Gender: Female
Age: 18
Grade: Senior
Hobbies and Interests: Skateboarding, Photography, Drawing
Gift: The Mercury Parasite
Power Details: The Mercury Parasite appears as a flowing mass of mercury roughly the size of a human torso. It lives outside of Ana's body but needs to remain in physical contact with a part of her skin at all times. It can however flow freely across her body and doesn’t have a set anchor point. The parasite is also able to change its shape, displaying the ability to able to flatten, contract, constrict, harden etc. Ana has the ability to control the parasite and use it for movement, protection, opening doors. The parasite itself has all of the characteristics of mercury but Ana is immune to its effects. It also appears to have its own limited level of self-awareness and consciousness, sometimes refusing to follow Ana's instructions or attempting to do things itself. Ana and the parasite appear able to communicate with one another on an instinctual level with Ana being able to control the parasite as one might do a limb.
Limitations and Drawbacks: The Mercury Parasite doesn't always listen to Ana when she instructs it to do something, making the application of its abilities inconsistent. If the parasite is separated from Ana it is not capable of taking action by itself, becoming inert until they are reunited. During any periods of separation from the parasite Ana begins to suffer similar symptoms to mercury poisoning, displaying muscle weakness, poor coordination and numbness in her extremities. These symptoms become more severe as time goes on and can potentially lead to organ failure. As the parasite is made of mercury Ana needs to be careful with exposing it to others. As such during school hours the parasite mainly resides under her clothing or in her backpack where others can’t touch it.
Appearance: Ana stands at 5'5" and weighs 132lbs. Her face is slender with thin pale blue eyes, soft angled low arched eyebrows, a rounded mouth, and a thin nose. Her hair is dirty blonde and kept long with a ponytail at the back and long curtains that frame her face. Ana's body is thin with more of her weight focused around her hips and thighs.
Ana prefers to wear comfortable styles while still being relatively fashionable. She wears makeup although she uses more subtle and natural tones to accent her looks more than try to be eye-catching by itself. On the day of the abduction, Ana was wearing a plain black hoodie under an olive bomber jacket with ripped boyfriend jeans and Nike Dunk Highs in white aluminum.
Background:
- Ana was born in Bend, Oregon to Cedric Andrich and Cory Ford, and is one of two sisters. Her parents are divorced with Cedric returning to Germany and Cory working as a nurse.
- Ana's parents divorced when she was a child and as a result, she doesn't have any memories of her father. She has spoken to him over the phone and video but has never met him in person.
- Ana's sister is named Lena and is three years older than Ana herself, due to Cory's work hours Lena was the one who spent a lot of time looking after Ana after school meaning the pair are very close.
- Ana's favourite hobby is skateboarding although it is something she prefers to do by herself partly because the parasite can sometimes make things difficult for her.
- Ana picked up photography from Lena as a bonding exercise between the two. Once Ana's gift emerged she learned a way to climb with the parasite to get more unique shots.
- Ana has a small but close group of friends around school who she mainly hangs out with but she is bad at interacting with people she doesn't know very well.
- Ana is unsure what she'll do when she graduates, although she is currently applying to colleges to study photography.
Other Skills: Climbing
