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Jun 12, 2023 · Drusilla's plan is a masterstroke - by incapacitating but not killing the most recent Slayer, the lineage can be stalled, allowing vampires to operate freely for decades. Meanwhile, in that time, Drusilla can use the blood of the remaining Slayers to elevate herself to Queen of Hell.
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“It was over the moment I saw her. She was my opposite in every way. Dutiful daughter. Devout Christian. Innocent and unspoiled. I took one look at her and I knew. She'd be my masterpiece.”
―Angel
Drusilla was a vampire who possessed psychic powers as a human. She was tortured to insanity and sired by Angelus, who had murdered her entire family before her eyes in order to turn her into his "masterpiece." Drusilla later sired the young London poet William Pratt, who took the name Spike and became her long-time paramour.
In 1997, Drusilla became weakened after she was captured by a mob in Prague. In search of a cure, Spike took her to the Hellmouth in Sunnydale, the city guarded by the current Slayer, Buffy Summers. Drusilla met Angel again and her sire was used in a ritual that restored her strength. Angel returned to Drusilla and Spike's side after he lost his soul, but this reunion affected the couple's relationship. Spike allied himself with Buffy to defeat Angel, but this betrayal caused Dru to break up with Spike.
Human life
“Visions? She sees the future? She is pure innocence, yet she sees what's coming, she knows what I'm going to do to her…” ―Angelus Drusilla was born around the mid-19th century and lived with her family in the East End of London. One night in 1860, whilst walking the streets with her sisters, she was recognized by the vampire Darla for her prophetic gifts; she was not only pure, sweet, and chaste, but possessed the uncanny ability to foresee the future. Darla presented Drusilla to her lover, the ruthless Angelus, who became instantly obsessed with the young woman. He wished not only to destroy her physically but to poison her mind. Drusilla's mother told her that her visions were an affront to the Lord, which had caused her to regard them as a curse rather than a blessing. After Drusilla had a vision a mine crash that resulted in the deaths of two men, she sought the guidance of a priest; however, she didn't realize that the man inside the confessional she visited was Angelus, who had murdered the real priest. Drusilla told him about the vision and her growing fears, so Angelus taunted her by calling her a "spawn of Satan." This was the first of many tortuous acts Angelus condemned Drusilla to experience through the course of creating his "masterpiece." After stalking her for a prolonged period of time, Angelus butchered her entire family in their home. The vampire made her witness the slaughter and then allowed her to flee her house. With her sanity nearly destroyed by both her constant visions and the loss of her family, she sought refuge at a convent.
Siring
“We turn her into one of us. Killing is so merciful at the end, isn't it? The pain has ended.” ―Angelus The night Drusilla was called to take her holy vows at the convent, Angelus massacred the sisters before her very eyes. Whatever hold on reality Drusilla had managed to retain was severed; as she lay babbling on the convent floor, Darla arrived to survey the fruition of Angelus' work. When Angelus admitted his desire to sire Drusilla, Darla, who had no desire to travel alongside a lunatic, objected. Angelus, however, insisted that death would merely release Drusilla from her suffering while eternal life would ensure that his "masterpiece" would endure forever. He and Darla had sex in front of Drusilla, and then he turned her into a vampire. For the next twenty years, Drusilla traveled with Angelus and Darla and terrorized Europe under the group banner the Whirlwind. After two decades alone with her sire and "grandmother," Drusilla began to desire a playmate and companion of her own.
The poet
“Oh, I see you. A man surrounded by fools who cannot see his strength, his vision, his glory. […] Your wealth lies here… And here. In the spirit and… imagination. You walk in worlds the others can't begin to imagine.” ―Drusilla to William In 1880 in London, Drusilla bumped into the young poet William Pratt, who had fled a gathering after his romantic advances were rejected by Cecily Addams. She followed him into an alley, where she found him in tears. Sensing his potential, she approached and sired him. Drusilla and William remained together for many years and quickly became a highly affectionate couple. William was unrelentingly devoted to her, though as they were both soulless, their love was rather twisted. Much to William's displeasure and sadness, Drusilla maintained a sexual relationship with her sire, which only added to the formation of a long-time rivalry between Spike and Angelus. Still, he remained faithful to her and cared for her despite her insanity, which thought of as childishness rather than instability. Following Angelus' ensoulment, Spike, Drusilla and Darla slaughtered the Romani Kalderash clan responsible for their leader's curse. Subsequently, Drusilla encountered Spike after he had killed his first Slayer during the Boxer Rebellion in China. Soon afterward, Drusilla and Spike left the already disbanded Whirlwind and went off on their own. Together, the couple visited Rome, Italy in 1953.
“Look at me, Dearie. Be in my eyes. Be in me.”
