In the book "Blackout," I think Vincent DeCandido was the author, it's reported that Nikki Woods survived a Cruciamentum, probably near the beginning of her long career as a Slayer. I'll have to check, but I seem to remember reading somewhere, perhaps in Blackout, that Nikki and Buffy were the only Slayers in the 20th century to endure a Cruciamentum. The others all died too young, apparently.
Where do we first hear the word "Cruciamentum?" It isn't used in "Helpless," where we first learn of the practice.
Zhandele 19:41, December 30, 2009 (UTC)
Yes it is. I checked this transcript: http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/buffy/season3/buffy-312.htm -- Noneofyourbusiness 03:40, December 31, 2009 (UTC)
That can't be what was meant![]
In Buffy Summers' Cruciamentum, there's a sentence
- However, the test was jeopardized from the beginning due to Rupert Giles' attachment to his Slayer—resulting in him telling her about the test when she was supposed to be kept in the dark about it—and Kralik escaping captivity, siring one of the Council employees assigned to monitor him while killing the other, and abducting Joyce Summers, the mother of the Slayer.
"Siring"? He became the biological father of a Council employee assigned to monitor him? Surely you jest... or slipped and crashed.
Mark Mandel 05:25, October 25, 2016 (UTC)
- That's not what the term means in the context of the show, which is how it's used in the page.--OzzMan (talk) 05:27, October 25, 2016 (UTC)
- (Facepalm) D'ohhh! I knew that meaning, I just didn't think of it: turning a human into a vampire, thus becoming their "sire".
SireySorry to have bothered you. Mark Mandel 05:36, October 25, 2016 (UTC)
- (Facepalm) D'ohhh! I knew that meaning, I just didn't think of it: turning a human into a vampire, thus becoming their "sire".