Post by Wesley Wyndham Pryce on Oct 8, 2007 20:15:11 GMT 12
Name
Wesley Wyndham-Pryce
Image
Appearance
Wesley stands five feet, eleven inches tall with a fairly muscular build. His usual wardrobe consists of of a typical pair of jeans, brown generic boots, and his shirt varies from a typical black t-shirt to a dark-colored dress shirt. To cover it all, he sports a dark brown, medium-weighted jacket, as seen in the picture.
Equipment
Lighter, zippo.
Weapons
A self-constructed lightweight, yet durable arm guantlet. The attatchment is fitted with a moderately complex mechanism that pushes a hidden, three foot foldable blade from under the wrist when another certain mechanism is triggered by the upward movement of the wrist. Specifically, when the wrist is flicked upward, a button is pressed by the skin, which sets forth an instant chain reaction of similar buttons that spiral down to the bottom of the guantlet. The last mechanism, when triggered, pushes the foldable blade out of its concealed slot. When folded, it reaches just short of Wesley's forearm, and the very end of the guantlet. when fully ejected, the blade unfolds itself. The gauntlet is safely concealed under the right sleeve of his jacket.
Personality
Distant. Sarcastic. Wesley isn't too much of a people person. Even with the people who he called friends, even lovers, he only put in the minimum amount of communication. He will do his part in a group, and even look out for others, but don't expect him to show a sypathetic side to anyone he doesn't know. If you get past his thick, cold outer shell, you've dug your way into his heart. With most people however, that's never enough from him.
Pre-Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Little is known about Wesley's childhood, only that it was a largely unhappy one. In the episode "Lineage", it is revealed that, at the age of six or seven, Wesley attempted to resurrect a dead bird using a mystical scroll stolen from his father's library. As a teenager he attended an English all-boys preparatory school where he became Head Boy while training to become a Watcher -- a member of a secret organisation that battles evil and trains Vampire Slayers.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Wesley's first appearance is in the Buffy third season episode "Bad Girls". Wesley is introduced as a replacement Watcher for Slayers Faith Lehane and Buffy Summers, following the discharge of Rupert Giles by the Council. Clean-cut, pompous and bossy, he is immediately disliked by the girls under his watch. He is inexperienced and handles himself poorly in combat; prior to his assignment to Buffy and Faith, his only encounters with vampires had been brief and "under controlled circumstances". Giles, his predecessor and fellow Englishman, does not take him seriously, and tends to support Buffy's predilection for ignoring Wesley's counsel. Originally Wesley was intended to be killed off after just a few episodes, but the writers grew fond of his character and decided to keep him alive. Wesley develops an inappropriate crush on Cordelia Chase, a high school student and ex-girlfriend of Xander Harris. Their flirtation culminates in a dance at the high school prom, followed a few days later by an awkward kiss, after which both characters realize that the attraction had been illusory and they lacked any sort of chemistry. When Faith goes rogue and Buffy turns her back on the Council, Wesley is subsequently fired for his failure.
Angel - first and second season
Wesley reappears in the first season of Angel, becoming a cast regular in his second episode "Somnambulist". Introduced as a self-proclaimed "rogue demon hunter", Wesley works with Angel and Cordelia as a member of supernatural detective agency Angel Investigations, serving as a partial replacement for the recently lost Doyle. Comparing the two characters, Denisof states, "Wesley is a clearer counterpart to Angel, whereas Doyle had more street smarts. Although [Doyle] was struggling with his demon nature, he had seen a lot more of the world in the same way Angel had." Nonetheless Denisof believes that in this period, his character "was so anxious to be a tough rogue demon hunter but was clearly a kind of soft puppy dog." Wesley proves his loyalty to Team Angel in the episode "Sanctuary", when, after being tempted with the offer of returning to the Watcher's Council, he betrays his former colleagues in order to help Angel protect Faith, despite the fact that Faith had brutally tortured him in the previous episode.
