Anya Hale

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Anya Hale 

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Other Names:–
Epithet:–
Height: 168 cm
Build: Lean, Hourglass
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Race: Human

Occupation: Pirate
Bounty/Rank:–

Total X-Poinz:– 1933

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{Earned Points}
+ 300 (Starting points)
+ 265 (Slayers)
+ 345 (Slayers II.)
+ 314 (Welcome to the Grand Line)
+709 (Slayers in Jurassic world)

Used X-Poinz:– 625

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{Spend points}
Fire Breathing I (-50 pointz)
Change I (-50 pointz)
D-class Circus style (-200 pointz)
Flaming staff (-250 pointz)
Sky Dance (-125 D-class Rebate)
Sober Fire breathing (-75 Flaming staff Rebate)
Fire strike (-50 Flaming staff Rebate, -75 pointz)

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Personality 

Strictly speaking, Anya is an outcast despised by a normal society, so it shouldn´t be really surprising, that in return, she despises society. As a girl, who grew up in the circus, she doesn´t care much for moral standards or laws of regular people (something like theft is just a natural part of her life), but what she is caring about deeply is her personal freedom.
Given her harsh childhood, Anya doesn´t believe in kindness. On the contrary, she sees it as a weakness that she can exploit in others. For the same reason, she also hates to owe something to someone, especially any kind of favors, as she learned the hard way that these things can quickly turn against her. For this reason, if she ever creates a debt, she is trying to return it as fast, as possible.
Ironically enough, she can be sometimes really kind to animals with whom she feels more related then with humans, and even to a people if they are in a worse situation than her.
Like every girl, Anya loves her diamonds. She wants to look pretty in all situations and have an impressive collection of sparkling things like jewelry and precious stones. Whenever he has the opportunity to do so, she is leaving the circus to breathe some fresh air dressed like a true princess.

Appearance 

Anya is a petite woman, with green eyes and dark a long, dark brown hair, which she usually wears either loose or braided. Despite spending a lot of time on fresh air and in a presence of fire, her skin is a little paler than usual, but still not so much that it would look unhealthy.
She was blessed with a pretty face, which is only disturbed by a scar on her lip, which she sincerely hate because it´s a mark of her circus past, she can never get rid of.
As a child, Anya was often mocked because of her circus origin, so she learned how to dress properly so no one could “mistook” her from some poor circus girl anymore. Because of this, she usually wears a beautiful, quality dress, boots, and expensive jewelry, which is mostly stolen. Simply speaking, she wants to be and look perfect in everything, even in her performance. Unfortunately for her, she needs to wear her costume when performing, which she usually complements with a flute and 140 cm long wooden staff, wrapped in cloths and soaked in oil.


* image is just for a reference, I am not the owner of the image

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Traits 

Inhuman Agility – Childhood in the circus isn´t nice. Anya, like all children from the circus, had to learn the basics of gymnastics and acrobatics, which was needed for a good performance in the ring and also for the thefts. This training gave her incredible levels of mobility, control, balance, and nimbleness, that allow her to gracefully move in ways, that are basically impossible for a normal person.

Inhuman Reflexes - It's hard to say if Anya was born with incredible good reflexes or learning to juggle in combination with dodging thrown stones, apples and other things from a very young age teach her how to react with an incredible speed, that is exceeding limits of regular humans by far.

Inhuman Strength
 (600 Xpz) - After traveling with Slayers for a few months and training with Eric and Myles Anya developed inhuman level of strength that is far beyond the limits of the regular human body and is on pair with the physically stronger races such as Fishmen or Giants.

Fighting Styles

Name: Cirkus Style
Focus: “Acrobat” “Fire” “Dirty fighting”
Class: D
Description:
Improvised fighting style created from the necessity to defend herself long enough to survive and run away if necessary. As an acrobat and a fire dancer, she based her style mainly on her agility, acrobatics and her ability to use fire staff together with some basic skills with a pistol and others underhanded methods of combat. Her philosophy is that, when you are fighting for your life, anything goes but the basics are pretty simple. Basically, she is using the fact that the fire dancer can easily control the size and direction of the flame by speed and movements of her staff. If she will have a chance, she will use her staff for both, offense and defense as the burning ends of her staff can both increase the damage caused by her attacks and deter her enemies from coming closer to her at the same time. She also concentrates on not staying at the same place for more than a few seconds, so she is constantly moving around by a combination of her incredible agility and acrobatics movements.
As for the weak points of this style, there are two. The first one is rather small. To not extinguish her own flames, she needs to use circular movements almost all the time. The second, bigger one is that as for now, she doesn´t have any other way of igniting the staff than using simple matches, which means that if she doesn´t have enough time or an opportunity to ignite it, she can not use her strongest weapon.
Art of Fire: After practicing her art in actual combat, Anya developed a new skill that allows her to control flames produced by her staff with just it´s movement similarly to the flying attacks of swordsmen.

