticed that Buffy in TOYL looks alto like the girl we see in Fray when we she a one slayer wearing a dress and junk in front of aload of pure demons. Dose anyone think its a bit odd that they look so similar.

Joss could have chose anything for her to wear any kind of clothing so maybe theirs a reason for it.

I may just be finding gold where their is only coal but there it is my random bit of speculation.

[deathisyourgift]

If you're referring to the panel in Ch. 3 of Fray, when Urkonn is telling her the heritage/history of Slayers, then it is a very interesting point. Especially when you think of the After the Fall arc. LA is a serious demon paradise, and Buffy post-Sunnydale might be interested in helping out there. Maybe somewhere in between S8 and Fray Buffy returns to LA to help out and gets sucked in with Hell-A? idk, but very cool observation..I give you karma!! ;D

[Tyler Austin "tiewashere"]

I've always thought it was Buffy in that picture.

What you just said I have added to my list.

[witcher]

Well I always tough that that was Buffy, but now in light of S8 I think that the hand in the picture under it could be Willow's???

[Skytteflickan88]

I don't have the comic in front of me, but this must mean that Buffy would have ended magic and created Fray's world. Thsi gives more juice to the "Willow is trying to change the future"-theory.

Perhaps Buffy was going to, in that dress, stop banish magic, because Twilight convinced her it was the right thing to do, then something happaned and that's why Willow had to right the wrong and stop Buffy.

EDIT- I have the comic in front of me now and that's probably not the dress. If you notice the shape of it, it looks as if the girl is wearing a top and a skirt. Unless of course her belly is shaped funny...

[Rebecca]

I did always think that "the lone slayer" was supposed to be Buffy, with a little more mystery to the hand. I had a theory a while back that it was Willow.... simply because Buffy was to banish all magicks from earth's dimension and Willow is so connected to magicks. Thought it was a natural, probably unintended effect of the final battle.

EDIT: on further thought, this gives more credence to the theory that Willow wants Buffy to kill her. Perhaps she was in a demonic dimension for millenia more than the two centuries that separate S8 and Fray, and the only person who could manage to kill Willow is Buffy. Or perhaps Willow wants to kill Buffy so she cannot banish magicks and save her past self the pain and agony of living in (for all intents and purposes) hell and in effect changing the future, possibly saving the slayer line. So really, nothing has been narrowed down... lol.

That being said, I don't think you can put special significance on the dress itself beyond Joss specifying in the script "girl in ponytail and dress facing an army of demons". Even the dress that Chen put Buffy in was different from the dress Moline put her in in TOYL. However I do mark it as a valid observation, if only to validate that the lone slayer is indeed Buffy.

[snizapman6294]

i thought she was wearing that dress because it looked like the same one in Welcome to the Hellmouth?

[Enisy]

Joss did say in an interview that, in his mind, the Slayer who ended magic was Buffy -- but that was before Season 8.

[wenxina]

Do you happen to have that interview, Enisy? It would be interesting to read it in its entirety.

[Enisy]

Can't find the Joss interview at the moment, but I did find a David Fury interview that says the same thing (about Joss):

David Fury: As far as Buffy [being] sealed up inside, it's very possible that Joss had the idea -- well, I will say this. Very early in [Season 7], the finale was going to be Buffy having to force the Hellmouth open. I don't remember it being so much about being in cave spaces, it might have been, but the point of it was they were trying so hard to keep the Hellmouth closed that she realized that the only way to do this is to open the Hellmouth. It was one of those ways of thinking that we were going to figure out later but to defeat them you have to open the Hellmouth wide. Probably at some point when Joss was writing Fray he thought that, when that happens, Willow casts this spell which creates sort of a vacuum effect and that Buffy would be sealed inside, but I think ultimately he decided that wasn't the way to end the series -- for Buffy to be potentially dead.
Interviewer: He also never specified that the last slayer was Buffy --
David Fury: I talked to him about it when he was writing Fray and I think that he always had the sense that it was Buffy. But the fact that it's left vague in the comics makes it open for interpretation. People can decide whatever they want and Joss can certainly decide it's not Buffy, but at the time he wrote it he believed that it was Buffy. That she was the last slayer before Fray was called. I think it gave Buffy a greater stake in the mythology to know that she was the last one before Fray was called.
But, like I said, that's a story yet to be told.

[wenxina]

Thank you. That's a cool tidbit.