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Player Age: 21
Character Name: Spike
Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Medium: television
Character Age: ~150
Canon Point: The last episode of the TV series, right as he’s about to blow up.
Why did you choose this character?: …I really like snarky British bastards. Also, redemption arcs. Spike has that and a particularly awesome coat. How could I resist?
Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: He will initially think he’s dead and assume that… Hell is just a lot like Minneapolis. This won’t surprise him much. Eventually he’ll work out that he’s alive, probably when he sees Buffy again, and then he’ll mostly be confused. He’ll probably want to work on a way to get home.
When, in the far future, he learns he’s a clone, he’ll probably try not to think too much about whether that makes him still him or not because it’s very brain breaky and uncomfortable.
History: here!
Personality: The most important person in Spike’s life at this canon point is Buffy Summers, hands down. She’s the love of his life, and the reason he got a soul. More than that, she’s the reason having a soul hasn’t killed him. She kept him strong and believed in him when he most needed someone to have faith in him. She’s everything to him.
This hasn’t always been the case, though. Before Buffy, it was Drusilla. Before her, it was Spike’s mother. His life always tends to revolve around some woman or another. When he loved Drusilla, he was as evil as he could be for her. When he loved Buffy, he worked hard to become a good man. He’s eager to please, willing to do absolutely anything for the object of his affection. It can be a good thing. He’s very devoted, and absolutely nothing can tear him from his love’s side. But it can also be a bad thing. He gets obsessive and stalkery, and it can lead to him going too far and, well, raping the girl he loves. On the bright side, that violated even his pretty loose moral code and when he realized what he was doing, he changed.
And change he did. Spike has changed so much over the course of his canon. When he first showed up, he was the big bad. Well, medium bad. Angel ended up being the big bad, but that’s… beside the point. Since then, Spike has played the villain, the hero, the comic relief, the love interest, and everything in between. His first brush with doing good came at the end of Season 2, where he helped Buffy save the world as opposed to helping Angel and Drusilla to end it. Of course, his motives were incredibly selfish. He was evil at the time. He may not have wanted the world to end, but what he really cared about was getting Drusilla back from Angel. As usual, he was motivated by love.
Unfortunately for him, it only sort of worked. He got Dru away, but she had lost interest in him. She could feel that his orbit had started to shift, and instead of pulling him in closer, she pushed him away. That led to his Season 3 drunk and depressed personality, and eventually to his Season 4 comic relief personality.
After losing the woman who had defined him, he lost the other thing that had defined him, the ability to kill humans. Violence is and has always been very important to Spike. With the chip in his head, he could pretty much only use words as weapons. He doesn’t want this to mean he has to change into a good guy, though, and initially plans to have little to know contact with the Scoobies. This fails pretty miserably.
A few failed attempts to get the chip out later, he has a sex where he admits his love to Buffy. The real shocker was that when he was awake, he couldn’t shake the confession off as just a dream. Of course, once he realizes he’s in love with her, he… pretty quickly flips around. Spike is absolutely no good at middle ground. He either despises her or he’s completely in love with her. He is never indifferent towards her. He can only possibly feel things strongly.
His love slowly leads to a pretty rocky redemption arc. Spike is still evil, so the only way he can love is selfishly. He wants Buffy by any means possible, and if that means causing trouble between Buffy and her current boyfriend, or chaining Buffy up and threatening to let Drusilla kill her if she doesn’t lead him on, well, he… doesn’t see the obvious problems here. It isn’t until he does something unselfish and hides Dawn’s keyness from Glory that Buffy even begins to be impressed by his actions.
He does, even early on, start showing signs of a sort of proto-guilt. When Drusilla kills a girl and hands her off to Spike, he hesitates before biting down. He is absolutely still evil. He isn’t guilty enough to really stop, or to stop Dru from killing the girl in the first place, and his morals at this point are more “Buffy wouldn’t like this” than “this is wrong,” but it is there. He’s slowly getting primed for redemption.
He promises Buffy he’ll protect Dawn before the final battle, and that promise is more than enough to make the fight worth it. Mind you, Spike’s life doesn’t mean that much to him. He’d rather live than die, but when the fight means anything to him, he’d rather die than lose. He’s incredibly competitive, especially with other men which is why most of his friends are women.
