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William was born circa 1853 in London, England to Anne and an (as yet) unnamed husband. In 1880, when William was about 25 to 30 years old, he was a brown-haired, ineffectual gentleman who lived with his mother and wrote poetry. He was called "William the Bloody" behind his back by his peers because his poetry was so "bloody awful." This nickname (with more deadly connotations) would follow him in his future as a vampire. While he traveled in society circles, William found little in common with his peers; he preferred to create things of beauty rather than dwelling on the scandalous and seedy elements of existence. He showed a strong capacity for loyalty and devoted love, which would follow him after his siring. After his romantic overtures were rejected by the aristocratic Cecily, a despondent William, while wandering the streets, bumped into Drusilla. She followed William and seemed to understand him, and William accepted comfort in her arms, only to be bitten and transformed into a vampire (as seen in the episode "Fool for Love").

While new vampires in the Buffyverse often delight in killing their families once they become evil, William was a notable exception. He had always been very close to his mother, and turned her into a vampire to prevent her from dying from tuberculosis. Unfortunately, his mother, as a soulless vampire, proved to be a truly evil creature, taunting William that she had despised him all along, and insinuating that William had always had a sexual fascination with her. He ended up reluctantly staking her because he could not bear to see his mother in such a twisted, unnatural, abusive form. The entire matricidal experience was a terrible trauma for William; he would later write a poem about the experience entitled "The Wanton Folly of Me Mum," the text of which was never presented on-screen. This experience also comes to haunt him later on in the series when The First Evil uses it to manipulate Spike.

After staking his mother, William began a new life with Drusilla. Euphoric with his newfound vampiric abilities and hungry for revenge on his peers, he abandoned the genteel hypocrisy of Victorian life. He became a rebel, adopting a working class North London accent and embracing impulsiveness and violence. He adopted the nom de guerre "Spike" because of a habit of torturing people with railroad spikes, inspired by a detractor from his human days who had exclaimed that he would rather "have a railroad spike driven through [his] head" than listen to William's poetry. In the company of Drusilla, her sire Angelus and Angelus' sire Darla, Spike terrorized Europe and Asia for almost two decades. Utterly devoted to Drusilla, he had a strained relationship with Angelus, rather like two rival brothers. Although Angelus did enjoy the company of another male vampire in their travels, he found Spike's eagerness for battle to be an unnecessary risk. Angelus regarded killing as an art, not a sport, and killed for the sheer act of evil; Spike did it for amusement and the rush. Tensions also arose surrounding Angelus' ongoing sexual relationship with Drusilla, which continued despite Spike's strong disapproval. Spike at one point referred to Angel as both his "sire" and his "Yoda." Joss Whedon explained in an interview that a vampire's sire refers to anyone prior to them in their "line." Spike later notes that Drusilla made him a vampire, but Angelus made him a monster.
Spike kills his first Slayer
Spike kills his first Slayer

In 1900, in one of his proudest moments, Spike killed a Chinese Slayer during the Boxer Rebellion; it was her sword that gave him the scar on his left eyebrow, which remains a century later. Shortly afterward, he and Drusilla lost touch with Darla and Angelus (who, unknown to Spike or Drusilla, had recently been cursed with a soul), and the couple wandered the world seeking amusement and mayhem, occasionally separating to pursue separate interests but always reuniting. During World War II, Spike was captured by Nazis for experimentation and transported aboard a submarine which was in turn seized by Americans. After Spike and two other vampires killed most of the crew, Angel made Spike and another vampire Angel had just sired leave the submarine, forcing them to swim to shore before the submarine reached the United States. While leaving the submarine, Spike looked to Angel and proclaimed, "You're still a d**k." By the 1950s, Spike had reunited with Drusilla and they traveled to Italy. At some point, Spike spent time in prison for tax evasion.

At some point in a century or so of being his own boss, Spike employed a pair of Fyarl Demons as muscle, which is unusual because Buffyverse vampires and demons rarely get along; he continues this diversity in friendships and relationships throughout his un-life. Spike attended Woodstock, where he drank blood from a flower child and spent the next several hours watching his own hand move, a side effect from the psychoactive drugs in her bloodstream. In the 1970s, He fought and killed Nikki Wood, a Slayer in New York City.

Spike's story before he appears in Sunnydale unfolds in flashbacks scattered among numerous episodes of both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. They are not presented in chronological order. A guide to finding the flashback(s) to a particular event is Angel, Darla, Spike and Dru: Before 1997.

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:35 am

Romantic Interests

In his romantic liaisons, Spike is generally a heterosexual who tends to obsess over his love interests. However, a line in the episode "Power Play" insinuates that he has had at least one sexual encounter with Angelus, a male vampire.

