Angel

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Contents 1 Information 1.1 → stats 1.2 → in-depth 1.2.1 personality 1.2.2 background 2 Social 2.1 → relationships 2.1.1 family 2.1.2 friends 2.1.3 other 3 Miscellaneous 3.1 → random facts 3.2 → in-game events 3.3 → playlist

ANGEL
the sun is burning down los angeles

this city's killing me
i want, i want, i want everything
this city's killing me
in the heat of los angeles
what has become of me?
i want, i want, i want everything
this city's killing me
(i want everything)

Information

→ stats

• Name: Angel.
• Date of Birth: 1727.
• Date of Death: 1753.
• Age: 282.
• Sexual Orientation: Heterosexual.
• Height: 6'1" (1.85 m).
• Weight: 81kg (180lbs).
• Hair Colour: Brown.
• Eye Colour: Brown.
• Spoken Language(s): English (Native), French (Fluent), Italian (Fluent), Spanish (Fluent).
• Image Song(s): Los Angeles by Sugarcult, Cure My Tragedy by Cold.

→ in-depth

personality

A man burdened with the guilt of a thousand sins, there’s much more to Angel than meets the eye, as he is also a man of many complexities. While he appears to have little personality, it really depends on the situation occurring that determines whether or not there’s more to him than just his incredibly honed brooding skills. Due to the amount of guilt he is constantly riddled with, he has a severe hero complex that may make him seem like a jerk from time to time as he has a taste for the dramatics and attempts to do everything alone.

Though he is not entirely without a soul (no pun intended) – as said earlier, he is a man of complexities. He possesses a humour that is sometimes mistaken for being a bit morbid, and maybe because of this he doesn’t like sharing his own brand of jokes with the whole wide world. Stuck in a perpetual case of sexual frustration (for even a half-second of happiness may just doom the world), it comes as no surprised that he may seem “uptight” more than the majority of the time.

It goes without saying that Angel is quite selfless, and constantly worries for those that he cares for more so than he does himself. Should he ever feel that he is becoming detrimental to a person, he will not hesitant to distance himself if only to protect them. Uncomfortable with most social situations, Angel very much keeps to himself and very rarely attends things like “parties.” But even though he might be socially awkward, he can hold his own in blending in with a crowd if he must, or even act like the life of the party. Everything truly depends on company and circumstance when it comes to this particular vampire.

As Angelus, however, we find a much different man than before. Cruel, sadistic and twisted in every way imaginable, Angelus holds absolutely no sense or want for remorse, and takes great pleasure out of his kills. Once he becomes interested in something, that interest turns into obsession and he will go to great lengths to meet his goal.

Angelus's cruelty is only challenged by his sick sense of humour. Where he may just laugh at you as you trip over the body of your mother, he would guffaw when your eyes land on the body of your beloved puppy nailed to the wall. There's little he wouldn't do to make a hunt amusing.

But Angelus is not stupid. Possessing a knack for experimenting with a person's mental limits, it's not surprising that he has some idea of how psychology works. He will get under your skin and rip you apart if only to see what's inside. While he might spring a trap or two set for him, he would not be so careless as to fall into it by mistake.

background

There was nothing particularly exciting about the year 1727. The last of the executions for witchcraft was being carried out in Scotland, the daughter of King George II of England was crowned Princess Royal and Catholic Churches were being built in the New World. Meanwhile, in the little town of Galway, a young baby boy was taking his first breaths and crying his first cries. That child’s name was Liam, and he would become both the world’s harbinger of death and it’s champion.

His childhood was far from interesting, and it flew by much too quickly for him to remember as he grew older. He was never a bad kid by any means, nor was he prone to getting into too much trouble as he grew up. Liam wanted to travel, to see the world and experience all it had to offer. But by the time he reached his twenties, he was already dabbling in gambling and drinking, and had a habit of sleeping with as many women as he could get his hands on. His greatest sin was sloth, so his dreams of travel were nothing more than laughable. His father was greatly upset with him, and practically banished Liam from the home, saying that he was nothing more than a great disappointment to their family.

