Liam's father

Liam's father was a silk and linen merchant from Galway in the 1750s. He had two children, an elder son called Liam and a younger daughter- apparently half Liam's age- called Kathy. He regarded Liam as a great disappointment, Liam spending most of his time drinking and having sex with various women; although Liam claimed that his father was the reason for his low attitude as he had low expectations of Liam in the first place, his father appeared genuinely upset at the implications of Liam's claims. After Liam was sired by Darla in 1753- his father remaining silently over the grave long after everyone else had left, departing only as night set-, one of his first victims was his father, Liam- now Angelus- gaining access to the house thanks to Kathy's assumption that he was an angel. Mocking his father's inadequacy in the face of his new vampiric strength, Angelus smirkingly informed his father that he had made something of himself after all before proceeding to drink from him, although Darla informed him after his family's deaths that his father's defeat of him would last lifetimes as his father would now never approve of him in the future.

Angel's issues with his father continued long after the restoration of his soul, Angel admitting to Buffy once that he always wondered if his father was always like that or if he merely made his father the way he was due to his failure as a son, although Buffy assured him that he could still be grateful to him for being his father if nothing else ("Monster Island").

Appearances

 * "The Prodigal " (flashbacks)