Annalena von Einzbern
La nuit s'est évanouie. Beaucoup de serviteurs ont déjà été convoqués, bien qu'il soit difficile de dire s'ils ont tous à cause de la nature impénétrable de la guerre du Graal. Dans les catacombes en dessous de la ville - avec seulement des sources de lumière clairsemées allant des trous au monde en haut à l'ampoule ou lanterne occasionnelle lumière les longs passages avec des sectes rectangulaires sculptées dans les murs pour le squelette occasionnel pour se reposer - une femelle seule tire sa manche et vérifie sa montre. Elle se hoche la tête une fois, confirmant ce que la montre lui dit : c'est l'heure. Après s'être brièvement effondrée dans son sac à la lumière de sa lampe, elle frappe un match avec un 'tcch' audible mais faible et commence à avancer sur la pièce, éclairant une série de bougies générique dollar-shop qui ont été délibérément placés sur la pièce potentiellement eerie sans motif particulier. Après l'éclairage de la première bougie, la femelle souffle le match et le jette de côté pour prendre la bougie et allumer le reste par la flamme douce au sommet.
La pièce vient d'être éclairée, aussi terne qu'elle puisse l'être. La femelle se tient devant le cercle d'assignation révélé, soigneusement dessiné et sculpté avec une substance métallique de type gelée. La femelle se dresse à environ 5 pieds et 7 pouces, portant son assortiment standard avec sa capuche levée au-dessus de sa tête; l'éclat de la chandelle basse-positionnée dans sa capuche, révélant ses yeux rouges aliens aux quelques squelettes restants qui regarderaient. Un sac à dos ouvert est assis à droite d'elle, penché dans le coin de deux murs avec une section de corde attachée à un côté et une bouteille d'eau à l'autre. À l'intérieur, on peut voir une série de ressources: touristes et cartes topographiques de la région, cartes grossièrement dessinées des catacombes, et une sélection de flacons vides avec quelques résidus métalliques restants, pour n'en nommer que quelques-uns.
La convocation commence
La femelle lève la main droite de façon nonchalante pour presque lui frapper le capot de la tête avant qu'elle ne saisit son bonnet qui se trouve en dessous pour le tirer et le jeter sur son sac à dos. Les cheveux blancs, portés dans un pain qui est devenu un peu désordonné après avoir été retenu par un bonnet pendant un certain temps, viennent accompagner ses yeux rouges. Sa main droite atteint sa gauche alors que sa main gauche monte à la hauteur de la poitrine, où sa droite saisit la queue de son gant usé et la tire, la tirant à l'intérieur dans le processus. Elle la jette au-dessus de son bonnet avec sa main droite en présentant sa paume au cercle d'assignation, montrant les trois sceaux de commandement sur le dos de sa main à tour de rôle; ils représentent lâchement un insigne régale brisé d'une certaine description. Elle prend une profonde respiration pour dissiper ses nerfs, s'incarnant sous forme de secousses mineures, avant de prendre une profonde respiration, redresse sa posture à une plus fière, et ouvre les yeux grands. Elle n'était toujours pas sûre que ça marcherait et ça montre de façon subtile - c'est ce qu'elle a appris quand elle a infiltré la tour d'horloge, et c'était tout ce qu'il avait à fuir.
"Pour les éléments, argent et fer." la femelle commence à chanter alors qu'elle produit une fiole semblable à celle qui est vide dans le sac, bien qu'elle soit remplie, de sa main droite, pour faire jaillir le bouchon avec son pouce. Elle commence à couler la substance sur le cercle, ce qui la fait s'allumer un peu plus à chaque fois.
"Pour la fondation, la pierre et l'archiduc des contrats. Pour l'ancêtre, mon grand maître, Schweinorg. Sortez de la Couronne, et suivez la route fourchue menant au Royaume.
Remplir,
remplir,
remplir,
remplir,
Remplir.
Répétez cinq fois, mais quand chacun est rempli, détruisez-le." Le cercle se tourne d'un blanc brillant à un violet lumineux tandis que la femelle continue son chant: "Set." Elle s'arrête avant de poursuivre l'étape suivante du chant. "Je jure par la présente que je serai tout ce qui est bon dans le monde éternel, je serai l'éliminateur du mal dans le monde éternel. Je vous le propose, vous passerez sous mon commandement, et mon destin sera votre épée. S'en tenant aux convocations du Saint Graal, si tu accèdes à cette volonté et à cette raison, réponds-moi!»
La femelle - une certaine Annalena von Einzbern, le renégat de la famille Einzbern - lève sa main inutilisée, avec la fiole à moitié vide à la main, devant ses yeux pour se protéger du maelstrom de la lumière.
Name:
Annalena von Einzbern - although it may be of note that the 'von Einzbern' has effectively dropped off after she renegaded the family.
Age:
Has the appearance of a 21 (twenty-one) year old, although she's lived just under 8 (eight) years.
Gender:
Female.
Appearance:
Annalena stands at 5 feet and 7 inches tall with a pale and clear complexion accompanied by conspicuous white hair and a pair of vibrant red eyes. Her hair is grown and often worn in a plat, which is then twisted around and secured in a tight bun at the back of her head.
