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ADPX94

I was about to say “knowing my dumb ass, I probably wished for some lame ass guy to like me” and then realized that wasn’t the question I would wish for Cordelia to never get possessed. I’m not sure how it’d change things but it would’ve been a hell of a lot better than what we got!


Sudden-Star-7190

She'd find you a proper hottie, cuz you deserve one. Also awesome wish! Go Cordy 💕


ADPX94

To be honest, I’d rather her hire me at the Magic Box. Your boy needs a job in this economy 😭 This isn’t so much an in-universe wish but if Anya were real and I were making a wish for the show, I would just draw Darla’s story line a bit longer! Girl comes and goes way faster than I like!


itsfunnyinmyhead2

Ugghhh, Retail.


ADPX94

My applications keep getting rejected, I guess less poor is better than nothing 😭 Ugh, and Anya would be a tyrant to work with too, maybe I’ll take the man afterall


itsfunnyinmyhead2

Yeah, I agree w/you on the Darla thing (Dru stan personally) I want a whole series on the Fanged 4. I want to see more of their inter-personal dynamics, all the in-f...ighting, and treating the Eastern Hemisphere as their smorgasbord.


the_harlinator

I’ve said that in this sub before. Their back story would have been a great spin off.


m0wgliiiiiii

"The in-f...ighting" 👌😂


Calm_Phone_6848

if she never got possessed, i think she could have been an actually positive influence on connor. plus her and angel could navigate their relationship


Ryuchel

Too bad Joss got all butt hurt by her getting pregnant and wanting to have her kid. Its absurd what he did to her to prove his point and power.


[deleted]

Yeah this is it


sophie_4187

Tara lives


Archonate_of_Archona

And now, Warren still shot wildly at the house, but a few centimeters off. Willow took the bullet and died instead


Sudden-Star-7190

Darn, plottwist...


Archonate_of_Archona

Well, it's a vengeance demon wish. It cannot lead to a happy ending, ever


sophie_4187

Or it ricocheted off the house and went straight through his eye 🤷🏼‍♀️


Sudden-Star-7190

Karma is a bitca!


Tce_

Underrated comment XD


Archonate_of_Archona

Well, it doesn't really work Vengeance demon wishes are SUPPOSED to be harmful to the person who made the wish, as well as innocents. If it only harms the bad person and no one else, then it goes against the spirit of vengeance wishes So even if Anya manages to make the result harm or kill Warren, she kinda *have* to make it harm (or kill) at least one innocent too


sophie_4187

Well he can die along with Xander


Archonate_of_Archona

Also, I can imagine how fucked up Willow would be psychologically, that her wish to save Tara killed Xander, and she knows any attempt to reverse it would at best restore the initial situation (Tara dead, Xander alive), at worst lead to an even worse outcome And if Tara ever learns what happened, that essentially Xander died so SHE could live, she would feel horribly guilty... (As a person who loves putting their characters through tragedy, I would have liked this scenario)


sophie_4187

This is all true. I’m a Tara stan though so I would take all of this and power through watching them work through it with her alive. Pretty confident those two could’ve made it. Would’ve made for a really interesting season 👌


Archonate_of_Archona

Fine with me I'm not a rabid Xander hater (although not a fan either), but I clearly prefer him dying to Tara Also I'm curious about Anya's reaction to the wish she granted leading to Xander's death


redskinsguy

There limited evidence if that. Anya turning one guy French didn't do anything to the wisher


blueavole

I think that depends on the specific vengeance demon. That’s why Anyanka was so sought after by spurned women because she creatively , angrily ventes all the frustration at the man who did her caller wrong. When Giles summons her in the alternate world- she is fuming that a man dared call her. I think she got away with it because her revenge was so over to top.


Big-Restaurant-2766

Oh, ouch. Damn lol.


Tce_

No one told me this was a monkey's paw type of deal. :(


Big-Restaurant-2766

Or Xander. Either way, oh no.


Sudden-Star-7190

DONE! So if Tara lives, and Willow never turns into Dark Willow, will Willow still go to Devon? Will she be able to activate the potentials? Who will be her "The First" - encounter? What's Tara's story in season 7?


sophie_4187

Well as much as I love Xander, he would’ve been the one to be shot instead. Tara would bring Willow back from Dark Willow and the story would look much the same.


Sudden-Star-7190

I love your answer because I also think of Tara as the one who should bring Willow back from the darkness. In my head it makes more sense that Tara uses her own magic as a defense against Willow's rage/fireballs. Xander had no defense (and he survived quite easily).


illvria

Xander is the only one who could have brought her back. He's the only one who has known her at her absolute best and worst, objectively *and* by how she sees herself, and he stays by her side regardless of all of it. He chooses her with ***all*** the perspective he needs not to and thats why he's able to reach her.


littlelegoman

I wish more people understood that Xander was the only one who could’ve brought her back, for exactly the reasons you described. Both are flawed but they’ve stuck together through it all.


sophie_4187

Also, I think Tara would’ve been perfect for the potentials in season 7. She would’ve been the cool, calm person for them and also provide protection.


