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Vox
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posted 07-05-2000 10:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Vox   Click Here to Email Vox     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
In that last ep she took a spiked vine through the hand and could just yank it out and seemed no worse for wear the next day. That wound looked pretty real to me, so it begs the question.

How did she heal so fast?
Even if she didn't heal, she certainly didn't feel the same amount of pain a normal human would.
Can any human use mystical power for hundreds of years without being changed by it?

And if she isn't quite human, perhaps this would explain her fear of the Initiative.

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Thebigd_17
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posted 08-05-2000 05:27 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Thebigd_17   Click Here to Email Thebigd_17     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
Wasn't anya a demon in a past episode?
I'm sure I've heard the gang call her a demon too. I think she just lost her power somewhere is that enough to make her human though?
Last Buffys ep Anya was talking about her being Demon with spike on the couch. Yeah she did heal quick after that vine and the fall.

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yally
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posted 08-05-2000 09:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for yally   Click Here to Email yally     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
I thought that Anya used 2 be human, but then somebody broke her heart so she became a vengeance demon (like Willow was offered in 'Something blue....' But I don't know if she is human now.

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StuStuStu
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posted 10-05-2000 07:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for StuStuStu   Click Here to Email StuStuStu     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
As far as I can reconstruct, the Anya mythos is as follows:

"Previously, not on Buffy" : Anya was a normal girl, not necessarily looking as she does currently. She went through a similar experience to Willow, and D'Hoffryn granted her the vengeance demon aspect.

"Buffy Season 3: The Wish" : Anya appears as a schoolgirl, in order to exact revenge on Xander for Cordelia. It's not clear if this was her true form or not, but one would have to think NOT, since she's appeared to all manner of women over the ages. The spell is broken - ie, the amulet from which she derived power smashed - and she retains her current form.

"Buffy Season 3: Later" - Anya remains a schoolgirl, and begins to act more and more like one. She retains knowledge of her hundreds of years of past, though. {Grad 1/2}

"Buffy Season 4: Up to.." - Anya seems to remain an ordinary girl, although without the social skills thereof. She also seems to have a brash attitude to demons and danger that we all assume is due to that lack of skills.

"Buffy Season 4: Wild Things" - Anya gets a spike through the hand, and keeps going. What the??

It seems clear to me that there is some vestigial aspect of the demon in Anya that hasn't been fully explored. Perhaps she retains her demonic healing powers {those which cause her to live forever etc}, without the actual magical ability to exact vengeance. It would appear that she has a level of magical ability in herself though, somewhere above Willow, but below the rather scary Tara.

Then again, magical ability and strength of spells actually cast isn't a good indicator of internal magical ability {Becoming 2, The Zeppo} - merely that they can read. Ease of spellcasting would seem to be it...

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Wesley
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posted 12-05-2000 03:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Wesley   Click Here to Email Wesley     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
At the beginning of "Doppelgangland" S3 We see Anya pleading with the Old Ones for the return of her Demonic powers -DENIED
She is then told that because she was foolish enough to loose her amulet, she is sentenced to live out her existence in the form of the mortal she had chosen for her last gig, i.e. Anya the Teenager.
Basically she's a demon trapped & helpless in a Human host body.

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Joe
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posted 14-05-2000 03:27 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Joe   Click Here to Email Joe     Edit/Delete Message Reply w/Quote
On the one hand, Anyanka chose to appear as a mortal, and seems to be stuck with that, as well as a bagful of motal emotions. That could be a negative apect of her subterfuge which wouldn't have become a problem if she hadn't been stuck in that form so long.
On the other hand, her mortality might only be skin deep, or boosted by D'Hoffryn as further punishment.
There is the third possibilty that the influence of the Hellmouth is actually restoring Anyanka to some extent, since it can make people invisible and help turn ordinary humans into monsters ('Go Fish', 'BATB').

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