They're the brains of the operation, mostly. Tactics, demon knowledge-- you know, figuring out how to kill something we've never seen before, and stuff. Lot of reading, but like a lot of puzzle solving too. Stuff I was never great at.

[ faith chews at her lip, shrugging against the ache she's felt with giles gone. with the knowledge that he'd never been her watcher, not really. they'd just both been on buffy's shit list at the same time. when she speaks of watchers, it's never about the men in her life. it's always about diana. a distant memory of the first person who helped and the first faith let down. ]

It's a little different these days, though. They see a lot more action, cause there are more slayers to herd.