Introducing Spike!
Yes... I did it again. I was nattering with Aly and mentioned that I would love to try out Spike, that I never played him before but that I would love to try it out. Before I knew what happened I found that I actually do own an inner-Spike.
So, I might mess up... but I am still going to try and play the Big Bad! :)
For those of you who don't know much about the Slayer-verse, this *points up* is Spike. He is a vampire.
Vampires in the world of Josh Whedon are a little different from other Vampires. They are in a way more demonic, they look like 'normal' humans but when they attack/feed they show their real face. *points down*
The Watchers say that vampires, when they get turned loose their soul, making them evil and that one of the most evil (despide his relative youth) is Spike. He killed two slayers in his time, one during the Boxer Rebellion in China and one in New York in 1977. Buffy should, in his opinion, be the third slayer to kill. He never gets around to that though.
When you get to know Spike you will realize that the Watchers are not completely right, he might enjoy killing a lot, he just sees it as his right as a predator. Humans are tasty Happy Meals on legs. He does help Buffy to stop Angelus end the world for a few reasons, the most important one Drusilla but a good second is that a world without humans is a world without food.
Spike goes by a few names, his birth name is William Pratt, his birthdate is not really known because he really does not care about his time as WIlliam (which he calls a ponce). Once he says he is 126 but that is not true, because if you count back he would have been 6 when he was turned, which he obviously was not. William Pratt is probably born in the early 1850s. He gets turned in 1880, and before that happens his name was already William the Bloody Awful Poet. True, he was not a great poet but the fact that he was a mommy's boy who never stood up for himself made it easy for his peers to bully him and give him that horrid name. The night Drusilla found him he was, again, ignored by the woman of his dreams Cecily (he does not know that Cecily is not even human but a vengeance demon, I take him from a place in time that he still does not know that).
He does not like the name William mostly because he does not like the person he was and there are not many who use it (mostly just Angel to annoy Spike), he picked the name Spike himself and he gets known as William the Bloody because the Watchers do not know what it is short off and think he is named that way because he sheds a lot of blood. Spike never sees the need to change that. He picked Spike because he loves using railroad spikes to torture his victims. He also named himself the Big Bad and acts like that even when he can no longer kill because of the chip.
I do not like the Buffy/Spike-ship, that means that I take him from just before he falls in love with her, that makes it end 1999. This means that the Initiative (a rogue part of the US Army) did happen, the chip that stops him from hurting humans is in his brain, being tied to Giles' bathtub happened and Willow's spell that make Buffy and Spike plan their wedding also happened (he still has nightmares from that last one)... but he did not fall in love with her after though... this game saves him from that. He does know about Dawn though, she appeared just before Spike in cannon falls for Buffy, so he thinks (like everybody else) that Dawn is supposed to be there and is Buffy's sister, he comes to this game before they figure out that Dawn is the Key, he never met Glory.
Back to the topic of his soul, he might not have a conscience but he does love, which makes me think that he does have a soul and that it is more the conscience and guilt vamps loose, Spike does not agree with me though. He does not mind being called a soulless monster or demon, he even point out that he is a vampire when the slayer and her friends are surprised that he doesn't jump for joy about helping them fight demons. When they question him about that he usually just answers with a simple "Vampire" and a raised eyebrow. And tries to convince them that he only helps because he needs the money, whiskey or smokes, we all know that deep down he cares for the Scoobies - lol
He refers to himself as Love's Bitch and he has spend over a century with Drusilla caring for her and loving her even though she is not that faithful to him. She dumps him for a slimy chaos demon because he reeks of humanity and slayer. She does this after he worked together with Buffy to stop Angelus end the world even though he did that mostly to safe Dru, to get her out safely so she can heal. Trying to win her back is the reason he returned to Sunnydale and got captured by the Initiative.
What does this all mean for the Spike you get to see? Well, he has an attitude, he thinks he is the Big Bad and he acts that way, but he still is Love's Bitch and he will not be able to escape that one. The chip makes that he can't hurt humans, can't bite them but he can hurt anything that is not completely human. Because the whole Buffy-disaster did not happen he never went to Africa to fight to get his 'soul' back, you'll get Spike in full snark-mode, who likes a good fight and gets cranky if he misses an episode of his favorite daytime soap Passions.
I am not going to try to write the way Spike talks, I will of course use the British words he uses a lot but I am not going to even try to write out his accent.
I know I promised Julie not to write a book about Spike... but I think I kind of did... Sorry... ;) I hope I made sense though.