Anna (FE)

Anna is a recurring character in the Fire Emblem games.

Anna is a red-headed young female merchant and is commonly seen in a trademark pose with her index finger rested at her face and wearing a sly smile.

In the AWA fics, Anna is a student at the AWA Academy.

Appearance
Anna has a long red hair tied in a messy high ponytail and has red eyes. She wears a red cape with yellow interior over a long-sleeved red & yellow corset top with stitches, red baggy pants with red belt and hip paddings, silver arm gauntlets underneath a red fingerless arm gloves, and pink & white knee-high steel boots.

Personality
Due to Anna being a multitude of individuals, her personality differs slightly between games. However, there are some consistent traits amongst each other. Anna is typically whimsical and jovial, tending to do things her own way.

Shadow Dragon to Radiant Dawn
The original Anna appeared quite whimsical, keeping her shop secret despite others like Marth pointing out that doing so would cripple sales. That Anna was also not judgmental about other nationalities, as despite Archanea's enmity with Grust, she had a close relationship with the Grustian Jake, with whom she shares a love of travel. Her relationship to Jake ranges, but goes as far as engagement in Genealogy of the Holy War and talking of having children. While Anna is usually very lighthearted, she is shown to occasionally worry about Jake. Anna appeared to be a singular character as she and Jake made references to Linde of Archanea in Genealogy of the Holy Wardespite the game taking place in the distant past.

Awakening and Fates
Anna appears in a multitude of ways in both Awakening and Fates, being the first game in which more than one Anna appears simultaneously. Driven by an almost instinctual need to make money, Anna is willing to do whatever it takes to sell an item, sometimes telling little-white lies, though often regrets using such tactics. She does show restraint more often than not but any means of obtaining gold legitimately through sales is fair game in her mind. This fondness of gold even affects her love life, as for any Corrin who marries her quickly find out that her love of money remains more than her love of them, but she still shows that she loves them nonetheless.

As part of a large family, the Anna family share a strong familial bond with each other and respects each other's "territories", doing their best not to impede on each other's work, even ceasing their own plans the minute they learn that another Anna has dibs on the same schemes. Despite their similar appearances, each Anna is able to distinguish Annas from one another from an early age thanks to a special log that records all acts of every single Anna in history that every Anna is required to read. According to the Fates Anna, though their names are spelled the same, there are different pronunciations of their names to help distinguish each other during family gatherings. As a mother, of either Morgan in Awakening and Kana in Fates, it is shown that she does not force Corrin to name either of them Anna, but nonetheless stresses the importance of her huge extended family and its traditions to her daughters.

Heroes
Heroes portrays Anna in a slightly different light as she takes her role as commander of the Order of Heroes very seriously and acts as a guide for Alfonse and Sharena. She harbors some guilt towards Zacharias's disappearance and feels that she is responsible for it. This in turn makes her an emotional crutch for Alfonse and Sharena on the subject. In special Xenologue chapters with the event Heroes, Anna retains her Awakening and Fates incarnations tendencies to capitalize on the Heroes in their special forms to turn a quick profit if she can.

Abilities
Anna is essentially a very versatile unit, possessing Trickster class. When compared to Gaius, her closest counterpart, Anna trails behind Gaius in several stats, though she has better defensive stat growths over him and a modest magic growth, making her a decent Trickster healer. Her main quirk is that she has an incredible amount of Luck growth, on top of a decent speed and skill growths to make her a tricky unit to hit. Her resistance is also quite high making her good for countering mage units. These traits usually make her more durable and more well suited for the Trickster class. It is recommended to give her Levin Swords to build off of her decent magic stat, though other swords work well with her decent strength cap and growth rate. She starts off with the Thief set of skills so she can pick locks right away and have a decent movement range with Movement +1.

Anna has the ability to slide into the Assassin class once she reaches level 10 and is a good option for Anna to be an offensive unit. She will lose a huge amount of her resistance, though this will get reallocated, with some of her Magic loss, into her other stats making her faster and stronger. She can grab her only offensive skill, Lethality, in this class and Pass to help her swarm or escape swarms herself.

Trivia

 * An unnamed character, visually identical to Anna, runs the secret shop and the game suspension feature in TearRing Saga: Utna Heroes Saga, complete with an identical pose.
 * In Awakening, after playing for at least an hour, Anna will appear in the bottom screen of the save menu, saying "Don't forget to take breaks!"
 * Anna shares her English voice actress, Karen Strassman, with Olivia, Hana and Mozu.
 * She also shares her Japanese voice actress, Saori Seto, with Severa.
 * Anna was voted as the 13th most popular female on Nintendo's Awakening poll.
 * For Fates, Anna was voted as the 31st most popular female on Nintendo's official poll.
 * Anna's Awakening incarnation came in 17th place for females in the Fire Emblem Heroes Choose Your Legends popularity poll, with 8,431 votes. Her Fates incarnation came in 31st place for females, and had 5,065 votes.
 * Strangely, Anna's portrait from Fire Emblem Fates depicts her with 6 fingers.
 * Anna's official artwork from Heroes depicts her wielding the Nóatún.
 * Anna and Celica's Fire Emblem Warriors support conversation, where Celica says she has never seen another Anna before, is a reference to her games being the only ones without an appearance from Anna.