Post by Angel on Aug 22, 2011 1:05:54 GMT -5
Angel
a warning
TO THE PEOPLE
TO THE PEOPLE
PREFERRED NAME(S): Angel
AGE: 277
APPARENT AGE: Age Turned 26 (Appears Late-Twenties)
SPECIES: Hybrid
SUB-SPECIES: Vampire
GENDER: Make
ORIENTATION: Straight
the good
AND THE EVIL
AND THE EVIL
HEIGHT: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
BUILD/WEIGHT: Muscular, 182 lbs
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Black-Brown Hair, Cropped/Styled
PLAYED BY: David Boreanaz
PERSONAL STYLE: Angel's wardrobe consists of very dark colors and shades, he hardly wears colors and if he does they tend to be in the darker hues (Dark red, dark blue). His clothing is semi formal, he tends to sport dress shirts most of the time and either dress pants or dark jeans and related denim material.
this
IS WAR
IS WAR
HISTORY:
Time-Line
1727: Angel was born as a human named Liam in Galway, Ireland. His overbearing father was a linen and silk merchant. At the age of 18, Liam had a relationship with a noblewoman named Sarah Gilfried. Liam became disillusioned with the women of his era, especially showing distaste for the noblewomen whom he found to be "dull, simpering morons"; he wished he could meet someone "exciting" and "interesting". By his twenties, he had developed a taste for alcohol, tavern brawls, whoring and sloth. Liam's only real ambition lay in seeing the world. Despite his strained relationship with his parents, he had great affection for his little sister, Kathy.
1753: At the age of 26, after a night of drunken debauchery and attempts to seduce Anna, the family's only maidservant, Liam was expelled from his home by his father, who labeled him a "terrible disappointment". During a tavern brawl, the drunken Liam caught the eye of what seemed to be an affluent woman, but who was actually a vampire named Darla. After being kicked out of the tavern, he ploted to steal his father's silver, but instead, Darla lured him into an alley, and, promising him a world full of excitement and travel, transformed him into a vampire. He quickly became one of the cruelest vampires who ever existed. The price was the loss of his human soul, along with his conscience, creating a demon that would act upon Liam's darkest impulses.
1753: On the night he rose from his grave, and in response to Darla's assertion that he could have anyone in the village, he set about slaughtering the entire community. First, however, he murdered his own family, which he said was "the sweetest blood of all". He had no problem entering his former house, as his little sister Kathy invited him in without hesitation or suspicion; according to Liam, "She thought that I'd returned to her. An angel." His own mother was the next victim. When killing his father, Liam told him how he had made something of himself after all. However, while gloating over his father's corpse, Darla cruelly deflated him, claiming that his father won because his disapproval would haunt Liam for the rest of his life.
Liam took the name "Angelus", presumably inspired by his sister's mistaken belief that he was an angel. He was later described in historical volumes as "the one with the angelic face" and "the demon with the face of an angel". After leaving Ireland, Angelus and Darla cut a bloody swath through Wales and northern England before finally reaching London in 1760. During Angelus' first meeting with Darla's sire, the Master, he openly mocked the older vampire, showing no fear despite his greater age, power, and authority, and confronted Darla about her decision to remain underground with him when she could be traveling the world with him. Won over by his bold fearlessness, Darla chose to live with Angelus, abandoning the Master's leadership temporarily.
1764: In May, Angelus and Darla killed the wife and infant son of vampire hunter Daniel Holtz, and turned his young daughter into a vampire, forcing him to destroy her.[6] Holtz then devoted himself to capturing Angelus and Darla, chasing them across Europe and killing almost 400 other vampires in the process.
1765: Angelus and Darla had a near miss in Arles after making too much noise by ordering room service and then eating the waiters. Darla fled to Vienna, knocking out and abandoning Angelus in a burning barn and riding off on their only horse. After meeting again in Vienna and eating a troubadour in Madrid, Angelus and Darla sired[citation needed] the vampires James and Elisabeth.
1767: Holtz tracked them down in Marseilles and managed to put numerous arrows in Angelus. After voyaging to Morocco, Holtz briefly lost them in northern Africa.
1771: Holtz tracked Angelus to Rome and captured him. With the assistance of Monsignor Rivalli, Holtz tortured Angelus while trying to figure out how to get Angelus to help him to capture Darla. But instead, Darla came to the rescue with a horde of vampires. Darla declines to kill Holtz, telling Angelus that she was having too much fun tormenting him and he was now "like family".
1773: Holtz then abandoned his hunt and retired to York until 1773 when a demon named Sahjhan offered to take him to the future in exchange for his promise to kill Angel and Darla at that time.
