D'Hoffryn
D'Hoffyn is a male television character who features in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Biography
D'Hoffryn was the leader of the vengeance demons and the one who gives them their power.
During the Dark Ages in Sweden a young woman named Aud comes to the attention of D'Hoffryn. Aud has recently used magic to turn her cheating boyfriend into a troll. Impressed by her imaginative revenge, D'Hoffryn offers her a position as a vengeance demon, and she becomes 'Anyanka', an avenger of scorned women. (Episode: Selfless)
D'Hoffryn attempted to convince the young witch Willow to become a vengeance demon after Oz left her. The break-up caused her to cast a spell that resulted in her accidentally making Giles blind, turning Xander into a demon magnet, and Spike and Buffy becoming engaged. D'Hoffryn was impressed by Willow's fury and the chaos it caused, so he forcibly teleported her to his dimension Arashmaharr to complete the conversion. Willow declined the offer — although she did request D'Hoffryn's help in ending the spell —, but D'Hoffryn left D'Hoffryn's talisman to summon him in case she changed her mind. (Episode: Something Blue)
Two years later, D'Hoffryn was a guest at the failed wedding of Anya and Xander. While acting almost father-like during the wedding, after Xander left Anya at the altar, D'Hoffryn convinced her to become a vengeance demon once again. (Episode: Hell's Bells)
Anya's second stint as a vengeance demon was short-lived, her time as a human made her uncomfortable about unleashing vengeance like she had before, and during a confrontation between Anya and Buffy, Willow used the talisman D'Hoffryn had left her to help put a stop to the fighting. D'Hoffryn asked Anya what she wanted, and she said that she wanted to reverse the vengeance she had exacted which had caused a massacre at a frat house. D'Hoffryn granted her wish, telling her that it would require the sacrifice of a vengeance demon's body and soul. Believing she was about to die, Anya was resigned to her fate only to watch helplessly as D'Hoffryn summoned her friend Halfrek and immolated her instead. D'Hoffryn then left, disgusted with Anya, though not before rendering her human again and leaving the warning: "From beneath you, it devours". (Episode: Selfless)
Despite acting like a concerned and protective sort towards his 'girls' much of the time, his real goal is creating chaos and destruction, as he demonstrated when killing Halfrek to punish Anya's desertion.
D'Hoffryn sends at least two demons to kill Anya, but they are both thwarted.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He was referred to as being the Lord of Arashmaharr. (Episode: Selfless)
He was shown to be unforgiving of his servants who had lost their powers due to their own carelessness. For such demons, he felt that there woes were no concern to him. Instead, he was content to let them be depowered to live mortal lives and die. (Episode: Dopplegangland)
It was shown that the pain experienced by mortals could be sensed by him. Those that had potential seemingly called out to him where he looked to nurture their talent by turning them into Vengeance Demons. (Episode: Something Blue)
He was noted to had taught his demonic followers to never go for the kill when one could go for the pain. (Episode: Selfless)
Nonetheless, beneath his friendly demeanor, D'Hoffryn remained a somewhat sadistic demon who obtained satisfaction by witnessing the suffering of others. He also had little tolerance for rejection, and, fittingly, was very vengeful, as demonstrated by killing Anya's best friend. (Episode: Selfless)
Powers and abilities
D'Hoffryn could freely teleport between Arashmaharr and the Earth dimensions, as well as take others with him. When teleporting to a destination, he would appear after a bright light with several bolts of lightning that were capable of pushing back anyone close by. He didn't always teleport like this, as he was shown teleporting out in a similar fashion to his vengeance demons. If he wanted to teleport others he would wave his hand and the person is teleported to the desired location, like he did with Willow to teleport her from Arashmahar to her friends. This was distinct from the ability of his vengeance demons, who were incapable of teleporting others along with themselves.
D'Hoffryn had the ability to create "windows", screens that allowed him to view events in other locations in other dimensions.
D'Hoffryn was able to bring back the lives of the people killed by Anya's wish granting, though only at the price of a Vengeance Demon's life.
The demon was capable of folding the fabric of time itself. After losing her powers, Anya begged D'Hoffryn to give her another chance. Being refused at the offer, Anya needed to create a temporal fold in order to retrieve necklace. This meant that D'Hoffryn himself may have been capable of this. However, it is also possible that Anya had only been asking him to give her a new power center; she intended to use the fold to get her old source back. (Episode: Dopplegangland)
It was shown that he had the power to turn mortals into Vengeance Demons taht served him. (Episode: Something Blue)
Notes
- D'Hoffryn was created by Joss Whedon where he was portrayed by actor Andy Umberger and featured in the setting of the Buffy-Angel universe.
In other media
Comic Books
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine v1 (2013), D'Hoffryn appeared in the setting of the comic series set following the television series that was published by Dark Horse Comics. Preceding the end of magic, D'Hoffryn joined a Magic Council meant to deal with the growing threat of Severin the Siphon. He, along with the Brahma, was one of only two members of the council to survive the destruction of the Deeper Well and witness the return of magic.
- In Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten, D'Hoffryn appeared in the setting of the Dark Horse Publication comics set after the events of the television series. D'Hoffryn's intention was to free the power of vengeance demons from the whims of humans. However, Buffy prevented D'Hoffryn from being able to write in the handbook himself by telling various members of the magical community to not believe in D'Hoffryn's powers. D'Hoffryn quickly concluded that he should eliminate Buffy, so he stormed her apartment along with Jonathan, Anya's ghost and two other vengeance demons. D'Hoffryn scorned Xander for breaking Anya's heart, and Xander retorted that D'Hoffryn never cared for her from the beginning. D'Hoffryn then allowed Anya have her say, and she uses her power to avenge herself by incinerating Xander so he would then be the ghost. However, as Buffy began to regret her decision to bestow such powers to the council, Anya granted Buffy's vengeance wish to remove all of D'Hoffryn's council powers. Anya then brought Xander back - having simply turned him into an intangible, invisible, and inaudible state rather than actually killing him -, and D'Hoffryn threatened the Scoobies with his remaining powers. Anya tried to use her powers to protect them, but D'Hoffryn burnt her to death. For betraying one of his own, Johnathan and the other vengeance demons teleported away to leave D'Hoffryn to face the Scoobies alone. Despite D'Hoffryn's confidence in his great power, Buffy cut his hand off with the Scythe, which caused him to immediately teleport back to Arashmaharr to get his limb regenerated.
Appearances
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
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