Bete Noire App
1. Player Information
Name (or internet handle): Shana
Current characters in Bete Noire: N/A
2. Character Information
Name: Spike
Livejournal Username: breakmychest
Fandom: Buffyverse AU: Wishverse
Image: http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/99676717/25446663
Reserve: Here.
3. Character Information II
Age/Appearance: Spike is a little bit under 150. He was turned in 1880 and appears to be in his late twenties, but the only exact age that was given conflicts with those dates, making it difficult to get an exact age. He's a few inches short of six feet and thin, though very muscular. He has bleached blond hair and incredibly striking cheekbones. He has a scar over his left eyebrow and blue eyes. He usually wears lots of black and a long leather duster he stole off the Slayer Nikki Wood.
History: Right here.
The difference between his history and the one presented here is that after Drusilla is injured in Prague, instead of heading to Sunnydale, he goes to Cleveland. Sunnydale is under the control of the Master, and Spike would rather not deal with him. There's a Hellmouth in Cleveland as well, though, and a Slayer, and Spike believes her blood and the Hellmouth's energy could help heal Drusilla.
Instead, Drusilla goes off on her own one day and feeds on Joyce Summers. Spike didn't know the woman was Buffy's mother, though Drusilla might have. Buffy arrives just in time to see her mother's body fall to the ground and stakes Drusilla. Spike catches up as Drusilla fades away into dust. He attacks Buffy in rage, and they start to fight, but before either can win the sun rises and Spike has to retreat into cover.
They fight on and off for a while, until one night Spike goes out looking for Buffy to fight her yet again and finds her gone. Luckily he's good at tracking people, and a bit of detective work gets him on the road to Sunnydale. And then he ends up in Bete Noire instead.
Personality: To sire someone, a vampire first drains the victim's blood, then feeds him some of her own blood. It's not a very difficult process. You kill them, they rise again. Then they become an entirely different being, with, in theory, at least, very few ties to their former self. Sure, they retain all their human memories, but love, affection, all those human feelings? They're gone.
Spike doesn't quite fit the pattern. From the start, he was different. Like many vampires, he killed his mother, but it was because he thought turning her into a vampire was a good way to save her life. He retained his human devotion and love. After staking his mother, he goes on to love Drusilla passionately. Though he's not the only vampire to ever have a monogamous relationship or some sort of love for another vampire, he is much more human about his devotion in a way that traces back to when he was human. He tends to revolve around people and emotional ties, treasuring bonds to the point that he'd rather die than betray someone he cares about. He doesn't do anything in halves, so he can't just like someone, he has to love them completely and fully and with every fiber of his being. He may not write poems once he becomes a vampire, but he's still prone to being overdramatic and doing grand gestures to profess his love.
He also really enjoys eating food. Most vampires can't taste things other than blood, but Spike can. He eats cookies, hot chocolate, blossoming onions, and spicy buffalo wings to name a few examples, plus he often adds spices or wheetabix to his blood to make it more interesting or textured. He's very creative with his food. Though canon has never explicitly stated it, I like to think that Drusilla, crazy as she is, messed up a little when she turned him and his taste buds didn't entirely die.
His thoughts about Drusilla will always be tinged with love and regret. She was the first woman he loved, and Spike doesn't stop loving people. She was his everything, and everything he did he did for her. She's why he became the mass-murdering vampire he was for a century. He caused destruction and murder because he knew it would make her happy. But she didn't love him the same way. It was a game for her, and although she enjoyed having someone care for her that much, she didn't hesitate to go back to Angelus the second it's an option. He may have some idea, deep inside him, that she was only his as long as it was entertaining to her, but he loves her so much that he can't believe she doesn't return his feelings. He can sometimes be blinded by his own devotion and convinced that feelings are there when they aren't really. It's part wistful thinking, part convincing himself, part following his instinct and believing it won't lead him wrong.
Angelus had Drusilla long before Spike had even died, and it's something Spike can never forget. The two of them didn't always fight, in fact, they used to get along really well. Spike idolized Angelus and learned everything the older vampire was willing to teach. In a way, those feelings never went away. Even now that Angel is locked up in a cage with a soul, Spike still would want his approval. He'd never admit looking up to him, of course, and he certainly also resents him a lot, but there is hidden respect. It's very deeply hidden. Before he goes good, he resents Angelus for stealing Drusilla from him, and he resents Angel for betraying their little family, and evil in general. He also tends to end up in Angel's shadow no matter what he does.
