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IC Information;
Character Name; Anemone.
Canon; Eureka SeveN. I personally consider episode 44 of the anime to be essential in explaining the character. Mind, some of the scenes are not for someone with a weak stomach.
Canon Point; After the end of the anime.
Age; Probably around 17-ish.
House; Hel.
Power; Shadow control.
Personality; The thing about Anemone - considering the point in canon I'm taking her from - is that she's trying. She's trying to be a good person and someone Dominic would want to be with because she really does love him a lot. She's trying to figure out what it means to be a good person and keep in mind that her actions have consequences. That, however, doesn't mean she's successful, not even half the time, because as earnest and genuine as her feelings might be about trying to be a better person, true love can't cure crippling madness such as hers in the space of a free-fall kiss and some romantic camping under the stars.
She's whimsical and petty and very selfish, often prone to extreme emotions and outbursts of overwhelming joy, violent rage and severe depression, but she is also capable of devotion and love. She's a creature of extremes, mentally and emotionally, but to really explain how a little happy girl - hinted at during her visit to The Zone - could end up as Anemone, you need to progress through the events that shaped her into what she is today.
It's heavily implied that Anemone is not her real name, but merely the name given to her as a successful experiment. However, it's likely her memories of her real name and her past are lost by now, and only simple echoes remain in her, from the time she lived with her parents. In the facility she was "created", it was implied she was taken from a battlefield, suffering desperation disease. This disease is a disorder that sinks the person into a mindless, unresponsive comma, usually having them stare blindly at a compact drive, the device used to communicate with an LFO. In the facility, the test subjects such as Anemone are modified to physically resemble the known humanoid Coralian, Eureka, and infused with a medication and stimulant that makes them capable of piloting the prized Nirvash Type theEND. The procedures are brutal and inhuman, and the test subjects are seen as "things". The medication produces psychotropic effects on the subject, making them euphoric and focused at the same time - as Anemone is, when she's drugged and aboard her Nirvash - and making her abilities as a pilot skyrocket. The effects of the drug and the modifications on Anemone were devastating, however, her status as a success lies in the fact that, opposed to the other test subjects, who merely surfaced back to reality for short periods of time, Anemone was capable of retaining full "consciousness" of the world around her, only needing the medication to combat the crippling headaches and an irrational fear of piloting and the drug itself.
Emotionally broken, then, Anemone seems to have developed a simple scheme to deal with the world, breaking her emotional responses into three "personality patterns" she uses to respond to everything about her. However, these are not separate personalities, but facets of a single one. She is loving and adoring when dealing with people she fully trusts, idolizes and loves, this being (apparently) Dewey Novak at first, and as of the end of the series, reserved only for Dominic and to some degree, her pet Gulliver. The second one is that of an erratic, extremely petty, loud and lonely girl. She acts spoiled and entitled to basically everyone around her, being excitable and insulting since she deems everyone below her and existing merely to entertain her, but her demands for attention steam from the fact she's been constantly isolated since being deemed a "success". She has been kept in a room, on her own, with only her pet as company and Dominic coming and going, tending to her needs, and only being allowed outside when there's a mission or she's needed to be put on display for the sake of Dewey's plans. The third one is her under the effects of the drug, which turn her into a violent psychopath that will tear and destroy everything in her path, displaying a terrifying amount of sadistic glee but also violent anger when she's defeated or frustrated. It is of note, however, that while the drug will invariably trigger this pattern, Anemone is quite capable of displaying these traits, if she's pushed enough.
She also displays a fourth "mode" to deal with the world, however it is only shown near the end of the show, when she's told Dominic has abandoned her and her true disdain for Dewey is actually revealed: she shuts down, entirely. She blocks everything and simply acts mechanically as she's told to. Under this mindset, Anemone even went as far as to accept a suicidal mission and tried to complete it without protest.
Anemone doesn't seem to have a motivation of her own, per se, beyond pleasing whoever it is that she considers the center of her world. As such, that tends to shape the way she acts as she keeps it in mind, constantly. During most of the series, she acted to please Dewey Novak, despite the fact that he was the very person who ordered and orchestrated her transformation into a "test subject" and sees her as important, but replaceable, since he continues the research to find another test subject that will be able to replace Anemone. (It is, however, mentioned that she was "special", and that none thus far have been able to match her - all test subjects die before completing the test, making Anemone's success based solely on her ability to withstand the pain and the drug, and having actually survived the procedures.) It's never stated whether she knows this or not, but considering she seems to be aware she's going to a suicidal mission and doing it anyway near the end of the series, it's not terribly improbable that she does and she merely doesn't care. However, as the series progresses, Anemone reveals how much Dewey disgusts her, and how everything people see about her is a lie and an act. At the end of the series, however, Anemone's focus has shifted solely to Dominic, with him being the only one who could snap her out of her trance-like emotional shut down, and someone who she has openly admitted to love and who loves her back. Dominic's opinion of her is center to her world, and trying to "impress" him and making sure he doesn't ever leave her is the most important fuel behind her attempts at being a "good" person. (Which would fail, I'd say, very often, because good intentions =/= sanity.)
She's antagonistic to people almost on reflex, but she doesn't carry grudges on people unless they specifically threaten her by being better than her or if she feels they could replace her. Then she's vicious and vile, and will stop at nothing until that person stops being a threat. She doesn't seem to have much regard for life - her own or others' - outside Dominic's, and though she's seen mostly killing and destroying Coralians, she attempted, several times, to kill Renton and Eureka, and doesn't really display much remorse about it.
