<div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;">PinkProfessional</span></strong></div><div class="floatright">All pictures by artist <em>Emukon (https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&amp;s=list&amp;tags=emukon)</em><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/2aGrZoP.jpg)<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/E0vISkU.jpg)<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/IXfqY82.jpg)<br/></div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Anffawd (https://glosbe.com/cy/en/anffawd), although she prefers going by the name 'Lady Anna'<br/><strong>Age:</strong>33<br/><strong>Species [Type]:</strong>Absol [Dark]<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Female<br/><strong>Orientation:</strong>Pansexual<br/><br/><strong>Residence:</strong>Flits between her two businesses: The Sweet Kiss in Midtown, and the Night Daze in Delinquent Town<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Owner of the above establishments, as well as a prolific 'Investor' in the Delinquent Town economy.<br/><br/><strong>Appearance:</strong>Beautiful scarlet eyes, White-silver locks, and pink lips are the first features that might strike someone gazing upon Lady Anna. She has a striking beauty to her that often enraptures and ensnares the unsuspecting. Darker skin that contrasts her white hair, and the half-crown horn on her head are the only real hints that there is something more than just a pretty face before them.<br/><br/>Standing at roughly 5'9, and weighing around 160 lbs, Lady Anna is more curvy than most in her profession, although she remains careful not to veer into the realms of excess which she has learned to despise. Not particularly strong or swift, and instead preferring to focus on her cunning and guile as weapons, she is thankfully unblemished by scars, bruises, or cuts. Her nails are long dark things, carefully snipped, clipped, and manicured to avoid them growing into the claws they could so easily become. A fastidious and near obsessive need to be clean leaves her smelling faintly of lavender and  summer berries at nearly all times.<br/><br/><strong>Personality:</strong>Outwardly, Anna is a flirty, confident woman with a near constant smile and a non-existent ego. She is the sort of person to sprinkle praise upon those she talks with while they are useful, or in favour; but then unload with a barbed insult or thinly veiled threat the moment things get tense. Even when in danger, Anna is surprisingly confident and fearless to the point of seeming vain or foolish. Whether this is because of her own confidence in herself, and her guile; or because of a sense of acceptance is hard to know.<br/><br/>Inwardly, Anna is a somewhat vulnerable woman who mostly just seeks to improve her lot in life. She resents the world that was robbed from her at birth, and has fought tooth and nail to prove that she is not only worthy of the last name she lost, but that she is beyond it. To some degree, she has already done so. Her business acumen and ruthless pursuit of wealth has left her a success from nothing that even now probably outshines her old house. Still, the niggling voice of doubt in the back of her mind portents constant disaster, and leaves the Lady wanting to keep expanding, and growing. Mostly, she just wants to finally reach that point where she feels completely in control, and safe.<br/><br/>Despite her harshness in business, Anna is a protective and kind boss. The girls under her employ are well looked after, and anyone who abuses them finds that ruin follows soon after. She is especially kind to the downtrodden and those with nothing, offering stable employment to anyone desperate and without other options. Perhaps this is a weakness, but Anna stands by her choice to always be better than those that threw her away.<br/><br/><strong>Inherent Abilities:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Immunity to Psychic attacks</li><li>Expanded Life Span</li><li>Superior Darkvision</li><li>Umbrakinesis</li><li>Retractable Claws</li></ul><br/><strong>Special Abilities:</strong><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li><em>'Fate' Manipulation </em>- The very world seems to bless Lady Anna with a degree of enhanced luck. If she bets on the losing outcome, things seem to shift and bend to make her more likely to succeed. If she bets on a winning outcome, it basically becomes impossible to buck that trend. In short, Anna is a being with Superior Luck; although she hardly advertises the fact. Generally, her ability cannot supersede skill, and nor will it literally make things that are unlikely by design happen. A card shark who is sculpting a deck will not find his order ruined, while a dealer who is randomising a deck of cards will find that the cards fall in her favour. If someone attacks her, they won't find the world suddenly turning against them with mysteriously hostile masonry falling from the sky, or the ground opening up to swallow them. Should Anna blindly throw an attack however, it is more likely to hit somewhere vital.</li><li><em>Noble Bearings</em> - Although it is something she mostly suppresses, Anna has a sort of intense aura about her that intimidates lesser beings. Her pressure makes it so that those who she dislike feel the crushing weight of misfortune upon them, and the sense of dread can lead to those same feelings of dread and misfortune build upon them.</li><li><em>Fortunes Favoured</em> - Perhaps most scary of the woman's abilities, Lady Anna often enough has prophetic visions of the future. It is draining, but given time she can generally portent whether a venture will end in 'fortune' or 'misfortune.' This makes her an incredibly valuable ally in business, and her word alone has been known to end businesses in Delinquent Town, for fear of going against the Prophet of Delinquent Town? Of course, what Lady Anna doesn't advertise is that her prophecies are not perfect, and that a strong willed individual can - with enough effort - defy misfortune and disaster. After all, she does it frequently enough herself.