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Player Information

Name: Brandi
Age: 27
AIM SN: pandasaurs
email: kupocakes@yahoo.com
Have you played in an LJ based game before? Yes
Bonus: How did you hear about Siren's Pull? Referred by current Gabriel and Castiel muns.

Character Information

General
Canon Source: Supernatural
Canon Format: Television Show
Character's Name: Anna Milton
Character's Age: Super super old. Countless years old, but the body she's in actually belongs to her due to falling from heaven and being reborn, and that body is about 25 years old.
Conditional: If your character is 13 years of age or under, please clarify how they will be played. n/a

What form will your character's NV take? This is just a play on her angel radio that is canon in the series, but would it be possible for it to literally be over a frequency in her head, like how the angel's voices come in to her? I figured it could easily show images and text, along with whatever video feeds there may be, and all of her responses could be in either voice or an image projection/video, based on what she's thinking to communicate to others. In canon, she hears the voices of angels broadcast to her in her head, which makes others think that she's crazy and she's institutionalized for it. It would be interesting and if her NV could take on something like that, but if it can't (which I understand), it will be a more literal take on the matter and will be a handheld radio.

Abilities
Character's Canon Abilities:
Teleportation - Anna is able to teleport herself to any location on Earth. Since other angels are able to do the same, it is assumed that she can also teleport people with her.

Strength - Anna's freakishly strong, even without her Grace. It took five men to even come close to restraining Anna pre-finding her Grace, and now that she has it, she's someone you don't want to mess with.

Telekinesis - She's able to move objects with her mind. Typical angel power.

Time manipulation - Anna is able to travel back and forth in time.

Angel Radio Subscription - Anna can hear angelic broadcasts and it makes her human life hard. It just makes her fallen angel life informed and on top of things.

Healing- She can heal herself from attack, and her Grace enables her to heal other people, too. She can't bring people back to life, however.

Mind bending fun- Putting two fingers to someone's forehead enables her to get into their head and either put them to sleep or play with their memories.

Whatever powers need to be taken away or toned down in order for her to fit in, I'm fine with doing whatever is needed.

Conditional: If your character has no superhuman canon abilities, what dormant ability will you give them? n/a
Weapons: Her angel knife - it not only has the ability to act as a normal weapon, but it's also the only kind of weapon that can kill other angels

History/Personality/Plans/etc.
Character History: Anna lived a long life as an angel way before she ever comes close to meeting the Winchesters. Stationed on Earth, her job was simply to watch and silently observe. Feeling like a statue, Anna became frustrated with her job after two thousand years and began to question God. But those who questioned God's will and their duties were labeled as disloyal and a traitor, and were usually killed or sent in to brainwashing Bible boot camp. But instead of facing this fate, Anna ripped out her own grace, and chose to fall from Heaven and down to Earth. On the particular night that she fell, two shooting stars were seen in the sky. One fell in the state she was reborn in, to human parents who couldn't conceive without some divine intervention. The second fell quite far away, and contained her Grace. Anna was reborn nine months after this night, and had a rough first few years of life.

At only the age of two, Anna began to have episodes, screaming in terror that her "real" father hated her and was going to punish her. Her parents took her in for counseling, where she most likely went through her early childhood years, until she forgot about being an angel and could only remember her human side. Anna grew up not remembering her true self, and lived a normal life. Her father was a Deacon and she was a successful student and a kind person. She was in college when her life started turning around, when she began to hear the voices of angels. Believed to be schizophrenic, Anna was locked away in a psychiatric hospital for a few weeks. But the voices of angels became louder and more frequent, and she kept hearing things about someone named Dean Winchester being the weapon and chosen one of God himself. It was one night while she was receiving her medicine that an orderly turned out to be a demon, and fearful of the fact she could see his demonic face, Anna acted on instinct. She was able to move a shelving unit with her mind, and was able to knock out the demon long enough to slip out and run away.

She ran to the church where her father was a Deacon and hid, where Sam and Dean eventually find her. She instantly knows who Dean is, and almost seems a little fangirlish at the fact that he's the one she's heard the angels talking about. Dean's the one that's going to save everyone, and so Anna puts her faith and trust in him. She also knows Sam, but most every angel doesn't have anything good to say about him. She just accepts him as being a part of getting help from Dean, though, and quickly realizes that he just wants to help too. Alastair shows up at that point and a fight breaks out, and Anna allows Ruby to escort her out of the building, despite the fact that Anna is terrified of her demonic face.

