character info for sirenspull
Character's Canon Abilities:
- He doesn't age.
- He heals rapidly. (but he can scar as evidenced by the scar over his eyebrow).
- The only way to kill him is by removing his head, burning him (Sunlight or with fire), or by wood through the heart.
- He's allergic to garlic and crosses burn his flesh.
- He has super strength.
- He has super senses (smelling, hearing, sight - all of this is strongest at night obviously).
- He can sense magical or 'otherworldly' presences. He calls it 'The Big Bad.'
- He is highly skilled in rmed/unarmed combat.
- He can speak several languages (Demon and Human).
- He has experience with magic, though mostly through Dru and not himself.
- And before I get more and more random with this, as with all Joss vampires, he has a "game face" in which his demon face is revealed with fangs and all. It's speculated that vamps are more "primal" when in game face and can more easily tap into their demon side. They often vamp out while drinking blood even if not from a live source.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A
Weapons: a sword, an axe, and a crossbow.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
- http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Spike
- http://www.fangedfour.com/deadboy/timeline.htm
Point in Canon: Angel 5x12 "You're Welcome"
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A! I've played Spike for years but usually from later seasons of Buffy or currently, I play him at dramadramaduck from the comics.
Character Personality:
Spike as a character is one of the arcs that changes the most throughout canon, and continues to evolve despite canon point. But at this point in time, there are a few key events that factor into his personality as it is now. Acquiring his soul, saving Sunnydale, coming back in LA, and his entire dynamic of his relationship with Angel are probably the most important to Angel Season 5. Though Spike claims to be completely 'over' the time he spent in the basement of Sunnydale High School post getting re-souled, he certainly dwells on his past just like his sire does. He is perhaps slightly better at hiding it, but the guilt for his past is still very much with him. He does, however, let go of things more easily than Angel does, and as long as he continues to fight the good fight he can live with himself and what he's done. One thing that doesn't change from unsouled to souled Spike is that he continues to throw himself into harm's way and does almost everything without thinking it through first. Post-soul however there is a sense of desperation here; a sense of redemption through his work as a "champion."
From as far back as Angel and Spike go, we see competition. There also is a degree of care there, though neither of them would admit it unless under special circumstances. In 5x13 "Why we fight," Angel tells Spike he always liked his poetry and later on in the series than I'm pulling Spike from he admits Angelus and he were "intimate." That said, when Spike comes back from incorporeality, Harmony asks him why he doesn't just ship off to see Buffy. He tells her he can't top the way he went out: giving his life for hers and all the people she cared for. He did something truly selfless and showing up to rub her nose in it, alive and well wouldn't be right. The Spike of old would've taken no issue in doing just this, but Spike now has truly repented and he adheres to his moral code pretty strictly though it may not seem that way to the outside observer. It's also implied that Spike stays to help Angel and co. out of the kindness of his heart, truly. But it could simply be that Spike stays where the fight is, and he can tell there's a big fight brewing.
Those are two of the most important elements of Spike's character, pre-soul and post: love and violence. For him, the two often go hand-in-hand. He and Drusilla tortured each other, and Buffy and he were very rough with each other which eventually led to his attempting to rape her. He never completely forgives himself for that. Violence drives his character, no matter which side he's on. When he has the chip, the moment he discovers he can hurt demons his drive is reinignited. He tried to commit suicide when he thought he couldn't fight. Though Spike is intelligent, because of the ridicule he faced for his intellectualism and poetry in his human life (and beyond), he hides it more comfortably behind the dumb brute Spike. Without the fight, he feels useless, and it's when he starts being a hero and fighting along Buffy's side that he truly finds his calling.
Regarding love, he falls easy and hard like a rock, but once he's in he's in and he doesn't let go. Even to the end with Drusilla, when he chose Buffy over her, it caused him a great deal of turmoil and pain. He never truly loses love for someone, no matter what they've done. And though it's odd to say of a vampire, he has and will forgive almost anything. In Buffy 3x8 “A Lover's Walk,” he says what I think are some of the most pivotal lines in his character anywhere in canon. To Buffy and Angel he says: "Love isn't brains, children, it's blood -- blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it." He knows how hopeless he is when the day is done, but he has a lot of feelings, and a genuinely big heart.
Buffy is so important to Spike because she was the one person who didn't turn her back on him when he was chipped. He asks the Scoobies to help him, and though he'd been trying to kill them for years Buffy agrees to keep him fed if he fights alongside them. Over the following months he falls in love with her, and this realization leads into his redemption. After they begin sleeping together in Season 6, Spike becomes even more desperate for her approval. The tragically memorable "almost-rape" scene haunts him probably even still. He proclaims that he doesn't want to be the sort of man who does something like that. This is the catalyst for reacquiring his soul. He returns to Sunnydale sometime later to gain Buffy's love and trust with his shiny new soul, and in Season 7 he at least gets the latter. She has his chip removed by the Initiative when it begins misfiring in a way that may kill him. While this only makes him love her more, he doesn't believe he deserves to be with her, and settles for their unwieldy friendship.