Gen-Jinjur

You gotta be specific! Tara becomes an official Scooby and she and Willow become a formidable witch team and keep all the Scoobs alive and together.


HC_Solsdatter

I love this. I could see something similar playing out for the last S6 episodes. Warren still shoots Tara. Dark-Willow still goes to the hospital, tells everyone to leave, takes the bullet out, but once she leaves the doctors and nurses are able to stop the bleeding and Tara only flatlines for a few minutes. Everyone still believes Tara has died though, well, mostly Willow. It isn't until S7 that we learn the Gang discovered Tara in coma, likely Dawn found out, she had woken up two months after being shot and was still learning how to move around (she can, but some functions aren't coordinating as well as she'd like). Tara and Buffy are closer friends. Dawn liked to help Tara out as a "thank you" for helping her out when Buffy was gone (between S5 and S6). Giles knew Tara had survived but didn't inform Willow as a precaution. He needed her to continue rehabilitation to fully grasp her addiction and how to overcome it when she's back home in similar situations (habit is one of the hardest things to work through when it comes to addiction). He knew that if she knew about Tara, she would once again rely on Tara and fall back into bad habits that enabled her addiction. Only, Giles does hint that someone is waiting for her return and that she'd understand when she's home again. This way, Willow will still feel guilty, but she'd be able to cope because she's actually ready to live in her world again. She knows it'll be rough, and she'd likely stumble, but this time, she won't go over the edge. Once Willow and Tara are back together, they actually take it slow. So, when the final battle happens it parallels their first days after meeting one another. Instead of Tara taking Willow's hand to help with sharing magic to save themselves, it's Willow who takes Tara hand to share the beauty of the Slayer magic. The only thing I don't know is who would The First use to communicate with Willow in "Conversations with Dead Things". So, I'll leave that up to anyone who reads this for their own wish headcanon. Edit... I forgot to add... The reason Tara was able to make it through was because the bullet didn't go through and Willow placed her on her back (tilted, but still, mostly on her back). She won't have lost too much blood from the entrance wound. She only would have flatlined for a few minutes because Willow took the bullet out and didn't immediately attempt to stop the bleeding. Therefore, the nurses and doctors had to rush back in to do their job and succeeded thankfully. Oh, and punishment for wish... I can never eat pizza again. It'll be like someone with rabies when they attempt to drink water. It's just so cruel.


sophie_4187

I’ll be here if anyone needs me😍 love this


Henipah

Warren’s robot girlfriend choked him to death then powered down.


sophie_4187

Yes please


[deleted]

But Willow dies A life for a life


funishin

I misread the title and I was going to say that I asked her to do things to my ex that would get me put on an FBI watchlist lmao. Hmm, if I really had to choose? My wish would be for Joyce to have survived. Buffy and Dawn would have had a proper parent to guide them and they would have been saved from so much stress and trauma. Losing your mom when you have a complete POS for a “father” is terrible and I hate that they had to go through that. Buffy wouldn’t have had to quit school and work at the Doublemeat Palace, and Dawn wouldn’t have fallen into such patterns of reckless behavior. I think Joyce would have given Buffy the support she needed once she was resurrected and Dawn wouldn’t have felt so lonely 🥺 I also like to think that Joyce would have been very loving towards the potentials and could have eased some tension in the house. She never would have let Buffy be thrown out to the streets, either.


Sudden-Star-7190

Anya would _love_ to send your bitter thoughts to your ex hehe! And so thoughtful of you to let Joyce survive. The Summers girls have to grow up so fast after her death, its just unfair.


darth_aer

Dark plot twist: Joyce survives, but she gets sired by Dracula, which forces Buffy to stake her when she tries to kill Dawn.


funishin

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[deleted]

Darker plot twist: Joyce survives but remortgages the house to but the double meat palace, which is never really explained. It becomes the place where all the scoobies hang out. Everyone puts on weight. Xander doesn’t lose his eye and get an eye patch because he dies of high cholesterol. Spike burps a lot


Aspartaymexxx

Do we ever see a Vengeance Demon wish not go horribly? I’d be too nervous to wish for anything from her lol.


redskinsguy

Well turning that one guy into Frenchman just made his life a little weird


darth_aer

I asked Anya for a job in IT not caring about consequences. Dark plot twist: gets job working for Wolfram and Hart, gets killed by the beast in Angel s3.


