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[sod_off]

Spike

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🦋 Player

Name: Lin
Active Times/Pace: EST/Moderate usually
Brackets/Prose: Prose, but will match.
Offensive Subjects & Triggers to Avoid: Animal Death/animal cruelty. Maternal-death = Please talk to me. Sexual Assault=Please talk to me.

🦋 In Character

Physical Affection: Only with CR built up.
Physical Violence: Yes please! No killing or maiming without conversation
Relationships: Must have CR built up.
NPC Interaction: Yes please.
Psychic & Psionic Information: Buffyverse-Vamps can not be mind-read, nor can they provide 'energy' via brain-sucking type abilities. Please PM me for details and information.
Magical Information: Vampire, reads as slightly demonic. Vampires considered "evil".
Medical Information: Feels cool to the touch, must have mammal blood regularly to thrive/be in 'good' health. Undead.
Offensive Subjects & Triggers Associated with This Character: Language, Violence, Assault, Death, Murder, Stalking.

🦋 Out Of Character

Backtagging: Yes please
Threadhopping: Ask but usually yes.
Fourthwalling: Please no.
Not Interested In: Open to most anything with a conversation between players.





Here is my opt-in/opt-out and HMD post. All comments screened for privacy. Please feel free to use.





--Charm: the user can seduce or convince anyone they speak to for long enough; at its most powerful it can also be used to brainwash (Bought on Credit owed.)

-----So I will not have Spike use charm on anyone ICly without OOC permission. Please see my Opt-in/Opt-out Post here for more details.

--Large Wooden Trunk: Bargained for in the marketplace. Big enough for clothes and weapons. Contains alcohol, dagger, sword, hand-cross bow (and ammo), knife on occasion.

--Items: Gem of Amara (ring), Skyshift pendant,

--Deaths: 1 (Event #3)





About Vampires in the Buffyverse Canon: Commonalities: They drink blood. Mingling their blood with a victim creates a new vampire. They burn in daylight. Holy Water and other Christianity based weapons hurt but don't destroy. Fire works. Stake through the heart works real well. Especially vulnerable to wood. They don't require oxygen to breathe, they don't generate life-force, do have minimal blood flow, and dislike garlic. They do require an invitation to enter a private dwelling.

Here's the big difference: Vampires in the Buffyverse are a hybrid of human and demon. They're considered half-breeds. Unnatural. Looked down on. They lack a 'soul'; basically the human dies, and a 'demon' takes up residence in their body, retains their memories and core personality traits, and lacks inhibitions. They can not have their mind read, they do not give off 'life-energy', they are considered impure (energy-wise), and are useless for purposes of 'brain-sucking' of energy.

When ready to bite, they will often shift to their 'game face'. Their brows become more pronounced and protrude a bit, their eyes turn yellow, they have nasty fangs. Here, have an example.

Here's the link to the wiki entry.




General Warnings
Hi, William the Bloody, aka Spike, is a vampire. And not one of the happy fun shiny ones. There will be language. There will be cheekiness and snark and attitude. There will be irrelevance and taking the piss out of things. There will be violence. Please feel free to talk to me about any and all of the above. I'm not looking to have him kick puppies (and honestly if you're kicking puppies for no reason he might just kick you), but he's definitely an antagonistic punk.

Comments

[sod_off]

[Spike nods in turn, and pours the man another shot. This is all interesting to him, and good to know about his new friend. Friend. It still sounded weird--because Spike was not used to friends. Not used to letting people close.

William hadn't really let people close either, even though all he wanted was someone to see him.

He smiles though when Regis describes Aulea, laughing silently when Regis describes her stealing him a way. There is clear approval in his eyes and expression too, a smirk, at her staring down the father. It was good though, for Regis to have found that. He needed that strength, and Spike could see it in him still.

A moment to think about it, listening, before he downed his own shot of Whisky and then typed on his Leaf]

Who were the other two? I think I like her already. Always did go for a woman who could fight back and hold her own.

[kingkingcxiii]

Oh, you would have loved her and I think she would have loved you too. I can already see you both plotting against me.

[Regis chuckles and takes the new glass of whiskey, only sipping it this time.]

This is very good, by the way. Much better than that terrible concoction they call wine at the "welcome" parties.

[He takes another sip, savoring the flavor before moving onto the next question.]

The other two were his Shield, because it was his job to keep my father out of trouble and "safe," and then my own Shield because Clarus hated that his father let mine get away with the shit he did. Plus, it was his job to keep me safe and that meant being able to deal with my father.

[Regis' expression turns thoughtful then as he swirls the whiskey left in his glass.]

To be honest, if the penalty for killing my father wouldn't have taken him away from my side, once I was old enough to rule the country myself, Clarus might have made my father disappear permanently. He probably should have been loyal to the whole line, but he was only ever loyal to me.

[sod_off]

[There is some more quiet laughter, and a sparkle of mischief in Spike's eyes and smirk as he types something.]

Careful. Ladies tend to like us bad boys. Can't promise I wouldn't steal her.

[But he's teasing the other. Messing with him, as Spike's heart is rather firmly taken by the Slayer. It would only ever be flirting, probably to mess with Regis. And plotting against him. For his own good, of course.]

Shield? Tell me about these positions.

[kingkingcxiii]

[Considering how upset Regis was just a short time ago, it will probably be a little surprising that a mischievousness to match what is in Spike's eyes enters his own.]