In Season Two, Wesley finds himself running the organization in Angel's absence during his friend's descent into darkness and shows himself to be highly capable, as well as developing a strong brothers-in-arms relationship with streetwise vampire-hunter Charles Gunn. No longer the coward he once was, Wesley is shot trying to protect Gunn and his friends from a zombie police officer in the episode "The Thin Dead Line", and remains in a wheelchair for the following two episodes. In "Belonging", he seeks his father's approval over being made leader of Angel Investigations, but instead finds his father is more concerned about his next failure following his being fired from the Watchers' Council. This, in combination with the natural leadership displayed by Angel upon his return to the agency, results in a crisis of confidence for Wesley, who nevertheless re-asserts his leadership when he is placed in charge of a rebellion in Pylea, exhibiting a ruthless pragmatism when he explains his decisions to sacrifice some rebels' lives and risk Angel's life as well: "If you try not to get anybody killed, you end up getting everybody killed."
Angel - third and fourth season
In the third season, Wesley's path soon becomes filled with tragedies and difficult choices. Just as he is beginning to have romantic feelings for teammate Fred Burkle, he is supernaturally influenced to attempt to kill her, ending his immediate opportunity for love. Denisof complimented that episode, "because it was the first real dark change in Wesley to experiment with". After the birth of Angel's son Connor, Wesley becomes convinced by a prophecy that Angel will eventually kill the baby. With the intention of taking him to safety, Wesley betrays his friends by kidnapping Connor. Denisof explains, "It isn't that he's purely bad or purely good, we're discovering a deeper and more complicated area of the character where good and bad aren't as clear, where Wesley does something motivated, he thinks, for the good of all - i.e. saving Connor and relieving Angel of the responsibility of murdering his son - and in doing so creates the situation in which the baby could be kidnapped, Angel loses his son and Wesley has his throat slit for the trouble. So it's grey rather than black or white." Whilst the character spent less time with his old friends, Denisof was "more or less isolated from the [main cast], barring one or two scenes of mild confrontation when they would come to visit me and we'd chew each other out. There's definitely a cold war going on with Wesley versus the world."
Wesley continues his descent into self-loathing when he begins a sexual relationship with Lilah Morgan, an employee of evil law firm Wolfram & Hart and Angel's long-time enemy. He forms his own team to fight the good fight, but maintains an interest in the affairs of Angel Investigations. In the opening episode of Season Four, Wesley rescues Angel from the bottom of the ocean, reviving him with his own blood. Wesley eventually returns to the team full time during the gang's first confrontation with the Beast and Jasmine's manifestation. Now deeply serious, humorless, and pessimistic, he takes command and makes the difficult decisions of bringing back Angel's evil alter ego Angelus and helping Faith escape from jail in order to stop the Beast. Wesley also has to face the trauma of Lilah's death, particularly when he is forced to decapitate her corpse when it appears she was killed and possibly sired by Angelus (cf. "Salvage"). At the end of the fourth season, Angel performs a powerful mind-wipe which removes certain events from the collective memories of the world at large. Denisof believes that the mind-wipe "selectively erased certain events or adjusted them". After the wipe, Wesley no longer has any recollection of the existence of Connor or the events involving him, but he does know that he went through a dark period of alienation from the group. Wesley's dark attitude is alleviated somewhat when the gang decide to take over Wolfram & Hart. The tension between Wesley and his co-workers did not go away because of the mind-wipe but because "we decided we were better off as a team than as separate entities. And we had to put our differences behind us and build our trust again as a group."
