002 - [Video]

[dontyoujustwish]

[Now that the curse is over, Anya has some important questions that actually don't involve sex or money. Well, mostly.]

So, I got that the coral has a hold on us thanks to these cultist tattoos. I didn't realize it could make us all act loony enough to think we were comic book supervillains--or superheroes--but all right, they can use it to mess with our heads.

How did the whole... city-changing part work? Was that a perception thing, did we all just think we were robbing banks? Or did something physically change into real sacks of money for that week? ... Not that I was robbing banks, and if I was, I couldn't be held accountable for my actions.

I know this last curse was pretty harmless because no one ever really dies in comic books... or sometimes in real life... But I'd like to know just how much reality-bending power this thing has.

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[jagermeister]

Killed you? Haaa, there's another thing we've got in common. We're both dead.

<sub>[Wait.

Vampwhat?]</sub>

What's a vampire?

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[dontyoujustwish]

Really? What was it that did you in?

Just your typical soulless bloodsucking undead.

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[jagermeister]

Don't remember. I just know I've been dead for a couple hundred years. Hell, I don't even remember my life as a human.

...Can't say we got 'em where I come from. Just soul-eatin' monsters.

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[dontyoujustwish]

Oh. So you're the undead sort of demon, too.

We have a lot of things, soul-eaters included.

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[jagermeister]

Puttin' it lightly, yeah.

You ever know any on a personal level?

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[dontyoujustwish]

Soul-eaters? No, we moved in different circles. Well, and I was kind of a workaholic.

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[jagermeister]

Heh. You do now.

_[C:]

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[dontyoujustwish]

Oh.

I hope that's not why you're chatting me up. There must be tastier souls than mine. Assuming souls even have a flavor...

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[jagermeister]

Relax, I haven't eaten 'em in a couple years.

_{[He just ate his own kind. Whoops.]}

'sides, you're not half bad.

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[dontyoujustwish]

That's a relief. I am sort of enjoying our conversations.

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[jagermeister]

...Yeah. S'weird, but I don't mind 'em either.

What other things did'ja have in your world? M'kinda interested now.

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[dontyoujustwish]

You mean like supernatural things?

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[jagermeister]

Both. Human 'n supernatural. I've only been to the human world a few times 'n that was to kick the ass of a few shinigami.

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[dontyoujustwish]

I used to be a vengeance demon so my work took me all over the human world.

Shinigami are Japanese, aren't they? "Death gods"?

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[jagermeister]

Used to be? Y'still don't count yourself as one?

Bingo. We usually call 'em "soul reapers" since they deal with the spirits of the dead 'n exterminating my kind. It's been that way for thousands of years.

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[dontyoujustwish]

[Regretful sigh.] I lost my powers.

I haven't heard of anything like that in my world. Well, demon-slaying, yes, but not this souls of the dead stuff.

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[jagermeister]

...How'd you manage that?

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[dontyoujustwish]

Well, I'd granted this amazing wish that would have basically brought about hell on Earth, but then Giles found out it was me. He summoned me and smashed my amulet, and poof, I was human.

The second time was a little more complicated.