* Cecily Addams/Cecily Underwood — Cecily is the object of William's affections and poetic efforts in life; her rejection makes him open to Drusilla's seduction and subsequent siring. Spike is surprised to discover that Cecily is actually Halfrek, a vengeance demon, when they meet over a century later in the episode "Older and Far Away."

* Drusilla — While vampires do not usually indulge in "love" (which reeks of humanity), Spike and Dru are a devoted couple for over a century. They spend their time traveling, feeding, and enjoying themselves. While Spike is single-mindedly devoted to her, Dru is never consistently faithful (maintaining a sexual relationship with Angelus despite Spike's obvious jealousy and discomfort, and, along with Darla, fornicating with The Immortal). She becomes disillusioned with Spike after his betrayal of Angelus, and she perceives his growing feelings for Buffy, and cheats on him with a Chaos Demon ("All slime and antlers!") in South America before breaking up with him, which sends him into a deep depression. By the time Drusilla returns to Sunnydale to reclaim her former love, Spike has developed an obsessive love for Buffy.

* Angel — Spike mentions in the episode "Power Play" that "Angel and me have never been intimate. Except that one--" Joss Whedon has confirmed in numerous interviews and forum posts the possibility of at least a one-night stand between the pair. In the DVD commentary to the episode "A Hole in the World," Whedon explicitly says: "You know, um, I just wanna say Angel and Spike, they were hanging out, uh, for years and years and years, they were in, you know, all kinds of deviant, they were vampires... Are we thinking they never...? Come on, people! I'm just sayin'. I'm just sayin'. You know, they're open-minded guys. They may be evil but, you know, they're not bigoted or closed-minded."

* Harmony Kendall — Spike and Harmony are involved from Season 4 of Buffy through early Season 5. His mistreatment of her, his endless broken promises, and his growing obsession with Buffy bring about their break-up. They briefly reunite for a sexual encounter after he is re-corporealized in Los Angeles, but she becomes possessed and attacks him (this was apparently caused by reality being unable to support two vampires with souls, but was later revealed to have been at least partly manipulated by Lindsey McDonald).

* Buffy Summers — Spike reluctantly becomes Buffy's ally during Seasons 2 and 4, and falls in love with her reluctantly in Season 5. During Season 6, they start a sexual relationship which ends badly, largely because Spike seeks love and intimacy while Buffy merely wants physical comfort. After they break up, Spike tries to rape an injured and weakened Buffy and she has to fight him off, an event that inspires Spike to leave Sunnydale to seek his soul. During Season 7, Buffy and Spike become closer emotionally. His support of her, when all others abandon her, shows his absolute loyalty to Buffy. Buffy eventually tells Spike she loves him, which Spike states that he does not believe. In the fifth and final season of Angel, Spike decides not to let Buffy know he has been resurrected because he wants her to remember him as a hero who died to save the world. He intends to meet up with her in Rome, where he and Angel are attempting to prevent a demon war, but their paths never quite cross.

* Buffybot — After being rejected by Buffy, Spike commissions Warren Mears to build him a robotic replica of Buffy to be single-mindedly devoted to him. Although he initially enjoys the toy, it is damaged in a fight with Glory. After Buffy's death, Willow reprograms the robot, and it becomes a useful and important tool in the fight against evil until Buffy's resurrection, although bits of the original programming occasionally resurface, causing Spike, who is deep in mourning for Buffy, significant pain.

* Anya Jenkins — Spike and Anya bond over their mutual loss of demonic powers in the episode "Where the Wild Things Are." Later, in Season Six, after Xander leaves Anya at the altar and Buffy discontinues her relationship with Spike, they seek solace in one another in a brief sexual encounter at the Magic Box in the episode "Entropy."

Other

* Winifred Burkle — Technically not a romantic relationship per se. Spike initially flirts with Fred, and his feelings later evolve into affection and esteem. Fred is the first person in Los Angeles who believes that he is "worth saving" and she works tirelessly to find a way to recorporealize him (while denying being taken in by his charm). Spike sacrifices a chance at becoming corporeal to save Fred's life, and he later chooses to remain at Wolfram & Hart in tribute to her sacrifice. Spike says in the episode "A Hole in the World" that he loves her, albeit in a platonic way.

* Illyria — Though not a romantic relationship per se, Illyria and Spike share an emerging bond; each is on a path from demon to hero, and they share a love of violence. Their sparring sessions are mutually satisfactory; Spike hones his fighting techniques and Illyria is able to regularly inflict pain and dominate in combat. She, at one point, expresses a desire to keep Spike as a pet. After Illyria's powers are diminished, Spike helps her regain confidence and venture into the world again, the two teaming up to defeat a demon that is after Drogyn. Their relationship remains non-romantic, but develops into mutual respect.