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Out of Character Information
Name: Kim
Username: (if applicable) aproclivity
Are you over the age of eighteen? Yes
Current characters in Baedal: Martha Jones

In Character Information
Basics
Character Name: Ana Lewis/The Baroness
Username: seeyaduke
Fandom: G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra
Played By: Sienna Miller
Icon: http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/111960400/39284572

Canon Character Section (disregard if applying for an original character)
Physical Description: Ana is slight, and her five foot five inch frame is often augmented with large heels. Her hair is long and dark and straight, falling far down her back. The most striking thing about Ana's face is the glasses that she wears. Though the frames can change, they are most often thick and black. Without them, she's blind as a bat.

Sexuality: Ana's sexuality runs towards the straight, and she favors partners who have some sort of position of power and or people who have a history of action. The two main love interests in the movie demonstrate that. Duke, her first fiancee, is a man who is a solider.
History:

Once upon a time the Lewis family was happy, healthy and wealthy in California. Ana was popular, a good big sister, a good daughter, clever... and then their parents died. Ana and Rex were left alone with just each other. Rex joined the army as a science officer and introduced her to Duke. Ana and Duke were the perfect all-American couple, and just before Duke, Rex and Ripcord were deployed, Duke proposed and Ana accepted under the one condition that he would bring her little brother home safe and sound.

It wasn't to be. Two months later, two men in army dress uniforms came and told her that her brother was dead. When she asked after Duke, the two men said that the rest of her brother's team had survived. Ana didn't see Duke until four years later.

For six months after Rex's funeral and Duke's abandonment, Ana slipped into a deep and dangerous depression. She felt truly lost and alone. The sense of loss was turning into an anger; the anger wasn't a hot rage, but a cold, steady, slow burn. Finally in the middle of the night, The Doctor showed up and offered to train her, to give her a way of having vengeance upon the world that had taken everything from her.

Ana rarely saw the Doctor following that, instead she was given over to Storm Shadow for training. Ana became his best student, learning all of the badass tricks of the trade that she needed. Each time she trained, Ana would slip further away from the girl whom she was and further into the killer she would become. In the end, Ana became involved in a relationship with James, and he became the only person she gave a damn about.

Eventually, Ana was sent to start preperations for MARS's long game. The first part was Ana seducing and marrying the Baron DeCobray. MARS would need a way to weaponize the nanomite warheads, and in the Baron, they found someone who would do. Ana spied and followed and in some cases guided her husband's research to where it needed to be. Once everything fell into place, McCullen announced his nanomite technology to the UN and the Baroness lead a team to go and kill the NATO forces and steal the warheads.

Ana would have succeeded if the Joes hadn't shown up. Even then, she still walked over and kicked Duke in the face in the middle of fighting. Duke joined G.I. Joe and Ana and Storm Shadow broke into the Pit and stole the warheads back.

Once the two were in posession of the warheads, they visited the Baron's lab, and had them weaponized before Storm Shadow killed Daniel, the Baron DeCobray. Then Ana and Storm Shadow destroyed a large chunk of Paris, killed a bunch of people and ended up returning to the MARS base below the polar ice cap. With the Joes descending, the Baroness put the second part of the long game into action.

If for some reason the plan wasn't going to suceed, MARS would need a way of keeping track of what the Joes were doing, and they already had the perfect vessel for doing it: Ana. Duke still believed that she loved him somewhere and they decided to make use of that fact. Ana carried nanomites in her, and in the end Rex decided to spill the beans about who he was and make Duke think that Ana was being mind controlled. She isn't, but the fiction was necessary to bring her into the Joe's circle. Ana needs to be in the Joes world in order to support President Zartan in case he needs it. However, Ana thinks that the Doctor being Rex is a story he came up with to mindfuck Duke. She will be incredibly pissed when the truth comes out.

Ana then pretends to be the whiny little weakling she was before in order to make Duke think she's back, including all sorts of lovely kissy faces and simpering 'help me' tones. After escaping from a situation that had little to no danger for her, and "helping" capture her brother and lover (there was no way they could escape) Ana is brought with them to the brig in order remove the nanomites that the Joes believe could control her mind.

For seven months Ana was a model prisoner, keeping up her appearances of loving Duke and being friendly and generally convincing everyone that The Baroness was nothing more than a manipulation. Then, finally everything was ready and Ana had collected all sorts of data and had set a device of her own to destroy the Joes. After breaking James and the Doctor out of their cells, the three escaped into a jet and were then shot down over Egypt. The Baroness then woke up aboard the Barge.

