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» Name: Spike
» Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
» Reference: http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Spike
» Canon Point: Season 9, Issue 7
» Gender: M
» Age: We're never given an exact age, but he was turned into a vampire in 1880 when he was in his mid twenties. He still looks like he's in his mid-twenties, but since it's now 2012 (at his canon point), he's somewhere between 150 and 160.
CHARACTER INTERPRETATION
» Appearance: Spike’s most distinctive features are his cheekbones. They’re sharply defined, giving his face an almost skull-like shape. Physically he looks mid-twenties, and he will never look any older. His hair is naturally a light brown/dark blond, but he bleaches it white. He’s got blue eyes and a scar over one eyebrow. He’s of average height, though most of the men he spends time around are taller than him so he comes off as shorter than he is. He’s not bulky, but he is well muscled and lean. He’s all sharp lines and edges. He wears a lot of black. He looks like a Billy Idol impersonator, but actually, Billy Idol was a Spike impersonator. Spike had the look first.
Mostly he looks human, but when he feeds or wants to look intimidating, he can shift his features into a monstrous “game face.” His teeth all sharpen, especially his canines, and his forehead and nose wrinkle up. His eyebrows disappear and his eyes turn yellow.
» Suitability: N/A
» Orientation: Mostly heterosexual, with exceptions. He has canonly had sex with at least one male character, Angel, and considering how long he’s lived and how adventurous he tends to be, I wouldn’t be surprised if that wasn’t the only time. However, he’s really crazy about women. He’s been in love with two women, Drusilla and Buffy, and shagged a handful more that have been shown in canon. If he had the urge to shag a bloke, though, he wouldn’t be opposed. He’s pretty open minded that way. For him, it’s more about the person than the gender.
» Personality: Spike's life and personality tend to revolve around a woman. Though by his canon point, Spike's started to break away from that pattern a little bit, the most important person to him is still Buffy Summers. 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. 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 can get very obsessive, and he's a creepy stalker. Pre-soul, he couldn't tell the difference between healthy love and unhealthy love, and he couldn't keep himself from clinging to the unhealthy kind.
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 Spike had the big bad tough guy attitude. 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 no contact with the Scoobies. This fails pretty miserably.
A few failed attempts to get the chip out later, he has a dream where he kisses Buffy admits his love to her. 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 no good at middle ground. He either despises her or he’s completely in love with her. He is never indifferent towards her. This pattern is common to him. He never goes half way with feelings, or anything else for that matter.
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 the fact that Dawn’s is the Key Glory wants even in the face of torture 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. 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 and combative, especially with other men which is why he more easily makes friends with 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. 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. He couldn't, of course. She's far stronger than him, but that he even tried broke through even his skewed moral code and pointed out to him that he was, indeed, an evil, soulless monster who'd just hurt the woman he loved in a far, far worse way than when he'd tried to kill her. So he does the only thing he can do. He doesn't like what he is, so he changes. He goes to get a soul, and all the pain he caused came rushing back in with newfound awareness of exactly how bad it was.
The guilt drives him insane for a while, helped along by the First Evil, but with Buffy's help and support, he manages to get through it and reconcile his inner badass with his newfound qualms about hurting people. He even manages to grow into a real hero, sacrificing himself to save the world. All the support and heroics in the world couldn't change his newfound extremely low view of himself, though, and when Buffy tells him she loves him as the world burns up around them, he doesn't believe her, figuring instead that she's just telling him what he wants to hear.
He didn't end up staying dead, though. He came back in Los Angeles where he immediately took on a less tender and emotional personality than he had around Buffy. He isn't often comfortable showing that side of him, especially around Angel, who is now pretty much constantly around. Spike initially is incorporeal and bound to the city, so he doesn't have anywhere to go, and when he gets his flesh and blood back, he doesn't go to find Buffy because he's scared. Scared that he was right and she didn't mean it when she said he loved her, or that he was wrong and she did. Scared that he'll never live up to the heroic martyr that left her in a very literal blaze of glory. So he sticks around Los Angeles, playing hero, and eventually ends up loyal to Angel. Still sarcastic and an ass, of course, but loyal. The thing is, despite all the drama between them and all the pain, Angel's been in Spike's life longer than anyone, and they are the only two vampires with souls. Like it or not, they've got a bond, and that's part of why Spike sticks around, even though he loathes Angel at least half the time. It's also why he's the first to back Angel's incredibly suicidal plan. In a weird way, he trusts Angel. Though not when it comes to being anywhere near Buffy. Definitely no trust there.
He only returns to Buffy after a long stint of being on his own. He also got himself appointed king of a spaceship full of giant alien cockroaches. It (mostly) doesn't go to his head, but he ends up pretty attached to them, and when forced to spend a month flying back to Earth, he gives them all Earth names and bonds with their baby bugs and all of those things. Spike sometimes puts on a loner badass attitude, but the fact is, he craves the company of others. He doesn't do well being entirely on his own for too long. It's why even in Sunnydale, he made efforts to get in with Buffy's friends, though of course he'd never admit to having any interest in being part of the group.
Spike’s emotions are his strengths. He moves on instinct and feelings rather than logic, which is often a pretty bad idea. He is incredibly loyal and dedicated and good at reading people, except when it comes to their feelings on him. 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 and technically doesn't need it. 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 immortal.
