Anna Capio
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Out of Character
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Basics
Name
Name: Anna Penelope Capio
Nickname(s): None
Dates
Birth Date: March 24, 1983
Places
Birth Place: Queens, New York, USA
Places of Residence: Queens, NY; Brooklyn, NY
Current Residence: Brooklyn, NY
Family
Parents: Kendrick Capio and Rosamond Capio née Reeve
Siblings: Theresa Capio and Edward Capio
Significant Other(s): Anna is bitterly single.
Education
School(s): PS 101 (The School in the Gardens); JHS 157 (Stephen A Halsey); Townsend Harris High School; Brooklyn College
Language(s): English and some Spanish
Occupation: Cosmetologist
Physical Appearance
Species: Angel
Height: 5'4"
Haircolor: Currently brown, actually red
Eye color: Brown
Description: Anna has naturally light red hair, but has been dyeing it black (sometimes brown, or blonde, but usually black ...) since she was 15. "Dyeing," anyway, since she started doing it by magic as soon as her grandfather taught her how. It's chopped somewhat messily with varying lengths, but evens out to just past her shoulders. Her eyes are grey, and she has a somewhat pointy nose. Her funny smiles are very identifiable, as are her incredibly bright eyes and her very ... interesting style of dress. She looks rather like a retro clothing store spit her out.
Personal Info
Impetuous and silly; she loves to tease, mock and tug people around. Anna has, let's say, a strong personality -- but she's no Iz or Alice or Lydia. She's only playful around her family, and in crowds she's quiet, sizing people up. She's also no good at being blunt or straightforward: if the comment could be hurtful or bothersome, Anna will sit on it for a long time, unsure of where to go with her argument. And she does hate to argue, in general. Fighting with her siblings plagues her existence.
She has quite a few identity issues, as her entire family seem to have found their places in the world and yet despite having a bachelor's degree, cosmetologist's certification and her own little studio, Anna's still floating free not really sure what her niche is. Or rather she has about six things she wants her niche to be, and can't pick one: deciding on just one thing to love is a little bit too much for her. At present it's a somewhat secret desire to be a sommelier; she's afraid her mother would never forgive her.
Backstory
The first child of Kendrick and Rosamond Capio, Anna was born in 1983 in Queens, New York at 6:41am. She is now the oldest of three siblings, but back then it was only her. And that was good. Because as a baby Anna needed a lot of attention. She was small and a little bit sickly, which was no surprise to her mother, who had been somewhat ill as a child as well. By the time she was a year old, though, Anna wasn't sickly at all -- instead, she was extremely adventuresome. As soon as she could crawl she was exploring. Her parents had to chase her down.
This adventuresome tendency continued throughout her childhood. Her great-grandfather, Elijah, was delighted by it, seeing a lot of himself in her and enjoying his times chasing the young girl around. When she was four, her mother got pregnant again -- baby Theresa was born in November of Anna's fourth year, and was quickly Anna's new favorite fascination. Before that, though, it was the pregnancy. She was fascinated with watching the growth of her tiny sibling inside her mother's body. Soon, though, she was trying to climb into Tess' bassinet, carrying her sister around, eventually bringing her in to kindergarten as an item for show-and-tell the next year. Tess was barely a year old.
Anna did her best in school, and was very social and somewhat excitable. Her exploratory tendencies and desires to try everything at least once never ended. Her "best" was never really all that wonderful; she was at most a C student throughout her life. Throughout her elementary schooling she also got another sibling – Teddy was born when Anna was seven, and on her grandpa's birthday, at that; an exciting day for everyone. She can even remember it quite clearly, something Tess can't.
In May when Anna was thirteen, an accident in the kitchen – she dislodged the plate hutch from the wall and everything on it fell in front of her and broke into a million pieces, including some very expensive old pieces – scared her into something even more frightening; jumping backward at the horror of the sound, (mind rushing with the fear of her parents' wrath at her breaking these several-hundred-dollar dishes, combined with the fact she'd been having a bad day already and was near to tears over a fight with her sister when she walked in in the first place) Anna found that a pair of massive wings had sprouted from her back, breaking more things in the kitchen and causing her to nearly pass out from the shock. As far as she was aware, her hands were bleeding, her back ached and her inexplicable, fantastical extra limbs hurt from being crushed in by a too-small room.
