Post by MysteriousAnna on Jan 14, 2012 3:04:46 GMT -5
Character Basics
Full Name: Anna Devane (Scorpio, Lavery, Scorpio, Hayward by marriage)
Nickname(s): Anna, Mom(by Robin)
Age: ca. 52
Appearance
Look: Lean, dancer like bodybuilt, brown hair, brown eyes, somewhat Italian. (Known for her masses of her in the 80s)
Scars or Tattoos: -
Portrayed By: (what actor portrays your character, can use actors/actresses who have played this role in the past, can also include picture here): Finola Hughes
Personality: She always wants to be on top of things but she's often a victim of her own feelings. Anna's very chaotic but has a good heart.
Basic Personality: Chaotic with a slight control issue, nice, helping, caring, loving, straight forward.
Accent: Slight English(barely noticable)
Occupation: Spy
History
Birthplace: London, England
Family:
Husbands: Robert Scorpio, Duke Lavery, David Hayward
Kids: Robin Scorpio, Leora Hayward
Siblings: Alexandra Marick(twin), Gabriel Devane, Lindsay Devane
Edmund Grey(brother in law), Dimitri Marick(brother in law), Aiden Devane(Nephew) etc
Friends: Greenlee, Ryan Lavery, Alex, Edmund, Dimitri, Gillian, Mateo, Hayley, Leo and more
Romantic Connections: Edmund Grey, David Hayward (and plenty on GH)
History: (you do not need to include everything that has ever happened to your character but try to include the important points. Show that you know something about your character- Do NOT copy and paste from another site)
Anna Devane had had some names due to her marriages, Lavery, Hayward and of course Scorpio but her real name was Anna Devane. Anna was born to Thomas John Devane. As child she took ballet classes and dreamed of being a professional dancer one day, this is also one reason why she later supported her own daughter in her dancing dreams greatly. When Anna was 18 however she joined the World Security Bureau(WSB) as an agent. On her first assignment she had to work with Robert Scorpio. At first they couldn't really stand each other and were constantly taunting each other, which never changed, not even nowadays. Robert and Annas cover on their first assignment however was to pretend to be honeymooners.
The DVX installed little cameras in their hotel room, so they were forced to share a bed. But not only just share it, that night in the little French hotel Robert Scorpio made Anna into a real woman. The next day they completed the mission. He always brought out the best in her from the very beginning on. When the victim that they had to save was safe Anna and Robert had to leave the hotel as well. The DVX on the other hand already knew that Anna and Robert were spies and was chasing them. Robert realized that their only way of escaping the DVX was to get to Italy. He also knew how to. The answer was rather easy, they had to swim. The only problem was that they had to do it on there own and if they were seen by the DVX they'd be dead for sure. So they decided to risk it, not that they would have had another option.
After an exhausting swim over the Italian border they finally reached the shore. In a little Italian village at the sea they met Filomena Soltini. Filomena helped them a great deal and there in Italy Robert and Anna got married in an secret, Italian ceremony in 1978. The WSB couldn't know since agents weren't supposed to be married. They spent their honeymoon there in Italy. The marriage ended after a few short months, when he found out that Anna was a double agent, also working for the DVX. The enemies of the WSB. He felt betrayed and wanted a divorced. She couldn't blame him. His looking at his face, seeing the disappointment of her betrayal in his eyes was one of the hardest things she had ever done. Shortly after their divorced Anna discovered shocked that she was pregnant. The father was Robert Scorpio, her ex husband. She was devastated. Anna went back to Italy during the pregnancy and to give birth to her first child.
She lived with Filomena again, she had almost became like a mother for Anna. After she had given birth to a daughter, Robin, she filled the birth certificate out. Stating that her name was Robin Scorpio after her father but while Robin grew up Anna called her Robin Soltini to keep her real identity a secret. Robin was taught that Filomena was her grandmother and Anna was a family friend called “Luv”. Later Robert called both Anna and his daughter “Luv”. Anna dislikes anyone else calling her by that intimate nickname though. It wasn't till she was 7 that she discovered who she was. First Luv brought Robin to Port Charles into Roberts house in 1985. Befriending Roberts wife at that time, Holly Sutton as well but not telling her who she was. As Robert came home and saw her at his home he wanted to throw her out but couldn't. It would have gotten Holly suspicious and the last thing he wanted to do was getting her suspicious and asking questions.