1786: Angelus sired a Puritan by the name of Penn, who mimicked Angelus by wreaking havoc on his father and killing his family. Over time, he began copying Angelus' "signature" of the time, carving a cross-shaped mark on the face of his victims in order to spite God.
1789: A lone Angelus encountered The Beast in Prussia, standing in a field of bodies. The Beast sought Angelus' aid in killing the Svear Priestesses, a group who wished to banish the Beast and who could be killed by a vampire but not by the Beast. When Angelus declined to assist the Beast, he was violently attacked, but a group of Svear priestesses banished the Beast while Angelus was passing out.
1838: On Christmas Eve, Angelus won a card game and took his winnings by killing his opponent, a man named Daniel, in Dublin, Ireland. Daniel was to be married the next day.
1860: A young woman named Drusilla from London, England, caught the attention of Darla, who then brought him to the attention of Angelus, as a gift. Drusilla was "cursed" with the "sight", something her mother saw as "an affront to the Lord". Drusilla and her sisters were all noted to be virgins, and Drusilla was described as being "sweet, pure and chaste." While posing as her priest in order to torment her, Angelus killed her family in front of her, which caused Drusilla to flee to a convent. On the day she was to take her holy orders, Angelus massacred the convent. After having sex with Darla practically on top of Drusilla, Angelus finally pushed her over the edge into insanity. It was at that point that he turned her into a vampire. Drusilla was Angelus' "masterpiece", an everlasting testament of his finest cruelty, as her immortality meant that her torment would never end.
1880: When Drusilla turned the mild-mannered mother's boy and poet, William, into a vampire, Angelus served as a mentor and role model.[13] William went so far as to consider the elder vampire his sire.[14] Angelus taught William about the art of mass slaughter, including an incident during a wedding party where Angelus beat the groom to death with his own arm. When he realized how much William cared for Drusilla, Angelus had sex with her just to hurt him, an action William would never forgive.
1883: Angelus killed a female servant named Margaret during a luxurious Christmas party in London. The woman had a young son.
1888: Spike got himself, Angelus, Darla, and Drusilla chased out of London, England and into an abandoned mine shaft in Yorkshire, England by an angry mob. Angelus, wondering why they hadn't killed him yet, threateningly warned William, who had taken the alias of "Spike", not to attract the unwanted attention of angry mobs or the Slayer.
1890: Angelus attended a production of Giselle by the Blinnikov, a Russian ballet troupe run by Count Kurskov. Despite being evil, he was moved to tears during the performance. The same year, Angelus and Spike used a trick that involved them holding hands and beheading their enemies with a length of wire in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1894: Angelus and Spike were captured in Rome, Italy by henchmen of The Immortal, a mysterious and seductive being with whom they both had a fierce rivalry. The two male vampires were tortured while The Immortal had a threesome with Darla and Drusilla, something that, incidentally, the female vampires never allowed Angelus and Spike to do. Angelus and Spike attempted to take revenge on the Immortal, but failed miserably.
1898: Angelus raped and murdered the favorite daughter of a tribe of gypsies, the Kalderash clan in Borşa, Romania. To avenge her death, the Kalderash cursed him by restoring his human soul, thus afflicting him with a conscience and condemning him to an eternity of remorse for the crimes he'd committed as the soulless Angelus. Bedraggled and dirty, looking like a beggar, he attacks and tries to feed on a woman, but is unable to.
1900: During the Boxer Rebellion, "Angelus" tried to resume his life with Darla, but found himself able to kill only animals, murderers, and rapists. A final break between himself and Darla occurred when he refused to eat a baby to prove himself to Darla, and instead rescued the child.
1902: Angel fled and lived in self-imposed isolation, controlling the temptation to feed by avoiding humans altogether. He traveled to the United States, arriving in New York via Ellis Island in 1902.
1915: During the First World War, Angel found himself in the trenches, and was nearly killed by Watcher Geoffrey Wyndam-Pryce before he escaped into a river. Discovering that the powerful vampire Kakistos was working with the Germans, Angel and Geoffrey were forced into an uncertain alliance to destroy Kakistos's cult, Kakistos being apparently killed in a subsequent plane crash. Although he never learned that Angel was anything more than another vampire, Geoffrey allowed him to leave after the cult was destroyed in recognition of his assistance.
1920s: In this period, he spent some time in Chicago, where he saved a little lap dog from being run over by a car; however, he was tempted to feed on the dog's owner, a young woman who tried to seduce Angel, only to be harshly rejected. In Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Angel had a disagreement with a demon named Boone over a señorita, for which Boone called him out. Angel fought Boone for 3 1/2 hours until the sun came up and Boone honorably let him go. Angel then spent time in Missoula, Montana during the Great Depression.