―Drusilla hypnotizes Kendra Young
•Vampire abilities: Drusilla had the standard powers of a vampire, being immortal, possessing superhuman strength, and capable of regenerating from physical damages.[citation needed]
•Combat skills: Though Drusilla's combat techniques were awkward-looking, she was still able to hold her own in a fight against Angel, Spike, Kendra, and Marianne. As a vampire's nails were much sharper than those of human beings, she had a tendency to use her nails in combat as a weapon of sorts, as demonstrated by how she used them to slit Kendra's throat, and to scratch Spike and Angel. Drusilla was also an adept at fencing — she defeated Faith in a sword fight, though she admitted that the Slayer might have been slowed down from fighting her minions.
•Hypnosis: As a vampire, Drusilla had the inherent vampire power of hypnotizing people, which enabled her to mesmerise her prey and render them helpless — all she had to do was to catch her victim's gaze, point her fingers towards their eyes, and whisper to them, eventually putting them in a trance. This was one of Drusilla's most dangerous abilities, for the Master himself used a similar version of it to paralyze Buffy, and Angel (a far older vampire than Drusilla was) was never able to master this ability, but she appeared to be a true mistress of it — she used it to murder Kendra, taunt and threaten Dalton, and project false imagery into her victims (she once convinced Giles that she was really Jenny Calendar). This power also allowed her to control other entities like Betta George, Beck, and a Lorophage demon.[citation needed]
•Extrasensory perception: Even before Drusilla became a vampire, she had the power to acquire information by means independent on any known senses or previous experience, which Darla termed as "the sight." This not only enabled her to foresee and thwart attacks on her and hers, but also allowed her to accurately detect the subconscious desires of those who surround her, and exploit those desires to her best advantage.
“Drusilla was always straightforward. Never knowing a single buggerin' clue about what was going on in front of her but she was straight about it!”
―Spike
Drusilla was widely considered to be "insane," her own grandsire Darla describing her as "a lunatic." Spike lovingly commented that she "never stopped surprising him," and that she "still had a bit of a child in her," in contraction to very belittling statements about her lunacy by her sire Angel.[citation needed]
Drusilla was unusually affectionate for a vampire and viewed her fellow members of the Whirlwind as her family. Although because of her soulless status, she had a twisted obsession with them, making them objects of her neurosis. She was particularly attached to Spike, her longtime lover and companion. Years after she and Spike had gone their separate ways, she was shown to still be very much in love with him, as she told John that her heart rested with him. She was also very fond of Darla, who acted as a surrogate guardian to her; Drusilla called her "grandmother" on several occasions. While still traveling with the Whirlwind, she kept up a sexual relationship with Angelus even while she was with Spike; Angelus wanted to teach Spike what it meant to be a vampire, and used Drusilla to achieve this end. Drusilla seemed to ignore the rivalry targeting her, unless she delighted in it. After Angelus's departure from the group, Spike continued to take care of her.[citation needed]
Despite her unstable state of mind, she was quite capable of carrying on normal conversations with Spike, though generally only when they were alone together. With others, she spoke in riddles and babbled illogically. Her insanity made her a source of great fear for both vampires and demons. Many believed her to be unpredictable, though Spike thought she was rather simple.[citation needed]
Drusilla showed a strong attachment to nature and had a particular appreciation for animals, though she had proved incapable of caring for them on several occasions; her pet bird died of starvation, something she did not process until Spike got irate and brought it to light when she was trying to get it to sing. She seemed to like dogs, as well as plants, particularly flowers like jasmine and lilac. She hated red roses, possibly because they were the symbol of her home country, England, and reminded her of her lost family or purity. She had a love for her "family," the Whirlwind, and helped to organize the resurrection of Darla as a vampire. At the time, she was excited that she was going to be a "mummy." She seems to connect the act of siring to parenthood.[citation needed]
•She was portrayed by Juliet Landau and by Robia LaMorte in "Becoming, Part Two."
•Drusilla appears in 24 episodes total: 17 on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and 7 on Angel.
•According to Landau, Drusilla's costumes were originally intended to be a "cross between a Victorian period look and the Kate Moss heroin chic fashion look."
•Though Drusilla and Spike had not been conceived as necessarily having to be either British or American, Landau chose to portray Drusilla with a Cockney accent in keeping with the characters' "Sid and Nancy analogy."
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Sep 12, 2023 · Drusilla is portrayed as being plagued by visions and hallucinations, which serve to both drive her actions and blur the line between reality and fantasy. These visions often provide her with disturbing insights into the future, adding a layer of mysticism and unpredictability to her persona.
Feb 24, 2017 · In the first half of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Drusilla is quite weak. She is unable to hunt on her own, often bedridden, and Spike is constantly worrying over her. Her illness is apparently so severe that a magical ritual involving her sire is required to cure her.
At some point before their arrival in Sunnydale in late 1997, Drusilla is attacked and severely injured by an angry mob in Prague, leaving her in a weakened and frail condition. Spike cares for her, and the couple decide to travel to the Hellmouth in hopes that its energy will help to restore Drusilla's strength and health.
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