At that time Anna wore a fake scare. Neither of her former friends and colleagues knew that it was fake though. It was a symbol of her inner scars due to all the pain she had to go through with Robert. When he left her after learning that she was a double agent. After Robert and Holly had discovered that the scar was fake and after they had told Holly about their past Holly and Anna became enemies. It was never Anna's intention to drive the two of them apart but unfortunately that was exactly what she did. Sure she was still in love with Robert but the only thing she wanted was for him to be happy and not to cause him anymore pain. Especially since back in the days he had told her that the only thing he wanted was for Anna to disappear out of his life. Back then she had agreed to it. But in the mid '80's the cards laid different. It didn't take long till Robert figured out that Robin was his daughter, after Robin had pointed out that Anna and Robin looked like mother and daughter. He confronted Anna the same evening and she told him everything about the secret birth of his daughter in Italy and their life there.
Anna also made clear to him that she had intentions of staying in Port Charles with Robin. And even Filomena came to Port Charles, to help take care of Robin. All three of them got settled in a apartment in Port Charles and Anna found a new job at the police force of Port Charles where Robert was working at the same time. Of course both of them had to pick on each other and get into the one or other fight. However she was soon promoted to be the chief of Port Charles police force. It was great for her. Only catch was that she had to share the position with her ex-husband Robert. She had always been in love with him and still was. But the only communication they had were fights. However now they had to work together. Rather quickly after her promotion she caught on on the mob activity in Port Charles. It really worried her. Anna soon investigated some more, and due to her persistence she found out more than most of the former police chiefs. She was even able to arrest some of the smaller figures.
But only after she was romanced by Duke Lavery she was able to bring the organization to it's knees. No matter how much either of them tried to deny it there was a mutual affection right from the start between them. Unfortunately at the same time Anna was exploring her new feelings for the handsome club owner and mobster, Robert was finally discovering his feelings for Anna again. As Robert was finally able to admit his feelings towards Anna it was too late. She was already with another man, with Duke Lavery. He was the first man she was with after Robert. Even Anna's little daughter Robin saw Duke as a family member and called him lovingly 'Uncle Duke'. What neither Anna nor Robin even thought of was that Duke was influenced by the mob. And that would at the end cost him his life. Anna as the new chief of police caused more troubles to the mob than any chief of police before her and that was why the mob wanted... no needed to get her out of the way. But as the deadly shots were fired at the young woman Duke jumped in front of her, giving his own life for his loves. This way at least Anna and Robin would survive. Before his death however the couple had married and gone through their first crisis together, a miscarriage induced by an elevator sabotage.
Even though rivals Robert felt deep remorse at Duke's death, it caused his daughter and his ex-wife to yet again loose a man they had loved. Yes depended on. After the death of the club owner and mobster the estranged couple gradually grew closer again, especially due to the match making skills of their little daughter. So after a short interlude of panic when an unknown – but supposedly closely related male – man seeking for revenge tried to kill Robert. However escaping him more than just once, Robert came out alive and proposed to Anna. And just a few short years later the two of them married. Again. This time Anna wore a pink dress and the whole wedding was big and they were surrounded by their friends and family, it couldn't have been in bigger contrast to their first, secret marriage some 15 years earlier. Of course their happiness and bliss only lasted a short time, this time it was not death threatening either one of the lovers but rather an old love, Holly, Roberts wife had come back to Port Charles. This time though Holly had accepted that Robert and Anna were happy together and left the newly weds alone. Everything seemed perfect up till that fateful day when Faison – a criminal mastermind obsessed with the Scorpios – kidnapped Anna and brought her to a boat in South Africa. Robert, loyal and loving like he was followed them, leaving their daughter with his brother Mac to rescue her mother. The two never returned to Port Charles.
