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OOC INFORMATION
Name: Ramen
Contact:
plurk - socalramen
aim - legalgargoyle
gmail - carolynpoddig@gmail.com
Other Characters: N.A

CHARACTER INFORMATION
Character Name: Lindsey McDonald
Age: 29 years old at time of death.
Canon: Angel the Series. Spin off of Buffy.
Canon Point: Post season 5. This is relevant because he's more likely to...if not accept his changes he'd be resigned to them.
Character Information: Lindsey on the Wiki

Personality:

We are first introduced to Lindsey McDonald at the beginning of Angel, an attractive lawyer who seems to be obsessed with money and power and doesn't care what he does to get it. He embodies, in that first episode - the darkside of the 1990s yuppie movement. The golden age of the United States where men drove fast cars and everyone made lots of money and had lots and lots of nice things. He gradually reveals that he is particularly unsure of himself, that he craves attention and approval, and that he is easily manipulated. Lindsey tries to take a stand early on and demonstrates what will become a rebellious streak. He doesn't do this as well as one might hope, acts impetuously, and eventually is caught. His mentor Holland Manners convinces him to sell his soul - for a six figure salary and a corner office.

Lindsey takes it. He takes it because he represents the concept of avaricious evil. He desires money and specifically power above all else due to his personal failings because he feels that having those things will bring him love and acceptance. Signing that deal isn't just achieving what he's worked for for years, it's earning the approval of his superiors. Lindsey cares about recognition, not diamonds and furs.

He doesn't take it out of a desire to power but rather a desire to please one of the only people who ever actually cared about him. He is motivated by a desire to demonstrate to anyone else that he has chosen his allies despite still being very unsure about it. Lindsey defines impetuous, his two sins - wrath and pride and a refusal to acknowledge personal weakness according to others. The fact remains that Lindsey has never known real love or acceptance so he'll jump at any opportunity to take it and instantly become a supporter of whoever gives it to him. In this case, the demonic law firm.

The pressure of working at that place however begins to wear on him. Lindsey is a fundamentally good person who believed himself a champion of the oppressed and the lost. He chooses defense because he believes in the rights of the people as opposed to the rights of an oppressive system never realizing (or perhaps realizing too late) that by choosing Wolfram and Hart he was choosing the side of evil.

This begins to manifest itself throughout the course of season 2. He becomes aggressive, taking on the traits of his employers and seemingly embracing working as an immoral and amoral attorney. He is desperate for some sort of release and some connection to his humanity since one of his previous connections - his music - was taken away by the vampire Angel when he cut off his hand in the line of duty. He finds it in Darla the vampire who he is tasked with taking care of in an attempt to use her to destroy Angel. In and out of psychosis, Darla first relies on him to take care of her and then uses his love for her against him and to get what she wants. Lindsey relates to people who rely on him, he's naturally nurturing and he is surprisingly gentle with Darla. It's love, she represents a link to his humanity that he lost and in a moment where he needed someone she needed him.

Her feelings generated a death wish within him, and her sparing him at Holland's ill fated wine tasting party cemented the idea that she would be the one that got away and he would never love anyone as much as he loved her.

Even later in the series when Lindsey falls in with the senior partner's liaison, the immortal being known as "Eve", he does not return her affections beyond a simple pat on the head. Hey, you love me that's cute. Then again, Lindsey metaphorically had his heart ripped out for the course of several months by a demonic S&M demon. He no longer feels anything but a sense of loyalty to himself at the end of season 5. While he expresses regret for his past crimes and for the mistakes he made he does not particularly open up to Eve - acting cocky and arrogant around her. Even when Angel promises him the Los Angeles branch of W&H he takes it, but what he would have done with it was anyone's guess. As Lorne the demon states, "You'll never be a part of the solution Lindsey"

Overall Lindsey is a character literally pushed by the actions of another into becoming a villain, or at least an antihero. He goes from walking the middle of the path to being shoved off the path entirely. His employers sought to push him to the path of darkness, Angel made only a half-hearted attempt at saving him so Lindsey concludes the series by walking a particularly lonely road. He is a figure who walks and talks and acts human, but ultimately has lost the fundamental aspect of humanity - his soul. Ironically Angel succeeded in doing what Wolfram and Hart couldn't - corrupting him and forcing him to lose his faith in humanity. In short, he ends the series like he began it - as a man pretending to be something that he's not.

5-10 Key Character Traits:
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