Anca Eliana Vãduva
Shapeshifter Bio
Name
Anca Eliana Vãduva Pen Name: Anastasia Moon
Player
Bloodied Porcelain
Age
82
Animal
Eurasian Lynx
Claimed By
Not interested
Orientation
Pansexual
Hair
Style varies. Almost always brown or auburn in color.
Eyes
Brown
Height
5’2”
Appearance
Anca is an unusual woman, with an eclectic taste in nearly everything, including fashion. There are days when she rolls out of bed and just throws on whatever is closest, not bothering to check that the outfit matches or even looks appealing, and other days when she dresses in a sleek business suit and heels. Regardless of how she dresses, however, her hair is nearly always a riot of curls offset by the random odd lock of straight hair. She has a uniquely shaped face accentuated by her expressive eyes and mouth, and a knack for dramatic makeup. Depending on where and when one meets her, she’s been described as everything from shabby-chic to high-brow bag lady.
Animal Appearance:
Face Claim
Helena Bonham Carter
Personality
As her style of dress and hair suggest, Anca is an eclectic soul, and her outward appearance is only an extension of her inner nature. She’s a creative creature, with a passion for words and storytelling that eventually lead her to her current profession as a poet and novelist. Like other authors, she’s something of an introvert, but a world-class people watcher, happy to settle herself in at some café or bar and enjoy a drink while watching the world go on around her, occasionally scribbling notes in to a journal or tap them in to her laptop. When she is forced to interact with people, she has a tendency toward deadpan sarcasm.
Much to the chagrin of her publicist and family, Anca has something of an alcohol dependency (addiction and problem are such harsh and boring words, darling), and is rarely completely sober, though she’s rarely staggering drunk or slurring her words. No, in fact, she likes to hover comfortably between the two, warm and just a bit tipsy, enough to open her up to being more sociable and friendly. This state also allows her to write in an unrestrained manner, banishing her worries of what people might think or say about her work. Her editor, unfortunately, finds that at times this makes it exceedingly difficult to do technical reviews of her work, but finds that the end result after the editing is over is beyond satisfactory, as Anca is more prone to writing what she loves and not just what is expected this way.
Anca is prone to depressive episodes and mood swings, like so many other creative types, able to go from manic fits of obsessive creation to screaming and destroying things, though her drinking seems to have brought a lull to such things, keeping the swings and shifts in her personality from being too severe. Or perhaps it’s just making it easier for her to bottle it all up.
Ons & Offs
Mine. Anca is pansexual, but tends to favor males due to the animalistic, feral nature her sensuality manifests itself in. She wants a man who will be rough, fight, and dominate her utterly before she succumbs to them.
History
Anatase and Bogdana Vãduva immigrated to the US one hundred years ago, and twenty years later, once they were settled in to a remote area of the Colorado Mountains, had their first child, Anca. Though several children followed after Anca, their oldest was destined to stand out. While most of her siblings went to college and pursued normal careers in everything from law to art, Anca spurned school and left home almost immediately after turning eighteen. For nearly ten years, she did little more than travel, drifting from one place to the other, usually with more journals in her luggage than clothes, writing down anything and everything that came to mind.
She was 35 before her first book was published under an assumed pen name. It struggled at first, published under a small, quirky publishing company and barely clearing enough profit to keep Anca going. It wasn’t until the publishing company was bought out by one of the larger publishing companies that Anca’s book started doing well, after several months of correspondence between Anca and the publisher over the fact that she refused to have her picture taken or give any specific details about herself for the publishers to use in marketing her and her work.
Anca was roughly fifty when she met her first and longest lasting love (she’d had plenty of affairs, but most of them were based on physical attraction, this was the first time someone had captured her heart) during a trip back to Colorado. His name was Anthony. Theirs was a whirlwind romance that went from clear skies to raging storms of passion and devotion almost overnight, the two falling in to each other’s existence fully and completely. It didn’t take long, however, for the relationship to turn sour. Anthony was another shifter, a cougar, and while Anca enjoyed the rough, feral type of sex he gave her, it didn’t take long for the violence to become extreme and extend in to the rest of their relationship. He was an angry, violent man, prone to punishing her refusal to sign all of her assets from her writing over to him in the most cruel of ways. More than once he dug himself in to debt and used her to dig himself out, forcing Anca to sleep with those he owed money to on several occasions. She hated it, but she did it, sure that if they could just get through their “rough patch”, it would go back to being happy the way it had been.
But it didn’t stop. It got worse. The violence increased, the demands and the mental and emotional abuse grew and grew until one day, Anca realized she hadn’t written in months. Not because he wouldn’t allow her, but because she just couldn’t bring herself to do it. When her publisher began to pursue her for her latest manuscript and she hadn’t written more than a few chapters, she told Anthony she was leaving. Things went from bad to worse then, and after being held captive for nearly two weeks, starvation forced her to shift and kill her lover-turned-captor. She buried him in the wilderness of the Colorado Mountains and left. She hasn’t been back home since, and has sworn off relationships, refusing all lasting connections, even to witches, whom she fears would have an even stronger hold on her than he had.
Now that she’s in her eighties, Anca has had two more pen names, and has made contact with a higher up in the publishing company that is supernatural. He protects her identity and she keeps writing best sellers that rake in large profits for the company. Usually her pen names are used for roughly fifteen to twenty years, and her current pen name is about to “retire” after the last book of a six book series is finished. The series is a supernatural southern gothic story set in various parts of the Deep South and ending in New Orleans.
In order to soak in the atmosphere of the city, Anca is moving herself to the city while she writes the final installment in her series.