It should take 9 agonizing years before little Robin, now a grown woman should learn the whole truth about her presumably dead mother – and her family. After the explosion, Anna somehow survived and was swept to the beach. She was barely breathing anymore, her heart barely pumping – after all why should it? She had just lost the love of her life. But she didn't know that now. She was unconscious as an old, retiree called Bart pulled her out of the waves that rolled out on the beautiful beach. And that was when her new life began. The old man took pity on her, gave her food, caring for her till she was strong enough to survive on her own. But she stayed with the old man, helping him out with his life that resembled one of the survival camps she'd gone through while still being trained as a spy. The brunette however couldn't know this, she suffered from severe amnesia – a loss of all memories before the accident. It was a condition not life threatening so the ever suspicious man never took her back to civilization to see a doctor or some other form of caretaker – but then the seizures started occurring. Bart was by no means a trained professional but he knew that they could potentially threaten her life, so he did what he hadn't done in nearly a decade, contact someone other than Anna. His call for help was heard by one of the most renowned neurologists, Dr. Alexandra Marick. But he didn't call her because she was the top of her field, he called her because she was Anna's twin sisters. The two had never met, so the shock was equal on both sides when they came face to face, like a mirror image. Alex as a trained professional but not even she could help her rediscovered sister without the necessary tools.
After heated discussions Bart finally allowed Alex and Dimitri to take Anna to Pine Valley where she would be treated well. Even despite the best efforts though Anna's condition worsened considerably till it got dangerous enough to make a hospital admission inevitable. Neither one of them wanted to tip of the people that had tried to kill Anna in the first place so she was brought in the hospital under her sisters name. Finally the seizures stopped and she could be released again and get to know her family. But even though she had found her sister there was something missing. She could just feel it. It killed her to know that there was something in her life that was left unsolved... forgotten. That was until she found her daughter again, Robin had come to Pine Valley and immediately Anna had recognized the young woman. After a few hours of reunited and finally finding out about her true life from another person rather than just painful flashbacks she couldn't connect Robin left again. She was sworn to secrecy however before she left for Paris.
Anna had decided to stay back with Alex and her husband Dimitri as well as Edmund. But all too soon her former life was chasing Anna again and this time it cost Gillian's life which also prompted her twin and her husband to leave for Hungary to grief the family themselves. That left Wildwind to Edmund and Anna who gradually started a short lived love affair. It had been her first that she could consciously remember. The two of them broke it off and remained close however.
To be honest this is where I'd like it to end, to give me enough creative freedom to do some other things.
Sample Post: (make sure you've read the rules for what is and isn't allowed)
Anna was glad to hear Greenlee's voice again. She would have loved to be with her and just hang out, but that would bore her after just a week Anna knew that. She needed the death threats and dangers of her job. It kept her alive... young. “It's okay honey, you are my friend..." Anna hugged the woman closely. At her friend's offer Anna just nodded and made herself comfortable on the couch. She couldn't miss that some of Greenlee's pictures with Leo were gone, some furniture had been moved and some even removed. She was really wondering what was going on. Anna had always considered her friend's marriage a steadier one than her own. And she really hoped that she wasn't wrong in that point.
Anna took the cup of tea and blew on it to cool it before she tried it. After taking a sip she thanked Greenlee. Then her eyes suddenly widened and she put the cup down. She was probably one who best understood her friend right now. She had been through marriages. Anna took her friends hands into her own and squeezed them gently. “Oh Greenlee--” Was all she said for now. Then her pity for the young woman faded into the back of her mind, while anger got the best of her. Leo du Pres wouldn't be the first man getting his lousy butt kicked by Anna Devane and he probably wouldn't be the last. “Where is he honey?” She demanded softly while getting up. Anna wasn't just gonna swallow this. Leo was dead meat, they'd been friends but the brunette was f**king loyal so she was still gonna give him a good tell off and probably one or two 'accidental' kicks.
Then she saw the tears her friend shed because of him and it broke her heart. Anna pulled Greenlee up and hugged her tightly. “Don't worry, you'll get over him. You are strong.” It was true, she had proven more than just once that she was stubborn and strong as her as well.
PS: I can't come up with anything better right now than Anna helping Greenlee over Leo since I actually rped that once on mypace I think. So pardon me, I'm just braindead now.
