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Note: This article is about the vampire. For other uses, see Drusilla.

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[src]

Drusilla was a vampire who possessed psychic powers as a human.[2] She was tortured to insanity and sired by Angelus,[3] who had murdered her entire family before her eyes in order to turn her into his "masterpiece."[4] Drusilla later sired the young London poet William Pratt, who took the name Spike and became her long-time paramour.[5]

In 1997, Drusilla became weakened after she was captured by a mob in Prague.[6] In search of a cure, Spike took her to the Hellmouth in Sunnydale, the city guarded by the current Slayer, Buffy Summers.[7] Drusilla met Angel again[3] and her sire was used in a ritual that restored her strength.[8] Angel returned to Drusilla and Spike's side after he lost his soul,[9] but this reunion affected the couple's relationship. Spike allied himself with Buffy to defeat Angel,[1] but this betrayal caused Dru to break up with Spike.[5]

In 2000, Wolfram & Hart hired Drusilla to the task of sire her "grandmother" Darla, who had been brought back to life as a human.[10] Feeling lonely, Dru joined Darla and they began a massacre through Los Angeles until Angel stopped them.[11] Dru escaped to Sunnydale, where she tried to bring Spike back to her side in an effort to have the four Whirlwind vampires together again. After she was rejected, Drusilla left Spike once again.[12]

Biography[]

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[src]
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Drusilla notices Angelus and Darla watching her in the streets.

Drusilla was born around the mid-19th century and lived with her family in the East End of London.[4] 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.[13]

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."[2] This was the first of many tortuous acts Angelus condemned Drusilla to experience through the course of creating his "masterpiece."[4]

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.[4]

Siring[]

We turn her into one of us. Killing is so merciful at the end, isn't it? The pain has ended.
―Angelus[src]
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As a result of Angelus' torment, Drusilla loses her mind.

The night Drusilla was called to take her holy vows at the convent,[3] Angelus massacred the sisters before her very eyes.[4] 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[13] while eternal life would ensure that his "masterpiece" would endure forever.[4] He and Darla had sex in front of Drusilla, and then he turned her into a vampire.[13]

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.[14]

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[src]
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Drusilla presents the vampire 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.[5]

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.[15]

Following Angelus' ensoulment, Spike, Drusilla and Darla slaughtered the Romani Kalderash clan responsible for their leader's curse.[14] Subsequently, Drusilla encountered Spike after he had killed his first Slayer during the Boxer Rebellion in China.[5]

Soon afterward, Drusilla and Spike left the already disbanded Whirlwind and went off on their own. Together, the couple visited Rome, Italy in 1953.[16][17]

Prague[]

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Drusilla is tortured by an inquisitor.

In 1997, Spike was nearly dusted by an angry mob, and Drusilla was kidnapped and tortured by a human inquisitor. Spike killed the inquisitor and rescued Drusilla, but she was left in a weakened and frail condition. Spike cared for her, and the couple decided to travel to the Hellmouth in Sunnydale, California in hopes that its energy would help to restore Drusilla's strength and health.[6]

Sunnydale[]

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Dru and Spike arriving in Sunnydale.

They arrived in Sunnydale and Spike quickly began plotting the downfall of the current Slayer, Buffy Summers, partly at Drusilla's request. They took over an abandoned factory, previously inhabited by the Order of Aurelius after Spike killed their leader, the Anointed One. Drusilla mostly kept herself within a makeshift bedroom, consisting of a queens bed with her china dolls alongside it, as well as her victims.[7]

When preying on a lonely child, Drusilla discovered Angel's presence, who had currently been romantically involved with Buffy. She later made Spike hear out a plan by Billy Fordham to help get Buffy in a tight spot, although she only succeeded in putting her unlife on the line to Buffy who threatened to kill Drusilla if Spike didn't allow herself and a group of vampire wannabes escape from him and his minions clutches.[3]

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Drusilla being restored.

