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How did I come up with Anna? Well, I was thinking about character concepts, and was like, hey, my other OC is a guy, I want to play a girl. Not a teenager. Hmm. I think she should be from the coast, like, and have something to do with boats. Maybe a shipping clerk, or a bookkeeper, or--
And then in my head was this snippet of dialogue.
"It pays the bills, sure, and I don't mind helping my parents out. But I'm going to be a writer. I am."
And the rest, as they say, was history.
I can see her as she was before the vampirism stuff. She still wore the swirly skirts, and preferred sandals to tennis shoes, and liked to sit in the dining hall on campus talking to friends about anything and everything. She laughed a lot, and loudly, and was just very--she knew who she was, and she liked that. She was happy. And if you told her one day she'd have to shoot her dead father in the head to keep him from getting back up and trying to take a bite out of her, she'd have been terrified. I don't think she really even took self-defense classes, and had a violent opposition to guns. or at least a very strongly-held thought that guns really weren't the best solution to any of the world's problems. She was an idealist, and wanted to change the world, or at least open up people's minds with her work. She wanted to matter.
What does Anna think about other people?
Well, she feels, at the moment, as though she has two friends, Gwen and Daniel. She trusts them to a great extent (great for her, I couldn't really tell you how much), and relaxes around them.
She kind of distrusts that level of comfort, so sometimes she's unexpectedly skittish. She'll get over it. Eventually.
Anna also likes Preston, though more for his pleasant company and chit-chat than because she's personally invested in him.
Anna does not trust Claire as far as she could throw her, does not feel like being anybody's puppet or minion, and would prefer to stay as far away from museum-business-things as possible.
Anna thinks Russ is amusing and dangerous and an ass. She'll tolerate him because he and Gwen have a Thing. And sex. Yes.
She likes Shay, and the puppies are cute, though, as with most of the rest of the cast, she doesn't know them that well.
And then, well. And then there's McKinley. Who--Anna distrusts and thinks is a danger both to himself and to others. Part of it is . . . . not resentment that she remade herself to survive, and he's being a pussy about it, but something of that is in there. And some of it is worry that he'll fuck up, and cause problems, and she'll have to flee this city that she feels is becoming like a home (which already freaks her out, but whatever). And he BIT Daniel. He could have killed him.
She'd put him down if she felt she had to.
Wheefun.
How did I come up with Anna? Well, I was thinking about character concepts, and was like, hey, my other OC is a guy, I want to play a girl. Not a teenager. Hmm. I think she should be from the coast, like, and have something to do with boats. Maybe a shipping clerk, or a bookkeeper, or--
And then in my head was this snippet of dialogue.
"It pays the bills, sure, and I don't mind helping my parents out. But I'm going to be a writer. I am."
And the rest, as they say, was history.
I can see her as she was before the vampirism stuff. She still wore the swirly skirts, and preferred sandals to tennis shoes, and liked to sit in the dining hall on campus talking to friends about anything and everything. She laughed a lot, and loudly, and was just very--she knew who she was, and she liked that. She was happy. And if you told her one day she'd have to shoot her dead father in the head to keep him from getting back up and trying to take a bite out of her, she'd have been terrified. I don't think she really even took self-defense classes, and had a violent opposition to guns. or at least a very strongly-held thought that guns really weren't the best solution to any of the world's problems. She was an idealist, and wanted to change the world, or at least open up people's minds with her work. She wanted to matter.
What does Anna think about other people?
Well, she feels, at the moment, as though she has two friends, Gwen and Daniel. She trusts them to a great extent (great for her, I couldn't really tell you how much), and relaxes around them.
She kind of distrusts that level of comfort, so sometimes she's unexpectedly skittish. She'll get over it. Eventually.
Anna also likes Preston, though more for his pleasant company and chit-chat than because she's personally invested in him.
Anna does not trust Claire as far as she could throw her, does not feel like being anybody's puppet or minion, and would prefer to stay as far away from museum-business-things as possible.
Anna thinks Russ is amusing and dangerous and an ass. She'll tolerate him because he and Gwen have a Thing. And sex. Yes.
She likes Shay, and the puppies are cute, though, as with most of the rest of the cast, she doesn't know them that well.
And then, well. And then there's McKinley. Who--Anna distrusts and thinks is a danger both to himself and to others. Part of it is . . . . not resentment that she remade herself to survive, and he's being a pussy about it, but something of that is in there. And some of it is worry that he'll fuck up, and cause problems, and she'll have to flee this city that she feels is becoming like a home (which already freaks her out, but whatever). And he BIT Daniel. He could have killed him.
She'd put him down if she felt she had to.
Wheefun.