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Spike | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | RESERVED | 2/3
Name: Spike
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, IDW & Darkhorse Comics
Gender: male
Age: ~157
Time Period: Spike IDW series (2010)
Wing Color: dark ivory
History:
- http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Spike
- http://www.fangedfour.com/deadboy/timeline.htm
- http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Spike_comics
Personality:
Spike as a character is one of the arcs that changes the most throughout canon, and continues to evolve despite canon point. 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 and beyond. 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 Spike 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 necessarily 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. 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.
In the comics following, he does regain a bit of his confidence, though it's mostly an act. He's still easily moved when his friend Jeremy dies, and is unwittingly used by Illyria and called her pet. And then when Angel swings back into town, literally (by knocking Spike out) he still goes along with the other vampire back to LA to help. Basically, no matter how badly he's burnt he comes back for more.
However, in the IDW Spike series, which is where I'm pulling him from, he does mature a bit. Jeremy comes back and some new characters are introduced and he really allows himself to admit for the first time (and perhaps because for the first time it's true) that he has friends. He even calls Willow for help and they have a side adventure together. Where before he would have been all about looking good for Buffy, he stresses that they keep it between them and that she didn't have to know about all this noble stuff he's been doing. Also, relevant, he loses his soul for an issue and gives it to Drusilla. Even soulless, he doesn't lose sight of himself or go crazy like Angel. He simply does what he has to do and only when he sees how much it pains Dru does he put it right. She isn't strong enough to carry a soul and he understood that, and still had empathy for her in that state.
It is often implied that Spike is "different" from all the other vampires. In Darkhorse's Spike & Dru series, it's inferred that not only Drusilla but Angel also actively sired William. While it's unclear, either because of how fractured Dru herself is, or because Angelus too is within him, Spike does often diverge from other vampires even before his soul and even long before the chip. He enjoys human pleasures like warm showers and hot food. He loves pizza and hot wings and beer and all manner of gross junk food. Most vampires find human food tasteless or simply a waste of their time since it doesn't actually give them energy or do anything for them biologically. In "I will remember you" Angel gains his humanity back briefly and is suddenly struck with the desire to eat the most food ever, but as a vampire he often sideeyes Spike's choice to eat things that aren't blood. Though lots of other vampires do drink alcohol.
Also to be noted is Spike's empathy which is much stronger than any other demons seem to be. He just generally cares where other creatures of the night would not. He falls in love with Buffy long before he ever gets his chip or even starts defecting to the good side. And it's often heavily implied that vampires don't so much feel love as they do devotion and codependency. While Spike obviously is skilled in the art of both, he also loves and always has done. This is revealed in full in "Lies My Parents Told Me" when shortly after being turned, William turns his mother so that she can be healthy and they can stay together always. Her personality obviously did not remain as well intact as his, and he is forced to stake her. All-in-all, Spike is a self-flaggellating dumbass who uses sarcasm and deflection to cover up the many many feelings he hides just below the surface.
Strengths:
- He doesn't age.
- He heals rapidly. (but he can scar as evidenced by the scar over his eyebrow).
- 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 armed/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.
Those are all of his ~abilities which would be toned down in Luceti as I understand it. As for the rest, and all of this was mentioned in personality section, but he is extremely noble to a fault. Which can be a strength and a weakness. Most of his strengths really, could also be described that way and so I will expound on them below.
Weaknesses:
- 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.
- As mentioned in his personality, he's weak to his friends/love interests/anyone he cares about. He'll basically do anything for them.
Spike acts before thinking and can be extremely rash, especially to save the day or to intervene when someone or something he cares about is threatened. He can also be very prideful and his low self-esteem can cause trouble for him. Basically, 98% of all of his trouble starts within. But there is still a good 2% that is just people out to kill him and what not, and his famously bad luck. Also a weakness, I suppose.
He is also very cliche in that if ever there is a woman in danger he is so all over that even if he makes fun of Angel when he does the same. Though most of the time Spike's intentions are entirely pure when it comes to Buffy that all goes out the window. That is because Buffy Summers is Spike's greatest weakness of all. He would do anything anything for her, and no matter how much pain or conflict she inspires within him he will always be on her side and stand up for her.
It should also be noted that anyone who pays attention to Spike or is generally nice to him also he is almost guaranteed to develop a weakness for, especially if they are female and even more especially if they are younger girls. This isn't creepy I swear. It really is more of a mentor role than anything and he's generally not interested in people for just sex though it has been known to happen - he's very much like a girl in that the whole one night stand thing is not something he aims for. Spike is very much a serial monogamist.
Mostly people (creatures) in need top the list always as we see when Spike becomes the king of his very own bug spaceship. They all respect him and immediately Spike is all about helping them. He really is a painfully nice guy under all the hardened veneer he builds up around himself, and allows himself to be used again and again by women and others alike.