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Nikki Wood is a fictional character created by Joss Whedon in the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, portrayed originally by April Weeden-Washington and later K.D. Aubert.

Biography

Nikki Wood is a New York based vampire slayer in the 1970s.

Her life wasn't easy even before becoming the vampire slayer. She grew up in the poor area of New York and her parents were killed in a mugging about 1966. She then lived with her Grandmother and eventually dropped out of school when she became Pregnant with Robin Wood and got a job as a waitress to help pay the rent

She was called as the slayer early in 1973 and her watcher finds and informs her on the 10th February 1973, the same night her grandmother is killed by a Vampire. She was the second Slayer killed by Spike (he killed her in New York in 1977).

For 3 and a half years before her death she lived, rent-free, in a small 2 room apartment behind the projection room of The Gem movie theatre on 42nd street because she had saved the life of the owners newthew from some vamps. Her Watcher, Bernard Crowley, resigned from the Watchers' Council and raised Robin after Nikki's death. She also had a Chinese American boyfriend named Li who was in the NYPD during her early tenure as Slayer but he was killed when investigating an illegal smuggling operation that happened to be importing a demon. Li may or may not be Robin's father.

Trivia

Spike's trademark black leather trenchcoat originally belonged to her, until he took it from her corpse.

April Weeden-Washington originally portrayed Nikki. However, when the character was brought back, stuntwoman April was deemed "too mature" by the show's casting directors. They wanted a younger actress, who could seem more like a vulnerable teenage mother for the role, so K.D. Aubert portrayed Nikki Wood in the seventh season. This means Nikki joins Buffy Summers and the First Evil as characters in the Buffyverse that have been portrayed by more than one actor (not counting stunt doubles). Weeden-Washington, however, attempted to spark an Internet write-in campaign among Buffy fans to have her recast in the role. This effort, nonetheless, came to naught.

Appearances

Canon appears in bold

• Fool for Love - Flashbacks (played by April Weeden-Washington)
• Get It Done - Mentioned
• Lies My Parents Told Me - Flashbacks
• Damage - Mentioned
• Tales of the Slayer prose short story from Volume IV, It's All About the Mission
• Tales of the Slayers graphic short story from, Nikki Goes Down!
• Blackout novel
• Queen of the Slayers where she and a bunch of other Slayer ghosts including Lucy Hanover protect Xander on the Ghost Roads until he gets out with the help of the spirits of Tara and Anya.
• Auld Lang Syne#2 & #3 (IDW "Angel" Graphic novel)

1. Buffy Novel "Blackout"
2. Pocket Books Buffy novel "Blackout" Chapter 3

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