Name: Anna Hayes Gender: Female Approximate apparent age: 16 Personality: Anna is a fairly average teenage girl. She has quite a level head on her shoulders, and is a bit of a bookworm; she prefers reading to the constant gossiping of her classmates. Technically she'd be considered a bit of a rebel, what with her preference to more masculine clothing, but that's about as far as that label goes. She's also incredibly laid-back; it takes a lot to ruffle her feathers, and even then, she's more likely to just brush things off and get past the issue than lash out in anger. This makes her a great voice of reason! She flows easily through life, and all she wants is to help out wherever she can.
Degree of magical familiy heritage: Magic in her family goes back many generations, when their roots were still planted firmly in Europe, but they're nothing noteworthy. Competence as a magus Moderate. Focuses mostly on alteration, with considerable skill in reinforcement. Her personal element is water. Backstory leading up to the Holy Grail War: As mentioned, she's your fairly average teenage girl. Her family is just managing to scrape by in the wake of the Great Depression, and so she, as the only child, has to take on whatever work she can get to help her family. It was hard, and over and over again, Anna wished there was more that she could do to help her family out of the slump the entire country was in.
So when the whisperings of the Holy Grail War first began making their way around, she didn't pay much attention to it. But the more she learned, the more she realized that this could be what she was looking for. Her parents, while capable magi themselves, were too focused on keeping the three of them afloat in a world that seemed to be falling apart. But if she could make it into this war, if she could win...
Even without the wish the Grail would grant, the family of the winner of the Holy Grail War would obviously earn great prestige and notoriety in the magical community. It was the best hope they had, so Anna threw herself enthusiastically into her studies.
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Gender: Female
Approximate apparent age: 16
Personality: Anna is a fairly average teenage girl. She has quite a level head on her shoulders, and is a bit of a bookworm; she prefers reading to the constant gossiping of her classmates. Technically she'd be considered a bit of a rebel, what with her preference to more masculine clothing, but that's about as far as that label goes. She's also incredibly laid-back; it takes a lot to ruffle her feathers, and even then, she's more likely to just brush things off and get past the issue than lash out in anger. This makes her a great voice of reason! She flows easily through life, and all she wants is to help out wherever she can.
Degree of magical familiy heritage: Magic in her family goes back many generations, when their roots were still planted firmly in Europe, but they're nothing noteworthy.
Competence as a magus Moderate. Focuses mostly on alteration, with considerable skill in reinforcement. Her personal element is water.
Backstory leading up to the Holy Grail War: As mentioned, she's your fairly average teenage girl. Her family is just managing to scrape by in the wake of the Great Depression, and so she, as the only child, has to take on whatever work she can get to help her family. It was hard, and over and over again, Anna wished there was more that she could do to help her family out of the slump the entire country was in.
So when the whisperings of the Holy Grail War first began making their way around, she didn't pay much attention to it. But the more she learned, the more she realized that this could be what she was looking for. Her parents, while capable magi themselves, were too focused on keeping the three of them afloat in a world that seemed to be falling apart. But if she could make it into this war, if she could win...
Even without the wish the Grail would grant, the family of the winner of the Holy Grail War would obviously earn great prestige and notoriety in the magical community. It was the best hope they had, so Anna threw herself enthusiastically into her studies.