This leads to lots of bickering. When these two badass vampires who have lived for 150ish and 270ish years respectively are put in a room together, they both act like they are 12. They bicker and fight over everything from women to who's eviler to who would win in a fight between cavemen and astronauts. They are complete idiots around each other and fantastic at pushing each other's buttons. They've just known each other so long that it's easy. Spike doesn't even know exactly how he feels about Angel. He can switch from bickering to fighting alongside Angel at the drop of a hat, and his emotions often vary between jealousy and loathing, admiration and tentative friendship. Angel's done a lot of things he can't forgive, but Spike's done a lot of bad things to Angel as well, not to mention to the rest of the world.
Spike is fairly masochistic in who he falls for. His first love was a disguised vengeance demon and a complete bitch who cruelly told him he was beneath her when he professed his love. His second love was the woman who killed him. In canon, his third love is the woman who beats him up a lot. Of course, at first it's not love so much as a general strong emotional reaction. He enjoys fighting her and relishes the challenge. He's already fond of fighting slayers, but this one's challenging him more than the previous two do. Leaving her alive, even for Dru's sake, conflicted with everything he'd done before.
Spike didn't think much about good and evil before he met Buffy. He knew in a vague way that he was evil, but he didn't think much about his victims. He knew he hurt people, of course, but he didn't go deeper into it than that. It was all fun. He enjoyed the thrill of killing and fighting and eating people and didn't think about their families or the future lives he cut short.
Spike is very monogamous. In Wishverse, the only person he has slept with besides Drusilla is Angel, and that was only the once. He feels most comfortable within the bounds of some sort of relationship, though it does not have to be conventional. He likes cherishing someone above all others and doing everything for her. He would never cheat on someone he was dating because he has been there, and it hurts a lot. Plus, he wouldn't want to cheat. When he's in a relationship, he doesn't want anyone else.
Spike has been obsessed with Slayers since he first heard about them. They represent the ultimate challenge for a vampire. Spike has killed two. The first one was mostly luck. If things had gone slightly differently, she would have killed him, and she did leave him with a scar. When he fought the second he was better at fighting, but he still went in not knowing if he'd win. Fighting is always a thrill for Spike, and no one's more fun than a Slayer. Plus, the blood tastes better than normal blood. Buffy was meant to be his third Slayer, but it really didn't work out the way he'd planned.
He tells Buffy at one point in canon that every Slayer has a death wish. It might be true, but really, it's Spike who acts like he doesn't care whether he lives or dies. He consistently throws himself at more powerful opponents and keeps getting up for more punishment when staying down could spare him pain. When Glory tortures him for information about Dawn in canon, not only does he not tell her, he openly mocks her. It doesn't matter how outmatched he is, Spike tackles every battle with sarcastic quips and unbridled enthusiasm. He isn't really afraid of anything physical, as he'll heal from almost any wound. He doesn't care if he wins or loses the fight, it's the thrill of battle he craves. When he gets older, he gets more careful and better at purposefully not dying, but he still wouldn't hesitate to die for someone he loved. In Wishverse, he's all but lost his will to live. His mission to kill Buffy is the only reason he doesn't let himself die in some particularly idiotic way.
As a human, William was an outsider. Spike is an outsider too, but mostly by choice. He doesn't follow rules or orders unless they're set by someone he actually respects, and even then, he only does it if he feels like it. He's a vampire, and that means he doesn't need to worry about what anyone thinks of him. He curses and drinks, fights and loves, and always looks to have a good time. In his first episode, he takes over the main Sunnydale vampire nest and tells the other vampires that under him, "we're gonna have a little less ritual, and a little more fun around here." He enjoys what he does.
He's always sarcastic and witty. He doesn't hesitate to speak his mind or insult people. He often refers to people by nicknames either to show affection or mock. He's very good at reading people and seeing what's going on, even when they can't tell themselves. This power completely vanishes when relating to himself, of course. He can makes plans, but he rarely has the patience to follow through with them. He acts on instinct rather than logic. In Touched, he says, "I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain, so I make a lot of mistakes." Spike does what feels right, and if he's wrong, he gets up and tries again.
