Anne Birdland

--Lady Anne --

## Relationships

### Family

- Gea Birdland(Adoptive Mother), Neh Giordano(Aunt), All of the Giordanos, Cora Leones (God Mother) -

### In a relationship with

- Polypa Vantas-

"What are you doing fighting? You'll die with the children, hag!"

[**"I'm an old soldier. I don't fear death. I fear time...yours is up."** ] **~Anne**

Birthday: October 6th

## Power, Abilities, Skills, etc.

* Master Chef, Barista, Mixologist and Bartender
* Ex-Mercenary and Soldier, skilled in Shield use and defensive tactics, slight skill as a field medic.
* Accomplished Saxophone, Flute, Trumpet and other wind instrument musician.
* Persona: Scheherezade (Motivator)

### Stats:

* -3 on Deception, Stealth, Charisma
* -2 on any Offense Attempt
* -2 Damage Dealt
* +4 Speed
* +4 Defense/Shield Actions
* +3 Perception/Strength
* -3 Damage Taken

### Inventory:

* Strange Wristband (Interface Shield)
* Wallet (Containing ID Cards, Money, etc.)
* Old ID Card
* Journal/Notes Book
* Metal Broom

## Character Backstory

Anne was born in Glasco, a country on the planet Datrone. She was orphaned at a fairly young age due to a mob bombing and setting abalze her home, killing her parents in the process.

Anne lived in the remains and had help and protection from one of her father's Friends, a man named Ben Birdland, who owed his life to her father. Anne managed, through budding skills in the kitchen, to cook and clean and run a small bar/hotel in her home country for a few years, receiving little help until Cora Leones arrived on the scene. Cora helped Anne for a decent amount of time before, trying to escape a budding war and conscription; Cora, Anne and Ben travelled to escape the country with a team of other people. During this time it was revealed Cora and a few of the new comers were aliens, having been sent planet side to "judge" Datrone for it's viability as an addition to the Federation. Anne and her team of friends were the first to make proper contact after escaping Glasco, and managed to save the planet by putting good word in.

Datrone would eventually join said Federation of planets before forcefully disbanding from it after being betrayed by the Feds in a conspiracy to sell the planet to slavery pirates. Anne herself mostly stayed out of this conflict after being branded a mercenary hero for her original involvement, once more being a Chef and Host for a period of a decade. Anne was also (albeit late,) adopted by Ben Birdland and Gea Giordano Birdland at this time, which despite already being an adult, was a gesture she appreciated.

However, she eventually rejoined the cause as a member of HOS, an alliance of six planets, including Datrone, to promote protection against outside threats. After working with HOS for a set period of time, the equivalent of 2 tours; Anne left the defense force again to once again, be a barista and chef, only now with a more universal focus, traveling and spending the next five years more or less being a traveling chef for different planets and ships, picking up on interplanetary cuisine. During another trip on the HOS ship ***Needlenose*** as a short month contract as culinary head while transferring from a remote planet back to her home, Anne was ripped from her world and landed in the world of BW, having been literally dumped in the wreckage of a building. There, Anne met Tessa an ambitious but struggling bar owner, who wanted to keep their business floating and expand even in the currently turbulent world. Anne offered her experience and services and the two worked together to make the **Alternate Bar**, Tessa mainly giving Anne autonomy after proving to be trustworthy.

Anne, now being forced into the role of a Human by the world she had found herself in (She wasn't originally a Human, but was born as an Ordalian,) struggled a little bit with a slightly different body but managed to adapt over time due to prior experience. Anne worked to give several plans and ideas they had varying degrees of success, mostly on the "broken even" scale under Tessa until Tessa left the bar one day with her girlfriend, leaving Anne to manage the place alone. In full Irony, Anne was more successful running the bar alone, but felt after the Third Impact a change was needed. She sold the Alternate Bar's premises and moved to The CFA, where she opened up a new place of her own under the same name she used in her prior world; **The Platuna Soul**. The Platuna Soul enjoyed plenty of success in the new locale for the next decade up to the inception of season two.

## Storyline:

During Season Two, Anne has mainly done contract or general bar work with The Platuna Soul until she discovered, partially by accident, the then unnamed Rouge Wraiths on their mission to clear the Palace of Dominance created by one of their classmates. Seeing high school children doing something of this nature instantly made old protective instincts resurface and she decided to help and protect them instead of simply follow them around or hide as they expected a random barista they had just met to do. Anne eventually within the palace unlocked a persona and joined the team full time, where she acts as a sort of surrogate mother while they are together. In missions she generally fills the role of defender or the tank, calling back to her prior "military" experience. Her position as a business owner and legal adult has at times been used as a viable excuse for the other members of the team to be out late or in places they may not have otherwise strictly been able to be outside of the metaverse as well.

However, Anne did suffer a large hit to her bar and her own reputation when she decided to pursue a relationship with Polypa, as he is a Troll, and The CFA, being notoriously disapproving of the Troll species as a whole took great offense to that, opening up her business and herself to racial hate crimes, which she dealt with with a level of decorum and a smile. Anne stayed this way with a dwindling source of income until Junko Enoshima, a renowned Idol, contracted her, with her bar and the patrons currently inside it to help in a campaign to attempt to stop the rampant racism in the country. The movement has worked moderately well and Anne more or less manages to break even in her current business margins with the benefit of having more time on her hands to help her team.

Anne also decided after some time, to go to an old friend; Cora Leones, to get re-injected with nanobot tech as her old ones had been damaged in transfer. The bots, after Anne has been frequently activating them and experiencing battle stress, shifted her body to a stronger continence; more or less making her go through a forced second puberty within the course of a night. The result is a return to peak form for her.

Anne currently practices on improving her reaction times and other physical attributes using a combination of old habits and old training regimens to get used to the body over time and keep health between missions. She thus is as sharp as she was when she was younger.

## Fun facts/Trivia

* Anne has Knowledge of high tech and arcane, but doesn't use arcane, preferring to stick to her physical wit and training when in a fight or otherwise. She rarely relies on tech save for one piece of it, being her shield preferring to do and keep things simple and personal to the point of cooking or brewing food and beverages in an old style, which gives her a unique reputation in the industry.
* Anne when she was born and grew up as an Ordalian was at the age of 19 bitten by a Therion, which she spent the next decade of her life being one and dealing with blood lust while simultaneously running her business. She was later cured and reverted back to an Ordalian before being forced into a human from the transfer phenomena.
* Anne handles alcohol extremely well, almost being near immune to the negative effects. In laymans terms she: "Handles vodka like a Russian." This leads to many "Captain America" memes due to the fact she uses a shield similarly to him, went though a similar body transformation process and also does not get drunk easily at all.