When he discovered that Drusilla could be cured by the blood of her sire, Spike captured Angel and allowed Drusilla to torture him until it was time to perform the vampire restoration ritual. Although Buffy and her friends saved Angel, the ritual was a success. Drusilla, fully restored, then began to care for Spike,[8] who had been badly burnt and temporarily paralyzed by Buffy's attack.[18]

Despite Spike's condition, he still worked hard to prepare for Drusilla's coming out party as her insanity gave her high standards. She had a party where their vampire lackeys wore neo-gothic clothing and decorations consisted of roses that were aligned specifically. Her present came in the form of the Judge, a powerful demon that needed to be assembled together to be summoned, making Spike set out to collect them.[18] By the time it was done, Angel lost his soul and re-joined the couple. He assisted Drusilla in an attempt at massacring the patrons at the Sunnydale Mall but was stopped when Buffy arrived and killed the Judge.[9] Drusilla had Angel's ongoing sexual attention since Spike himself could not fulfill her needs and was very disturbed by it.[19]

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Drusilla before killing Kendra.

Drusilla discovered on the morning paper that Sunnydale archaeologists unearthed the remains of the demon Acathla. She informed Angel about it after feeding on an old man during her walk.[2]

Angel got Drusilla and their lackeys to obtain Acathla, bring it to the mansion where they recently moved in, hoping to activate him so he would suck the world into a hellish demon dimension, Drusilla was delighted by Angel's determination. During an attack against Buffy's friends, Drusilla soon killed Kendra Young, another Slayer, by hypnotizing her and slicing her throat. Kendra was the first Slayer killed by Drusilla. This allowed her to take Buffy's Watcher Rupert Giles[2] to gather information on how to summon the demon. Though Giles refused to talk despite being tortured, Drusilla managed to trick him into it via hypnosis.[1]

However, Spike was tired of Angel, wanted Drusilla for himself again, and did not particularly want the world to end. Spike decided to help Buffy save the world in exchange for his and Drusilla's safe passage from Sunnydale. Drusilla resisted Spike's betrayal of Angel, and he attacked her, ultimately subduing her and carrying her unconscious body from the fray.[1]

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Drusilla confronts Spike about the Slayer.

Break up with Spike[]

Drusilla and Spike fled to South America, where Drusilla became disillusioned with Spike. Spike's alliance with the Slayer proved to her that Spike was then tainted and not "demon enough" for her as she noticed his obsession with Buffy.[5] Drusilla broke up with Spike and started a relationship with a chaos demon, and he rejected her offer to remain friends.[20] After a short reconciliation, she left Spike for a fungus demon.[21]

Los Angeles[]

Drusilla's here?!
Cordelia Chase[src]

In 2000, Wolfram & Hart brought Darla back as a human to torture Angel and hopefully make him evil, but the law office learned she was dying. Drusilla was then called in to sire Darla which she did forcibly.[10]

Drusilla placed Darla in a flower nursery under a star filled sky, seeing it not as a death, but as a birth and that she would then be a mother. When Angel arrived to stake Darla before she rose, Drusilla fought him, giving Darla enough time to rise and escape.[11]

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Drusilla and her "grandmother."

The newly sired Darla attacked Drusilla in the middle of the busy city. Drusilla claimed that she had sired Darla because she thought Darla was in pain and felt lonely herself. Darla then comforted her, coming to the conclusion that she was better off as a vampire. They then went "shopping" by murdering everyone in a clothing store before going to a Wolfram & Hart party with the intent to slaughter everyone there. Angel locked the two vampires inside, allowing it to happen and preventing the humans' escape;[11] only Lindsey McDonald and Lilah Morgan were spared, so that they could provide Darla and Drusilla with inside information later.[22]

Shortly afterward, Drusilla and Darla began recruiting demons who enjoyed carnage, wanting to turn L.A. into a demon playground. Before they could find the candidates, Angel set Drusilla and Darla on fire, from which the two survived because Darla quickly opened a hydrant near them.[22]

Return to Sunnydale[]

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Drusilla and Spike are reunited.

