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SSJConan
09-14-2008, 05:22 AM
I made this a while back and have decided to pimp it here, it's mainly focused on the Fang Gang; Liam/Angel, Angelus, Darla, Spike, Drusilla, and the Master pre-"Welcome to the Hellmouth". I should make a movie out of these. Enjoy and please comment!


1609 - The Master sires the dying soon-to-be-named Darla in colonial Virginia.

Flashback from "Darla" (Angel).

1753 - A 26 year old Liam catches the eye of Darla while partaking in a tavern fight. The following day, he leaves the family home after another fight with his father. That night, after more drinking and partying, he sees Darla in an alley and follows her. She kills him through siring and the following night after his funeral, the vampiric-demon "Liam", soon to be named Angelus, rises and kills the entire village, Liam's family included.

Flashbacks from "Amends" (Buffy), "The Prodigal" (Angel), and "Becoming, Part 1" (Buffy).

1760 - After 7 years of cutting a bloody swath toward London, Darla and Angelus arrive at the Master's lair. Darla introduces Angelus and the Master to one another, the latter amused by the young vampire's attitude, though also irritated by his lack of respect for the Order of Aurelius' ways. Despite Darla and Angelus leaving him, the Master is impressed enough to subsequently consider him as the most vicious creature he ever met and hope him to one day be his right hand.

Flashback from "Darla" (Angel).

1764 - After some chasing from the vampire hunter Holtz, Angelus and Darla arrive at his family home after making sure he's tricked into not disturbing their onslaught. The two trick Sarah, Holtz's daughter, into letting them in. Holtz's family is then slaughtered; his wife raped/murdered by Angelus, his infant son killed by the duo, and his daughter dranken from both of them (sired by Angelus, as Darla only ever sired him). Holtz returns to the carnage and finds his undead "daughter", whom he eventually brings to killing in the morning daylight.

Flashbacks from "Quickening" (Angel) and "Lullaby" (Angel).

1765 - Darla and Angelus get trapped in a barn in France by Holtz's relentless escapade. They're eventually found and Darla subsequently knocks Angelus out so she and their horse can make it away, telling him to meet up with her in Vienna, to which they later offscreen do.

Flashbacks from "The Trial" (Angel).

1767 - After meeting another vampire couple named Elisabeth and James in Marseilles, Darla and Angelus make friends for once and the four hang together, though Angelus remains baffled by how the couple can love. They're eventually caught by Holtz, though Darla and Elisabeth manage to escape. Angelus and James, despite some animosity when the former is willing to give away Darla's location, also manage to barely escape. Once again though, Angelus is left in a bad situation after James spitefully pushes him off their horse.

Flashbacks from "Heartthrob" (Angel).

1771 - In Rome, Holtz finally catches a lone Angelus and spends the next several hours torturing him in an attempt to find Darla and frankly see if he can wedge any type of "humanity" that exists from Angelus' psychotic perspective. Things come to an end when Darla and several recruited vamps crash in the complex, the morning sun not stopping them, and save Angelus. When he contemplates on if they should kill Holtz, Darla merely shrugs him off and decides they should let him live, actually considering him family now.

Flashback from "Quickening" (Angel).

1773 - In York, Sahjhan brings himself to an alone Holtz, whom is crushed by never truly catching Darla and Angelus after his near-decade crusade, though also still determined not to give up. The time-phasing demon offers the vampire hunter the chance to exact his vengeance and after an offscreen reply by Holtz, offscreen traps him in a statue to be awakened nearly 230 years later.

Flashback from "Quickening" (Angel).

1786 - Angelus, without Darla by his side in this period, has just very recently sired the puritan, Penn. He guides him into killing his entire family and hence copying Angelus on a wide range of aspects, including his signature cross left on victims to "mock" God. They evidently promise to meet up again some time in Romania, though Angelus gets tied up with Gypsies, rather that has anything or not to do with his cursing is unknown.

Flashbacks from "Somnambulist" (Angel).

1789 - Alone and following a massive trail of carnage in Prussia, Angelus meets the Beast and gets offered a place at his side. He turns down the offer, only to get immediately smashed in the face. Knocked down, he witnesses the Svea priestesses imprison the Beast and subsequently goes unconscious.

Flashbacks from "Long Day's Journey" (Angel) and "Soulless" (Angel).

