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Angel/Angelus/Liam - See [Angel Characters]
Anya Christina Emmanuella
Jenkins/Anyanka/Aud - She became a [vengeance
demon] after turning her husband Olaf
into a troll, in 880 — the demon D'Hoffryn got
a hold of Aud and made her Anyanka (Selfless),
the Patron Saint of Scorned Women.
Aud lived with her husband in the
small village of Sjornjost and bred rabbits in
their little house — many, many, many rabbits.
She was considered "weird" by the townspeople,
who thought she spoke her mind and was
annoying, making them not talk to her, at all,
which bothered Aud very much. When Olaf
cheated on her with the bar matron Rannveig,
Aud cast a Thornton's Hope/Eelsbane spell and
turned him into a troll. They met each other
in 2001, when Willow, accidentally, released
Olaf from a crystal (Triangle),
where he had been imprisoned by witches for
centuries; at the time, Anya said Olaf had
been her "boyfriend".
Anyanka/Anya is the only being that
survived an Ascension and we see her for the
first time on the episode The Wish,
when she is summoned by Cordelia, who makes a
wish after being hurt by her boyfriend Xander.
However, things go awfully wrong and Anyanka
ends up trapped in our world when her pendant,
source of all her power, is destroyed by
Giles, making her become the human Anya. She
does try to get her powers back, but fails and
ultimately has to accept her fate of being
human again.
The ex-demon falls in love with
Xander and starts helping the Scoobies out,
slaying as well as providing them with lots of
information about the demon world. Not used to
being human, she often speaks her mind, and
can be very annoying by making awkward
questions (like Aud used to do).
Anya's only fear is of bunnies, she
is proud to be an American, and loves to earn
money. At some point, Giles hires her to work
at the Magic Box and when he returns to
England, she becomes the owner of the store.
Anya and Xander get engaged
eventually, but he winds up leaving the
bride at the altar (Hell's Bells).
Afterwards, she returns to her old demon self,
accepting an offer from her old boss
D'Hoffryn. Later, Anya/Anyanka and Spike, both
deeply hurt by their lovers, get drunk
together and have sex at the Magic Box (Entropy).
Unfortunately for them, they are caught
red-handed by Xander and Buffy, who watch
their love-making through the camera Warren,
Andrew and Jonathan have placed in the magic
store to spy Buffy and the Scoobies. And, in
the end of Buffy, The Vampire Slayer's
season 6, although all the hard feelings,
Anya/Anyanka helps the Scoobies to fight evil
Willow, surprisingly showing great care for
Buffy's Watcher, Giles, who had returned to
Sunnydale.
After things return back to normal,
Anyanka get down on her work as a Vengeance
Demon, granting wishes to scorned women. Her
favorite place to hang around is [The
Bronze] and is there that the Scoobies
and newly soulled Spike go to ask for her to
undo a spell that turned a man (Ronnie) into a
worm. After looking at Spike's eyes, Anyanka
realizes the vampire has a soul and gets very
excited about it. Spike freaks out, tells
Anyanka to shut her mouth, and as she doesn't,
they start fighting. Buffy interferes,
fighting with Spike, but soon they have to
stop and go after the girl (Nancy) whose
boyfriend is now a worm. Xander stays with
Anyanka and manages to convince her to undo
the spell eventually (Beneath You);
because Anyanka withdrew the vengeance spell,
she is punished by her boss, losing her power
of teleporting — except for official business
(Same Time, same Place).
Later, Anyanka grants a wish that
causes the death of a dozen young men in a
fraternity (Selfless) and
afterwards regrets it. When Buffy learns that
Anyanka was responsible for the deaths, she is
in Slayer mode and wants to kill Anyanka
immediately, for Xander's chagrin. When Buffy
and Anya are fighting to death, Anyanka's
boss, D'Hoffryn, appears (he had been summoned
by Willow) and Anyanka asks for him to undo
the spell and give back the lives to the boys
— D'Hoffryn agrees, the wish is undone, but it
takes "the life and the soul of a vengeance
demon", the life of Anyanka's best friend
Hallie. Anyanka becomes human again and
continues to help the Scoobies. Never do she
and Xander return to be a couple again;
however, they have sex twice in the following
months. Anya is killed by a Bringer in the
final battle against the Turok-Hans, wounded
by his sword. Unfortunately, Xander doesn't
show much grief over her death; instead, he
prefers to talk about "the destruction of Gap
and Starbucks" (Chosen).
Cordelia Chase - See [Angel Characters]
Dawn Summers -
HER STORY
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Giles (Rupert) -
HIS STORY
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Oz (Daniel
Osbourne) -
Riley Finn -
Spike -
After being sired by Drusilla, William and his beloved Dru join
vampires Angelus and Darla, and Spike learns
from Angelus about the existence of Slayers.
