ooc; snake charmer || basic information
Character's name: Mitarashi Anko
PB: Aya Ueto
Age: 25
Birthday: October 24
Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 101 lbs
Blood type: A [Level-headed, creative, fastidious]
Zodiac: Scorpio [Direct, focused, unvarnished]
Born in: Konoha
Hometown: Konoha
Current Residence: Konoha
Employment: Police/Undercover, Mafia/Escort, Other/Promoter
Personality:
Some people are risk-averse, and some people are thrill-seeking. Anko is thrill-seeking; there’s a part of her which simply cannot be content with what is safe. It’s come out in various outlets throughout her life, but it’s an omnipresent force behind her decision-making process. If there are two paths, she tends to dive toward the adrenaline rush.
Some people would describe Anko as loud. These people would be completely correct. She’s never known when to keep her trap shut, and almost even more rarely knows when to modulate the volume. There is nothing apologetic about the way Anko puts herself out in the world: when she arrives on the scene, people are meant to know about it.
She’s not simply loud in the clueless ‘I don’t realize I need an inside voice’ sort of fashion (although god knows when the last time she let someone make her use her inside voice was). Anko is loud because she wants people to know she’s there. A lot of her impulses-making a spectacle of her hair colour, constant displays of daring and disregard, always throwing herself into the middle of situations-comes from the desire not to be abandoned. The death of her parents and her subsequent parting from her adopted ‘family’ of thugs left her with a rather shaky self image. She tends to think of herself as someone forgettable, the sort of person who isn’t worthy of being kept in a real loving relationship very long. This faltering self-esteem often finds itself in conflict with her gregarious personality, causing her to lash herself out even more. It gives a lot of people the impression that she’s a little over the top; people are not wrong.
That isn’t to say that there aren’t moments when Anko can be quiet. They’re not happy moments, but they come in two distinct flavours. In some instances, she tends to pull into herself when something upsets her deeply. Annoyances, inconveniences, and ‘youthful’ injustices are dealt with by use of loud vocal aggression and minor force, but the things that really get under her skin tend to take the wind out of her sails. She’s not a brooder by nature; it’s just that when someone says just the wrong thing or touches her in just the wrong place, her mind shrinks into a very childish place. In other instances, her silence comes from murderous intentions. It’s a well-known fact that Anko’s a screamer in bed, but the heated passion that comes with making a kill for her boss involves a breathless silence.
For all her loud, moody ways, Anko is ultimately simply very smart. She’s not the sort of genius who can pull every factoid she’s ever learned out of thin air, but she knows what she knows and she can usually figure out enough of what she doesn’t know to half-ass her way through a situation. Her mind likes to dabble around in different places, eager to keep itself occupied, so she tends toward being a jack of all trades over being a master of anything in particular.
Likes: MOTHER F'ING DANGO, snakes, dumplings, sweet bean soup, gnawing on straws, tea ceremonies, senbon, watching stupid movies with friends, climbing things
Dislikes: Spicy food, Orochimaru, cocaine, being hungry, assholes, Mizuki, having to be quiet for too long, Orochimaru, being left alone, being ignored
Trivia: + Anko's full name means "Sweet Rice Cake, Red Bean Paste." She doesn't think it's funny when people make jokes about this while she eats dango.
+ Anko tends to announce her presence with dramatically shouting the phrase "Arriving!" at whoever's closest.
+ Right now, Anko only has two tattoos, although she's debating getting a few more. The first is a cluster of black teardrops on the left side of her neck/shoulder/back area. The second is a swirled spiral on the inside of her right ankle.
+ There's a tiny bit of Anko that's fairly certain her next tattoo will be a certain family crest, probably just below pants-line on the inside of her left hip.
+ ...they aren't easy to find, but there are a few disks of porn out there in which Anko appears as a featured girl.
+ Anko wears her father's wedding ring on a chain around her neck. One of her biggest regrets is not thinking to take her mother's before they took the body away.
Background:
Some people become punks. Others are born that way. It’s suspected that Anko was born a punk, although there are few people left to confirm what she was like before the age of 12. It’s possible she was a pleasant child with a delightful home life; the way she grits her teeth when she talks about her parents indicates otherwise. It’s clear that her family of origin were not hugely wealthy, or even necessarily comfortable financially before they dissolved. The early years were inconsequential, at any rate, apart from the three major events that shaped her mental landscape: her father’s death when she was 6, being deposited at an orphanage when she was 10 after her mother passed, and being dragged out of the world she knew at age 12 by the drug lord she only ever knew as ‘Sensei.’
