eat your heart out

i know i've been saying this for years, but i can't get over how fucked up the slayer system is. the slayer is the most important person in the whole world, the only human being on this earth who can prevent the demons from doing an apocalypse whenever they feel like it, but because slayers are immediately replaced when they die, they're also treated as completely interchangeable and disposable. with other chosen one gigs, as much as being chosen sucks a lot of the time, the upside is that your safety is of paramount importance to everyone around you. other characters will risk their own lives to protect you because if you die, the rest of the world is fucked. but if a slayer dies she's just immediately replaced. there's not even like a gap between slayer eras. it's the only chosen one gig in all of fiction where being chosen is, paradoxically, synonymous with being canon fodder.