Not well known to all fans, Loo played a major part in Fray, Whedon's first foray into comics which is set some 200 years into the future of the Buffyverse. As something which doesn't interfere with the TV series but still incorporates its essence, he largely wrote it as he just hadn't considered the fact that anyone would want him to write anything else. It may not have interfered however, but it did introduce the scythe to the mythology, which would later be seen in Buffy's seventh and final season. A mutant living in 23rd Century Haddyn (Manhattan to you and me), Loo was a close friend of the newly discovered slayer Melaka Fray, who also acted as her surrogate big sister; living down in the slums, Fray often used her earnings as a thief to pay for Loo's much needed medication. Although she isn't the only cherished character to be killed in the pages of a comic rather than on screen, even the death of Rupert Giles can't compete with that of Loo's, despite the fact she appeared in just five issues of a comic book mini series. While Whedon has never been one to shy away from using death as a protagonist's motivation, Loo is undoubtedly his most unfortunate victim. She is also the best example of why, out of all Whedon's deaths, there are those remembered over others. Not because they are shocking, those that stick with us do so because the victims are so innocent. In worlds populated by vampires, reavers, and homelessness, all they ever wanted to do was help people, and occasionally play with dinosaurs. No other character defined this virtue as much as Loo, and the heartbreak is only added to when you discover the true cause of her death.