Angel - fifth season
In Season Five, the character of Wesley's father appears for the first time, in the episode "Lineage". Arriving at Wolfram & Hart, supposedly to try and convince Wesley to join the new Watcher's Council, Roger Wyndam-Pryce is soon revealed to have sinister intentions when he attempts to steal Angel's free will. When his father threatens to kill Fred, Wesley shoots and kills him without a moment's hesitation, and continues to fire his gun until the clip is empty. Although it turned out that the being he had killed wasn't his real father, but a convincing cyborg copy, Wesley is still understandably traumatised. Wesley finally gets together with Fred at the end of the episode "Smile Time", only to lose her shortly after, when her body is occupied by the spirit of an Old One known as Illyria. Upon finding out that Gunn was indirectly responsible for what happened to Fred, Wesley stabs him in retaliation, and later kills Knox for his part in Illyria's ascension. A broken man, Wesley turns to alcohol to ease his pain and tries to help Illyria understand the world, a move that furthers Wesley's suffering but, at the same time, he sees as the only way to keep some part of Fred close to him. When Angel proposes to attack the Circle of the Black Thorn, the secret arm of the Senior Partners, Wesley agrees to challenge a demon sorcerer named Cyvus Vail, and is mortally wounded in battle. He spends his final minutes of life with Illyria at his side, finally agreeing to let the demon take the form of Fred to allow Wesley, in some way, to say goodbye to the woman he loved.
Powers and abilities
Wesley had average strength for a man his height and weight, although he was somewhat athletic due to the lifestyle he led. Although trained in the skills of a Watcher, his overwhelming fear initially prevented him from gaining experience in real-life combat, and rendered him useless in fights. However, as his personality hardened, Wesley gained experience during his time with Angel and became an incredibly skilled martial artist, as well as being proficient with weapons. He was able to take on vampires with success and subdued Justine Cooper single-handedly on two occasions. The best marksman with firearms in the Buffyverse, he is able to hit a tiny target while performing acrobatics (e.g. in episode "Inside Out", when he killed the demon Skip). His superior and detailed knowledge of demons and sorcery aided Angel and the team regularly.
Nicknames
Wesley is called Percy by Spike in an allusion both to his proper name and his British aristocratic background.
Willow Rosenberg (played by his real life wife Alyson Hannigan) calls him the Marlboro Man in episode "Orpheus".
At various times, especially his freelance period, Wesley shows a tendency to use only his second surname, Pryce.
Charles Gunn sometimes refers to him as "English". This is initially an affectionate nickname, although Gunn later uses it in a more hostile manner, when their rivalry over Fred -- and Wesley's eventual alienation from the group -- creates bitterness between them.
Romantic relationships
Cordelia Chase — Wesley's romantic relationship with Cordelia was limited to flirting and infatuation that eventually ended after the two shared a pair of incredibly awkward kisses.
Virginia Bryce — The two met and slept together in the Angel episode "Guise Will Be Guise" under the false pretense that Wesley was in fact Angel. However, the two continued in a fairly serious relationship for the rest of the second season, but Virginia left because she didn't feel capable of coping with Wesley's lifestyle.
Lilah Morgan — Lilah and Wesley's relationship initially began as simply physical but eventually grew into something more. Wesley broke off the relationship after realizing that he could no longer bring himself to ride the line of good and evil.
Winifred Burkle — From the beginning of Season 3 until the end of the series, Wesley was quite clearly in love with Fred. This set him at odds with Charles Gunn. Even after the others broke ties with him, Wesley continued to help Fred when she needed it, and also tried to end her relationship with Gunn. In the episode Lineage, Wesley shot to death who he thought was his father in order to protect Fred. Fred began pursuing him in the episode Smile Time (though he was completely clueless), and their relationship would last about a week. Wesley was the only one with her when she died. Alexis Denisof described Wesley as being obsessed with Fred and that he viewed her as his soulmate.
Illyria — Though not a romantic relationship, Wesley felt drawn to Illyria as she was all that remained of Fred. Although they were mostly at each other's throats for a long period, Wesley took a keen interest in helping Illyria navigate Earth, and was easily the person who understood her eccentricities the most. For her part, Illyria treated Wesley as a trusted guide and advisor. At the very end, Illyria took Fred's shape and gave him a moment of comfort before he died.
