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🦋 OOC Information

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🦋 IC Information

Character Name: Drusilla
Age: She’s actually about 200, but looks mid 20s
Canon: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Canon Point: End of Season 2
Character History: https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Drusilla
Canon Abilities: Dru has several vampiric powers: immortality (unless staked), being able to regenerate and heal quickly, superhuman strength, superhuman stamina. She has very sharp fingernails, capable of cutting human skin.
Separately, Dru she has precognitive ability: she can see glimpses into the future and has a good sense of when danger is approaching. She has empathetic powers too: she can sense emotions and memories and can predict future actions of her victims. She can also locate people easily. She can sense psychic and mystical energies so that she can predict when something powerful or dangerous is nearby.
Dru can also hypnotise her victims by pointing her fingers directly at their eyes. It makes them helpless. She can also create illusions and project false images to confuse her victims too.
Dru can fight but she isn’t smooth in her technique. Rather, she’s erratic and uses a combination of her psychic abilities and hand to hand combat styles.

Inventory: A bird cage with a dead bird in it and a vase full of dead lillies

🦋 Personality

Option 2: You may instead choose words from the following list to expand upon as your personality section. Elaborate on what this word means to your character, specifically their thoughts about it. For Canon Characters, you can choose five words. For Original Characters, you will need to choose seven words. Keep the word count to 100-300 per choice.

As a note, Drusilla isn’t really capable any more of understanding the symbolism of some of these words in relation to herself. She thinks very much in the present and is very literal in her wants and needs. She wouldn’t spend time pondering the meaning of flowers or the significance of children as a simile for herself. Like many children, Drusilla mostly thinks in the present and she thinks about herself first and foremost. She wouldn’t think deeply (or at all!) about symbolism

• Dead

Death haunts Drusilla. When she was human, Angelus destroyed her family and her religious sisters in front of her to torture her. Seeing them gruesomely murdered helped to break Drusilla’s sanity and made her the psychotic being that she is now. During Angelus’ torture, she often wished for death herself so she could be reunited with the people she loved, but this was denied to her. This trauma surrounding the idea of death as a painful, violent happening pervades her vampiric self too: although she is often the cause of death, as she had been as a human (indirectly, and as victim herself), she hates it when death happens to someone or something she likes. She becomes upset when her pet birds die; she’s unable to acknowledge their deaths until Spike firmly tells her that they’re dead, and she becomes upset when she realises that they’re dead.
This empathy towards her pets’ deaths sits at a juxtaposition to her encounters with her victims. Drusilla is a ruthless killer who is capable, despite everything, of coming up with elaborate schemes to capture and kill her victims. She’s a merciless hunter, who seems to enjoy the fight. She enjoys taking another life just as much as she is pained by her own.





• Dance

Drusilla loves to dance. She enjoys being held in the arms of her mate, whoever it might be at the time, feeling her version of being loved. It’s difficult to love without a soul, but some memory of it from her humanity must still be there. She’s empathetic too, able to feel things a lot of other soulless creatures are unable to, which influences her ability to ‘love’.

One of Dru’s favourite hunting grounds are clubs and parties. She’s able to blend in as a (albeit gothy) student to hunt and seduce her victim before she kills them in a dark alleyway or a stuffy corner of the club. She enjoys dancing, often laughing and smiling whilst she does so.

Drusilla could also be said to be dancing a very fine line between victim and predator, between sanity and insanity, between blame and blameless. She wavers in and out of sanity, often mumbling nonsensical phrases and focusing on childish things like playing dolls or her immediate needs such as feeding. On the other hand, she is fantastic at manipulating people to get what she wants, and can concoct and execute complicated plans to trap her prey. She is also very good at sensing danger and running before she can get staked, which has helped her to live this long. By her present time, Drusilla as a vampire has caused an awful lot of pain and suffering, having killed countless, often young, people. She is to blame for their suffering and their families’ suffering – but she becomes less to blame when it is considered that Angel literally created her into something that was so far from her choosing, that should her human self know, she’d find herself abhorrent.