In Season 6 he finally gets Buffy, in the sexual sense at least, and proceeds to do absolutely everything he can to keep her. He tries to drag her down into the dark with him, and he doesn’t recognize that she’s using him. Or he does, but he doesn’t realize why it’s a bad thing. He gets to be with the woman he loves, and she gets mind-blowing sex. Where is the downside? But the relationship’s emotionally unfulfilling for both of them and the first time she really shows him respect is when she leaves him. He doesn’t understand that either and attempts to get her back, initially through more or less harmless whining and then by trying to force her. This is why safe words are important if you enjoy the no-no-no-yes-yes game and are sleeping with a soulless vampire who can’t tell the difference between a coy “stop that” and a screamed “stop that!” complete with struggling and kicking.
Anyway, he does snap out of it when she kicks him across the room, and he then basically… panics and leaves and is too distressed by what he tried to do to even drink. So he leaves to go get a soul. This leads to his “crazy in the basement” phase, followed by his “damsel in distress” phase followed by him slowly building himself back up to a hero until he reaches the point where he can selflessly sacrifice himself to save the world. He also blows up the town because Spike is just that destructive. He changes more over the course of the next few seasons of comics and television because he just doesn’t stay dead, but that is past his canon point so I won’t go into that too much.
Spike’s emotions are his strengths. He moves on instinct and feelings rather than logic, which tends to be a bad idea. He is incredibly loyal and dedicated and good at reading people. He’s also pretty good at putting things poetically when he’s talking casually, though he’s pretty crap at poetry when he… actually tries. He’s competitive and sarcastic and often an ass, and he can be incredibly manipulative when he has the patience to be so. He’s not good at planning and he’s not good at following through on his plans when he does. He’s fond of violence and bloodshed and destroying stuff and he likes eating human food even though he’s a vampire. He’s a rebel and a lover and a poet, and he fucks up more often than not, but when he cares about someone, he’ll be by their side forever. Literally. He’s a vampire.
First Person Sample: Spike and Buffy hang out on the porch and chat.
Third Person Sample: Spike vs Angel in the magic fairy woods. Plus, Buffyvention.
Player Journal:
museofspeedPlayer Age: 21
Character Name: Spike
Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Medium: television
Character Age: ~150
Canon Point: The last episode of the TV series, right as he’s about to blow up.
Why did you choose this character?: …I really like snarky British bastards. Also, redemption arcs. Spike has that and a particularly awesome coat. How could I resist?
Give a brief idea of how your character will react to the setting: He will initially think he’s dead and assume that… Hell is just a lot like Minneapolis. This won’t surprise him much. Eventually he’ll work out that he’s alive, probably when he sees Buffy again, and then he’ll mostly be confused. He’ll probably want to work on a way to get home.
When, in the far future, he learns he’s a clone, he’ll probably try not to think too much about whether that makes him still him or not because it’s very brain breaky and uncomfortable.
History: here!
Personality: The most important person in Spike’s life at this canon point is Buffy Summers, hands down. She’s the love of his life, and the reason he got a soul. More than that, she’s the reason having a soul hasn’t killed him. She kept him strong and believed in him when he most needed someone to have faith in him. She’s everything to him.
This hasn’t always been the case, though. Before Buffy, it was Drusilla. Before her, it was Spike’s mother. His life always tends to revolve around some woman or another. When he loved Drusilla, he was as evil as he could be for her. When he loved Buffy, he worked hard to become a good man. He’s eager to please, willing to do absolutely anything for the object of his affection. It can be a good thing. He’s very devoted, and absolutely nothing can tear him from his love’s side. But it can also be a bad thing. He gets obsessive and stalkery, and it can lead to him going too far and, well, raping the girl he loves. On the bright side, that violated even his pretty loose moral code and when he realized what he was doing, he changed.
And change he did. Spike has changed so much over the course of his canon. When he first showed up, he was the big bad. Well, medium bad. Angel ended up being the big bad, but that’s… beside the point. Since then, Spike has played the villain, the hero, the comic relief, the love interest, and everything in between. His first brush with doing good came at the end of Season 2, where he helped Buffy save the world as opposed to helping Angel and Drusilla to end it. Of course, his motives were incredibly selfish. He was evil at the time. He may not have wanted the world to end, but what he really cared about was getting Drusilla back from Angel. As usual, he was motivated by love.
