PLAYER NAME: Blake

PLAYER EMAIL ADDRESS: fatiferouspoet@earthlink.net

CHARACTER NAME: Dawn Summers

AGE 17-18(during the Black Thorn Apocalypse)

HEIGHT 5'3"

HAIR Long brunette

EYES Blue

FAMILY

* Buffy Summers(foster sister)

* Joyce Summers(foster mother-deceased)

ANY OTHER DISTINGUISHING MARKS? Cuts on forearm

GENDER Female

PLACE OF BIRTH Created/converted into human form by the monks of the Order of Dagon

SKILLS/POWERS/WEAPONS Skills include stealthy pick-pocketing, learnt how to use the slayer crossbow for the Sunnydale Hellmouth Apocalypse

PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATION High school student

BACK GROUND Dawn is 'The Key', a collection of energy transformed into human form by the monks of the Order of Dagon. The monks placed The Key in the care of the Summers and also implanted fake memories into their minds as well as everyone related to them making it seem that Dawn was Buffy's younger sister and that she was always a part of the Summers family. They did this in order to prevent The Key from falling into the hands of the evil hell-goddess Glory. Eventually, Buffy and Joyce discovered the truth and tried to hide it from Dawn but in vain, as Dawn discovers her real identity when she read Giles' diary.

Though Dawn was hurt by the revelation, more pressing issues came to light when Glory acquired Dawn and performed a ritual to make the Key open the doorway to her own dimension. This ritual had the power to destroy all dimensional barriers, unleashing all kinds of demons into the Buffy's world. The ritual would also destroy Dawn. To stop the ritual, Buffy sacrificed her own life in order to save that of Dawn's and the other people in her world whom she loved so much.

Soon after her death, the Slayer was resurrected back to life by Willow and the Scoobies. The Summers sisters were reunited, and Dawn was recovering from the tragedy when she realised that the Buffy who had been brought back from heaven was somehow a different person, she was a detached and distant person. Dawn temporarily resorted to kleptomania in order to escape her reality but was soon cured when this issue came to light.

When The First Evil resurfaced on earth and threatened to open the Sunnydale Hellmouth and destroy the world, Giles and the Watcher's Council sent Potentials(inactivated slayers) to Sunnydale so that they could be trained by Buffy to face the near Apocalypse. The Scoobies had always speculated that someday, Dawn would replace Buffy's place as the Chosen One. Things came to a head when one of Willow's conjured spells falsely pointed to Dawn being a Potential. The Scoobies put the young girl on a pedestal of sorts, only to embarrass her later when they discovered their mistake. Nevertheless, Dawn didn't hold a grudge against live over this...not for long anyway!

Dawn supported Buffy and the Potentials in their preparation for the final battle. She grew close to Andrew(the last of the geeky triumvirate) and Amanda, (a Potential who would die in the battle against the hordes that came out of the hellmouth when it opened).

After Sunnydale was destroyed due to the sealing of the hellmouth below it, Buffy and the Scoobies were left homeless and then relocated to Europe. Dawn lived with Buffy in Rome for a while, she grew more independent during this particular time period.

When another apocalypse threatened to hit Angel and his team in LA, Buffy took Willow and the now activated slayers to assist Angel and his group once again keeping Dawn in the dark.

Dawn, (having had enough of her over-protective sister keeping things from her and choosing to keep her out of the war against Wolfram and Hart), arrived in LA with a raging temper after she discovered what was going on from a very reluctant Giles.

But Dawn immediately sobered down when she reached the Hyperion and saw the state of her sister and the other slayers.

However, Dawn forced Buffy to let her stay with her and play an active part in the fight against the Senior Partners.

PYSCHOLOGICAL PROFILE Dawn has shown a vast array of psychological traits during the short time she has spent with Buffy and the Scoobies. At first, she was a normal happy-go-lucky girl but when she discovered the secret of her real identity and the fact that Buffy and Joyce knew about this but still chose to keep her in the dark, Dawn's life turned upside down. Disgusted with her foster family and herself, Dawn, overcome with adolescent angst inflicted wounds on her arm with a knife. However, Buffy promised her that she would always treat her like a real sister in the future and this soothed Dawn's soul.

When Buffy sacrificed her life to stop Glory's ritual from taking place, Dawn went into depression over the fact that she was the main reason her sister gave away her life for.

When Willow resurrected Buffy from the dead, Dawn slowly started to recover. However, when Buffy revealed that she was ripped out of heaven, Dawn felt a pang of guilt just like the rest of the Scoobies.

The post-resurrection Buffy was somehow detached and distant from everything around her, including Dawn. Facing partial abandonment, Dawn resorted to kleptomania as an outlet for all her misery. When this problem came to light, Buffy once again came to her younger sister's rescue by just listening to what she had to say and then always being there by her side after that.

Dawn felt slightly rejected when she discovered that she wasn't a potential slayer, as that was what the rest of the Scoobies had thought to be, but when Xander told her and it was alright to be the 'quintessential average side-man', Dawn quickly got over herself.

Dawn lost a lot of people in her life, people she cared for like her foster mother Joyce, her close friend Tara, her sister Buffy(for some time) and most recently her new best friend Amanda. When Tara was killed, Dawn felt a seething emotion of vengeance in herself, she wished ill for Tara's killer, but when she saw how this vengeance had affected Willow and how it was slowly destroying her(Willow threatened to destroy Dawn's human form), Dawn immediately mellowed down.

The First Evil tried to instigate Dawn against Buffy when it appeared to her in the form of Joyce. Dawn was left confused by this bizarre incident but never left her trust for elder sister.

Dawn hates the fact that Buffy being such an independent and strong woman herself, treats her younger sister as a child. She was especially angered when Buffy had arranged for Dawn's departure from Sunnydale ahead of the apocalypse. Now that she is almost 18, Dawn would once and for all like to show Buffy that she is extremely capable of taking care of herself, thank you very much!

TRAINING OR EDUCATION

Dawn briefly studied in the newly rebuilt Sunnydale High School. After the apocalypse however, Dawn was unable to continue with her studies. Maybe destiny has something else in store for her?