Anya Novak

undefinedAnya Victoria Novak is an AcDragonian born woman from the capital, Lieberman City. She is ethnically Dragonian as her parents are pure Dragonians who left the Dragonian after the civil war. She enjoys learning history, especially that of Dragonia. When Anya joined Squad Mates, she did it originally for boredom however she soon noticed a disturbing trend amongst some of the youth; notably the Dragonian youth who play the sport. While Dragonia is in the middle of a longstanding social change since the Civil War there are still youth that seem to hold a superiority complex over the other groups of people in the system; most notably Lushaneans. This is what prompted Anya to scout Josephine. Anya has black hair that she keeps tied in a half-down half-up braid style with red highlights. She stands at 5' 8" tall and weighs just shy of 114 lbs.

Many people seem to ask why Anya isn't with a seeded Dragonian team which is a good question since they usually have better gear, leadership and earnings potential however Anya has personal reasons for this. Anya's parents actually defected from Dragonia after the Civil War due to their reprehensible actions so by proxy Anya grew up with an intensely rebellious spirit especially against Dragonia. She doesn't hate the people or the planet but the idea of "Dragonian Supremacy" physically disgusts her. After she started noticing a trend among the Dragonian players that they're somehow inherently superior she made it her personal mission to do everything she could to best them.

This is a two-fold tactic: One is a personal dislike of the attitude in general and another reason is that she wants to humble them in battle by playing on their weaknesses to cause them to either lose matches entirely or sustain embarrassing losses. She likes using AcDragonian tactics from the Civil War that won them fights against the Grand Army and despite it being 40 years and through a number of reforms it seems they still haven't learned much from it. The defeats she did put Dragonian teams through did eventually catch the eye of actual Grand Army brass as they are now interested in how this team seems to regularly be able to win against even teams that have established military lineage behind them.

Anya formed the team Bonded Fates and purposely comprises it of different individuals from different backgrounds. She does this to show the Squad Mates audience and the Aegian system at large that even though they're all different, when unified together they can accomplish anything.

Anya is a good friend and incredibly loyal. She bonds with Josephine pretty tightly and is very protective of her, often taking the first swing in an altercation on her behalf. She has come close, several times, to coming to blows with Dragonian men after wounding their pride on the Field.

Anya doesn't have any ins or connections with any of the other Dragonian teams and as such doesn't have avenues to procure expensive gear.

Trivia

 * 1) Anya has eidetic memory.  She can remember even the smallest of details from almost anything she sees.
 * 2) Anya takes great pleasure in humiliating Dragonian teams by turning their own weaknesses against them
 * 3) The Dragonian military pays close attention to Anya
 * 4) Anya used to be apart of a registered Dragonian team but quit after they began to lord their status over other teams.  Due to the messy way with which she left, it took months to get her roster entry cleared with the SMC meaning she couldn't participate in Squad Mates.
 * 5) The team Anya quit couldn't recover from her leaving and had to disband.
 * 6) Anya purposefully scouted Josephine because she was Lushanean.
 * 7) Anya has been in 5 fights with Dragonian men after she humiliated them on the field.  She won three of those.
 * 8) Anya makes a point to talk to Rania at least once a day for 15 minutes.
 * 9) Anya injured her ankle earlier in life.  It's never quite healed properly
 * 10) Anya has a temper.  While normally calm and collected, when she does get mad she does rash things.
 * 11) Anya can improvise in almost any situation
 * 12) Every week Anya has to clear out her message boxes due to the amount of people trying to scout her for teams
 * 13) Anya can't go to the province of the Black Sea Territories.  When asked, she simply says that "that's between me and the Islanders."
 * 14) Anya has a mini-surveillance drone that she brings into matches with her.
 * 15) Anya almost lost an eye during a Squad Mates match when a round somehow bypassed every bit of protection she had.
 * 16) Anya is divorced.  She never tells anyone why or who she was married to.
 * 17) Anya has a particular dislike for the Sand Crabs.  There seems to be a history there.
 * 18) Anya slept with Rania once.  They were both drunk and Anya woke up first. Realizing what happened, she quietly left the room.  Rania still doesn't know it happened.
 * 19) Every time someone asks about her past, Anya changes the subject.  If the person persists, she looks them straight in the eye, silently warning them to drop it
 * 20) Anya has been arrested twice for shenanigans she pulled after Squad Mates matches.