Anna Kingsford

**Anna Kingsford** (アンナ・キングスフォード, *An'na Kingusufōdo*?) is a posthumous character introduced in *Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index*, associated with Golden Dawn founders Mathers and Westcott as well as the legendary Anna Sprengel.

## Appearance

When she was reanimated during the events in Shibuya, Anna's body looked to be around 30 years old with an intellectual face, with youthful skin apparently due to the injection of lipids and hyaluronan. She had pale skin, long, reddish blonde hair worn in a modified braid, done up into a form resembling a giant fried shrimp, and wore thin glases.

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'.

## Personality

Anna Kingsford's main goal is to aid the people around her and believes a magician should help those in need. She also believes that magic does not require any special tools and preconditions, claiming not to understand the concept of a 'spell', and that the gates of the mystical should be open to all equally. She is willing to act against anyone whose behavior would maliciously harm others and goes beyond what she deems appropriate or necessary. The standards by which she holds magicians are also extremely high.

After being resurrected, most of Anna's dialogue are in emojis that likely used to expresses her emotions when talking to others. The reason for this is unknown, however, it is implied that Aleister installed this feature in her newly resurrected body.

## Background

Anna Kingsford was a magician who was Westcott and Mathers' teacher, and Anna Sprengel was rumored to have been based on her, resulting in a connection being formed 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.

## Chronology

### Souyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index

#### Post-Handcuffs Arc

*Main article: Post-Handcuffs Arc*
On December 29th, as part of preparations against Anna Sprengel, Aleister Crowley 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.

#### New Year's Eve Arc

*Main article: New Year's Eve Arc*

On December 31st, during the events in Shibuya, Aleister and Kihara Noukan took advantage of the absence of people caused by the effects of the battle between Aradia, seeking to kill Kamijou Touma, and the Bologna Succubus, trying to save him. Accessing the hidden treasure store in a restaurant kitchen in the Miyashita Ark, Aleister retrieved Anna Kingsford's body and prepared it for reanimation.

After the battle between Kamijou Touma and Aradia, as Anna Sprengel was pondering killing Aradia to provoke a change in the boy, a reanimated Anna Kingsford confronted her, quickly separating her from the rest of the world and easily defeating her, sealing her away into parchment charms in a film can. After a brief talk with Aleister on what a magician was in her mind, she was switched off, 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.

#### New Year's Arc

*Main article: New Year's Arc*

During the events from January 1st to 3rd, Anna Kingsford was active again and accompanied Aleister and Noukan (her actions causing some consternation for the golden retriever), as they interrogated their prisoner and investigated the Bridge Builders Cabal. When Touma ended up freeing and escaping with Sprengel on the morning of January 3rd, Kingsford comforted a distraught Aleister. During the escape, she briefly clashed with Aiwass when Sprengel unleashed him in panic (a mild surpise to Kingsford, who didn't expect the Secret Chief's use for a sloppy direct attack), but after fighting enough to make it convincing, she intentionally avoided a finishing blow and allowed him to escape, with the intention of tracing his path back to his master.

Following the escape and the declaration of martial law in Academy City, the trio continued their movements against Anna Sprengel and the Bridge Builders Cabal across the next couple of days, with anti-recognition magic concealing them from Anti-Skill. While planning their actions, they used a room in School District 23's Science Tower as a temporary base. They eventually ended up facing Christian Rosenkreuz on the night of December 4th, in the aftermath of the Transcendents' ceremony.

## Abilities

Described as a great goddess of knowledge, Anna Kingsford was an exceptionally wise and highly skilled magician, even among those considered to be expert magicians. While the full scope and extent of her powers remains currently unknown, she is stated to be powerful enough to take on a Secret Chief on her own. Even as a reanimated corpse, she still retains much of her former capability, though her physical body is in a more fragile state and refining her immense 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 and on a level that can overwhelm *mere* experts.

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 immobile. When used against Anna Sprengel, she had a disk-like film can, with countless parchment charms pasted together into a disk. She also possesses a temporal and spatial 'separation', that can isolate herself and a target from the rest of the world. She can also form words and simple symbols (such as an X) out of light in mid-air, and halt thrown objects in mid-air. She was also capable of activating a magic circle drawn by Aleister Crowley to track down the Bridge Builders Cabal using the connections formed by the sealed Anna Sprengel.

Anna Kingsford's skill and the connection formed between herself and Anna Sprengel means that the latter cannot defeat the former, though Sprengel believes the use of Aiwass could change this, though subsequent events convinced her otherwise.

## Character Art Design

### Gallery

Anna Kingsford's character design by Haimura Kiyotaka.
## Trivia

* Similar to her *Toaru* version, the real-life Anna Kingsford 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").
	+ Whether this celestial motto was an influence on the celestial aspects of the attire (namely the sun, moon and star decorations hanging from her hats) and magic (planetary-based sealing) Anna Kingsford displayed in her *Toaru* series debut is currently unknown.
* The "Soror" in "Soror Kingsford 1888" (whether this phrase, with her family name and year of death, is a magic name or not is not currently known) is Latin for "sister".