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Dru's Illness

Jan 22 2010 07:24 am   #1Niori
What exactly was Dru sick from? I know it had something to do with a mob in Prague, but what did said mob do to weaken her so much?
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Jan 22 2010 07:27 am   #2TammyDevil666
Draining her, possibly?  I don't know for sure, that may have been mentioned in fan fiction, but I don't think they actually said on the show what her illness was.
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Jan 22 2010 12:32 pm   #3Caro Mio
Since it was an angry mob as the problem, I always assumed she took a massive beating, since they never directly said. Spike just keeps saying she's "weak" and needs to eat to keep her strength up.
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Jan 22 2010 01:08 pm   #4slaymesoftly
It was never made specific, so who knows? The mob may have beaten her severely, burned her (likely). Whatever it was, it left her "weak" but not visibly damaged. She probably has used up all her resources healing and is going to need something special to get back to normal.
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Jan 22 2010 01:22 pm   #5maryperk
Athenewolf read on Wikipedia somewhere that Joss said in an interview that she had garlic posioning.  Now how true that is I don't know.
Jan 22 2010 07:44 pm   #6nmcil
It had to be something dealing with magics - Drusilla would have healed otherwise.  Same as Angel/Angelus, he was poisoned but with magic or specially created poison to effect vampiries. 
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Jan 22 2010 07:49 pm   #7nmcil
sorry for the double post
” Recent evolutionary models have demonstrated what politicians have long known: the best way to get people to collaborate and to think like a group is to identify an enemy and charge that “they” threaten “us.”

Michael Tomasello is co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Jan 22 2010 09:38 pm   #8Niori
So in otherwords, feel free to make something up on my own. lol
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Jan 22 2010 11:10 pm   #9TammyDevil666
Yep, that is the beauty of fan fiction...lol!
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Jan 22 2010 11:36 pm   #10Scarlet Ibis
Since she specifically needed sire blood to heal, my guess is magic is well.  Anything else that was physical, would have only requireed time to heal, and not a spell.  I mean, how many times has Spike taken a massive beating of some kind, and didn't need a spell to get better?  Or Angel...
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Jan 23 2010 12:59 am   #11maryperk
It was magical garlic.  That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.  LOL
Jan 23 2010 01:13 am   #12Niori
If it's magical garlic (lol) then I wanna know how the mob managed to hurt her with it.
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Jan 23 2010 07:04 am   #13Scarlet Ibis
Yes, we'll go with *magical* garlic poisoning ;) 

One of her victims ate some of it, just waiting for some vamp to try and take a taste...you know--so then they could lie on the ground bleeding but then go "Aha!" when the vampire chokes on their blood before they die.  And that would also explain why Spike wasn't cursed with illness.  How's that?

And...it was a trap.  The town in Prague knew that some big name vamps were in town, causing a ruckus, so they sent out a sacrificial lamb for Dru, waited for her to choke, and then came bursting forth from the woodwork, attacking her while she was down and dizzy from the wacky garlic poisoning.
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Jan 23 2010 09:52 am   #14Niori

Best. Senerio. Ever. lol :clap:

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Jan 23 2010 03:32 pm   #15maryperk
See?  I told you.
Jan 24 2010 03:21 am   #16Spikez_tart
The town in Prague knew that some big name vamps were in town, causing a ruckus, so they had a big town feast where everyone ate the national dish, which was 40-garlic roasted chicken, so no matter who the vampires bit they'd get a nasty mouthful.  Spike spit his vicitm's blood out, but Drusilla was sooooo hungry that she drank it down.
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Jan 24 2010 03:30 am   #17maryperk

Hehe, I think he started to eat garlic to build up a resistance.    Now he likes his Buffalo Wings extra garlicky.

Jan 24 2010 09:18 am   #18BandS
This thread is starting to crack me up...lol...Almost sounded like you were starting this thread of start a finish and keep it running lol...

I always wondered about Spike's tolerance for garlic...I always assumed because of his 'tolerance' it was due to his rebellious demon being challenged by Angelus that started him on this path of testing his limits.

"Dru, kitten.  Spit the poor sod's blood out."

Dru drops the now drained body as her body convulses and smokes.  She screams in agony as Spike...