Sam and Dean eventually meet back up with Anna and Ruby at the safehouse, where Uriel and Castiel show up and inform them that she has to die. Before they can say anything more than Anna is not as innocent as she seems, they are sent away by an angel banishing sigil that Anna made in her own blood but has no recollection of how she knew to do it. This causes Sam and Dean to raise some eyebrows, and they call in the help of their psychic friend Pam. After a very difficult session with Pam, Anna remembers who she is. She's an angel. This, of course, doesn't go over very well with Sam and Dean, but Anna informs them that she's not like the rest of her family. She explains that she remembers everything, and tells them how she voluntarily tore out her own Grace and fell down to Earth. She was born as a human after falling, which is why she doesn't have an actual vessel that she needs permission to occupy like the others, and her disobedience is why Uriel wants her dead and the angels are hunting her down.

Her answer to protecting herself, as well as Dean and Sam is to get her Grace back. So after some Scooby sleuthing, the group pieces together enough to find where her Grace landed and travels to the area. When they get there, Anna can feel the essence of her Grace, but it's not there anymore. Someone's already come and taken it. Disappointed, the group retreats and tries to plan a new strategy. That night, Dean and Anna talk, and she reveals to him more of her story and talks about why she's unable to serve God. The two connect and feel some kind of understanding of one another, and it's in an act of desperation for the both of them to feel something that the two have sex in the back of Dean's car.

There are some interesting points shown in this scene that tie into Anna's personality that I'd like to point out that I didn't touch up above. Anna having sex with Dean isn't about her magically falling in love with him as some fans like to make it out to seem, or anything other than something than an act of desperation on both parts. Dean is losing his faith in everything, he's dealing with the weight of the world on his shoulders. He just wants to find someone who understands him and is able to take on his pain and deal with it, and Anna wants to share her possible last night on Earth with someone who gets her. She's so incredibly attached to human emotions and the act of free choice, and she wants to have one last time to freely express her desire and use her body how she wants. I think there's also a large part of her that wants to have a part of this guy that's so important to Heaven, because she's heard so much about him by hearing the angels speak. He's this important figure, and he's able to help her and she's able to help him by giving him the affection that he's so desperately needing, and so it's not even about the sex as much as the emotions and motives behind it for the both of them. Something interesting I noticed was the fact that her touch and attention lingers on Castiel's handprint on Dean. I feel that it's not because of concern or awe that it's there, but because she realizes that it's a connection to Castiel.

Which brings me to my next part I'd like to touch but didn't in the personality: Anna's history with Castiel. Whatever it is fully isn't known, but just from their conversations, it's very clear that Anna and Castiel go beyond boss and subordinate. The way she goes out of her way to always talk to Castiel and try to convince him to think for himself, and the way she so easily forgives him for betraying her trust when she's captured by the angels shows me that she cares for him a great deal. She also comes to his rescue when Uriel is attacking him, and she kills the other angel so Castiel doesn't have to. They're siblings, so of course that bond is there, but she seems to have a connection to Cas that she isn't shown sharing with their other brothers or sisters. So in the scene where she's having sex with Dean and she's affectionately touching at the handprint, I don't see it as being a gesture where she's trying to touch Dean himself, as much as feel something that's a part of Castiel. Reaching out to someone she cares for, someone that's a part of her past. That could have easily been her handprint on Dean, and she measures her palm up against the mark on Dean to prove that to remind herself of that.

Anyway, Uriel appears to Dean in a dream after he and Anna are done, and he has Anna's Grace in a vial and gives a final ultimatum. This causes Dean to create a plan to make it seem like he's betraying and giving up Anna, just to lure in Uriel and Castiel. A fight breaks out when the angels and our good friend Alastair arrive, and it's during the commotion that Anna is able to get her Grace back. She disappears in a flash of bright light, and doesn't return until Uriel and Castiel are having Dean torture Alastair. Anna questions why Castiel is having Dean regress, and whether or not he truly believes God would order torture. Later on, he calls out to Anna and she comes to him, but she refuses to tell him how to think or how he should act. His choice to rebel has to be on his own. When Castiel finally pieces the clues together and confronts Uriel, it looks as if he's going to die. But Anna shows up and kills Uriel, saving Castiel.

Anna visits Sam and Dean later on, and tells them that Castiel has been taken back to Heaven. She tries to set the boys on the path to find Castiel's vessel, Jimmy, without outright telling them what their course of action should be. A short time later, Castiel returns from his Bible camp trip in Heaven and he releases Sam from solitary confinement under orders. Anna goes to him and questions why he would do something like that, and wonders if he realizes what he's done. Castiel apologies for something, and at that moment, angels show up and capture Anna. She doesn't show up again until much later, but since her canon point is before she even goes to confront Castiel about releasing Sam, I'm going to cut it off there.

Point in Canon: 4.21, When the Levee Breaks. Anna is about to go visit Castiel to show how pissy she is that he let out Sam from solitary confinement.