Full Name: Anna Devane (Scorpio, Lavery, Scorpio, Hayward by marriage)
Nickname(s): Anna, Mom(by Robin)
Age: ca. 52
Appearance
Look: Lean, dancer like bodybuilt, brown hair, brown eyes, somewhat Italian. (Known for her masses of her in the 80s)
Scars or Tattoos: -
Portrayed By: (what actor portrays your character, can use actors/actresses who have played this role in the past, can also include picture here): Finola Hughes
Personality: She always wants to be on top of things but she's often a victim of her own feelings. Anna's very chaotic but has a good heart.
Basic Personality: Chaotic with a slight control issue, nice, helping, caring, loving, straight forward.
Accent: Slight English(barely noticable)
Occupation: Spy
History
Birthplace: London, England
Family:
Husbands: Robert Scorpio, Duke Lavery, David Hayward
Kids: Robin Scorpio, Leora Hayward
Siblings: Alexandra Marick(twin), Gabriel Devane, Lindsay Devane
Edmund Grey(brother in law), Dimitri Marick(brother in law), Aiden Devane(Nephew) etc
Friends: Greenlee, Ryan Lavery, Alex, Edmund, Dimitri, Gillian, Mateo, Hayley, Leo and more
Romantic Connections: Edmund Grey, David Hayward (and plenty on GH)
History: (you do not need to include everything that has ever happened to your character but try to include the important points. Show that you know something about your character- Do NOT copy and paste from another site)
Anna Devane had had some names due to her marriages, Lavery, Hayward and of course Scorpio but her real name was Anna Devane. Anna was born to Thomas John Devane. As child she took ballet classes and dreamed of being a professional dancer one day, this is also one reason why she later supported her own daughter in her dancing dreams greatly. When Anna was 18 however she joined the World Security Bureau(WSB) as an agent. On her first assignment she had to work with Robert Scorpio. At first they couldn't really stand each other and were constantly taunting each other, which never changed, not even nowadays. Robert and Annas cover on their first assignment however was to pretend to be honeymooners.
The DVX installed little cameras in their hotel room, so they were forced to share a bed. But not only just share it, that night in the little French hotel Robert Scorpio made Anna into a real woman. The next day they completed the mission. He always brought out the best in her from the very beginning on. When the victim that they had to save was safe Anna and Robert had to leave the hotel as well. The DVX on the other hand already knew that Anna and Robert were spies and was chasing them. Robert realized that their only way of escaping the DVX was to get to Italy. He also knew how to. The answer was rather easy, they had to swim. The only problem was that they had to do it on there own and if they were seen by the DVX they'd be dead for sure. So they decided to risk it, not that they would have had another option.
After an exhausting swim over the Italian border they finally reached the shore. In a little Italian village at the sea they met Filomena Soltini. Filomena helped them a great deal and there in Italy Robert and Anna got married in an secret, Italian ceremony in 1978. The WSB couldn't know since agents weren't supposed to be married. They spent their honeymoon there in Italy. The marriage ended after a few short months, when he found out that Anna was a double agent, also working for the DVX. The enemies of the WSB. He felt betrayed and wanted a divorced. She couldn't blame him. His looking at his face, seeing the disappointment of her betrayal in his eyes was one of the hardest things she had ever done. Shortly after their divorced Anna discovered shocked that she was pregnant. The father was Robert Scorpio, her ex husband. She was devastated. Anna went back to Italy during the pregnancy and to give birth to her first child.
She lived with Filomena again, she had almost became like a mother for Anna. After she had given birth to a daughter, Robin, she filled the birth certificate out. Stating that her name was Robin Scorpio after her father but while Robin grew up Anna called her Robin Soltini to keep her real identity a secret. Robin was taught that Filomena was her grandmother and Anna was a family friend called “Luv”. Later Robert called both Anna and his daughter “Luv”. Anna dislikes anyone else calling her by that intimate nickname though. It wasn't till she was 7 that she discovered who she was. First Luv brought Robin to Port Charles into Roberts house in 1985. Befriending Roberts wife at that time, Holly Sutton as well but not telling her who she was. As Robert came home and saw her at his home he wanted to throw her out but couldn't. It would have gotten Holly suspicious and the last thing he wanted to do was getting her suspicious and asking questions.