It was in his drunken stupor that Liam met a beautiful woman named Darla, who lured him into an alleyway and offered to show him a world of travel and excitement. He would see exotic countries and partake in adventures beyond his wildest dreams. The offer was far too good for him to resist, though he didn’t realise the price he had to pay until it was already done. Transformed into a soulless creature of Hell, the first thing he did when he rose from his grave was slaughter the entirety of the community he had grown up in before making his way to his family home.

Kathy, his beloved younger sister, had thought him an angel, and thought wrong she did. Her brother showed no mercy for her or their mother, and he drained the two of them of their blood before they even had a chance to realise something was horribly wrong (other than the fact their dead family member decided to go for a walk, anyway). When Liam finally confronted his father and killed him, it only made certain that the older man’s words would haunt him forever.

It was after he killed his family that he took up the name of Angelus, a name that he chose due to his sister’s excitement that her brother had come back to them as an “angel.” From that night forward, Angelus travelled all over the world with Darla, earning himself a reputation in folklore and various texts as being a ruthless and sadistic vampire who was notorious for his brutal killings. The two of them made a bloody path to London before they were faced with Darla’s sire, The Master.

Angelus was not intimidated in the least by the vampire, in spite of how old and powerful he was. It was then that Angelus forced Darla to make a decision – to hide underground with her coward of a master, or travel the world and wreak havoc with Angelus. Her decision to go with him led to a string of numerous slayings that would go down in history for how violent they were. In May of 1764, they both attacked and killed the family of Daniel Holtz, a known vampire hunter whom they would later come to see as “family” and dedicate themselves to making his life as miserable as possible until he finally retired in York.

Years passed, and Angelus became incredibly fascinated by a young woman named Drusilla who was cursed with “the sight,” something that she said her mother described as being an “affront to the Lord.” As part of his own cruel experimentations, he posed as her priest and brutally raped her mother and sisters before killing her entire family. She fled to a covenant, but the day she went to take her holy orders, he butchered the entire convent and forced her to watch as he had sex with Darla before her very eyes. Once he had successfully driven her insane, Angelus proceeded to sire her. He would always refer to her as his greatest masterpiece. She would later sire a poet named William, who would later become known as Spike.

As the 1800s drew near to a close, Angelus’s attention was diverted to a certain object he had been seeking for sometime. Upon obtaining information that a being called The Draftsman would have it, he immediately sought him out. He was, then, quite surprised when he at last tracked down The Draftsman and came to discover that he was indeed a she – a woman named Charre Tangvald, who was neither demon nor vampire, but a witch. The two of them had their fair share of scuffles over certain things, and he made her his “project.” His goal: to kill her. Status, however, never actually changed come the turn of the century.

1898 marked the end of Angelus, and the start of the only vampire in existence who had a soul. This proved to be the result of the killing of one gypsy princess, the tribe of whom sought revenge on the vampire by restoring his soul and therefore giving him a conscience. In spite of the torment, he endured in order to stay by Darla’s side, but their travels only lasted for so long. It was when he was unable to eat a baby to prove himself that he fled his sire’s side, imposing isolation upon himself and controlling his temptations by avoiding humans altogether. In 1902, he fled to America via Ellis Island and managed to virtually disappear for decades with only a few moments in time where he occasionally made an appearance.

The 90s were met with little enthusiasm from the homeless Angel. Having kept himself as detached from other humans as possible due to a string of rotten luck with them, it seemed to be hopeless for him until he was approached by a demon named Whistler, who convinced him to assist the newly called Slayer, Buffy Summers in the fight against the evil that called to him. He fell in love with the girl from afar, and when the two of them at last met in Sunnydale, he resolved to help her in anyway he could.

But he had fallen in love with the girl, and the more time he spent with her, the less he could hide his feelings. He attempted to beat them down, to keep them at bay for he knew the consequences if he were to experience even a second of true happiness. When she, too, fell for him, they had tried their damnedest to fight the passions erupting between them, but it was much too big a fight for either of them. They gave into their love for one another, and eventually consummated their relationship.

