Spike

[Spike]

WILLIAM THE BLOODY

spike | 127 | vampire | complicated | bisexual | self-proclaimed protector | james marsters
"I might be Love's Bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it."

APPEARANCE

Hair; Naturally a honey blonde/brown that's soft to the touch but grows in wild curls, but he hates that. He wears it short, slicked back, and dyed. For the moment, it's dyed peroxide blond.
Eyes; Clear, almost baby blue, and rather large. He gives an impression of a manga character when he's stunned into silence.
Height; Five foot eight
Body Type; Short, but with coied muscle.
Dress Sense; Black. He's a vampire, it's pratically the only vampire tradition he'll follow. Usually it's jeans and a shirt, or it could be leather pants and a fancy dress shirt, it doesn't matter. Apart from the colour, the only thing that's constant about clothing is the black leather duster, and the black combat boots.

General Appearance;
When most people talk about the famous William the Bloody, Slayer of Slayers, they forget to mention one crucial detail that most people are in fact incredibly surprised to find out about. Spike is, actually, rather small in stature, and if you weren’t able to recognise the coiled muscle that’s not very well hidden beneath his tight shirts, you’d think him to be rather fragile. Which he hates, by the way, but it’s true, no matter how hard he wishes it wasn’t. As well as being small, he has high, finely carved cheekbones, porcelain skin (like any vampire, really), and rather feminine lips. But the most striking thing about him is his ‘game face’, which people generally take heed of. Mainly because seeing his vamp face could quite likely mean that you won’t see anything else again, ever. If you do see him more than once, you’ll start to recognise his trademark black leather duster and black combat boots first, followed by his snarky, fake cockney accent, and will quickly learn to overlook the ‘fragile’ effect.

PERSONALITY

Likes;

• Violence
  
• Sex
  
• Drinking
  
• Human food (especially mixed into his blood)
  
• Punk Music
  
• Soaps on the telly
  
• Reading a good novel

Dislikes;

• Uptight Vampires (*cough*Dracula*cough*)
  
• Angel
  
• American beer
  
• Modern pop music
  
• Being owed money
  
• Owing other's money
  
• The chip

Strengths;

• The general vampire strengths - He's stronger than a human, and faster, with accelerated healing capabilities and heightened senses (sight, hearing, smell).
  
• Excellent skills of insight and analysis - you can't fool him, He reads between people's words, and seemingly understands easily. Especially when it comes to relationships. Any relationship's except his own, that is.
  
• Near unbeatable in a fight - Spike is a Master vampire, probably the youngest master vampire, and he has single handedly taken down and killed two Slayers, one when he was only 20 years dead. He's not to be underestimated.

Weaknesses;

• Love's Bitch - He's a romantic, and thinks with his heart. Although that means he can feel more than any ordinary demon (or any demon at all) it does mean that he is easy to manipulate, and easy to hurt.
  
• Brunettes. He can't help it - brown hair and brown eyes make him go all mushy.
  
• The chip - During his 'stay' in the Initiative, one of the experiments performed upon him was to insert an electronic chip into his brain. He recieves an intense shock everytime he hurts, or even thinks about hurting, any living creature (except demons). He can't hunt or feed himself, and despite hating to admit it, is dependant off the Scoobies for his survival.

A Secret; The chip appears to be getting worse. Not that he's sure yet, but the shocks and headaches are hurting quite a bit more now. Also...he still writes poetry.

General Personality; Personality wise, Spike isn’t like other vampires. His behaviours and manners frequently challenge the expectations both humans and slayers have of vampires, as well as other vampire limitations. He is a souless creature, but can still love (unlike Angel, who goes all Angelus-y) whenever he tries to do so). In fact, even compared to humans who have souls, Spike is unusually loving and romantic. Her remained loyal (ish, and only when she wanted him to) to Drusilla for one hundred years. If you’d accuse Spike of being single minded, it wouldn’t be true, unless it was about Drusilla. In which case, yes, he is single minded, because even after leaving him and ripping his heart out (literally once, she was in a bad mood), if she ever comes back, Spike would realise that he still loves her more than anything, and would abandon anything for her. Recently though, the figure of Dru has been replaced in his mind with that of Buffy. He is not capable of loving more than one person, in his whole hearted, 'forever' way, at a time. But he retains his loyality even after his loved one dies - as i shown by the way that he's making sure to honour his promise to Buffy, to look after her younger sister - Dawn.