Wesley Wyndham-Pryce
Image
Appearance
Wesley stands five feet, eleven inches tall with a fairly muscular build. His usual wardrobe consists of of a typical pair of jeans, brown generic boots, and his shirt varies from a typical black t-shirt to a dark-colored dress shirt. To cover it all, he sports a dark brown, medium-weighted jacket, as seen in the picture.
Equipment
Lighter, zippo.
Weapons
A self-constructed lightweight, yet durable arm guantlet. The attatchment is fitted with a moderately complex mechanism that pushes a hidden, three foot foldable blade from under the wrist when another certain mechanism is triggered by the upward movement of the wrist. Specifically, when the wrist is flicked upward, a button is pressed by the skin, which sets forth an instant chain reaction of similar buttons that spiral down to the bottom of the guantlet. The last mechanism, when triggered, pushes the foldable blade out of its concealed slot. When folded, it reaches just short of Wesley's forearm, and the very end of the guantlet. when fully ejected, the blade unfolds itself. The gauntlet is safely concealed under the right sleeve of his jacket.
Personality
Distant. Sarcastic. Wesley isn't too much of a people person. Even with the people who he called friends, even lovers, he only put in the minimum amount of communication. He will do his part in a group, and even look out for others, but don't expect him to show a sypathetic side to anyone he doesn't know. If you get past his thick, cold outer shell, you've dug your way into his heart. With most people however, that's never enough from him.
Pre-Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Little is known about Wesley's childhood, only that it was a largely unhappy one. In the episode "Lineage", it is revealed that, at the age of six or seven, Wesley attempted to resurrect a dead bird using a mystical scroll stolen from his father's library. As a teenager he attended an English all-boys preparatory school where he became Head Boy while training to become a Watcher -- a member of a secret organisation that battles evil and trains Vampire Slayers.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Wesley's first appearance is in the Buffy third season episode "Bad Girls". Wesley is introduced as a replacement Watcher for Slayers Faith Lehane and Buffy Summers, following the discharge of Rupert Giles by the Council. Clean-cut, pompous and bossy, he is immediately disliked by the girls under his watch. He is inexperienced and handles himself poorly in combat; prior to his assignment to Buffy and Faith, his only encounters with vampires had been brief and "under controlled circumstances". Giles, his predecessor and fellow Englishman, does not take him seriously, and tends to support Buffy's predilection for ignoring Wesley's counsel. Originally Wesley was intended to be killed off after just a few episodes, but the writers grew fond of his character and decided to keep him alive. Wesley develops an inappropriate crush on Cordelia Chase, a high school student and ex-girlfriend of Xander Harris. Their flirtation culminates in a dance at the high school prom, followed a few days later by an awkward kiss, after which both characters realize that the attraction had been illusory and they lacked any sort of chemistry. When Faith goes rogue and Buffy turns her back on the Council, Wesley is subsequently fired for his failure.
Angel - first and second season
Wesley reappears in the first season of Angel, becoming a cast regular in his second episode "Somnambulist". Introduced as a self-proclaimed "rogue demon hunter", Wesley works with Angel and Cordelia as a member of supernatural detective agency Angel Investigations, serving as a partial replacement for the recently lost Doyle. Comparing the two characters, Denisof states, "Wesley is a clearer counterpart to Angel, whereas Doyle had more street smarts. Although [Doyle] was struggling with his demon nature, he had seen a lot more of the world in the same way Angel had." Nonetheless Denisof believes that in this period, his character "was so anxious to be a tough rogue demon hunter but was clearly a kind of soft puppy dog." Wesley proves his loyalty to Team Angel in the episode "Sanctuary", when, after being tempted with the offer of returning to the Watcher's Council, he betrays his former colleagues in order to help Angel protect Faith, despite the fact that Faith had brutally tortured him in the previous episode.
