Alan Francis Doyle
Like his boss Angel, Doyle is Irish. Also like Angel, he's part demon. In Doyle's case though, this is by birth. His father was one of those Earth-bound 'tainted' demons we see so much of around the Hellmouth. Doyle was not aware of this fact until his 21st birthday, when the demon side kicked in. Now, when he sneezes or get upset, his face becomes greenish with blue spikes covering it in a design not unlike the Cenobite "Pinhead" from the Hellraiser movies.
He doesn't like this side of himself though. When he first discovered it, he was married to a woman named Harry. She took it badly at first, but later embraced his demonic half and encouraged him to do the same. He couldn't do it, hating his inhuman nature, and this inability to accept himself was part of the reason for the failure of their marriage.
One of the features his demon side brings is "mind-numbin', head-crackin' visions" he gets from time to time. They come from "the Power That Be", and according to Doyle are more like "great, splittin' migrains that come with pictures". He uses this 'gift' which he dislikes so much to aid the side of good, currently helping the vampire Angel to reach out to the helpless citizens of Los Angeles.
Like most of us, the good Doyle is smitten by Cordelia Chase. He says she has a "humanizin' effect", she's "a stiffener" to use his crude turn of phrase. She, however, takes his flirting as "jok[ing] around", refusing to see the real affection he feels for her. Mostly Cordelia doesn't see Doyle's good side, but when he saved her life in The Bachelor Party this changed somewhat. At last she has seen through the surface to what Doyle really is inside.
And what is he? He drinks far too much, refuses to take anything seriously, gambles all his money so that he owes hundreds to various parties in town. But underneath all this he is caring, humble, and fights for the side of good. Is it his fear of the demon that makes him treat life so casually? Or a fear of his human weakness?
These questions, and more, went cruelly unanswered when Doyle selflessly sacrificed his life for a group of half-demons like himself. We will always remember our Irish hero.
"Is that it? Am I done?"
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