That one instant had been enough to break the curse and revert immediately back into the vampire Angelus. After murdering several of Buffy’s classmates and even a trusted teacher, Jenny Calendar, he was persuaded by Drusilla to turn his attention toward a greater goal, something much better than doing the same old thing again and again – destroy the world. Cliché and overdone as it may have been, Angelus was more than glad to seek out ways to do so, and his decision lay with the demon Acathla, who would be able to open a portal that would suck the entire world into its Hell dimension.

In spite of their history, the amount of torment he had done to her was more than enough to cause Buffy to be less than sympathetic toward him when the time came. At the end of their final battle, however, Willow Rosenberg had managed to perform the curse that would re-ensoul Angel. But by the time Angel had returned, it was far too late, and Buffy was forced to stab her former love and send him into the vortex in order to save the world.

No one really knows what went on in the Hell that Angel was trapped in. Even he refused to speak of the horrors he faced there, but one thing was for certain: when he was unexpectedly released from it, the torment he had endured had been enough to make him entirely feral. Buffy was the one to find him, and the one to nurse him back to health. When he finally regained his senses, he was further tormented with the idea that he was brought back for a reason of evil rather than good, in spite of whatever Buffy had to say against it. But even after they attempted to restore whatever was left of their love, it was when both Joyce and Mayor Wilkins repeated his own fears about their love to him aloud that he made the decision that they would be better off separated. He would do her more harm than good, and he could never give her the normal life she wanted – the life she deserved.

So after Buffy’s high school graduation ended with the death of Mayor Wilkins and many other students, Angel left Sunnydale and Buffy behind as he made his way back to Los Angeles. For sometime, he was fighting off demons and vampires alike and patrolling the various dark alleys to keep humans safe. It wasn’t until he was approached by one Allen Doyle, a half-demon who had been sent by The Powers That Be to assist Angel in his plight. Not longer after they join forces, Cordelia Chase becomes a part of a team that would be called Angel Investigations.

To Help the Helpless was their mission, and the three of them shared many adventures that would both make and break their spirits. When Doyle sacrificed himself to save others, it caused Angel to become even more determined to protect the people he loved. With the addition of former Watcher Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, demon fighter Charles Gunn, and a demonic karaoke bar-owner named Lorne, Angel Investigations had grown from being a three-man team to something akin to a family.

So when Wolfram & Hart, an evil law firm hellbent on getting all up in Angel’s grill, decided to resurrect his sire and former lover, things took a violent turn for the worst. Although Darla had been resurrected as a human, Angel was helpless to save her from becoming the monster she once was when the same lawyers called upon Drusilla to do the dirty deed. Defeated and in agony beyond his comprehension, Angel went beyond the levels of desperation and, in an attempt to rid himself of his soul, slept with Darla. When all he found was despair in the act, he, in his moment of clarity, managed to regain the strength to continue doing as much good as he possibly could.

Time would fly and the team would experience many more adventures, one of which involving the addition of Winifred Burkle to their little group. And although Buffy had risen from the dead, Angel found himself falling in love with his co-worker and friend, Cordelia. Before he could even so much as begin to confess those feelings, Darla suddenly reappeared in his life to inform him of something that not even the most ancient of creatures could make sense of: she was pregnant with his son. A series of events is then let loose, many of which involving false prophecies that would be read by Wesley. In his attempt to save Angel and the world, Wesley kidnaps the infant but subsequently loses him to one Daniel Holtz, who had travelled through time to seek revenge on Angel for killing his family as Angelus. The time traveller takes the baby to the hell dimension Quor Toth, where a mere few days resulted in Connor’s return as a young man.