1943: During World War II, Angel was coerced into undertaking a secret mission by the Demon Research Initiative. They sank him to the bottom of the ocean to rescue an American submarine crew from three vampires the Nazis had captured as part of their paranormal research activities: Spike, Nostroyev and The Prince of Lies. After the American crew had captured the German submarine, the vampires had escaped their bonds and murdered most of the crew; the few survivors sought refuge behind a locked hatch. After the submarine suffered damage from a depth charge, Angel was forced to sire a mortally wounded Ensign Sam Lawson, as he was the only person who was able to repair the damage, and while Angel didn't care about the mission, he needed to have it succeed to get the US government to leave him alone, and he needed the submarine so he would not get trapped on the ocean floor. Proceeding these events, Angel went underground until the war was over.
1952: In Los Angeles, Angel was a resident of the Hyperion Hotel. During this time, Angel attempted to stay to himself, avoiding interaction with other residents and patrons. Despite the numerous strange incidents, murders and suicides running rampant throughout the hotel (caused by a demon), he looked the other way when his help would have made a difference. After finding a young woman named Judy Kovacs hiding in his room, Angel tried to preserve his isolation, first by disarming and removing the man chasing her, then by ejecting Judy. However, her repeated attempts to interact with him allowed the two to form a budding friendship — very surprising and rare for Angel at that time in his life. Meanwhile, hotel staff and residents, including Judy, continued to become warped and Angel decided to help. He discovered the presence of a Thesulac Demon, a paranoia demon affecting the humans in the hotel, but by the time Angel learned how to defeat it and obtained the items required, the entire hotel was overcome with pathological paranoia. Mad with demon-induced hysteria, the hotel residents and staff turned on Judy after their suspicions were raised by a private detective. To save herself, Angel's new friend pointed the mob in his direction, saying he had been found with blood. With rabid fury, they ambushed Angel, beat him, and then hanged him. Embittered by the consequences of becoming close to a human, Angel abandoned Judy and everyone else. Instead of destroying the Thesulac as it was in his power to do, even when the demon gave him the opportunity, he personally gave the vicious demon free reign to prey upon and ravage them unhindered.
1970s: In New York during the late 1970s, Angel witnessed a robbery at a doughnut shop. After the robber shot the employee and fled, Angel stayed with the man as he died. Unable to resist the sight and smell of the clerk's still-warm blood, Angel succumbed to his urges and fed on the body. Deeply disgusted by his own weakness, Angel fled the shop, and then exiled himself to a life of homelessness, living in alleyways and feeding on rats.
1996: Two decades later, a shadow of his former self, the reclusive and emotionally tortured Angel was sought out by a demon named Whistler, who persuaded him to join the fight against the evil that had corrupted him and to help the newly-activated Slayer, Buffy Summers. Angel traveled to Hemery High School in Los Angeles, where he witnessed Buffy being called as the Slayer and her initial training under her Watcher, Merrick, as well as her emotional suffering over her new duties and her parents' deteriorating marriage. Filled with a new purpose in life, Angel resolved to help the Slayer, with whom he had fallen in love. The following year, when Buffy finally met him in Sunnydale, he introduced himself, not as Angelus, but as Angel.
History Circa Sunnydale - Los Angeles
When Angel had come to Sunnydale he was filled with purpose, he was to help the new Slayer Buffy Summers. Infatuated by her at first he came off as kind of a criptic dick, this was mostly due to the fact that he hadn't done something like this before and he needed to make sure he kept his distance emotionally away from her and anyone else. Soon what little wall he built up crumbled around him and Buffy broke right through. Everything about her he loved, and he wasn't even sure what that was half the time but he was smitten in a way that he had never been before.
When she had found out he was a vampire it was almost too late, they had fallen in love with each other and denying the feelings they had for one another was pratically useless. Though they tried to deny their feelings, they could not resist the passion growing between them and began dating. Angel gave Buffy a physical token of his love, a Claddagh ring, as was traditional in Ireland.
With the Master gone Angel and Buffy became more of a couple, though between the ever growing threat of Spike and her duties as a Slayer it was far from a normal relationship. When Buffy and Angel finally consummated their relationship, Angel experienced a moment of pure happiness, at which time he learned about a second aspect to the Gypsy curse: if he ever were to experience a moment of pure happiness, he would lose his soul and revert to his former evil self, Angelus, who had no humanity left in him. Angelus despised Buffy for forcing him to experience the love between herself and Angel.
As Angelus he joined Spike and Drusilla in their plan on killing the Slayer and taking Sunnydale for their own, however Angelus wanted to take it up a notch. Not only did he want to exact his revenge on Buffy for making him feel like a human being, he wanted to do something extravigant. His first order of buisness aside for torturing Buffy and her friends was deploying the Judge, the demon Spike and Drusilla had brought back to life. After Buffy destroyed the Judge he made sure she realized that he was infact no longer Angel, and this was who he truly was.