</li></ul><br/><strong>Egg Move:</strong>Magic Coat<br/><br/><strong>Strengths:</strong>Intelligent, Business-Minded, Well-Connected, Subject of Rumour, Beloved, and Desirable<br/><br/><strong>Weaknesses:</strong>Physically Weak, Motivated by Revenge, Protective of her 'Girls', and Subject of Superstition.<br/><br/><strong>Likes [Non-Sexual:</strong>Intelligent People, her Girls, Dark Chocolate, Sweet-Things, Flirting, Challenges, Games.<br/><strong>Dislikes [Non-Sexual]:</strong>Nobility, Superstition, Idiots, People who try and muscle in on her territory, Being Underestimated.<br/><br/><strong>Ons:</strong>Power Dynamics, Light Bondage, Single Partners, Small groups, Oral (Giving and Receiving), Penetrative Sex, Comfort, Compliments, Cuddling<br/><strong>Offs:</strong>Boring People, Degradation Play, Too-Many-People, Leaving permanent marks, Violent Sex, Toilet Play<br/><em>Player's O/o (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=236929.0)</em><br/><br/><br/><strong>Backstory:</strong><br/><br/>Once Upon a Time, Anffawd was the result of an illicit affair between an unknown father and a daughter of a Marquess. Several times in the early years, Anffawd was put in severe danger of punishment for the crime of being born. Her deviancy was her burden, and the Marquess tried a great many things to try and hide his daughter's shame. Anffawd never left the estate, and rarely saw the light of day until she was twelve years old, when her destiny took a sinister turn.<br/><br/>With the Marquess' daughter in line to be married off politically, Anffawd was set to be silently 'removed' from the equation. The young girl sensed disaster on the horizon, and escaped with the help of a few servants who pitied her. Years later, Lady Anna would discover that those brave souls were brutally dealt with for their crime.<br/><br/>With no real coin to her name, or value to her life, Anffawd fled to Delinquent town and found work wherever she could. There was little a young woman could do in those times to earn her keep, but she made due. Whether it was through lucky thefts, or through careful deals, the Absol survived as best she could. Growing thin, but growing up into an attractive woman. As most women on hard times did, she eventually found herself propositioned to work at a brothel, which she accepted.<br/><br/>Working as a prostitute was hardly glamorous, but Anffawd made it work. She learned her trade, and she found herself able to draw secrets from lover's lips better than most. Her talent and cunning soon had her finding a use for all of these whispered secrets: A lucrative tip-off here that helped a street gang ambush a merchant's caravan here; a winning bet on a rigged fight there; soon enough Anffawd was starting to make more than the meagre wage of a whore. She was becoming wealthy off her of talents, as well as her newly discovered manipulation of the fates itself.<br/><br/>By the time she was Twenty-Four, Anffawd had saved up a mighty nest egg, and she 'retired' from her profession. The Absol disappeared for a year, for two years, even. Then, Lady Anna returned. Her first business was to buy the whorehouse that she'd worked at, rechristening it the Night Daze. For a few years, Anna grew her business and taught her 'girls' the skills they would need to help elevate her up the hierarchy of Delinquent Town. She would grow her reputation as a cunning consort who seemingly always had a winning tip for the right price, and whose network of spies didn't simply limit itself to the bedroom.<br/><br/>Now a regular in the politics of Delinquent Town, Lady Anna has spread her network greatly. She only claims to own one business herself, although her owning stake in a several businesses in her 'hometown' as well as a newfound interest in businesses outside of it make her a cunning and useful lady indeed: One who has weaponised cunning, and wealth as her weapons of choice, and who is constantly on the prowl for new customers, new clients, and new business partners.<br/><br/><strong>Connections:</strong><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Player Characters</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em><strong>Dantarius Ryzerion</strong></em> – Handsome as he is, Dantarius and Lady Anna just live in different worlds. (Neutral)<br/><em><strong>Dimitrius Maranzano</strong></em> – Lady Anna shares a fine relationship with the 'Mayor', acting as an information broker to the man, in return for protection and – on occasion – affection. She likes it when he takes the suit off, and talks dirty to her pillow, even if she enjoys the teasing and the tension just as much. (Very Positive)<br/><em><strong>Cassandra Mia Maranzano</strong></em> – Dimitrius' cute little shadow has passed along Anna's view from time to time, and occasionally they have met at a certain Society after dark... (Neutral-Positive Leaning)<br/><em><strong>Lady Anna</strong></em>  - &lt;N/a&gt;<br/><em><strong>Luca Zajac</strong></em> – A single act of kindness connects them, although neither knows it. (Neutral)<br/><del><em><strong>Hena Glowglide</strong></em> – A fellow woman of class, culture, and delightful talents. Anna and Hena get on well, and she does so enjoy the Society that Hena has set up; to the point that she helped found it. (Positive)</del> [Pending approval]<br/><em><strong>Scyla IronHide</strong></em> – A single guardian in Midtown has not likely attracted Lady Anna's attention. (Neutral)<br/><em><strong>Quiqui Zola</strong></em> – Lady Anna likely doesn't know Quique, although a dramatic family death involving the murder of a matriarch could potentially pique her interest... (Neutral/Potential Plotline)<br/><em><strong>Tera Joule</strong></em> - Lots of similarities between the two business women means there could easily be a friendship here, or a rivalry... (Neutral, Discussion required)<br/><em><strong>Sizo Galu</strong></em>- [To Be Discussed]<br/><em><strong>Vandris Callaghan</strong></em> - As much as Lady Anna doesn't much like nobles, there is nothing seemingly offensive about this young man. Who knows where this might lead? (Neutral)<br/><br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">NPCs</div><div class="spoiler_body">TBD</div></div><br/>