Name: Saralinda Livejournal/Dreamwidth Username: bricks_and_bones E-mail: saralindajones@gmail.com Plurk: manicmanic Current Characters at Luceti: Captain Jack Sparrow
Character
Name: Drusilla Fandom: BTVS Gender: Female Age: b. 1840; is physically 20 years old, though she has lived over 100 as a vampire. Time Period: Just after BTVS E2S10, "What's My Line Pt. 2" -- after Dru has freed Spike from the rubble and is carrying him out. Wing Color: Black with white tips, like the most evil French manicure ever. History: Drusilla's history here
Personality:
Insane: Angel did not just turn Drusilla into a vampire; he also made it his mission to break her mentally and emotionally. She was tortured into insanity before he sired her; Angel forced her to watch him kill off her family and a convent of nuns one by one.
Her insanity manifests in her body language to a great extent. Drusilla alternately moves about like a small, innocent child -- cradling a doll, or caring for a dead pet bird -- cocking her head to the side inquisitively, or pouting. She can turn instantaneously into an insatiable animal in her behaviors, weaving like a cobra or snarling like a dog.
This is especially seen when she kills Kendra in Becoming Part II: she lures the slayer into a trance with her snakelike movements, fascinating Kendra before slicing her throat with her fingernails.
Body language cues for insanity also include waving, ethereal, and quite graceful movements of her head, neck, arms, hands, and fingers. She can sway as beautifully as a tree in the wind, eyes closed, head thrown back in a kind of inner ecstasy that only she understands. But Dru also can have a purposeful strut and cadence to her walk, and can use her hands in a puppetlike manner -- playful and macabre. When she is upset she moans, with eyes wide and unblinking and shuddering hands.
Primarily, though, Drusilla's insanity shines through in her macabre language and manner of speaking. While she sometimes speaks lucidly to Spike (it has been noted in the BTVS wiki that it is to Spike alone that this more direct way of speaking occurs), for the most part her language is a mixture of horrors and corrupted innocence. Sing-song cadences, whispering, animal-like noises when she is agitated (whimpers, growls, snarls), and childish pouting are some of the tones her voice takes. Every word is that of a twisted child, packed with violence, lust, and odd infantile imagery. Her language reveals that she sees the world through a dark, warped mirror.
For example, in What's My Line (s2e11) she reminisces fondly about the worms in her baguette. She might call Angel "Naughty daddy!" (What's My Line). In this episode she is referred to as a "murderous child."
Ultimately, Dru's insanity twists her into a vicious monster. She enjoys torture, as in "What's My Line" when she tortures Angel with holy water. While burning him with the water, she whispers to him of his crimes against her before he sired her. I don't believe she does this because she holds a grudge about that time, necessarily. I think she's been twisted beyond caring about her murdered family. Perhaps a kind of anger about his torment of her lurks somewhere far below all the other insane layers, but here, primarily, it was a delicious psychological torture for the souled-and-sensitive Angel: his masterpiece biting back.
Stickler for Vampire Traditions: In ATS "Reunion" (S2), Angel refers to Drusilla as a "classicist," and insists that she has a high regard for performing the ceremony of raising Darla in accordance to tradition: that is, she wants to bury the other woman and celebrate her vampirism as a "rebirth." This is perhaps a twist on Dru's piety and careful adherence to Catholic traditions before she was turned. Therefore, should Drusilla attempt to turn anyone into a vampire (with player permission of course), it will be done in the most proper way possible, with a full burial and a grave.
Family Matters: Drusilla, as I mention in the Strengths/Weaknesses section of this app, is always at her strongest as part of a group. Her "family" for many years are Spike, Angel, and Darla, and in ATS she is shown to be quite motivated to reunite that family. This of course is ironic, considering it was Darla and Angel who plotted to kill off her real family in the first place. In Luceti, Dru will probably gravitate toward characters who can provide that "family" unit that she thrives on.
Sexual Appetite/Torturer: We know that before she was turned, Dru was the picture of sexual innocence and purity. Angel's goal was to completely corrupt her into "his masterpiece," and that is what he did, turning that innocence into depravity. His last act of torture was to have sex with Darla in front of the traumatized Drusilla.
This seems to have had a large impact on her personality as a vampire. She is sexually promiscuous and is not above sleeping around. In fact, at one point she has sex with Angel behind Spike's back; later, after she and Spike flee to South America, she has an affair with a chaos demon.
She has been described in the wiki as relatively affectionate for a vampire and is very touchy-feely. This can be seen in nearly any scene with her longtime lover, Spike: the two are usually all over each other with kisses and caresses in Season 2 of BTVS. Dru exhibits this behavior to her victims as well as loved ones, as seen in the Angel torture-scene, where she caresses him as she burns him.
Dru also uses psychological torture to get to Giles, causing him to see her as Jenny Calendar and thus reveal the secret of how to continue with the ritual of Acathla in "Becoming." Therefore, her insanity does not have a bearing on her intelligence. She tortured him with a vision of his lost love and got the information Angelus needed to end the world.
Drusilla is famous for preying on the most innocent and weak. She is fond of killing children. This will honestly be the most difficult part of the character for me and I have no intention of having her kill or harm any children in Luceti. I'm not willing to go that far with the character.
