Drusilla (Buffyverse)

Drusilla or Dru is a recurring vampire character in the Buffyverse. One half of the Little Bad in Buffy the Vampire Slayer S2, she also appears in later BtVS seasons, as well as in Angel S2 and the Buffyverse comics. She is played by Juliet Landau.
==Canon==
Drusilla is a Roman Catholic Victorian Londoner with the Sight. Angelus drives her mad before he turns her in 1860, and she subsequently sires Spike/William the Bloody to complete the Fanged Four. Spike & Dru remain together for over a century, before she realises Spike loves Buffy before anyone else does, and leaves him for a chaos &/or fungus demon. On Angel, she is brought in by Lindsey McDonald to re-sire human Darla, who is both her grandsire & her childe.
She has thrall, which she uses to hypnotise Giles & to kill the vampire slayer Kendra, and she loves china dolls (Miss Edith) & caged birds.
==Fannish Opinion==
==Fandom==
Drusilla is a moderately popular character in fanworks. She appears in Fanged Four stories and in backstories charting her century-long partnership with Spike. Her madness and idiosyncratic mode of speech make her hard to write; Valkyrn comments I'm not a big Drusilla fan where stories are concerned as most of them are written so poorly.Better Buffy Fiction Archive: All stories (accessed 18 September 2015)
Her most-written het pairings are Spike/Drusilla & Angelus/Drusilla, which are both canonical; after the introduction of the couple, Spike/Dru was very popular but by 2004 its popularity had waned, with the rise of other pairings for Spike.ship-manifesto: Bad Poetry, Angsty Teen Archetypes, and the Great Rock & Roll Romance (accessed 18 September 2015) Drusilla is sometimes paired with Xander and Connor, among other characters. She's also fairly popular in femslash, with Darla/Drusilla being the most common pairing; other female partners include Buffy and Willow. 
Enormous amounts of fanon & discussion have focused on the retcon of Spike's siring (his sire was stated to be Angelus many seasons before Drusilla was shown turning him). Popular scenarios are that Drusilla is too insane to complete the turning properly so that Angelus has to intervene, or that Dru is too insane to teach fledgeling Spike anything, so that Angelus takes on the sire's role after Spike rises. Fanon also suggests she was a virgin when she was turned, so remains physically a virgin throughout her unlife. Meta also sometimes addresses her insanity, and in particular Joss's penchant for madwomen, comparing her with Fred or River Tam from Firefly. It's sometimes suggested that her psychic powers might be the same as Cordelia's visions from the Powers That Be.idol-reflection: All Tomorrow’s Parties (accessed 18 September 2015) Another common topic is her attitude towards family, both human and vampire, which is often considered one of her defining characteristics.
==Example Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
*Monsters and Little Girls by Adam Windsor. Drusilla & Miss Edith (~2002)
*A Winter's Tale by Coquette. Widely recommended Fanged Four story (~2002)
*The Prague Series: Painted Eggs, Bone Chapel & The Sick Rose by FayJay. Widely recommended Spike/Dru series, set in 1980s Prague (~2002)
*Sally Dances by Juanita Dark. Angelus & Dru (2002)
*Sunday Girl by Dead Soul. Dru, Spike & Sunday in 1977 New York (2003 or earlier)
*London Hellmouth by Sylvia Volk. Spike & Dru in 1905 London (2003 or earlier)
*Finality by Lucinda. Drusilla character study (2003)
*A Series of Short Stories about William the Bloody by Luddite Robot. External perspectives on Spike & Dru (2003–4)
*What it's Like for a Girl by Evette. Character study (~2004)
*If That Mockingbird Won't Sing by Doyle. Dru/Willow in the Wishverse (2004)
*The Really Odd Couple by Mahaliem. Magical bonding comedy; Dru/Andrew (2004)
*His Tender Mercies by EnigmaticBlue. Wolfram & Hart bring back Drusilla, not Darla, as a human (2005)
* Assumption by tiger-bri-duck (2009)
*An Ode to a City by Batzulger. Batman crossover series in which Drusilla moves to Gotham City (2010)
*Tea Parties by Snickfic. Dru/Buffybot (2013)
===Fanart===
*Drusilla by little-faerie-bits. Graphite portrait (2004)
*Drusilla by Aluminiumdonut by Buffy-fan. Dancing Drusilla; digital drawing (2006)
*drusilla by nightwing1975. Mixed media portrait (2007)
*Drusilla by Ecathe. Digital art three-quarters portrait (2008)
*Mocking an Angel by markmchaley. Watercolor painting (2009)
*Drusilla by ShatteredSwords. Unusual portrait with halo; drawing (2009)
*Drusilla by Eightly. Digital art portrait (2010)
*Drusilla by Dr-Horrible. Pencil portrait (2010)
*Drusilla by piratesgrrl. Portrait of vampire-Drusilla; pencil drawing (2011)
*Drusilla print by muin-an-staers. Drawing (2013)
*Drusilla ink by psychofishes. Drawing (2013)
*Drusilla in blood by unassumingpumpkin. Drawing (2013)
*Drusilla, 1960 by Julian Callos. Acrylic and gouache painting (2014)
*Drusilla by Aisling O Reilly. Painting (2014)
===Vids===
*Spanish Doll by dualbunny
*Run & Catch (Drusilla AU) by Pinkly Smooth
===Meta===
*All Tomorrow’s Parties: A Drusilla Character Study by utopianbabie. Idol Reflections essay (2004)
*Why Drusilla’s More Interesting than Buffy by Laura Diehl. Essay on Drusilla & Darla (2004)
*Bad Poetry, Angsty Teen Archetypes, and the Great Rock & Roll Romance by Evette. Spike/Dru essay for The Shipper's Manifesto (2004)
*Singing Our Little Songs – Why Dru and Spike? by Peasant. The Spike/Dru relationship from Dru's perspective (2005)
*Thicker Than Water: Drusilla's View of Family by Meltha/bookishwench
*The Prague Problem: Dealing with Drusilla's Mysterious Malady by Meltha/bookishwench
==Archives, Recs & Resources==
*Charm School, version: Lessons in Etiquette. Drusilla fansite & archive
*Old Fashioned Fourplay. Fanged Four archive
*AddictiveStigmata. Spike, Dru & Angelus fansite & archive
*Night Blooms. Angelus, Spike & Dru archive & fansite (offline)
*Love Lies Bleeding. Spike & Dru fansite & archive
*Beautiful Madness. Darla/Dru archive & fansite (offline)
*To Die By Your Side. Drusilla/Spike fansite
*Blue Lights. Drusilla/Buffy fansite
*Insanity. Drusilla/Xander fansite
*Drusilla recs by Doyle
==Communities & Lists==
*the-fangedfour Fanged Four LJ (friendslocked)
*fangedfour Fanged Four YahooGroups
==References==
Category:Buffyverse Characters