Conditional: Brief summary of previous RP history: n/a

Character Personality: Anna Milton is a calm and reserved young woman who is passive and fearful of the impending Apocalypse and the demons and angels that are players in it. She has no idea what's going on with her body or why she can hear angels speaking. All she knows is that what's being said is important, and she clings hold of her faith as much as she can. When she's afraid, she goes and hides in the church she's been going to since she was a little girl. Highly intelligent and motivated, Anna Milton's life crashes down around her in a matter of weeks. It took a few years after her being reborn as a human for Anna to forget that she was ever an angel, and she spent a great deal of time during her second year of life being terrified of her "real father". At two she was sent through counseling and given medication, and after she forgot about being an angel as a young child, she lived a normal and happy life until she was in her twenties. Why does Anna Milton's personality matter in the story of Anna the angel? Because Anna Milton is a part of the angel, and her transformation from an innocent Deacon's daughter to a kickass angel sporting free will is pretty damn tragic. They aren't two separate people, but the shift from supposed crazy college girl to remembering that she's a fallen angel is very distinct. While Anna Milton is much more of a pacifist and is afraid quite often, and is often seen cowering or standing in between the sides of good versus evil; Anna as a fallen angel is much more in charge of every situation as well as herself, and she no longer cowers or waits for someone to protect her. Anna's story is very much a coming of age tale, even if it isn't handled by canon very well.

Rebellious and firm in her own set of beliefs, Anna doesn't hold God's word as having much value. She doesn't feel that she knows her father, and knows that she never will, and therefore has chosen her own path. She's convicted enough in her beliefs and headstrong enough that twenty-five years ago or so she chose to rip out her Grace and fall down to Earth. After spending almost two thousand years among humans on assignment, watching them and hiding in the background, Anna wanted nothing more than to feel. She was done being like stone, done being God's robot warrior. She wanted to feel the emotions that she saw humans going through, and they really are what she views as being the most beautiful part of mankind. She wants free will and the ability to choose her own actions more than anything, and doesn't want to go back to being an angel. She fears becoming robotic again, and even says to Dean that she would give anything to not have to go back. Her power is essentially nothing to her, she could live without it. What most people view as being an honor (being in command of a garrison of angels) is something terrible and tiresome to her, it's viewed as punishment in her eyes.

Among the angels, she's the Disney Princess of them. She's well spoken and compassionate, and she always does what she feels is the right thing. She's willing to sacrifice everything she cherishes about herself to find her Grace and become an angel again, but she's not willing to be a pushover. She's firm and direct, and takes charge of situations. She lays out the gameplan and thinks fast on her feet, and is able to fend for herself in a fight. She's also highly forgiving, and loves her family dearly. She's willing to do almost anything to help Castiel see the truth, and she's constantly seen going to him to try and convince him to join her side. This isn't only because she wants more numbers on her side, but because she sees the difficulty Castiel is having with his faith in God and their brothers, and she wants him to find a place where his mind can be at ease. She knows that her decision to follow her beliefs isn't an easy one, and that it's led her to being constantly on the run, but she's perfectly happy and content with her choices and feels that Castiel would be too. However, she's not willing to tell him what to do. She can guide him and tell him her opinions, but she refuses to directly tell him how to think or what he should do. She does this primarily with Castiel, but it's also seen in her interactions with Dean. She will scold someone for making bad choices and will tell them what they should have done, but she refuses to control someone's actions entirely since that's what happened to her for so long.

She's a fallen angel, and a hunted one. She regrets that her family can't just accept her for who she is, and she doesn't seem all that glad that she has to constantly fight her brothers just to stay alive and out of being forced back to Heaven. But she understands why it has to be done, and she understands that it's her responsibility to show Castiel that he's following the wrong orders. She was willing to get her Grace back so she'd have enough power to help Dean and Sam fight off the opening of the final seal that holds Lucifer, but she doesn't have any intention of going back to Heaven. She's almost a rebellious teenager in that aspect, and her angry words toward God make her sound like a petulant child whose parent doesn't pay enough attention to them. Yes, she's bitter that she spent two thousand years on Earth serving an unknowable father, and she's not pleased that she had to go hunt down her Grace. She simply did what she had to do, and that's pretty much what is essential to Anna's character. She's always doing what she feels she must, to make sure that she always does what she feels is right. As long as she still holds the emotions and experiences that she gained during her time as a human, then she's able to feel that she's still herself. She does peacefully go with the angels that come to take her back to Heaven in 4.21, though, and forgives Castiel for betraying her trust and setting her up. She knows when she's lost, and knows that fighting will only continue to pain her brother and cause a distraction when he needs to be helping Dean. So she goes willingly with the other angels, despite the fact that she realizes that it's the end of the road for her. All of the things that she loves and values are about to be taken away from her by force, free will and emotions. She's going to be forced to go back to how things were, and that's really a bigger sacrifice than when Michael takes her life in season 5.

