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~Player Information~
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Current Characters: Crowley (dontmissokay)
~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: N/A
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 is still 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 will be seen as an act of further abandonment and shake her remaining faith that much further, though it won't break it entirely. When she prays, it's conversationally, her attitude varying according to her feelings at the time.
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 will not always mesh harmoniously. Add to this her distinctly horrible death, the impending destruction of her world and the fact that she has every reason to believe the few friends she had now hate her. She can at times be icy calm and frighteningly pragmatic, but will also be prone to deep depression, occasional weeping fits, and possibly to violently accusatory episodes of rage, but the frequency and severity of all of the above will depend to some extent on how she is treated by her former friends.
In Anna's eyes, she has consistently been right in her actions, and the people who should have been listening to her--people she cared about and trusted, possibly going all the way back to God--have repeatedly failed and betrayed her. At this point she is tired, traumatized and disgusted enough to throw up her hands and say let it all burn, though underneath it all she still does care, if anyone goes to the trouble to figure that out.
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 themsevles 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.
If Anna has had a personal weakness to date, it's Castiel. Formerly his (and Uriel's) superior in the Heavenly Host, she has consistently overestimated his ability or willingness to accept things that appear 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. Whether any of this holds true at present remains to be seen.
First Person Sample:
So this is it? Seriously? After everything, we all rate so little in God's eyes he's let a couple of cheap imitations snatch us away to be pawns in their little underworld pissing match. Couldn't even be bothered to send me to the right Hell, for pete's sake. Or to wait til the guys were actually, y'know, dead.
That's...great. Just perfect. Lost in transit like so many suitcases. [Looks skyward, out of habit more than anything] Thanks, Dad, it's great to know you really do care after all.
It's hilarious, really. Great joke. I disobeyed and Fell, questioned everything, broke every rule in the book and somehow it turns out I still had too much faith in you.
Third Person Sample:
Anna woke with a whooping gasp followed by an ear-splitting shriek, clutching at her chest as the memory of holy immolation came rushing back in full Technicolor, surround-sound detail.
Organs shriveling, skin peeling, grace going up in smoke along with everything else. John Winchester's face, framing Michael's ageless, serene gaze, the last sight to meet her eyes before they combusted.
Crumbled to ash without so much as a shadowy imprint of wings to mark her passing. Pretty sorry ending to a lifetime that had spanned millennia, she thought.
She had died, no question of that. And judging by the lack of a heartbeat ringing loudly in her ears, she was animate somehow, but dead still.
Which left her...where?
Climbing slowly to her feet, she looked around, shoving a strand of long red hair absently behind her ear. She was standing on the deck of a ferry, moving slowly along a quiet river. This was no Heaven she knew, and it hardly matched any description of Hell she'd ever heard.
Not that she'd been expecting to wind up in either place, really. As far as she knew, angels didn't have souls. If they were destroyed, barring the Creator's personal intervention, that was pretty much it. Then again, to her knowledge, only one angel had ever made it back from beyond the threshold, and if he remembered any details of note he sure hadn't chosen to share it with her.
That, or anything else. Ungrateful bastard. Shoulda just let Uriel finish him off. ...no she didn't mean that, but it felt good to think it anyway.
But if, all expectations to the contrary, total annihilation wasn't the end, this...really didn't make a whole lot of sense to her. She was a little rusty on her pagan mythology, but this whole ferry thing (and the guy steering the boat) definitely didn't fit into the Abrahamic framework of which she was most emphatically a part. An angel on the river Styx, or whichever one this was supposed to be, was a little bit like a Christmas tree in a Buddhist temple.
"Um, hi. Excuse me? Captain? Sir?" The skeletal ferryman rebuffed her attempts at conversation until the ferry arrived at its port of call, at which point she was deposited without comment on the dock and left to her own devices.
...with an iPad. Or something. The afterlife was giving out door prizes?
She sat down on the dock, feet dangling, and played around with the contraption while she tried to think what to do. No brilliant solutions sprang immediately to mind; nothing in her existence either as an angel or a human had really prepared her for a situation like this.
Maybe, she thought, scrolling idly through a tutorial screen on the tablet, this would turn out to be a good thing. She'd failed in what she had tried to do, and in spite of what that could mean for the world, a big, selfish part of her was glad she had. Anna liked Sam, she was very fond of his brother and, as he enjoyed pointing out right before he screwed her over again, she and Cas had a history. And John and Mary Winchester? Were good people who deserved better than the hand they had been dealt.
Trying to prevent Sam's birth had been an act of desperation, not malice, and if she was fated to die in the attempt then she was glad it wasn't at any of their hands.
She hoped the guys were all okay, and that she'd been wrong. Maybe they'd find a better way after all. One that would spare Sam and the world too.
Not her problem anymore, though, apparently.
This thing had some sort of video conferencing function, and it was showing connected. Might as well find out who else was out there...