Connor was raised by Daniel to believe Angel was still the soulless monster called Angelus, and grew to hate him very quickly. Angel attempted to reach out to his son several times, and even forgave him over and over again for many things. But his patience for his son was quick to run out when Connor locked him away in a steel coffin and sunk him to the bottom of the ocean while Cordelia ascended to a higher plane. Released from his watery grave by Wesley, Angel is less than amused by Connor’s behaviour, and even less by the sudden reappearance of an amnesiac Cordelia and the fact that Connor had become uncomfortably close to the woman he loved.

Much to his dismay, Cordelia had become pregnant with what was believed to be Connor’s child. As her pregnancy progressed and Angel and company realised that Cordelia was carrying some sort of malevolent creature that was possessing her, they attempted in vain to save her, but were too late. The divine being known as Jasmine emerged and Cordelia fell into a comatose state. It took the forced assistance from Fred to bring the entity down and restore the world to its rightful order.

But even after defeating Jasmine, Angel was unable to save Cordelia and she died. There wasn’t very much time offered to Angel to even prepare his grieving process, as he and the rest of the team were thrust into yet another struggle with Wolfram & Hart. Although they were now in “control” of the company, there was no doubt that they still had to deal with the Senior Partners, and Angel engaged in a suicidal battle against them. With Gunn badly wounded and Wesley dead, it had been up to Angel, Spike, and Illyria to deal with the dark armies sent against them…

Rocks fell. Everyone died.

Social

→ relationships

family

• ??? — Father, deceased.
• ??? — Mother, deceased.
• Kathy — Sister, deceased.
• Connor Reilly — Son.

friends

• Cordelia Chase — Deceased.
• Allen Doyle — Deceased.
• Charles Gunn —
• Winifred Burkle —
• Charre Tangvald — As Angelus, she was his "project" and he attempted to kill her countless times, though it almost always ended up with his sleeping with her instead. Now, he rarely goes to see her as she is a source for sexual frustration and mild irritation. He still considers her something of a friend in spite of this, and may confide in her from time to time when she isn't feeling particularly cruel and plotting to use magic to make him dance.

other

• Buffy Summers — Quite possibly the one and only woman he will ever truly love. Their relationship was something he considered entirely unfair to her, and he ended it much too late due to his own selfish desires.
• Willow Rosenberg — Buffy's best friend and someone that Angel sees as something of a confidant, he appreciates Willow's smartness.
• Alexander Harris — This kid...
• Darla — Deceased.
• Spike — Captain Peroxide.
• Wesley Wyndam-Pryce — Deceased.
• Daisy Notara — A young dragon demon he met by chance after he'd been given a tip about demonic activity in downtown Los Angeles. It didn't take long for him to force her to reveal her true form, except there was just one problem: she had no idea she was a demon in the first place. After getting help from Charre Tangvald, Angel has been forced to look out for the girl and attempt to teach her how to control her abilities. He finds her infuriatingly brash while also reminiscent of Cordelia at the same time.

Miscellaneous

→ random facts

• If there's one food that Angel misses being able to taste, it's chocolate.
• As Oz so kindly pointed out, he is awfully pale.

→ in-game events

• 25 November: Angel has a surprise encounter with Charre Tangvald in the midst of his mocking her. Embittered, Angel attempts to avoid any sort of real conversation, but is not immune to being distracted by her breasts face.
• 3/4 January: After receiving a tip about demon activity, Angel goes to investigate only to come across one Daisy Notara, who proceeds to turn into a giant pink dragon... without her realisation of being able to do so. He attempts to enlist Charre Tangvald's help, but fails in doing so, thus leaving him to deal with a confused, frightened dragon demon stuck in the middle of an alley. Fortunately, Charre Tangvald changes her mind last minute and shows up with a solution, but tells him his payment to her is looking after the girl and teaching her how to control her power. Angel brings her to his home, and attempts to explain things to her...

→ playlist

• The Crawl by Placebo.

— General.

• Los Angeles by Sugarcult.

— General.

• Ling (Zero) by Alan Kuo.

— General.

• Cure My Tragedy by Cold.

— Angel/Buffy.

• 4:AM Forever by Lostprophets.

— Angel/Buffy.