Ana, arrancar

Ana

NAME | ana
ALIAS | primera fraccion
AGE | 653
AGE UPON DEATH | 18
SEXUALITY | heterosexual
ALLIANCE | el renacimiento
DIFFICULTY | hard
FACECLAIM | nill, dogs: b&c
PLAYED BY | sail

APPEARANCE

    Ana always had a petite figure. She is younger looking than most of the women that are her age. She is light and is able to slip and melt into a crowd, easily making her way through and dancing around like a shadow sprite. She is quite short and she cannot see much higher than someones shoulders while standing on her toes. That being said, Ana is roughly 5'3 and weighs about 108 pounds, making her underweight. She has thin limbs but they are elegant at times, graceful at others and breakable at almost every other point of the day. Often Ana would break her bones because they are so frail. She jokes around at times, saying they are as fragile as a birds wings.

    Ana has long, straight hair which falls near the middle of her back. Her hair has a golden luster to it. She has pale skin that matches the strawberry blonde colour of her hair. Ana's eyes are a bright blue with a frosted look, often pointed towards the ground.

    Ana prefers to wear dresses, they are often fit to her small figure. She has a pair of wings on her back, remnants of her adjuchas form. The hole she has on her body is a small one in the centre of her clavicle, the base of her neck. Some of her mask remains on her face. What is left is a thin, smooth line of skull sits like a circlet upon her forehead. 

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PERSONALITY

    Ana, as most people happen to be, is a complex person. She is a quiet, patient person who keeps her opinions to herself and doesn't flaunt them around. She prefers to hear what others have to say, enjoying the sound of others voices instead of her own. Ana holds others above her, often thinking that she is below them. Ana loathes and despises herself in many aspects whether it be her internal monologues or physical traits. She is quite loyal to those she looks up to but can be unmerciful to those who she is not familiar with. She can appear emotionless or uncaring but that is a misconception.

    Ana would pick up a sword as easily as she does breathe when it comes to defending those she loves. Despite liking someone, Ana will not easily show her weaknesses and will stand with a straight back and her head high. Sometimes Ana may make subtle movements to show her discomfort. She believes that being strong on the outside will strengthen her mentality. She is not physically strong but she is brave. Ana will stand still even if she knows a coming sword will kill her. She would stare the wielder in the eyes. She is quite observant and often picks up on small details like a chair out of place or the twitching of a hand.

    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder haunts Ana through her dreams. In her sleep, Ana will run through some of the most horrendous moments of her life before jolting awake in a night terror, forgetting most of it and having it lost again and again. Ana, as stated before, has a fragile mind. Though it happens very rarely, sometimes when Ana becomes incredibly stressed, she will 'snap'. This snap sucks away Ana's ability to focus on anything around her and she starts to have panic attacks, if strong enough. This is also due to her PTSD.

HISTORY

    Although she hardly remembers it, Ana was born into a relatively small town in Europe in 1329. Her family was not extremely poor but they were not at all wealthy. She convinced the local priest to allow her to be one of the many priestesses at the church as a young lady. During her time at the church one man in particular, much older than Ana, would come in to pray in the lower level of the church, built for men to pray alone. After small conversations when he passed by, the man would pray with Ana in the upper level, to keep her company for a short while.
 
    At the age of seventeen word came to Ana's village that a deathly plague was sweeping across every village, town and city. It was called 'The Black Death'. There was mass hysteria--  brother would abandon brother, mother abandon child. Often, Ana would bring the ill to the church where they were brought to the lower level of the church, to be nourished back to health.

    Ana clearly recalls one morning when she found large swollen bumps forming under her breasts and on her legs. She consulted the head priest and was immediately brought to the underground level. The ill were being stockpiled. There were many bodies, dozens, all festering and filling the air with the putrid stench of decay There, Ana found the old man who prayed with her and he kept her company. He cared for her greatly as her disease grew worse. Each day, an increasing amount of the ill died until Ana was included in the deceased.

    Ana watched over the old man as he cried over her limp, disfigured body. She watched over him until he too died and rage consumed her. She lashed out at the priests and priestesses and devoured them in a hungry frenzy. A hunger had grown in Ana and the need to consume became worse. She barely even recognized what she had become. All she knew was that she was starved for more. 

    Ana found herself wandering through and endless arena with the incredibly strong feeling that she was on her own. Ana cannot remember how but she would take one after the other in a hungry rage, consuming them. She recalls the hunts that the massive dark shapes would take. They would even hunt each other if they became hungry enough. 

    Ana felt a change in herself some point along the way. She tore her mask away from her face and took on a form closer to what she had been before she died, very different from the bird-like adjuchas she had been with her mask on. From there Ana forgot almost all of her past. She wandered, aimlessly for hours until she was found by another arrancar, Ezelrik the primera espada, who dressed her and brought Ana to Hueco Mundo. As gratitude for showing mercy on her unlike everything else in the last few years of her life, she followed under him as his fraccion.