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Drusilla |
Like Spike,
Drusilla first appears in "School Hard" (2.3). She is perhaps one of
the oddest characters in the Buffy mythology. She is also, interestingly enough,
an intriguing parallel (they both have prescient dreams, and both adore Angel)
and foil to Buffy herself. When
Dru is first introduced, she is sickly and weak. Spike panders to her every
insane whim - and she does seem to be quite insane. She speaks in nonsense
phrases and observations and has tea parties with her blindfolded dolls:
"Do you like daisies? I plant them, but they always die. Everything I put in the ground withers and dies. Spike, I'm cold."Drusilla's prescient visions are; seen through the kaleidoscope of her madness, and yet Spike never fails to interpret them. In her first appearance, we learn some details of her past. She notes that she misses Prague, and Spike has to remind her that she was nearly killed by an "idiot mob" there. Though she spends much of her time swooning and having visions, Drusilla does manage a late night outing, during which she runs into Angel. It is here, in "Lie To Me" (2.7) that we first get an inkling of her past, Later that episode, Buffy grills Angel about the identity of Dru.
- to the Anointed One in "School Hard" (2.3).
"Miss Edith speaks out of turn. She's a bad example and will have no cakes today."
- about her favourite doll, in "School Hard".
"You know what I miss? Leeches."
- in "Halloween" (2.6)
Angel: I did a lot of unconscionable things when I became a vampire. Drusilla was the worst. She was... an obsession of mine. She was pure and sweet and chaste.In the two-parter "What's My Line?" (2.9 & 2.10), it is Angel's blood - because he sired Dru - and a ritual conducted by Spike that restores Drusilla to full health.
Buffy: You made her a vampire.
Angel: First I made her insane. Killed everyone she loved, visited every torture on her I could devise. She eventually fled to a convent, and on the day she took her Holy Orders, I turned her into a demon.
- (to Angel, as she tortures him): "Say 'Uncle'... Oh, that's right - you killed my uncle."Ironically, at the end of that episode, Spike is badly injured and is left confined to a wheelchair for a long time, allowing Dru to take centre stage.
- "You've been a very bad daddy."