Post by Anna Lehmann on Sept 12, 2012 23:52:06 GMT -5
Anna Lehmann
Name: Anna Lehmann
Nickname: none
Age: 19 (going on 20)
Race: Human
World: Earth (though recently, Narnia)
Alliance: neutral
Celebrity Claim: Amanda Seyfried
Looks:
Anna stands at around 5’3” with a thin, slight frame from her years surviving on whatever she could find. Her blond hair reaches in slight natural waves just past her shoulders, usually unchecked and not bothered with much. Her eyes are a pale blue with a hint of gray, taking after her mother. Most of the time, she was wearing a knee-length skirt and blouse, both spotted with dirt from her travels back on Earth, as well as plain brown shoes that have grown scuffed over time and a thin coat she saved up for. Not having found anything different to use, she still wears these clothes in Narnia.
Personality:
Due to the financial and social uncertainty she grew up with, Anna is naturally withdrawn and introspective and can tend to be shy around people she isn’t familiar with, which in Narnia is pretty much everyone. She speaks quietly unless something really stirs her, at which point she can become surprisingly heated. Having spent her teen years listening to and on occasion seeing the grandiose speeches of Adolf Hitler in her hometown of Berlin, she picked up a strong means of arguing her points on the rare occasion she feels the need to argue. From her youth she also picked up a slightly, thankfully not as strong as her mother, anti-Semitic view and has a tendency to immediately try and find the culprit of a problem and is not afraid to point fingers. But she is no fan of war or battle, having been touched at a young age by the effects of the death of someone near to her. It can be hard to gain her full trust, but once it’s there, it’s even harder to shake.
Anna tends to prefer her own company after so long fending for herself and is usually perfectly capable of taking care of herself. Besides growing up cleaning with her mother and brother, she also learned many useful skills in her two years in the BDM. However, finding herself in Narnia, she has come to something of a loss as to what to do with so radical a change. Without the steady fallback of farms to work at and homes to clean for income, and the assurance of places to get food and places to rest, adjusting to Narnia is much more difficult than it had been adjusting to being on her own at first back in Germany. The fact that she only speaks a small amount of English, and heavily accented and broken English at that, has yet to be an obstacle thankfully.
Family:
Abigail Lehmann – mother (whereabouts unknown)
Gotthilf Lehmann – father (dead)
Franz Lehmann – brother (whereabouts unknown)
History:
Anna Lehmann was born the second child to Abigail and Gotthilf Lehman in Berlin, Germany in 1921 with only one sibling, Franz, who was two years her senior. The Lehmann family was poor, her father working in a factory that made military weapons while her mother stayed home and did cleaning jobs for members in higher-up society, frequently accompanied by her two children. Anna enjoyed spending time with her mother and got to meet a number of politically and militarily influential individuals, several of which took a liking to having Anna and her brother visit regularly when their mother came for cleaning. Anna worked alongside attending school in order to help her family as soon as she was old enough to make money from her work, which was around the age of 8.
When she was 11 (1932), an explosion in the gunpowder store room of the weapons factory where her father worked killed many and severly wounded her father. Gotthilf was forced to leave his job when his leg had to be amputated and instead took up a job at the local post office where he could operate easier with his crutches. A year later, an infection where his leg had been taken off caused blood poisoning and took his life. The Lehman family, which had been slowly climbing out of poverty, took a dive right back. Anna and her brother took on extra work along with their schooling to help their mother pay for simple things like rent and food and for a number of years things worked fine.
Changes started coming to Anna’s hometown when she was 12 (1933) when Adolf Hitler, the leader of a growing party at the time, was made chancellor of Germany and took one mere year in office to take the title of Fuhrer. Anna’s newly widowed mother was all for the change, as she believed it to hold promises of hope for Germany as well as her own situation of raising two children alone now. She pressed her support of the government on Anna and Franz, who both followed their mother’s beliefs without hesitation, unknowing of any of the things that were happening outside the walls of their city or what terrors their government were already putting into play. Only that their new leader knew how to pull their country out of the ditch and his words were enough to fill the crowds – and Anna and her family on the several occasions they heard him speak – with courage that had not been there in a long while. Not to mention there was the propaganda that began to fly around the city and, indeed, the country like wildfire. Her mother bought into the idea that these Jews were to blame for their hardships, but Anna had a hard time seeing the connection at first. Still, she shied away from anyone who wore a star on their clothing, which only lasted so long as soon the Jews were forced into the ghettos far from Anna’s home. Her teachers were very blunt in pointing out how things were becoming better now that the Jews were being moved away and forced out of their beautiful city. And, with her family doing better, Anna slowly found it hard to deny. Not that she had a choice; to speak up against anything the Fuhrer said was to die.
Things seemed to be going much better for the Lehmanns for a while. In 1937, Franz (then 18) and Anna (then 16) joined the group known as Hitler Youth, Franz in the Hitler-Jugend and Anna in the Bund Deutscher Mädel (League of German Girls). In the BDM, Anna was taught all sorts of useful skills, including cooking and sewing, as well as some unexpected ones like how to maintain and handle firearms. However, the very next year, Anna’s mother lost her job and the family was no longer able to afford living in the city. Franz nearly joined the military, but ended up instead staying with his mother and sister as they left the city. However, they found that the rest of the country was actually in worse shape than Berlin.
Anna worked cleaning jobs as her mother had once wherever she went, and also picked up other odd jobs that the BDM (League) had taught her the skills for, such as a farm hand and nurse aid, but it seemed to only just meet their needs. They were changing town by means of jumping a train at one point when the ride became too rough and, while trying to keep what meager possessions they had from falling out the train car door that refused to close the whole way, a rather large bump instead sent Anna herself out the door. She narrowly avoided being run over by the train as it rushed past, taking her mother and brother further and further away from her.
For two years she roamed on her own, finding jobs here and there but never finding somewhere to stay put. The time ran together as it all seemed the same, only changed by the seasons and the fact that there was now a war on. However, one change did finally come in the form of a storm. It had seemed so normal at first, catching her during her travelling. She got off track when a harsh storm forced her to take shelter in a narrow crevice far from the beaten path. After hours of waiting for the storm to settle, she finally fell asleep, only to wake to find that her shelter no longer opened to the countryside of Germany, but to the landscape of Narnia.
Your Name/Nickname: Lucy
Roleplaying Experience: 8+ years
Sample Roleplay: see Lucy or Jadis