New Character!
Hello, everyone! I'm Luxe, and I'll be bringing you Teresa Anna Manzoni ... aka Annie Roper-Darby, nee Giles; aka Georgiana Williams, Sophie Appiani, Anna Sutcliffe, Anya Orlov... you get the idea. She is played by the immortal and amazing Vivien Leigh.
Anna is a sugar-and-arsenic-coated freakshow, who happens (through no desire of her own) to be the mother of three children: Ann, Harry and Mary Roper (whatever else they want to call themselves is none of her concern). Throw Scarlett O'Hara, Mrs Coulter, the White Witch in a blender and this is what you get. She's a professional mistress and widow, who's facing the fact at long last that she will not be young forever. Although, given that she's a 49-year-old who can pass for a 30-something, it's not as if she hasn't given immortality a good try. It's been rumored that she became Satan's mistress in return for staying young, which is a total lie. Anna never had a soul that she's aware of, and anyway the devil's never offered.
Anna has spent the last 8 years or so in Italy and Russia mostly although she has traveled to various spas around the continent, always in the company of wealthy men, often those in the military. She has been married twice since she last saw England- to a Russian general who was a cousin of the lover of Catherine the Great (surname of Orlov), and then to an untitled Italian aristocrat and intellectual (hence, Manzoni). Both of them died tragically. She's returning to England from Italy in order to escape her mourning period.
More info on Anna is at her journal, but all you really need to know is that she's a psychopath in fashionable clothing. Selfish, manipulative, heartless, charming, charismatic, scheming and delighted with herself. Anna just looooves Anna, but she'll let people think she loves them too if they've got diamonds in their hands.
She's eager to collect some lovers, companions, and gossip-hounds. She has already gotten word that perhaps her useless son wasn't as useless as she'd thought and she's going to try to find him and make him miserable grace him with her motherly affection.
Some reunions with Ann, Harry and Mary are definitely in order. Maybe a run-in with Slater... Anything else really. She's happy to do anything hat might benefit her socially or economically.