Angelus' reign of terror culminated in his murder of Jenny Calendar, which served him in two ways. First, he eliminated an enemy (Jenny was born Janna of the Kalderash clan) and destroyed her work just as she had managed to successfully decipher the lost Gypsy curse which could be used to restore Angel's soul. Second, Angelus used Jenny's death to viciously torment Giles, Jenny's paramour and the person on whom Buffy depended most. After Angelus orchestrated this masterpiece of terror, Drusilla drew his attention to a new opportunity for destruction and chaos. Angelus widened his focus and began a scheme to awaken the demon Acathla and bring about the end of the world. Buffy was determined to stop him despite their history. In their final fight, Angelus defeated Buffy, but continues to torment her rather than kill her, allowing her to stage one last counterattack. In her anger, the Slayer was able to overcome Angelus, but just as Acathla opened the vortex into his hell dimension, Willow, used the ritual Jenny had rediscovered and preserved to restore Angel's soul. Since Acathla could only be stopped by the blood of the individual who activated him, Buffy was forced to sacrifice her beloved Angel rather than the demon Angelus to save the world. Impaled on the Slayer's enchanted sword, Angel appeared to shrink into the distance until Acathla's vortex suddenly snapped closed.
Several months later supposedly Angel broke free from the hell dimension he was trapped in, feral and rabid. His time spent in the hell dimension lasted at least a century though only a few months passed in time on Earth. When descovered by Buffy he was aided in secret, over time he began to regain himself and what he once was as Angel.
Angel began to suspect that his return from Hell was not accidental, that he must be meant to serve some unknown purpose. That fear -- that this purpose was not for the cause of good -- grew in Angel's mind as he began to experience what he believed to be hallucinations. However, he was actually being haunted by the First Evil, who claimed to be the one that freed him from Acathla's world (a claim that remains unconfirmed). The First, able to adopt the appearances of Angelus' victims, drove Angel ever closer to the brink of madness by lashing him with guilt and, ultimately, tempting him to end it all by losing his soul once again and killing Buffy in the throes of passion. In despair, Angel chose to kill himself by waiting outside for the sun to rise, rather than risk his beloved Slayer. To Angel's shock and consternation, an apparent miracle occurred and it snowed so heavily that Christmas morning that the sun was blotted out all day. From that moment, he began to entertain the hope that his return might have some purpose for good after all.
Trying to rebuild his relationship with Buffy, movies, midnight picnics, scenic patrols, he had the feeling that this wasn't the life for Buffy. They had no future together, and his inability to give her a family or even a remotely normal human life over shadowed him. Upon hearing his concerns reflected back at him by Joyce Summers Angel made the difficult decision to leave Sunnydale, and to leave Buffy. Angel broke up with Buffy in the sewer right before prom, but went to the dance to let Buffy have her perfect high school moment.
Angel promised Buffy that he would stay until Sunnydale High's Graduation Day, to help avert the Mayor's Ascension. He also warned her that, if they survived the ordeal, he would leave without saying goodbye, as it would be too painful to do so. They survived, and Angel, with a last, long look at the Slayer, kept his final promise and departed for Los Angeles.
His arrival in L.A. was foretold by the Powers that Be, the bringers of good. Gods. He spent the first few months alone, patrolling dives and dark alleys helping the helpless so to speak from vampires. He met the liason of the Powers that Be shortly after his arrival, Allen Francis Doyle a half-Brachen Demon. His tale about destiny and fate didn't really catch Angel's attention but over time and at Doyle's persistance he eventually gave in. He also ran into Cordelia Chase, Sunnydale Alumni who moved to L.A. to find her wealth and fame. Together the three formed Angel Investigations, their mission statement and whole being was surrounded by the motto "Helping the Helpless."
