About Me
I was "Liam" in the year 1727, an Irish commoner. By age 27, I had developed a taste for alcohol and women and an aversion to work. Though not a bad man, my only real ambition lay in seeing the world. That seemed a laughable dream until I met an affluent woman named Darla.Darla promised me a world full of excitement and travel - a world in which I could take anything I wanted. But this gift came with a price, for Darla was a vampire. And in her deadly embrace, I was transformed into Angelus, the cruellest vampire the world had ever known.For generations, Darla and I terrorized humankind, murdering and torturing anyone who crossed their path. It was a family of gypsies who finally destroyed me as Angelus. In their grief over the death of their favourite daughter, they cursed me, restoring my soul and condemning me to an eternal life of regret and guilt. Only a moment of pure happiness could break the curse.A shadow of my former self, I eventually wandered across the path of a demon named Whistler. Whistler persuaded me to join the fight against the evil that had corrupted me and to help the newly called Vampire Slayer. Her name was Buffy.Over time, Buffy and I fell in love with each other. Though we tried to deny our feelings, we could not resist the passion growing between us. And so it was that one night of unrestrained passion led to Angelus' repossession of Angel. I quickly returned to my former evil ways, except this time Buffy was there to stop me. In a battle to undo the evil that I had unleashed on the world and to save humankind, Buffy killed me. But before the Hellmouth consumed me, I was cursed again and my soul restored.When I was unexpectedly released from Hell's clutches, I knew it was for a reason. Departing Sunnydale, I left the woman I still loved and moved to L.A. to find my purpose and to redeem myself in the service of others. I found support from Doyle, sent by the Powers That Be, and Cordelia, a fellow Sunnydale transplant on the road to fame and wealth. We formed "Angel Investigations," protecting those who cannot defend themselves and helping other lost souls find their way.After losing Doyle, my trusted friend and connection to the Powers That Be, I became even more protective of those who meant the most to me. Wesley, a former Watcher, came to town as a rogue demon hunter, but stayed to help Cordelia and I who were then joined a few months later by Charles Gunn, an unlikely partner and self-proclaimed Slayer yet a formidable force nonetheless. Extending our sources further, my AI Team also regularly enlist the help of Lorne aka The Host, an Anagogic demon who could read people's futures but only when they sing karaoke.As I continued to help the hopeless in LA, my good deeds continually disrupted the plans of evil law firm Wolfram & Hart and in an attempt to control me, W&H resurrected my sire Darla, but brought her back as human. When Drusilla once again turned Darla into a vampire, I felt I had failed to save her and after firing my Angel Investigations crew embarked on a one-man vendetta against W&H. In a moment of perfect despair, I attempted to lift my soul by bedding Darla but instead found a moment of clarity realising my purpose was still for good not evil. Darla fled and after a difficult reconciliation, my AI team then found themselves transported to Lorne's home dimension, a strange world by the name of Pylea. Eventually we returned with a new team member, Winifred Birkle, in tow and to the news that my former love, Buffy, was dead.Despite Buffy's miraculous resurrection a few months later, I realised that I was starting to see Cordelia as more than just a friend but before I had a chance to confess my feelings to her Darla returned bringing further impossibilities for me as our one night of passion had left her inexplicably pregnant with my son, Connor. False prophecies, time travellers and betrayal led to me losing my son to an old enemy who abducted Connor soon after his birth taking him to a hell dimension where time moves very differently. When Connor returned, he was a young man who was raised to believe that I was still a soulless monster. Connor vowed to make me pay for the suffering I had once caused and as he acted out his retribution by sending me to the bottom of the ocean in a steel coffin, Cordelia ascended to a higher plane, the feelings shared between her and I still left unspoken.Rescued from my watery prison, my relationship with Connor was understandably strained and was complicated further by the return of an amnesiac Cordelia. When the latest big bad known as The Beast and his Boss arrived to bring chaos to the Earth, my worst fears were realised when I had to unleash my evil alter ego Angelus in order to defeat it. Although momentarily freed to wreak a little havoc of my own, I was recaptured with a little help from a Slayer and a Witch and I returned to discover that the enemy I was battling was a little closer to home. A battle and an eventual victory over a divine being led to me inexplicably being offered the LA branch of W&H as a reward for ending world peace. I acted against all of my instincts and made a deal with my sworn enemy, which would allow me to demonstrate one final act of fatherly love.My year spent running W&H was one marred with challenge and self-doubt. Trying to battle evil from within the belly of the beast proved to be more difficult than even imagined with the lines of good and evil becoming ever more gray with each decision made. The situation became even more complicated when shortly after assuming control of the law firm, Spike shockingly materialized from a familiar amulet sent to me in the mail. Sharing a complicated evil history of murder and mayhem, we spent more than a century as rivals in everything. Now both of us possessing souls and both of us still in love with Buffy, we have evolved into very different heroes in the war against evil. Forced to co-exist, our time together both viciously and subtly unfolds until we come to an understanding and acceptance of our unique brotherhood on our journey to redemption. Equally as important for me this year, was my chance to say a proper good-bye to Cordelia, who upon "waking" from a coma takes the opportunity to set me back on my true path. With her final gift of a vision, I get a clear look at how to strike against the Senior Partners. I finally understand that I will never be able to stop evil, but I can destroy the Senior Partners hold on Earth by decimating the secret Circle of the Black Thorn. In my quest to overthrow them, I even sign away my chance of Shanshu, the ultimate reward of forgiveness and humanity I hoped one day to attain. So together with Spike, Gunn, Wesley, Illyria, Lorne and an opportunistic Lindsey, I set in motion my final stand against the forces of evil, walking bravely into a battle where some fall and the final outcome for the others is unclear.
