Anais Lark

**Anais Lark** is a Gifted human, member of the Omega Division, and former lieutenant of the Elysian Brotherhood who possesses the Gift of probability manipulation.

Born and raised in the Badlands, she was recruited into the Elysian Brotherhood in her teenage years and quickly ascended the ranks, eventually being promoted to faction lieutenant by her mentor and then-newly elected leader Lee Rowan. In 3162, she was reluctantly enlisted to the Omega Program, forcing her to relocate to Elysium, but over time began to bond with her new teammates and became the team's *de facto* combat expert.

## Personality

She is very cynical and often has a pessimistic outlook on life, and even adopts the habit of anticipating worst-case scenarios; this was initially because of how her powers work, though eventually she deliberately adopts this perspective on purpose in order to counteract her powers. Thus, she rarely gets emotionally attached to anything outside her family and close circle of trusted allies, even keeping them at arm's length, and is very slow to trust others, thus appearing somewhat cold, aloof or even apathetic to others. In truth, she is extremely loyal to those she trusts and loves, greatly values the few friendships she has, and is willing to sacrifice herself in order to protect them. She does, however, a soft spot for young children, especially those around Teddy's age.

## Physical Appearance

Ana has tan skin, shoulder-length black hair, and brown eyes. She has a large scar running down the side of her face, as well as across the left side of her collarbone. She has two tattoos: the Brotherhood insignia on her left forearm, and two birds behind her left shoulder that represent her mother and brother. She is just below average height and despite her smaller build, she has some muscle tone from her extensive physical training.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Probability Manipulation**: Ana has the ability to manipulate probabilities of events around her. Her power manifests as a probability "force field" around her that can manipulate and affect anything within it, sometimes pushing the boundaries of the laws of physics in the process. Typically, she has to be present in the event she intends to manipulate, and she is unable to affect the probabilities of events that are completely certain or impossible to occur. Initially, it works subconsciously, wherein Ana has no control over who or what her powers affect, and is always active as long as she remains awake and conscious. At the beginning of the first book, she was only capable of inducing improbability, i.e. making events less likely to occur, which inadvertently led to good events less likely to occur, and bad events more likely to happen.

* **Enhanced Reflexes**: As a byproduct of her Gift, Ana possesses slightly enhanced reflexes that guides her through stressful or dangerous situations, therefore preventing injury.

### Abilities

**Expert Combatant**: Ana is extremely skilled in both hand-to-hand and armed combat, and widely regarded as one of the best combatants in the Elysian Brotherhood. This is largely due to the non-offensive nature of her powers, making her more reliant on her own physical prowess and less so on solely her powers. Due to her extensive experience, Ana is assigned as the combat expert in the Division.

* **Staff Mastery**: As her main preferred weapon, Ana possesses tremendous skill in wielding staffs. She is especially skillful in wielding her personalized quarterstaff, and was said to be the only one able to wield it as effectively as she did.

**Expert Engineer**: Unbeknownst to most, Ana is also a fairly skilled engineer and mechanic, using most of her spare time to tinker on tech and weapons that the Brotherhood uses. Most notably, she built her signature quarterstaff on her own using electronic and mechanical scraps she collected over time, and would often tinker with it in her spare time to add more features to it. Despite her disdain against Elysians, she was greatly fascinated by their technology, and took advantage of her moving to Elysium to study Elysian tech in her spare time, and claims she did so more for her own curiosity rather than the Brotherhood's benefit.

## Equipment

### Weapons

* **Ana's Quarterstaff**: Ana typically wields a custom-built quarterstaff made of a durable metallic alloy that can deflect against most sharp blades. Both ends of the staff, while blunt, can fire concussive sonic blasts that can repel objects and even people with varying intensities, as well as emit electromagnetic pulses that can disable electronic devices within a range when struck against a surface. Lee has stated that Ana is the only person who can wield the quarterstaff the way it was meant to be wielded.

### Other Equipment

* **Raven Mask**: As a member of the Brotherhood, Ana wore a protective gas mask that resembled a raven's head, equipped with a respirator to protect her from toxic inhalants present in the more hazardous areas of the Badlands, and a voice modulation device that distorted the pitch and masked her voice.

## Relationships

* Elodie Lark - Mother
* Theodore Lark - Younger Brother

Allies* Omega Division - Teammates and Friends
	+ Nikolas Ellis - Leader, Close Friend and Love Interest
	+ Livia Price
	+ Corinna Rose
	+ Devyn Chaska
	+ Pericles Hall - Close Friend
* Dr. Cassian Hall - Supervisor
* Elysian Brotherhood - Former Teammates
	+ Lee Rowan - Best Friend, Mentor and Former Leader
	+ Bran Rowan † - Former Leader
	+ Mateo Ibarra
* The Council