1838 - Now with a mustache in Dublin, Ireland, Angelus makes the Christmas of this year most "artistic" for himself. He kills a man named Daniel, whom apparently owes him some money, in the predawn hours of the day. Then later at night, kills a servant woman he's apparently stalked prior, Margaret, though not before promising to make her son a fine dessert.

Flashbacks from "Amends" (Buffy).

1860 - Angelus and Darla reunite in London after an unknown period of separation, after which she leads him to spotting a human Drusilla and her sisters. Taken aback by her chaste saint-like nature and the fact she has "the sight", he promises to pull out all the stops in bringing forth her downfall, believing this'll be his greatest "artistic" achievement yet. He later kills a priest of hers at a church during his relentless stalking. He taunts her when pretending to be her priest and sooner than later, gets to her whole family and apparently kills them all in front of her.

Devastated by this, Dru flees to the Sisters of Mercy Convent to take her holy orders as soon as possible, though Angelus makes it there as well and kills every soul in and outside the church, Dru being forced to watch. He then implyingly rapes her, completing his mission in driving her completely insane. Darla meets back up with him once he's all finished and they make love right in front of a crushed and rambling Dru, whom Angelus points out will be sired once the two of them are done, figuring suffering eternal torment in becoming a vampire rather than ending it with putting her out of her misery makes this a "masterpiece".

Flashbacks from "Becoming, Part 1" (Buffy) and "Dear Boy" (Angel).

1880 - In London, a young poet named William, whom is very devoted to his good mother, gets mocked after reading some poetry and attempting to profess his love to a woman known as Cecily. As he storms off, Angelus, Darla, and Drusilla roam the streets after a fresh kill of Dru's. She decides after some suggesting to make her own "knight" as Angelus bumps into a blubbering William, who's finishing tearing up his poems and heading to an alley. Dru follows him and tricks him into willingly being sired, buries him in her "traditional" siring fashion so the vampiric "William" can dig out of his own grave, and they then embrace as vampire lovers.

Heading to his family home, "William" states his intent on siring his human mother, a bit to Dru's dismay. He then comforts and subsequently sires her, later returning alone when enough time has past so that she's risen again. "William's" crushed to see that she's little-at-all like the loving woman that raised the human William, now a psychotic vampire that has no wish to spend her undead eternity with him, in fact trying to convince him to "shag" her so whatever obsession from him can be done away with. He immediately stakes her and puts this whole mess behind him, apparently blocking this from his memory and returning to Dru.

Some short time later, Dru brings him to Angelus and Darla's current lair, the latter of whom has gone off to briefly reunite with a calling Master. "William" and Angelus meet, having both a tense and amusing interaction from their perspectives, with Angelus thinking that they may in fact be the best of friends. Later that night, after crashing a wedding and spending some time in a carriage talking of things and Drusilla, "William" later returns to the lair to find Angelus "puttin' it to" Dru. The two have a fight, which the older vamp evidently wins and teaches the younger a fact about things as vampires, whilst also suggesting he get himself a new name.

Some time later in the year, after Darla's returned to the vamp-core and met "William" the Bloody, whom now is also trying to go by Spike, the gang get trapped in a mine shaft in Yorkshire. With his desire of staying in much nicer accommodations and Darla getting her "view", Angelus gets very angry with Spike for putting them in the situation they're in, with Spike simply wanting to have an all out brawl. The two have a fight as their women watch, Angelus once again defeating Spike, though this time around making sure to warn him of dangers to more profile vamps, such as the Slayer.

Flashbacks from "Lies My Parents Told Me" (Buffy), "Fool for Love" (Buffy), "Darla" (Angel), and "Destiny" (Angel).

1890 - Angelus cries at a play the Blinnikov World Ballet Corps. put on for Giselle.

Referenced in "Waiting in the Wings" (Angel).

1894 - While in Rome, Angelus and Spike are captured by Angelus' "arch nemesis", the Immortal, whom "concurrently" has his way with Darla and Dru while the men are locked up. They attempt to seek "blood vengeance", but can't get anywhere near the ambiguous man. They both swear that this feud will "never be over".

Flashbacks from "The Girl in Question" (Angel).

