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| “ | Merry Christmas, my amnesiac enemy. You looked good out there today. | „ |
| ~ Anna Sprengel to Touma Kamijou. |
| “ | I am supposed to be one of the humans who hold out our hands to accept the blessings granted onto us. All I should need to do is look up and receive the blessings and guidance provided by them. | „ |
| ~ Anna Sprengel to Aiwass. |
Anna Sprengel is one of the overarching antagonists of the A Certain Magical Index franchise.
A very powerful and influential magician of the Rosicrucian Order, Anna has kept the foundation alive for one of the longest timeframes, being the master of its Number 1 temple residing in Germany. She is also the founder of R&C Occultics and is said to have played apart in the foundation of Golden Dawn, having access to the Secret Chiefs and the Sephiroth tree. She is also Touma Kamijou's second archenemy, that is until the New Year's Arc where she redeems herself and becomes one of his closest allies.
Appearance[]
Despite being over a thousand years old, Anna appears as a ten-year old girl with purple eyes and long reddish-blonde hair which reaches her ankles, rolled into large ringlet curls and squished flat at the ends into several fried shrimp shapes, with rose decorations throughout. Anna is also capable of assuming an adult form like the one that Madame Horos had used.
After being restored to her body, Anna wore the gaudy red dress which Madame Horos had been wearing while using her body (the fabric and design of which Anna did not like), which was now too big for her and had to be held to avoid it falling off. She was also barefooted, having discarded the shoes as they were now the wrong size for her.
Personality[]
Egocentric to a fault, Anna Sprengel sees herself as the end-all of knowledge and power. She is a very cruel, arrogant, proud, self-centered and absurd woman who exhibits megalomaniacal tendencies. While not entirely obsessed with herself, she looks down on most people and things in the world, seeing them useful only as pawns in her schemes, and prioritizes her own goals above anything else, with no regard for whomever or whatever is harmed in the process.
Anna classifies people according to her interest in them, if someone is not of her interest, she will not remember their names and will not pay attention to them anymore. Due to her immense power and ability to predict outcomes with near perfect certainty, Anna gets bored quite often and finds amusement in things which defy her predictions. Additionally, while various things catches her interest, they don't hold it for long and when she loses interest, she moves on. If something manages to disappoint her, she will most likely destroy it before moving on.
Most of the time, Anna is casual and uncaring, having a very polite and knowledgeable manner about her and rarely showing any signs of alarm. She often tries to make small talk with her enemies so as to anger or annoy them. Because of her sheer power and genius intellect, she is confident in herself and is capable of executing her plans successfully. She has a conviction that the world works for her comfort, and according to her words, the events around her are working for her. With her ruthlessness combined with a total lack of care for any of her subordinates, working for Anna can be very unappealing, and only her immense power holds the loyalty of those who serve her. Anna also thinks of herself as practically infallible, and always refuses to believe that she can be defeated even when the odds are clearly against her. However, the only time Anna has shown true fear is when she was confronted by a reanimated Anna Kingsford, knowing full well that she would be defeated.
Described as being black-hearted, Anna is unable to comprehend the feelings of others, and can be seen as a sociopath by normal standards. In addition to this, because of her lack of empathy, she often manipulates or exploits other people for her own interests. She expends every available resource to fulfill her goals when working on her experiments or plans for desires that she refuses to concede. She also cares nothing for such pawns, and is willing to kill them to get what she wants, usually setting things up so that they will end up destroying themselves. Due to her ambitions, Anna is apathetic to all other lives but her own, which was best shown when she considered killing Aradia to provoke an emotional change in Touma or when she gave Darris Hewlane the power that caused the mass population disappearance in Los Angeles.
From her past experiences with various magicians and cabals misinterpreting her words and twisting them to suit their needs, Anna believes that no one can truly understand her and scoffs at those who think they can. She also has very little patience for people who interrupt her in the middle of her explanations, throwing a tantrum and taking her anger out on a nearby object. It's eventually revealed that Anna wants someone to rely on and who will grant her anything she wishes. In addition to this, Anna has been known to cling to success and victory more than anyone, regardless of what she says, to the point that she cannot sustain herself without them.
Biography[]
Much of Anna's past is largely unknown due to her dubious nature. What is confirmed is that she indeed a member of the Rosicrucian Order, master of its No.1 temple (also known as Lichte, Liebe, Leben) in Germany, and a priestess who could call on the power of the Secret Chiefs. She is also said to have played a major role in the foundation of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn through the Sprengel Letters.
Powers and Abilities[]
As a magical expert of the Rosicrucian Order and master of its No. 1 temple in Germany, Anna Sprengel is an immensely powerful and knowledgeable magician who possesses a high level of mastery over magic. As a point of contact between the Secret Chiefs and the world, Anna has received their "blessings", treating them like credit cards in her own words. With this, she can utilize unbelievable power beyond worldly comprehension which grants her great strength and numerous godlike abilities. As a Transcendent of the Bridge Builders Cabal, Anna is said to be powerful enough to rival the regular magic side on her own.