The trio managed to do a lot of good, but when Doyle had a vision of Buffy in danger at Thanksgiving, Angel immediately returned to Sunnydale to help against Hus, a Native American vengeance spirit accidentally set free by Xander's construction crew. However, Angel made his presence to known all of the Scoobies except Buffy under the belief that his presence would only distract and endanger her even more. Upon discovering the truth, Buffy, hurt that Angel never revealed his presence to her, immediately traveled to Los Angeles to confront him, and the two agreed to stay away from one another for the time being. Just as she was about to leave, however, the two were attacked by a Mohra Demon. Though the duo succeeded in wounding it, the Mohra escaped, and Buffy and Angel immediately tracked it down in the sewers. The two became separated, and Angel seemingly killed the demon, and in doing so, its blood mixed with his own and turned him human and alive again. Buffy and Angel reveled in finally being able to be happy together, but Angel soon discovered that the Powers That Be had not yet offered him forgiveness as he had not sufficiently atoned. When Angel was nearly killed by the regenerated Mohra, Buffy managed to slay it with his help. Upon discovering that Buffy would die much sooner if he remained human, Angel made an impossibly painful decision: he had the Oracles rewind time to reverse his transformation into a human, leaving no one but himself with any memory of the incident
When Doyle who had become more than just a friend to Angel, but his best friend, sacraficed himself to save a group of half demons from the Scourge he became more protective of Cordelia and others he would eventually befriend down the line. It was at this time Wesley Wyndam-Pryce who was a Watcher to both Buffy and Faith in Sunnydale arrived in L.A. clamining to be a rogue demon hunter. However after meeting up with Angel and Cordelia he found it hard to leave, not having the means to actually be on his own he stayed and joined them on their mission.
Months later they were joined by Charles Gunn, an off the streets vampire hunter who had recently lost his sister and occasionally recieved assitance from Lorne a demon karaoke bar-owner they first knew as the Host.
As Angel continued to help the helpless in Los Angeles, his good deeds began seriously to disrupt the plans of the evil inter-dimensional law firm Wolfram & Hart. In an attempt to control him, the firm resurrected his sire and former lover, Darla, though she came back as a human rather than as a vampire. Wolfram & Hart then summoned Drusilla, who turned Darla into a vampire again. Angel felt such deep anguish at his failure to save Darla, and such intense fury at Wolfram & Hart for their machinations, that he fired his crew and embarked on a bitter, ruthless vendetta against both the law firm and the newly reunited Darla and Drusilla. At his darkest moment, Angel helped Drusilla and Darla to slaughter a core group of Wolfram & Hart employees. In spiritual agony beyond his endurance, Angel attempted to shed his soul by having sex with Darla, but instead of happiness, found despair. An epiphany followed the desperate act, and Angel realized that his purpose was still to do all the good he could, even if he couldn't do all the good he wanted to. Having hoped to get Angelus back, Darla was disgusted and infuriated by Angel's epiphany, and fled Los Angeles. The group finally reconciled, and Wesley was appointed the official leader. But Angel's relationship with his teammates, particularly Cordelia, was strained, though things improved rather quickly.
Afterward, Cordelia was sucked into Lorne's home dimension of Pylea, and the A.I. team followed her. Eventually, after Angel defeated the undefeated Champion of Pylea, the Groosalugg, they returned with a new team member, Winifred "Fred" Burkle, in tow, and learned that the love of Angel's life, Buffy, had died.
Angel spent the better of several months in a Tibetan monastery in Sri Lanka trying to get over the death of Buffy Summers returning despondent believing that he had betrayed Buffy by continuing to live while she was dead. It was Cordelia that assured him he was in fact honoring her memory by continuing to fight the good fight, was at this time that Angel's previously platonic love for Cordelia had grown to be romantic despite Buffy's miraculous ressurection.
Before Angel could make his move however a wheel of events began turning starting with Darla returning to L.A. pregnant with his son. In order to save their son, Darla who was imbued with the soul of the child sacraficed herself to give birth. Naming the child Connor, Angel now found himself immediately in Fatherhood.
False prophecies, time travelers and betrayal led to Angel losing his infant son to an old enemy, Holtz, who abducted Connor soon after his birth, taking him to the hell dimension Quor'toth, where time passed differently. Wesley unintentionally brought about the kidnapping, and Angel attempted to kill him in the hospital; Wesley was subsequently fired from Angel Investigations, while Angel resumed his position as the team's leader. Unexpectedly, Connor returned days later, a young man of 18 or so who has been raised by Holtz to be a warrior and to believe that Angel was a soulless monster. Holtz took his own life in such a way that Connor was led to believe he was killed by Angel, making Connor hate his father and be determined to make him pay for the suffering he had caused Holtz and others. Connor then sank his father to the bottom of the ocean in a steel coffin, while Cordelia ascended to a higher plane, the feelings shared between her and Angel still left unspoken.
Rescued from his watery grave by Wesley, Angel returned to Angel investigations to where Fred and Gunn were taking care of an estranged Connor whom he kicked out after explaing exactly what had happened to him. However things grew complicated further by the return of an amnesiac Cordelia, who preferred to stay with Connor because he told her the truth while the others lied to her (albeit because they thought it was for her own good).