Character Name; Anemone.
Canon; Eureka SeveN. I personally consider episode 44 of the anime to be essential in explaining the character. Mind, some of the scenes are not for someone with a weak stomach.
Canon Point; After the end of the anime.
Age; Probably around 17-ish.
House; Hel.
Power; Shadow control.
Personality; The thing about Anemone - considering the point in canon I'm taking her from - is that she's trying. She's trying to be a good person and someone Dominic would want to be with because she really does love him a lot. She's trying to figure out what it means to be a good person and keep in mind that her actions have consequences. That, however, doesn't mean she's successful, not even half the time, because as earnest and genuine as her feelings might be about trying to be a better person, true love can't cure crippling madness such as hers in the space of a free-fall kiss and some romantic camping under the stars.
She's whimsical and petty and very selfish, often prone to extreme emotions and outbursts of overwhelming joy, violent rage and severe depression, but she is also capable of devotion and love. She's a creature of extremes, mentally and emotionally, but to really explain how a little happy girl - hinted at during her visit to The Zone - could end up as Anemone, you need to progress through the events that shaped her into what she is today.
It's heavily implied that Anemone is not her real name, but merely the name given to her as a successful experiment. However, it's likely her memories of her real name and her past are lost by now, and only simple echoes remain in her, from the time she lived with her parents. In the facility she was "created", it was implied she was taken from a battlefield, suffering desperation disease. This disease is a disorder that sinks the person into a mindless, unresponsive comma, usually having them stare blindly at a compact drive, the device used to communicate with an LFO. In the facility, the test subjects such as Anemone are modified to physically resemble the known humanoid Coralian, Eureka, and infused with a medication and stimulant that makes them capable of piloting the prized Nirvash Type theEND. The procedures are brutal and inhuman, and the test subjects are seen as "things". The medication produces psychotropic effects on the subject, making them euphoric and focused at the same time - as Anemone is, when she's drugged and aboard her Nirvash - and making her abilities as a pilot skyrocket. The effects of the drug and the modifications on Anemone were devastating, however, her status as a success lies in the fact that, opposed to the other test subjects, who merely surfaced back to reality for short periods of time, Anemone was capable of retaining full "consciousness" of the world around her, only needing the medication to combat the crippling headaches and an irrational fear of piloting and the drug itself.
Emotionally broken, then, Anemone seems to have developed a simple scheme to deal with the world, breaking her emotional responses into three "personality patterns" she uses to respond to everything about her. However, these are not separate personalities, but facets of a single one. She is loving and adoring when dealing with people she fully trusts, idolizes and loves, this being (apparently) Dewey Novak at first, and as of the end of the series, reserved only for Dominic and to some degree, her pet Gulliver. The second one is that of an erratic, extremely petty, loud and lonely girl. She acts spoiled and entitled to basically everyone around her, being excitable and insulting since she deems everyone below her and existing merely to entertain her, but her demands for attention steam from the fact she's been constantly isolated since being deemed a "success". She has been kept in a room, on her own, with only her pet as company and Dominic coming and going, tending to her needs, and only being allowed outside when there's a mission or she's needed to be put on display for the sake of Dewey's plans. The third one is her under the effects of the drug, which turn her into a violent psychopath that will tear and destroy everything in her path, displaying a terrifying amount of sadistic glee but also violent anger when she's defeated or frustrated. It is of note, however, that while the drug will invariably trigger this pattern, Anemone is quite capable of displaying these traits, if she's pushed enough.
She also displays a fourth "mode" to deal with the world, however it is only shown near the end of the show, when she's told Dominic has abandoned her and her true disdain for Dewey is actually revealed: she shuts down, entirely. She blocks everything and simply acts mechanically as she's told to. Under this mindset, Anemone even went as far as to accept a suicidal mission and tried to complete it without protest.
Anemone doesn't seem to have a motivation of her own, per se, beyond pleasing whoever it is that she considers the center of her world. As such, that tends to shape the way she acts as she keeps it in mind, constantly. During most of the series, she acted to please Dewey Novak, despite the fact that he was the very person who ordered and orchestrated her transformation into a "test subject" and sees her as important, but replaceable, since he continues the research to find another test subject that will be able to replace Anemone. (It is, however, mentioned that she was "special", and that none thus far have been able to match her - all test subjects die before completing the test, making Anemone's success based solely on her ability to withstand the pain and the drug, and having actually survived the procedures.) It's never stated whether she knows this or not, but considering she seems to be aware she's going to a suicidal mission and doing it anyway near the end of the series, it's not terribly improbable that she does and she merely doesn't care. However, as the series progresses, Anemone reveals how much Dewey disgusts her, and how everything people see about her is a lie and an act. At the end of the series, however, Anemone's focus has shifted solely to Dominic, with him being the only one who could snap her out of her trance-like emotional shut down, and someone who she has openly admitted to love and who loves her back. Dominic's opinion of her is center to her world, and trying to "impress" him and making sure he doesn't ever leave her is the most important fuel behind her attempts at being a "good" person. (Which would fail, I'd say, very often, because good intentions =/= sanity.)
She's antagonistic to people almost on reflex, but she doesn't carry grudges on people unless they specifically threaten her by being better than her or if she feels they could replace her. Then she's vicious and vile, and will stop at nothing until that person stops being a threat. She doesn't seem to have much regard for life - her own or others' - outside Dominic's, and though she's seen mostly killing and destroying Coralians, she attempted, several times, to kill Renton and Eureka, and doesn't really display much remorse about it.