anya.jenkins
Anya was, about 1120 years ago, a girl who'd been dumped and was practicing
vengeance spells on men (boils on the penis and other fun stuff). The demon D'Hoffryn
got wind of her, and made her a vengeance demon. She carried out her duties for over a
thousand years, known as Anyanka, the patron saint of scorned women. She found women
who'd been hurt by a man, used a special necklace (her power center) to grant their
wishes. Usually, the wishes involved vengeance on the man who'd betrayed them. Anyanka
came to Sunnydale to grant a wish for Cordelia after Xander had cheated on her with
Willow, but instead of wishing something bad on Xander, Cordelia wished that Buffy
Summers had never come to Sunnydale.
Anyanka granted the wish, resulting in an alternate reality. Unfortunately for Anyanka,
Giles smashed her necklace, bringing Sunnydale back to its normal reality, and
leaving Anya stuck in
the mortal body of a teenager. D'Hoffryn refused to give her her powers back, and her
attempt to use Willow to help her get her necklace back backfired, so Anya continued
attending Sunnydale
High School.
She developed a crush on Xander, and the two were a
(very sexually active) couple. Eventually, much to her delight, Xander proposed to her
and she accepted. Giles also hired her to work at his shop, the Magic Box, a job which
she is very good at. She still was working on behaving with humanity, which Xander tried
to help her with, but after being jilted at the alter, she pleaded with D'Hoffryn and
got her vengence powers back. After a while she finally did a big curse and killed a whole
fraternity. In a fight with Buffy she eventually gave up her demon powers once again and
unwillingly sacrificed her only friend Hallie. Feeling low, she once again turned to the
Scooby gang, and died fighting in the final battle for Sunnydale.