Unfortunately for him, it only sort of worked. He got Dru away, but she had lost interest in him. She could feel that his orbit had started to shift, and instead of pulling him in closer, she pushed him away. That led to his Season 3 drunk and depressed personality, and eventually to his Season 4 comic relief personality.
After losing the woman who had defined him, he lost the other thing that had defined him, the ability to kill humans. Violence is and has always been very important to Spike. With the chip in his head, he could pretty much only use words as weapons. He doesn’t want this to mean he has to change into a good guy, though, and initially plans to have little to know contact with the Scoobies. This fails pretty miserably.
A few failed attempts to get the chip out later, he has a sex where he admits his love to Buffy. The real shocker was that when he was awake, he couldn’t shake the confession off as just a dream. Of course, once he realizes he’s in love with her, he… pretty quickly flips around. Spike is absolutely no good at middle ground. He either despises her or he’s completely in love with her. He is never indifferent towards her. He can only possibly feel things strongly.
His love slowly leads to a pretty rocky redemption arc. Spike is still evil, so the only way he can love is selfishly. He wants Buffy by any means possible, and if that means causing trouble between Buffy and her current boyfriend, or chaining Buffy up and threatening to let Drusilla kill her if she doesn’t lead him on, well, he… doesn’t see the obvious problems here. It isn’t until he does something unselfish and hides Dawn’s keyness from Glory that Buffy even begins to be impressed by his actions.
He does, even early on, start showing signs of a sort of proto-guilt. When Drusilla kills a girl and hands her off to Spike, he hesitates before biting down. He is absolutely still evil. He isn’t guilty enough to really stop, or to stop Dru from killing the girl in the first place, and his morals at this point are more “Buffy wouldn’t like this” than “this is wrong,” but it is there. He’s slowly getting primed for redemption.
He promises Buffy he’ll protect Dawn before the final battle, and that promise is more than enough to make the fight worth it. Mind you, Spike’s life doesn’t mean that much to him. He’d rather live than die, but when the fight means anything to him, he’d rather die than lose. He’s incredibly competitive, especially with other men which is why most of his friends are women.
In Season 6 he finally gets Buffy, in the sexual sense at least, and proceeds to do absolutely everything he can to keep her. He tries to drag her down into the dark with him, and he doesn’t recognize that she’s using him. Or he does, but he doesn’t realize why it’s a bad thing. He gets to be with the woman he loves, and she gets mind-blowing sex. Where is the downside? But the relationship’s emotionally unfulfilling for both of them and the first time she really shows him respect is when she leaves him. He doesn’t understand that either and attempts to get her back, initially through more or less harmless whining and then by trying to force her. This is why safe words are important if you enjoy the no-no-no-yes-yes game and are sleeping with a soulless vampire who can’t tell the difference between a coy “stop that” and a screamed “stop that!” complete with struggling and kicking.
Anyway, he does snap out of it when she kicks him across the room, and he then basically… panics and leaves and is too distressed by what he tried to do to even drink. So he leaves to go get a soul. This leads to his “crazy in the basement” phase, followed by his “damsel in distress” phase followed by him slowly building himself back up to a hero until he reaches the point where he can selflessly sacrifice himself to save the world. He also blows up the town because Spike is just that destructive. He changes more over the course of the next few seasons of comics and television because he just doesn’t stay dead, but that is past his canon point so I won’t go into that too much.
Spike’s emotions are his strengths. He moves on instinct and feelings rather than logic, which tends to be a bad idea. He is incredibly loyal and dedicated and good at reading people. He’s also pretty good at putting things poetically when he’s talking casually, though he’s pretty crap at poetry when he… actually tries. He’s competitive and sarcastic and often an ass, and he can be incredibly manipulative when he has the patience to be so. He’s not good at planning and he’s not good at following through on his plans when he does. He’s fond of violence and bloodshed and destroying stuff and he likes eating human food even though he’s a vampire. He’s a rebel and a lover and a poet, and he fucks up more often than not, but when he cares about someone, he’ll be by their side forever. Literally. He’s a vampire.
First Person Sample: Spike and Buffy hang out on the porch and chat.
Third Person Sample: Spike vs Angel in the magic fairy woods. Plus, Buffyvention.