Character: Wesley Wyndam-Pryce Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series Character Notes: History: Not much is known about Wesley's childhood, outside of it being unhappy and ridden with daddy issues. His whole life was laid out for him for a very young age, as both his father and grandfather were Watchers (What is a Watcher? Generally, weird British guys who follow the chosen vampire slayer of the generation around to give exposition.) and … decided for him that he would be, too. He attended an all-boys preparatory school run by the Watcher's council, where he made Head Boy. Almost immediately after finishing Watcher grad school, he was shipped off to replace Rupert Giles as Watcher to Buffy Summers and Faith Lehane.
While he knows a lot about slaying and ~the forces of darkness~ in theory, he's actually … terribly incompetent. When he first arrived, he bragged about handling two vampires "under controlled circumstances." Real life kind of kicked his ass when he was forced into a real combat situation and Giles had to save him from being eaten by vampires. He's very straight laced and by the book in his instruction to Buffy and Faith, succeeding in making both of them dislike him. Giles even encourages them to ignore his counsel.
Because of his tight-ass nature, the scoobies usually try to keep him as far out of the loop as they possibly can. The only person who shows any kind of interest in him is Cordelia. They spend a lot of time flirting with each other, culminating in him "chaperoning" at the high school prom just to be there so he can dance with her. A few days later they kiss and realize there isn't actually any kind of chemistry between them.
As a result of them not sharing anything with him, Wesley had to eavesdrop to find out that Faith had killed the deputy mayor-- mistaking him for a vampire, and then showing no remorse for doing so-- and was beginning to break away from the scoobies and go rogue. Angel had taken Faith to his home and tried to reason with her, but Wesley drove his attempt into the ground by breaking in with a special ops team sent by the Watcher's Council to arrest her. This only makes Faith's downward spiral worse, and drives her into the arms (in a surrogate fatherly way) of the Mayor, the season's big bad.
When the Mayor tried to ascend to demonhood, he sent Faith in to distract Buffy by poisoning Angel and send him on the path to a long, slow death. Wesley tries to convince the Council to intervene and help Angel, but they refuse. This disgusts Buffy so much that she severs all ties with the Council completely, becoming a renegade. Even though this technically frees him of any obligations to help, he fights alongside the Mayor alongside them. Too bad he still fails at field combat and gets taken out almost immediately. He's last seen being carried off in an ambulance, and was presumably immediately fired by the Council after showing such utter incompetence in being able to lead both Faith and Buffy.
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Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series
Character Notes:
History:
Not much is known about Wesley's childhood, outside of it being unhappy and ridden with daddy issues. His whole life was laid out for him for a very young age, as both his father and grandfather were Watchers (What is a Watcher? Generally, weird British guys who follow the chosen vampire slayer of the generation around to give exposition.) and … decided for him that he would be, too. He attended an all-boys preparatory school run by the Watcher's council, where he made Head Boy. Almost immediately after finishing Watcher grad school, he was shipped off to replace Rupert Giles as Watcher to Buffy Summers and Faith Lehane.
While he knows a lot about slaying and ~the forces of darkness~ in theory, he's actually … terribly incompetent. When he first arrived, he bragged about handling two vampires "under controlled circumstances." Real life kind of kicked his ass when he was forced into a real combat situation and Giles had to save him from being eaten by vampires. He's very straight laced and by the book in his instruction to Buffy and Faith, succeeding in making both of them dislike him. Giles even encourages them to ignore his counsel.
Because of his tight-ass nature, the scoobies usually try to keep him as far out of the loop as they possibly can. The only person who shows any kind of interest in him is Cordelia. They spend a lot of time flirting with each other, culminating in him "chaperoning" at the high school prom just to be there so he can dance with her. A few days later they kiss and realize there isn't actually any kind of chemistry between them.
As a result of them not sharing anything with him, Wesley had to eavesdrop to find out that Faith had killed the deputy mayor-- mistaking him for a vampire, and then showing no remorse for doing so-- and was beginning to break away from the scoobies and go rogue. Angel had taken Faith to his home and tried to reason with her, but Wesley drove his attempt into the ground by breaking in with a special ops team sent by the Watcher's Council to arrest her. This only makes Faith's downward spiral worse, and drives her into the arms (in a surrogate fatherly way) of the Mayor, the season's big bad.
When the Mayor tried to ascend to demonhood, he sent Faith in to distract Buffy by poisoning Angel and send him on the path to a long, slow death. Wesley tries to convince the Council to intervene and help Angel, but they refuse. This disgusts Buffy so much that she severs all ties with the Council completely, becoming a renegade. Even though this technically frees him of any obligations to help, he fights alongside the Mayor alongside them. Too bad he still fails at field combat and gets taken out almost immediately. He's last seen being carried off in an ambulance, and was presumably immediately fired by the Council after showing such utter incompetence in being able to lead both Faith and Buffy.