player information.
name: Kerry
are you over 18?: I am a cookie Yes
personal dw: justsay_goodbye
email/msn/aim/plurk/etc: boxeddreams
characters in abax: Helen Magnus, Kitty Pryde, Samantha Carter, Wilhelmina Harker

in character information.
series: Good Omens
name: Anathema Device
age: 26 (headcanon)
sex: Female
race: Human (Witch)
weight: 135
height: 5'6"
canon point: Pre-fail!Apocalypse
previous cr: N/A

history: Good Omens

Anathema grew up reading the book that Agnes Nutter, her ancestor, had written - "The Nife and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". A witch descendent, and prophet, herself, Anathema learned from an early age to decipher Agnes' prophecies. Working with these prophecies, Anathema frequently studies the ley lines. More recently Anathema has been using these to find where the Apocalypse would be taking place, where she ended up discovering would be Lower Tadfield (where she lived). Anathema first met Crowley & Aziraphale when they hit her bike with Crowley's car. They gave her a ride back home, and Aziraphale fixed her bike with his powers (and gave it additions that it didn't previously have - something that Anathema was suspicious of). She believed them to be more than friends, but did not know that they were angel and demon. It was there that Anathema lost the book - the thing that was most precious to her, by leaving it in Crowley's car. Anathema next met Adam Young (the antichrist) and formed a quick and strong impression of him, although there was something about him that she couldn't pinpoint. Anathema later met Newton Pulsifer when she found him after he'd swerved to avoid hitting a Tibetan. Their relationship quickly progressed and after working together on deciphering prophecies Anathema & Newt went to an old air base, where the Horsemen of the Apocalypse also were. It was here that Anathema and Newt aimed to stop the Horsemen's plans and prevent the Apocalypse - and here where Anathema comes from.

personality: Anathema is a witch, though to the common person she'll describe herself as an occultist, which is a hobby of hers. Despite being a witch, due to being a sensible person - as Anathema would say, she places little value in amulets and protective spells, though this is more due to the bread knife that Anathema carries on her rather than her prowess as a witch. Anathema holds a Ph.D (though in what is never described), and lives alone - an independent woman by all accounts, unless her ancestor's prophecies become involved.

Anathema is the descendent of Agnes Nutter, a highly skilled witch and psychic whose prophecies have yet to be wrong. Anathema has lived much of her life by these prophecies due to their proven accuracy, preferring to stay on their course whilst deciphering others. She believes to be the best in her line at deciphering the meanings behind the prophecies as, as well as being psychic herself, she believes to be able to think like Agnes. Due to her high belief in the prophecies, Anathema's regard for her personal safety often appears to be a little lax. While she is ready to defend herself, as she carries her bread knife at all times, Anathema doesn't lock her house door. Her reasoning for this is that there would have been a prophecy stating if she was to be burgled that day.

This book, the Device's heritage, was more than just a book of prophecies for Anathema, it was something that she held a far dearer interest in. Since she was a child it has been a book that she has kept close to her and had read meticulously. Anathema was a precocious child, excelling in most areas in school but more notably in literacy. As an intelligent girl, Anathema was capable of understanding the vague references in the book as well as the more complex lexis even from a young age. Anathema seemingly also adapted this book into more of her life than just reading it and noticing it's accuracy and references to herself - the only thing that her teaches made complaint of, due to her being bright, was her spelling, and this was only due to it being spellings of centuries past rather than the present.

Around others, Anathema notices that not everyone is quite so comfortable around her. As well as being psychic, Anathema believes that this discomfort of others whilst being around her is something else that she inherited from her family as she has noticed it with her parents and other family also. Along with witchcraft, Anathema is also highly interested in astrology and many other interests which, should Armageddon not have been approaching, would have been helpful to saving the world. Anathema, being an open person, doesn't believe in compartmentalizing her beliefs, and instead believes in many things, appearing in a seamless fashion.

Anathema first noticed that something was amiss with the world, other than through the prophecies, after noticing that the ley lines that she had mapped had all moved. Since that point Anathema followed the prophecies even more religiously, transcribing as much more as she could - with the help of new friend Newton Pulsifer, a now frequent appearance in the prophecies - in hopes of being able to help prevent Armageddon.

Anathema is inherently good, contrary to the opinions of the Witchfinder's Army on witches. She has spent much of her life unveiling the meanings behind Agnes Nutter's prophecies which ultimately lead to detailed surrounding the Apocalypse, something which Anathema was there to try and prevent. Due to Anathema relying largely on the prophecies regarding events in her life, she is rather quick to judge - especially in character - as she already knows what will happen next. This may appear to others, especially those who do not know of the book, as to Anathema believing herself to be better than others. This is untrue and while she does quickly judge, Anathema is a rather more simple girl. Though she does live in the future due to knowing it, Anathema is much more a down to earth person than a first impression may give; she possesses straight morals, honest beliefs and an ability to know what she wants.

abilities/powers: Even though Anathema is said to be both a witch and a psychic, neither of these abilities have ever been written about. As she is a descendent of a witch, Anathema possesses these abilities though it is uncertain as to whether she has any magical power behind being a witch or if her beliefs are Wiccan in that respect. Regarding Anathema's psychic abilities it is possible that she is able to glimpse the future to prophecise about it, though she has yet to make her own prophecies due to living by the book of prophecies written by her ancestor.

first person sample: Oh. [ Anathema blinked, looking around the room ] Did they do more?

[ Picking up the phone that lay beside her, the phone that she'd already turned on, Anathema looked at it ]

I wasn't aware that I could revive. Agnes missed that one, although since I'm not dead- no, she'd have thought it necessary to tell me.

Then again I don't remember dying, they weren't quite that far along. How strange. And I'm certain there isn't a morgue in Lower Tadfield, not that I've seen inside one before but this is what the imagination conjures up.

You'd think someone would check that you were dead before issuing a toe-tag, though. At least they didn't start the autopsy. I suppose that means that it was stopped, or there'd be no one left to start it, and I couldn't have survived that. And I never expected Heaven to look this way either.

[ And she pauses, remembering she is talking to people - she thinks she is anyway ]

I'm Anathema, Anathema Device. Could you tell me where I am?

third person sample: prompt; magic eight ball

A magic eight ball, that is what some would say the book was. Not Anathema. Not "The Nife and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". The book was far more accurate than a magic eight ball could ever hope to be. Anathema had learned that when she was eight, when she'd first found it in the house and had began reading it. Since then it had not left her sight, not until she'd lost it in the back of the Bentley with... Anathema didn't quite know how to describe them, there hadn't been a prophecy that had been able to put words to the two either. There had, ironically, been a prophecy that Anathema would lose the book. That she didn't find until later, until after the Armageddon that would have been had ended.

Now that that chapter was over, another had opened along with the rest of their lives. When the package had came containing the next book, Anathema had been curious to see as to what it would contain, though Newt had been convincing enough that it sat, untouched, along with its predecessor. A magic eight ball. Though Anathema had lived her life by the prophecies she would not agree to the comparison that she was one of those believers who asked every question to the ball in hopes of the right answer. For one, she never had any questions - she already had the answers. For the next, she was always right - the prophecies were always right. That had clouded her judgement somewhat, as well as taking the unpredictability out of life. That had been until Newt appeared. Agnes hadn't predicted that, though if she had her words were unseen. Anathema didn't mind this change, not entirely. Though she may feel a little lost - though didn't everyone? - she wasn't alone in that feeling and, as Newt did remind her, they were travelling that unknown path together.

She was, no more at least, the girl following the magic eight ball; she was a girl unknown.

case no: 15-44-82