Robin Wood

“Maybe you don’t have to be so blunt about the “losing of the necks” bit.”

Played by D.B. Woodside

First Appearance: Lessons

Robin was the son of Nikki Wood, a Vampire Slayer from the 1970s who was murdered by Spike in 1977. Raised by her Watcher, Bernard Crowley, Robin grew up steeped in the ways of the Slayer, becoming the only recorded offspring of a Slayer in history. Driven by the desire to track his mother’s killer, he took the post of principal at the newly rebuilt Sunnydale High in 2002. His position served a dual purpose: to find and aid Buffy Summers, the current Slayer, and to avenge his mother by standing against the hordes rising from the Hellmouth. The First Evil later appeared to Robin in the form of Nikki, directing him towards Spike. Robin attempted to kill Spike soon after, but failed. During the final battle, he was wounded but survived, and having begun a relationship with Faith Lehane, he presumably went on to assist Rupert Giles in rebuilding the Watchers’ Council.

After thousands of Potential Slayers were activated worldwide, Robin became the Watcher of a Slayer Organization squad stationed at the Hellmouth in Cleveland. Faith later referred to him as “the ex,” indicating that their relationship had ended. Following the destruction of the Seed of Wonder and the end of magic, Buffy approached Robin for guidance, believing she might be pregnant. Drawing on his own experience as the son of a Slayer, Robin reassured her that she was more than capable of handling motherhood, noting that she had managed to balance a normal life alongside her duties in a way few Slayers — including his mother — ever had. Though uncertain, Buffy promised she would not raise the child alone. It was later revealed that Andrew Wells had transferred Buffy’s mind into a robotic body, and the positive pregnancy test was the result of faulty programming rather than reality

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Buffy SEASON 7