Annabeth Latifa

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Annabeth Latifa** (Japanese:**ラティファ アナベス** *Ratifa Anabesu*) was previously a second-year student from Nekoma High. She was initially a member of the girls` volleyball Team but had to retire from volleyball after she sustained a grievous wound to her stomach. Later, she switches to being a manager for the boys` volleyball team after her position as a regular player was taken by Lev`s half-sister, Veronica.

As of November 2018, she works as a Manga Artist, known by her pen name of **Irabella Latifa**. As of the following spring of that year, she has become one of the most popular manga artists and heads her own voice acting company, known for voicing many anime characters including; Veronica Liones in *Seven Deadly Sins*, Illya Einzbern in *Fate/stay night* & and the *Fate Series*.

## **Appearance**

Annabeth is depicted as a young teenage girl with longish dark hair tied with a bun in the back, which appears to have been longer and in pigtails when she was younger. She is primarily shown wearing a light-colored dress shirt with a tie and knee-high boots, however a "chibi" style illustration of her accompanying her character profile depicts her in a darker military uniform. She seems to be a good deal shorter than Jakub, roughly coming up to his chin.

## **Personality**

Annabeth is very blunt and will sometimes rile her teammates up due to her antagonistic nature (most notably being Inuoka, Yamamoto, Lev, and Kuroo) and sometimes other teams because of her casual smug attitude, taking pride in and relishing when her opponents see her as a nuisance as seen with Helena Valkyrie and Annabeth Haruka.

Whenever someone does or says something stupid or silly she is usually seen snickering in the background. However, she does seem to be intimidated by her seniors, being nowhere in sight when Kuroo reprimands Yamamoto for annoying him even though she did so as well, or backing down whenever Kenma calls her out.

Despite coming across as arrogant, Annabeth has low self-esteem and thinks of herself as inferior. This is first noted to be a surprise by Akaashi and Bokuto who accidentally rile her up by suggesting she’ll lose to Nefertari, to which she says that she`s already below her. She does not openly believe in her abilities, and even when she played volleyball, she was so self-conscious that nobody tried to compliment her out of concern of what might happen if they did.

Although Annabeth maintains a persona of someone who shows little interest in anything and wouldn't do something she didn't like or enjoy, she does truly enjoy volleyball. She initially refrained from putting too much effort into volleyball and being too passionate about it out of fear of suffering from sustaining another injury like the one that ended her high school volleyball career. However, after her confrontation with Kuroo and hearing Bokuto's inspirational words in the Tokyo training camp, she started to regain her love for volleyball.

Annabeth keeps her cool for the most part, but she can be seen getting visibly annoyed when people underestimate her or tell her what she can or can not do, and uses it as motivation to prove them wrong.

According to Nefertari, "*Annabeth is blunt and rarely shows emotions, that is because she fears suffering another injury like the one that ended her volleyball career. In the end, she truly does love volleyball."*

## **Background**

Annabeth was a lot more cheerful when she was younger and had a very close relationship with one of her older sisters, Nefertari Latifa. As a young child, Annabeth seemed to really like volleyball, arguably due to her older sister’s own love for the sport. However, Annabeth’s attitude towards volleyball (and club activities, in general) changed when she suffered an injury at the start of her second year in High School, with her being rushed to the hospital due to the severity of the injury. That is when she lost all of her love for volleyball. During her childhood, she made friends with Sanae Taiga, and Gunther Oikawa; Sanae and Gunther went to Aobajohsai and Annabeth went to Nekoma. Another person, she made friends with, was Tsuki Oikawa.

## **Statistics**

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

#### **Skills**

* **Blocking**: Although she is a smart blocker, she tends to exert only the needed energy for blocking, which made her seem quite lazy. Despite, not being able to play volleyball any longer, she is capable of seeing how much power and effort that other blockers put into their blockers; making her a extremely capable manager when it comes to analyzing middle blockers. Due to this ability, she could tell that Hinata and Tsukishima were their middle blockers rather than Tanaka and Ennoshita.