He becomes obsessed in killing them, managing
to kill his first Slayer in China, in 1900,
and a second one (Nikki) in New York, in 1977.
Thus, it wouldn't be a surprise if Spike, soon
or later, appeared in Sunnydale to try to kill
Buffy Anne Summers.
Spike and Drusilla arrives in
Sunnydale in 1997, and Spike tries to kill
Buffy, but fails. To restore Dru's health (who
is very sick after being chased by a mob in
Prague), Spike learns that he needs to use her
sire — Angel — in a ritual that will end up
causing his death. Buffy manages to save
Angel, but even so, the ritual works and
Drusilla gets her strength back. However,
Spike winds up severely injured after a church
organ falls onto him.
In a wheelchair, Spike sees Angelus
return and hit on his beloved Drusilla. The
two of them brings back the demon Acathla, in
order to destroy the world; Spike, already out
of the weelchair, calls a truce and joins
Buffy to stop their plan. In exchange, he and
Drusilla have to leave Sunnydale for good.
However, after some time,
Drusilla cheats on him with a Chaos Demon,
which makes the vampire return to Sunnydale
and, after killing the owner of the [Magic
Box], kidnap Willow in order to force
her to do a love spell. Eventually, he gives
up and goes after Dru again, to no avail. He
returns to Sunnydale then — and his being in
town ends up badly: Spike is captured by a
governmental organization called [The
Initiative], which implants a chip in
his brain in order to neutralize him as a
vampire — Spike isn't able to hurt people
anymore, because the chip causes an unbearable
headache. After a while, he discovers
that he can hurt other vampires and demons.
Spike keeps
helping the Scoobies, first exchanging pieces of
information and his muscles for money and
supplies of blood, but as time goes by, he
starts helping for free will.
Initially, Spike loves
unconditionally Drusilla, until the day she
dumps him. Eventually, he gets madly in love
with the Slayer and, being through a lot of
changes (because of the chip and out of his
love for Buffy), stops being the cruel vampire
he used to be and starts behaving like a
common mortal infatuated with a girl, trying
to win her love.
Spike finally gets what he
wants after Buffy returns from the dead — the
Slayer is confused by having been torn
out of Heaven and the only
person she feels comfortable to talk to is the
vampire. Eventually, they begin a troubled
relationship, with him being used by her like
a sex toy, until she decides to break up with
him.
Although saying he should move on,
she doesn't like very much to see him with a
date at Anya's wedding, or, later, having sex
with Anya at the Magic Box, making him believe
she does love him. When he looks for her in
order to apologize, things go awfully wrong
and he ends up forcing himself on her (Seeing
Red). Afterwards, he feels so
guilty, that it makes him to leave Sunnydale
and go to Africa, where he fights for a soul.
Four months go by, and one day Buffy
finds Spike living in the basement of the
brand-new [Sunnydale
High], insane, supposedly because of the
soul (Lessons). After a week, he
shows up in her house, completely sane,
offering his help to fight a monster. However,
after hurting a human (not on purpose), Spike
loses it again. Eventually, Spike/William and
Buffy find themselves in a church and he
reveals that he went after a soul out of love
for her (Beneath You).
After some weeks, Buffy arranges for
Spike get out of the basement and go to live
with a not-very-happy Xander. Soon, Spike is
caught killing and siring people again (Sleeper),
but Buffy finds out he has been manipulated by
some evil force, and spares his unlife. Later,
the Scoobies figure out that the [First
Evil] brainwashed the vampire and is
using a song as a "trigger" to make him kill.
Buffy says to Spike she "believes in him, that
he is a good man." Before they could do
something about the trigger, the [Bringers]
kidnap Spike from Buffy's house (Never
Leave Me), and the [Turok-Han],following
orders from the First Evil (morphed as
Drusilla and Buffy), tortures Spike, to make
him choose their side, the side of evil. He is
brave and endures the trial; he knows Buffy
will come for him — and she does rescue him. (Showtime).
Spike, now free, starts helping
Buffy to train the Slayers in Training, who
are coming from all over the world and staying
in Buffy's house for protection. (Potential).
But the pain is far from over for
Spike; suddenly, his chip starts
malfunctioning, giving him horrible headaches.
He will die if anything is done. Buffy calls
Riley Finn/The Initiative, Riley sends
soldiers and doctors, and the chip is removed
— according to Buffy's choice (The
Killer in Me).
Spike and the Scooby Gang learn that
the First "has plans for Spike" and the
vampire says to Buffy he should leave
Sunnydale; however, the Slayer tells him to
stay because she isn't ready to not have him
around (First Date).