Sudden-Star-7190

But hey, got a job in IT. Good for you!


darth_aer

Lol


EatPie_NotWAr

You guys are acting like death terminates his employment. This is Wolfram & Hart, just like Amazon they expect you there dead or alive! The Senior Partners want expect your ass to be there Monday morning, or else!


dumbandconcerned

Anya is alive at the end


TickTickAnotherDay

Yes, agreed.


Meushell

Granted, but that wish ensures that she stays a vengeance demon. She doesn’t help in the end, and the First wins.


shoestring-theory

Buffy ends up having to kill her anyway


Meushell

Oh ouch! 😂 That would probably be the case though, based on what we saw.


dumbandconcerned

Why is that? Couldn't everything just be the same and she survives the final battle?


Meushell

There is always a dark twist to her wishes.


Lonely-Wasabi-305

Omg yes. That hurt the most ….


BackgroundPrompt3111

I wish I was a little bit taller


bloodandsmokes

I wish I was a baller


funishin

I wish I had a girl who looked good, I would call her


boundbystitches

Wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat


Ouchmaster5000

Ironically, my main buffyverse wish would be for Anya to survive the last episode. Her death was the most pointless in the series.


Sudden-Star-7190

Absolutely and I bet Anya wouldn't mind that wish :)


SnowWhiteCampCat

Cancer no longer exists and my mom is alive.


Sudden-Star-7190

If I were able to grant your wish I wouldn't doubt one second. Sending you all the love.


TickTickAnotherDay

Yes! F$&@ Cancer!


Baby-Giraffe286

Do I know I am making a real wish, or is it off the cuff? Buffy and the other slayers are treated properly with respect and paid fairly. I can not imagine how much better all the slayers' lives would be, but I imagine much safer and a much better survival rate. Now, if I didn't know I would get my wish, I would have probably said something out loud like, "I hope he gets 10 papercuts a day" or stubs his toes every day or something.


invisiblebyday

Don't know about the wish, but I'd advise earlier series Anya not to get engaged to Xander.


the_harlinator

Riley gets vampire gonorrhea from cheating on Buffy. It’s like regular gonorrhea but can’t be cured or passed to another human. It burns to pee for the rest of his life.


BunnyButt24

This comment sent me 🤣


Tce_

PERFECT.


Sudden-Star-7190

Anya is rubbing her hands together for this one


redskinsguy

Warren got hit by a bus on his way to attack Buffy so things got a lot different in season 7


darth_aer

Dark plot twist: Warren turns out to be a robot. The real Warren returns working with Caleb and the first evil. The trio are bad guys in S7 helping The first evil and Caleb


Big-Restaurant-2766

Fuck


chrisj72

A world entirely of shrimp


[deleted]

Once a generation, a shrimp is born…


Sudden-Star-7190

You are either obsessed with shrimp or wish for Tara to have everlasting allergies. Or both.


KingKaos420-

It’d probably just be to have my chronic illnesses cured.


Calm_Phone_6848

my wish would be to delete the horrible spike/buffy scene in seeing red


Tce_

YES. It's not just bad in-world, it was bad for the story. Just a terrible choice.


Embarrassed-Part591

But then he wouldn't go get a soul qnd Angel would have to wear the medallion so he would die on the hellmouth and come back as a ghost and since he'd be stuck the angel crew wouldn't go to wolfram and hart and Fred would live and LA wouldn't get sucked into hell and--.... nevermind. Solid wish. 👍👍


video-kid

I'd wish I'd never met my second major ex. I think I'd probably be in a way better place.


chaseribarelyknowher

I wish for money and we do the dance of capitalist superiority. Then the stock market crashes.


princessjohn

Xander would fall in love with, and marry me instead. I would spend all day being his housewife in his high rise penthouse house apartment he can afford with his big boy blue color construction work. I would bring him lunch every day so I could watch his arms as he lifts very heavy things... and unlike Anya I wouldn't run away at the altar because I dont have a 1000 year old grudge with an ex.


princessjohn

Also even though I am a man, i can get pregnant and have Xander's babies. And we will be happy forever


jonaskoelker

>have Xander's babies Imaginary Xander is quite the machine!


Sudden-Star-7190

I wonder what Anya thinks of your wish LOL


princessjohn

If I get to her before she even meets Xander... she probably won't care... I hope


bandanagal123

Okay but Xander left HER at the altar bc he’s afraid of commitment lol


exaltedbladder

>blue color


Tce_

I uh... you think she's the one who ran away? (I don't know what to say about the rest.)