1898 - While in Rome simultaneously as Spike and Dru are, Darla surprises Angelus at their private lair with a Gypsy woman, whom is the most prized member of her clan. He subsequently has his way with her, also having his way with Darla as she watches, ultimately resulting in the girl's death. Once her clan discovers this, they hold a funeral while also performing a specific curse for Angelus, whom apparently senses or hears of the trouble and rushes to the camp. Upon arriving, his "human soul" is restored. Upon being re-ensouled, Liam is confused about where he is and what all's happened, to which the male Gypsy elder explains the purpose of the spell. Starting to remember events, the sorrow overwhelms him as he brings his head down, confused on what to do.

Later at their lair, Darla finds "Angelus" and through some obvious hints, learns his soul has been restored. Despite him wanting to stay, she kicks him out and he wanders the Rome streets outside, his vampiric urges for blood peeking by this point. He sees an Italian aristocrat woman and the urges cause him to beat down the men with her and bite her in an alley, though the sorrow and intense guilt keep him from drinking and he lets her go, much to both his and her surprise. He wanders up to a hill on the outskirts of the village as Darla, Spike, and Dru find the gypsy camp, where Darla sees to blackmailing the male elder without telling the two younger vamps of Angelus and why they're there. Much to her calm dismay, it turns out Spike's already killed the remaining daughters of the elder; Darla snaps his neck as Spike and Dru dance away.

Flashbacks from "Five by Five" (Angel), "Untouched" (Angel), "Becoming, Part 1" (Buffy), and "Darla" (Angel).

1900 - During the Boxer Rebellion in China, Liam/"Angelus" finds Darla in a lair of hers and attempts embracing her, trying his best to convince her that he can be the Angelus she made and spent ages with. She's eventually convinced, the two embrace once more while elsewhere, Spike is fighting a Chinese Slayer. He manages to get the upper hand and kills her, sharing her blood with an arriving Drusilla. The two make love and head off into the streets, where "Angelus" has just finished protecting missionaries from a lustful Darla. Spike and Dru reunite with whom they believe as the genuine Angelus and the group walk off through the carnage.

The next morning, Darla reveals to "Angelus" that she knows he's only hunting/killing rapists and murderers, not even feeding off them either, as he must feed from rats at the waterfront. She reveals to him the infant of the missionaries he protected, the parents and older sister of which she killed, taking the baby for "Angelus" to prove himself. In a showdown which proves to be the last time they see each other for 97 years, Darla in her fancy kimonos and all, the Vampire-with-a-Soul before her reveals he can't seem to be what he isn't, then permanently abandons his futile hope of being with this vampire whom damned him and runs off with the baby.

Flashbacks from "Fool for Love" (Buffy) and "Darla" (Angel).

Possibly at some point between 1900 and 1902 - The Vampire-with-a-Soul meets Drogyn while going through Europe. Rather than introducing himself as Angelus, in dedication to his long-dead little sister and hate for his vampiric-demon "Self", he subsequently goes by the name of Angel. He leaves the baby he saved from Darla somewhere to grow a proper life and continues his "hundred years" of wandering.

1902 - Angel arrives in New York, America, where he'll stay and not be any type of vampire nuisance.

Flashback from "Orpheus" (Angel).

Early 20s - Angel now resides as a mild-mannered-of-sorts isolated man/vampire in Chicago, actually saving a woman's puppy when it nearly gets hit by a car.

Flashback from "Orpheus" (Angel).

Mid-to-Late 20s - Angel meets the kinda-good demon, Boone, at a bar in Juarez and the two get in a disagreement over a girl. They fight till the sunrise, when Boone lets him go out of honor.

Referenced in "Blood Money" (Angel).

Late 20s - Angel passes through Missoula, Montana, staying there during the Great Depression.

Referenced in "City of" (Angel).

1937 - After an attempt to open the Sunnydale Hellmouth, the Master traps himself underground and within a church, bound within a vortex-like bubble of space and time he's unable to walk out of.

Referenced in "The Harvest" (Buffy).

1943 - During the events of World War II, Angel is caught by surprise in a New York apartment of his by the Demon Research Initiative, an early form of the eventual Initiative that later comes to Sunnydale. They demand he save a specific submarine and its crew, not really giving him a choice and sinking him down the ocean. While on his mission, he reunites with Spike, whom had been captured by the Nazis at a prior point when trapped at a "blood virgin party". Just like in 1900, Spike never learns or catches on that "Angelus" is now re-ensouled, hence he doesn't have too much a problem listening to him and helping out. The mission is eventually successful, though not without a casualty on Angel's part, as he had to sire the dying Sam Lawson to save the crew and themselves.