Spike is a study in contradictions. He's a fighter and a lover, he swears and uses eloquent metaphors, he's sometimes pragmatic and often romantic, and he always burns with passion. He's loud and brash and doesn't do anything part-way. He believes in true love and happy endings, even if in his darker days, he doesn't think they'll happen. No matter how hard he tries to hide it, the poet inside him never completely died.
In the normal universe, Spike has a bit of a fire inside him, a passion that shines through and makes him seem more alive than most humans. Wishverse Spike has none of that.
Spike's greatest strength and weakness has always been his capacity to love. He stood by Drusilla's side for a century, and though she was not always faithful to him, his loyalty never wavered. In the normal universe, he later shows the same loyalty to Buffy. When Spike is in love, nothing else matters. The object of his affections becomes his world, and he'll do anything to please them and make them his.
But making someone your entire world can be dangerous, too. When Drusilla dumps Spike, he loses himself in drink and ends up driving back to Sunnydale, resorting to magic and torture to try and get her back. When it doesn't work, he rebounds with Harmony, a vampire who annoys him to no end. From the surface it looks like he handles Buffy's death better, but that is pretty clearly just a surface view. He takes care of Dawn and helps the Scoobies patrol, but he is tense, snapping at Dawn when she suggests he stops babysitting her and counting the days she's been gone. If he hadn't sworn to protect Dawn until the end of the world, he likely would have walked into the sunshine himself rather than face life without Buffy.
In Wishverse, Drusilla is dead. There isn't even that slim hope that someday, he'll get her back, she's just gone. And with her goes Spike's world. If he stayed around long enough to get through the pain, it's possible he could someday move on, but he doesn't want to. Without Drusilla, life is meaningless. The only reason he hasn't killed himself in this world is that he wants to first kill the one that slayed her: Buffy Summers.
In the original universe, Spike is often distractible, making up plans and discarding them due to impatience and boredom. He's a wildcard who follows his own rules and constantly surprises people. He's immortal, so he doesn't worry about being careful. This Spike isn't particularly careful, but that’s because he doesn't care if he lives or dies. Distraction and impatience are for people who have more than one thing on their mind. Spike's only goal in life right now is to kill Buffy. Once that happens, he'll have no reason to keep on going.
And yet, Spike is also a survivor. He wants Buffy dead. He wants to kill her. But the part of him that wants to keep on living despite Drusilla being gone makes him hesitate when he should strike and miss easy shots. He doesn't want the dance to end entirely. He isn't quite ready to let go. It's not enough of a conscious thought for him to acknowledge it, and if he did, he'd feel like he was betraying Drusilla. But it's there, and it's part of the reason he hasn't defeated Buffy yet, or given up and let her defeat him.
Sexual Preferences/Orientation: Spike enjoys sex a lot. As a human, he never had it. Once he died, though, he learned how much fun it could be and he and Drusilla shagged a lot. Drusilla was the only woman he slept with, though, as he is extremely monogamous when he's in love. He's mostly heterosexual, but far from opposed to sleeping with a man if it feels right and has, in fact, slept with Angel. With Drusilla dead, he can sleep around, but if he falls for someone new, that will stop.
Powers: As a vampire, he's got enhanced strength and speed. He's immortal and unaging, though a stake through the heart, decapitation, fire, or sunlight can kill him. His senses are better than human, especially his sense of smell. He's really good at fighting in various martial art styles. He's written poetry, but not very well. He can come up with good plans, but he rarely has the patience to carry them out. He's good at adapting. He can withstand a lot of pain. He's pretty good at using technology. He's good at various criminal abilities such as pick-pocketing, picking locks, and hotwiring cars.
Reason for playing: I have lots of experience playing Spike at many different canon points. He's particularly fun because of how different he is every single season. I find it fascinating and hilarious. The Season 3 episode "The Wish" is one of my favorites because it introduces a canon AU. Though Spike does not appear in that episode, I have put a lot of time into thinking about how his history would have changed to accommodate the other world changes. I've played around with this version of Spike a few times, and it's a lot of fun. He's a lot darker than canon Spike due to the death of his girlfriend by Buffy's hand. From what I've seen of the premise and plot of BN, it seemed like a good fit.