There was never much information passed between them about personal histories. She wasn’t the first under-aged girl he’d picked out of a home, perhaps even the ninth or tenth to wind up sleeping first on his spare futon and then in his bed, nestled like a small child against his chest in strange innocence. It didn’t matter in the slightest. True, he was almost constantly exposing her to the seedy underbelly of Tokyo culture; true, she had both tattoos and nearly permanent track marks before her 16th birthday; true, from what she could tell he was approximately twice her age and had no business asking her to sit on the laps of his associates before she was close to legal. For the few years that he cared for her, however, Anko felt safe and loved. Drugs were hardly the only stimulation she received during her time with him. Completely cracked out or not, her benefactor was an absolute genius; little punk or not, Anko was constantly crying out to be educated. She devoured the books he threw her way, blasted through the preparatory school he was able to send her to with some degree of ease, tackled whatever extracurricular activities were thrown her way to distract her with a hungry passion. True, she was often in trouble for running her mouth and more than once found herself in minor scrapes with the law. Her salient traits through her pre-college years, however, were distinctly her keen intellect and fierce exuberance for life.
She was 16 when he lost interest in her-or rather, 16 when she decided that she wanted more from life than what was being offered to her. The tidbits of information didn’t keep her mind occupied; the efforts of running drugs were no longer challenging. Going to university for an education preoccupied her completely. Her benefactor presented her with a choice: get happy with what he’d already given her or get out. Although she took the initiative to leave, her life thereafter was coloured by the ugly thought that he didn’t care enough to keep her with him when keeping her got harder to manage.
An exceptional girl even when cast out on her own, Anko battled her financial and educational situations with ferocity. Not a genius per se, she was nevertheless accepted into university early and graduated early, working her way through with a combination of legal and ‘sub-legal’ methods. Her first impulse was to enroll at the police academy and spend her life ridding the world of scum like her former caretaker. The process was smooth enough-a few little hiccups when her mental stability seemed like it might be called into question, none serious enough to prevent her from being handed a badge and a gun. She graduated and instantly threw herself into the work with the same violent passion she did everything in life.
And immediately found herself back in the underworld she’d been raised in, all grown up and working undercover.
Doing her best to avoid drawing too heavily on contacts from her time with her Sensei, Anko managed to worm her way into her own circle of connections. She started small, worming her way into drug rings and the lesser-organized gangs. As she started to brush up against the bigger crime circles, however, things got more complicated. ‘My other car is a police cruiser’ didn’t quite cut it as a cover story. Thankfully, a man with a business card came to her rescue before she’d gotten herself into any real trouble. A combination of her forceful personality and overwhelming amount of hours spent in dingy bars had caught the attention of the right people. Club promotion and brand promotion agencies soon had her number in their databases. Things started to look up again. It was what she’d been trained to do-get close to the big guns, leave little reports at the police department, and to top it all off get paid now and then to party with the rich and beautiful.
Feeling invincible, Anko got in bed with the influential organization headed by the Uchiha family when she caught their attention. Suddenly things were complicated again. It was getting harder and harder to keep her hands clean the higher she pushed. It’s a line she’s learning to walk, an ever-slimming tightrope she’s holding her breath on the edge of.
Timeline of Past Events:
Age 0 - Anko born
Age 6 - Father dies in questionable circumstances
Age 10 - Mother succumbs to illness after a long struggle
- Anko sent to live in an orphanage
- Anko meets Iruka
Age 12 - Anko adopted by Orochimaru
Age 16 - Anko runs away from 'home' and joins up with local toughs
Age 17 - Anko successful applies to university
- Anko begins mostly-legal work to pay for university
Age 20 - Anko graduates and is accepted at the police academy
- Anko meets Iwashi, Mizuki
Age 22 - Anko begins working undercover
Age 23 - Anko begins involvement with Akatsuki organization
Age 25 - CURRENT TIMELINE BEGINS
Relations:
Family
- n/a
- Hiroki - Anko's baby boy, a five-year-old ball python who replaced his predecessor around the time Anko graduated from the Academy. She is fully determined to get this one to live into his thirties. While she's home, Hiroki is often given free range of her bedroom, and seems to have taken a liking for coiling on her shoulders while she goes about her business. Anko named him for "abundant joy/strength."
Work Related
- Hatake Kakashi -
- Kirabi - Anko's been the ho to his pimp before. She finds him vaguely hilarious.
- Nara Shikamaru -
- Sarutobi Asuma - BIG BEAR the LAND SHARK ...idk I think they're sort of friends or something?
- Tatami Iwashi - MAKEOUT BUDDY Anko and Iwashi work together. And flirt like there's no tomorrow. And gang up on Iruka. It's all gravy.
- Tenten - One of her contacts in her undercover work. So far, there's not a lot of mutual affection or trust, but the more the rub elbows the more Anko's slowly growing to feel respect.
- Uchiha - PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFff brb we'll find out.
Other Acquaintances
- Touji Mizuki - Anko met Mizuki through Iruka at the Academy. Which was fine until Mizuki started fucking with Iruka. Red flags were confirmed by the infamous stabbing incident. Anko's pretty pleased with the thought of him rotting in jail. And will be pretty unpleased if she runs into his sorry ass now that he's out of jail.
- Umino Iruka - Anko met her precious 'Iru-chan' very early on in life. He's one of the few people who caught a glimpse of her before her time with Orochimaru. Although they're technically 'work buddies' now, Anko holds Iruka very protectively close to her heart and has been known to go into fits of rage defending him. Conversely, he's one of the few people she feels safe calling after a bad nightmare.
- Yuuhi Kurenai -