Though he initially seems self-interested, even now, his motivations often prove to be altruistic. He cares for women especially, not enecessarily in a romantic fashion but also in a caretaker role. When he was human, he took care of his mother as she died of consumption, and that carries over into his unlife (even before his soul). He shows in taking care of Dawn, befriending Joyce, and later on with Fred and even Illyria. He takes a really serious beating from Glory in Buffy Season 5 in order to save Dawn, and no one asked him to, nor was he getting anything out of it. This is where his redemption arc truly begins. He feels a degree of triumph from being needed, even from Angel whom he claims to hate. He feels this especially from love interests such as Dru and Buffy, and even Harmony. He needs to feel useful in the eyes of others or he quickly loses his self-worth. Though his swagger is apparent, it's also unmistakable overcompensation for his low self-esteem.
Overall Spike is a self-sacrificing character, and will not hesitate to help those in need on the port. He'll undoubtedly patrol nights and "help the hopeless" because at this canon point he's very similar to the way Angel was in Season 1. He's struggling with himself and wanting to make amends to the world, and he's really taking this fate thing to heart. Since he and Angel fought over the Shanshu prophecy (proclaiming a champion vampire with a soul would redeem himself and become human again), he feels as though he has a destiny to help people. And even if it doesn't come with a shiny prophecy, he's willing to risk his life [again] to keep the world from going under. Even though he's a vampire, he knows how temporary life is, since by now he's died twice. He feels his own mortality but it doesn't make him less likely to stick his neck out. If anything, it's just the opposite.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: Spike will most likely join the other Angel characters on Team Angel and be generally badass. But it's his nature to go off on his own and try to be better than everyone. He usually just ends up getting beaten up a lot, but sometimes it's useful. Sometimes. He's very into the, I-have-a-soul-and-am-therefor-a-champion scene right now so I'll most likely play it by ear, and see where that leads me. But I definitely see him teaming up with Cordy and Wes.
- He doesn't age.
- He heals rapidly. (but he can scar as evidenced by the scar over his eyebrow).
- The only way to kill him is by removing his head, burning him (Sunlight or with fire), or by wood through the heart.
- He's allergic to garlic and crosses burn his flesh.
- He has super strength.
- He has super senses (smelling, hearing, sight - all of this is strongest at night obviously).
- He can sense magical or 'otherworldly' presences. He calls it 'The Big Bad.'
- He is highly skilled in rmed/unarmed combat.
- He can speak several languages (Demon and Human).
- He has experience with magic, though mostly through Dru and not himself.
- And before I get more and more random with this, as with all Joss vampires, he has a "game face" in which his demon face is revealed with fangs and all. It's speculated that vamps are more "primal" when in game face and can more easily tap into their demon side. They often vamp out while drinking blood even if not from a live source.
Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? N/A
Weapons: a sword, an axe, and a crossbow.
History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History:
- http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Spike
- http://www.fangedfour.com/deadboy/timeline.htm
Point in Canon: Angel 5x12 "You're Welcome"
Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: N/A! I've played Spike for years but usually from later seasons of Buffy or currently, I play him at dramadramaduck from the comics.
Character Personality:
Spike as a character is one of the arcs that changes the most throughout canon, and continues to evolve despite canon point. But at this point in time, there are a few key events that factor into his personality as it is now. Acquiring his soul, saving Sunnydale, coming back in LA, and his entire dynamic of his relationship with Angel are probably the most important to Angel Season 5. Though Spike claims to be completely 'over' the time he spent in the basement of Sunnydale High School post getting re-souled, he certainly dwells on his past just like his sire does. He is perhaps slightly better at hiding it, but the guilt for his past is still very much with him. He does, however, let go of things more easily than Angel does, and as long as he continues to fight the good fight he can live with himself and what he's done. One thing that doesn't change from unsouled to souled Spike is that he continues to throw himself into harm's way and does almost everything without thinking it through first. Post-soul however there is a sense of desperation here; a sense of redemption through his work as a "champion."
