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★ Character Information ★

Character Name: Anya Forger
Character Age: allegedly 6, most likely 4-5
Character Species: human
Current Health: fine!
Outfit: her Eden uniform.

Character Canon: Spy x Family (manga)
Link to History: Here!
Canon Point: Post-chapter 61, after receiving her second Tonitrus Bolt.
Canon Iteration: original canon!
Canon Iteration Explanation: N/A

★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★

Skills: [farts in the wind] Okay, I'm kidding, she actually has some skills. Just not any academic ones.
Resourcefulness - Anya is aware that she's a young girl and that she has to keep her powers a secret, so she often has to think of lies and plans on the fly in order to cover for and help out her parents as best as she can. Some plans go off better than others, but it's helped along (.......sometimes) by Anya's mind-reading abilities, which allow her to react fast to things even before they happen. She's fucking fantastic at dodging as a result, at least until she trips up.

Liar - Anya is nowhere near as good as her dad Loid at this, but she comes up with lies that surprisingly manage to pass muster sometimes, especially in covering for her parents. One of the extra missions has her pretending to be a child assassin and using her mind-reading ability to scare the shit out of someone who'd been trying to kill her mom. That being said, she's a little girl and the quality of her lies can be.......inconsistent.

Special Punch - Anya doesn't have a whole lot in the way of physical prowess, being a small child who is quite likely underdeveloped for her age (if she is six years old as she says, which: unlikely). That being said, she also has some level of self-defense training from her mother Yor. It's not much, but it's enough that when she's angry enough, she can punch someone her age clear across the room and leave a bruise.

Canon Abilities:
Mind Reading - Anya is a mind reader. She can read the minds of literally anyone around her and there's no real established limit as to how far away she can read minds (she was able to read Loid's mind when he was on the rooftop of her school and she was on the ground, and she's able to hear the panicked thoughts of a drowning boy far away from her in a hospital) or what species' minds she can read (she can read dogs' minds), which should make her OP but is capped by the fact that she's like. Five. She also can't really turn it off or turn it down, she's constantly got a background hum of other people's thoughts in her head all the time. Crowds are not good for her. The only time this power stops working is when the new moon happens, in a phenomenon that's dubbed "eclipsing". By default, though, it's on. All the time.

Role: Familiar
Role Qualities/Attributes: White dove wings! Because she's a kid, though, they'll be soft, downy-feathered, and not flight-capable, at least when starting out. As she grows into her potential, she'll be able to achieve flight. She can also, if needed, shift into the form of a dove. While the full form is flight-capable, it also disables her mind-reading power.
Role Reasoning: Anya wants world peace, sure, but she really wants it because her dad wants it, and she's reasoned out that if world peace weren't achieved, Operation: Strix would be a failure and the Forger family would be dismantled. At heart, Anya just doesn't want to be abandoned, so she does whatever she can to keep her little family. For that reason, I'm slotting her into familiar—she has a good heart and she could be heroic, given the opportunity, but her primary motives are neither good nor evil. She's like, five. She just wants a mom and dad who love her, and for that reason she often plays a discreet support role for their missions.

★ Personality ★

Please choose one of the follow options for your personality section. Please clarify which option you have picked and, if option 2, which questions you are answering:

Option 2. Choose FOUR-FIVE of the following questions to answer and expand upon. You may choose a fifth question if you feel it is integral to your character's personality. Each answer has a 100-300 word requirement.

OPTION 2 QUESTIONS (PICK 4-5) 100-300 WORD LIMIT EACH:

What was the most traumatic experience your character endured? How did this change them?

Anya wasn't known first as "Anya". We don't entirely know where that comes from, but we do know that the little girl who took on the name Anya Forger was first referred to as Test Subject 007, and that she'd gained her powers from a young age, perhaps from some kind of experiment, and was not treated very kindly. This traumatic start to her life influences Anya's personality to this day, in very subtle ways, but the most overt of it all is that she is absolutely terrified of being left alone, as well as deeply starved for entertainment. This is explicitly why she goes with Agent Twilight, aka Loid Forger, when he needs a child for Operation Strix: because she thought living with a spy (and later an assassin, in the form of Yor Forger, aka Thorn Princess) would be free entertainment and excitement. This is also why she goes to such lengths to keep her powers (among many other things) a secret from her adoptive parents, as she believes that should they find out all the secrets in play in the Forger family, the little group would break up and she would be left all alone again. And Anya will do anything not to be left alone again.

What is the most important and defining relationship(s) in your character's life and why?