She generally wears a pair of dark shaded cargo pants, complete with an assortment of zips and pockets and hels up by a belt, that lead down to a pair of black redback terra cotta combat boots where they are either bloused off or tucked into the boot. A white 3/4 sleeve top is worn on the torso with a white and black hoodie worn atop. Additionally, she wears a black shemagh around her neck. Her hood is normally worn up and her hair run into the back of her shemagh to conceal herself as a homonculi, where she may be tracked by the Einzberns or by other masters.
More interestingly, when she's overtly acting as a master or suspects she's been or is about to be detected, she wears a white mask with black mesh over the eyes as to prevent the eyes being identified - considering they stand out a little bit - with black checkers detailing the right hand third of the mask; the mask is worn with a black beanie, which conceals the white hair
Personality:
Annalena is a cautious, cunning, and pragmatic girl, with a soft spot for being caring that she represses and keeps kicking herself in the side for having. As it may seem, she's objective, driven towards her goal, and even a little bit greedy with her intentions for the grail and how she may very well attempt to get it, and this is frequently reflected in her actions.
Those who know Annalena well though, such as members of family she was close with prior to her renegade, know her as a girl who's afraid of not being normal, with a desire to care for others and maintain a spotless garden.
Skills:
Annalena, as an Einzbern maid, was trained to be able to defend the future Einzbern holy grail - given the event ever came up again - among various other things. Her peculiar fighting style for a magus reflects this: she fights hand-to-hand, using a range of complex light grapples and strikes, in a nimble and well-practiced manner, with the focus on being able to effectively take down a target - non-lethal of otherwise - unarmed; of course, fighting a servant might be a whole different story, but she's more interested in the masters. She's quite capable of climbing, scaling, descending, and all sorts of similar adjectives various obstacles and heights with aid form her magic, has a keen eye for detail, and above all of her other skills: is an amazing gardener! The Einzbern garden was at its peak when she was taking care of it, everyone agrees!
Abilities:
As a homonculi, Annalena has very powerful magic circuits capable of outputting masses of magic through methods she knows; the flipside of this being that she entirely lacks reproductive abilities and has a shorter lifespan than the norm: selective losses with her intention of being a maid to defend the next Einzbern holy grail.
Annalena is an adept in kinetic magic, being her magic of specialization, and has experience with lesser healing magic. She primarily uses kinetic magic to compliment her fighting style; bursts of kinetic energy boost her speed and drive her around the battlefield and provide extra oomph to her strikes and grapples, kinetic walls and shields allow her to block with her limbs without taking damage, smash through fragile obstacles scott-free, create armor-piercing spikes for her strikes, and can even shield her from onslaughts, provided she can maintain it, whilst her minor healing magic allows her to relieve pain, tend to minor wounds, stabilize an array of injuries, improve adrenaline rates, and an array of other such tasks.
In summary, she's much more about buffing and maintaining using kinetic and minor healing magic. All of these could be put on someone else and she could become a dedicated support, but she's only vaguely trained in this and would need to spend a bit of time familiarizing herself with it for who she intends to use it on.
Brief Backstory:
Annalena von Einzbern was created by the Einzbern family - a well known family for their contributions to the conception and implementation of the Holy Grail War, for providing a vessel for the Holy Grail each year, summoning Avenger and turning the Holy Grail into a means for Angra Mainyu and, in turn, corrupting the Holy Grail and turning it into a means of bringing forth all evil of the world, and for making the controversial decision to outsource in the fourth holy grail war which effectively led to Shirou's victory of the fifth - with the intention of becoming a maid and bodyguard for the next planned vessel for the holy grail. As is standard for homonculi, she took in all she needed to learn from the world around her and was very quickly off on her way to learning what she needed to learn from appropriate instructors to effectively carry out her job within the Einzbern family.
Shortly after her seventh "birthday", even if that in itself is a technicality, Annalena started to dabble in the affairs of "normal" humans more frequently with her trips into Fuyuki city for groceries and such. Gripped by curiosity, she found herself learning more and more about what life for normal people is like, and it soon came to grasp her like a vice. That's what she wanted - she didn't want to spend her short lifespan locked away, serving the Einzbern holy grail and tending the gardens of the castle, she wanted to spend her short lifespan fulfilling her dreams so that, if she must live a short life, it would be short and content. The first step for that is to become normal.
Annalena spent 3 months conspiring against her family, organizing all sorts of escape routes and supply dead drops among various other things, before she made her grand escape. She made the mistake of leaving the Einzbern holy grail, who she held dearly, a goodbye letter which was intercepted by the other maid who met her in battle in the lobby. A deadly and destructive clash ensued as the two maids of white - one with a large halberd and the other unarmed - fought with mixed emotions, destroying a significant amount of the lobby in the process. In the end, she struck down her fellow maid and left her in a critical yet stabilized condition in the lobby before fleeing into the forest; by nightfall, she was on a plane to Australia where she would cover her tracks before proceeding on to Britain, to infiltrate the clock tower to begin an extensive investigation on the holy grail war. She knew she was a vessel, even if not an ideal one, and even if there was a chance of being used then reborn again, she would take it.
When word of a new holy grail appearing in Redrock reached her - perhaps one that wouldn't require her gambling sacrifice and rebirth - she was there within 36 hours. She skulked and she prowled, lifting all she could with the intention of down a master to take their command seals; when it so happened that the top of her left forearm became clad in command seals suddenly, she smirked at her entry and moved on to the process of summoning a servant.