• Child

Drusilla’s connection with this word is symbolic. Because of the torture she has suffered, Drusilla has been left with a very childlike mentality. She tantrums when she doesn’t get her way, as seen in many of the scenes particularly between Spike and Dru, with Spike having to appease her with offers of new toys when she’s broken ones or different victims when her prey (Buffy) has escaped. Her tantrums often descend into violence against others and even herself: she often clutches her hair and repeats her request until, like a child, she is soothed. As a toddler is capricious and unable to focus on a task for a great length of time, and has not developed resilience against failure, so neither can Drusilla. She’s flighty and often acts on a whim rather than a plan.
She speaks with a whiney inflection, lengthening her words to a drawl, again a speech feature often found in young children. This childlike, almost innocence, sits in contrast to her nature as a bloodthirsty killer and recalls the fact that as a human, Drusilla was an innocent victim of evil.
Drusilla enjoys torturing the weak: in one episode, her victim is a child. She threatens them and seems to enjoy the idea of corrupting their innocence as much as her’s was stolen from her.
Drusilla also likes to spend her free time on child-like past times. She collects china dolls and has quite the collection of them, again highlighting the juxtaposition between her human innocence and her violent vampiric nature.


• Glass

Drusilla’s insane, pure and simple. Angel drove her to insanity, shattering her mind as a rock might shatter glass. Drusilla is vulnerable because of this, easy to manipulate and easy to break further, despite her strengths as a vampire. Her human qualities, though still present in her memories, are irreconcilable to her vampiric nature. She cannot be good, she cannot be innocent, she cannot be kind. Angel has chipped away those parts of her, leaving them to float, broken and unreachable, in the back of her mind.
Drusilla’s fragility of mind plays a huge part in her presentation: she often babbles nonsense.
Her cadence is sing-song like, and she often repeats short phrases to either soothe or remember something.
Drusilla is strong, perhaps the strongest of the main vampires, given her psychic and precognitive abilities. However, as toughened glass is weakened by a fault, so Drusilla’s strength is negated by her insanity. Angelus’ irreparable damage to her mind has destroyed Drusilla and created this fractured persona of manipulated and manipulative, innocence and horror, victim and perpetrator that we see today.
It has been suggested too that Dru is a mirror to Buffy, a warning to her of what might happen should Buffy continue to be close to Angel.


• Flower

Drusilla comes from the Victorian period, a time when ‘floriography’ was on the rise and certain flowers symbolised different meanings. Drusilla is often depicted with flowers, lillies, in the background. Lillies often represent purity, a nod to Drusilla’s innocence and her human nature, for Dru was so pure as a human that she was on the path to sainthood. During Season 2, Angel seduces Drusilla once more with white flowers; again, white flowers represent purity. With these being plucked, they will eventually die, just as Angel plucked Drusilla’s purity from her and left it to wither and die. Far from being pure, Drusilla is now a sensual being, enjoying sex and being bold enough to speak about it. She’s enjoyed relationships with both male and female vampires and isn’t afraid to use seduction to get what she wants.
Another flower often associated with Drusilla is the rose, often used to represent love. The red rose in particular represents love and seduction, both of which she enjoys a twisted relationship with. She becomes dependent on Spike, obsessive even, until her head is turned by Angel, who manages, despite everything, to seduce her. Her torture at Angel’s hand becomes her starting point for her lust for him. Despite everything, she needs him and she craves the pain he brings her.
The flowers around Drusilla are often dead or dying, or she herself is tearing them apart: this can be seen as a metaphor for her innocence being destroyed, her purity withering away and her love being twisted into something dark and dangerous.






🦋 Fae Court


List your top three choices for your characters adoptive court. The mods will choose the one out of those three options that seems the most fitting based on your app.

• CHOICE 1
Dark

• CHOICE 2
Dusk

• CHOICE 3
Spriing
Ability: Do you want your character to gain the ability of their court? (Delete the other two options.)
3) Yes, but they either have no ability of their own, or they refuse to trade theirs away; they will buy their court's ability on credit.



🦋 RP Samples


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