Tear Jerker / Spells R Us

• In "Bikini Beach: Anya and Me", Anya's childhood friend, Greg (with whom she's forming a romantic relationship) develops a transformation addiction while working on a project at the park. Over the course of the story, he changes into a series of increasingly sexy women, with ever greater libidos and fewer inhibitions (even as the transformations themselves become agonizingly painful), and engages in increasingly risky behavior. Finally, he becomes a drunken party girl who sexually throws herself at Anya...and wakes up the following morning to discover that the transformation hasn't worn off. When Grandmother learns of the situation, she isn't angry with Greg, because she knows the real reason behind his behavior: several years earlier, while attending a party with his parents, he got drunk; his father took the car keys from him, saying that if he wasn't man enough to hold his liquor, he wasn't man enough to drive them home. On the way home, they got in a car accident, which killed both of his parents. Greg believes that if he'd been driving, they would have lived; he's been trying to prove his father right, to absolve himself of the guilt. When Grandmother forces him to admit the truth, Greg breaks down sobbing uncontrollably into her shoulder.
  • Grandmother also admits to Greg why Anya lives with her, and why she no longer uses her magic to its full extent: Anya's mother — her own daughter — became Drunk On Power and turned to evil. What's worse, Anya is already far more powerful than the Old Woman had realized — and she's terrified that Anya is going to go down the same dark path as her mother. There's also the implication of what the Old Woman had to do to stop her daughter.
  • To top it off, Greg's body suffers from "magic shock", brought on by too many transformations in a short period of time; he must remain in his transformed state for one to two weeks until his body recovers, lest he cause himself permanent harm in the process of changing back. As such, he's stuck in a very sexy body with an absurdly high libido; he's terrified to go back to his dorm alone (because he doesn't trust himself), and faces flunking out of school. Fortunately, Anya agrees to help him through it, (letting him stay with her, and hinting that she'll take his place at school). However, the entire episode makes them realize that they're moving too quickly with their relationship, because they're both afraid of being alone; they have to work through their personal pain — Greg losing his parents, Anya losing her mom — before they can move forward.