At that time Anna wore a fake scare. Neither of her former friends and colleagues knew that it was fake though. It was a symbol of her inner scars due to all the pain she had to go through with Robert. When he left her after learning that she was a double agent. After Robert and Holly had discovered that the scar was fake and after they had told Holly about their past Holly and Anna became enemies. It was never Anna's intention to drive the two of them apart but unfortunately that was exactly what she did. Sure she was still in love with Robert but the only thing she wanted was for him to be happy and not to cause him anymore pain. Especially since back in the days he had told her that the only thing he wanted was for Anna to disappear out of his life. Back then she had agreed to it. But in the mid '80's the cards laid different. It didn't take long till Robert figured out that Robin was his daughter, after Robin had pointed out that Anna and Robin looked like mother and daughter. He confronted Anna the same evening and she told him everything about the secret birth of his daughter in Italy and their life there.
Anna also made clear to him that she had intentions of staying in Port Charles with Robin. And even Filomena came to Port Charles, to help take care of Robin. All three of them got settled in a apartment in Port Charles and Anna found a new job at the police force of Port Charles where Robert was working at the same time. Of course both of them had to pick on each other and get into the one or other fight. However she was soon promoted to be the chief of Port Charles police force. It was great for her. Only catch was that she had to share the position with her ex-husband Robert. She had always been in love with him and still was. But the only communication they had were fights. However now they had to work together. Rather quickly after her promotion she caught on on the mob activity in Port Charles. It really worried her. Anna soon investigated some more, and due to her persistence she found out more than most of the former police chiefs. She was even able to arrest some of the smaller figures.
But only after she was romanced by Duke Lavery she was able to bring the organization to it's knees. No matter how much either of them tried to deny it there was a mutual affection right from the start between them. Unfortunately at the same time Anna was exploring her new feelings for the handsome club owner and mobster, Robert was finally discovering his feelings for Anna again. As Robert was finally able to admit his feelings towards Anna it was too late. She was already with another man, with Duke Lavery. He was the first man she was with after Robert. Even Anna's little daughter Robin saw Duke as a family member and called him lovingly 'Uncle Duke'. What neither Anna nor Robin even thought of was that Duke was influenced by the mob. And that would at the end cost him his life. Anna as the new chief of police caused more troubles to the mob than any chief of police before her and that was why the mob wanted... no needed to get her out of the way. But as the deadly shots were fired at the young woman Duke jumped in front of her, giving his own life for his loves. This way at least Anna and Robin would survive. Before his death however the couple had married and gone through their first crisis together, a miscarriage induced by an elevator sabotage.
Even though rivals Robert felt deep remorse at Duke's death, it caused his daughter and his ex-wife to yet again loose a man they had loved. Yes depended on. After the death of the club owner and mobster the estranged couple gradually grew closer again, especially due to the match making skills of their little daughter. So after a short interlude of panic when an unknown – but supposedly closely related male – man seeking for revenge tried to kill Robert. However escaping him more than just once, Robert came out alive and proposed to Anna. And just a few short years later the two of them married. Again. This time Anna wore a pink dress and the whole wedding was big and they were surrounded by their friends and family, it couldn't have been in bigger contrast to their first, secret marriage some 15 years earlier. Of course their happiness and bliss only lasted a short time, this time it was not death threatening either one of the lovers but rather an old love, Holly, Roberts wife had come back to Port Charles. This time though Holly had accepted that Robert and Anna were happy together and left the newly weds alone. Everything seemed perfect up till that fateful day when Faison – a criminal mastermind obsessed with the Scorpios – kidnapped Anna and brought her to a boat in South Africa. Robert, loyal and loving like he was followed them, leaving their daughter with his brother Mac to rescue her mother. The two never returned to Port Charles.