5. Samples
First-Person: Dear_Mun post.
Third-Person: Sunnydale. It sounded like a cute little suburb with plump babies and soccer moms and good weather. It didn't sound like a vampire's paradise. Sun and vampires didn't exactly get along famously. But vampire paradise was exactly what it was, to anyone in the know.
Spike had always avoided it in the past. He had family there, and though he'd only met the Master a few times, Spike hadn't liked the bastard much then, and he really doubted that opinion was ever going to change. The old wanker was obsessed with vampire traditions and ritual and all those other things that made Spike want to stake himself. Besides, paradise sounded right boring when you thought about it. Spike liked the hunt. He enjoyed it when his prey had a bit of fight left in them.
But it was where his prey was headed now, and she had far more than a bit of fight left in her. The bloody Slayer. If she thought she could run away from him by leaving town, she clearly hadn't learned anything about him. Spike was ruthless and determined, and once he set his mind on something, he didn't quit until he had it. Or he was dust, he supposed, but so far that hadn't happened. He'd set his mind on killing the Slayer. He'd brave his great-great grandsire for that.
He'd hotwired a car and stolen some Sex Pistols tapes to play as he drove. Drusilla had always loved driving with him. Her eyes had lit up at how fast they were going, and she'd say something nonsensical about the stars or the trees or the flashing lights of the unfortunate police officer who would try to pull them over. God, he missed her.
But that wasn't important. Sunnydale and the Slayer. He had a plan, he'd stick to it and-
Had he taken a wrong turn? None of this looked familiar. Not that Spike had gone to Sunnydale particularly often, but he knew California well enough to know that there wasn't supposed to be a city here, especially not one this… dingy. Spike continued driving, looking around warily. Something was up. Had he driven into some mysterious hell dimension by mistake? He'd never done it before, but he knew it was possible.
He pulled over and got out of his car, ready to fight if need be. He had to find out where he was, get home, and kill whoever was in charge around here. Not necessarily in that order.
And then? He'd kill the Slayer. Finally.
Third-Person #2: Buffy and Spike fight in Cleveland. Done on Insanejournal during the LJ crisis.
Name (or internet handle): Shana
Current characters in Bete Noire: N/A
2. Character Information
Name: Spike
Livejournal Username: breakmychest
Fandom: Buffyverse AU: Wishverse
Image: http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/99676717/25446663
Reserve: Here.
3. Character Information II
Age/Appearance: Spike is a little bit under 150. He was turned in 1880 and appears to be in his late twenties, but the only exact age that was given conflicts with those dates, making it difficult to get an exact age. He's a few inches short of six feet and thin, though very muscular. He has bleached blond hair and incredibly striking cheekbones. He has a scar over his left eyebrow and blue eyes. He usually wears lots of black and a long leather duster he stole off the Slayer Nikki Wood.
History: Right here.
The difference between his history and the one presented here is that after Drusilla is injured in Prague, instead of heading to Sunnydale, he goes to Cleveland. Sunnydale is under the control of the Master, and Spike would rather not deal with him. There's a Hellmouth in Cleveland as well, though, and a Slayer, and Spike believes her blood and the Hellmouth's energy could help heal Drusilla.
Instead, Drusilla goes off on her own one day and feeds on Joyce Summers. Spike didn't know the woman was Buffy's mother, though Drusilla might have. Buffy arrives just in time to see her mother's body fall to the ground and stakes Drusilla. Spike catches up as Drusilla fades away into dust. He attacks Buffy in rage, and they start to fight, but before either can win the sun rises and Spike has to retreat into cover.
They fight on and off for a while, until one night Spike goes out looking for Buffy to fight her yet again and finds her gone. Luckily he's good at tracking people, and a bit of detective work gets him on the road to Sunnydale. And then he ends up in Bete Noire instead.
Personality: To sire someone, a vampire first drains the victim's blood, then feeds him some of her own blood. It's not a very difficult process. You kill them, they rise again. Then they become an entirely different being, with, in theory, at least, very few ties to their former self. Sure, they retain all their human memories, but love, affection, all those human feelings? They're gone.
