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Name: Kim
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Character Information
Name: Ana Lewis/The Baroness
Journal Name: seeyaduke
Fandom / Series: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.
From When: Right after they destroy the Eiffel Tower.
Function: Spy/Command.
Preferred Side: Militant
Abilities / Powers: While she's not superhuman, Ana does have bad-ass ninja skills. She was taught by one of the most awesome ninjas ever, Storm Shadow and she is his "best student." Further, Ana has weapons skills; loads of them. She's also extremely intelligent. Ana has been implanted with nanomites, which are not used for control, but used to keep her well... alive. They are programed to heal damage and make her much harder to kill than she normally would be, because otherwise she'd be dead five or so times in the film. I suspect that these would no longer work on board the barge.
Personality: Once upon a time, Ana was a happy, well-adjusted blond girl from California. The eldest child of loving, dotting parents, Ana was a good big sister, a loving girlfriend, a good student of literature, and all around your generic love interest for the all America hero.
But now Ana is a bitch. She really really is. She's a bitch, but she's a bitch for a reason. The loss of her parents when she was a teenager, the "loss" of Rex at what Ana sees at the hands of her fiancée, and the loss of said fiancée herself have hardened her to an absurd level. Ana is a classic case of hate eating someone alive. The hate came from her spirialing depression and loss, and now she sees the world as only one thing: a tool to get whatever she wants.
Ruthless, Ana wants revenge on pretty much everything for taking her brother and that happy little life away from her. She wants to make everyone suffer in the way she was suffering before she built this shell around herself. Ana will literally do whatever it takes to make this happen, be it going off and essentially whoring herself out for the endgame (Ana does this twice in her canon: first when she goes off and marries Baron DeCobray for access to his particle accelerator to weaponize the nanomite warheads, and then again later by going off with Duke for the long game. The second one is infinitely harder.)
Her ability to do this means that she has amazing acting abilities and can be incredibly manipulative. Her acting abilities come in handy because at the moment, she only cares about one person on the entire planet: James McCullen XXIV. Oh, she may have a sense of fondness or indebtedness to "The Doctor" or Storm Shadow, but McCullen is the one person on the planet that she actually loves. And the only person she would do anything for.
But Ana pretends she cares for other people. She often calls people "darling" but while she does it, it's a distancing technique. It's also something she uses so that she never needs to worry about getting a target's name wrong. That's not because she has a faulty memory--it's because all of her targets tend to run together in her heads. They mean that little to her.
While not purely a sadist, Ana has some sadistic qualities. She enjoys wielding the power she has over people. The moments were Ana looks like she's having the most fun are when she walks up and kicks her former lover in the face when he's gobsmacked to see her, and then again when she's had her husband killed. Earlier in the movie, Storm Shadow tells the Baroness that McCullen gave him orders to kill the Baron if he touched her again. After he's weaponized the nanomites, Ana kisses her husband and Storm Shadow stabs him in the back. When in a disgusted tone, Storm Shadow says "I told you I'd kill him if he touched you again," all Ana says in response is "I heard you the first time." In fact, she finds McCullen's murderous jealousy endearing. And almost sweet.
Coming into the War, Ana is going to be livid that she's been taken from a final moment of victory, but the chance to have everything she wants will hold a complete draw for her. She's already a solider and a spy so this bit was easy for her. She moved swiftly through the ranks of the army, and before the last wipe, had been the commander.
History: Once upon a time the Lewis family was happy, healthy and wealthy in California. Ana was popular, a good big sister, a good daughter, clever... and then their parents died. Ana and Rex were left alone with just each other. Rex joined the army as a science officer and introduced her to Duke. Ana and Duke were the perfect all America couple, and just before Duke, Rex and Ripcord were deployed, Duke proposed and Ana accepted under the one condition that he would bring her little brother home safe and sound.
It wasn't to be. Two months later, two men in army dress uniforms came and told her that her brother was dead. When she asked after Duke, the two men said that the rest of her brother's team had survived. Ana didn't see Duke until four years later.
For six months after Rex's funeral and Duke's abandonment, Ana slipped into a deep and dangerous depression. She felt truly lost and alone. The sense of loss was turning into an anger, it wasn't a hot rage, but a cold, steady anger. Finally in the middle of the night, The Doctor showed up and offered to train her, to give her a way of having vengeance upon the world that had taken everything from her.
Ana rarely saw the Doctor following that, instead being given for training over to Storm Shadow. Ana became his best student, learning all of the badass tricks of the trade that she needed. Each time she trained, Ana would slip further away from the girl whom she was and further into the killer whom she would become. In the end, Ana became involved in a relationship with James, and he became the only person she gave a damn about.
Eventually, Ana was sent to start preparations for MARS's long game. The first part was Ana seducing and becoming married to the Baron DeCobray. MARS would need a way to weaponize the nanomite warheads, and in the Baron, they found someone who would do. Ana spied and followed and in some cases guided her husbands research to where it needed to be. Once everything fell into place, McCullen announced his nanomite technology to the UN the Baroness lead a team to go and kill the NATO forces and steal the warheads.
Ana would have succeeded if the Joes hadn't shown up. Even then, she still walked over and kicked Duke in the face in the middle of fighting. Duke joined G.I. Joe and Ana and Storm Shadow broke into the Pit and stole the warheads back.
Once the two were in possession of the warheads, they visited the Baron's lab, and had them weaponized before Storm Shadow killed Daniel. Then Ana and Storm Shadow destroyed a large chunk of Paris, killed a bunch of people and ended up returning to the MARS base below the polar ice cap. With the Joes descending, the Baroness puts the second part of the long game into action. Only to come here.
Sample Journal Entry: From one barge to another. Aren't you little Joes so clever? I must admit to being surprised that my room seems to be based upon the one I had at the Château de DeCobray. Did you go and study it yourself, Duke? I hope you did. I must admit to being rather disappointed that other than the special panel in my closet for my suit, all of my delightful little toys are gone.
Now that's really not fair, ya have to leave a girl some secrets.
Being as I'm assuming you can read this, Duke or Rip or you redheaded bitch... I want to know where James and the Doctor are. Immediately. It may me more fun to go find them, but it would be such a hassle. Much easier for you if you tell me.
Sample RP: Having free range over a prison ship wasn't a new phenomena for her, but this was... much different than the Joe ship had been. At least here she didn't have to deal with people whom had known her history too badly. Of course there were those whom had heard of The Baroness. It made her laugh really to think that her acclaim had spread so very far and wide. Ana was never one to be demure, at least not anymore, and she enjoyed the idea that she was rather infamous.
Being infamous, however, didn't compensate for the fact that she needed to share shower facilitates, especially when her room was on a different floor. Even the Joes hadn't done that. Of course the reason that they probably hadn't done it was because they were worried about the Baroness having some sort of interaction with other inmates. Here however, the fact really annoyed her. At least here there were none of those silly little rules about inmate interactions. No, meetings with the inmates seemed to be encouraged, something that fascinated her.
And of course, they made her life easier; Ana was rather big on anything that made her life easier at the moment. Once she had a warden, she would see about at least getting moved closer to the showers, if not having one put inside her room. It was odd, the bedroom perfectly matched the one at Daniel's house, but the bedroom just had a grand waste of space and a toilet. At least she should have a bath. But for now she just stalked through the hallway in a black bathrobe and with a bad attitude etched in every line of her body, including the grin on her face.