Drusilla returned to Sunnydale to persuade Spike to join Darla and herself in reforming their "family" unit. She temporarily succeeded in allowing him to return to his dark side, rejecting his current lover Harmony Kendall. But instead, Spike seized the opportunity to try to prove his love for Buffy by offering to stake Drusilla. Heartbroken by the actions of her former lover, Drusilla departed Sunnydale and remained at large.[12]

Two years after, the First Evil impersonated Drusilla on two separate occasions in attempt to break Spike's spirit.[23][24]

Las Vegas[]

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Dru in Vegas.

Years later, in Las Vegas, Drusilla was once again recruited by Wolfram & Hart, this time as part of a plan to assist a sociopathic murderer named John in stealing his soul.[25] While Drusilla was sent to distract Spike from his mission, John held a grudge against him, blaming the loss of his own soul to Spike's ensoulment.[26] Although Drusilla was sleeping with John, she later joined Spike on his journey, with his team consisting of the pyrokinetic Beck, the telepathic fish Betta George, a possessed Jeremy Johns,[27] and the witch Willow Rosenberg. Willow was highly skeptical of Drusilla's involvement, but Spike convinced Willow that — like the both of them — even Drusilla deserved a chance at redemption.[28]

When John succeeded in extracting Spike's soul, Spike described that, even without it, he was still capable of becoming good. In the meantime, Drusilla attacked Jeremy after seeing Beck kissing Spike. Willow informed Spike that the target of the soul-extracting circle was able to choose another person to receive his soul, and he chose Drusilla.[29] However, the presence of a soul only served to torture her even more into instability. John then revealed that Drusilla had become during the fall of Los Angeles; she had only become mentally unstable again because Wolfram & Hart had put her on medication. John had planned to "fix" her, but being re-ensouled might had destroyed her. Drusilla killed John, and Spike then put her in the magic circle to extract the soul, Drusilla choosing Spike to be the one to receive it.[30]

Drusilla left with Willow[30] and she was committed to the Mosaic Wellness Center. Before leaving in his new ship, Spike visited Drusilla and asked her to not try to kill the other inmates, who were his friends and "good people."[31]

Mother Superior[]

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A sane Drusilla as the Mother Superior.

Drusilla made her way to London, where she gained control of a Lorophage demon who had once been known as the "Highgate Vampire," and gathered a following of both lesser vampires and human groupies, becoming known as "Mother Superior." Thanks to her control over the Lorophage demon, Drusilla had regained her sanity. The Lorophage siphoned out all of the trauma and pain that Angelus had inflicted on her before she was sired. She remembered everything that had taken place, but according to her, she no longer cared; all of the confusion, fear, and torment was gone. With her new lease on undeath, Drusilla decided to emulate Angel and "help the helpless." Using the Lorophage demon, she took it upon herself to rid citizens of London of their trauma, resulting in a number of them going mad and some joining her cult.[4]

When Angel confronted her, Drusilla attempted to persuade him to allow the Lorophage to rid him of his trauma, though to no avail, Angel regarding it as little more than a lobotomy when forced on someone as they need their emotions. Drusilla, however, refused to give up on him and told him that she would not force the treatment on him but will wait until he willingly came to her.[4] Although Faith Lehane accepted Drusilla's gift after a traumatic encounter with her long-lost father,[32] Angel affirmed that the loss of her pain had then deprived her of the strength she had gained from it. To restore the emotions of Drusilla's cult, Angel forced the Lorophage demon to feed on itself, expelling the trauma that it had absorbed and returning it to its victims. With her insanity restored, Drusilla fled, leaving Angel and Faith with warnings of a dark future.[33]

While Angel and Faith were in Los Angeles, Drusilla ambushed Faith's London Slayer squad, severely injuring one Slayer while succeeding in killing Marianne. Since Angel had let Drusilla escape and had sired her in the first place, Nadira grew to hate him even more.[34]

Magic Town[]

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Drusilla and St. Cuthbert's students.