Spike doesn't quite fit the pattern. From the start, he was different. Like many vampires, he killed his mother, but it was because he thought turning her into a vampire was a good way to save her life. He retained his human devotion and love. After staking his mother, he goes on to love Drusilla passionately. Though he's not the only vampire to ever have a monogamous relationship or some sort of love for another vampire, he is much more human about his devotion in a way that traces back to when he was human. He tends to revolve around people and emotional ties, treasuring bonds to the point that he'd rather die than betray someone he cares about. He doesn't do anything in halves, so he can't just like someone, he has to love them completely and fully and with every fiber of his being. He may not write poems once he becomes a vampire, but he's still prone to being overdramatic and doing grand gestures to profess his love.
He also really enjoys eating food. Most vampires can't taste things other than blood, but Spike can. He eats cookies, hot chocolate, blossoming onions, and spicy buffalo wings to name a few examples, plus he often adds spices or wheetabix to his blood to make it more interesting or textured. He's very creative with his food. Though canon has never explicitly stated it, I like to think that Drusilla, crazy as she is, messed up a little when she turned him and his taste buds didn't entirely die.
His thoughts about Drusilla will always be tinged with love and regret. She was the first woman he loved, and Spike doesn't stop loving people. She was his everything, and everything he did he did for her. She's why he became the mass-murdering vampire he was for a century. He caused destruction and murder because he knew it would make her happy. But she didn't love him the same way. It was a game for her, and although she enjoyed having someone care for her that much, she didn't hesitate to go back to Angelus the second it's an option. He may have some idea, deep inside him, that she was only his as long as it was entertaining to her, but he loves her so much that he can't believe she doesn't return his feelings. He can sometimes be blinded by his own devotion and convinced that feelings are there when they aren't really. It's part wistful thinking, part convincing himself, part following his instinct and believing it won't lead him wrong.
Angelus had Drusilla long before Spike had even died, and it's something Spike can never forget. The two of them didn't always fight, in fact, they used to get along really well. Spike idolized Angelus and learned everything the older vampire was willing to teach. In a way, those feelings never went away. Even now that Angel is locked up in a cage with a soul, Spike still would want his approval. He'd never admit looking up to him, of course, and he certainly also resents him a lot, but there is hidden respect. It's very deeply hidden. Before he goes good, he resents Angelus for stealing Drusilla from him, and he resents Angel for betraying their little family, and evil in general. He also tends to end up in Angel's shadow no matter what he does.
This leads to lots of bickering. When these two badass vampires who have lived for 150ish and 270ish years respectively are put in a room together, they both act like they are 12. They bicker and fight over everything from women to who's eviler to who would win in a fight between cavemen and astronauts. They are complete idiots around each other and fantastic at pushing each other's buttons. They've just known each other so long that it's easy. Spike doesn't even know exactly how he feels about Angel. He can switch from bickering to fighting alongside Angel at the drop of a hat, and his emotions often vary between jealousy and loathing, admiration and tentative friendship. Angel's done a lot of things he can't forgive, but Spike's done a lot of bad things to Angel as well, not to mention to the rest of the world.
Spike is fairly masochistic in who he falls for. His first love was a disguised vengeance demon and a complete bitch who cruelly told him he was beneath her when he professed his love. His second love was the woman who killed him. In canon, his third love is the woman who beats him up a lot. Of course, at first it's not love so much as a general strong emotional reaction. He enjoys fighting her and relishes the challenge. He's already fond of fighting slayers, but this one's challenging him more than the previous two do. Leaving her alive, even for Dru's sake, conflicted with everything he'd done before.
Spike didn't think much about good and evil before he met Buffy. He knew in a vague way that he was evil, but he didn't think much about his victims. He knew he hurt people, of course, but he didn't go deeper into it than that. It was all fun. He enjoyed the thrill of killing and fighting and eating people and didn't think about their families or the future lives he cut short.
Spike is very monogamous. In Wishverse, the only person he has slept with besides Drusilla is Angel, and that was only the once. He feels most comfortable within the bounds of some sort of relationship, though it does not have to be conventional. He likes cherishing someone above all others and doing everything for her. He would never cheat on someone he was dating because he has been there, and it hurts a lot. Plus, he wouldn't want to cheat. When he's in a relationship, he doesn't want anyone else.
