Angel (Twilight)

Angel's History

Angel as "Twilight"

Some time following the restoration from the Fall of Los Angeles, Twilight contacted Angel, communicating through vessels such as humans and animals. It convinced him that in order to protect the world from an inevitable apocalypse involving Buffy's recently-created Slayer Organization, Angel would have to adopt the "Twilight" persona and become Buffy's enemy to prevent the entire world from going through what Los Angeles did during the Fall. Angel, who had recently received god-like abilities, reluctantly agreed to work for the entity. As the masked "Twilight," Angel believed he had to unite the anti-Slayer terrorist forces in a single cabal under his leadership and minimize the resulting destruction they would cause. His other objective was to become the focus of Buffy's anger and power so that she would meet her true potential.

Angel was initially reluctant to deceive Buffy, but his old ally Whistler convinced him that not doing so would result in Earth's destruction. Adopting a leather costume which masked his face, Angel recruited various factions to his anti-Slayer army; these included human members of the United States Armed Forces such as General Voll and Riley Finn, demon evolutionists such as Pearl and Nash, and Buffy's existing enemies Amy Madison and Warren Mears.

At this point, Wolfram & Hart discovered that the Twilight would not include the Senior Partners, contrary to what they expected. The law firm then planned to appropriate an interdimensional vehicle in order to evacuate the Earth dimension completely.

Buffy began having a same dream repeatedly, in which a "thing" (Twilight in his winged lion form) chased her and, no matter how hard she ran, it always ended up swallowing her whole, saying: "the queen is dead." Angel had his first attack directly against Buffy as the masked "Twilight," when he told her that activating the Slayers was a mistake and that she would suffer as a result; he explained to his followers that he had to strip Buffy of her moral certainty in order to defeat her. He also orchestrated various global assaults on the Slayer Organization, including a mystical missile attack on their Scottish base and the Swell in Japan.

Twilight urges Buffy and Angel to have sex in order to give birth to itself.

Having already killed hundreds of Slayers across the world, Twilight/Angel's forces eventually cornered Buffy's core group in Tibet, where they had sought sanctuary in a monastery with the werewolves Oz and his wife, Bayarmaa. During the battle against his army and the awaken wrathful goddesses, Buffy's Twilight powers were finally activated. After defeating the three goddesses, Buffy tested hew new powers with enthusiasm, until she theorized that the source had been the deaths of multiple Slayers in a coordinated attack worldwide. Buffy then used these powers to attack the masked "Twilight," who had kidnapped her allies Rupert Giles, Faith Lehane, and Andrew Wells. Buffy was horrified when she unmasked him as Angel.

Furious at his actions over the previous months, including the death of 206 Slayers, Buffy immediately tried to stake and fought Angel, but his invulnerability protected him long enough for him to explain himself. He told her that there was a divine reason why they loved each other and encouraged her to give in to that love. A glow began to overtake them, seeming to taking away Buffy's ability to fight against it. With Twilight urging them on, Buffy and Angel gave in to their passions; they had powerful airborne sex which caused them to smash through mountains, fly into outer space, then break through the walls of reality.