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Anyanka (Anya Emerson) - Vengeance demon reluctantly turned
Sunnydale high school student on episodes of the occult drama BUFFY THE VAMPIRE
SLAYER/WB/UPN/1997-2003.
Born over a thousand years ago, Anyanka [a.k.a. Anya] discovered she had a
talent for placing spells on men who hurt women. Her reputation revealed itself
to the demon D'Hoffryn and Anyanka (Emma Caulfield) was promoted to patron saint
of scorned woman.
A thousand years later, Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), a
spurned teenager angry that her boyfriend Xander had kissed
another girl [Willow Rosenberg], made a wish to get revenge. Anyanka obliged
Cordelia and arrived in the town of Sunnydale in the mortal form of teenager
Anya Emerson.
Unfortunately, Cordelia used the power of Anyanka special necklace
to make Cordelia's rival Buffy Summers disappear and thus altering the present
reality. Fortunately, Buffy's mentor Giles Rupert smashed the necklace
(talisman) and returned things to normal.
For her mistake, Anyanka's demon
master D'Hoffryn refused to give her powers back and so Anya's 1120-year-old
spirit was stuck inside the mortal body of a 1990s teenager. Anya eventually
resigned herself to the role of a student at Sunnydale High School and developed
a crush on Xander Harris. The two have since become very familiar in a sexual
way.
A thousand years ago Anya dated a big guy named Olaf. to keep her self
grounded, Anya liked to work at the Magic Shop, which she eventually took
charge of after Giles Left for England. When they broke up, she turned him into
a troll.
Anya's marriage to Xander Harris never materialized and then in 2003,
Anya died (sliced in half) while defending the town of Sunnydale from a demonic
apocalypse.
Anya, Anyanka's alter-ego
"For a thousand years I wielded the powers of The Wish. I brought ruin to the
heads of unfaithful men. I brought forth destruction and chaos for the pleasure
of the lower beings. I was feared and worshipped across the mortal globe and now
I'm stuck at Sunnydale High! A mortal! A child! And I'm flunking math." --
Anyanka
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