Ana Dakkar

Ana Dakkar is the main protagonist of the 2021 Rick Riordan science-fiction novel Daughter of the Deep and it's upcoming Disney+ adaptation.
She is the daughter and youngest child of the late Tarun and Sita Dakkar, the younger sister of Dev and a descendant of Prince Dakkar (also know as Captain Nemo), who appeared in the Jules Verne books 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Ana was born 15 years before the events of the book to Tarun and Sita Dakkar, who previously had a son Dev approximately two years earlier. Via Tarun, Ana is of Bundeli Indian descendant and descended from the youngest and surviving son of Prince Dakkar, who later renamed himself Captain Nemo.
Ana later began attending Harding-Pencroft Academy (a boarding school that trains students in marine sciences and naval warfare) in California (which many generations of her family had attended). Just before Ana started eighth grade at the school, Tarun and Sita were both killed after finding Nemo's submarine The Nautilus and were electrocuted when trying to board it. This resulted in both Ana and Dev living at Harding-Pencroft Academy full time. After taking a aptitude test, Ana was placed in House Dolphin and befriended two of the other students there; Ester Harding (who was an autistic member of House Orca and the only surviving descendant of Cyrus Harding, one of the school's founders) and Nelinha da Silva (who was a member of House Cephalopod).
===Daughter of the Deep===
Two years later on the Friday morning of the final week of her Freshman year, Ana (now Freshman Prefect of House Dolphin) leaves her, Ester and Nelinha's dorm to meet with Dev (who is the House Captain of House Shark) at the sea outside the school where they go into the sea and feed a dolphin there called Socrates. Soon after, Ana notices something at the security grid and informs a skeptical Dev, who says that he will report it. Afterwards, Dev gives Ana an early 15th birthday present; a necklace containing a black pearl from Sita's wedding necklace as good luck for her freshmen trails later that day and says that she will do great.
Ana then heads to get breakfast at the school cafeteria before going with Ester (who brings along her emotional support dog Top), Nelinha and the school's other freshmen students go on a bus to go with their Theoretical Marine Science teacher Dr. Hewett on the freshmen trial in San Alejandro. However, soon after driving away from the school, Ana and the other freshmen witness it collapse, causing Ana to believe that Dev was killed alongside the staff and students still there. It is believed that the ones responsible for the school's destruction was the rival school Land Institute. Dr. Hewett decides that the class should still go to San Alejandro as they might be what is left of Harding-Pencroft and they should learn what they must know on active duty because as of now, they are at war with Land Institute. Dr. Hewett then assigns House Shark's freshman prefect Gemini "Gem" Twain to guard Ana, stating that she must survive. The class suspect that Dr. Hewett may have had something to do with the destruction of Harding-Pencroft as he previously worked at Land Institute.
Ana and her class later arrive at San Alejandro where Harding-Pencroft's training vessel the Varuna is docked at a pier there. Dr. Hewett then sees something on his tablet that makes him quickly order the class to board the vessel. Afterwards, the class come under attack by several Land Institute students. Ana is taken hostage by one of them; Caleb South, but is saved by Socrates, who had been follow the Varuna. Ana witnesses Caleb being interrogated where he states that Land Institute had destroyed Harding-Pencroft as they were protecting the legacy of "an outlaw" and were hoarding technology that could greatly benefit the world. After Caleb is tossed off the Varuna, Ana and her class are informed by Dr. Hewett that Jules Verne's books are actually fictionalised accounts of real life events and tells Ana that Captain Nemo is her fourth great-grandfather. Ana also learns that Nemo created technology ahead of his time and that Harding-Pencroft and Land Institute have been fighting over Nemo's technology and have now escalated into war.
Ana and her class are told by Dr. Hewett that the freshman trials were intended to be their introduction to Nemo's technology, but Dr. Hewett feels that under the circumstances he must now tell them everything. Ana also discovers that Nemo had linked his greatest inventions to his own genes so that they might only be operated by himself or his direct descendants with Ana supposedly being his only surviving descendant. Ana then soon finds herself in charge of her class after Dr. Hewett becomes comatose due to having pancreatic cancer. Using one of Nemo's devices, Ana and her class travel to Lincoln Island (where Nemo had died on board the Nautilus). However, they are sent a code by the island's staff, which they have to decipher in order to be allowed access. After solving the code and sending a reply, Ana and her class arrive at Lincoln Island and meet it's staff Luca Barsanti, his wife Ophelia Artemesia and their orangutan companion and cook Jupiter. Whilst Dr. Hewett is treated for his cancer with Nemo's technology, Ana learns that Luca and Ophelia were friends of her parents and joined them in finding the Nautilus and witnessed their deaths. Ana is later shown the Nautilus and learns that it is a specimen of artificial intelligence and is able to board it by communicating with it in Bundeli.