He’s never quite lost any of his human traits, including his love of food and poetry. He never shows that poetry to anyone anymore, but he still writes it. Of course, he enjoys the fighting and the feeding, and loves making other’s feel terror, but he’s never really been a vampire for torture. He’s imaginative in coming up with ways to kill people, yes, but unlike Angelus, he’d never sit down for hours with one victim and make them scream. He prefers fights, to torture; he likes a challenge rather than picking on helpless victims. That’s a reason why he does not fear Slayers, like other vampires. In fact, he has readily seeked them out, just to look for a challenging fight. To him, there is nothing better than a fight with the threat of death to both participants. He does have a murderous impulse, and in fact, a very poor impulse control in any sense.

Opposite to the brooding figure of Angel, Spike has a dry, sarcastic sense of humour, and is prone to insulting people and giving them nicknames as signs of both his hatred or his endearment towards them. He enjoys living by his own rules, and if someone tells him what to do, well...he’ll just do the opposite. And, unlike Angelus, he isn’t insane. A bit crazy, yes, but he doesn’t want to send the world to hell. He quite likes this world. It’s where all his stuff is kept.

HISTORY

Spike (or rather, William) was born in Victorian London. He was brought up in a well off family, and had the life of any other son of a rich woman. He was meek, and shy though, and rather insecure, and used to bury himself in his poetry. He gained the name William The Bloody from this time, despite so many beliefs that his name come from his later, more violent vampire years. He was in love with an aristocratic woman, called Cecily, who openly mocked his attempts at courting her, and laughed about him behind his back, and one other man called him that, because of his Bloody Awful Poetry. After being rejected by his love one particularily cruel time, William wandered the streets despondently and bumped into Drusilla, who was instantly fascinated by the blue eyed crying boy. It’s not clear what happened next. Watcher’s journal’s have debated over his Sire for years – either Angelus or Drusilla. And there’s no point asking Spike. He changes his mind depending how annoyed with one of them he is.

His life as a human didn’t really end there though. Unlike other newly risen vampires, after feeding for the first time, his thought wasn’t about killing his family. In fact, he turned his mother to save her, as she was suffering from a terminal disease. He rejected life as a vampire at first, preferring to join her. But Anne had changed during the turning. She, as a vampire, taunted William and insinuated he had always had a sexual fascination with her. William chose to stake her because he found he could not bear to see his mother behaving like the soulless vampire he had made of her. It was only after that, that he dedicated himself to the vampire lifestyle, and to Drusilla, who was thrilled by the return of her ‘blue eyed dolly’. He abandond his upper class accent, and well manoured behaviour, and became reckless, impulsive, and generally loving life like any other fledgling.

Despite being sired by Drusilla, it was Angelus who trained him, becoming a mentor to the younger vampire, and taught him to be a monster. He adopted the name Spike after killing the people who had mocked his poetry, years later, the way one of them had suggested. By sticking railway spikes through their heads.

Spike killed his first Slayer in China, in 1900, when, in vampire terms, he was only 20, and still technically considered a child. Not only did this make him stand out, but after Angelus was cursed with his soul, and after Darla abandoned them, Spike remained by Drusilla’s side, taking care of her (as she needed doing during her more insane moments). And with her, he kept being evil, enjoying the rush of violence and fighting, and doing anything he could to make her happy. She became his un-life, and he loved her with everything he had. In 1943 he was captured by Nazi’s, and imprisoned aboard a submarine for transportation to an experiment facility. He led the break amount of the imprisoned vampires, taking over the ship and killing the captain along with two other, much older vampires. He briefly met Angel then, only mistook him for Angelus. If he hadn’t met him there, he probably would have made that mistake quite a bit later, when Xander Harris’ life was being offered to him in Sunnydale. In 1977, he fought and killed his second slayer, Nikki Wood, in New York, who was much more of a challenge than his first. After killing and draining her, he took her coat – the black leather duster he’s grown famous for.