Drusilla's vampiric ancestor Archaeus contacted her through her dreams and she agreed to act as his lieutenant. Although she thought highly of her ancestor, it was not no reciprocated. Archeaus even physically abused her if she failed him. Her primary objective was to create an army by siring the students of St. Cuthbert's. However, Angel had a vision of her crimes and had Faith and Fred investigate the school while he was in San Francisco, helping the Scooby Gang against Archaeus. Along with Eldre Koh, the two women prevented Drusilla from siring the student Mary.[citation needed]

On run from the Slayer, Drusilla and her minions established themselves in Magic Town, terrorizing the mutants and demons, as well as kidnapping their spiritual leader Nadira and Angel. Drusilla dueled Faith in a sword fight and managed to get the upper hand before Faith revealed to her that Angel managed to rescue Nadira, before Faith kicked Drusilla in the face. Faith then fled as Drusilla commanded her forces to help kill her.[35] Drusilla later abandoned Archaeus following the battle at Magic Town.[36]

Powers and abilities[]

Look at me, Dearie. Be in my eyes. Be in me.
―Drusilla hypnotizes Kendra Young[src]
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Drusilla fighting Angel.

  • 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,[11] Spike,[1] Kendra,[2] and Marianne.[37] 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.[2][1][33] 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.[35]
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  • 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,[38] 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[1]). 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.

Examples of other abilities she derived from this power were:

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  • Precognition: Drusilla had the power to perceive future events before they happened, which manifested in the form of vivid visions. For instance, when she was still human, she foresaw a mine crash that led to the deaths of two men. She might also have foreseen some of the upcoming events of Buffy's eleventh year in high school, given how she said to Angel during their reunion: "Poor little thing. She has no idea what's in store," and she knew that what was going to happen was "just the beginning."[3] This power was also partially responsible for Jenny's death, as Drusilla received a vision of her attempt to re-ensoul Angel, leading him to kill her.[39]
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  • Empathy: Drusilla had the power of empathy, which allowed her to sense, feel, and understand the emotions of others, and even learn concealed information from those emotions. For instance, when she was still human, she was able to sense Angelus' and Darla's presences at a distance, and perceive their nefarious intentions for her, which led her to herd her family away. Just before siring Spike, she sensed the passionate killer that lurked beneath his timid exterior.[5] Drusilla could also sense Angel's presence out from a crowd of demons,[22] and realized Giles' love for Jenny by merely touching his head.[1] The most potent application of this power was allowing Drusilla to sense past and future emotions — she sensed Spike's subconscious love for Buffy,[5] as well as the fear of those who took refuge in Holland Manners' wine cellar when it was a nuclear fallout shelter during wartime.[citation needed]
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  • Power detection: Drusilla had the power to sense the presence of supernatural powers within others. For instance, upon seeing the Anointed One, she sensed his power, claiming that she felt it from the outside.[7] Later on, when she was presented with the sleeping body of Acathla, she claimed that that the amount of potential it had "fills my head, I can't hear anything else."[2]
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  • Cartomancy: Drusilla had the power to gain insight into a question or situation using cards — she once used a set of Tarot cards to inform Spike that the Du Lac Cross was needed to translate the Du Lac Manuscript, and the cards she pointed to not only consisted of the image of where the cross was located, but also predicted the order in which the three Tarakan assassins would attack Buffy (first, the cyclops for Octarus, then the insect for Norman Pfister, and finally, the jaguar for Patrice). Last but not least, the cards revealed to Spike and Drusilla whom the key to her cure was (Angel, her own sire).[40]

Personality[]

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[src]

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]

As a human, Drusilla was chaste and moral, and had the potential for sainthood. Her purity was what originally brought her into Angelus's radar; he saw her as something virtuous that he could corrupt and destroy. She was also very self-conscious of her visions, as she believed them a direct affront to God and a curse. Though she seemed to keep her fears about them between herself and God, Angelus was quick to take advantage of her anxiety by confirming what she already feared. Still, she seemed to love the members of her family very much; when Angelus observed that she could foresee what he would do to her, she protectively urged her sisters to leave the streets with her. Her love for them followed her into her life as a vampire, and she continued to miss them long after their deaths at Angelus's hands. She even tortured Angel to remind him what he had done to them.[citation needed]

