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Spike began life as an aspiring poet in Victorian England as William Pratt. He was nicknamed William the Awful because his poems were “bloody awful”. At some point William was turned into a vampire by Druscilla. Together they were a vicious pair and often traveled with Druscilla’s maker Angelus, and Angelus’ maker Darla.

He arrived in Sunnyvale with Druscilla in 1997 with the goal of achieving a “hat trick” - to kill his 3rd slayer (having killed a Slayer in China in 1900, and another in NYC in 1977.

James Marsters as Spike quickly became a fan favorite on the show. He went on to have one of the most interesting arcs. At first Spike was an antagonist of Buffy, wanting to kill her. Soon they became frenemies, then uneasy allies. Then the unthinkable happened, Spike began to fall in love with Buffy! To prove his worth to her, he was able to earn back his human soul. In the end, Spike sacrifices himself for his love of Buffy.

In the “Angel” spinoff series, Spije is resurrected but that’s an entirely different story.

#btvs#Spike#william the bloody#William Pratt#Angelus#Drusilla#James Marsters
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Before Angelus regained his soul and became Angel, he was a vicious and sadistic vampire. Case in point... Drusilla.

In 1860 Angelus became obsessed with Drusilla, a young Catholic woman who lived with her parents. She has latent psychic abilities and was afraid it made her evil. Angelus tortured and killed Drusilla's entire family. Nearly mad with fear and grief, she fled to a convent. But Angelus followed and made

her watch as he killed everyone staying at the convent.

Unable to endure the trans, Drusilla wished for death, but Angelus thought that would be too kind. Better to sire her as a vampire and make her endure the pain as an immortal.

Drusilla’s new vampiric demon self retain a bit of her human madness.

Drusilla was played by Juliet Landau. Her father Martin Landau plays Dracula in a touring production of the stage play.

#btvs#Angelus#Drusilla#Juliet Landau
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This is probably another of one those “me overthinking things” moments, but I love how Drusilla tilts her head up for a kiss before Spike initiates it. It was very probably unintentional, but I’m taking this as a nice nod to Drusilla’s psychic abilities. She doesn’t seem to be very aware of her surroundings at the moment, but she can still see the future and read minds, therefore can anticipate actions.

Which leads me to Spike and Drusilla’s relationship. A lot of the fandom seems to be of either two minds about Sprusilla: either Drusilla is a helpless, fragile (yet somehow still selfish and ungrateful??) child that Spike needs to take of*, or a conniving, manipulative villain who “controls” Spike. While I agree that their dynamic is messed up and obviously not a healthy role model for others, the relationship itself doesn’t seem to suffer from any, or at the very least consistent, power imbalances. It’s…an interesting one.

Juliet Landau has mentioned in several interviews that Drusilla is never as she outwardly appears. She’s a person who’s always in control and has her own motives. She’s…”diabolical”. JL and JM both agreed that Drusilla was the “Sid”, the man who killed Nancy, in the Sid/Nancy relationship. Despite being an abuse victim who is sick for half of Season 2, she’s still largely in control because of her psychic abilities. If she knows what’s going to happen at mostly all times, she doesn’t “really” live under Spike’s thumb. Drusilla requires a lot of physical and emotional care, and Spike is the one who frequently brings her back to reality when she becomes dissociated, but she is still very aware of what’s going to come and what’s on people’s minds. Her being physically and mentally weaker than Spike would still be a problem, but Spike doesn’t seem to wish to control her, or make her do something she doesn’t want to do. Anytime she wants something or to do something, he supports her, even if he’s not really into it himself (her “party” in Surprise, for example). The only exception to this, would be of course when he betrays her and kidnaps her in Becoming Part 2. Which is, in fact, the final straw for the two of them, and Drusilla is the one who breaks things off and moves on. The episode is actually interesting because this would technically be the only situation where Spike could go behind Drusilla’s back and her not know about it. Drusilla was able to foresee a mess-up in Angelus’s plans in Passion, but since Spike made a truce with the Slayer, a person Drusilla stated she couldn’t see in School Hard, she remained in the dark about his plans.**

As for Spike, he also relies on Drusilla for care and emotional support, like in School Hard after his fight with Buffy. In the first half of Season 2 it’s Spike taking care of Drusilla and soothing her during her “moods”, and then the roles are switched in the last half of Season 2 when Spike becomes confined to a wheelchair. While Angelus does eventually come along and messes with things between them, up until that point Drusilla is very supportive and attentive. Which is…pretty impressive considering it’s a disabled person being taken care of by a woman with severe mental problems. He’s broken and humiliated at what the Slayer did to him, and is not in the mood to stay any longer and “party”, but Drusilla reassures him and cheers him up, which puts him back into supportive boyfriend mode.

So there isn’t really a “type” of dynamic that Drusilla and Spike have, because it changes frequently.  

*either that or Spike abuses and controls Drusilla completely without her consent

**I do realize there is some flaw in this headcanon because Drusilla was able to see what is in store for Buffy in Lie to Me and Surprise, but whatever I’m just trying to make sense of things!

#btvs#Spike and Dru#Drusilla#Spike x Drusilla#Sprusilla