Upon her arrival there, Ana spent several days pouring over the back entries in the communication system and what she discovered surprised her. While having no memories of her being there, apparently she had been, and had gone far in the redemption process. Deciding that it would be easier for people to think that she was mostly redeemed, Ana kept up the appearance of being that person to everyone but her brother only person whom she trusted despite the fact that he'd been lying about his death for years. She has some lingering anger over that, but is happier to have him alive and being a liar than having him be dead.

Rex wanted to get off the Barge, so Ana helped him with a break in to the same Paris lab where her dearly departed husband had worked. Once the weapons where done, Ana ended up in a fight with the Joes again, generally kicked ass, and got back aboard the Barge. Being paired with Bertie Wooster had its benefits, and one of them was never needing to face the consequences of his actions. Of course, it also meant that she made zero progress on the redemption front as well.

After Paris, the nanomite warheads were set off, and they ended up sending the entire Barge to the land of the dead. There Ana used her cat burglar skills to steal a necklace to fix the Barge, but fell into a coma before she could be held accountable for her part in the destruction. Ana's point of arrival will be waking up from her coma with her thought being, "I don't want to be here."


Powers: Ana's body has been modified by the injection of nanomites into her system. The nanomites give her increased agility and speed, so that she becomes a movie fu ninja. The nanomites also increase her healing ability so that when she is injured (like in a car wreck or fight) her body instantly heals the effects.

Talents/Abilities:: Ana has been trained as a spy and a ninja for the past four years. She's an excellent liar, and is extremely proficient with movie martial arts as well as several weapons skills. Ana is also extremely intelligent, and good at reading people. One of her jobs was acting as a thief, so Ana's good at that as well.

Personality: Once upon a time, Ana was a happy, well-adjusted blond girl from California. The eldest child of loving, doting parents, Ana was a good big sister, a loving girlfriend, a good student of literature, and all around your generic love interest for the all America hero.

But now Ana is a woman on a mission and that mission is to destroy as much as possible. She really really is. She's a horrible human being, but she's a horrible human being for a reason. The loss of her parents when she was a teenager, the "loss" of Rex at what Ana sees at the hands of her fiancée, and the loss of said fiancée himself have hardened her to an absurd level. Ana is a classic case of hate eating someone alive. The hate came from her spirialing depression and loss, and now she sees the world as only one thing: a tool to get whatever she wants.

Ruthless, Ana wants revenge on pretty much everything for taking her brother and that happy little life away from her. She wants to make everyone suffer in the way she was suffering before she built this shell around herself. Ana will literally do whatever it takes to make this happen, and trading on every part of herself that she can. If Ana needs to be the love interest, she will be and will go along with everything that it entails. (Ana does this twice in her canon: first when she goes off and marries Baron DeCobray for access to his particle accelerator to weaponize the nanomite warheads, and then again later by going off with Duke for the long game. The second one is infinitely harder.)

Her ability to do this means that she has amazing acting abilities and can be incredibly manipulative. Her acting abilities come in handy because at the moment, she only cares about one person on the entire planet: Rex Lewis. Oh, she may have a sense of fondness or indebtedness to McCullen or Storm Shadow, but Rex is the one person on the planet that she actually loves. And the only person she would do anything for.

But Ana pretends she cares for other people. She often calls people "darling" but while she does it, it's a distancing technique. It's also something she uses so that she never needs to worry about getting a target's name wrong. That's not because she has a faulty memory--it's because all of her targets tend to run together in her head. They mean that little to her.

Ana's work ethic is one that is deeply ingrained in her. Completing her job is tied into her ego which is rather large. Confident and certain in everything that she does (now) Ana knows that she is the best. Narcissism may have been an unintended trait born of her feeling more than a little invulnerable, but it's one that was bolstered by years of being the popular girl in school. It makes her a bit flippant and dismissive of things around her, causing her to use qualifiers of "little" or "sweet." It's also a bit of a distancing technique as above: she's better than the circumstances that she's dealing with and wants you to know it.

While not purely a sadist, Ana has some sadistic qualities. She enjoys wielding the power she has over people. The moments were Ana looks like she's having the most fun are when she walks up and kicks her former lover in the face when he's gobsmacked to see her, and then again when she's had her husband killed. Earlier in the movie, Storm Shadow tells the Baroness that McCullen gave him orders to kill the Baron if he touched her again. After he's weaponized the nanomites, Ana kisses her husband and Storm Shadow stabs him in the back. With a disgusted tone, Storm Shadow says "I told you I'd kill him if he touched you again," all Ana says in response is "I heard you the first time." In fact, she finds McCullen's murderous jealousy endearing. And almost sweet.