General info & Personality
Name: Saralinda
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Current Characters at Luceti: Captain Jack Sparrow
Character
Name: Drusilla
Fandom: BTVS
Gender: Female
Age: b. 1840; is physically 20 years old, though she has lived over 100 as a vampire.
Time Period: Just after BTVS E2S10, "What's My Line Pt. 2" -- after Dru has freed Spike from the rubble and is carrying him out.
Wing Color: Black with white tips, like the most evil French manicure ever.
History: Drusilla's history here
Personality:
Insane: Angel did not just turn Drusilla into a vampire; he also made it his mission to break her mentally and emotionally. She was tortured into insanity before he sired her; Angel forced her to watch him kill off her family and a convent of nuns one by one.
Her insanity manifests in her body language to a great extent. Drusilla alternately moves about like a small, innocent child -- cradling a doll, or caring for a dead pet bird -- cocking her head to the side inquisitively, or pouting. She can turn instantaneously into an insatiable animal in her behaviors, weaving like a cobra or snarling like a dog.
This is especially seen when she kills Kendra in Becoming Part II: she lures the slayer into a trance with her snakelike movements, fascinating Kendra before slicing her throat with her fingernails.
Body language cues for insanity also include waving, ethereal, and quite graceful movements of her head, neck, arms, hands, and fingers. She can sway as beautifully as a tree in the wind, eyes closed, head thrown back in a kind of inner ecstasy that only she understands. But Dru also can have a purposeful strut and cadence to her walk, and can use her hands in a puppetlike manner -- playful and macabre. When she is upset she moans, with eyes wide and unblinking and shuddering hands.
Primarily, though, Drusilla's insanity shines through in her macabre language and manner of speaking. While she sometimes speaks lucidly to Spike (it has been noted in the BTVS wiki that it is to Spike alone that this more direct way of speaking occurs), for the most part her language is a mixture of horrors and corrupted innocence. Sing-song cadences, whispering, animal-like noises when she is agitated (whimpers, growls, snarls), and childish pouting are some of the tones her voice takes. Every word is that of a twisted child, packed with violence, lust, and odd infantile imagery. Her language reveals that she sees the world through a dark, warped mirror.
For example, in What's My Line (s2e11) she reminisces fondly about the worms in her baguette. She might call Angel "Naughty daddy!" (What's My Line). In this episode she is referred to as a "murderous child."
Ultimately, Dru's insanity twists her into a vicious monster. She enjoys torture, as in "What's My Line" when she tortures Angel with holy water. While burning him with the water, she whispers to him of his crimes against her before he sired her. I don't believe she does this because she holds a grudge about that time, necessarily. I think she's been twisted beyond caring about her murdered family. Perhaps a kind of anger about his torment of her lurks somewhere far below all the other insane layers, but here, primarily, it was a delicious psychological torture for the souled-and-sensitive Angel: his masterpiece biting back.
Stickler for Vampire Traditions: In ATS "Reunion" (S2), Angel refers to Drusilla as a "classicist," and insists that she has a high regard for performing the ceremony of raising Darla in accordance to tradition: that is, she wants to bury the other woman and celebrate her vampirism as a "rebirth." This is perhaps a twist on Dru's piety and careful adherence to Catholic traditions before she was turned. Therefore, should Drusilla attempt to turn anyone into a vampire (with player permission of course), it will be done in the most proper way possible, with a full burial and a grave.
Family Matters: Drusilla, as I mention in the Strengths/Weaknesses section of this app, is always at her strongest as part of a group. Her "family" for many years are Spike, Angel, and Darla, and in ATS she is shown to be quite motivated to reunite that family. This of course is ironic, considering it was Darla and Angel who plotted to kill off her real family in the first place. In Luceti, Dru will probably gravitate toward characters who can provide that "family" unit that she thrives on.
Sexual Appetite/Torturer: We know that before she was turned, Dru was the picture of sexual innocence and purity. Angel's goal was to completely corrupt her into "his masterpiece," and that is what he did, turning that innocence into depravity. His last act of torture was to have sex with Darla in front of the traumatized Drusilla.
This seems to have had a large impact on her personality as a vampire. She is sexually promiscuous and is not above sleeping around. In fact, at one point she has sex with Angel behind Spike's back; later, after she and Spike flee to South America, she has an affair with a chaos demon.
She has been described in the wiki as relatively affectionate for a vampire and is very touchy-feely. This can be seen in nearly any scene with her longtime lover, Spike: the two are usually all over each other with kisses and caresses in Season 2 of BTVS. Dru exhibits this behavior to her victims as well as loved ones, as seen in the Angel torture-scene, where she caresses him as she burns him.
Dru also uses psychological torture to get to Giles, causing him to see her as Jenny Calendar and thus reveal the secret of how to continue with the ritual of Acathla in "Becoming." Therefore, her insanity does not have a bearing on her intelligence. She tortured him with a vision of his lost love and got the information Angelus needed to end the world.
Drusilla is famous for preying on the most innocent and weak. She is fond of killing children. This will honestly be the most difficult part of the character for me and I have no intention of having her kill or harm any children in Luceti. I'm not willing to go that far with the character.