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Okay, so, I know this took me a whole week to get back to, because I've been literally mulling it over my head and busy with other things. And the fact is, this personality is hard to write out when I see it in my head and don't exactly have the right words for it. So, key points, I would like to break down the following things:
- Anima's former personality was that of any kid that you see nowadays who literally got her way, very immature, clingy, and dependent on her mother. She didn't have a lot of social interaction, but being the kid she was, she was curious about the outside world. She never bothered to venture out, because it was overwhelming to her and it would cause her to run back to her mother and her mother told her horror stories about how bad the whole world was. Her mother was key to this because of her tendency to be a helicopter mother, purposefully holding back Anima, emotionally developing wise. Meaning that, Anima never felt secure without anyone to help her along.
Now, because she doesn't have that security, you could easily say that Anima suffers from PTSD, and even the thousand yard stare. Her mother was killed right in front of her, so Anima has the tendency to disconnect and disassociate from things hardcore. Her disassociation from the world around her makes her self-destructive, violent, erratic, and exceptionally desperate for any sense of a parental guidance from anyone. While she's been taught "don't talk to strangers", she's been dramatically hurt and angry by her mother's death, so it makes her open to easily trusting others; basically, that means she can be easily manipulated, if, say, someone presents themself as family figure (sibling or parental) to her, Anima will likely listen to everything they say. Anima could be lumped into the whole Reactive Attachment Disorder as well. And just because Anima has shut herself down emotionally and tries too hard (dramatically even to be) to be what she is, with the right traumatic buttons, I can foresee her breaking down into a hysterical mess and dropping her whole almost robotic speech patterns. That is, again, it has to be the right traumatic buttons, if she somehow relives her mother's death. Her whole shutdown was because she refused to grieve and accept her mother's death.
Anima's kind of got the whole "I'm an adult, you can't tell me what to do" mentality. She's immature, she'll be even more lost without any kind of guidance while thinking in the same time, she doesn't need to. And atypical to her fashion, Anima will subtly latch onto someone she deems like a family-figure, but in an overly clingy, yandere-type way, if that makes sense. She'll be like this, because, hey, Anima's been taken from her directive, her world, and her mission. It'll even cause her to have her temper tantrums and severely hurt people, even kill them. If a mega villain came in and told Anima "this person is what brought you here and took you away from what you were doing", at the drop of the hat, Anima is going to believe it, because she is in need of guidance.
How she'll work in game is basically wander aimlessly, try to find every freakin' venue and person to get her home. It'll be challenging to her, even secretly frightening, forcing her to step out of her shell, while being completely inept. It'll make her insensitive, without regard, and without any kind of morals. Is it a break of psychosis, almost leaning on becoming psychotic? Definitely. Since Anima already hovers between neutral and evil neutral, it will push her into dark territory, since Anima prides herself on acting more like a demon than a human. Logic to her will dictate in order to get home, she'll think she'll have to use force. She won't take this quietly unless someone calms her down and provides her with a little security. So in summation, you'll have a kid who's disconnected and doesn't want to feel pain reaching out for guidance and support, not caring who offers it, as long as she gets home.
- SECONDLY? Since this is my second time apping Anima anywhere, this is a relevant point!
Anima isn't a brute in force, she's supposed to be fast, speedy, and have her weird ability to teleport. This has been partially inspired by Kayako from "The Grudge" and Kurt Wagner from "X Men". HOWEVER, because this seems to work more in writing settings, I will be more than happy to limit these powers, because, hey, this is a fair criticism. I can even attach her to her species' weaknesses.
So here is what limitations I propose:
- Anima's ability to teleport will be limited. If she uses it too much, it will be draining to her physically, making her not capable to run around and she won't be able to do it. For example, if she was teleporting all over, like Nightcrawler, she won't be able to do it as quick as he could, all the time. She could do it once or twice, but the progression of her ability to move about will be gradually slowed down. Anima won't be able to outrun anything, and she was never meant to be too physically strong, like put dents into buildings or other type of foundations and structures.
- Anima is verrrry vulnerable to holy, of course, certain buildings will ward her off. Anima can even be sensitive to anything that's deemed to ward off spirits and demons, of course. Like the rest of her kind, her metabolism. It won't cause her to eat anything, but her energy will severely be depleated. She'll either have to seriously sleep it off or eat a lot; Anima's still very young in age, so I'm not opposed to setting in the motion of her possibly slowly pushed to even getting more blood-thirsty.
Furthermore, any such exhaustion for her exhausting her ability to teleport will make her heal slower. It won't be instant, it will go slower and slower. If she pushes herself too much, she'll even heal like a normal human being. Exhausting herself will also force Anima to sleep like a normal human being and make her eat more than a human, if that make sense. In the bible, the nephilim ate and they ate a lot, so I figured why not exploit that more.