Ana

Blood Vengeance

## Background

A capoeirista with a thirst for vengeance, Ana doesn't care who or what she has to kill on the hunt for her true target. Put her on your front line and watch her take down the enemy with deadly precision.

### Biography

Before the flood, Ana lived in a small town outside Rio de Janeiro with her family. She was only five when everything was lost. All she truly remembers of her childhood is Lucas. Her father’s best friend pulled her from the debris and raised her on homemade moqueca, stories of her father, and the art of the fight. Lucas was the best capoeirista in town, and she was a devoted student. Movement connected Ana to her ancestors and helped to process her grief.

Capoeira was not about violence, Lucas taught her, but self-defense. It was hard to reconcile that teaching with the reality around them as Pedro, the cartel dono, rose to power. Pedro’s corrosive influence was too much to ignore, especially once he started recruiting kids. Lucas, always the protector, took it upon himself to stop the cartel. Ana knew the dangers, but some part of her still believed that the good guy always wins. That belief died with Lucas. When he was found hanging in the two square, Ana knew no one else would dare challenge Pedro. She was the last hope.

Already a rising star in the world of capoeira, she started taking on matches in an underground fight club. It was good money, but the real draw was the crowd; it was where the dregs of the criminal underworld gathered to discuss business while placing bets on the bloodbath. A perfect place to listen and learn.

She was a fighter with two faces: Ana the celebrated capoeirista, and Dona A, the masked spitfire who was a force in the underground fight scene. Both personas were undefeated, but for either to have a future, she knew ultimately one would have to be sacrificed. Collecting her take after a vicious fight, Ana overheard a shocking revelation. Pedro had lost his place in the cartel and fled north to the States. His successor would likely deserve her attention, yes, but Pedro was the man she needed to kill. Ana allowed a fighting promoter to set up an exhibition between her and an American champion. She would travel in the light, use her respectability to cover her true intentions.

And yet somehow, her alter ego’s reputation had preceded her. Just before the fight, a striking woman with indigo hair and an Eastern European accent approached with an offer: “Throw the fight, and I will lead you to Pedro. Make it look convincing, and I’ll help you kill him.”

She nodded and entered the ring with every intention of taking her career-first defeat after just enough rounds of pulled punches to sell the authenticity to the crowd. But before the first bell, the cheers from the stadium became screams. Only the greatest fighters in the world could have made it out from the center of a packed sporting arena full of drunk, terrified spectators gradually transforming into zombies.

Ana and Nina were clearly among the elite few. Ana’s hapless opponent was not. Nina explained that it was terribly important to an interested third party that this fighter beat Ana so they could then be destroyed by someone else. “No hard feelings,” Ana said, “But keep your word. Help me find Pedro.”

The Sugar Reapers think they’re bad. Pffft. Americans. They don’t know bad. Compared to the cartels, they might as well be cosplayers. But it’s where Nina and her American friend wound up, and Ana wasn’t about to let Nina off the hook. She couldn’t care less about zombies or factions or even the apocalypse. There will be time for the future once she puts away the casualties of the past.

## Skills

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