Kendra (Buffyverse)

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Kendra Young, played by Bianca Lawson, was a West Indian Potential Slayer who was activated as a Slayer when Buffy Summers was killed by The Master.
==Canon==
Buffy was drowned by The Master but revived by Xander; however, she was clinically dead long enough for another Slayer to be Called. Kendra appears to have been a much more traditional Slayer than Buffy; she was taken from her parents at an early age and trained intensively throughout her childhood, and had much more theoretical knowledge than Buffy. She had actually read the Slayer's Handbook, which Giles never showed Buffy because he knew she'd ignore it. Her Watcher was Sam Zabuto. Unfortunately this training does not seem to have served her well, since she survived less than a year as a Slayer.
She visited Sunnydale twice; on her first visit she stowed away aboard an airliner to follow up on a predicted rising of a dark power, spotted Angel as a vampire, attempted to kill him, and then attacked Buffy believing her to be another vampire. Once past this misunderstanding they cooperated to rescue Angel from Spike and Drusilla.
Several months later she returned, following a prediction that the demon Acathala would be activated and destroy the world; this was actually the work of Angel, who had lost his soul and was now Angelus. As Buffy went to stop Angelus, Kendra was left to guard Willow Rosenberg, who was attempting to re-soul him. Drusilla interrupted the ritual, hypnotized Kendra, and cut her throat. As she died Faith was activated as the next Slayer. Buffy was accused of her murder and forced to leave Sunnydale for several weeks. She kept Kendra's favourite stake, "Mr. Pointy", as a memento.
==Fandom==
===Fannish Opinion===
Many fans believe Kendra served a narrative purpose, with her tendency to follow the rules challenging Buffy's preconceived notions of what it meant to be a slayer. Kendra was killed before she had much character development, leading some fans to call her boring while others were saddened by her early exit from the series. 
Still other fans, many of them fans of colour, point to the important representation Kendra provided and the personal impact of her death in the show.
A lot of discussion around Kendra in fandom relates to her being an early example of a character of color in the Whedonverse. Her short life and idiosyncratic accent are generally considered an important contributor to the idea that such characters die young, and/or are underutilised and/or stereotyped. Kendra also informs the wider debate over the popularity of CoCs in fandom (see Race and Fandom). It's indisputable that she's considerably less popular in fanworks than her successor Faith, though the reasons for this are hotly debated.
===Shipping===
There are no canon ships. In fanfic she is most often paired with Xander Harris or Buffy Summers. She is often mentioned in works set after her death, e.g. as someone to name a Slayer school after.
==Example Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
*Lift to d' Morgue by Lucinda; "AU. Kendra gets a lift to the morgue from a gentleman called Ted Forrester." Anita Blake crossover (2003)
*The Other One of Me by apckrfan; "Kendra contemplates the other slayer once Angel has been rescued and she is on her way home." (2004)
*Staying Around by Flurblewig; "Home isn't always the place you start out from." Buffy/Kendra (2005)
*One Man's Loss by Beer Good; "After 'Chosen', Faith takes a trip to the Caribbean to settle an old debt." (2007)
*Remember Me by Sami714; "They had said that she would never be called." (2010)
*Dust of the Earth by eerian_sadow; "Kendra muses on life and her duties as a Slayer." (2011)
===FanArt===
*Kendra the Vampire Slayer by endoskeleton (2015)
==Archives and Communities==
* Stories tagged Kendra(ATS) on AO3.
* Stories featuring Kendra on Fanfiction.net
==Links and Resources==
* Wikipedia entry
* Buffy Wiki
==References==
Category:Buffyverse Characters