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Myspace Graphics (glitter graphics)I was born in the Badlands, a section of inner-city Los Angeles where the police would not go, and looked after my sister, Alonna, from a very young age. Although I had a few brushes with the law, I acted as a kind of urban Robin Hood to keep the streets in my neighborhood safe. In my teens, I rose through the ranks to become the leader of a gang of street-fighters who protect our turf from vampires using guerrilla tactics. Possessing the mind of a military strategist and the strength of a back-alley brawler, life in the ghetto hardened me to the extent that my life became less important than the cause, resulting in me trading my soul for a truck in a deal with a demon named Jenoff when I was only seventeen, because I believed I had no future. I observe the vampire Angel roughing up a blackmailer and try unsuccessfully to dust him. Later on, a gang of vampires, who are at war with my gang attack our hideout, kidnapping several gang members in the process, including my sister Alonna. Eventually, Angel wins my trust, but unfortunately not in time to save Alonna from being turned into a vampire. I had no choice but to stake my own sister, a decision which continues to haunt me. It is this loss that forces me to question my own motives and become more receptive to Angel's help, realizing I cannot do everything alone. Angel recognizes my strength and often calls on me if he needs back up in battle or if he needs protection for the people he cares about when he cannot protect them himself. Although I initially regard my time with Angel Investigations as a "paying side-gig," I eventually becomes a full-time member of the gang, gaining mutual respect for those I fight side-by-side with while finding my place in the world. However, my work with my new 'family' often leads to conflicted loyalties. Cordelia is accidentally sucked into a portal to Pylea while a member of my old street crew, George, succumbs to the bite of a vampire. I feel responsible for my friend's death, believing that it would not have happened if I had still been around to help in the fight. Yet even in my grief, I realize that I could not commit the same crime twice and allow Cordelia to suffer the same fate, so I join Angel, Wesley, and Lorne to rescue her. A short time after our return from Pylea, demons across the city are being massacred - regardless of whether or not they actually did anything to deserve being killed in the first place - and I come to the conclusion that my old gang is responsible for the deaths, currently being led by a man named Gio who has a serious grudge against supernatural entities due to an unrevealed event in his past. I realize that my ties with my old life are gone and that my loyalty now lies with the vampire with a soul. In a showdown with one of my lifelong friends, I finally choose the mission of the Angel Investigations team. Without realizing it, I find the future I thought I would never have. I have friends, loyalty, respect, and a mission to pursue. I even find love in the arms of the new girl Fred Burkle, but my past still comes back to haunt me when the demon Jenoff decides it is time to cash in on the deal I had made years earlier by claiming my soul. Luckily, Angel and the others at Angel Investigations are able to aid me and defeat Jenoff, allowing me the luxury of living my life to the fullest. Fred becomes the most important person in my world, but my devotion suffers the ultimate test when I kill Professor Seidel, the person responsible for deliberately sending Fred to Pylea, in order to save Fred from having to carry the burden of doing it herself. The guilt of what I had done for her plagues Fred and instead of bringing us closer together, it begins the rut that leads to the end of our relationship. Although no longer romantically linked, me and Fred continue to fight side-by-side, and I had a fling with the electric Gwen Raiden. When Wolfram & Hart want to cut a deal to have Angel take over the L.A. branch, I was led into the mysterious White Room where I was exposed to the mysterious conduit to the Senior Partners, who impresses me with his immense power. Soon, I undergo a remarkable transformation at Wolfram & Hart. Feeling undervalued by my friends, I submits to a procedure at the hands of Wolfram & Hart's Medical Department that enhances my mind with a comprehensive understanding of the law (and Gilbert & Sullivan, to help improve my voice and diction), making me the only member of Angel's team who can work inside the system seamlessly. When my mental abilities begin to diminish, I, fearful of losing my new talents and respect, make a pact with Dr. Sparrow and gets a permanent upgrade in exchange for signing to release an ancient curio stuck in customs. When this curio results in the death of Fred and the resurrection of Illyria I willingly offers myself to take Lindsey McDonald's place in a hell dimension in order to get information on how to stop the Senior Partners. While the team have no clue how to free me, Illyria saves me with ease. I then return to the fold, changed and seeking redemption for my sins. I slay Senator Helen Brucker, one of the members of the Circle of the Black Thorn, but was seriously injured in the process. While preparing for one last fight against the army of the Senior Partners, Illyria states that I have only minutes to live. Me and a group I have assumed leadership of storm a stadium and kill Kr'ph, one of the demon lords of L.A., who has taken up residence there. We free humans who were forced to fight each other by the demon. I then makes a suggestive comment to the demon's female captives. It is revealed that I am a vampire, having been turned either during or after Team Angel's battle with the Senior Partners' army and feed on the women and turns the "rescued" men into vampires as part of "Team Gunn". However, I insist that I am still a good guy. I resent being a vampire, though I'm prone to murderous impulses due to my lack of a soul. I blame Angel for my condition, believing he had allowed me to be turned, and that I intend to save L.A. to prove that one doesn't need a soul to be a champion. As part of my plans, I kidnap the psychic fish Betta George and imprisons him, forcing George to tap into his psychic ability to freeze Slayers in their tracks and contact people outside of Hell/Los Angeles. I was seen making mystical plans; the intent is to have Angel come to the conclusion he sent me to die, then Angel himself will die moments later. As part of my revenge against Angel, I destroy the Wolfram & Hart building, Angel's headquarters in the war with the Demon Lords, which also forces Wesley back to the Senior Partners for a short time. I later bear witness to Angel's defeat of the Lords, hanging back to ensure that not all of the people are slaughtered should Angel fail. Shortly after the team moves back into the Hyperion Hotel, I confront them and reveal my vampire nature. Upon seeing what has become of me, Angel tells me he is sorry. I say I figured he would say that, and tell him to table that for now. I take Angel around my base of operations, explain what happened to me. When Angel sees that I think I am doing the right thing, Angel cautions me that the beast is the one in control, not me. I attack him, angered that Angel thinks that I'm not myself. I proceed to remove all of the magic that had kept Angel alive, and realize that Angel was actually now a human. I decide to let Angel lie there and die slowly, only to be confronted by Wesley's "ghost", who reveals to me that the visions I had been receiving are from the Senior Partners rather than the Powers That Be. Ignoring this revelation, I continue to attack my former friends, my team of Slayers apparently staking Spike- although Spike is later seen alive thanks to Illyria's timeslips- before I was kicked out of a window by Connor while trying to kill Angel again. Confronting Illyria, I trick her into transforming into Fred so that I can shoot her, reverting her to her true form in the hope that I can convince her to use her powers to rewind time so that the Fall never occurs, only for Illyria to vow to unmake time itself. Realising that the Senior Partners cannot allow him to die, Angel provokes me into killing him, thus forcing the Senior Partners to reverse time to the original battle in the alleyway, giving Angel the opportunity to save me before I was sired, the group subsequently taking me to the hospital. Whether I will recover from both my physical injuries and the mental trauma of what I had done as a vampire- my memories remaining even if I myself am no longer a vampire- is currently unknown.A Whole New World - Sweet 202