It should take 9 agonizing years before little Robin, now a grown woman should learn the whole truth about her presumably dead mother – and her family. After the explosion, Anna somehow survived and was swept to the beach. She was barely breathing anymore, her heart barely pumping – after all why should it? She had just lost the love of her life. But she didn't know that now. She was unconscious as an old, retiree called Bart pulled her out of the waves that rolled out on the beautiful beach. And that was when her new life began. The old man took pity on her, gave her food, caring for her till she was strong enough to survive on her own. But she stayed with the old man, helping him out with his life that resembled one of the survival camps she'd gone through while still being trained as a spy. The brunette however couldn't know this, she suffered from severe amnesia – a loss of all memories before the accident. It was a condition not life threatening so the ever suspicious man never took her back to civilization to see a doctor or some other form of caretaker – but then the seizures started occurring. Bart was by no means a trained professional but he knew that they could potentially threaten her life, so he did what he hadn't done in nearly a decade, contact someone other than Anna. His call for help was heard by one of the most renowned neurologists, Dr. Alexandra Marick. But he didn't call her because she was the top of her field, he called her because she was Anna's twin sisters. The two had never met, so the shock was equal on both sides when they came face to face, like a mirror image. Alex as a trained professional but not even she could help her rediscovered sister without the necessary tools.
After heated discussions Bart finally allowed Alex and Dimitri to take Anna to Pine Valley where she would be treated well. Even despite the best efforts though Anna's condition worsened considerably till it got dangerous enough to make a hospital admission inevitable. Neither one of them wanted to tip of the people that had tried to kill Anna in the first place so she was brought in the hospital under her sisters name. Finally the seizures stopped and she could be released again and get to know her family. But even though she had found her sister there was something missing. She could just feel it. It killed her to know that there was something in her life that was left unsolved... forgotten. That was until she found her daughter again, Robin had come to Pine Valley and immediately Anna had recognized the young woman. After a few hours of reunited and finally finding out about her true life from another person rather than just painful flashbacks she couldn't connect Robin left again. She was sworn to secrecy however before she left for Paris.
Anna had decided to stay back with Alex and her husband Dimitri as well as Edmund. But all too soon her former life was chasing Anna again and this time it cost Gillian's life which also prompted her twin and her husband to leave for Hungary to grief the family themselves. That left Wildwind to Edmund and Anna who gradually started a short lived love affair. It had been her first that she could consciously remember. The two of them broke it off and remained close however.
To be honest this is where I'd like it to end, to give me enough creative freedom to do some other things.
Sample Post: (make sure you've read the rules for what is and isn't allowed)
Anna was glad to hear Greenlee's voice again. She would have loved to be with her and just hang out, but that would bore her after just a week Anna knew that. She needed the death threats and dangers of her job. It kept her alive... young. “It's okay honey, you are my friend..." Anna hugged the woman closely. At her friend's offer Anna just nodded and made herself comfortable on the couch. She couldn't miss that some of Greenlee's pictures with Leo were gone, some furniture had been moved and some even removed. She was really wondering what was going on. Anna had always considered her friend's marriage a steadier one than her own. And she really hoped that she wasn't wrong in that point.
Anna took the cup of tea and blew on it to cool it before she tried it. After taking a sip she thanked Greenlee. Then her eyes suddenly widened and she put the cup down. She was probably one who best understood her friend right now. She had been through marriages. Anna took her friends hands into her own and squeezed them gently. “Oh Greenlee--” Was all she said for now. Then her pity for the young woman faded into the back of her mind, while anger got the best of her. Leo du Pres wouldn't be the first man getting his lousy butt kicked by Anna Devane and he probably wouldn't be the last. “Where is he honey?” She demanded softly while getting up. Anna wasn't just gonna swallow this. Leo was dead meat, they'd been friends but the brunette was f**king loyal so she was still gonna give him a good tell off and probably one or two 'accidental' kicks.
Then she saw the tears her friend shed because of him and it broke her heart. Anna pulled Greenlee up and hugged her tightly. “Don't worry, you'll get over him. You are strong.” It was true, she had proven more than just once that she was stubborn and strong as her as well.
PS: I can't come up with anything better right now than Anna helping Greenlee over Leo since I actually rped that once on mypace I think. So pardon me, I'm just braindead now.