It was a good thing her father was home. He could at least make the pain and the wings go away (though not the cuts on her hands). It wasn't such a good thing that her mother came home; Anna had been upset, and crying, and scared, and then her father was showing her things like his wings, and then her mother saw them – wings out, looking glowy and taking up the entire living room and, well, not looking human at all.
Rosamond was furious, and took the kids to her parents' vineyard in California, where they missed a few weeks of school and got to deal with the fact their mother was furious with their father for lying about something they couldn't even understand. Anna felt like the entire thing was her fault, and even more like a freak of nature than she already was. Teddy kept telling her to bring out her wings. Rosamond wouldn't allow it, certainly not around their grandparents.
But the trip only lasted a couple of weeks. The pressing nature of school was one, work a second and Kendrick's attempts to win his wife and family back another – he called the children, wrote his wife, insisted that he loved them and needed them and, incidentally, needed to show Anna how to control the magic suddenly at her fingertips. The idea that her children were magic (let alone that her husband was, and his entire family) may have made Anna's mother somewhat uncomfortable, but the obvious fact that Anna couldn't control her abilities (she still broke things and made things go flying and sometimes changed color) was just as pressing as the fact all three children needed to be in school.
And, of course, the fact that the two of them were still quite in love, something the kids often enough pointed out, especially Teddy. In the end, being a different species, strange as it was, didn't end the marriage and everyone went back to New York. Kendrick explained a lot more, especially to Anna, who got given lessons on what exactly she was doing – not that he knew for certain exactly how things worked. Years passed in peace.
With being fifteen came the excitement of getting to soon finish junior high and go on to high school, and with that came applications to various places. Townsend Harris, the high school affixed to Queens College, was Anna's final choice, and her acceptance impressed her parents. She might have academic direction yet, they thought, as the school had taken her based on her essay. And yet also with being fifteen came her mother's illness – while Rosamond had been growing weaker for some time, perhaps even years (she hid it from her children well), by Anna's fifteenth birthday she was nearly bedridden.
They found out in May that she had pancreatic cancer, nearly ruining Anna's graduation excitement completely. She couldn't handle being excited about something when her mother had what seemed like certain death, and had refused her father's offers of making her immortal, something Anna knew quite well he could do with little effort. His father had done it, after all! She didn't think she could, he'd never taught her how, but she knew it was possible.
She also knew it was possible for her father to die, and she knew what dying of despair looked like. It was a good thing she did, because a couple months after she started high school, after the hospital sent Rosamond home to die, Kendrick broke, wrapping around her and letting himself and the room freeze up. Anna stormed in on him, and yelled at him, and moved him to go against her mother's wishes and grant immortality after all.
Anna had to corral her siblings away from another nasty fight, but it was worth it, and both her parents were happy to be there when, three mostly uneventful years later, she graduated from high school and went off to Brooklyn College. Majoring in philosophy, Anna wasn't really sure why she went to college, as there wasn't much you could do with a degree in philosophy and she certainly didn't want to become a philosopher or get a doctorate or be an academic. College was a time of getting to live on her own and make friends and coincidentally gain a degree. She worked at a coffee shop. It was boring.
Then she worked the register at a salon, and it was a lot less boring, and from there, post bachelor's degree, Anna ended up back in school for another year, but at the end, at least, she was a cosmetologist. It wasn't her dream job either, but she was certified to do manicures and makeup and cut hair and all sorts of things like that, and she got promoted quite a bit at the salon. It was fun.
And in 2006, at the park, she met Mike.
His little sister was in her little brother's class. He lived in Brooklyn, too. He liked Mister Softee and the park, the college parrots, long walks, boat rides and dogs. The whirlwind of the romance slowed down into a regular-paced romance, and by 2007, they were living together.
And by 2009, he'd decided he'd had enough of Anna's relatively low-collar position, desires to try new things and travel constantly instead of settle down and have kids (something she did secretly want, but not until she was over thirty) and a million other stupid little problems she hadn't even been aware of. And he was gone. And she had the apartment to herself. She pretended, for months, she didn't care.
But she couldn't really not care anymore, and so she got rid of all his things and got herself a pet, instead. It didn't stop her from missing him, but she managed to stop feeling like she was missing something. Now she's tackling things with a determined air, insistent on getting him completely out of her system.
Backstory: Prose
That's Okay: Anna gets her wings, gets injured, scares her sister and temporarily breaks up her parents. September 1996