Ana's biggest weakness is always going to be her love for her brother. Despite now knowing that he lied to her, and that he turned her into this, she still trusts him, even though the trust is not as unshakable as it once was. When she arrives in Baedal, she's going to assume that this was what was meant to happen as some part of his plan that she didn't know about. Rex keeping Ana from knowing every aspect of his plans isn't something that is new, but it's something that upsets her more than it used to. However, being in a much larger cage (because it will feel cage-like to Ana make no mistake) will mean that she has less time to think about this, and more time to just be.

Upon her arrival, she's going to be relieved. All her abilities are working now, and she's not a member of the most wanted. Ana's going to slide into the mindset of the city easily, and she'll probably start out acting entirely legitimately before her narcissism, ego and complete boredom drive her into some criminal acts.

Object: Ana's awesome glasses. They can change size, shape, color, and have different uses. For example, they can go into binocular mode, see heat, turn into night vision and magnify things.

Reason for playing: :I've been playing her elsewhere for a while, and love playing her from that canon point. I also really enjoy playing out the brother/sister dynamic between Rex and Ana, and it's some of my favorite CR ever. Also, putting her in this environment versus somewhere else is a fun and brilliant idea to me.

Gods: Vell. As mentioned in her personality, Ana is consumed with a desire for revenge and rage. This makes her a good fit.


Writing Samples
Players may choose to write three of the four writing samples. Additionally, for two of the three samples applicants may substitute links to previously written roleplaying threads of no less than eight substantial replies. We reserve the right to ask for an additional sample if more information is required.

First-Person Network Post: [Ana has been here for a length of time. She's gone over the CID messages for the past several weeks, and she's especially read the new arrivals and has seen Iago and her brother. Well, thank heaven for small favors. With a little bit of a harried smile, the'red, because Ana is good at this, and she's seen what works.]

Um. Hello. Could someone please let me out of here? I know that there's staff, but I'd prefer not to wait. I've never been a fan of small spaces.

[Private to Rex]

[The innocence and confusion have slid off her tone, and they've been replaced with a bit of urgency.]

So how do our timelines hook up here, Rex?

First-Person Journal Post: A few sentences written by the character, something they intend only for themselves to read. A look into how they think of themselves and how they are when no one is looking.

Third-Person Arrival Post: Someone had bought her to the infirmary. Well, wasn't that nice of them. For a moment Ana wondered who it could have been. After all, her little warden had completely swanned off after leaving her the gift of his item and he practically hadn't counted as a warden before then. Maybe it had been her brother. That would make sense, but somehow she didn't know if he'd have actually bought her into the hospital. Damn it she thought as her head sank back into the pillow. I don't want to be here anymore.

The air felt different against her skin, and suddenly she was no longer laying against a soft bed and a pillow that had seen much brighter days. Groaning as her head hit the table, Ana sat up quickly, grateful that whatever the Barge coma was, it didn't add atrophy into your muscles. As she sat up, she felt something very odd indeed. Her body felt as if it was working on full power again, and when she moved onto her feet, it was faster than she'd been in months. That could only mean one thing, and she grinned broadly.

Whatever had happened, wherever she was, her nanomites were working at their full capacity once more. Oh, this was going to be good. Finding the journal, Ana flicked through it with eager fingers, finding both her brother and his boyfriend. Excellent. Wherever the hell she was it meant that things were looking up. A time without an Admiral; maybe Rex had succeeded after all.


Third-Person Action Post: The perils of wearing heels when you fought meant that they seemed incredibly loud against a marble floor. If only she'd gone with the platform boots that worked with her "uniform" then she wouldn't be in this mess. Skidding a bit around a corner, Ana's breath came in short gasps as she attempted to get it under control. If someone had a good sense of hearing, they might be able to track her into the small alcove that she was currently hiding in.

This thing had better be worth it, Ana thought, and she touched the bodice of her dress where the small crystal had been secured. Not incredibly original of a hiding place, but still worth it if only for what else was hiding in that bodice as well. All it would take was one silly little man to decide to reach his hand in there and it would all be over but the screaming.

She loved the screaming.

A prod of her glasses shifted the room into thermal and she could see that someone was coming. Lips turned into a thin smile before Ana slammed the door into their face as they came at her in a run. The sickening crack followed by a thud and groan bought her out from behind the door, and Ana brought her heel down on the man's hand when he reached for the gun that had fallen. "I'll take that if you don't mind, darling. Guns are tricky things when your vision's impaired."

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