» Name: Spike
» Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
» Reference: http://buffy.wikia.com/wiki/Spike
» Canon Point: Season 9, Issue 7
» Gender: M
» Age: We're never given an exact age, but he was turned into a vampire in 1880 when he was in his mid twenties. He still looks like he's in his mid-twenties, but since it's now 2012 (at his canon point), he's somewhere between 150 and 160.
CHARACTER INTERPRETATION
» Appearance: Spike’s most distinctive features are his cheekbones. They’re sharply defined, giving his face an almost skull-like shape. Physically he looks mid-twenties, and he will never look any older. His hair is naturally a light brown/dark blond, but he bleaches it white. He’s got blue eyes and a scar over one eyebrow. He’s of average height, though most of the men he spends time around are taller than him so he comes off as shorter than he is. He’s not bulky, but he is well muscled and lean. He’s all sharp lines and edges. He wears a lot of black. He looks like a Billy Idol impersonator, but actually, Billy Idol was a Spike impersonator. Spike had the look first.
Mostly he looks human, but when he feeds or wants to look intimidating, he can shift his features into a monstrous “game face.” His teeth all sharpen, especially his canines, and his forehead and nose wrinkle up. His eyebrows disappear and his eyes turn yellow.
» Suitability: N/A
» Orientation: Mostly heterosexual, with exceptions. He has canonly had sex with at least one male character, Angel, and considering how long he’s lived and how adventurous he tends to be, I wouldn’t be surprised if that wasn’t the only time. However, he’s really crazy about women. He’s been in love with two women, Drusilla and Buffy, and shagged a handful more that have been shown in canon. If he had the urge to shag a bloke, though, he wouldn’t be opposed. He’s pretty open minded that way. For him, it’s more about the person than the gender.
» Personality: Spike's life and personality tend to revolve around a woman. Though by his canon point, Spike's started to break away from that pattern a little bit, the most important person to him is still Buffy Summers. 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. 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 can get very obsessive, and he's a creepy stalker. Pre-soul, he couldn't tell the difference between healthy love and unhealthy love, and he couldn't keep himself from clinging to the unhealthy kind.
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 Spike had the big bad tough guy attitude. 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 no contact with the Scoobies. This fails pretty miserably.
A few failed attempts to get the chip out later, he has a dream where he kisses Buffy admits his love to her. 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 no good at middle ground. He either despises her or he’s completely in love with her. He is never indifferent towards her. This pattern is common to him. He never goes half way with feelings, or anything else for that matter.
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 the fact that Dawn’s is the Key Glory wants even in the face of torture 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. 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 and combative, especially with other men which is why he more easily makes friends with 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. 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. He couldn't, of course. She's far stronger than him, but that he even tried broke through even his skewed moral code and pointed out to him that he was, indeed, an evil, soulless monster who'd just hurt the woman he loved in a far, far worse way than when he'd tried to kill her. So he does the only thing he can do. He doesn't like what he is, so he changes. He goes to get a soul, and all the pain he caused came rushing back in with newfound awareness of exactly how bad it was.
The guilt drives him insane for a while, helped along by the First Evil, but with Buffy's help and support, he manages to get through it and reconcile his inner badass with his newfound qualms about hurting people. He even manages to grow into a real hero, sacrificing himself to save the world. All the support and heroics in the world couldn't change his newfound extremely low view of himself, though, and when Buffy tells him she loves him as the world burns up around them, he doesn't believe her, figuring instead that she's just telling him what he wants to hear.
He didn't end up staying dead, though. He came back in Los Angeles where he immediately took on a less tender and emotional personality than he had around Buffy. He isn't often comfortable showing that side of him, especially around Angel, who is now pretty much constantly around. Spike initially is incorporeal and bound to the city, so he doesn't have anywhere to go, and when he gets his flesh and blood back, he doesn't go to find Buffy because he's scared. Scared that he was right and she didn't mean it when she said he loved her, or that he was wrong and she did. Scared that he'll never live up to the heroic martyr that left her in a very literal blaze of glory. So he sticks around Los Angeles, playing hero, and eventually ends up loyal to Angel. Still sarcastic and an ass, of course, but loyal. The thing is, despite all the drama between them and all the pain, Angel's been in Spike's life longer than anyone, and they are the only two vampires with souls. Like it or not, they've got a bond, and that's part of why Spike sticks around, even though he loathes Angel at least half the time. It's also why he's the first to back Angel's incredibly suicidal plan. In a weird way, he trusts Angel. Though not when it comes to being anywhere near Buffy. Definitely no trust there.
He only returns to Buffy after a long stint of being on his own. He also got himself appointed king of a spaceship full of giant alien cockroaches. It (mostly) doesn't go to his head, but he ends up pretty attached to them, and when forced to spend a month flying back to Earth, he gives them all Earth names and bonds with their baby bugs and all of those things. Spike sometimes puts on a loner badass attitude, but the fact is, he craves the company of others. He doesn't do well being entirely on his own for too long. It's why even in Sunnydale, he made efforts to get in with Buffy's friends, though of course he'd never admit to having any interest in being part of the group.
Spike’s emotions are his strengths. He moves on instinct and feelings rather than logic, which is often a pretty bad idea. He is incredibly loyal and dedicated and good at reading people, except when it comes to their feelings on him. 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 and technically doesn't need it. 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 immortal.