Oh come now, there must be groups on your world just as there are in mine. We'll just smash the two pairs together.

[Of course, Regis is teasing just as much as Spike is. He knows very well who has the blonde's heart and it's not Aulea.]

The Amicitia family has protected the ruling members of the Lucis Caelum family all the way back to the days of the Founder King. They are oath-bound and duty-sworn to put their lives between us and harm, and they have always preformed this duty even if they have not always agreed with the king or queen they have served. I believe Clarus and I may be bound a little closer than most are. Perhaps it is because he is one of the first people I remember seeing as a small child or maybe it is because he felt the need to protect me sooner than most because of my father's treatment of me.

Because of their status as our protectors, Shields are afforded certain allowances that other people would be thrown in jail for. They can question us openly if they believe we are putting ourselves in danger. More than once Clarus has physically picked me up and carried me away from a dangerous situation because I was being "a blockhead and an idiot." They also have access to all information that the king or queen does because they need to know what is going on at all times in order to keep their ruler safe. Though I hate it, the fact is, Clarus has saved my life many times either by seeing something before I have or literally taking a bullet or other attack for me.

[sod_off]

[Spike arches a brow, that impishness remaining, before he types some more. Something to resolve first.]

I'm a vampire--supposed to tread on the dark side and all that. Dru and I got up to plenty of stuff that isn't exactly vanilla, if you take my meaning. Sure you want to challenge me on this?

[But he's laughing quietly after sending that message, and then listening again. Nodding, as that made sense. Had to be hard on the families, but necessary. Hopefully there was some type of code or ethics in play too.]

[kingkingcxiii]

Hmm...that does not deter me in the slightest. I'm not exactly the vanilla king most would guess I am. I would, perhaps, have to give you several security clearances to let you know more, though. Good thing I'm the king and can do that if I want.

[Regis pauses then in his teasing, head tilting slightly.]

You're pondering something. Care to share?

[sod_off]

[There is some quiet laughter, which is odd with no voice. Then some typing.]

First, glad you have that rebellious streak in you. Might have to hurt your father otherwise if he'd crushed it.

[Never mind that the man was likely dead. Spike'd find a way.]

Second, much as there are groups where I'm from, I'm bad at sharing. Bad enough I'm second fiddle to Angel already in so many ways. Third, Amicitia is likely derived from friend. Aulea though...seems like a mash-up of Latin words. Golden as a prefix, then...lion maybe? It's almost "Leo".

[kingkingcxiii]

Oh, don't worry. My father is the very reason my rebellious streak stayed alive and well during my teens and twenties. It wouldn't have been good for Lucis if I had rebelled against him in public, but that didn't mean there weren't little things I could do that would get under his skin.

[Like wearing a pinstriped suit to important engagements instead of the traditional all black one.

Regis nods when Spike spells out clearly that he's bad at sharing. It's good the vampire is aware of that. Otherwise, there might have been a lot of hurt people because of it.]

Close. Technically in Lucian it's "Friendship." His favored translation of his first name is "Respected."

[So have fun putting those two together.]

He named his eldest son Gladiolus after both the sword and the flower. If he and his wife have a daughter, her name will be Iris.

[Flower themes from a mighty Shield. Who would have guessed?]

A golden lioness would not be a bad way to describe Aulea, but physically it would not fit at all. She has dark black hair and deep blue eyes. She is more of a brilliant star in the night sky than anything.

[sod_off]

[There's a smug smile on Spike's face, and he's typing quickly.]

She brings out the poet in you. I think I may be sick.

[But again, it was teasing. Spike wasn't surprised that the languages didn't line up exactly though. It was odd enough that they already lined up somewhat. Then again, Latin was...one of those languages. You also didn't speak it in front of certain books.]

[kingkingcxiii]

[Regis snorts in amusement. It's an elegant sound and one he avoids in public due to his standing, but this isn't in public in the slightest.]

Do aim over there if you do. I just traded for this shirt.

[After finding out that Lucian was basically the Latin that Spike had told him about, Regis couldn't help but wonder if the similarities had something to do with the Lucian Royal Family having access to the only magic on Eos, but how would one even begin to study something like that?]

[sod_off]

[Spike is smirking, and typing.]

Nah, you just gave me the perfect target. Be a waste of good whiskey though.

[It was...nice. Having the company. Spike had been getting used to the idea of 'friends'. It was still so new that he had them though. A bit of quiet, then some more typing.]

Night was for you and her. Favorite activity? Dru never stopped surprising me with wicked delights, but sometimes it was just the simple things with her. Having her tell me all the gossip the stars were up to, while we lay in the moonlight. Y'know?

[kingkingcxiii]

Only if I'm still here when you decide to part with the contents of your stomach.

[Warping should only be used in life or death situations. Bull and shit.]

Aulea would read to me. I've always had trouble letting go of work during those rare down times and listening to her voice was a sure way to get me to relax. Even fall asleep sometimes. We both know more than one language, so sometimes she would switch up in the middle of things just to see if I was still "awake" or starting to doze off.

[sod_off]

[Spike just gives Regis a look, then an eyeroll in amusement. But he's listening, before typing once more.]

Favorite stories? Drusilla sometimes read her tarot cards, seeing what they'd say about the future or what was going on. She'd read to her dolls sometimes, or have tea parties with them. ...I did mention she was quite mad, yes?