In Season Two, Wesley finds himself running the organization in Angel's absence during his friend's descent into darkness and shows himself to be highly capable, as well as developing a strong brothers-in-arms relationship with streetwise vampire-hunter Charles Gunn. No longer the coward he once was, Wesley is shot trying to protect Gunn and his friends from a zombie police officer in the episode "The Thin Dead Line", and remains in a wheelchair for the following two episodes. In "Belonging", he seeks his father's approval over being made leader of Angel Investigations, but instead finds his father is more concerned about his next failure following his being fired from the Watchers' Council. This, in combination with the natural leadership displayed by Angel upon his return to the agency, results in a crisis of confidence for Wesley, who nevertheless re-asserts his leadership when he is placed in charge of a rebellion in Pylea, exhibiting a ruthless pragmatism when he explains his decisions to sacrifice some rebels' lives and risk Angel's life as well: "If you try not to get anybody killed, you end up getting everybody killed."
Angel - third and fourth season
In the third season, Wesley's path soon becomes filled with tragedies and difficult choices. Just as he is beginning to have romantic feelings for teammate Fred Burkle, he is supernaturally influenced to attempt to kill her, ending his immediate opportunity for love. Denisof complimented that episode, "because it was the first real dark change in Wesley to experiment with". After the birth of Angel's son Connor, Wesley becomes convinced by a prophecy that Angel will eventually kill the baby. With the intention of taking him to safety, Wesley betrays his friends by kidnapping Connor. Denisof explains, "It isn't that he's purely bad or purely good, we're discovering a deeper and more complicated area of the character where good and bad aren't as clear, where Wesley does something motivated, he thinks, for the good of all - i.e. saving Connor and relieving Angel of the responsibility of murdering his son - and in doing so creates the situation in which the baby could be kidnapped, Angel loses his son and Wesley has his throat slit for the trouble. So it's grey rather than black or white." Whilst the character spent less time with his old friends, Denisof was "more or less isolated from the [main cast], barring one or two scenes of mild confrontation when they would come to visit me and we'd chew each other out. There's definitely a cold war going on with Wesley versus the world."
Wesley continues his descent into self-loathing when he begins a sexual relationship with Lilah Morgan, an employee of evil law firm Wolfram & Hart and Angel's long-time enemy. He forms his own team to fight the good fight, but maintains an interest in the affairs of Angel Investigations. In the opening episode of Season Four, Wesley rescues Angel from the bottom of the ocean, reviving him with his own blood. Wesley eventually returns to the team full time during the gang's first confrontation with the Beast and Jasmine's manifestation. Now deeply serious, humorless, and pessimistic, he takes command and makes the difficult decisions of bringing back Angel's evil alter ego Angelus and helping Faith escape from jail in order to stop the Beast. Wesley also has to face the trauma of Lilah's death, particularly when he is forced to decapitate her corpse when it appears she was killed and possibly sired by Angelus (cf. "Salvage"). At the end of the fourth season, Angel performs a powerful mind-wipe which removes certain events from the collective memories of the world at large. Denisof believes that the mind-wipe "selectively erased certain events or adjusted them". After the wipe, Wesley no longer has any recollection of the existence of Connor or the events involving him, but he does know that he went through a dark period of alienation from the group. Wesley's dark attitude is alleviated somewhat when the gang decide to take over Wolfram & Hart. The tension between Wesley and his co-workers did not go away because of the mind-wipe but because "we decided we were better off as a team than as separate entities. And we had to put our differences behind us and build our trust again as a group."
