BtVS Double Drabble - Life Sucks

[bk_forever]

Title: Life Sucks
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Anya.
Rating: PG
Written Using: The dw100 prompt Alien.
Spoilers/Setting: Doppelgangland.
Summary: Anya is struggling with being human again.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.




Anya had been human once, a very long time ago when the world was a different place. As a vengeance demon she’d seen things change, dipped in and out of history, encouraging scorned women to exact revenge on the men that hurt them, but she’d still essentially been on the outside, not really part of day-to-day events. It had been a good existence.


Now she’s human again and she doesn’t fit. She doesn’t understand human emotions, or how people interact with each other. Or math. Without her magic she has to do everything the human way and it’s so confusing, uncomfortable, and at times disgusting. How do people live like this? She hates it but she’s trapped.


All the things that are normal to a human are completely alien to her; she’s out of her depth and she needs help, but who can she turn to? It’s been so long since she had to depend on anyone for anything and she doesn’t know where to start. This must be how it feels to be afraid.


She’s been cast out by the lower beings for proving unworthy. All she can look forward to is a mortal life and death.


It sucks.



The End

Comments

[vantiri.livejournal.com]

I think you nailed it with her personality and views. Also, being expelled from the community of the mobster spirits may well lead to her being freed to become a wholesome woman again, albeit centuries afterward- so her life was unnaturally extended at best. This's a good story.
I found it most comforting that you have included the PG rating especially, both the traditional rating system and also the rating you gave it, honestly at that, reassures and comforts me big time.
Please do continue these wonderful works.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

It's hard relearning things. Let alone being a human again. The latter I can only imagine.

[bk_forever]

Yeah, I felt bad for poor Anya.

Thank you!

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Yes. I think she deserved more patience for her lack of social norms. Particularly from Xander. I suppose it was for comedic purposes.

You're welcome.

[bk_forever]

It's hard for someone who's used to being human to understand what Anya was going through, and the other characters were teenagers, who aren't the most tactful people anyway.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

Xander: Sometimes, I shouldn't say words.

Yeah. I was mainly the listener of my small group of high school friends etc. So that wasn't really a problem then.

[bk_forever]

Hardly anyone at school even spoke to me. I had one friend but she was in a different class so we only met up at breaks and lunch.

[cynthia2015.livejournal.com]

I was pretty much a loner in primary school. High school it was here and there at the beginning. When one of my best friends was still the new girl, she'd only hang out with us (my small group of friends) during lunch. I suppose friendships evolve in different ways.

[bk_forever]

I never had many friends, just an occasional one, sometimes two at the same time. Guess I've always been used to being on my own.

[bk_forever]

I wouldn't want to try.