Anya Forger

"I have to hide my power too. If he finds out I can read minds... I'll have to run away."

- Anya Forger in Chapter 1

Anya Forger (アーニャ・フォージャー) is the deuteragonist of the SPY x FAMILY series. Formerly known as Test Subject "007" (被験体"007"), she is a telepath whose abilities were created in an experiment conducted by an unknown organization.

She is a student in Cecile Hall at Eden Academy and the adopted daughter of Loid Forger and Yor Forger.

Appearance
Anya is a short young girl with fair skin and green eyes. Loid describes her as appearing about four to five years old at the oldest. Her green eyes are large and oval-shaped with prominent eyelashes. She has shoulder-length, light pink hair that curls inwards with a fringe that reaches just above her eyes and a small strand of ahoge at the top of her head. Anya is noticeably shorter than most of her peers, and many of the insults that Damian and his friends target at for her small size. However, in Damian's view, she gains a prettier appearance.

When Loid met Anya for the first time in the orphanage, she wore a simple black dress with a white ribbon at the front, along with white folded-down socks and black shoes. She also wears two black hair ornaments with bright yellow embellishments resembling small horns on the sides of her head. Anya is never seen with her hair ornaments off, even wearing them to sleep.

At Eden Academy, Anya wears the standard uniform with white knee-high socks and black Mary Janes. She carries around a brown schoolbag with a sheep keychain attached. During physical education class, Anya ties her hair back with a red headband when wearing the school gym uniform, along with white socks and white gym shoes.

When she was younger, her hair was slightly shorter, and she did not wear her horn-like hair ornaments, instead tying her hair into small buns at the sides of her head. She also wore clothing that resembled scrubs.

Personality
As a young child, Anya is very impressionable towards the people around her. For instance, reading Loid's mind and acting in ways he found very odd and learning how to punch from Yor. Given her telepathic ability, which ostracized her from people and her many foster homes, she instantly took to "Twilight" for being a real spy. Since being adopted, she wanted to go wherever Loid was going in hopes of seeing the spy stuff she always sees on TV. But, after the events of Chapter 1, she has learned of the harshness of espionage and stopped messing with Loid's spy work. Anya is quite clever, being able to spell long words by herself and helping Loid out as best she can, even nudging Loid and Yor together. She likes watching spy cartoons, her favorite being Spy Wars, and is often seen watching them whenever she can.

Anya has longed for a loving family, as her previous families have abandoned her. This has left her with some abandonment issues, as she cried at the thought of Loid replacing her and asking him not to leave her behind. This is further proven by how she lied about her age so she can get adopted by Loid so he can do his mission. Being adopted by Loid and forming a family with him and Yor has made Anya feel genuinely happy, with her finally being able to have that innocent and peaceful life she has always wanted, which was taken away from her before.

From her time as an experiment subject, Anya fears people discovering her powers, resulting in her gaining deep mental scars at a very young age. In addition, Anya has developed a dislike for studying, having been forced to do it by the scientists supervising her. Anya does not have very good social skills and cannot normally communicate with others, showing a severe lack of situational awareness & common sense at times. Because of this, she tends to be blunt, saying and reacting to people's inner thoughts, which usually initiates involuntary conflicts with her peers. Nevertheless, Anya possesses a kind and emphatic side, proven when she calmed down a cow after hearing its thoughts. She even dived into a pool to save a kid from drowning without hesitation, despite not knowing how to swim.

However, Anya is not above being a little cocky. She is quick to show off when she does something remarkable, like when she earned a Stella Star and wore it on her uniform so everyone could see it. That said, it is understandable due to her being a child.

One of her most remarkable traits is that she does everything she can to help Loid in his mission to prevent a war and "achieve world peace", although in a childlike and innocent way. As such, she puts all her effort into getting close to Damian Desmond to help Loid accomplish his mission. Anya is often seen creating "plans" that might help her get along with him.

Abilities and Skills
Telepathy: Anya is capable of reading the minds of other people and animals, her ability depicted as small sparks around her head. However, she is sensitive to being in large crowds as she becomes overwhelmed and dizzy by too many thoughts, to the point of getting a nosebleed. Anya finds it difficult to understand complicated minds, such as Loid's. She must also be within a certain distance of her target to read minds.

Classical Language: Anya is mysteriously knowledgeable of classical language, despite having barely learned the subject at school, as Loid notices she could have scored well on her test if she did not have so many spelling mistakes.

