Buffy: The Main Characters

For the main characters there are two aspects of the show that really interest me. First, the two main characters with power, Willow and Buffy, are members of marginalized groups. They are both women, and Willow is a lesbian. I love the idea of taking people who traditionally have less power than others, and then giving them more than most.

Second, I liked the fact that Giles was part of the gang. There was an adult thrown into this whole teen life metaphor engine. But I also liked that, at least initially, he wasn't really involved with the action.

Which brings us to creating the main characters in a Buffy game. How do we reflect those aspects I like at this point?

First up, easily enough, to have supernatural power, as a main character, said character must be part of a marginalized group. Choose at least one of: poverty, non-heterosexuality, femaleness, person of colour, transgendered, or disability. There will be no cys-gendered, straight, white, middle-class, abled males with supernatural power. That's right, Xander will never learn the dark arts.

Second, the adult main character will belong to the Fifth Business. He'll be statted up just like the other main characters (and no, I have no idea how they would be statted up), but the Fifth Business would control him while controlling all the other non-main characters. I keep saying him. That's because the adult would be a cys-gendered, straight, white, middle-class or above, abled male. Thus he would have multiple areas where he wouldn't understand the world of the other main characters (besides that of age).

Also, his relationship should be one of mentorship (instructor, trainer, or something to that effect) over one (or more) of the supernatural main characters.