One of Drusilla's most prominent traits was her ability to foresee the future. Although her insanity makes her visions somewhat difficult to understand for both herself and others, her abilities have often served as foreshadowing to future events. Before she followed William Pratt into the alley where she turned him, she commented to Darla and Angelus that she would "pick the wisest and bravest knight in all the land" for her future "playmate."[14] Although Spike first became one of the most notorious and violent vampires in history, after falling in love with Buffy Summers and sacrificing his life, he truly did become the "brave knight" she had imagined. Furthermore, she was able to foresee Spike's sacrifice several years before it occurred; this was made evident when she told him that he "tasted like ashes" to her. She later had visions about Angel and Rupert Giles, during which she was able to determine that Angel had taken fragments of Giles's soul into his own body.[4]

Drusilla exhibits many other quirks. While some are quite normal for vampires, others are quite unusual. For example, like most of her kind, she seems to delight in suffering, torture, and death, and was rather amused during the killing of vampires like Collin by Spike and Dalton by The Judge and enjoyed killing the Slayer Kendra; also, both she and Darla were excited to see Spike and Angel fight in the Whirlwind's more powerful years.[citation needed]

Due to her tragic past, Drusilla was particularly vicious. When hypnotizing Giles, she found a certain pleasure ing disguising herself as Jenny Calendar and was happy to imagine Buffy killed by the Judge, was excited by the human heart offered by Angel, and had a certain masochist/maternal reaction to being attacked by a newly sired Darla, similar to a mother happy to see her baby making his first steps. It was also her who told Angel about Acathla's existence, implying that the Apocalypse was her own idea.[citation needed]

As a result of Angelus's psychological torture, she displays behavior that suggests she was somewhat infantile. She owned and played with a collection of china dolls that she kept blindfolded, one of which she named Miss Edith. Spike observed that Drusilla was quite childlike in her speech and behavior, but, unlike Angelus, he thought it endearing. When she saw the Judge burning Dalton, she laughed as a girl amused by her pet dog.[citation needed]

Drusilla liked music and songs. She liked having birds and adored listening to them singing. She liked listening to the songs of her mother, which she sang to a little boy she intended to kill.[3] She sang a macabre nursery hymn to celebrate the revival of the vampire Darla, and sang during Wolfram & Hart's massacre.[11]

When Drusilla briefly obtained a soul, it resulted in her becoming even more insane due to the regret over murdering and torturing hundreds of people in her time. She hit Willow during this time, then commented that she regretted it.[citation needed]

After regaining her sanity, Drusilla attempted to return to her roots and do good by removing painful/traumatic memories from others. Her methods, while seemingly sound, had the unfortunate side effect of making her subjects insane. She "so solemnly" forgave Angel for siring her and killing her family (although she said it when she was healthy, it was necessary to specify that she had no soul). Her sanity was lost once again when Angel killed the Lorophage demon.[citation needed]

While Drusilla seemed to have lost her sanity again after the Lorophage demon died, she seemed far more lucid and rational in her behavior than she was before, being far more forward and clear in her conversations, though she would still fall into using metaphors or double entendre.[citation needed]

Drusilla was very patient and meticulous in her planning, opposed to having an aggressive approach. She didn't attack her enemy directly and preferred to let things take their time and come to her of their own accord (thanks to her psychic powers). However, she had also demonstrated short temperament when interfering with Faith, in contrast to her previous fight with the more classical Kendra Young. Faith was her only enemy with capacity to destabilize her.[citation needed]

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Behind the scenes[]

  • 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."[41]
  • 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."[42]
  • In the dubious canon issue Drusilla, Part Two, the surname "Keeble" is seen in a dream in her family's home mail box.

Appearances[]

Canon[]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel

Other[]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Classic
Spike vs. Dracula
Auld Lang Syne
Angel
Spike: The Devil You Know
Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels
Buffy the Vampire Slayer video games

References[]

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