Jan 24 2010 05:04 pm   #19Joyce
Yep, agree with you guys that it was  something which stuck to her cells and she couldn't rid herself of it without magical help.  If it was a draining, it was easy enough for them to get their fill after they escaped. 
Jan 27 2010 05:04 am   #20Sensei
OK, I've picked myself up from the floor and finished laughing now.  Actually these are great scenarios, so is someone going to pick up on it and write a related story?  How about you, Niori, since you started the whole thing?!

Jan 27 2010 05:08 am   #21Niori
I was asking for a story, and I do plan to write it, but regretfully not the hilarious versions here (maybe someday though, because they are AWESOME). I'm going with she got staked with a stake dipped in holy water- the stake missed, but the holy water got in her system and stayed there. I'll also add that it was magic somehow, because I agree that magic had to be involved somewhere. It's awhile before I have to work on it, so I'll worry about it later. lol!
But good God PLEASE, someone write something with the senarios above! And when you do, make sure you let me know! lol
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Jan 27 2010 07:51 am   #22nmcil
I would make it a stake that had a small piece of a holy relic inserted in its tip and holy water - this would make it a more powerful spell and also account for the blood from a ancient demonic power like the off spring from The Master.  Using part of a holy relic gives it a lot more mystery and connection to the religious symbols.
” Recent evolutionary models have demonstrated what politicians have long known: the best way to get people to collaborate and to think like a group is to identify an enemy and charge that “they” threaten “us.”

Michael Tomasello is co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Jan 27 2010 10:48 am   #23Niori
That's a great idea- thanks. I'll totally use it. Holy relic would add an extra punch for sure.
In that case, wow these guys really had it in for Dru.
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Jan 27 2010 01:48 pm   #24maryperk
Now the big question is when did the mob in Prague happen?

Jan 27 2010 11:32 pm   #25slaymesoftly
Sometime before Spike brought Dru to Sunndale in early season II of Buffy. Whenever that was. Mid 90s maybe?
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Jan 28 2010 01:16 am   #26Caro Mio
They arrived in Sunndale at the end of September (air date) of 1997. My assumption was always that the Prague sitch happened the same year. I don't think they've been wandering long.

One thing that has to be taken into account with Dru is her mental state. Any of you with children know it can be really hard to get them to take medicine or eat when they don't feel well......Dru is basically the same way. We see Spike have to talk her into eating, and even though hunting innocents isn't terribly hard in SD, he doesn't want her going out without an escort. Dru might have been as weak as she seemed, or she could've been playing it up for sympathy. Her ailment might also not be so much physical, as mental/spiritual. Because she wanders around just fine.

It's entirely possible mental trauma from the mob attack is what's been holding her back. She's already pretty disturbed to begin with. Aside from her normal peculiarity, she's not really insane after the ritual to transfer Angel's strength at all. She doesn't need to be taken care of after that.
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Jan 28 2010 02:22 am   #27Sensei
Oh yes, I could totally buy into Caro's idea, too!  And since it was Angel/her sire that made her insane in the first place, it makes sense that it would take his blood to undo the mental instability.  Maybe the ritual was one to free a vampire from her sire's influence.

They may have arrived in SD in Sept. 1997, but you have to consider not just the travel time to the US and clear across the continent to California, but also consider that Spike had to discover where to find Angel first.  And isn't it a nice coincidence that Angel was in the very town where the book of -- (whatever it is called) containing the cure spell was also located?!

Jan 28 2010 03:49 am   #28slaymesoftly
I haven't watched that season in a long time, but I had the impression he was seeking the Hellmouth as a source of healing, and perhaps the book (I may or may not be remembering that at all). He didn't know Angel was there until he ran into him at Back to School Night.
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Jan 28 2010 04:32 am   #29Niori
Slaymesoftly's right- I'm not a hundred percent sure on the book, but he went for the Hellomouth, he hadn't realized that Angel was there until he waled in on parent teacher night.
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Jan 28 2010 05:59 am   #30Sensei
Oops, my bad!  You are both right.  He didn't know about Angel until he arrived at the school...which still leads to the thought that if Dru needed sire's blood, isn't it a nice coincidence that Spike didn't have to get the book in Sunnydale and then go off looking all over the world for Angel and drag him back so he could perform the ritual with Dru and Angel together on the Hellmouth?

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