Sometime later, whilst Ana, Gem, Luca and Ophelia tour the Nautilus, Lincoln Island comes under attack by students from Land Institute in their submarine The Aronnax. Ana and Gem gathers their class and Jupiter to go with them into the Nautilus whilst Luca, Ophelia, Tia Romero (the freshman prefect of House Cephalopod) and Franklin Couch (the freshman prefect of House Orca) stay behind to protect Lincoln Island and continue tending to Dr. Hewett. As they prepare to flee in the Nautilus, Ana and her class get a message from Caleb, who demands Ana and the Nautilus, before allowing his captain to continue the message, who turns out to be Dev, who is revealed to have been the one who destroyed Harding-Pencroft, who he blames for Tarun and Sita's deaths and for hoarding the Dakkar family inheritance for generations. Ana also discovers that Dev had put receptor in her necklace, in order to allow the Land Institute students to track her. Ana uses Ester's Leyden gun to destroy the device and orders for the Nautilus to be put into cav-drive mode to escape and end up in the Western Pacific. The appearance of the Nautilus draws the attention of a giant octopus. Using a keytar created by Nemo, Ana is able to befriend the octopus and names him Romeo. 
Ana and her class then take Romeo with them back to Lincoln Island where Romeo destroys the Aronnax, with the Land Institute students on board it captured and placed in improvised cells. Ana and Gem go into Lincoln Island's base and rescue Luca, Ophelia, Tia and Franklin, who were being held hostage by the Land Institute students. The pair then learn that Dr. Hewett had been taken by the Land Institute students onto the Varuna. Ana and Gem jump on board the Varuna, where they are confronted by Dev, who knocks Gem unconscious and battles Ana whilst stating that he is not a traitor and that Harding-Pencroft had shut them out of their inheritance. He also says Ana does not belong at Harding-Pencroft anymore than he does and that they both board the Nautilus together and that Ana would surrender command to his and he would take what was rightfully his. Ana takes one of Gem's pistols, which contains rubber bullets, and tells Dev that that what is rightfully his is not the Nautilus but his family and friends and that he had destroyed it all. Ana then shoots Dev with the rubber bullets, which knocks him unconscious.
Later, Ana and the others release the Land Institute students and let them use the Varuna. Ana later holds a meeting with her class, Luca, Ophelia and a recovering Dr. Hewett where she says that her class should let their families know that they had not been killed in the destruction of Harding-Pencroft. She also says that after what they have been through, she would support her class if they want to take their share of the Nautilus's treasure and have a normal high school experience. Ana gives the class another option; to help her rebuild Harding-Pencroft and search for any survivors of the destruction. The class agree on the second option.
After the meeting, Ana visits Dev (who had been held captive in one of Lincoln Island's base's guest rooms), who offers to help her attack Land Institute in exchange for his freedom with the promise that she would never see him again. However, Ana refuses and takes Dev out of his cell and leads him to the Nautilus were they meet Socrates, who is not pleased at Dev for his actions. Ana then takes Dev on board the Nautilus where Dev tries to get it to take an order from him to dive, but the Nautilus does not trust him because of his attempt to capture her. Ana then instructs the Nautilus to go to the bottom of the lagoon surrounding Lincoln Island where the crops used to make food in the base is grown and is the place where Nemo, Tarun and Sita's ashes were scattered. Ana tells Dev that they never got to say goodbye properly to their parents and thought that he might want to as she knows she does. Dev then collapses to the floor of the Nautilus and cries. Ava states that she cannot trust Dev and does not know if she will ever be able to, but says that she does love him and is still her brother and has to be strong for him as she was her class. She then says goodbye to her parents and says a prayer for Dev and the future and says that she will not give up on either of them.
==Gallery==
Daughter-of-the-deep-cover-2-1635367164118.jpg|Ana with Gemini Twain 
==Trivia==
*Ana's favourite song is "Someone Like You" by Adele.
*For breakfast at Harding-Pencroft Academy, Ana would eat tofi-nori scramble.
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