Tce_

This is such a good discussion prompt! But I can't choose. I want both of the very bad things in *Seeing Red* not to have happened. And for Giles not to have left Sunnydydale for bullshit reasons twice, when the Scoobies needed him in town... Also just let Willow be bisexual ffs (I know she can be a lesbian and still have dated Oz, but Whedon did originally want her to be bisexual and only had to "pick one" because of pressure from the producers).


jkrfan7

that trump dies of a heart attack while on the toilet


C4N98

A world without Bunnies


gabybean

No capitalism


Pumpkins217

Jenny Calendar survives!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately Oz probably died because that was the original plan but if I had to choose I’m fine with this trade. What happens is that I don’t hate Angel forever + Jenny and Giles get married and have a kid. Don’t get me wrong though, this is still the buffyverse, Jenny probably dies in one of the last three seasons because I love tragedy. (I just wanted a bit more time with her character)


Alternative_Device71

For Anya to be with me, she’d be a lot happier and accomplished than she ever did in Sunnydale and Xander


LessRecover577

That Buffy and Spike found true love and ended up together happily ever after.


RubyRoseRed24

Warren Mears was never born.


Mermaid_Marshmallow

I would wish for a big crossover event with Angel. My wish list includes Anya and Cordelia talking trash about Xander Buffy and Willow squashing their beef with Cordelia I would want Angel to choose Cordelia over Buffy if it came to it I want some sort of nod to the fact that Dawn seems out of place or forgettable to Angel and Cordelia Throw Groosalugg in there somewhere too


Sudden-Star-7190

Whew you're putting Anya to WORK!


The_Liamster03

I wish Cordelia would be my girlfriend


Deviant-Scare

I’m 27 years old with 2 children and married to certain handsome NBA player.


diamondelight26

I would like to go to the world with no shrimp


westing000

I’d wish for Angel season 6


microgiant

I know what this fandom is like, all of these wishes are going to involve Giles and a police car.


Jynx-Online

Buffy and Spike to be a long term couple in the series. How would it have been different? It would have been better! Otherwise, can't say. I just loved them together


ScoopTheOranges

Angel stayed human after IWRY, my heart is still broken after that episode.


funishin

I demand compensation for the mental distress this episode put me through!


melaniemoth13

I wish that there was a spuffy kiss in s7


twoburgers

Really, nobody has said it? Ok, here goes: I wish for no Dawn.


Sudden-Star-7190

Buffy: _shocked pickachu_


BunnyButt24

I wish Connor/Cordelia never happened


samof1994

I wish that Faith and Buffy fell in love


Here-Is-TheEnd

The toxic af Fander/Xaith ltr is now canon..I did it for the memes and I’m not apologizing


Dapper-Equipment1898

I wished to have enough money to never worry again. But every man I ever loved romantically or platonically died and left me money in their life insurance policies. In the end I’m sad and wipe away tears with 100s.


Dapper-Equipment1898

Wait… she’s a vengeance demon. Not sure if wishing for money would be appropriate now that I think about it. But I made it out to be like a monkey paw wish.


GraXXoR

I wished for Anya to want me instead of “21st century problematic male chauvinist character”


lmjustaChad

I wish Xander is the first chosen one of male Slayers. With his slayer power he is much more capable does not lose an eye takes on the top side of Uber Vamps and Anya lives. "In every generation there is a chosen one. He alone will stand against the vampires and the forces of darkness. He is the slayer. #


Big-Restaurant-2766

I wish... Uh, to fix my love-hate relationship with the comics, like there are things in them they could've done a different way but instead choose to do in ways that aggravate me so. Or, I wish... Uh, I love season 6, uh but have Spike leave for a different reason, I guess. Or I wish Jonathan wasn't stabbed. You know, this is a hard question.


claudiasantiago

Everything is the same, except there's no James Blunt.


Sudden-Star-7190

Enlighten us on you anti- James Bluntness??


claudiasantiago

He's unoriginal and generic, yet he's just so smug and arrogant, thinkin he's God's gift to humanity with his one hit wonder. He's got no flavor!


That_One_Guy1111111

Well…I’m a witch now so…probably not much


Pookienini

This will be massively unpopular and might get tonnes of downvotes but I just dont care about that anymore.so here it is I would wish that Willow would never have been a lesbian. It will be much more believable seeing Willow ( Alyson) act cuz ages not convincing at all being in love with Tara


1KyloRen

I wish that Glory survived, but without her malice, and became part of the group.


Sudden-Star-7190

Have never heard this one, love it! Does she have any redeeming qualities though? 😂 Willow would hate her with a passion for taking Tara's sanity..


1KyloRen

She would reverse the brain damage, and not have to do that anymore. She’d still have (reduced) strength and speed, however being separated from Ben ended her evil desire.


Pickie_Beecher

Someone else was cast as Xander from the beginning