Buffy The Vampire Slayer* Already Gives Us Its First Death (1x2) | REACTION

A Beautiful Sunset is the eleventh issue of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight comic book series. It was written by Joss Whedon and illustrated by Georges Jeanty. It was originally published on February 6, 2008, by Dark Horse Comics.
Synopsis

An ill-prepared Buffy comes face to face with the new Big Bad in the form of an old-fashioned death match in this standalone issue titled A Beautiful Sunset.[1]
Summary

Buffy reflects on her long history as a Slayer and awakening the thousands of other girls around the world. In flashbacks, it becomes clear that each battle the Scoobies and the others had fought came with sacrifice, but in a way, came with a connection as well. Buffy admits that while it can be a bother sacrificing her life as well as others, it has always been done for the better. She has grown, she has moved on to the better and potential she always knew that she could live up to.

Next, Xander and Buffy discuss a major problem: Simone Doffler, the punk, pink-haired Slayer from Rona's Chicago squad. Xander tells Buffy that they tried to remove Simone from her rough, urban environment, but see her on a security tape stealing ammunition and other things in a robbery, the unconscious bodies of two guards also found in the tapes. Buffy feels worried that she is not making a big change in the Slayer community and feels that what the government and everyone else thinks is true: she is not making the difference she said she was making. Xander comforts her and reassures her that things are going to be all right. The two then reflect on the revelation that Buffy stole from a bank in Switzerland to support her and the Slayer Organization and how she and Willow are having issues. Xander suggests that she ease her worries by going on a vampire hunt, and Buffy decides to go with Satsu.

While the other Slayers and giant Dawn are celebrating at a huge party to ease their recent stresses, Buffy gears up to go on her vampire hunt. Satsu follows and Buffy forces her into the vampire lair. While the two are slaying, Buffy discusses how she knows that it had been Satsu who gave her the kiss of true love in to save her from Amy's curse and while Buffy appreciates the gesture as kind and sweet, she isn't interested in Satsu in a romantic way. Buffy tells Satsu of her romantic history and how all of her relationships, be it romantic, family, or friends, end badly. Buffy states that there is something wrong with her, that everyone notice that something around her is wrong, that she can never really love, and, like all Slayers, will be alone. She breaks down in tears, but the moment is interrupted with a crash from Twilight. Satsu is knocked out while Buffy and Twilight have a brawl in the air.

Twilight bests Buffy in battle with moves she had never witnessed and takes her fear of flight to a whole new level by flying her all around Scotland. When he is about to throw a roof at her, Buffy tells him that killing her will only bring more Slayers to the call, that there will only be more to deal with. It is revealed that Twilight doesn't want to yet kill Buffy and instead wants to talk to her. He reveals that while one Slayer in the world was enough to deal with, thousands is not tolerated. He replies that the world can't contain them and it will eventually suffer. Twilight further feeds Buffy's insecurities by stating the obvious, that they have not changed the world, they have not helped it. He flies off before the rising of the Sun while Buffy rushes back to the graveyard that Satsu and her were in to help Satsu. While Satsu feels she had failed Buffy, Buffy comforts her.

In an unknown base, Twilight tells his comrades that to truly defeat the Slayer, one has to strip her of her greatest armor, her moral certainty. They have to twist her view of right and wrong or twist the view of the ones she helps.