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~Player Information~
Name: Jo
Personal Journal: (Available on request)
Time zone: Eastern Standard Time
Contact: LJ message
Current Characters: None
~Character Information~
Fandom: Supernatural
Name: Anna (Milton)
Age: (Apparent) 20's
Canon Point: Season 5, end of 5 x 13, The Song Remains the Same
Is this character dead? Yes
History: Anna at Supernatural Wiki
Character Development and Relationship Transfer from previous RP: Roleplayed previously at Underworld Wars
Personality: Quiet and far more sympathetic than most angels, Anna has a generally somber disposition and is inclined to take a somewhat bleak outlook. Despite this, her will to survive is strong and she will act with fierce determination in pursuit of her goals. Having spent time as a human (and returned to angelic status only reluctantly) she understands the species well and wishes to preserve them; she values all human emotion, even the negative ones. She holds a bitter resentment of other angels generally and (perhaps to a lesser extent) of God, and while she has no more love for demons than the next celestial, she has shown herself willing to tolerate them if pragmatism demands it.
When Anna first encountered the Winchester brothers, she was human, did not remember her angelic origin and was being hunted by both demons (because of her ability to hear angels speaking among themselves) and angels (because, desiring the freedom of will and emotion humans had, she had disobeyed, surrendered her grace and fallen to Earth, the worst crime an angel could commit.) Sam and Dean won her gratitude by protecting her from both factions and helping her retrieve her grace, becoming an angel again.
She treated them as allies, shared information, offered advice, had a one-night stand with Dean and, for a while, tried to persuade Castiel to abandon his allegiance to Heaven and throw in with them instead, even going so far as to kill their brother Uriel who was trying to kill him. Though sometimes displaying doubt, he treated her with contempt and finally turned her in as a traitor shortly before rebelling himself. She was tortured and eventually released (probably deliberately, though she isn't sure) and for a long time was very bitter.
Nevertheless, when it appeared that there were no other viable options, she later tried to enlist his help in killing Sam (who was slated to become Lucifer's vessel and bring about the Apocalypse,) only to be told that if she came near Sam Castiel would kill her. Instead, she traveled back in time to prevent Sam's birth, Cas and the boys followed to try to stop her, Anna was killed by the archangel Michael, and Cas's power was seriously depleted by the trip. (Her canon point here is the same as his.)
Anna hates the corrupt Heavenly hierarchy, embodied by the likes of Michael, Zachariah and Raphael, but her feelings toward God are ambivalent. She wants to believe that her Father really does care for all of his creations and has a plan that will one day be revealed, but she has never seen his face and has lonely memories of two millennia spent stationed on Earth alone and invisible, observing and waiting for orders from a Father she didn't even know. She doesn't believe (and has been known to say so canonically) that God condones the terrible things Heaven has been doing in his name, but she also doesn't understand why he has allowed the situation to deteriorate so badly. Her arrival in a pagan Underworld was seen as an act of further abandonment and shook her remaining faith that much further, though it didn't break it entirely. When she prays, it's conversationally, her attitude varying according to her feelings at the time.
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Anna is both an ages-old warrior of God and also a fairly fragile young human woman who has lost her family and everything she knew, and those two aspects of her personality do not always mesh harmoniously. She can at times be icy calm and frighteningly pragmatic, but has learned to repress that side of her personality and allow her more human traits to dominate in most situations.
At the point when Anna first arrived in the Underworld, she was tired, traumatized and disgusted enough to throw up her hands and say let it all burn, but underneath it all she did still care. Anna patched things up with Castiel and with various versions of Dean, Sam and Bobby during her first stay, though the Sam currently in residence still seemed leery of her at the time she left. She was friendly with a few of the other Underworld inmates who have since left, including Reno and River Tam, and carried the brand of Hades, whom she despised.