Name: Fire breathing
Fighting Style: Cirkus Style
Rank: 1
Description: Anya puts (ideally before a fight) some alcohol inside her mouth and during the fight she spits out a third of the alcohol into the flame, which creates a big fireball directed on the enemy.

Name: Sober Fire Breathing
Fighting Style: Circus Style
Rank: 2 (Art of Fire)
Description: Anya learned how to use her Fire Breathing technique without relying on alcohol in her mouth, releasing her flames with just the combination of her breathing and her staff movements. That allows her to use her technique more often without previous risk related to the amount of alcohol in her mouth.

Name: Change
Fighting Style: Cirkus Style
Rank: 1
Description: After finishing another circular movement (it doesn´t matter if for defense or offense), Anya switches her grip on the staff, moving her hand backward, while slightly rotating her body and lunging forward in the same time, creating powerful thrust directed right at the enemy.

Name: Way up
Fighting Style: Cirkus Style
Rank: 0
Description: Using her incredible agility, Anya will quickly jump upwards disappearing from the enemy´s field of vision for a moment. This can be used as a retreat strategy when Anya basically jumps on a nearest building or other things and starts climbing away, to the safety, or for surprise attacks from the above.

Name: Sky Dance

Fighting Style: Circus Style
Rank: 2
Description: With her newfound leg strength, Anya learned how to kick the air beneath her feet so hard, that she can actually jump of it. That allows her not only to stay in the air much longer but also maneuver and change direction during her jumps. It´s her personal variation of the Geppo technique.

Name: Fire Strike
Fighting Style: Circus Style
Rank: 2
Description: Using a little bigger swing to build up momentum, Anya releases flame from one of the ends of her staff in short burst upon contact with the weapon of her enemy. Thanks to this she bypasses regular parry of her enemy, hitting them with her flames instead of weapon.

Armory 

Name: Flaming Staff
Fighting Style: Circus style
Rank: 2
Description: Flaming staff is an upgraded version of regular Fire Staff used by fire dancers during their performances, created by Ferrus Malleo specifically for Anya. It looks like 165 cm long metal staff made from three parts, that are inseparably connected to each other. The two outer parts are hollow and contain tanks for an oil, together with a mechanism that can release it on the surface of the staff and ignite it with a switch, that is hidden on the central part. Speaking of which, the central part is stylized as a fancy handle paneled with expensive wood and decorated with several gemstones. It´s main purpose, aside from showing of Anya´s stolen riches, is isolate the heat coming from the two outer parts. Despite being constructed similarly to regular performance staff this piece of equipment was crafted sturdy enough so it can be used for regular melee combat.
Flame: Special quality of the Flaming staff is hidden in its ability to light itself up with an activation of simple switch. That allows Anya to either choose if she wants to light one side at a time, both sides at the same time or extinguish her staff.

Name: Pistol
Fighting Style: Circus style
Rank: 0
Description: Usual flintlock pistol with some spare gunpowder an ammunition.

Name: Knife
Fighting Style: Circus Style
Rank: 0
Description: Regular knife with single edged blade, that can be used for preparing ones meal just as for reserve weapon in direct combat.

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Background 

Anya didn´t have a nice and calm childhood. On the contrary, she grew up in a circus between performers, thieves, and wanderers, without a place where she could stay longer than a few weeks. As a member of the family, which owns Mr. Hale´s Midnight Circus for at least four generations, she was forced to learn basics of juggling, gymnastics, acrobatics, and music (she plays on a flute) from the moment, when she learned to walk.
Fortunately for her, she had at least some musical talents, so they learned her how to read and write so she could understand the notes, but other than that, her “classical education” was lacking a little bit. These years were especially hard for her, as a food and other things were given only to the most outstanding talents of the circus, which she wasn´t so, she had to be able not only learn but also to steal enough food or money if she didn´t want to starve.
At the age of ten, she basically learned all of the basic stuff so she had to learn more complex skills and specialize herself a little bit. She chose fire dancing and fire breathing. Her parents weren´t exactly happy about her choice but the ringmaster was pleased by her choice and supported her. Thanks to his support, Anya didn´t have to steal for food anymore, but she continued to steal money and jewelry just for her own pleasure.
As she was talented in the working with fire, she quickly became one of the main stars of the circus which meant that she could live a quiet calm life focused only on her training and performance, but the cost for it was her own freedom. So, it wasn´t really surprising, that at the age of eighteen, she started to dream about leaving the circus and living on her own. As she knew that they will never let her go, she tried to run away, but she was caught. Back then, the ringmaster was furious, punished her severely (she had her only scar from then) and assigned some guards to her so she could not try to escape again. It took another year before he started to trust her again enough to call off her guards. Giving her another opportunity to run.