Angel - fifth season
In Season Five, the character of Wesley's father appears for the first time, in the episode "Lineage". Arriving at Wolfram & Hart, supposedly to try and convince Wesley to join the new Watcher's Council, Roger Wyndam-Pryce is soon revealed to have sinister intentions when he attempts to steal Angel's free will. When his father threatens to kill Fred, Wesley shoots and kills him without a moment's hesitation, and continues to fire his gun until the clip is empty. Although it turned out that the being he had killed wasn't his real father, but a convincing cyborg copy, Wesley is still understandably traumatised. Wesley finally gets together with Fred at the end of the episode "Smile Time", only to lose her shortly after, when her body is occupied by the spirit of an Old One known as Illyria. Upon finding out that Gunn was indirectly responsible for what happened to Fred, Wesley stabs him in retaliation, and later kills Knox for his part in Illyria's ascension. A broken man, Wesley turns to alcohol to ease his pain and tries to help Illyria understand the world, a move that furthers Wesley's suffering but, at the same time, he sees as the only way to keep some part of Fred close to him. When Angel proposes to attack the Circle of the Black Thorn, the secret arm of the Senior Partners, Wesley agrees to challenge a demon sorcerer named Cyvus Vail, and is mortally wounded in battle. He spends his final minutes of life with Illyria at his side, finally agreeing to let the demon take the form of Fred to allow Wesley, in some way, to say goodbye to the woman he loved.
Powers and abilities
Wesley had average strength for a man his height and weight, although he was somewhat athletic due to the lifestyle he led. Although trained in the skills of a Watcher, his overwhelming fear initially prevented him from gaining experience in real-life combat, and rendered him useless in fights. However, as his personality hardened, Wesley gained experience during his time with Angel and became an incredibly skilled martial artist, as well as being proficient with weapons. He was able to take on vampires with success and subdued Justine Cooper single-handedly on two occasions. The best marksman with firearms in the Buffyverse, he is able to hit a tiny target while performing acrobatics (e.g. in episode "Inside Out", when he killed the demon Skip). His superior and detailed knowledge of demons and sorcery aided Angel and the team regularly.
Nicknames
Wesley is called Percy by Spike in an allusion both to his proper name and his British aristocratic background.
Willow Rosenberg (played by his real life wife Alyson Hannigan) calls him the Marlboro Man in episode "Orpheus".
At various times, especially his freelance period, Wesley shows a tendency to use only his second surname, Pryce.
Charles Gunn sometimes refers to him as "English". This is initially an affectionate nickname, although Gunn later uses it in a more hostile manner, when their rivalry over Fred -- and Wesley's eventual alienation from the group -- creates bitterness between them.
Romantic relationships
Cordelia Chase — Wesley's romantic relationship with Cordelia was limited to flirting and infatuation that eventually ended after the two shared a pair of incredibly awkward kisses.
Virginia Bryce — The two met and slept together in the Angel episode "Guise Will Be Guise" under the false pretense that Wesley was in fact Angel. However, the two continued in a fairly serious relationship for the rest of the second season, but Virginia left because she didn't feel capable of coping with Wesley's lifestyle.
Lilah Morgan — Lilah and Wesley's relationship initially began as simply physical but eventually grew into something more. Wesley broke off the relationship after realizing that he could no longer bring himself to ride the line of good and evil.
Winifred Burkle — From the beginning of Season 3 until the end of the series, Wesley was quite clearly in love with Fred. This set him at odds with Charles Gunn. Even after the others broke ties with him, Wesley continued to help Fred when she needed it, and also tried to end her relationship with Gunn. In the episode Lineage, Wesley shot to death who he thought was his father in order to protect Fred. Fred began pursuing him in the episode Smile Time (though he was completely clueless), and their relationship would last about a week. Wesley was the only one with her when she died. Alexis Denisof described Wesley as being obsessed with Fred and that he viewed her as his soulmate.
Illyria — Though not a romantic relationship, Wesley felt drawn to Illyria as she was all that remained of Fred. Although they were mostly at each other's throats for a long period, Wesley took a keen interest in helping Illyria navigate Earth, and was easily the person who understood her eccentricities the most. For her part, Illyria treated Wesley as a trusted guide and advisor. At the very end, Illyria took Fred's shape and gave him a moment of comfort before he died.
