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William Pratt was born circa 1853 in London to Anne Pratt and an unknown father. William's surname was not revealed in the series and for years was widely accepted to be "Walthrop" in the fandom. However, creator Joss Whedon recently revealed it to be "Pratt".

In 1880, at approximately 25 to 30 years of age, William was a brown-haired, ineffectual gentleman who lived with his mother and wrote poetry. He was called "William the Bloody" behind his back by his peers, because his poetry was so "bloody awful." This nickname (with more deadly connotions) followed him as a vampire. After his romantic overtures were rejected by the aristocratic Cecily, a despondent William accepted comfort in the arms of Drusilla only to be bitten and transformed into a vampire. Euphoric with his new-found vampiric abilities, and hungry for revenge on his peers, he abandoned the genteel hypocrisy of Victorian life (though not before turning his own mother into a vampire) and became a rebel, adopting a working class accent and becoming prone to impulsiveness and violence. He adopted the name "Spike" because of a habit of torturing people with railroad spikes. (It should be noted that one of his detractors in his human days exclaimed he'd rather "have a railroad spike driven through my head" than listen to William's poetry, a possible inspiration for the torture.) Along with other vampires, including the infamous Angelus and Darla, he terrorized Britain, Europe and Asia for decades. In one of his proudest moments, he killed a Slayer during the Chinese Boxer Rebellion; it was her sword that gave him the scar on his left eyebrow, which remains a century later.

Spike and Drusilla lost touch with Darla and Angelus (who, unknown to Spike or Drusilla, had recently been cursed with a soul), and the couple wandered the world seeking amusement and mayhem. During World War II, Spike was captured by Nazis and transported aboard a submarine which was in turn seized by Americans; after he and two other vampires killed most of the crew, Angel made a truce with Spike, allowing him to swim to shore before the submarine reached the United States.

At some point in a century or so of being his own boss, Spike employed a pair of Fyarl Demons as muscle, which is noteworthy since in the Buffyverse vampires and demons rarely get along. He attended Woodstock, where he drank blood from a hippie and spent the next several hours watching his own hand move. Spike has been known to drive in broad daylight despite the fact that his vulnerability to the sun requires him to cover most of the windows, leaving him with little means to see where he's going.

Disclaimer: Spike is not my property, I am just borrowing him from JW, and I am not James Marsters either.

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