a little exchange

NO LONGER IS BUT ONE CHOSEN. THE POWER ITSELF BECOMES THE CHOSEN ONE… AND THE ONE WHO CHOOSES.

Kendra is such a prime character to explore black girl horror like. Particularly when it comes to the aspect of adultification of black girls and what that means for a black girl chosen to be part of the Slayer line which inherently accelerates that. The only slayer we know to have been a (single) parent is Nikki, also a black woman. Or that the slayer line was founded by forcing the gift (curse?) upon a black girl against her will. That "you never had a watcher" line when Giles has his brief interaction with Sineya went straight to my heart. Like you could argue about the relatively parental role of Watcher but it's supplementary. It wasn't always there. And the isolation is. UGH.

actually no I'm not done. The Slayer line is inherently dehumanizing, it says to these young girls You Are Not A Child, You Are A Beast Born To Serve, and it is founded upon the exploitation and dehumanization of a black girl. Black slayers will ALWAYS hit different because black girlhood is denied regardless.