When a very powerful demon known only as the Beast arrived and began an attempt to bring forth an apocalypse, Angel's worst fears were realized when he had to strip himself of his soul and revert to his evil alter ego in order to defeat it, after Cordelia had a vision of Angelus facing the Beast in the past which Angelus did not recall (It was later revealed that a spell had been cast before the Beast's arrival which erased all reference to it in this dimension, with Angelus being immune because he technically didn't exist when the spell was cast). Angelus did indeed overcome the Beast, and was also deft enough to realize that the Beast was a mere "flunky" serving an even deeper evil; the Beast he knew was only interested in smashing and slaughter, and it was unlikely that the Beast would have become smarter in the yars since his initial encounter with Angelus.
Although he was momentarily free to wreak a little havoc of his own, Angelus was recaptured and re-ensouled after he defeated and drank from Faith, who had injected herself with a powerful drug. Faith (who had almost died in her quest to capture Angelus) and Willow helped to accomplish Angel's restoration via a brief but violent mental battle between Angel and Angelus. After his soul was restored, Angel, using information that Angelus had acquired during his freedom, figured out that the enemy he had been battling was a little closer to home than the group had previously considered. He realized that whatever the Beast's "boss" was, it was using Cordelia's body to carry out its plans, and it had seduced Angel's son Connor over to its side, warping the youth further and increasing the gap between Angel and his son. After battling and defeating the divine being known as Jasmine, Angel was offered the L.A. branch of Wolfram & Hart as their thanks for ending world peace by killing Jasmine. Angel acted against all of his instincts and made a deal with his sworn enemy in exchange for them erasing Connor’s memories and giving him a normal life, and trying to find a way to cure Cordelia.
Soon after the events in Los Angeles, Angel traveled to Sunnydale to give Buffy an amulet that he had obtained from Wolfram & Hart because he was told that it would play a role in the upcoming battle with The First Evil and had to be worn by someone with a soul, but more than human - a champion. He saved Buffy from getting killed by Caleb, but she insisted that she finish the fight on her own. After the fight concluded, they shared a kiss while being unknowingly watched by Spike, along with The First Evil. Angel wished to fight with her in the battle, but Buffy told him to go prepare his crew for a second front in case the Scoobies failed to stop the First. Angel then discussed with Buffy Spike, the return of his soul, her feelings for him, the future and if he had a place in it with her. She told him that it would be a long time, if ever, but she sometimes saw a future with him. Accepting, Angel returned to Los Angeles to prepare the second front, hoping he would not have to use it, and told Buffy, "I ain't getting any older."
Angel's year spent running Wolfram & Hart was one marred with challenge and self-doubt. Trying to battle evil from within the belly of the beast proved to be more difficult than even he had imagined, with the lines of good and evil becoming ever more gray with every action taken, and he soon discovered that his friends and allies in the Scooby Gang, including Buffy, had deemed him untrustworthy. Shortly after Angel assumed control of the law firm, matters were further complicated when Spike appeared as a ghost, emerging from the amulet Angel had given Buffy and that was then sent back to Angel in the mail. Sharing a complicated history of murder and mayhem, they had spent more than a century as rivals in everything. Now both possessed souls, and both were still in love with Buffy; they had evolved into very different heroes in the war against evil. Forced to co-exist, they waged a protracted, insidious battle of wills, ending when they finally came to an understanding and accepted their unique brotherhood on their journey to redemption.
When they battle over the Cup of Perpetual Torment, Spike tells Angel "You had a soul forced on you. As a curse. Make you suffer for all the horrible things you've done. Me, I fought for my soul, went through the demon trials, almost did me in a dozen times over, but I kept fighting. Because I knew it was the right thing to do. It's my destiny." Then, Spike defeats Angel for the first time in their century-plus association (Although it should be noted that Spike was the only combatant taking the fight seriously, with Angel spending most of the fight simply trying to get to the Cup, the elder vampire actually managing to do some damage to Spike when he began to effectively fight back despite his weaker physical condition at that time). Despite this, Spike and Angel come to an understanding that lets the two of them operate as a lethal team when the two end up fighting side-by-side, using their long experience of each other's skills to operate in near-perfect tandem.
While investigating the sinister children's program, Smile Time, Angel was turned into a puppet. Puppet Angel managed to stop Smile Times plans and save the children of Los Angeles. He remained a puppet for several days until the spell wore off. It was around this time that he realized werewolf Nina Ash was attracted to him, and the pair started dating.
Angel finally understands that he will never be able to completely stop the forces of evil, but that he can temporarily sever the Senior Partners' hold on Earth and stop their apocalyptic plans. Together with his comrades, Angel prepares to suicidally incur the wrath of the Senior Partners, probably going out in a blaze of glory in doing it. They assassinate the members of the Circle of the Black Thorn, the Senior Partners' instruments on Earth. In this effort, Gunn is badly wounded (probably mortally), and Wesley is killed. Gunn manages to make it to the meeting point, the alley behind the Hyperion Hotel, where he, Angel, Spike and Illyria engage in battle with the dark armies that the Senior Partners have sent against them.
