Anna Kingsford

Anna Kingsford is a major supporting character in the A Certain Magical Index franchise, serving as Aleister Crowley's ally for most of Genesis Testament, prior to her death she was the mentor of both Westcott and Mathers. Although she accompanies Aleister, she views the world from a different perspective than Aleister does.
Anna was first reanimated by Aleister Crowley as part of his preparations to go against Anna Sprengel, he accessed the science side's network via the former site of Windowless Building and found the location where Anna Kingsford's corpse had been preserved in Miyashita Ark, when Anna Sprengel decides to kill Aradia, Anna Kingsford appear before Anna Sprengel, striking fear in her, she easily defeats Miss Sprengel and then seals her in a film. Kingsford then accompanies both Aleister and Kihara Noukan to interrogate Anna Sprengel.
==Appearance==
Her post-reanimation outfit could be described as a witch swimsuit, with Anna wearing the special orange suit that Ladybird wore, resembling a racing swimsuit, with black sleeves, a large pareo, and a shiny, pointed witch's hat with sun, spherical moon and star decorations hanging around its brim. A physical shut-off switch was installed on her back between her shoulder blades, with a light like a will-o’-the-wisp atop her hat while she was 'on'.
==Background==
Not much is known about Anna Kingsford when she was alive, but she belonged to the Theosophical Society, described as an assembly of psychics, Kabbalah experts and Rosicrucians, with magic techniques and ideology rooted in the rosy cross as a result. At some point she was the teacher of both Mathers and Westcott who taught them magic.
It is said that Anna Sprengel was presumably based off her, which resulted in the connection between the two Annas.
She died more than a century ago, not long before the foundation of the Golden Dawn, with her corpse being preserved somewhere.
==Personality==
Anna Kingsford main goal is to aid the people around her and believes a magician should help those in need. She believes that Magic should not be used for wrong, throughout the series Anna is willing to act against anyone whose behavior would maliciously harm others and goes beyond what she deems appropriate or necessary as such when she fought Mut Thebes and "CRC" who was rampaging through Academy City. Her interactions with Anna Sprengel is quite interesting as, Anna Sprengel believes her to be the "real" Anna but it is later revealed that both Anna Sprengel and Kingsford are real. Anna also comforts Aleister pain when he was agonizing over Touma's action to save Anna Sprengel. When dealing with Alice uproar, Anna decides to take the initiative and save Kamijou Touma from death much to Aleister chagrin and dismay as he knew Anna was heading to her own doom. 
Anna also has a habit of speaking using emoji's to express her emotions, the reason for this is unknown but it is implied that Aleister may have installed this function in her. 
==Biography ==
When Aleister and Noukan took advantage of the people of the absence of people caused by the effects of the battle between Aradia who was seeking to kill Kamijou Touma and Bologna Succubus trying to save him. Aleister accessed the hidden treasure store in a restaurant kitchen in the Miyashita Ark, he retrieved the corpse of Anna Kingsford body and reanimated her. After the battle between Touma and Aradia, Anna Sprengel decides to kill Aradia in order to cause a change in Touma, however a reanimated Anna Kingsford approaches her and she easily defeats Anna Sprengel, sealing her away into parchment charms in a film can. Aleister later switches her off after a brief talk between them, but not before warning Aleister that while she would do someone's bidding if it would lead to a positive result and help others, if their behavior went beyond what she deemed necessary, she wouldn't hesitate to turn against them.
She was later turned on again, which Anna was accompanied by Aleister and Kihara Noukan, they interrogated their prisoner about the Bridge Builders Cabal motives, but before they can complete the interrogation, Touma ended up freeing Anna Sprengel using his Imagine Breaker, and escaping with her. Anna Kingsford then ended up comforting Aleister. During the escape Anna Kingsford briefly clashed with Aiwass, when Anna Sprengel unleashed it in her panic. Though after fighting enough Anna Kingsford allowed for Anna Sprengel to escape intentionally avoiding a finishing blow. After Accelerator declares martial law on Academy City, Aleister Faction continued their pursuit on Anna Sprengel and the Bridge Builders Cabal across the next couple of days. While planning their next move they used a room in School District 23 in Science Tower as their temporary base. Anna Kingsford then briefly fought with Mut Thebes together with Aleister when the Transcendent threatened to corner Touma's group, they ended up leaving her alive. 
After "Christian Rosencreutz" was summoned by the Bridge Builders Cabal he arrived to where Aleister Faction is. She fought "CRC" equally matching the magician but received a lethal neck injury when her opponent sneakily reanimated Alice's corpse for a surprise attack, before being bisected, though her non-alive, mechanically-animated state gave her some leeway to escape complete termination. In this moment Anna realized that something isn't right with "CRC" and decided to fake her own death in front of Aleister, Noukan and Touma. While also removing attention from herself so she could carefully observe "CRC" to find a weakness, however it ended up being unnecessary as "CRC" was killed by Alice Anotherbible. Anna then decides to move to ensure that the young ones wouldn't meet a similar end.
As Alice influence was causing chaos in the city, Aleister along with Noukan was in a corner crying over Kingsford death who was lamenting his own failure that he couldn't save her, however Noukan notices that Anna was peeking behind a corner watching Aleister, she then approached Aleister as he was in the middle of crying over her fate, with their awkward meeting, this promotes Aleister to unleash a barrage of magic at her which broke her glasses. Afterwards Anna tells Aleister that Kamijou Touma is going to die if he is going to continue going after Alice. Later that night, seeing in the stars that Touma was now aware of his fate, after consoling and imparting a final lesson to a distraught Aleister (who knew she would likely be heading to her own doom), Anna headed out to play her own role in the battle.