The chip is gone, but the First's
control over Spike isn't. Giles brings home a
Procaryote stone, which enters in Spike's
brain and helps the vampire to find out the
root of the trigger's power. After the
process, Spike remembers the song used by the
First, an old English tune called Early
One Morning, his mum's favorite. Spike,
having issues about his past, doesn't want to
collaborate with the Scoobies and keeps saying
that the song doesn't mean anything to him,
which isn't true, at all. Soon after William
is sired by Drusilla, he goes for his mother
and sires her, out of love, in order for them
to live together forever. However, his sweet
mother turns into an evil monster, saying and
doing horrible things to him, making him kill
her eventually. Those things weigh on him for
quite some time, because he didn't realize
they were words from a demon, not from his
real mother. Only after Principal Robin Wood,
son of the Slayer Spike killed in New York,
seeks revenge and tries to kill Spike, this
truth sinks in and Spike, aware that he was
very much love by his mum, is finally
de-triggered. The vampire bites Wood, but
spares his life, "on account I killed his
mother" (Lies My Parents Told Me).
The battle against the First Evil is
getting worse. A new villain appears in town —
Caleb — and he is trying to keep something
very valuable from the Slayer. Buffy, Faith
(who had escaped from prison to help the Fang
Gang in Los Angeles), the SITs and Spike go
for him and the aftermath is disastrous —
Xander loses an eye and two SITs die (Dirty
Girls).
The next day, the Scoobies and the
SITs decide that Buffy shouldn't lead them
anymore, and force her to get out of her own
house (Empty Places).
When Spike finds out what they have
done to Buffy (he wasn't in the house at the
time), he gets very mad at them, and goes
after the Slayer. He finds her in an empty
house. She tells him to go away, she is very
tired and has given up the fight. Spike stands
by her, gives her strength, says she is a
"hell of a woman". Buffy is moved by Spike's
words, and cries. They spend the night
together, and the next morning the Slayer is
back — she goes after Caleb and finds out a
powerful weapon he was trying to keep from her
— a [Scythe],forged
centuries ago by women who watched the
Watchers (Touched).
Buffy tells Spike she has the
Scythe because of him, because of the
strength he gave her the night before. Spike
says to Buffy he is terrified — all he did was
hold her and watch her sleep, and it was the
best night of his life. She says he doesn't need
to be terrified, she was there with him. She
implies that, after the war against the First is
over, they can be together (End of Days).
Angel comes
from Los Angeles and gives Buffy an [amulet]
that is very powerful, something that will help
to fight evil. He offers to stay and fight
beside her, but Buffy sends him away. Buffy
chooses Spike as her Champion, giving him the
amulet; the two of them spend the two nights
before the Big Battle together. Buffy has
decided to go to the Hellmouth and close it for
good. When the day has come, she, Faith, the
SITs and Spike (wearing the amulet) open the [Sealof
Danzalthar] and find a huge cave, where
thousands of Turok Hans are ready for battle.
Using the power of the Scythe — weapon that
Buffy conquered because of the strength Spike
gave her — Willow does a spell that turns every
SIT in the world into a Slayer. The war starts,
and Buffy, Faith, the new Slayers, and Spike are
managing to beat the Turok-Hans back; but there
are thousands of them, and eventually, they
would lose. Suddenly, the amulet starts working,
pinning Spike in place, right above the Seal of
Danzalthar. Spike, thrilled, tells Buffy he can
feel his soul. From him, beams of golden light
starts to pour, killing the Turok-Hans — Spike
is glowing, EFFULGENT. The cavern begins to
collapse; everybody run away, except for Buffy
and Spike. He tells her to go and she says he
has done enough, he has to leave the place with
her. He refuses, saying he must do the clean up.
Buffy tells him she loves him; Spike says she
doesn't, but thanks her for saying it. The
entire Sunnydale is collapsing; Buffy barely
manages to escape. Spike, the Champion, the
Chosen One, dies in the cavern, laughing. The
Hellmouth is closed for business. He defeated
Evil. He is redeemed (Chosen).
Nineteen days
have gone by since Sunnydale was destroyed when,
in his office at [Wolfram & Hart], Angel
opens an envelope and the amulet he had given to
Buffy falls onto the floor. From it, Spike
appears, yelling in pain and burning from inside
— the essence of the vampire with a soul got
trapped inside the object (Angel/Conviction).
Not being able to leave Los Angeles (the amulet
is owned by the evil firm and he is attached to
it) Spike stays with the Fang Gang and helps
them fight evil; [Fred], who sympathizes
with (Champion) Spike from start, works hard to
make him corporeal again, but don't succeed. One
day, without notice, another mail — a box —
arrives at Wolfram & Hart and makes the
vampire corporeal again (Angel/Destiny).
Although having the desire to go looking for
Buffy in Europe, Spike decides to stay in Los
Angeles, eventually. He works with the Fang
Gang, honoring his Championship till the very
end — of the show, because for him, unlife goes
on (Angel/Not Fade Away).
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Tara Maclay -
Willow Rosenberg -
HER STORY
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Xander/AlexanderLeVelle
Harris -
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