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Nickname ● It's just Anna.
Age ● 31
Gender ● Female
Height ● 5'4"
Race/species ● Human
Romantic preferences ● Men
Role ● Nobility
Kingdom ● Muriel
Allegiance ● Muriel
Occupation
● Royal Advisor: With the title of Royal Advisor, Anna's job is to provide advice, insight and information to the royals of Muriel. Many advisors specialize in one key area and for Anna that is assisting with the creation of peaceful alliances with the neighboring kingdoms.
Hobbies
● Reading: Having had grown up in a house full of books, Anna naturally found reading to be a peaceful hobby. With an intense and sometimes chaotic job, reading is a way for her to escape reality.
● Debating: From an early age Anna was taught to be quick on her feet and to speak with poise. In hindsight, most of that likely came from her father being a royal advisor and loving to debate. To this day the two continue to spar words for fun.
● Painting: "You don't have to be good at something to enjoy it," was something her mother always preached. For Anna that has come in the form of painting. She is somewhat decent with painting landscapes and flowers but her portraits are atrocious. Still, there is something freeing about painting that Anna finds freeing.
The Personal Things
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Personality ● Anna has often been described as a, "perfect lady." She is always on time, knows exactly how to conduct herself, and understands what is expected of her. However, just like anyone involved in politics, she does have a voice that she is not afraid to use. As an advisor she finds that honesty is the best approach to achieving the necessary results. She is known for not mincing her words and for being highly practical. With a sharp tongue and love for her kingdom she is known as someone to not cross.
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Strengths
● Poised: Even in the most stressful, upsetting, and aggravating of situations Anna is able to stay composed and self-assured. Her mother has even commented that even in the worst circumstances she is somehow able to have a level of grace and elegance to her.
● Eloquent: For Anna to be effective at her job she has learned how to be a well spoken women. Most of it came naturally and she feels that she is able to articulate her points in an effective and graceful manner.
● Loyal:Maybe it is because of her job or just who she is, but Anna is deeply devoted to Muriel and their royals. She is committed to making Muriel an exemplary model of a peaceful and successful kingdom.
Weaknesses
● Arachnophobia: Spiders big or small are something that Anna can not bear to see. Just the thought of one makes her skin crawl.
● Perfectionist:Anna wants everything that she does to be done perfectly. If she messes up a document or makes a mistake while talking in front of the royals she is known it mentally beat herself up for hours on end.
● Inpatient: Whoever said patience was a virtue clearly did not work an important job. Well, that's what Anna has always thought anyway. When answers are taking too long to be answered or something is taking longer to be completed than expected she is known to become snappy at those around her and to pace.
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Biography
● Anna is the only child of Sir Douglas McClair and Lady Sinéad McClair in the kingdom of Muriel. After she turned two years of age her parents attempted to have more children but every pregnancy failed. Local physicians were unable to determine why her mother was unable to have any more children and advised her parent's to stop trying. Many have assumed from that tidbit of information that Anna had a lonely childhood but that was in fact the complete opposite. Her parents allowed her to be a child but also had high expectations for her.
As a little girl Anna was always fascinated with her father's job. She loved watching him flip through books, jot down notes, and practice his speeches to her mother. The fact that he also rubbed shoulders with the royals was not lost on her either. When her interest truly began to bloom she was informed that the men of her family, all the way back to to her great-great-great grandfather, had served their kingdoms as a political advisor. Some of her family specialized in trade, other's finances, and one in war strategy. However, there had never been a woman in the family to hold that position.
For many years Anna had resided herself to being just a house wife like her mother. She loved her mother and respected the work she did to maintain a happy and loving home, but the idea of doing that for the rest of her life bored her. Once she began to learn more about politics and the found herself surrounded by more royals she realized she could not be what her family her wanted. As a young teenager her sat her parents down and informed them that her plan was to become the first woman McClair to join politics. It initially took some time for her parent's to agree with assisting her down this path but once they did she felt empowered.
Anna received lessons on politics, negotiations, debating, and speech writing from her father and her tutor, Jean-Claude. The lessons could be intense at times and required her to quickly taught her to develop a thick skin. When she was twenty-five, Jean-Claude passed from old age and when she was twenty-eight her father stepped down from his role. Anna was selected to take her father's place and is continuing to make the McClair family a known one in the world of the royals and politics. Three and a half years on she is working closely with the royal family and assisting them with creating peaceful alliances among the neighboring kingdoms.
