-Made by popular by the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series to refer to the
person who's assigned to watch over, guard, teach and train the vampire slayer.
-Every slayer has a watcher and if one dies before the slayer does, the watcher is replaced with another, no one knows exactly how many watchers were in the council as supposedly they all died just shortly before the series ended in a giant
bomb explosion at their headquarters set up by crazy priest villian
Caleb.
-A watcher trains the slayer to fight with hand to hand and long range weapons and aids her by telling her stuff about demons and vampires
ie how to
kill them.
-Tend to be British while oddly slayers seem to be of any race and origin.
-Most famous wacthers:
Giles (Buffy's watcher), Gwendolyn Post(Faith's crazy watcher that Angel had to
kill), and
Wesley Wyndham Price (Faith's last watcher who later joined the cast of the Angel series)