Flashbacks from "Why We Fight" (Angel).

1952 - While Spike and Dru are hitting up the towns over in Italy, Angel's arrived in L.A. and decides to reside at the Hyperion Hotel. He meets a woman there whom causes more trouble than necessary as he decides to save the residents from a demon inhabiting the place. He's eventually hanged for his trouble and tells the demon he can just take them all, leaving the hotel and L.A.

Flashbacks from "The Girl in Question" (Angel) and "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been" (Angel).

Early 50s-60s - Angel resides in Las Vegas for a time and meets many popular groups like the Rat Pack, attends Elvis Presley's wedding, becomes a fan of the show Bonanza, and overall just decides "What the hell" in regard to associating himself more with humans. It's very possible he even had a sexual interlude with Lorne's eventual Furies during this period.

Referenced in various episodes (Angel).

1969 - Spike attends Woodstock, rather he was by himself or with Dru is unknown. He enjoys himself immensely and is sure to feed off a flower girl while there, subsequently spending the next several hours "watching [his] hand move".

Referenced in "School Hard" (Buffy).

1977 - A lone Spike arrives in New York seeking out its city-based Slayer, Nikki Wood. During a first fight between the two, Nikki's son, Robin, catches a notable glimpse of the evil vampire trying to kill his mother. Despite Spike's failing, he resolves to take her down and heads off. Meanwhile, elsewhere in the city, Angel is arriving at a donut shop to listen to his favorite singer, Barry Mannilow, whose concerts he's brought himself to attending. He witnesses a robbery that results in the cashier getting shot and the robber getting away. He tries comforting the man and stays by his side as he dies, though the smell of human blood and vampiric craving is too much for him. As the man dies, Angel locks up the shop and proceeds to feed on his freshley-dead body, getting intensely repulsed with himself immediately afterwards and exiling himself to living off only rats in New York's alleys.

Elsewhere, Spike and Nikki have a final confrontation in a moving subway train. This time around, he manages to get the upper hand, as he had with the Chinese Slayer many years before. Spike suspects that the reason he won this time around was probably because of a subconscious death wish that the Slayers have, to which he lectures Nikki's dead body while stripping her of her jacket. Despite some witnesses evidently seeing him, he leaves the train clean with a brand new coat he'll cherish for nearly 30 years.

Flashbacks from "Lies My Parents Told Me" (Buffy), "Orpheus" (Angel), and "Fool for Love" (Buffy).

1996 - Whistler finds Angel during his rat feeding in New York and persuades him to come to L.A., promising to show him a reason to be a better person. On a bright sunny day, the Vampire-with-a-Soul is parked in a cloaked car outside Hemery High School, where Buffy Summers exits and after talking to her friends, meets her first Watcher, Merrick. Angel witnesses her calling as the Slayer and despite his better judgment and attempt to conceal it, has literally fallen in love at first sight. After watching her first rough night in slaying a vampire and her troubles at home, he goes to see Whistler and agrees with him that a Slayer this young would indeed have problems, though decides to help her and "become someone".

Flashback fron "Becoming, Part 1" (Buffy).

Vergon6
09-15-2008, 01:25 AM
Pretty good chronology. Did you do research on this? Or is your memory photographic? Or did you just decide one day to pay attention to the years and events occurring to create a chronology?

SSJConan
09-16-2008, 05:29 PM
Pretty good chronology. Did you do research on this? Or is your memory photographic? Or did you just decide one day to pay attention to the years and events occurring to create a chronology?

I did some research online, watched very specific episodes of both shows to determine what went where (after already watching both shows entirely), interpreted certain things to answer a couple questions (like when Angel could've met Drogyn and come up with his name, predating his brawl with Boone), and decided something like this could be used by myself and others to remember or figure out certain elements of the fang gang's 'undead' lives.

Hopefulsuicide
09-16-2008, 05:36 PM
i saw something like this in a magazine i read, but nothing as well done as this. it's obviois you've put a lot of effort into it, and i really enjoyed readin it :)

SSJConan
09-17-2008, 01:36 AM
i saw something like this in a magazine i read, but nothing as well done as this. it's obviois you've put a lot of effort into it, and i really enjoyed readin it :)

Many thanks, Becky :)