The Immortal would later cause Spike to spend some time behind bars, due to tax evasion.Īngelus was cursed with his soul (and eternal torment as a result of his guilty conscience) after Darla kidnapped one of the Kalderash people’s favorite daughters, presenting her to Angelus. The Immortal then proceeded to have a threesome with their respective lovers, which enraged the pair of male vampires, as this wasn’t something they were ever able to convince them to do. Although he initially found out about them when Angelus told him as a warning, Spike looked at this as a thrilling challenge.Īs previously mentioned, Spike loved to kill due to the rush, so for Spike, it was a sport – and there was no better challenge for a vampire than trying to kill a Slayer.īoth Spike and Angelus ended up in chains when they came across the Immortal in 1984. It wasn’t long before Spike found a dark obsession – hunting and killing slayers. Together, Spike, Angelus, Drusilla, and Darla were collectively known as the ‘Whirlwind’, and they rampaged across Europe, terrorizing entire villages in their wake. William became Spike, taking on more of a punk-ish attitude and leaning into more of a cockney accent. William understood that Angelus had had sex with Drusilla to take away William’s sensitivity, however, this only ignited their decade-long rivalry. William told Angelus that Drusilla was his destiny, and Angelus dismissed this, telling William that whilst he could have anything he wanted, he wouldn’t really ever have anything, truly. William kept his romanticism until he caught Angelus and Drusilla having sex. He grew to consider Angelus a mentor, although they both killed for different reasons – Angelus considered killing to be an art form, whereas William would kill more so for entertainment. As a vampire, William could still be gentle and sensitive to Drusilla’s feelings. As well as Drusilla, he also idolized Angelus, Drusilla’s sire, explaining that whilst Drusilla might have sired him,Īngelus had made him the monster that he was. SpikeĪfter Drusilla sired William for companionship, jealous of the relationship between Darla and Angelus, William became incredibly loyal to her. Understandably, this was extremely traumatic for William, and the effects of this trauma stayed with him for decades. William then snapped this in half, before staking her in self-defense. When William rejected her, she tried to kill him by attempting to stake him, using the cane she had relied on when she was sick. His mother was cruel when turned into a vampire, and tried to seduce him, taunting as she did. She accused him of being interested in her sexually and blamed his lack of being able to find a woman on this too.
He then went home and turned his mother into a vampire, at the time, seeing it as a cure to her disease.Īfter she had been turned, however, her motherly affection was almost non-existent, and instead, she found William’s love for her to be annoying. She comforted him before feeding on his blood, siring him when she fed him hers in return. When his mother became ill with tuberculosis, she became concerned about William’s future.Īnne hoped that he would marry a woman named Cecily Addams (which later turned out to be Halfrek, a vengeance demon, and friend of Anya’s), however, his mother was the only person to enjoy William’s poetry, resulting in a harsh rejection from Cecily, in which she told him that he was “beneath her”, which stuck with him for the rest of his life – and death.Ĭecily’s reaction caused William to allow a vampire, Drusilla, to sire him when he bumped into her after fleeing the party he was at. They both lived together, and they were really close. He was born to a woman named Anne, who would frequently sing the song “Early One Morning” to him, even when he became a young man, up until he was finally turned into a vampire in 1880 – this would cause some problems for him, later in his vampire life. The same goes for his nickname, Spike – Giles assumed it was because he had a preferred torture method of using railroad spikes, – it became more likely that this was not the case, however, as he might have taken inspiration from people subjected to his poetry, saying it would make you want to“stick a railroad spike through your head,”. In fact, he was such a bad poet, that he earned the nickname ‘William the Bloody’ – but not because he was scary – but they considered his poetry to be ‘bloody awful’.
William was a hopeless romantic and a poet – although, not many people considered him a very good one. 11 Copyright Notice Biography William Prattīefore Spike became Spike, he was born ‘William Pratt’.
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