Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Summary
The training for the new Slayer miraculously bring a story together full circle that started back in the 6th time of year ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer . The former on-going series , Buffy the Last Vampire Slayer , sees a much older Buffy serving as Watcher and wise man to the new Slayer , Thessaly . Meanwhile , Thessaly is the girl of boththe rechristened Mother Marrow Taraand the late Willow .
Thessaly ’s training under Buffycan be seen over the course of instruction of the miniseriesBuffy the Last Vampire Slayerby Casey Gilly and Joe Jaro . The story in reality harkens back to a favor that Willow and Tara did for Buffy back in Season 6 ofBuffy the Vampire Slayer . The 6th season of the show is not always remembered as fondly as other seasons due to the more controversial or questionable moments that take place during it .
However , one overlooked mo from the very start of Season 6 manages to link up together to the BOOM ! Studios comedian depicting Buffy and Thessaly ’s adventures together .
It looks like Buffy the Vampire Slayer ’s dystopian succeeding universe is here to stay . Here ’s everything it change about the continuity fan have it off .
Buffy Raised Willow and Tara’s Daughter for Them
To sincerely understand the current status of Thessaly being cared for under Buffy , reader must first recall when Buffy ’s baby , Dawn , was cared for under Willow and Tara briefly in the Season 6 two - part unfastener , " Bargaining . " Going into the 6th season , Buffy had died to make unnecessary the world , leaving no one else to raise her teenage sister in her absence , even when she did needs rejoin . Enter Willow and Tara , who would unofficially become Dawn ’s newfangled guardians while Buffy was away in Heaven . It was n’t easy since they could n’t legally do it at the time and need the Buffy automaton to guard off misgiving while Dawn lived with them , but it was a sacrifice they were felicitous to make .
Flash forward to now , where Tara and Willow are long presume dead ( Willow is all in , while until recently , Tara was presumed dead until she resurfaced as the Mother Marrow ) . Thessaly enters Buffy ’s life at a time when the elderly Slayer is certain that all of her friends have either long died or drift aside at this point . fundamentally having to dramatize a child and teach her to become the new Slayer is no easy project , but like Willow and Tara before her , Buffy is willing to make the necessary sacrifice out of lovemaking for her late friends .
Buffy Repays a Favor From the Show’s Sixth Season
Buffy taking in and training Tess duringThe Last lamia Slayercloses the loop on Willow and Tara adopting Dawn in season 6 . It bring even more signification for Buffy to pass the torch to Willow and Tara ’s daughter because in doing so , she is able to requite their earlier travail more now than anyone involve would have ask her to . time of year 6 ofBuffy the Vampire Slayergets a lot of flak , but it ’s touching to see how an easy - to - overlook second from that season can pay off in the present .
