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Name:Ā Anna Cecelia Stark
Gender/Pronouns: Cisgender woman, she/her/hers
Date of Birth: May 25, 1993
Place of Birth:Ā Seattle, Washington, United States
Current Location: Barton Point, Maine, United States
Positive Traits:Ā Independent, Logical, Resilient
Negative Traits:Ā Arrogant, Secretive, Vain
If you ask Annie about her past, the answer youāll receive will be far from the truth. Sheāll tell you sheās from Tucson, Arizona, and that sheās an only child whose parents died in a plane crash when she was in her first year of college. Sheāll tell you that she was married and divorced, and that she left Arizona to get away from her cheating piece of shit ex-husband. Sheāll talk about how sheās always wanted to live in a coastal town, but the west coast was too expensive for a jobless divorcee and she wanted to escape the southern heat waves, so Maine felt like a great option to her. However, the truth of her past is much, much darker.Ā
Anastasia Ivanovna Belyaev was born in Seattle, Washington, to Ivan Belyaev and Anya Belyaeva. Growing up, she and her three brothers never knew exactly what their father did for a living, but they knew that his job was the reason they lived in a nice house and got everything they ever wanted. They also knew better than to question him, lest he get violent. Ivan was violent towards the Belyaev kids regardless, but the less they questioned him and his authority, the safer they were. By the time Anastasia turned sixteen, she was well aware that her father was engaged in drug and arms trafficking for the Russian mafia and had been since the 1980ā²s. By that time, her two older brothers, Mikhail and Yuri, were following in their fatherās footsteps. Anya tried to shield Anastasia and her younger brother, Lev, from the grim reality of Ivanās ājob,ā but Anastasia was drawn to it like a moth to a flame. Once she was an adult, she began dealing drugs supplied to her by her father and brothers. She became a popular supplier amongst college students and socialites.Ā
When she was twenty-four, Anastasia met the first and (so far) only love of her life, Benito Vasquez. Benny was a bartender with tattoos, a motorcycle, and a hatred for authority. Anastasia thought he was arrogant upon first meeting him, but soon enough, the two entered into a whirlwind romance. For the first few years, she was hesitant to introduce Benny to her family--she knew they would disapprove of her dating anyone who wasnāt Russian--but two and a half years into the relationship, after they moved in together, she could no longer keep it a secret. Following the discovery of the relationship, Ivan plotted to remove Benny from the picture; meanwhile, Benny and Annie plotted to leave the family business behind, and start new lives in another state. Unfortunately for the young lovers, Ivanās plan was triumphant.Ā
On February 1, 2021, while they were asleep in their apartment, a mob hitman broke in and shot the young lovers in their sleep. Annie came out of the ordeal with only a bullet in the shoulder, but Bennyās wounds were fatal. A few days later, at her fatherās warehouse, she overheard a conversation between her father and cousin, discussing how their plan had been successful. Once she knew who was responsible for the heinous act that took her lover away, Annie had no other choice than to burn the whole operation down. Taking down a drug and arms trafficking ring wasnāt an easy task. As much as she hated the authorities, she had to get them involved. After giving the Seattle Police Department, Federal Bureau of Investigations, and Drug Enforcement Administration all the information she could, they got her in contact with the U.S. Marshals Service to get her enrolled in the Witness Security Program. Once the arrests were made and the trial concluded in July 2022, Annie officially adopted her new identity as Anna Cecelia Stark and, thanks to the Marshals, faked her death and relocated to Barton Point, Maine, a small town where no one from her former life would likely ever find her.Ā
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