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⌈ PLAYER SECTION ⌉
Player: Jayne
Contact: bronnichiwa
Age: 24
Current Characters: N/A


⌈ CHARACTER SECTION ⌉
Character: Anise Tatlin
Age: 13
Canon: Tales of the Abyss
Canon Point: Post-game

Background: Wiki link! Summary for game plotline below.

When the party first meets Anise, she's searching for a green-haired boy in the rural town of Engeve. It's quickly revealed that the boy she's searching for was actually her charge as a body-guard, Fon Master Ion. Fon Master is a title bestowed on the leader of the Order of Lorelei (the main religious force on Auldrant, which holds a fair amount of political power), making Anise responsible for guarding one of the most important, and most influential people in the world. To this end, she's also Ion's friend and confidant, and, at the time the party meets him, is working with both him and Jade to help prevent war. When the party's vessel is attacked, she's thrown off-board, but still manages to keep a letter key to the party's mission safe until they're able to rendezvous. After she rejoins the party, she fights to help protect Ion.

That's not to say that her role in the plot is limited to just bodyguard; because both of her parents are in debt to the Order of Lorelei, she's also tasked by Grand Maestro Mohs to keep tabs on the party (while her parents are essentially held hostage). Because of her leaking information, Mohs (and the rest of the Order of Lorelei) has constant tabs on the party's whereabouts. She's also responsible for handing Ion over to Mohs near the beginning of the third act, which almost directly causes his death. While distraught over this, she rejoins the party (no longer leaking information) and continues to fight in Ion's memory. When the party meets another one of the original Ion's replicas, Florian, she secures a place for him in the Daath Cathedral, and takes on the role of his caretaker. She continues to fight with the party until Van's threat is finished, but as soon as the final battle is over she returns to Daath to go back home and help take care of Florian.

Personality:
It would be difficult to find a cuter, more adorable little girl than Anise~! <3 At least, that's what somebody would assume from Anise's introduction. In many ways, Anise is your typical, adorable 13-year-old. Cuter than a button, pink is her favorite color, and she has lots of typical girly and childish interests to boot. Even her weapon is a stuffed animal, that she's able to control so that she can ride it around during battle. She punctuates her sentences with hearts, has a wide range of playful expressions, and fervently uses insults like 'meanie' to reinforce just how adorable she is.

Despite her initial 'cute' personality, however, Anise is, in many ways, the trickster character. When she's first introduced, she still tries to play off being the "cute little girl," which works very well, considering the fact that she is only thirteen. However, it's soon revealed that the cuteness is, in many ways, an act. While she tries to play off her cuteness as being innocent and helpless, she's actually nothing but. She joined the Oracle Knights to help clear her parents debt at thirteen, and became the Fon Master Guardian, essentially making her the bodyguard for the pope. She's seen battle, and because of her parent's situation, she understands a lot of harsh truths about the world, too. She has an almost fanatical fixation on money, although that's to be expected considering how much debt her parents were in.

In addition to this, she can be quick to anger, and has a pretty choice vocabulary for her age. Despite how demure she tries to come off, when she's thrown off the Tartarus defending Ion, she still screams "I'll kill you bastards" as she falls. When Ion brings this up later, she acts embarrassed, asking that he not bring it up in front of her 'beloved Luke.' At Kaitzur, she tries to use her feminine wiles to get the guard to let her in, but when he refuses her entry, she turns around, mumbling that he "better watch his back." The one thing guaranteed to trigger her anger quickly is someone scamming someone else; in one of the manga bonus chapters, she's out eating lunch with Ion when a pair of men come by bragging about how they've taken advantage of someone. Anise immediately flies into a rage, attacking them with Tokunaga, not realizing until afterwards that she'd dropped her 'cute' and 'cheerful' personality that she'd been putting on for Ion.

Her double personality also shows in her interactions with the party; for Luke and Ion in particular, she tries to be as sweet (and cute) as she can. Ion, because she's assigned to guard him (and she honestly cares for him and is afraid of him finding out that she's a spy), and Luke because, at first, she's captivated by him (and his money). Her interactions with Ion and Luke, while deceptive, are something that she ultimately believes is what's best for her future. Because Mohs' has control of her parents debt, and thus her family, she tries to come off the best she can for Ion. Similarly, she's captivated by Luke at first because of his money; if she can marry into wealth, she can pay off her parent's debt, and ultimately, lead an adult life with little or minimal stress compared to how it is now. To this extent, she tries very hard to cultivate a set of skills that would be traditionally womanly and make her a valuable marriage candidate, such as cooking and cleaning. In many ways, she acts like an adult, and it's difficult to tell her age. After all, despite being thirteen, she's spent the majority of her childhood having to act overly mature; she's had to put up with the comments that everyone in Daath made about her parents, while having to deal with shouldering the burden of their debt.

Her relationships with the rest of the party mimic the other aspects of her personality, too. For Jade, she tries to act cute, but because he's smart enough to see through, it usually ends up being a wasted effort. In many ways, they're relationship is almost that of a parent and child, even though it might be hard to tell at first glance. Guy is her favorite target for teasing (he is the easiest target), although she also does look up to him. While she first views Tear as a rival for Luke's affections, she eventually grows to see her as an older sister. Natalia is, by far, the character that she has the most friction with, especially upon joining. Not only was Natalia lucky enough to be born into a life of luxury (while she had a family that was often struggling for money), Anise also believes that because she's never had to actually work, she has a pretty naive understanding of how the world works. Eventually, the two do become closer, although they still continue to tease and taunt each other.

Because Anise really didn't have good parental figures (Pamela and her husband were horrendously irresponsible and while they loved Anise, they didn't know how to manage their money or their lives and were in fact so bad at it their daughter had to become a soldier at thirteen), Anise (very naturally) turns out to be the responsible one. When Florian appears, she takes on the motherly role and (after the journey) it's implied that she's responsible for his care. She's good at cooking; she holds down a job, and she does her best to take care of Ion. She leaks information on his whereabouts to Grand Maestro Mohs, it's not out of choice; it's because Mohs is essentially holding her parents hostage, and she feels there's nothing else she can do. Because of her leaking information, Ion dies, and it's something that she truly regrets. He was her best friend, and it's because of her that he's gone. But, eventually, instead of choosing to be stuck in the past, she decides to carry on in his name, aiming to be the first female fon master.

Abilities:
Even after being trained as a soldier, Anise is about as fit as an average thirteen year-old. What sets her apart is her ability to use fonic artes, her world's version of magic.

Using fonic artes, she can cast spells (example here) and manipulate her stuffed animal, Tokunaga. As long as she's close to Tokunaga, she can control his size (up to about twice her height) and movement.

Arte list for reference.

Alignment: Sosyne. Although Anise shows other prevalent emotions (Aiada, Daimonia, and Elios), I feel the alignment that best fits her is Sosyne. She's the most outwardly angry (and emotional) member of the team, and can be easily provoked (as seen with Sync and Arietta).

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⌈ SAMPLE SECTION ⌉


General Sample: Here and here!

Emotion Sample: Here!


Questions: Is there anything else I need to do for Tokunaga? Since he's technically a thing, I don't think he'd fall under the familiar category, but I can come up with a more detailed description if need be.