Anna (FE)

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**Anna** is a recurring character from the *Fire Emblem* games.

An enigmatic merchant with a bevy of identical sisters - more than she can count. Like most merchants, she is a smooth-talker who loves both gold and rich customers.

In the AWA fics, Anna is a student at the AWA Academy.

In the XP4 fics, Anna debuted in the XP4 Heroes Coalition - Awakening.

## **Appearance**

Anna has a long red hair tied in a messy high ponytail and has red eyes. She wears a red cape with yellow interior over a long-sleeved red & yellow corset top with stitches, red baggy pants with red belt and hip paddings, silver arm gauntlets underneath a red fingerless arm gloves, and pink & white knee-high steel boots.

## **Personality**

Due to Anna being a multitude of individuals, her personality differs slightly between games. However, there are some consistent traits amongst each other. Anna is typically whimsical and jovial, tending to do things her own way.

### **Shadow Dragon to Radiant Dawn**

The original Anna appeared quite whimsical, keeping her shop secret despite others like Marth pointing out that doing so would cripple sales. That Anna was also not judgmental about other nationalities, as despite Archanea's enmity with Grust, she had a close relationship with the Grustian Jake, with whom she shares a love of travel. Her relationship to Jake ranges, but goes as far as engagement in *Genealogy of the Holy War* and talking of having children. While Anna is usually very lighthearted, she is shown to occasionally worry about Jake. Anna appeared to be a singular character as she and Jake made references to Linde of Archanea in *Genealogy of the Holy War*despite the game taking place in the distant past.

### **Awakening and Fates**

Anna appears in a multitude of ways in both *Awakening* and *Fates*, being the first game in which more than one Anna appears simultaneously. Driven by an almost instinctual need to make money, Anna is willing to do whatever it takes to sell an item, sometimes telling little-white lies, though often regrets using such tactics. She does show restraint more often than not but any means of obtaining gold legitimately through sales is fair game in her mind. This fondness of gold even affects her love life, as for any Corrin who marries her quickly find out that her love of money remains more than her love of them, but she still shows that she loves them nonetheless.

As part of a large family, the Anna family share a strong familial bond with each other and respects each other's "territories", doing their best not to impede on each other's work, even ceasing their own plans the minute they learn that another Anna has dibs on the same schemes. Despite their similar appearances, each Anna is able to distinguish Annas from one another from an early age thanks to a special log that records all acts of every single Anna in history that every Anna is required to read. According to the *Fates* Anna, though their names are spelled the same, there are different pronunciations of their names to help distinguish each other during family gatherings. As a mother, of either Morgan in *Awakening* and Kana in *Fates*, it is shown that she does not force Corrin to name either of them Anna, but nonetheless stresses the importance of her huge extended family and its traditions to her daughters.

### **Heroes**

*Heroes* portrays Anna in a slightly different light as she takes her role as commander of the Order of Heroes very seriously and acts as a guide for Alfonse and Sharena. She harbors some guilt towards Zacharias's disappearance and feels that she is responsible for it. This in turn makes her an emotional crutch for Alfonse and Sharena on the subject. In special Xenologue chapters with the event Heroes, Anna retains her *Awakening* and *Fates* incarnations tendencies to capitalize on the *Heroes* in their special forms to turn a quick profit if she can.

## **XP4 Fanfic**

Anna is a member of the Heroes Coalitions as a Solo Hero. She also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.

### **XP4 Heroes Coalition - Awakening**

In Chapter 7, Anna is seen in the streets of Ylisstol selling her items when Shun Kazami, Monkey D. Luffy and Say'ri came across her.

In Chapter 11, Anna is at the garrison when they heard a noise, they ran to the corridors to see Ryuuko Matoi and Ricken chasing a strange hooded figure. Everyone went after the figure and led them to a large grassy fields, and reveals itself as a Pokemon known as Hitmonlee. The Pokemon then revealed that he stole an ancient alien artifact called the Ara-Ka Cube inside the castle. Everyone watches in horror as Hitmonlee uses the alien artifact to summon a zombified version of Emmeryn and Phila, much to everyone's disgust. Hitmonlee then summoned a large number of Emotionless, forcing Anna and everyone to fight. Anna then witnessed Donnel activating his *Gift*.

In Chapter 12 & Epilogue, Anna, alongside everyone, witnessed Donnel activating his Gift turning both Emmeryn and Phila back to life. After defeating the remaining Emotionless, forcing Hitmonlee to flee, life in Ylisstol went back to normal.

## **Abilities**

Anna is essentially a very versatile unit, possessing Trickster class. When compared to Gaius, her closest counterpart, Anna trails behind Gaius in several stats, though she has better defensive stat growths over him and a modest magic growth, making her a decent Trickster healer. Her main quirk is that she has an incredible amount of Luck growth, on top of a decent speed and skill growths to make her a tricky unit to hit. Her resistance is also quite high making her good for countering mage units. These traits usually make her more durable and more well suited for the Trickster class. It is recommended to give her Levin Swords to build off of her decent magic stat, though other swords work well with her decent strength cap and growth rate. She starts off with the Thief set of skills so she can pick locks right away and have a decent movement range with Movement +1.

Anna has the ability to slide into the Assassin class once she reaches level 10 and is a good option for Anna to be an offensive unit. She will lose a huge amount of her resistance, though this will get reallocated, with some of her Magic loss, into her other stats making her faster and stronger. She can grab her only offensive skill, Lethality, in this class and Pass to help her swarm or escape swarms herself.

## **Trivia**

* An unnamed character, visually identical to Anna, runs the secret shop and the game suspension feature in *TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga*, complete with an identical pose.
* In *Awakening*, after playing for at least an hour, Anna will appear in the bottom screen of the save menu, saying "Don't forget to take breaks!"
* Anna shares her English voice actress, Karen Strassman, with Olivia, Hana and Mozu.
	+ She also shares her Japanese voice actress, Saori Seto, with Severa.
* Anna was voted as the 13th most popular female on Nintendo's *Awakening* poll.
	+ For *Fates*, Anna was voted as the 31st most popular female on Nintendo's official poll.
	+ Anna's *Awakening* incarnation came in 17th place for females in the *Fire Emblem Heroes Choose Your Legends popularity poll,*with 8,431 votes. Her *Fates* incarnation came in 31st place for females, and had 5,065 votes.
* Strangely, Anna's portrait from *Fire Emblem Fates* depicts her with 6 fingers.
* Anna's official artwork from *Heroes* depicts her wielding the Nóatún.
* Anna and Celica's *Fire Emblem Warriors*support conversation, where Celica says she has never seen another Anna before, is a reference to her games being the only ones without an appearance from Anna.