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Lilah Morgan

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Lilah Morgan
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Shut up. Just shut up! One more excuse from you and I am going to bury you alive, next to my house so I can hear you screaming.
Basics
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- Name: Lilah Morgan
- Journal: buryyoualive
- Age: 34ish
- Occupation: Lawyer
- Canon point: The end of 4x01, "Deep Down"
- Entries found: here
- Room: 917
It's a Lie-lah
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There's not much known about Lilah Morgan before she joined Wolfram and Hart mostly because she never talks about her past, because to her it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who she was before, because she has long since become someone else entirely. She has made deals with the devil over and over again to reach where she's gotten at Wolfram and Heart and she doesn't regret a moment of it.
Lilah is out to save herself more than anything else. She knows she's had to try twice as hard as the men in her company, and as she aptly puts it to Angel once, it's not a feminist thing, it's a survival thing. She will not hesitate to threaten, backstab, or even kill her coworkers in order to secure her own standing and get ahead.
There are few and far between signs of Lilah caring about someone other than herself. One of these signs is her mother. It is heavily hinted at that one of the original reasons she became a lawyer for Wolfram and Hart was her mother's Alzheimer's disorder. She states canonly that her pay keeps her mother in the top care, despite the fact that her mother cannot even remember her anymore. Clearly, she must at least care about her mother still if she not only bothers to keep her in good care, but keeps in contact with her as well despite how badly her mother's condition had deteriorated.
The only other times she's seen as having feelings for someone else, and being almost vulnerable is Wesley. Though their affair starts out as something physical, a plan to manipulate him into joining Wolfram and Hart the thing neither one of them expects happens: she falls for him. So much that she even dresses up as Fred, the object of his obsession, in order to try to keep him around. After she dies, and her ghost haunts him she tells him that loving him is the only real thing she's ever felt. Though it's left ambiguous whether this ghost is real or just an apparition of his guilt, it's a clear hint that at the very least, she cared him a lot more than she let on. This touched again in her final episode, "Home", when Wesley tries to free her from her contract with Wolfram and Hart. It doesn't work, but she's moved that he tried. It's probably the nicest thing anyone has ever done for her in her life. Or after life, as the case was.
Her feelings and relationship with Welsey, however, does not affect her work. She still goes after his friends, though she does spare Lorne when he's being tortured for information because he's a friend of Wesley, which shows that she's not as completely unaffected as she claims to be.
Although Lilah is bullied into helping Angel Investigations a few times, unlike Lindsey, her loyalties never waver. She's always on the side of Wolfram and Hart, and more importantly herself. She doesn't seen any nobility in "fighting the good fight" or "being good." She doesn't believe the world is as black and white as they all make it out to be anyways. There isn't just good and evil, there's a whole lot of middle ground there to play in, and that's what she's most comfortable immersing herself in.
She's also an extremely prideful person. She's fought long and hard to get where she is, and she wears her armor and sharp tongue with pride. When she lets the demon Billy victimize herself, a talking to from Cordelia (another once proud wearer of the title "vicious bitch") encourages her to take the power back by confronting Billy and killing him herself. She's many things, but a victim is not one of them.
To keep ahead of the game she's had to learn to be very cunning, to always try to stay one step ahead of the competition. Of course, if you ask her, she'd say it wouldn't be hard when her competition was idiots like Lindsey or Gavin. Still, it's better to be safe than sorry. So she's always coming up with a new plot, some new way to try to get to Angel. Just because nothing's worked yet doesn't mean nothing will eventually. She's nothing if not persistent. She's also extremely observant, knowing just which cards to play to get to someone. When she wants to manipulate Angel into helping her release Billy from a hell dimension, she knows the best way to do that is by going through Cordelia ("That Vision Thing").
But even then, there's often things she misses just because of her inability to really empathize with people. This is especially shown with Wesley who you can push the right buttons of to get him to start an affair with her, but she's never quite able to get him to completely abandon the good fight. She never truly understands his conviction.
Losses
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Permanent: Whenever someone asks about her plans or schemes, she will feel compelled to tell them everything.
Temporary:
Bones loss: A group of people were put in a loss based around Booth's coma dream from Bones. Lilah's role was that of a corrupt council woman. All and all, it wasn't a huge stretch from her regular life.
Relationships
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Angel: To Say Lilah and Angel don't like one another is probably a gross understatement. They're mortal enemies. Back home, Lilah's main objective is often to make Angel's unlife a living hell (since, you know, you can't kill him. The Senior Partners wouldn't like that). In exchange, he often threatens her life, chokes her, tore up her car once. Things like that. Lilah likes taunting and messing with him, it's like playing a game of poke the bear. Except it's provoke the vampire. Since coming to Paradisa, she's only talked to him on her arrival, and so far that suits her just fine. Without Wolfram and Hart to protect her, she's better with creating some distance. Besides, trying to mess with him here wouldn't benefit her as much, except it might amuse the hell out of her. So there's that.
Cordelia Chase: Lilah's never interacted too much with Cordelia one way or another, but she respects her to a certain degree. Mostly for how Cordelia came and confronted her during the whole Billy incident. It was a bold move. She has to give credit where credit is due, even if she'd never do so outloud.
Faith Lehane: A rogue slayer Lilah once hired to kill Angel. Faith's from about that time point, so when she arrived and thought she was still on the job, Lilah just went with it since she didn't want to provoke her. She knows Faith has figured out the lie since then, and has been avoiding her since.
Lorne: Annoying empath demon Lilah snarks with a lot. And apparently, she tortures him the future. So there's always that to look forward to.
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce: If there's anyone Lilah remotely cares abot other than herself, it's Wesley. Originally, she had just seen as a weakest link, a use for information about Angel Investigations during his time of isolation from the others. But, the more they spent time with one another, she found herself actually liking him. That didn't happen often in her life. In Paradisa, they continued their sexual relationship and over time it developed into something more, though neither one of them ever dared to define it. When Wesley broke things off after kissing Fred, Lilah was inwardly very hurt. She'd never admit it though. Because she wasn't supposed to care. It left her feeling very unbalanced, since without Wolfram and Hart Wesley had become the only tie she really had to her former life. As a result, since then she's been a little more proactive in trying to make contacts and connections of her own in Paradisa.
Winifred 'Fred' Burkle: Lilah doesn't like her. At all. And not just because Wesley is so fixated on her, but that certainly doesn't help. She just doesn't see the appeal at all, doesn't see why so many people seem to be head over the Texas Twig. The meak, innocent needed to be protected thing was never something that interested Lilah. But she will say, the version here seems to have more guts than she remembered. So that's something.
Non Canon
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(coming soon)
Mun information
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