Spike has been obsessed with Slayers since he first heard about them. They represent the ultimate challenge for a vampire. Spike has killed two. The first one was mostly luck. If things had gone slightly differently, she would have killed him, and she did leave him with a scar. When he fought the second he was better at fighting, but he still went in not knowing if he'd win. Fighting is always a thrill for Spike, and no one's more fun than a Slayer. Plus, the blood tastes better than normal blood. Buffy was meant to be his third Slayer, but it really didn't work out the way he'd planned.
He tells Buffy at one point in canon that every Slayer has a death wish. It might be true, but really, it's Spike who acts like he doesn't care whether he lives or dies. He consistently throws himself at more powerful opponents and keeps getting up for more punishment when staying down could spare him pain. When Glory tortures him for information about Dawn in canon, not only does he not tell her, he openly mocks her. It doesn't matter how outmatched he is, Spike tackles every battle with sarcastic quips and unbridled enthusiasm. He isn't really afraid of anything physical, as he'll heal from almost any wound. He doesn't care if he wins or loses the fight, it's the thrill of battle he craves. When he gets older, he gets more careful and better at purposefully not dying, but he still wouldn't hesitate to die for someone he loved. In Wishverse, he's all but lost his will to live. His mission to kill Buffy is the only reason he doesn't let himself die in some particularly idiotic way.
As a human, William was an outsider. Spike is an outsider too, but mostly by choice. He doesn't follow rules or orders unless they're set by someone he actually respects, and even then, he only does it if he feels like it. He's a vampire, and that means he doesn't need to worry about what anyone thinks of him. He curses and drinks, fights and loves, and always looks to have a good time. In his first episode, he takes over the main Sunnydale vampire nest and tells the other vampires that under him, "we're gonna have a little less ritual, and a little more fun around here." He enjoys what he does.
He's always sarcastic and witty. He doesn't hesitate to speak his mind or insult people. He often refers to people by nicknames either to show affection or mock. He's very good at reading people and seeing what's going on, even when they can't tell themselves. This power completely vanishes when relating to himself, of course. He can makes plans, but he rarely has the patience to follow through with them. He acts on instinct rather than logic. In Touched, he says, "I follow my blood, which doesn't exactly rush in the direction of my brain, so I make a lot of mistakes." Spike does what feels right, and if he's wrong, he gets up and tries again.
Spike is a study in contradictions. He's a fighter and a lover, he swears and uses eloquent metaphors, he's sometimes pragmatic and often romantic, and he always burns with passion. He's loud and brash and doesn't do anything part-way. He believes in true love and happy endings, even if in his darker days, he doesn't think they'll happen. No matter how hard he tries to hide it, the poet inside him never completely died.
In the normal universe, Spike has a bit of a fire inside him, a passion that shines through and makes him seem more alive than most humans. Wishverse Spike has none of that.
Spike's greatest strength and weakness has always been his capacity to love. He stood by Drusilla's side for a century, and though she was not always faithful to him, his loyalty never wavered. In the normal universe, he later shows the same loyalty to Buffy. When Spike is in love, nothing else matters. The object of his affections becomes his world, and he'll do anything to please them and make them his.
But making someone your entire world can be dangerous, too. When Drusilla dumps Spike, he loses himself in drink and ends up driving back to Sunnydale, resorting to magic and torture to try and get her back. When it doesn't work, he rebounds with Harmony, a vampire who annoys him to no end. From the surface it looks like he handles Buffy's death better, but that is pretty clearly just a surface view. He takes care of Dawn and helps the Scoobies patrol, but he is tense, snapping at Dawn when she suggests he stops babysitting her and counting the days she's been gone. If he hadn't sworn to protect Dawn until the end of the world, he likely would have walked into the sunshine himself rather than face life without Buffy.
In Wishverse, Drusilla is dead. There isn't even that slim hope that someday, he'll get her back, she's just gone. And with her goes Spike's world. If he stayed around long enough to get through the pain, it's possible he could someday move on, but he doesn't want to. Without Drusilla, life is meaningless. The only reason he hasn't killed himself in this world is that he wants to first kill the one that slayed her: Buffy Summers.
In the original universe, Spike is often distractible, making up plans and discarding them due to impatience and boredom. He's a wildcard who follows his own rules and constantly surprises people. He's immortal, so he doesn't worry about being careful. This Spike isn't particularly careful, but that’s because he doesn't care if he lives or dies. Distraction and impatience are for people who have more than one thing on their mind. Spike's only goal in life right now is to kill Buffy. Once that happens, he'll have no reason to keep on going.
