Cordelia Chase* said:
Yes. But I think thier power lie in Buffy and Faith. After they got boosted and Buffy got stabbed, they all began to lose. Just as Faith was being jumped, at the same time Buffy got stabbed.
Thats also a popular theory, that even though the line runs through Faith, but is still the source of the power or that the power runs through Buffy.
But that doesn't explain if Faith was lacking power during the 3 months that Buffy was gone. Now its time for me to babble on and tell my theory:
Buffy was the slayer from sometime in 1996 'til May of 1997. After her death in the Master's Lair, this activated Kendra, making Buffy not the slayer but a Slayer. This is where the First Evil begins to notice the mystical forces surronding the slayer line being overwhelmed. This could have possibly let the First Evil finally see the Slayer since the mystical forces aren't completely working, this would also make sense since we've never heard of the First going after another Slayer (because I mean after thousands of years, wouldn't the First want to target the leader in the fight for good). But Buffy wasn't truely dead, just enough physically to activate the next slayer, but not enough for the First Evil to take her form (this makes sense bc the First probaly would have wanted to appear to Angel in Amends, saying stuff in the guise of Buffy like "Take Me" or "Drink Me", but doesnt! Unless I'm remembering incorrectly and the First Evil does take Buffy's form in Amends, and if it does then I'm feeling stupid bc I can't remember now!).
Then to Becoming Part 1, the activation of Faith. Everything stays the same, 2 slayers when theres only supposed to be one. But never during the course from Prophecy Girl 'til Chosen do we hear Buffy talk about a loss in her strength. Then we fast forward to the Gift. Buffy jumps into the portal and shes gone. No more 2 slayers, only 1. Everything is right. But Willow does the Willow thing and brings her back. It should seem like Buffy would still have her powers but when she came back
what if she didn't have her powers and since her body was so used to having the power of the Slayer she was recalled and then re-inserted into the slayer line?
Now you could have 2 slayers that could call another slayer. The mystical forces are even more out of whack now! So the First can now see and attack potentials because theres too much distribution of the slayer power. Then we goto the end of Season 6, when Buffy is shot by Warren and we see that Buffy flatlines, so she is physically dead? This could have activated another slayer that we don't even know about! If you read the original/alternate script to the Chosen finale, Dawn was supposedly activated by this event or the one in the Gift (never fully explained) but she never received her power. This is odd because we've never heard of this slayer if she did exist, but we never heard of Kendra or Faith 'til they showed up!
Now the biggest change of all: the activation of potentials all over the world using the essence of the scythe. If 2 slayers made the slayerline weak, then wouldn't 200 make it even more vulnerable. Some have stated that they think that the First Evil wanted Buffy to do this, so it could become corporeal. Going back to the original/alternate script, the First Evil does become corporeal and fights Buffy but then disappears. So could the First Evil have become corporeal from the activation of the potentials? Well we really don't know that or any of what I've stated, but its just a theory
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