A Brief Biography of Drusilla

When we first meet Drusilla in "School Hard," she is an insane, weakened, psychic, strangely childlike vampire, but this was not always the case. According to Angel, the human Drusilla was "pure and sweet and chaste" ("Lie to Me") until Angelus sunk his clutches into her. In London in the year 1860, Darla discovered the young girl was gifted with the sight (Angel "Dear Boy"). She pointed Drusilla out to Angelus as she was walking with her family in the evening. Seeming to sense the vampires' presence, Drusilla immediately was aware something was horribly wrong. Not long after, she made a tearful confession that she had "been seeing again," ("Becoming 1") believing this to be a grievous sin since her mother had told her no one should be able to see the future except God. Unbeknownst to her, the priest had been killed and the other half of the confessional was occupied by Angelus. He told her that she was a devilchild, destined for evil. Thus began her ceaseless mental torment. By the time he was through, Angelus had killed Drusilla's entire family, including her mother, her uncle, and a child named Anne who may have been her sister. Her last, desperate attempt at escape was running away to a convent. On the night she was to take her final vows, Angelus and Darla massacred the nuns. Darla assumed the now completely insane girl was to be killed as well, but Angelus had other plans. Instead, he sired her, causing her "eternal torment" (Angel "Dear Boy").

Twenty years passed. By 1880 Darla developed an active dislike for Drusilla while Angelus took her as a second paramour. Drusilla, however, was lonely. She follows a weeping, heartbroken young man down an alley and reads enough of his mind to convince him she can appreciate him ("Fool for Love"). When he agrees he does want "something effulgent," she drains and sires him. Thus begins the unlife of William the Bloody, soon known as Spike.

In 1898, Angelus is cursed with a soul by gypsies while in Romania ("Becoming 1"). It is unclear whether Drusilla and Spike were told what happened, but they were there at the time (Angel "Darla"). Two years later, during the Boxer Rebellion, the four are reunited in China ("Fool for Love"). Spike kills a Slayer. He and Drusilla apparently had a physical relationship prior to this incident ("Lies My Parents Told Me"), but something appears to change between the two of them due to the killing of the Slayer and the two of them... um... demonstrate their love for one another on the floor of the temple where he killed the girl. Angel leaves not long afterwards (Angel "Darla"), and Drusilla and Spike split off from Darla at some point in the future.

Most of the twentieth century appears to pass in vampiric bliss for Drusilla and Spike, though where they were and what they were doing at any given time is anybody's guess. We know from some of Drusilla's ramblings that they lived in both Paris ("What's My Line 2") and Spain ("Surprise") for a while. We can also gather from Spike that they must have encountered Dracula at some point ("Buffy V. Dracula"). By 1977 they were in New York City where Spike kills his second Slayer ("Fool for Love"). Later, Drusilla is attacked by a mob in Prague and is made deathly ill from the encounter ("School Hard"). Judging by how quickly she deteriorates during her time in Sunnydale, this couldn't have been too long before their arrival in 1997.

Drusilla hosts a party to celebrate her recovery (or maybe her birthday or deathday) on the same day as Buffy's seventeenth birthday ("Surprise"). Angel loses his soul because of a moment of true happiness with Buffy, and Drusilla is elated to have her daddy back ("Innocence"). She still pays some attention to the wheelchair-bound Spike, bringing him puppies to eat and, according to Angel, bathing him and helping him dress ("Passion"), but she blatantly cheats on him with Angel. When Angel attempts to raise Acathla, a demon who will suck the world into hell, Spike calls a truce with the Slayer to stop him on condition that Drusilla will not be hurt ("Becoming 2"). She agrees, and the healed Spike whomps Angel with a tire iron repeatedly before being tackled by an angry Drusilla. Spike renders her unconscious (by cutting off her air... even though she doesn't breathe... I don't get it either), slings her into the front seat of his DeSoto, and drives to South America.

Drusilla never forgives his truce with the Slayer, and she realizes Spike is obsessed with Buffy before he does ("Fool for Love"). Spike catches her making out with a slimey-antlered (though highly polite) chaos demon after an apparent string of flirtations ("Lover's Walk"). The vampires break up, Drusilla saying he "tastes like ashes" and is surrounded by the Slayer ("Fool for Love"). A few months later, Spike tries to win back her heart through torture, but she leaves him again, this time for a fungus demon ("Harsh Light of Day").

There is another hole in the story of Drusilla until she shows up in Los Angeles at the request of the law firm Wolfram & Hart to sire the resurrected and now human Darla (Angel "The Trial"). Drusilla is ecstatic over the prospect of being a mummy, thrilled that she will have a family again ("Reunion"). The two vampires attempt to drive Angel into darkness but don't quite succeed. Angel sets fire to them (Angel "Redefinition"), but they survive, and this is the last we see of Drusilla in L.A.

Not long after the burning incident (her wounds haven't all healed), Drusilla shows up in Sunnydale for Spike ("Crush"), offering him the chance to join her and Darla in making Angel evil again, thereby completely restoring her old family. She is aware of Spike's chip but says she doesn't believe in science. The two go to the Bronze where Drusilla kills a girl so Spike can drink from her. Later, Buffy visits his crypt only to be zapped by a cattle-prod-wielding Drusilla. Drusilla is overjoyed to have Spike back, but is quickly stunned by the same cattle-prod, waking up in Spike's basement, tied up as Spike tries to win Buffy's affections by stating that if the chained-up Slayer says they have the slightest chance together, he'll stake Dru; if not, he'll let Dru kill her. Buffy turns him down, but he doesn't carry out his threat. Instead, Harmony attacks Spike. Drusilla is able to break free and tries to kill Buffy, but Spike stops her. With a teary "Poor Spike... so lost. Even I can't help you now," Drusilla disappears into the shadows. She doesn't appear to return to Darla, and her fate is, at least for now, unknown.