And yet, Spike is also a survivor. He wants Buffy dead. He wants to kill her. But the part of him that wants to keep on living despite Drusilla being gone makes him hesitate when he should strike and miss easy shots. He doesn't want the dance to end entirely. He isn't quite ready to let go. It's not enough of a conscious thought for him to acknowledge it, and if he did, he'd feel like he was betraying Drusilla. But it's there, and it's part of the reason he hasn't defeated Buffy yet, or given up and let her defeat him.
Sexual Preferences/Orientation: Spike enjoys sex a lot. As a human, he never had it. Once he died, though, he learned how much fun it could be and he and Drusilla shagged a lot. Drusilla was the only woman he slept with, though, as he is extremely monogamous when he's in love. He's mostly heterosexual, but far from opposed to sleeping with a man if it feels right and has, in fact, slept with Angel. With Drusilla dead, he can sleep around, but if he falls for someone new, that will stop.
Powers: As a vampire, he's got enhanced strength and speed. He's immortal and unaging, though a stake through the heart, decapitation, fire, or sunlight can kill him. His senses are better than human, especially his sense of smell. He's really good at fighting in various martial art styles. He's written poetry, but not very well. He can come up with good plans, but he rarely has the patience to carry them out. He's good at adapting. He can withstand a lot of pain. He's pretty good at using technology. He's good at various criminal abilities such as pick-pocketing, picking locks, and hotwiring cars.
Reason for playing: I have lots of experience playing Spike at many different canon points. He's particularly fun because of how different he is every single season. I find it fascinating and hilarious. The Season 3 episode "The Wish" is one of my favorites because it introduces a canon AU. Though Spike does not appear in that episode, I have put a lot of time into thinking about how his history would have changed to accommodate the other world changes. I've played around with this version of Spike a few times, and it's a lot of fun. He's a lot darker than canon Spike due to the death of his girlfriend by Buffy's hand. From what I've seen of the premise and plot of BN, it seemed like a good fit.
5. Samples
First-Person: Dear_Mun post.
Third-Person: Sunnydale. It sounded like a cute little suburb with plump babies and soccer moms and good weather. It didn't sound like a vampire's paradise. Sun and vampires didn't exactly get along famously. But vampire paradise was exactly what it was, to anyone in the know.
Spike had always avoided it in the past. He had family there, and though he'd only met the Master a few times, Spike hadn't liked the bastard much then, and he really doubted that opinion was ever going to change. The old wanker was obsessed with vampire traditions and ritual and all those other things that made Spike want to stake himself. Besides, paradise sounded right boring when you thought about it. Spike liked the hunt. He enjoyed it when his prey had a bit of fight left in them.
But it was where his prey was headed now, and she had far more than a bit of fight left in her. The bloody Slayer. If she thought she could run away from him by leaving town, she clearly hadn't learned anything about him. Spike was ruthless and determined, and once he set his mind on something, he didn't quit until he had it. Or he was dust, he supposed, but so far that hadn't happened. He'd set his mind on killing the Slayer. He'd brave his great-great grandsire for that.
He'd hotwired a car and stolen some Sex Pistols tapes to play as he drove. Drusilla had always loved driving with him. Her eyes had lit up at how fast they were going, and she'd say something nonsensical about the stars or the trees or the flashing lights of the unfortunate police officer who would try to pull them over. God, he missed her.
But that wasn't important. Sunnydale and the Slayer. He had a plan, he'd stick to it and-
Had he taken a wrong turn? None of this looked familiar. Not that Spike had gone to Sunnydale particularly often, but he knew California well enough to know that there wasn't supposed to be a city here, especially not one this… dingy. Spike continued driving, looking around warily. Something was up. Had he driven into some mysterious hell dimension by mistake? He'd never done it before, but he knew it was possible.
He pulled over and got out of his car, ready to fight if need be. He had to find out where he was, get home, and kill whoever was in charge around here. Not necessarily in that order.
And then? He'd kill the Slayer. Finally.
Third-Person #2: Buffy and Spike fight in Cleveland. Done on Insanejournal during the LJ crisis.