From as far back as Angel and Spike go, we see competition. There also is a degree of care there, though neither of them would admit it unless under special circumstances. In 5x13 "Why we fight," Angel tells Spike he always liked his poetry and later on in the series than I'm pulling Spike from he admits Angelus and he were "intimate." That said, when Spike comes back from incorporeality, Harmony asks him why he doesn't just ship off to see Buffy. He tells her he can't top the way he went out: giving his life for hers and all the people she cared for. He did something truly selfless and showing up to rub her nose in it, alive and well wouldn't be right. The Spike of old would've taken no issue in doing just this, but Spike now has truly repented and he adheres to his moral code pretty strictly though it may not seem that way to the outside observer. It's also implied that Spike stays to help Angel and co. out of the kindness of his heart, truly. But it could simply be that Spike stays where the fight is, and he can tell there's a big fight brewing.
Those are two of the most important elements of Spike's character, pre-soul and post: love and violence. For him, the two often go hand-in-hand. He and Drusilla tortured each other, and Buffy and he were very rough with each other which eventually led to his attempting to rape her. He never completely forgives himself for that. Violence drives his character, no matter which side he's on. When he has the chip, the moment he discovers he can hurt demons his drive is reinignited. He tried to commit suicide when he thought he couldn't fight. Though Spike is intelligent, because of the ridicule he faced for his intellectualism and poetry in his human life (and beyond), he hides it more comfortably behind the dumb brute Spike. Without the fight, he feels useless, and it's when he starts being a hero and fighting along Buffy's side that he truly finds his calling.
Regarding love, he falls easy and hard like a rock, but once he's in he's in and he doesn't let go. Even to the end with Drusilla, when he chose Buffy over her, it caused him a great deal of turmoil and pain. He never truly loses love for someone, no matter what they've done. And though it's odd to say of a vampire, he has and will forgive almost anything. In Buffy 3x8 “A Lover's Walk,” he says what I think are some of the most pivotal lines in his character anywhere in canon. To Buffy and Angel he says: "Love isn't brains, children, it's blood -- blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it." He knows how hopeless he is when the day is done, but he has a lot of feelings, and a genuinely big heart.
Buffy is so important to Spike because she was the one person who didn't turn her back on him when he was chipped. He asks the Scoobies to help him, and though he'd been trying to kill them for years Buffy agrees to keep him fed if he fights alongside them. Over the following months he falls in love with her, and this realization leads into his redemption. After they begin sleeping together in Season 6, Spike becomes even more desperate for her approval. The tragically memorable "almost-rape" scene haunts him probably even still. He proclaims that he doesn't want to be the sort of man who does something like that. This is the catalyst for reacquiring his soul. He returns to Sunnydale sometime later to gain Buffy's love and trust with his shiny new soul, and in Season 7 he at least gets the latter. She has his chip removed by the Initiative when it begins misfiring in a way that may kill him. While this only makes him love her more, he doesn't believe he deserves to be with her, and settles for their unwieldy friendship.
Though he initially seems self-interested, even now, his motivations often prove to be altruistic. He cares for women especially, not enecessarily in a romantic fashion but also in a caretaker role. When he was human, he took care of his mother as she died of consumption, and that carries over into his unlife (even before his soul). He shows in taking care of Dawn, befriending Joyce, and later on with Fred and even Illyria. He takes a really serious beating from Glory in Buffy Season 5 in order to save Dawn, and no one asked him to, nor was he getting anything out of it. This is where his redemption arc truly begins. He feels a degree of triumph from being needed, even from Angel whom he claims to hate. He feels this especially from love interests such as Dru and Buffy, and even Harmony. He needs to feel useful in the eyes of others or he quickly loses his self-worth. Though his swagger is apparent, it's also unmistakable overcompensation for his low self-esteem.
Overall Spike is a self-sacrificing character, and will not hesitate to help those in need on the port. He'll undoubtedly patrol nights and "help the hopeless" because at this canon point he's very similar to the way Angel was in Season 1. He's struggling with himself and wanting to make amends to the world, and he's really taking this fate thing to heart. Since he and Angel fought over the Shanshu prophecy (proclaiming a champion vampire with a soul would redeem himself and become human again), he feels as though he has a destiny to help people. And even if it doesn't come with a shiny prophecy, he's willing to risk his life [again] to keep the world from going under. Even though he's a vampire, he knows how temporary life is, since by now he's died twice. He feels his own mortality but it doesn't make him less likely to stick his neck out. If anything, it's just the opposite.
Conditional: Personality development in previous game: N/A
Character Plans: Spike will most likely join the other Angel characters on Team Angel and be generally badass. But it's his nature to go off on his own and try to be better than everyone. He usually just ends up getting beaten up a lot, but sometimes it's useful. Sometimes. He's very into the, I-have-a-soul-and-am-therefor-a-champion scene right now so I'll most likely play it by ear, and see where that leads me. But I definitely see him teaming up with Cordy and Wes.