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[dontyoujustwish]

☆ Player - - -

( Player Name ) : Yinza
( Personal DW ) : yinza
( Age ) : 26
( Timezone ) : EST
( Other Characters ) : None

☆ Character - - -

( Character's Name ) : Anya Jenkins aka Anyanka
( Character's Age ) : 1125
( Series ) : Buffy the Vampire Slayer
( Canon Point ) : Post-series/death

( History ) :
Hey it's wiki.

( Personality ) :
Anya's perspective on the world is a straightforward, self-centered, and often single-minded one. One of the most obvious things about her is that she seems to have no brain-to-mouth filter, and will say precisely what is on her mind. She is direct, tactless, and brutally honest whether the situation calls for it or not, traits which others find exasperating. There are no topics off-limits to frank discussion, meaning she will talk about evisceration and sexual escapades as matter-of-factly as another person might talk about grocery shopping. Anya herself can be frustrated by people's inability to say what they're thinking because of things like feelings or inhibitions. It's both irrational and confusing. When asked why she doesn't try to behave more like a normal person and follow human etiquette, she remarks simply, "The rules are stupid." Anya will lie, but typically only out of self-preservation or denial, and she has trouble keeping secrets when the reason seems frivolous.

Having spent over a thousand years as a demon and fewer than three decades total as a human, Anya still identifies herself as "ex-demon" more than "human." Part of her longs for the simpler days of granting wishes that disemboweled men, but her rediscovery of human emotions has made the work too difficult for her. It should be noted that Anya has no problems with vengeance on a moral basis; she often sees nothing wrong with the actions of other demons so long as they aren't harming anyone she cares about, and she feels no remorse over her actions when she was first a vengeance demon. It's just that the ability to empathize with her victims means inflicting pain causes her emotional distress.

Since she can't be a demon, it's very grudgingly that she's decided to try being one of those stupid humans who tries to do the right thing. She views humans as fundamentally idiotic and flawed, and yet admires their bravery in times of crisis. When she first lost her powers, self-preservation was her first priority. Now, she will risk her life to fight for things she cares about. Her original personality as the human Aud was very selfless, and that side of her does emerge in dire situations. For instance, she was willing to give her life to save Xander's, and also to undo a particularly fatal wish which she regretted granting. In the end she did die defending someone else, though it's questionable whether she would have done so had she known it would kill her.

Outside apocalypses, she does usually think of herself first. Her own safety and needs (often the sexual kind) are at the forefront of her mind. She does things for people if it's convenient, if it serves her in the end, or if she expects to be repaid for it. She's come to be a strong believer in capitalism, and highly values material wealth. She considers theft a serious offense, almost on par with attempts on her life. Obviously with the whole vengeance deal, she has both a temper and a strong jealous streak, and her first instinct is to demand (or inflict) retribution, rather than seek an apology. It's rare for her to apologize herself.

Although her attitudes alienate her from others, Anya has always had trouble being independent. When first human, she was in love with a man named Olaf. After he cheated on her and she took revenge on him, she was promoted to vengeance demon, whereupon she poured herself into her work. After losing her powers, she quickly became attached to Xander, and intended to build her life around him. She tends to latch onto things more than make a serious attempt at connecting with people. Now that her life no longer revolves around vengeance or the love of a man, she's lost her sense of direction. If she hadn't died, it might have presented her with the first real opportunity to find herself. She had certainly reached a point where she no longer wanted to depend on others or define herself by them.

( Strengths/Abilities - Updated for Bastion ) :
+ Witchcraft - The only thing that Anya has that might be classified as a "power," although her ability is limited enough it mostly already falls within the 3x per day rule. At Anya's level, most spell-casting requires things like ingredients, candles, and/or chanting in Latin. Not the sort of thing you do on the fly. She can produce some fairly impressive results, like turning people into trolls and forming barriers, but again, they require preparation. She can cast more powerful spells as part of a circle with other witches.
+ Demonology (master) - Anya has an extensive knowledge of demons, having been one for over a thousand years and interacted with many others during her career.
+ Languages (master) - Anya demonstrates knowledge of several human languages, both modern and archaic, and as her work as a vengeance demon took her all around the world, presumably she's quite the polyglot.
+ Swordsmanship (average) - She is shown to know her way around a sword -- I'm no expert on swords, but I'm calling it a longsword.

( Weaknesses ) :
- Bunnies. Anya has a deep-seated phobia of rabbits, present even while suffering from memory loss. Even inanimate representations of rabbits or the mention of rabbits can startle or upset her.
- Poor people skills. Even before becoming a demon, Anya had difficulty relating to people. Her lack of tact tends to alienate people and most of the Scoobies besides Xander simply tolerated her.

( Other Important Facts ) :
Because all the back-and-forth gets confusing, she is completely human at this canon point.

( Sample ) :
[One moment she was being sliced open from behind and watching her substantially long life (although not really that long in the scheme of things; she was far from old) flash before her eyes, and the next, she was on a beach. It made her think she should have asked Buffy a few more questions about what dying was like. Dying and going to the afterlife, that was, because she'd seen plenty of bodies bleed out or drown or sometimes explode. Everyone had seemed to think it was a very insensitive topic, but it might have provided her with invaluable information which she was sorely lacking this very moment.

If she was going to go anywhere after her death, she had assumed it would be more of a hell dimension, where her former colleagues would either be waiting or eventually join her. Failing that, at least more of a flowy, ethereal experience with fields of fluffy white clouds like they had in the movies.

She got to her feet and brushed sand off her pants.]

Okay. So I wasn't expecting to end up in an island paradise dimension. Maybe those idiots are actually onto something with all that stuff about doing good deeds.

[Did saving one hopeless geek count as a good deed? He'd only killed the one person that she knew of, which meant his hands were surprisingly clean compared to most of her acquaintances.]

Oh! Are there cabana boys? I think I deserve my own nubile slave boy.