Anna later arrives where the bridge where the Transcendents where fighting each other, she approached Anna Sprengel and guided her into countering the "resonance" with Alice that allowed the Transcendents the advantage in the battle, she also encourages Anna Sprengel not to die as she doesn't want her to, after some encouragement from Anna Kingsford, Anna Sprengel finally gives in and works with Kingsford using Aiwass to defeat the opposing Transcendents who were siding with Alice.
Much later she intervened as those Transcendents were struggling against Dinah, Alice most powerful familiar, she senses that her body is approaching her limit so she decides to focus on injuring Dinah enough to create an opportunity so that the Transcendents can defeat it.
When Touma died, Anna visited him in the world of the dead. After commending him for his efforts and asking if he was really going to give up and accept his unfair death, she offers to use Hell Tour, a secret technique to overturn the predetermined ending and make a comeback.
==Abilities==
Anna Kingsford is described as a great goddess of knowledge, Anna Kingsford was a wise and highly skilled magician, even among those considered expert magicians. Even as a reanimated corpse, she retains much of her former capability, though her body is in a more fragile state and refining her magical power at full strength would risk destroying the machinery. 
Rather than flashy spells and special moves, Anna makes use of fundamental magic, common spells and basic ceremonies (such as anti-recognition spells, people-clearing fields, and even basic refinement of magic power), which even a novice may learn and be sick of, honed with her skills past the limit to the extreme, to the point where they could be considered special moves themselves, on a level that can overwhelm mere experts.
===Fundamental Magic===
As an expert Magician, Anna utilizes numerous types of magic, mostly basic fundamentals that have been honed to the extreme, as such she uses basic elemental magic as if she if were to push herself too much she would damage her own self.
In the field of anti-recognition spells and people-clearing fields, Anna's magic is at a level of expertise where it can conceal herself and other individuals from humans and mechanical cameras and sensors, described as apparently being effective even against 'mere' expert magicians and developed far enough to assassinate a superpower's head. Anna also possesses a temporal and spatial 'separation', that can isolate herself and a target from the rest of the world.
When she fought against "CRC" she also used magic circles drawing a simple line, circle or triangle understanding their meaning and drawing out their effects to their full extent, an example of that is when "CRC" used Citrinitas-sand attacks on Anna, she drew a single straight line across the ground with her foot to slice through the several hundred ton mass of conjured sand and return it to nothingness, with such a line being describe as a potential last resort with power capable of dividing the world between the user and their enemy to save their life. Anna Kingsford is also capable of feigning her own death, as seen when "CRC" has seemingly killed her by bisecting her in half, but in truth she survived, and managed to reassemble herself by reconnecting her own body parts. 
Being an expert capable of producing magic with just her body, Anna also possesses a sealing technique, associated with the introductory magic of storing planetary power in a charm and the link between the Microcosm and the Macrocosm, it allows her to separate the limbs and organs of a target and seal them away into corresponding parchment charms, keeping them alive but trapped, as seen when she sealed Anna Sprengel in a film-can. When fighting "CRC" Anna has also shown skills in using the five elements through their correspondence to the fingers (e.g. the middle finger for fire, the index finger for water, and thumb for ether). With a fire attack against "CRC", she held her open palm to her mouth and blew gently on her middle finger's tip without a single word, resulting in a rushing blaze described as surpassing that of a flamethrower and capable of easily burning up simple composite armor and special fibers, which also fed on power from a ley line.
Anna is also skilled in Astrology, able to read the stars in a clear night sky to acquire information and determine events from afar, such us predicting Kamijou Touma's death. She can also draw patterns representing constellations and combining the constellations associated with a specific element (such as Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces for water), Anna can amplify and multiply the power of her elemental spells.
Being already dead and belonging in the world of the dead, Anna can visit that realm anytime she wants without forcing her way in, merely stopping her moving parts to depart from the world of the living. Aside from this transition for herself however, Anna possesses a secret technique that could be called a Hell Tour, this technique believed that it would allow Kamijou Touma to come back from death.
==Trivia==
* Anna is based of the real life who was an acquaintance of and influence on both Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers and William Wynn Westcott, having given lectures at the Hermetic Society which the two had attended before the foundation of the Golden Dawn. Dying in 1888, she was thought to be a possible inspiration for Anna Sprengel - they shared the same magical motto; Sapiens Dominabitur Astris ("the wise person shall be ruled by the stars").
**Similar to the real Anna Kingsford, she was born 16 September 1846.
==Gallery==
Anna Kingsford 29.png|Anna Kingsford Light Novel design.
GT Index v08 Pagespread 2 Right.png|Aleister Faction.
File:Anna Kingsford cover.png|Anna Kingsford cover on GT11.
GT Index v06 BW8.png|Anna Kingsford approaches a terrified Anna Sprengel.
GT Index v07 BW8.png|Anna Kingsford comforts Aleister.
GT Index v10 BW1.png|Anna Kingsford awkward reunion with Aleister and Noukan.
GT Index v10 BW5.png|Anna Kingsford prepare to face Dinah.
GT Index v10 BW8.png|Anna Kingsford offers to help Touma in the afterlife.
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