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CHARACTER:
Name: Anya
Age: 17
Series: Anastasia
Species: Human
Gender: Female :D
Occupation: Student
Point of canon to be drawn in: In the movie, right after the train incident where Dimitri, Vladmir, and Anya bail. So she comes alone with Pooka.
Appearance:
She's of average height for her age, slender build, and pretty athletic. Has auburn hair and blue eyes, her eyebrows are arched, and a little thicker than most. Anya's one to wear clothes that are over-sized, often cover her figure. She seems not to care TOO much about appearances. Also, Anya has the weirdest style of hair, making it look like she has short hair, but not really -- it's longer than it appears.
Personality:
The thing is with Anya, she is your typical girl, just stepping into adulthood. Meaning that Anya is rebellious in her own right, a thorn in her caretaker's side for about eight years. She's assertive, confident, and sassy -- Anya has a mind of her own, a scary characteristic in the time she lives in. And this, in a sense, has both made her fit in, as well as not fit in with those around her. she's a bit above her time, relatively speaking. But Anya is hardly anything but mean or negative. Quite the opposite, really. She's got plenty of spunk and warmth that draws in in people. Anya is one that goes with the flow of things, she seems rather impulsive and unconventional, clearly not putting into thought with some things, seeing as she took a turn down a road, just as she was reaching adulthood, without a second thought of it.
That being said with runs with her impulsive nature, Anya is idealistic, in that sense. She's very trusting, seeing as she has gone with two total strangers, Dimitri and Vladimir, believing their whole spiel about how she could be the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov. And by that, it seems Anya is willing to believe people, even if circumstances are suspicious, because let's face it -- it wasn't exactly a wise thing to do, following two strange men. And it seems because of this, Anya has lived a closed life, in terms of not knowing who she really is. So this could suggest Anya was not truly comfortable with herself quite yet, but not dependent on her caretaker, only she could take care of herself. And like her historical counterpart, Anya is capable of mischief and being a free thinker.
Anya is a persistent little thing as well. The only fragment she has of her past are few clues, that she was wandering around in a daze at the age of eight, and that her necklace, as we all know, says "Together in Paris". Anya believes in that necklace so much, she's so stubborn and will not listen otherwise, and her caretaker has literally laughed in her face for it. Yet Anya was fixated on it well enough to follow it, seemingly not caring otherwise. She is, without a doubt, incredibly stubborn, not willing to give up. This makes her difficult to be reason with, as well as a force not to underestimate. She is, by no means, a pushover. And that shows itself towards Rasputin, who she faces later in the movie and literally tackles him to the ground. Anya doesn't seem like the type to be afraid of getting dirty or scratched up. She's willing to risk a lot, but is not blindly stupid. She's smarter than that.
Her drive in life is finding where she belongs, her family. It does weigh on her much than she shows, but Anya hardly wants pity for it or to be laughed at her childish belief in her necklace. Home and family are something she doesn't remember, and wants dearly. We all know Anya has forgotten this, and that could be due to some trauma of having her family ripped away and being cursed by Rasputin himself. That doesn't mean she'll quiet, and that does not mean she'll shove people aside from it. She's open, free, and willing to take in others. Anya has had no real close connections in life, and while she butts heads with a few people, and only playfully, without a doubt, she is kind, gentle, and supportive of those dear to her. By no means, she's the princess in distress, but you could say she is the princess some could look up to.
Abilities:
All and all, Anya is your average human, no latent abilities, no special powers, nothing complex. However, you could safely assume, being an orphan or even a street urchin, Anya has her street smarts. Being that she could possibly know a few things or two to get by. Or so that may seem or at least it was well implied by how she acts. She's a free thinker, self-assertive, so Anya is capable of learning anything she wants to -- but that's not really much of an ability.
History:
Anya, or truthfully Anastasia, is the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, predicted to be born a boy, who the Czar had gotten his hopes up (and this is actually something historical, not mentioned in the movies), but she became to be his fourth daughter, and one of five children. The movie sheds no light on anything, other than Anastasia being intensely close to her family, especially her grandmother. It is her grandmother that gives her a music box, to soothe Anastasia, when she would leave Russia, to her new home, giving her the necklace "Together in Paris". It's implied Anastasia was a bit of a terror, mischief maker by the two conmen that find Anya, and that seems to grow with her in life. However, in 1916, the resentment towards the royal family had finally flared out at last.
Riding along the fires of the unrest of the people of Russia, the former holy man to the royal family, who allegedly sold himself to evil to gain more power, in hopes of bringing destruction to the royal family, Rasputin came to them one night. Obviously upset that he was being ignored or who knows, Rasputin confronts the Czar himself, and in a light shouting match with his family cowering away, the Czar apparently banishes him. Enraged or likely fixated too much for his own good, Rasputin curses the whole family, vowing to kill them all and anyone tied to them. This results in a dramatic drop of the chandelier! And a dramatic exit. Later, Rasputin in his hidey hole, and who knows where the hell that is, stirs up magic or whatever, to aggravate the unrest, encourage the Bolsheviks to raid the winter palace in Russia, to personally storm in and throw out the Czar himself.
Although this movie seems to really and honestly ignore that the royal overthrow of the Russian czar happens in 1916, the family realistically isn't killed until 1917! But the movie rolls with the palace being stormed, the family being lead out by the royal guards, Anastasia was close by to her grandmother, eventually breaks away to find her music box. Of course, this is perfect timing, isn't it? She flees to her room, grabs her trinket, with her grandmother honestly up in arms for this. As the Bolsheviks approach her room, as well as storming the whole palace, a servant boy shows Anastasia and her grandmother the way out, while she drops her music box, only carrying her necklace. By the time the Bolsheviks storm the room, the two royal family members are gone, and the boy, who is later revealed to be Dimitri, is clubbed and knocked unconscious when they can't find them.
Through the panic, they escape, and in your classical evil villain style, with Rasputin somehow popping out of freakin' nowhere, to take out the princess herself, ranting and raving how she'll never escape, he falls through the ice, while clinging to Anastasia, and while his damn bat tries to help him, it is no luck, and Rasputin eventually, uh, well. Dies. Fleeing on their own, Anastasia is overwhelmed, with help of some common folk, the elderly grandmother finds her own way on the train, but Anastasia is sadly left in the dust, eventually she trips, falls. And... somehow represses or hits her head (maybe both) and forgets all events that had happened. Later, however, Anastasia is found wandering around, forgetting everything, likely shaken, and somehow earns the name "Anya" if that wasn't coincidental enough.
She is taken in the orphanages, for eight years. Up until she turns into an adult, her caretaker, who seems all the eager to be rid of the brat girl, shoos her off to work in a factory up the road. Anya obeys... or it seems that way. She reaches a crossroad, hesitant, and chooses to follow the road up into St. Petersburg (it's really Leningrad in the 1920s, I SWEAR), taking along a stray puppy with her. And, well, this is where she should come into the picture...
False memories:
Mm, well, to make it all the more fair, Anya was found wandering around on the street at an early age, at least seven years old. She doesn't recall who she is, of course, to keep close to canon as possible. So most of Anya's childhood, she grew up on an orphanage in Soviet Russia. Just as in the movie, she's being kicked out of this orphanage because she's too old and it's very over-crowded. However, she's pulled to Neo Geo from Russia on rumors of possible family relatives that live there and might know who she is, with her pet dog. So, Anya could literally be a long lost sister, even though she has no real idea who she is. For lack of better words, instead of Anya going to Paris, she goes to Neo.