Anna Angel

Pathologic 2=

Anna Angel (Анна Ангел) is a young woman living in The Willows, on the eastern side of town.

Description
"A former circus performer from the infamous traveling troupe known as the Ace of Diamonds Caravan. ... Anna is a rather shallow person, and entirely devoid of morals, but the paradoxical thing is, everybody likes her! Men, women and children all become irrationally fond of Anna from the first time they see her, which then grows into blind trust, attachment, even love—despite her not deserving even a small fraction of those feelings. Anna is happy to use this love to her advantage; what's more, her need to feel loved is bordering on addiction at this point. She wants to be adored. This thirst for adoration has a remarkable consequence: Anna is afraid, to the point of panic, of townspeople finding out who she is—yet she can’t resist occasionally showing her performing talents: singing, juggling, doing acrobatics. She takes this risk for the sake of a minute of rapt attention. Sometimes she slips up and does one of her “numbers” without meaning to (much to the delight of those present), only to spend the next few nights trembling in fear at having given away who she is."

- From the game design's documents

Background
Prior to her arrival in The Town Anna Angel was a part of the Ace of Diamonds Caravan: a famous roaming circus troupe. The Caravan was dismantled after is was discovered that they were trafficking children. While in the Caravan Anna would steal children on the Caravan's behalf. It is implied that she regrets her time in the Caravan and wished to atone for her actions. This, however, could just be another one of Anna's many performances.

After arriving in the Town Anna takes refugee with the Willows in their mansion. Later, the Willows family all dies. It is unclear what happened to them but many suspect that Anna had a hand in their deaths.

Haruspex Route
"My path was called "The Angel of Death." I'm not sure, myself, why I was in the Caravan... forgive me, please! I promise I'll be good!"

The Marble Nest
Anna is still alive at the time The Marble Nest unfolds; the hover text over the Willows has the Bachelor stating he is positive she still resides there.

Spoken Dialogue

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Description
Anna is a singer—however, no one has ever heard her sing. Rumor has it, Anna's past is closely linked with a terrible caravan called the Ace of Diamonds. However, many believe that this rumor is too obvious and that she must be covering some other secret.

She does not trust anyone, especially children, calling them "the cause of all ills." She sees almost everyone as a threat.

The Caravan
Anna has not been proven to have associated with the Caravan, but everyone assumes that she was.

The "family of the Ace of Diamonds" was the living nightmare of the entire country for years before the Second Outbreak. It was a traveling circus made up of highly talented actors. The Caravan would arrive in a city and arrange a show: one during the day, for children, and one at night, for adults. During the day the Caravan sought out beautiful and talented kids and later, when they were sleeping, they were stolen to join the Caravan and be trained as gymnasts, jugglers, sex workers, singers and acrobats... and in the morning the parents found their children replaced by the circus freaks they had watched at night.

The caravan evaded arrest for a long time, but was finally caught near Orv. Many actors were killed during the interrogation, and all the survivors were sentenced to death. Since then, much time has passed, and the caravan has become the subject of many horrible rumors and legends.

The Willows
Six years prior to the start of the events of the game, Anna found a safe haven in the Town-on-Gorkhon. She was taken in by the Willow family, claiming to be a political exile. A few years later, the inhabitants of the house began to die off mysteriously—while their daughter, Willow, simply disappeared.

Only Anna remained, now the sole resident of the house, wearing the clothes, hair, and voice of Willow.

Portrait Quotes
"The poor thing has lost her voice. I sympathize with her because she keeps her chin up, and I hate whiners. I am thoroughly convinced that she's paying the price for someone else's sin; a haunting visitor eager to rip out her soul is coming after her any day now. At least that's what she thinks. A lesser person wouldn't have managed to endure such torture."

- Peter Stamatin's take on her "Anna affects to be suffering, but her hypocrisy is all to easy to see through. If she was genuinely wanted—for her involvement with the February Riots, or that Caravan of kidnappers—she would have been found years ago. She is able to trick her destiny for now, but her luck will run dry soon enough. The Ace of Diamonds Caravan has left a ghastly imprint on her, the way it did with everything it was linked to... yet the nature of the link between the caravan and Anna remains a mystery."

- Yulia Lyuricheva's take on her

Spoken Dialogue

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