updated: 02/02/2005
Everyone has their favourite Scooby: mine has to be the sometime vengeance demon Anyanka (Emma Caulfield). Anyanka was born as the early-Medieval peasant Aud but her particular talents were recognised by D’Hoffryn and she became Anyanka the vengeance demon who caused havoc in the episodes ‘The Wish’ and ‘Doppellgangland’. She retired from the vengeance demon business to settle in Sunnydale as the socially-less-than-competent human Anya. Rejected by Xander on their wedding day she returned briefly to her old profession but was tormented by guilt: she became human again in ‘Selfless’ (at the cost of Halfrek’s life and soul – more guilt) to die heroically in the final episode.
As you can see above, Anyanka’s demonic makeup changed significantly between her first appearance in ‘The Wish’ (season 3) and her later demonic appearance in ‘Selfless’ (season 6). Anya also appeared in old-age makeup in one episode.
Emma Caulfield has described the makeup process for the demonic Anyanka as ‘claustrophobic and horrific’ adding elsewhere that it ‘took about three and a half hours to put on! It was awful’.