How old is darla from angel

Liam was years-old when Darla sired him. Following his death, Liam killed his entire family and ran off with Darla to learn about the love of the kill. Liam, now Angelus, spent the next years committing acts of horrific violence, including killing the family of vampire hunter Daniel Holtz and siring Drusilla around In , Angelus' reign of terror led him to murder a gypsy, a member of the Clan Kalderash.

The clan took their revenge by cursing Angelus with a soul, turning him into Angel. Wracked by guilt for his crimes, Angel found himself unable or unwilling to feed on humans.

Angelus was years-old when he transformed into Angel. Despite his newfound remorse, Angel tried to return to his old life with Darla until , when he reached a tipping point. There, he lived in isolation. Angel began traveling again about a decade later, spending time in Chicago, Mexico, Las Vegas and Los Angeles before returning to New York, where he entered a life of exile, feeding on rats.

In , Angel was recruited by Whistler to help Buffy, then a newly-activated Slayer. At age , Angel laid eyes on Buffy for the first time in Los Angeles. Abandoning Angel she took of with Spike and Drusilla but soon ditched the lovers to return to her beloved Master. His new mission to take over the world and destroy the slayer would take them to Sunnydale. Following him to Sunnydale she was once again faced with Angel, disgusted at his love for Buffy she attempted to kill him and the girl.

Put down by Buffy she fled, attacking Buffys mother and dropping her in Angels arms to try to destroy the lovers, but it turned against her when Angel staked her. Resurrected by Wolfram and Hart to help deal with Angel, Darla was once again human and possessing a soul. She taunted Angel in an attempt to break his spirit and trick him into siring her because she was unable to cope with all the evil that she did as a soulless vampire.

Unbeknownst to Angel and even to Darla for a short period of time, Darla was resurrected exactly as she was as a human: suffering from a fatal syphilitic heart condition.

Angel tried to help Darla through the transition to possessing a soul, but when they discovered her fatal condition he began to look for ways to cure her. Angel fought through several trials to earn a second chance at life for Darla; however, once he succeeded the gauntlet, it was proven futile because this was Darla's second chance.

Since Angel refused to sire Darla, Wolfram and Hart summoned Drusilla to forcefully turn Darla into a vampire with Darla effectively becoming her vampire grandmother and daughter. Reunited with Drusilla and the pair would cut a rug throughout the town before Angel and the crew would find and nearly kill them.

Setting the pair on fire he walked away as they burnt, but Drusilla managed to save them with a fire hydrant. Angel during a dark period went to Darla to talk about his past and ended up having sex with her, disgusted with his actions he abandoned her soon after. Not long after Darla would appear on his doorstep heavily pregnant, the first documented Vampire pregnancy.

Angel hunted down every Shaman in town to try to discover if the child was a demon or human and none could say. Protecting her from Wolfram and Hart Angel and Darla were finally able to reconnect over their past and heal from it As Darlas body began to die the pregnancy eating away at her flesh, she realized that her life was nothing until this point and that the child they created would be her redemption.

Her final act on earth killing herself to save the life of her child Connor. The only good thing. You make sure to tell him that. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Just as improbably, she finds herself feeling love for her future child, which she credits to the influence of its human soul growing inside her.

Finally, afraid she won't be able to love the baby once it's born, Darla stakes herself in labor, dissolving to ashes and leaving her infant son, Connor played as an adult by Vincent Kartheiser , lying on the pavement. Julie Benz said in that she found the exit of her character profound, a final selfless deed by someone whose character had primarily been defined by self-preservation.

Unfortunately, Darla was only the first of three Angel characters to die in childbirth. With each of the next two, her death looked less like a tragic sacrifice and more like the beginning of a disheartening pattern.

The last of the three was Fred Burkle Amy Acker , whose body was hijacked and used as an incubator to bring the ancient god Illyria back to life. Fred doesn't literally give birth to Illyria, but the parallel is obvious. A foreign life form is placed inside her body by a man with whom she was briefly romantically involved.

And when Illyria comes forth into the world, Fred is obliterated. It's a crushing, painful, ugly death. It's not the resolution of a character arc or even particularly relevant to the season's main plotline. Mostly, it gives the primary male characters an extra helping of grief, rage, and guilt to carry into the season's final battle. And yet, as unjust and infuriating as Fred's death was, it wasn't as upsetting as the death I skipped over, the second and by far the most offensive of the show's three maternal mortalities.

I'm still trying to find the words for what happened to Cordelia Chase. She was a teen drama archetype: the hot, rich, mean girl with a slew of sycophantic followers. But instead of stagnating at 17 like so many pop culture high school queen bees before and after, Cordelia blossomed into someone dynamic and fascinating.

She was self-centered, with a mean streak that never entirely went away, but she was also brave, generous, and surprisingly tender. She wasn't always likable, but she was wholly her own person. Cordy's growth over three seasons of Buffy and three seasons of Angel is one of the most engaging character arcs on either show and in the whole of the Whedonverse.

She begins as a reluctant ally against evil, bemoaning the stains left on her clothes when she's held hostage by vampires, and develops into a daring, capable fighter. What tethers Cordy to the fight on Angel are the visions of people in trouble.

They plague her. They're overwhelming and physically painful, and at first she tries to get rid of them, to return to normal. But as she realizes how important helping the helpless is to her, she becomes willing to make sacrifices in order to keep her visions.

By the end of Angel 's third season, Cordelia proves herself worthy of ascending to a higher plane, becoming more than human. I'll never forget how Cordelia Chase, the beauty queen with the backbone, the most independent, ambitious woman in the entire run of Angel , was destroyed.