By far, it's her relationships with her parents. Loid (aka Twilight) is the first parent she meets, when he comes to adopt her from the orphanage for the purpose of his mission, while Yor (aka Thorn Princess) is the second, as she enlists Loid as her fake husband at first in order to fall beneath suspicion at a party. Anya loves and adores her parents, in full knowledge of the things they do in secret: she's the only person in the entire story who knows that Loid is a spy from Westalis and that Yor is an assassin from a shadowy organization. They're perhaps the first people who have ever treated her kindly and well, and she believes them to perhaps be the Best Parents Ever, rating them a perfect hundred percent when asked how she would score them as parents. They've given her not only a house to stay in and food to eat, but love, real love, where she is consistently encouraged to reach her full potential as a person and not just an experiment and given time to play and even watch her silly little cartoons. She'd do anything to keep this family, up to and including keeping some terrifying, world-shattering secrets to herself.

What is a headcanon (or two) you feel strongly about and that you prefer playing your character with? How is this supported in canon and why do you think it benefits the character's story?

I headcanon very strongly that Anya is much, much younger than she says she is. She tells Loid that she's six years old, but I believe she's five at the oldest, quite possibly four. This is because Anya read Loid's mind when they first met and realized he needed a six-year-old for Operation Strix, declaring her alleged age right after she hears his thoughts. In Eden College, her academic performance is absolutely abysmal, consistently getting low grades in her schoolwork, and on occasion she seems to take turns of phrase somewhat more literally than they're meant, in the same way a child just barely out of toddler age honestly believes in the existence of monsters and Santa Claus. This would be explained very handily by Anya being one or two years younger than she says she is, and at that young an age, that discrepancy means there's a huge developmental gap between her and her peers at school. Honestly, the fact that she's even keeping up with her class material at all means she's far smarter and cleverer than she lets on, even with her mind-reading abilities allowing her to cheat (not that they're all that helpful). It's just, you know. She's also four, maybe five.

What is your character's moral code? Do they have one? Why or why not?

At heart, perhaps what really defines Anya's moral code is that she honestly, sincerely wants to help people, especially her parents. The shining moment for this is when she hears a drowning boy's thoughts and dives in to try and save him without a second thought—while it necessitated her father saving them both, it's still a significant point in her character arc: she hears someone in distress and goes after them to save and help them. That's what the backbone of her morals is. That being said, she's a psychic kid currently being raised by an assassin and a spy, so her morals are a little wobbly beyond that point and subject to her impulses. On many occasions, she doesn't really think anything of lying casually to and manipulating people in her own wildly unsubtle way, or of keeping secrets that could well shake the foundations of the world or her family. She's completely willing to use her mind-reading to cheat on tests, and only really worries about the logistics rather than the ethics of it. Yor could be actively killing people just one floor above her and Anya wouldn't even blink an eye at trying to discreetly assist her, because that's her mom and she needs her dagger back right this moment. In this, her moral code reflects that of her parents: she'll do whatever it takes to protect the people around her and to keep her family together. And also to make her own life way easier and more fun.

What does your character feel like they struggle with still? Where could they improve? This could be physically, mentally, emotionally, or otherwise.

If you asked Anya what she wanted, she would give you some line about peanuts and Bondman and fractions. Inside her own head, she believes that she's struggling to help her parents achieve their goals of Bringing World Peace And Keeping Everything Safe, especially her father's overarching goals for Operation Strix. She's well aware she's not the best academically, as she tends to fail a lot of her tests, so she tries to help via other ways, such as befriending the son of Twilight's target in order to help her father get into the inner circle. (She is pretty sure she hasn't succeeded in that, because she thinks the kid hates her.) Sometimes this works out well, as in the case of her saving Yor from an assassin with lots of trickery and, in fact, great aplomb. Most times it goes kind of terribly—she's gained two demerits (one for fighting and one for sloppy presentation) so far to her one merit (saving a kid from drowning). She's far behind her peers, development-wise, even with her mind-reading abilities, and that's something she's aware of and is working on to the best of her abilities: despite hating studying and trying to weasel out of it on many occasions, she honestly wants Operation Strix to succeed. You can say a lot of things about Anya, but when push comes to shove she's willing to stand back up and keep trying.

★ Player Information ★

Player Name: Effy
Pronouns: she/her
Are you over 18?: 24
Contact(s): mollymauktealeaf | Discord: foggytealeafs#7641
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Writing Samples: Anya's TDM toplevel, text thread with Eleanor Shellstrop