Conditional: Personality development in previous game: n/a

Character Plans: I don't have any huge plans for Anna yet, but I'd like for her to get a chance to interact with her brothers (Castiel and Gabriel) and develop from that and find a way to adapt with having her Grace back. She's not happy that she had to take it back and needs to learn to deal with that, as well as the major issues she has with her family. And what better enviornment to do it in, than one where they're thrown into a place they don't know and unusual things are always happening?

Appearance/PB: Julie McNiven

Writing Samples

First Person Sample Interesting. Whoever managed this, they have to be powerful. More than anything I've ever seen. To create something like this... it's...well, it's very impressive.

I wonder if it was -

No.

Orders are orders, and nothing like this could possibly be an order from Him.

Third Person Sample
SAMPLE ONE
It was morning when Anna first woke up on what had once been home plate, toppled over in a heap. A little confused as to what was going on at first, and whether or not she had been captured without her knowing, she slowly stirred and looked around her. Dead grass and dirt were stuck in her hair, which she promptly noticed upon a breeze blowing over her. It was with an annoyed grunt that she tugged the debris out and then rose to her feet, and dusted off her backside. Eyes slowly traveled across her surroundings and she took in the condition of the area she woke up in, and wondered if an abandoned baseball diamond was some kind of joke. Her concern that one of her superiors was going to show up was quickly dwindling, whatever this was, it wasn't a part of Heaven. That much, she was convinced of.

Her worried frown fell into a tight lipped look of annoyance. She was supposed to be finding and reprimanding Castiel, not be lost in some place she couldn't even -

She paused, head tipping off to the side just a little, and attempted to teleport back to her brother's last known location.

No, no luck there. It looked like she was stuck for the time being, wherever she was. Whatever had pulled her into this place was causing a physical reaction that normally shouldn't happen to an angel, and that put an bothered frown on her face. Whatever was going on here wasn't right, not at all. A reach into her jacket determined that she still had a weapon, at least.

"See, there's something to be thankful for." She reminded herself, and headed off to find the exit.

Wherever she was, it was time to investigate and get things taken care of.

SAMPLE TWO
The decision to let Castiel make his own choices was one that she felt strongly for. No matter how much her brother pleaded, no matter how often he called out to her, she couldn't make the choice for him. To choose to rebel was choosing a death sentence. It was an angel's duty to be loyal and act out their orders, and Anna knew that Castiel had begun questioning his recent chain of commands. Uriel had been in charge before his death, Anna had noticed, and her heart ached for Castiel's loss of position. She had voluntarily given up her own, but the act had been painless, nothing compared to the toil of removing her own Grace. When she had told Dean it was like cutting out your kidney with a butter knife, she hadn't been joking.

So to watch him have to balance on the edge, to teeter between loyalty and disobedience, it was painful for the fallen angel to observe. But no matter how angry at Castiel's decisions she became, or annoyed at his indecision and desire for Anna to choose for him, she couldn't turn him away. She had been his superior once. They had worked together, lived together. They were siblings, despite all of the hurt that was between them. And above anyone else, she held a fondness for Castiel. But that fondness could only drive her to plead with her brother, to get him to see things her way. The choice had to be his, it couldn't be hers. If it was hers, then she wasn't any better than Uriel. And no matter how much of her human side she lost, she refused to ever let herself be like him. She wasn't going to become a stone sentinel again.

Which is why she remained in the shadows for quite some time as she watched Castiel from afar. He was alone on the docks this time, reflecting upon his decision to release Sam Winchester from the confines his brother and friend had placed him in. She was furious for the fact that her brother hadn't thought about his orders this time, that he couldn't understand all that she had been trying to explain to him. God had once been loving, even through his punishing wrath. There were no orders in Heaven being executed now that could have come from God, they were all far too cruel and calculating. They were following someone else's agenda. With Uriel gone now, she could only guess as to who was pulling the strings. She didn't hear much of the other angels speaking anymore, which left her unguarded in many ways.

"I know orders are orders, but there has to be some way to convince you. You almost listened to me before. Maybe this time I'll actually get through."

She chose to close the distance between herself and her brother, hoping that this final time would be the one he would actually listen and accept his role in Dean's life. She knew, without a doubt, that Castiel was strong enough to still be successful, even if he was marked as fallen and disobedient. As she appeared before the other angel, she cleared her throat softly, letting him know her presence. She had no idea of the trap that was waiting there for her, but even if she had known, she still would have gone. She owed Dean a great deal for helping her, and she knew that a rebellious Castiel would serve a Winchester far better than one who was still having his strings pulled by an unknown and absent Father.