He first arrived in Sunnydale in order to cure Drusilla (who had fallen ill in Prague, after they were both attacked by an angry mob) using the Hellmouth. He remains though, to kill the Slayer (and hopefully Angel whilst doing it), and became a menace for all of the Scooby gang for quite a while. He forgets about that, however, because after Drusilla was cured using Angel’s blood, Spike himself was injured, and trapped in a wheelchair, and then they were joined by a newly de-souled Angelus, who wanted to send the world to hell. Killing the Slayer was put into perspective. He even joined forces with the Slayer for a short while in order to get himself and Drusilla safe passage out of there.

He returned to Sunnydale in a drunken depression after Drusilla leaves him for a Chaos demon. He kidnapped Willow and Xander (the latter accidently), and forces Willow to conduct a love spell for him to make Drusilla love him again, even coercing Buffy and Angel to help him in exchange for the safe return of their friends. The excitement of a brawl with the Mayor's vampires helps him see that Drusilla left him because he had begun to go soft; he resolves to win her back by torturing her until she likes him again, although, because he was drunk, he may have forgotten that he didn’t like torturing. That didn't really work out, and he returned to Sunnydale again to locate the Gem of Amara. And then consequently went and tortured Angel for it, deciding that yes, he did quite like torture when it was in that case.

Having failed in retrieving the ring, however, he returned once more to Sunnydale, this time intent on killing the Slayer. He'd barely set foot in the town before he was captured by military soldiers, and brought to the Initiative. It was there that he recieved the chip in his head, as part of one of many 'experiments'. Eventually though, he managed to break out, leading to his actual discovery of the chip. Weakened, and in desperate need of blood, he had to turn to the Slayer and her groupies for help. And there he's stayed.

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

Well, this is Spike. He'd be the background snarking vampire, irriting and winding up the others, and taking his depression over Buffy's death out on them via words rather than violence. He'll be protective over Dawn, more so now her sister has gone, and probably the rest of the Scoobies as well, feeling he owes it to Buffy. Eventually, I'd like to see him move on from Buffy and fall for someone else, which could provide some interesting drama is Buffy does eventually get brought back.

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(Set in an AU Angel S2)
thump-thump-thump-thump-thump...

One good thing (one of many) about being a vampire was the lack of needing to breath. It was a habit that most vampire's could snap themselves out of pretty soon after being turned. But Spike wasn't most vampires. He still breathed when he was asleep, or panicking, or during sex, no matter how many times he'd been told how wrong it was for a vampire to do those things. He had simply snorted each time, and flipped his finger at whichever wanker had said it. But this time...no, he wasn't breathing right now. He was concentrating so hard that his body simply forgot to.

thump-thump-thump-thump-thump...

The sounds of his fists repeatedly hitting the hanging punch bag rolled around the emptiness of the basement training room, echoing into all the cracks and holes in the walls, before waving back towards him as sharp, hard, painful sounding cracks. The rhythm like an overexerting heartbeat, probably like his over exerting heartbeat...well, his heart beat if his heart wasn't a dead thing in the middle of his chest. How did that work anyway? Vampire's were dead, but they could bleed...and their hearts didn't beat? It was something he'd never really bothered to understand before. And...frankly, couldn't be bothered to now either.

thump-thump-thump-thump-thump...

He broke off the punches, launching into a spin kick and planting his foot into the middle of the bag, kicking it so hard it creaked ominously on it's hanging, as if threatening to snap and fall. He half hoped it was - another thing for Peaches to pay for. Peaches...Did he know? Spike wasn't sure...if he was still asleep, most likely not. He didn't know how strong that 'family' sense was when you were that old, even for your sire. Would he know that Darla had been here? That was the reason that he was down here now, and had been down here for hours. The sun was still up, and it was barely past noon, but he still hadn't slept. He was trying to. Working out and hitting things did make him tired, eventually.

He rolled his shoulders, bouncing on the balls of his feet, and waited for the punching bag to slow it's steady swinging. His eyes tracked it's movement, waiting for it to seem motionless once more. He'd bide his time before he launched into the next string of punches. He didn't really care that he was making a lot of noise, really. But hey, souless demon. He wasn't meant to care.

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