Antonia de Anxida

## Antonia de Anxida Freeman

Srta. Corazón

Davíd de Anxida Freeman (Older Brother)

? de Anxida Freeman (Younger Brother, 8)

Lucero "Luc" Lonetree

Guadalupe "Sid" Vasquez

Journalist (freelance)

Bartender (former)

Chapter XI: Zoodled

Chapter XII: What a Way to Die

Chapter XIII: For the Last Time

Chapter XVI: A House of Dreams

Chapter XVIII: Introducing Maya Merlo

## Description

### Appearance

At around 5'6, Antonia de Anxida has caramel brown skin, hazel eyes, and a stocky frame. She wears her black, curly, hair in a middle-part and bun; in addition to having blonde highlights to accentuate the style. A golden chained necklace holds a vial of blood around her neck, drawing your eye from the scars stretching up from her neckline. She wears a golden-brown vest with a large breast-pocket over a white long-sleeve blouse and simple dark-brown leather armor (formed of a central corset, biceps pieces, and gauntlet-like gloves), tucked into a light brown nylon explorer pants with wide hips which is likewise tucked into large black boots. Strapped at her hips are an antique revolver and a black, overstocked notebook, and to her back, she's strapped an ornate, gold-hilted cavalier sword.

### Personality

Inquisitive, adventurous, and everlastingly tenacious, Tonya is a near force of nature when it comes to her and her leads. Leaping into the clutches of everything from terrorists to eldritch spawn if she thinks it will garner an interesting, news-worthy story. Her spunk seems to be carried into all aspects of her life, with her throwing herself head-first into most of her relationships, platonic and otherwise.

## Abilities

### Healing

In *Friendly Fire*, Tonya demonstrated her ability to heal the wounds of other and herself through holy magics citing being a part of the King's Army, an organization that recruited young children for the Najáliscan Civil War to be clerics and paladins.

### Divine Smite

After striking the heart of a Mockinghound, Tonya demonstrated her ability to use her practitions to do extra radiant damage after the fact.

## Relationships

### **Luis Cavalier**

Tonya and Luis didn't originally get off well, aside from the usual pleasantries of introductions and the the adrenaline of combat. After brief few moments of the pair getting along, Luis' midnight call in *A House of Dreams* would disturb Tonya to her core, causing her to heavily distrust the bard. While Perry attempted to assuage her fears of Luis' intentions to endanger his girlfriend, she still seems to distrust Luis.

Several hours before his death, Tonya and Luis agreed to start their friendship anew as she extended him a second chance. Both had lied to each other about their pasts and she expressed projecting her own self-dislike onto him for the falsehoods. He re-introduced himself and she told him her true name, Antonia de Anxida, the masked Queen of Najálisco.

### **Peregrine "Perry" Diane Eckhardt**

Ever since their first meeting, Perry and Tonya have made a great team since the former saved the latter from being dragged into a vent. They continued to work together deeper in the Rookery, attempting to restore power to the facility. While dismissive of Perry's addiction, Sinola displayed an intent on protecting her secret ability to cast magic. In *What a Way to Die*, it was revealed that both of them share the ability to enter an angelic form, making them Aasimar. Both women bonded over this and ultimately became close friends in the three months since their first interaction. They frequently train together to improve their skills and powers to be ready for whatever is thrown at them next.

As friends, they support and protect each other. Perry held secret that Tonya and Sid were training with her in aasimar form and never planned on telling anyone she was the Queen - though it was revealed to Luc and Luis not long after she knew. Tonya protects Perry with extreme resolve, demonstrating this by decapitating a Department of Counter-Aggression Agent who drugged and misgendered her. Tonya also gifted Perry her Vial of Blood of the Son necklace for the night she was attacked to let her feel safer. And when Peregrine was killed by The Stalking, Tonya was faced with the difficult decision of having no innate healing that could help her and elected to pour the contents of the Vial, a sacred relic, into Perry's mouth. Fortunately this restored life to her friend, though Perry now lives with The Son aspect of the Five-Times King in her mind - but Perry did not blame or resent Tonya for her decision, declaring love and gratitude for her action instead.