Skills/Abilities: Anna is an angel by species, if no longer by profession. Unlike other angels, she possesses a body of her own, but presumably if this is destroyed she retains the ability (with consent) to possess another vessel. Her powers include telekenesis, possibly pyrokinesis, enhanced strength, extreme endurance, telepathy, dream manipulation, teleportation, time travel (with difficulty,) the ability to see and hear other angels (the latter even at a distance) and to perceive other unseen beings, effects and events, to put a human harmlessly to sleep, and some knowledge of Enochian magic and probably the names of all the true Prophets. She doesn't need to eat or sleep. As she was never restored to Heaven's good graces and her exact power level relative to most other angels is unknown, she may or may not be able to heal humans, to exorcise demons, to retrieve a soul from Hell, to "read" a soul present in a living person or to resurrect someone. Canon events suggest that angels can heal their own vessels and accoutrements and/or each other, but this has not been shown on-screen. She is a competent fighter, though the extent of her skills has not been thoroughly explored in canon. ETA: As of Season 6, it's confirmed that angels are capable of rendering themselves invisible and inaudible to humans.
Weaknesses: Anna can be banished or warded off using Enochian sigils, wounded or killed by an angelic blade, and other sigils branded into a person can hide their location from her. She can be trapped in a circle of flaming holy oil, the fire of which will kill her. Presumably the chants used by Alastair and the Whore of Babylon against Castiel would affect her as well. She was canonically immolated by Michael, but it's safe to assume another archangel could explode her to the same effect. It's a matter for debate whether angels generally can be killed by the Colt pistol or if Lucifer is the only one immune. The scythe of Death can supposedly kill anything, and certain specialized weapons of Heaven's arsenal have been shown to destroy angelic vessels. Although ordinary wounds do not hamper her, her mortal body can sustain damage, so in theory enough severe injuries might render it useless. Her grace has been in steady decline since before her first tour in the underworld and it seems likely this will continue to be the case.
If Anna has had a personal weakness to date, it's Castiel. Formerly his (and Uriel's) superior in the Heavenly Host, she consistently overestimated his ability or willingness to accept things that appeared self-evident to her, and at one time placed more trust in him than proved justified. She has been visibly hurt by his distrust and disapproval. Much of this has since been resolved, and Anna has adopted more of a protective role, especially since her brother's grace finally deserted him completely.
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First Person Sample:
It's weird, this place, the way it jerks people around. It's all so arbitrary; no rhyme or reason, only a schedule you can more or less count on most of the time, for whatever reason. It's foreign. Couldn't be much more foreign, for people like me. It kinda makes us into laughingstocks. I think maybe old Hades enjoyed that, the rat bastard...rubbing our noses in how wrong we'd been about so many things. I'm glad he's gone--only sorry that me and mine didn't get to have a hand in it.
But then there's the flipside. The people you meet here you'd never have gotten to know any other way. The second chances, even if some haven't got the common sense to take advantage of them. Some people call this place Hell, but it's really not. Not just in the theological sense, I mean. Who's running things is pretty much beside the point. Hell is less a place than it is a state of being. It's the absence of love or hope, friends, family. Terrible things happen here, but good things happen too. When you come right down to it, it's just...more of the same.
For some people, the Underworld isn't a prison; it's a reprieve from even worse things that are waiting for us somewhere else. When you know there's nothing left for you back where you came from--or nothing that's worth going back to--wherever you are starts to look pretty good, no matter how much you hate it. Stick around long enough, and it might even start to feel like home.
Third Person Sample:
It would have been hard to choose one worst thing about living in the Underworld. There was the neverending parade of attacks and assorted weirdness, the lack of real sunshine and open sky, the sense of exile from 'reality' as she'd known it, the uncertainty of what those who vanished might face when they returned home. Being dead wasn't as bad as she might once have thought, but that wasn't a barrel of laughs, either.
Probably, though, the worst thing would have to be not knowing who was going to show up, make your life hell or a little bit less like it, and then up and vanish just as suddenly. Anna rarely spoke of Gabriel, but she missed him intensely. She often wondered what had become of strange, spooky little River and Reno the Hotshot, the various Deans who'd passed through, Garrett, Ellen and all the others who'd come and gone during her stay.
She dreaded the day that Castiel finally found his way home, both for what he might be facing when he got there and because he'd been the one constant since the day she arrived. As far as her own hypothetical departure went, she tried not to think about it too much.
Which kind of flew out the window when she found herself sitting back on the damn barge with no idea how she'd gotten there, how much time had passed or whether anyone she knew was even still left in the fucking cave. ...well. There was one person, at least. "Uh. Hi, Charon. What'd I miss?"
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