Talk:Anya Jenkins

message: Does anyone think Anya should have a quote list?  Her lines are both funny and revealing about the character (her speech in "The Body", for example)  I already contributed to a Glory quote list, but I don't know how you feel about this sort of thing, since quote lists are pretty rare on the Buffy pages.  Also, do you have to mention which episode the line is from?  I didn't bother with that on Glory's page.
Give me your thoughts, and I'd be happy to write one out.  If not, I might just write one anyway and you can bitch later.
Paul730
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.154.95.174 (talk) 05:37, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote List? 

message: For some reason, I have been under the impression that Anya's fear of bunnies goes back to when she and Olaf had a rabbit farm, and the rabbits reproduced out of control. Another possible theory is that because of the high reproductive rate, she decided to give away rabbits to the townspeople, for goodwill, but that this backfired. Is this at all correct? Is it explained clearly in the series? Maver1ck 10:53, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In Selfless, they do show Anya with bunnies, unafraid. It's likely that her fear sprouts from something to do with these particular bunnies, but no, it's not specifically explained. Snoopydance 01:37, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fear of bunnies 

message: We could probably do with finding some way to mention the confusion over the surname; she was given the surname Emerson by the writers of the Sunnydale High Yearbook, gave herself the name Jenkins in Checkpoint and described herself as "Anya lame-ass-made-up-maiden-name Harris" in a flashback in Selfless (almost certainly a flashback to OMWF)... Kinitawowi 00:38, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surname issue 

message: Ever notice how she always says/does the wrong things for a situation, talks obsessively about the same topics time after time (Xander, vengeance, bunnies, sexual intercourse), speaks pedantically, and is clearly socially impaired? Could it be that Anya has Asperger's/an autistic disorder? And considering how in Buffy witchcraft is a metaphor for being ignored et al, it does not take a huge amount of imagination to link being a demoness-come-human flung into the mortal realm without anything resembling a clue on how to act, to the autistic spectrum. And I should know - I have Asperger's myself. NP Chilla 15:53, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So do I. Hmmm. I see definite similarities, but there would have to be some official statement that it was a metaphor. Noneofyourbusiness 00:03, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Speaking as a woman with Asperger's Syndrome myself, I have to say that personally Anya totally seems to have it, and when I'm trying to explain Asperger's to people I often use her as an example because to me she's the best TV representation of the condition I've ever seen, including shows where characters were officially diagnosed with the condition. But yes, this information unfortunately would count as speculation unless there was an official source to back it up. Perhaps it would be appropriate to add to the Trivia section that her personality quirks closely match those of a person with (relatively) higher functioning Asperger's Syndrome? By the way, I wouldn't say socially impaired myself, she seems more to have the same traits with that that I do - certain social conventions I just don't get/understand, and certain ones I do get but choose to ignore because they seem pointless and an utter waste of time to me. Mostly I (like her) get along with my life absolutely fine, I'm just....perhaps noticably quirky to some people. Xmoogle 18:44, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Anya a metaphor for autism? 

message: I'm pretty sure that Anya doesn't actually say she's failing maths but rather she's bunking off from her maths lesson. i'm not sure if i'm right though. i would think she'd be good with maths considering she likes money so much.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.143.196.151 (talk • contribs) 
:She says she's "flunking" maths, ie. failing. --Nalvage 11:28, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anya failing maths 

message: Is it worth mentioning that Anya seems to begin with some communistic-type views and buys into the idea of a global worker revolution, but later becomes a staunch capitalist?  Her political views were only occasionally referenced, but I always thought that this was one of the most interesting things about her character.  Riverbend 18:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  communist vs capitalist tendencies 

message: When does Anya use telekinesis to knock down an oponent?
In Grave she knocks Jonathan and Andrew back in the jail cell. all Vengeance demons have telekinesis. Halfrek displays it in the episode Older and Far Away.
Also, Vengeance Demons have enhanced strength, equal to that of a slayer. That should be included.66.116.17.186 (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 22:18, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teke 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Anya Jenkins.jpg

message: Under "Academic analysis" there is this sentence:
: Faith comes "the closest" after Anya to breaking these traditional patterns because, while she is "just as sexual and outspoken" as Anya, she pivotally does not achieve Anya's acceptance within the group; for Anya, this "legitimizes her perspective".
I'm not sure what it's suppose to be saying, thought maybe the person who wrote it could fix it.  I was going to simply change it to "Faith comes out of "the closet"...", but that doesn't fit with the rest. Five- (talk) 09:21, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: To paraphrase: Other than Anya, Faith comes nearest to breaking.... Fixing it could mean losing some of the quotation marks, since it's quoted from elsewhere. —Tamfang (talk) 08:54, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's quoted from a journal. It does make sense, however, though feel free to rephrase for (better) clarity. Faith comes the closest to breaking the traditional patterns (which Anya also breaks). Clear.~ZytheTalk to me! 18:06, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect sentence 

message: The character history section states that "Anya was born as Aud in the year 860 in Sjornjost... in 880, at the age of 20, she falls in love with the boorish Olaf".  I just finished rewatching the entire series, and I can't remember Anya's date of birth or age at the time that she became a vengeance demon ever being given.  Was this just an assumption that someone made, or does anyone have a citation for this claim?  — Spanish lullaby (talk) 23:27, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither can I remember such a citation--seems to be OR/SYNTH to me. Go ahead and remove it. Jclemens (talk) 02:30, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anya/Aud's birth year and age 

message: The title was just so I could direct peoples's attention to an aspect of Anya that no one (and curiously, not even Joss Wheddon has touched upon, much less explained. And yes, I'm somewhat of a fan of Emma Caulfield, so there)!!!  I call attention that the character she played in "Buffy", "Anya", was not only a 'vengence demon', but in fact a 'djinn', or "genie" in the same definition that we in the West have come to know.  I am not familiar with Nordic folk-mythology or the ancient superstitions of yore in that region, but I suppose every civilization has its evil and mishievious spirits. 
In Anya's case, she fits the definition of a djinn perfectly, sans to stupid corked bottle routine. She did however possess the amulate which aided in transporting or shift the reality around the bearer who sued to change their circumstance (Cordelia Chase, etc.).  Not much more need be drawn out on this subject, as this aspect of the "Buffy" canon stands on its own superbly. I just wanted to clarify precisely what manner of creature (uh, screen character,) the actress Ms. Caulfield had played; and again, superbly!  --67.86.97.149 (talk) 15:46, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I Dream of Anya (With Bleached, Blond Hair) 

message: At the start of the episode where Aud becomes a demon, her husband calls her Aud to rhyme with 'cloud'. Then later when introducing herself she says I am Aud as in 'odd'. -- DavidMack (talk) 00:10, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it's a deliberate play on how different she is, the preferred pronunciation, per the writers, is indeed, "Odd." --TEHodson 07:25, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: From time to time, this article is added to the category "Fictional Swedes", "Fictional people of Swedish ancestry", or some similar category. I do not think these are relevant or meaningful categories - this was discussed above in the setion Aud from Norway?, but that was nine years ago, so here goes again.  Sweden did not exist in the 9th century, and "Sjornjost" is a fictional place that was supposed to have existed 1300 years ago somewhere in present-day Scandinavia.  Unless there is a published backstory somewhere that says that Anya in her human form ever visited post-11th century Scandinavia, we can confidently say that she never even set foot in Sweden.  At the very least, calling her a "fictional Swede" would be original research. 
This is a very small matter, obviously, but it irks me :-) --bonadea contributions talk 08:57, 30 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality, again