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Anika's base-line reaction to problems is that of anger and rage, which is extremely difficult to control, though with great effort she has learned how. Her control is very precious to her as is her image of control and competency. She is observant but tends to be dramatic, most of the time she likes to make a show and be the center of attention. She can be incredibly impatient but also can adapt quickly to new situations, it is this adaptability which has served to push her so far forward in her life. She lives in the moment, hates to theorize and consider cause and effect much beyond the moment having a tendency toward action and excitability. Socially, she is outgoing, friendly, and often has more thoughts to express than she has time to express them. Anika often comes off as aloof, because she is. She is apathetic in most cases toward the plight and experience of others unless it servers her purposes at the moment. The undercurrent along all of this is this feeling of betrayal, not only from her parents who were abusive and used her constantly but the military that created her. She burns with hate and anger, it is impossible to know which came first, her demonic side feeding her anger or her anger feeding her demonic side; at this point it is self serving - she uses her anger to propel her forward.
Her instability is the result of the mixing of a true demon forced into human form and an unwilling human-demon hybrid female, both were contained and trapped by powerful Divine Runes which trapped both creatures and helped the wizards manipulate the situation. The coupling took place over several days, and repeatedly. The end result was a pregnancy of 3/4 demon and 1/4 human, which created Anika. Even through this natural instability, she has learned (Through great effort) how to pull herself together and get the job done when she has to and it serves her purposes to do so. Still, she can be exceedingly brutal in lavish ways, feeding off of her own brutality and letting the bonds of control down long enough to relish in it.
Special Skills
- Interrogations (2B)
- She specializes in the use of fear of the unknown and constructing false narratives to gain information and flip prospective sources.
- Deception (3A)
- She is an expert liar and has an uncanny ability to tell when her lies are raising suspicions.
- Terror Tactics (3C)
- Specializing in small-group terror tactics to destabilize group dynamics by inciting distrust.
- Leadership (2B)
- She uses a mix of inspirations of fear, emotional manipulations, and her natural charisma to help her lead.
- Impulse Control (1B)
- She has been specially trained in controlling her impulses.
- Dance Performance
- Anika enjoys dancing but does not have the patience to properly learn, her particular grace and skill with her body lend well to being beautifully graceful but her skill is lacking in any refined qualities, as promising as she is.
Special Abilities
She is a highly powerful psionic who specializes in the detection and emotional manipulation of those around her. She can feel and understand emotions without empathizing.
- Psionic (3B)
- This includes significant use of almost the full range of psionic abilities at this skill level unless otherwise noted.
- Emotional Manipulations (3A)
- Pyrokinetic (2A)
- She is exceptionally good at pyrokinesis and controlling fire, though she isn't as naturally attuned to the fire she is experienced and enjoys this almost as much as the emotional manipulations.
- Hemokinetic (3B)
- She can use her psionic abilities to manipulate and draw powerful energy from blood and the life force it carries.
- Energy Drain (3C)
- She is able to sap away the energy of others, especially their emotional energy of those around her which can send those around her into deep depressions. She is capable of draining other energy forms but she is untrained at doing so and it comes across naturally as instinct. The drained energy strengthens her but may make her more unstable if she absorbs particularly chaotic or angry energies from others it will make her self control more difficult.
- Flight (2B)
- Separate from her psionic abilities she has the innate ability to fly, something for which she has practiced extensively but comes more difficultly for her than some of her other abilities.
- Ageless
- She does not physically age beyond the age of 19.
Equipment
Background
Her parents conceived her in rage and malice for each other, invoked into sexual interaction by forceful spells put upon them by runes which hurt them to even be near. This forceful use of such powerful magic twisted and solidified in the new life born of the union, the event itself has fueled Anika's inner rage. A rage that was not helped by the rage of both of her parents who both felt they should raise the child. Oddly, for any demonic entity, the male (whom was a full demon forced into human form) wanted his new daughter to become his consort, to and aid him in his efforts of conquest in the Severed Realm. His mother wanted her daughter for similar reasons, to help her amass power and wealth in the human world. The pair fought constantly, which was stoked by their captors, when Anika reached puberty at around 9 years old, the staff of the installation where she was being held forced a conflict between the two parents and killed them both. They banished her father back to hell with powerful seals, humiliating the demon so he could never return and the woman they destroyed, sealing her demonic essence away and killing the human body.
Anika was lead to believe that the base personnel kept her safe all those years, it wasn't until she was 19 that she reached final maturity as a demon, she attacked her captors after years of lies and manipulations. As an adolescent she grew more powerful than they knew and realized their deception, but instead of balking against it she learned from it. Killing the team that held her, she then realized that she was trapped in the facility by the same runes which had trapped her parents for all those years. In trade for her freedom, she made a pact with the US Government, her service and skills in exchange for freedom from her cage. That, and they would let her kill and feed her taste for blood.
The only way for which the United States Government has found to control her is through the Seal of Hedone, which grounds her psychic energy allowing her to make more rational decisions. He insanity comes from the psychic turbulence caused by her picking up on the infernal energy given off by her strong demon half. Anika, however, is not a sociopath in a clinical sense, while very intelligence her control of herself is limited, which means on the scale she is closer to a high functioning psychopath. Although her mental state is far more complicated than that; she craves approval at times desiring to be the center of attention and gets violently angry when someone upstages her. At other times she displays an unusually brilliant amount of self control and composition, able to properly fade into the background and pull strings unseen. This fundamental conflict drives her motives and also gives her the appearance of being far more unstable than she actually is.
As her life progressed she found that she had an affinity for blood, she liked it, enjoyed the feel of it, the taste of it. She also found that she could draw power from it, use it, manipulate it. Everyone has their skills that they are good at, the things for which they excel. For her she excels are emotions, emotional control and manipulation. However, if one was to ask what she loved; it would be the blood. She was eventually assigned to the Draco Domus base near Miami Florida, her pension for dousing herself in the blood of her victims (and enemies) garnered her a nickname from the Cuban population; Roja. If one finds someone who is willing to talk, hard enough to do, one could easily hear a story of how she exploded a man and smeared his still-hot blood over her body, dripping it from his beating heart onto her skin, just before fighting a gang of vampires that was preying on military personnel. She destroyed then within minutes, moving faster than the eye could see. Some of the community who saw it with their own eyes, the ones she saved directly with this, call her Little Roja affectionately.
Demon Form : Ag'drimuth
- Transformed Height
- 5'9"
- Wingspan
- 6'
- Category
- 4
Anika is not a fused human-demon, but rather it is in her very blood. Thus while the Seal of Hedone allows her some control of her demonic energies but they are always there. If she wishes she can call upon those energies and transform into her demon self, suppressing the far smaller human side. Once her humanity is suppressed she transforms, her skin turns a pale ghostly white and phantasmal wings spread out from her back, supported by bare bones like that of a bat and she grows in stature to about 5'9" tall, growing in weight and muscle mass significantly in the process.
The demon, Ag'drimuth, feeds on life force or the souls of those it captures. It holds an intense rage toward mortal life, fed from the rage of Anika herself.
Special Abilities
- Inter-planar Travel (4C)
- Dimensional Anchor (4C)