Nina Fortner

## Summary

Johan's twin sister. After the incident in 1986, she is adopted by a couple from Heidelberg where she leads a normal life. When Johan decides to contact her again, Tenma foils his plan by helping Nina escape. Her foster parents are, however, killed by Johan's henchmen, and their murder sends her on a quest for vengeance, across Germany and the Czech Republic where she picks up the forgotten pieces of her past.

**Name:** Nina Fortner, Anna Liebert

**Origin:** Monster

**Gender:** Female

**Age:** Early 20's

**Classification:** College Student (formerly)

**Alignment:** **Lawful Good**

## Tropes

* A-M
* N-Z

* **Action Girl**: Played straight and later **deconstructed**. She is physically strong and knows aikido, but that does not equal having the mental fortitude to match.
* **Badass Adorable**: She is adorable and an **Action Girl**. However, that doesn't save her from **Mind Rape**.
* **Beware the Nice Ones**: She is nice for the most part, but she is willing to rely on violence when needed.
* **Broken Ace**: She would be perfect in every way, except that her mind is made of easily shattered glass.
* **Cain and Abel**: She is the Abel. She is kind and compassionate, unlike her brother.
* **Celibate Hero**: Well, Heroine: There are a few guys in the series who seem to like her, but she either rejects them (Peter) or is outright oblivious (Lipsky). However, she does have some subtext with Tenma that may avert this.
* **Damsel in Distress**: **Subverted** early in the series. Played straight several times later on in the series including one case where she is saved from certain death by the same man who murdered her step-parents., as a part of the **deconstruction** theme that is a huge part of *Monster*. Though **double subverted** as people constantly try to capture her as a hostage and bait for Johan, but she *willingly* allows it if it means reuniting with Johan and killing him.
* **Damsel out of Distress**: She knows how to defend herself. At least physically.
* **Driven to Suicide**: When Johan showed her that she was the one in the Red Rose Mansion, she almost kills herself, but Tenma got to her in time.
* **Dirty Harriet**: She impersonated a prostitute to find Johan.
* **Establishing Character Moment**: Technically not her first moment on-screen but after the **Time Skip**, she's first seen running late to class. This seems to be a setup to introduce her as a **Cute Clumsy Girl** but then she manages to **easily sum up the basis for the ruling of a certain case that none of her peers were able to answer**.
* **Expy**: She has qualities matching Laurie Strode from *Halloween*.
* **Forgiveness**: "I... I forgive you. Even if we were the last two people in the world, I would still forgive you."
* **Go Mad from the Revelation**: When she realizes that Johan's memories of the Red Rose Mansion were actually *hers*.
* **Good Is Not Dumb**: She's a sweet girl and one of the best students in her class. However, she won't hesitate to use her aikido or literally **scare the piss out of a Neo-Nazi**.
* **Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold**: She is blonde, and she is kind unlike her brother.
* **Half-Identical Twins**: Gender aside, there are few differences between her and her (sinister) brother. Although, Johan’s hair. which is platinum blond, is noticeably lighter than Nina’s, whose hair is dirty blonde.
* **Heartwarming Orphan**: She lost contact with her parents, and unlike her brother, is a nice woman.
* **Heroic BSoD**: She gets shocked very often.
* **Identity Amnesia**: When we meet her as an adult, she has no memory of her childhood.
* **It's Personal**: With Johan, since he's her brother and has repeatedly killed her foster parents.
* **Morality Pet**: **Subverted**. She may be the one person in the whole world (other than Tenma) who Johan appears to care a great deal about and his greatest fear is forgetting about her, but he's not above mindraping her and nearly indirectly causing her to commit suicide. And her forgiving Johan doesn't stop the latter in wanting to get himself killed.
* **Ms. Fanservice**: Briefly, duing her **Dirty Harriet** time.
* **Murder-Suicide**: Once she regains her memories, her plan is to kill herself after killing Johan.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier:** 10-B, 9-C with guns

**Powers and Abilities:**

* **Skilled Marksman**

**Attack Potency:** **Human level**, **Street level** with guns

**Speed:** **Average Human**

**Lifting Strength:** **Average Human**

**Striking Strength:** **Human level**

**Durability:** **Human level**

**Stamina:** **Average**

**Range:** **Standard Melee Range**, **Hundreds of Meters** with guns

**Standard Equipment:** None notable.

**Intelligence:** **Gifted** (She possesses a remarkable level of intelligence. She excels in various academic pursuits and demonstrates an exceptional aptitude for absorbing and comprehending knowledge. These skills she used thoroughly in the search for Johan)

**Weaknesses:** Standard human weaknesses.