Anneeta Kelly Grace-Downings

Medic of the First Gilnean Regiment, former noblewoman of Gilneas, now renowned for being a scary bitch. Fairly harmless and weak looking, she doesn't seem to pose much of a threat to anyone. People tend to get over this assumption after not very long.

Illegitimate birth
Her father, Lord Edgar Grace-Downings, was a man who liked to enjoy himself. Opposed to education and generally anything which he found slightly boring, Edgar was not a self-made man in any sense of the term. Everything he owned was hereditary, earned not by him but by one of his distant relatives some way down the line in the past. The servants were treated as sub-human slaves, and anything "boring" (that being "informative" to me and you) was disallowed in Manor Grace-Downings.

Married "happily" to Angelica Marshall, Edgar always seeked more thrill, more entertainment. This led to him inadvertedly having an affair with one of his maids, one Vicky Pelham. Only the two of them were to know about this affair, this forbidden love between a nobleman and his common servant. Things don't tend to go to plan for any of the Grace-Downings', however, and Vicky was soon pregnant with what was to be little baby Anneeta. Edgar. who had always wanted a child, made no secret of Vicky's pregnancy. Angelica was, of course, not happy in the slightest.

Vicky already had a son, named Willikins Watson Jr., after his father Willikins Watson Sr., who came from a long line of Willikins Watson's. The Watson family long ago signed a 500 year contract to work for the Grace-Downings', and have remained loyal to the Grace-Downings family ever since.

History
Despised by the woman she knew as her mother, Ann didn't have an easy childhood. Edgar, who had hoped for a son, was never very supportive of her, he instead just threw money at her in the hopes she'd just go away. Angelica took every opportunity to spite her, and as such Ann was horribly neglected. Completely isolated away in Manor Grace-Downings, the only other human contact she ever had was with servants, whom she didn't really acknowledge the existence of, and the odd visitor, such as the doctor and her private tutor.

Thrown away and trodden on by just about everybody at all close to her, Ann turned her attention slightly away from the real world. Always dreaming of what the future would hold, she was a very ambitious little girl. In her teen years, she made good use of the incredibly limited supply of books her father kept. That is, a medical practicioners guidebook, a psychiatric assessment aid, a dictionary, and a selection of medical journals. There were other, fictional works, but they didn't interest her much.

Living her life within her own mind whilst being verbally and physically attacked by her mother, she was always quiet. Worryingly quiet. LIke a severely damaged nuclear reactor, pressure was building, and it wouldn't be too long before it gave way in a very dangerous way.

Personality
Years upon years of abuse and neglect have taken their toll. Unable to get past the half suppressed memories of her childhood, Ann is delusional and severely paranoid. Angry at the world and all of its inhabitants, she always feels the need to make others suffer. The only person not exposed to her sadistic rage is her lover Owen Hutchingson. Owen now plays a rather large part of her life, giving her all of the love and attention that she missed as a child. Of course, this means she no longer cares in the slightest about anyone other than herself and Owen, which has made her even more abusive and manipulative towards others.

The voices
At around the age of 22, Ann's suppressed memories started to make their way into her everyday life in the form of her "mother"'s voice. Unable to face her past, she tries her best to still hide from it, with the voices of memories long forgotten eating away at her spirit.



Relationship with Owen
Secretly longing for love and attention all her life, she came across Doctor Owen Hutchingson, another member of the Regiment. To her, there was a beam of light over him and a halo above his head. As she once said to Eclyptic Gravgot after several glasses of wine "Owen is absolutely gorgeous. He is very talented, a very hard worker, very kind to everybody, and he is always trying to make me feel good. He also has a nice bum."

Petty rivalries
Ann is always up for an argument with whoever, whenever. Her targets have included an Archmage that was supposedly reading her mind, a fortune-teller she'd only just met on the streets of Stormwind, a comedian that was trying to earn his keep, and a bunch of other people that might vaguely consider her to be a "friend".

Ann feels the need to be better than everybody else, particularly other women. This leads her to a lot of arguments, usually with Eclyptic Gravgot, and sometimes involving Catherine Mistmoore. This is majorly because they are the two people she sees the most of that aren't her butler Willikins Watson or Owen. The whiney bitch-fights that take place between Eclyptic and Ann are usually along the lines of "No, I'm better than you" followed by "No, I'm better than you". This may go on for several hours.

Present day
Escaping from Gilneas alive with Willikins Watson Jr., Willikins Watson Sr. and Vicky Pelham (only the former of which is still sane/to be found anywhere), Ann was soon to join the First Gilnean Regiment soon after Watson Jr. did, and now she is living the old dream she had of being a sort of nurse. Life outside Gilneas has been very different. For one, she only has one servant now (Watson Jr.), and no longer lives in an imperfect perfect world crafted for the wealthy to hide away from the real world. Coming face to face with the everyday problems of life has been a struggle, but Watson is doing his best to look after her.

It is unlikely that she will find out about her illegitimate birth any time soon, and even if Watson did tell her, she wouldn't believe him. She didn't believe him when he told her his favourite colour. Of course, Watson feels the need to look after his half-sister, as well as having 357 years left of his contract for the Grace-Downings family. He is stuck with her, and since realising his existence at the fall of Gilneas, Ann has taken it upon herself to bully him at every turn. It is a strange relationship the two have, what with Watson being her superior in the Regiment, as well as her contractual servant.

Notable quotes

 * "I'll have you know I'm an intelli- intell- intelligent womanan."


 * "Watson, dock Eclyptic's pay."


 * "Wouldn't it be wonderful, Owen, if we murdered everybody and it were just me and you alive in this world?"


 * "Eclyptic. Fetch!"


 * "Watson, add all their names to the list. As well as yours. Twice."


 * "You are all insane except me."


 * "What? Did you just bow, girl? Do you have a penis?"


 * "I want to scoop out your eyes but leave them attached so that you can watch as I snap off all of your limbs and then slowly and agonizingly slice through your skull and into your brain."


 * "Watson, turn off your ears!"


 * "Watson, stand or I will make it so that sitting shall be incredibly painful."
 * "Yes Eclyptic, there are two "f"'s in "vagina"."