What if there were one girl, just one girl, standing between our world and eternal darkness? Just one, in all the world, chosen to fight the demons until she died. Usually alone.
And then, what if one day, the girl was no longer alone? What if she could give that power, to every girl born who could wield it? What if instead of a single girl, there was an army of girls? What then?
What if, one morning you woke up powerful?
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This challenge is sprung out of my desire to see the stories of all the girls impacted by Buffy's decision at the end of Chosen. All around the world, girls would wake up, or suddenly just be, a little more powerful. What would the girl in Kenya do, or the girl in Bangledesh? I wanted to run a challenge just for them, so that I could hear their stories.
But I couldn't come up with an idea to center that challenge on. A girl for every country in the world was too many. A girl for every continent was not enough. Until one day it came to me: timezones. After Willow's spell, all around the world, at the same time, yet an entirely different time, girls were 'waking up' to their new-found power. By assigning the writer a timezone, it is still a challenge: the author has to come up with an idea for that part of the world, as well as an entirely new member of the Chosen Many.
The challenge is over, but I feel these should be left up for posterity, so I have.
1.) To participate in the challenge, all you have to do is e-mail me, at skywaterlv@hotmail.com. I'll assign you a timezone, and once you get it, no trading with others. The challenge is not just researching that area: it's also finding aspects of another culture you may not have known about, and bending the Buffyverse to find a story there. Please put something like "Buffy Challenge in the topic of your e-mail: otherwise it might get junked. The first twenty-four people who sign up get in.
2.) A significant portion of your story must take place after the Slayer's calling. For our purposes, Willow's spell took effect at 11:12 am, Pacific Time. The date is May 20th, 2003.
3.) The fanfiction must be spell-checked, and must be sent to me in .txt format by the 10th of November, 2003.
For help determining what timezone is for where, I recommend these resources:
Last Updated: Monday, Nov 17th, 2003
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(*) Timezone snafu led to two fics for GMT +5.
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