The Pneuma-less Shell
- The Pneuma-less Shell: Anna carries with herself a small bottle about the size of an eyedrop container. When she gives the signal "Incubate" said bottle instantly expands into an approximately 2 meter big floating metal orb. Said expansion happens so fast that it causes a shockwave which in itself can already serve as an attack against those around Anna. By turning the giant ship wheel in the center of the orb, the orb will open and produce one original out of human history at random. Said original is always an object that was the first at achieving a certain purpose. By drawing upon the essence of these objects Anna can produce effects matching their use. Up to now the following objects were used:
- Whip: Summoned the world's oldest whip in the form of a tree branch, which allowed Anna to create powerful shockwaves
- Bondage: The world's oldest bondage comes in the form of some worn out rope. Anna can throw this rope at a target and the rope will bind it. Despite how worn out it looks; the rope is actually strong enough to catch and bind an asteroid mid-air. By lightly tugging on the rope, Anna can produce an immense pressure to crush anything bound by it.
- Orbital launch: The world's oldest orbital launch comes in the form of Sputnik. Anna Sprengel can point her hand at a target, releasing a force powerful enough to launch that said target into Orbit.
- Writing Tool: The world's oldest writing tool comes in the form of a stone with an indentation which contains a mixture of charcoal, blood and fat. By using this paint to write unto objects Anna can create Original Grimoire's that follow her orders. Those grimoires have a limited intelligence and gain the ability to freely move around. In order to do so they draw their power from the ley lines and as long as they do so they are nearly indestructible, due to durability and regeneration. Like all Grimoires Anna's employ a special defense mechanism to protect the knowledge contained in them. Anyone that so much as looks upon the writing on them would receive an attack on their mind and soul. As these are only makeshift Grimoires they will melt and be destroyed a short time after their creation, due to not establishing a proper power circulation with the ley lines.
- Leyline Manipulation: Anna is quite skilled at magically manipulating ley lines. By distorting ley lines, Anna is capable of creating magical landmines, which explode upon approach.
- Thorny Rose Crown: Anna is able to paralyze her targets by placing a rose crown on their heads.
- Scorching Beams: Anna can launch scorching beams of heat from her hands through the air.
- Air Manipulation: Anna is able to physically grab the air itself to manipulate it. That way she can for instance create whirlwinds to attack. Furthermore she can manipulate the air pressure and use that to prevent flight via wings.
- Blocking Power Circulation: Utilizing the Sephiroth's correspondence to the human body, Anna can block the flow of lifeforce through a person's body by hitting or kicking them. For a magician this would likely prevent them from using magic, but even for someone that doesn't use magic having the circulation disrupted this will cause problems with breathing and make their blood vessels throb.
- Breaker Powers: Anna used a variety of powers designed in imitation of Imagine Breaker. In truth the powers work completly different than it and aren't restricted to her right hand either. Anna channels Aiwass' power for these techniques. She controls this power through the symbol of a rose with 22 petals each with one of 22 characters on it. Instead of using a physical rose she uses her hand as substitute and specifies which symbols she uses by bending her fingers in various ways. By combining these symbols and interpreting how they are red in various ways Anna can create countless different things.
- Structure Breaker: Enables Anna to slice through even distant buildings just by slightly swinging her hand.
- Space Breaker: Anna swings her hand and break through the dimension and space itself, while destroying every material in its path. Given that this attack is said to have 'no regard for distance' it is likely ranged.
- Fire Breaker: Makes Anna's hand produce fire. She can furthermore make this fire spread. When she does the fire gets a sticky consistence like napalm.
- Item Breaker: With a snap of her fingers she makes her hand bluish-white sparks. Once these sparks grow as bright as a blowtorch they all electrical devices in her surroundings explode.
- Gravity Breaker: Allows Anna to control a gravity like force. By lightly swinging her finger around she created an invisible field that collected all kinds of objects around her and flung them at her opponent.
- Scissor Breaker: By moving her middle and index finger in a scissor gesture Anna can create a telekinetic force that ruptured the gas bag on an airship.
- Ice Breaker: Using this Anna can freeze targets.
- Acid Breaker: Anna can launch caustic acid.
- Wind Breaker: Anna can cause powerful wind through a breaker technique.
- Light Breaker: Anna can create bright flashing light from her hand.
- Explosion Breaker: With a swing of her hand Anna could create three explosions.
- Electricity Breaker: Anna can shoot lightning from her hand.
- Maw Breaker: By closing two fingers Anna creates a giant invisible maw that bites at her target.
- Carbon Breaker: Anna demonstrated the ability to gather all surrounding carbon into her hand.
Trivia[]
- Anna is based on namesake possibly-never seen daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria.