Now with L.A. in a state of awareness and chaos a few days after the Senior Partners waged war Angel strives to clean the mess his group had made and drive Wolfram and Hart out of their dimension.
Credit: Buffy Wiki - Angel
FATHER: Unidentified (Deceased)
MOTHER: Unidentified (Deceased)
SIBLINGS: Kathy (Unknown Last Name/Deceased)
OTHER RELATIONS: The Whirlwind (Spike, Darla, Drusilla/Disbanded), Connor (Son), Wolfram and Hart (Employeer)
ROMANTIC TIES: Buffy Summers (Ex-Girlfriend/Current Potential), Cordelia Chase (Romanticly Tied/Deceased), Nina Ash (Ex-Girlfriend), Darla (Ex-Lover),
ALLIES: Scooby Gang (Buffy Summers, Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, Rupert Giles, etc) Angel Investigations (Cordelia Chase, Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, Charles Gunn, Lorne, Fred Burkle, Connor, Spike)
ENEMIES: Wolfram and Hart, Circle of the Black Thorn, Angelus (Alter Ego), Drusilla, Darla, The First, Lindsey McDonald, Lilah Morgan, Linwood Murrow, Holland Manners, Gavin Park.
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THE CIVILIAN
PERSONALITY: At first Angel comes off as a brooding and dark character, he tends to stay away from crowds and he prefers to be alone rather than in the company of others. That being said Angel's greatest fear is being alone, and the very little friends he has he tends to keep close and is fiercly protective of. On the outside a loner, on the inside not so much.
Being a friend of Angel's you tend to get a different side of him, although warm at times he does take what he does seriously and he's always battle ready or expecting something bad to happen. Most of his life is just a series of one storm after another. He tries to lighten the mood out out of date humor and tends to fail on the execution though some find this endearing, considering Angel's demeanor when one finds themselves being cheered up by Angel they know something is wrong.
Angel is often aware of the importance of love even if he often shies away from it because of both his guilt about his past and the curse on his soul, forming strong familial bonds with his teammates at Angel Investigations- to the point where he described his relationship with Cordelia as 'family' only a few months after they started to work together, and giving Buffy a cross, a claddagh ring and a book of poetry for her birthday during their three years of dating respectively.
Helping the helpless, a motto derived from the early days of Angel Investigations is what drives Angel to atone for the sins of his past as Angelus, the ruthless killer he was when he turned and before he was cursed with a soul. He enjoys the feeling of helping people and doing what is right, and desperately desires to atone for the atrocities he committed as Angelus. His soul provides him with constant torment with memories of his past, as his photographic memory allows him to recall, in perfect detail, every single one of the faces of his past victims. While once fighting because he believed he was making a difference in the battle between good and evil, and that he would gain measure of redemption upon completion of this task, he has since altered this view after having an epiphany about his fight, and altered his reasons.He does not always seem to believe it is actually possible for him to gain redemption for his evil actions, once telling Spike that he believes his escape from Acathla's hell was not an escape, but only a "short reprieve", and that he still believes he will go to hell if/when he dies.
LIKES: list a minimum of 5 things this character likes.
1. Sketching
2. Classic Television Programs
3. Classical Music
4. Reading
5. Chocolate
6. Cars (Favored Muscle Design)
7. Buffy Summers
8. Helping the Helpless
DISLIKES: list a minimum of 5 things this character dislikes.
1. Wolfram and Hart
2. Technology
3. Angelus
4. Demons
5. Darla/Drusilla
6. Aalanis Morissette
the martyr
THE VICTIM
THE VICTIM
POWERS AND ABILITIES:
- Enhanced Strength, Endurance, Stamina.
-Immortal.
- Advanced age grants him physical abilities superior to those of most other vampires and demons.
- Psychic links with his sired progeny allow him to experience vague dreams based on their recent deeds and sense their presence.
- Temporary precognitive visions granted by the Powers That Be passed down to him from Cordelia and Doyle.
- Superior hand-to-hand and weapons combat skills.
- Fluency in several languages (such as English, Korean, Tibetan, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin, Romanian and Russian).
- Master of both physical and psychological torture.
- Superior knowledge of demonology and history due to his long lifetime.
- Experienced in witchcraft and sorcery, adept with glamours, rituals, and exorcisms.
VULNERABILITIES:
- Sunlight burns the flesh and body of a vampire turning it into dust when exposed directly.
- Wood when pierced through the heart can kill a vampire turning them into dust.
