In another thread someone mentioned that slayers don't scar unless it was left by a vamp. That got me thinking, I know the movie and the show really don't go together only in certain places. Like why Buffy was kicked out of school, etc. But in the movie was Buffy sexually active with her boyfriend before she met Pike? If so would slayer healing kick in and "fix" her hymen? So all in all, if we take that (if it did happen) then Buffy wouldn't have been a virgin when she slept with Angel. Yup, i like the view why better than Angel being her first, lol. Matter of fact why not just make it that she and Pike did it after the school burnt down and they rode off into the sunrise, lol.

LOL - sooo not going there!  I have, BTW, seen a couple of fanfics that indicate her hymen could grow back. I believe in one of them, she was a vampire and Angelus tortured her by giving it time to go back before raping her again. (With more welcome childer, he would have kept at it long enough, often enough, to make it stay gone, apparently - not sure, I didn't actually read the rest of the fic, but I do remember that much of it.)  However, there is nothing in canon that indicates that would have/could have happened, and I don't know that there's even anything about her not scarring.  I actually have her body bearing a few scars in my wip.  Never occurred to me that she wouldn't scar from a really deep wound. It might heal quickly, but that doesn't mean her body wouldn't form scar tissue.  That's my theory, and I'm stickin' with it. LOL

lol you can go there. But I'm with you. Thinking back to Chosen and when she got stabbed in the side, I always figured  that one whould leave a mark. Vamps get scars sometimes so why coudn't a slayer?

I've also seen where our dimension's Buffy doesn't scar, but the wishverse's could, since she was dimensionally different.

CM

Yeah, CM - it's probably one of those things that, since it isn't specifically addressed in canon (like claiming), writers are free to decide for themselves where, how and if scarring could occur.  Most slayer's probably didn't have much in the way of scars because they died too young - seems to me that one who had been around for years would have accumulated a few.

Yeah...they didn't show on any of the places Buffy showed skin, though, except the bites on her neck. I don't think Faith had a scar from being stabbed by Buffy, and she showed her abdomen off often...

I can't remember if it's canon source material that the Chinese Slayer had a blessed blade, and that's why Spike kept the eyebrow scar, or......

Another question for Joss...

CM

You know, the only bite that actually leaves a mark on Buffy is Angel's - we never see a scar from the Master, and Dracula's bite is only visible the day after. Even the Angel scar disappears after a little while - but I think that's probably more that the make-up people only bothered to put the scar on her when it was important (like in Harsh Light of Day, when Parker notices it) than any indication of canon.

There's nothing in the episode that indicates the Chinese Slayer's blade was blessed - and if it was mentioned elsewhere, I've never heard it. Spike's scar was actually - again - the make-up people, who loved James' actual scar and made it even more prominent right from the beginning. I think it was probably while working on Fool For Love that someone said, "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if Spike's scar came from a Slayer?"but there was no consideration of why Spike kept that scar and no others.

Here's a theory - maybe because it's the eyebrow? Even if the skin healed, maybe the hair just never grew back on top of it, giving it the scarred appearance. In which case, you could use the same excuse for Buffy's Chosen wound.

Yes, CM, I do remember reading somewhere that the blessed blade caused Spike's scar - have no idea if it was something an author made up or if it came from a remark made in canon.  Can't recall seeing Faith's belly often enough to notice or to even think about a scar from her stab wound.  I'll take your word for it. LOL Although, her not having one is just as likely to be lack of continuity on the part of the writers as it is a deliberate statement about slayer healing. IMHO. lol 

  I don't think Buffy would have shown any scars necessarily, because I don't remember very many bad wounds until the uber-vamp stabbed her.  Even on normal people, small scars tend to fade with time, so I wouldn't expect to see a lot of them on a slayer.  But I do think she'd have a reminder here and there of bad wounds, or wounds from "evil" blades or poisoned claws/fangs/etc.  

All of which begs the original question, of course.  Perhaps someone should ask Joss "Did Buffy's hymen grow back?"  ROFL

I can see it now... "Joss, does Buffy's hymen grow back?"

*Joss stutters and blushes and passes out from embarrasment*

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 I don't think Faith had a scar from being stabbed by Buffy, and she showed her abdomen off often

How could Faith have a scar?  Cordelia got run through with a metal angle iron and she didn't have a scar.  Apparently, you just have to be in the general vicinity of the Slayer and voila - Scar Proof.

ROFL, Spikez_tart.  Good point! It's contagious!

I don't think Buffy would have shown any scars necessarily, because I don't remember very many bad wounds until the uber-vamp stabbed her

Well, she did get stabbed in the gut with her own stake at the beginning of "Fool for Love," hence the whole conversation she had with Spike about how he killed his Slayers, but I don't know that they ever showed SMG's stomach, probably part of her nudity contract, so that one could have theoretically left a pretty nasty scar.

That's right, she did. Forgot about that.  Yeah, Buffy could have alot of nasty scars that Sarah's contract meant they didn't have to deal with. lol  She probably had some other injuries through the years that I'm forgetting too.

Next time someone has a Buffy marathon, they should note all the injuries for us.  LOL

Buffy frequently had a short enough top to show a sliver of tummy, though, and there wasn't anything from the staking, either.

Here's another wank - her resurrection erased her scars! LOLOLOL

Yeah, I know they liked James' scar.....and even now, sometimes it's more visibly then others in RL.

CM

Well if someone does ask Joss post the answer, lol. Yes, buffy coming back from heaven wiped out everything. even her memories of starting to be nice to Spike. It explains the whole season, lol.