--On the show they're confronting The First Evil, a non-corporeal being older than any demon that is a manipulator par excellence. So far it has excelled at playing mind games, whittling away at people's ability to hope or function.
--In particular the First Evil only appears as people who've already died, a fact it has used to viciously attack the sanity of the show's heroes. So the characters are being visited, it seems, by their Dead.
--Willow, a regular, is a witch who at one time went mad with grief and rage. Following the murder of her lover, she used her powers to torture then flay the man who did it. Still enraged, she nearly "put the world out of its misery" until a friend refused to leave her side and she broke down crying, allowing herself to grieve. This same character (who once helped defeat an evil god, btw) is now seriously conflicted over her vast powers, whether she can ever control them without destroying all she loves.
Does any of this sound...familiar somehow????
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