- Holy water burns the flesh of a vampire much like if it were acid.
- Fire is quick to burn a vampire more so than a human.
- Beheading is also a cause of death for vampires much like a lot of creatures, also causes the dust effect.
- Vampires cannot cross the threashold of an occupied and owned abode without first being invited in by an official occupant.
- When expericing a moment of true happiness Angel will lose his soul and revert back into his alter ego Angelus.
SKILLS AND STRENGTHS: describe a minimum of 5 skills and strengths this character has.
1. Expert Sword Fighter
2. Adept in Hand to Hand Combat
3. Adept in Knowledge of the Supernatural
4. Minor Knowledge in the Planar (Alternate Dimensions)
5. Photographic Memory
6. Strong Willed
7. Expert Leadership Qualities
8. Finds Strength in his friends and companions
FLAWS AND WEAKNESSES: describe a minimum of 5 flaws and weaknesses this character has.
1. Romantic at heart
2. Fear of isolation
3. Buffy Summers
4. Unable to obtain true happiness
5. All common Vampire Weaknesses
6. Insecure in his love/social life
this
IS WAR
IS WAR
WRITING SAMPLE: Angel wavered as he was thrown against the Prius, it wasn't really the fact he was thrown against the car but the fact that someone under his employ actually owned a Prius. Ever since the Wolfram and Hart unleashed their army of demons in L.A. it had been fairly hard for Angel to reclaim the structurally unsound Wolfram and Hart from the horde that was bombarding the city. Though he was coming close to finally reclaiming the parking garage, everything else was pretty much his but there were some nasty Howler demons who apparently wielded swords, whoever taught them that should be shot because now they are even more frightening when they "howl" if that's what one could call it.
Standing up from the ground he found himself laying upon he brushed the arms of his jacket and growled, his face deforming into a vampiric state. He took the charge by retrieving his battle axe from the door of the car and swung it in an arc of impending doom as it approached a Howler with such force it severed it's arm.
Satisfied with the outcome of his opponent fate he was met with the hilt of another sword wielding Howler Demon. Grumbling at his misfortune he came to find himself talking aloud, his thoughts weren't all too sane either. One could say it was the stress of the job, his ill decision to insight this was one he's been thinking of since this all started.
"You know, just once I'd like something to go according to plan," Blade met with blade in a loud clang that echoed through the parking garage. "Like seriously Ted, can I call you Ted?" It didn't take long for the Howler to grow annoyed with the banter, it caused it to Howl in anger at Angel. "Ted, ever since I got a soul it's just been one thing after another. No wonder there aren't a lot of good guys in this world, they always get the crap end of the axe. You know what I mean?" Angel took a hearty swing and loped off the Howler demon's head and nodded with an exasperated sigh.
"Yeah you know what I mean, take the rest of the day off Ted." Dragging his axe and himself to the access elevator he waited for it to come, waiting patiently. Once it arrived the doors open and Angel made a move to step forward only to be gifted with the sight of three more Howler warriors. Angel made no sudden movements, neither did they. Calmly Angel stepped into the elevator and one of the Howlers hit the button as the door closed.
The music was soothing, usually is in the elevator. Something to calm the employees, distress them after a long day of work. It wasn't like that for Dave however, who stood infront of the elevator doors as it was open to be greeted by the stench of hacked up Howler Demons and his boss tossing him a bloodied axe.
"Clean that for me will you?"
"I don't clean axes sir."
"What do you do here?"
"I'm a paralegal assistant."
"So in other words you're my axe cleaner."
Angel began walking away, his foot steps stern and determined. It really wasn't Dave's day at all.
it's the moment of truth
AND THE MOMENT TO LIE
AND THE MOMENT TO LIE
OCCUPATION: C.E.O of Wolfram and Hart, Founder of Angel Investigations
UNIQUE ITEMS: The Sword of Angelus, Battle Axe of Angel, Claddagh Ring, Picture of Buffy (Bookmark), Picture of Connor (Baby), Cordelia, and Himself located on his desk.
FEARS: Becoming Angelus, Losing Buffy (Again), Losing any of his friends and family, inadvertantly causing the world to end, having the inability to save someone worth saving.
SECRETS: Angel keeps most of the horrible things he's done as Angelus from his friends however some of it slips out, he's content in not letting anyone know how big of a monster he was. He still harbors feelings for Buffy Summers despite the seperation they had so many years ago, she remains the love of his eternal life.
FUN FACT: He enjoys the taste of chocolate peanut butter.
the moment to live
AND THE MOMENT TO DIE
the moment to fight
TO FIGHT
AND THE MOMENT TO DIE
the moment to fight
TO FIGHT
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