Resourcefulness: She is shown on numerous occasions to have a decent level of street smarts, saving Loid from potential death using her resourcefulness and quick thinking skills. She is also capable enough to make a makeshift bomb albeit with the knowledge of an aspiring assassin managed to make a peanut bomb.

Basic Self-Defense: Anya has been taught by Yor some early basic self-defense. She is strong enough to send Damian flying several feet with a punch to the face.

Above Average Strength: Anya is capable of sending people flying with a punch, if angered.

Above Average Intelligence: Though it may not seem like it at first, one must remember that as a four or five year-old child, Anya manages to pass most of her Eden tests, albeit barely. She also does well in classical language, considered advanced in today's society, ignoring her spelling and grammar mistakes.

Weaknesses
Eclipsing: In a phenomenon dubbed "Eclipsing" by the scientists at Anya's former laboratory, Anya's telepathic abilities are temporarily disabled during the new moon.

General Skill: Anya is shown to be poor in a variety of skills including studying, drawing, sports, and music. She often obtains single-digit scores for her tests and resorts to her telepathic abilities to get through classes and exams instead, refusing to study unless under Loid's strict supervision and during her "Eclipsing". Even when motivated to study during her midterm exams, she just barely passes. She tries to play a child-sized violin Loid buys her but causes the strings to snap with her bad playing.

Poor Grammatic: Anya has very poor grammatic skills. It is often that whenever she shows her personal notes to anyone, that person cannot understand what she is writing, comparing her notes with a bunch of scrawls.

Poor Academics: Anya has low to sub-par abilities when it comes to academics, notably scoring very low in most of the tests she has taken at Eden Academy. She seems to have an over-reliance on her telepathy skills, especially when troubled, primarily using it to answer homework questions and sometimes cheat on tests. Her poor academics can be partially attributed to the advanced material she is studying, paired with her likely being younger than she claims to be. Lack of Control Over Her Power: Anya is unable to control her telepathy, which often leads Anya to unwillingly read every single thought of everyone around her.

Crowd: When Anya is exposed to huge crowds she often tends to get dizzy or exhausted tend to uncontrollably reading the whole crowd's mind.

Lack of Athletic Ability: Befitting her age, Anya is extremely poor when it comes to physical exercises, getting winded easily, having poor coordination and low strength, being unable to serve a ball properly despite Yor's training and her putting her full strength into it. This lack of ability has extended to various sports including tennis, jump rope, swimming and vaulting.

Loid Forger
Anya initially wishes to follow Loid out of curiosity and admiration for his secret identity as a spy. After Loid rescues her from her kidnappers, she becomes increasingly attached to Loid as a father figure and chooses to remain with him despite being given an offer to go to a better orphanage. Loid also views her as a replaceable tool for his mission at first, though he later comes to genuinely care for her. She hides her telepathic abilities from Loid because she is afraid of being abandoned by him.

Anya deeply cares for her adoptive father, as she considers him as one of her favorite things and becomes greatly attached to the stuffed penguin he won for her as a gift during their aquarium trip. When Bond rips it up, Anya is more upset due to the fact it was a gift from Loid and does not want a new one. Despite her mind-reading powers, Anya still feels insecure about whether Loid likes her or not, as his mind is too complicated for her to understand his feelings.

Yor Forger
Yor Forger is the adoptive mother of Anya, who addresses her as "Mama" immediately after she moves in. Anya manipulates Yor and Loid together upon discovering Yor's identity as an assassin and being interested in the concept of spies and assassins. When they do initially get along and even hold hands, Anya becomes shocked when Yor is reminded of her brother's accidental injury caused by her hugging him too hard, dashing away from Yor. Yor tries her best to be a better mother for Anya after the admissions interview despite knowing its a fake family, by trying to improve her cooking. When Yor is discouraged by her failure, Anya comforts her and admires her strength, getting Yor to train her. Although Anya is fond of Yor, Anya is often blunt towards Yor's flaws, particularly her bad cooking, and often hurts her feelings visibly. Lacking many of her husband's emotional barriers and having raised her younger brother, Yor is more often openly affectionate towards Anya than Loid is.

Yuri Briar
Anya first meets Yuri in person when Yor calls him over to tutor Anya for her midterm exams. Neither of them have a good impression of the other due to Yuri's dislike of Loid and his child, while Anya gets creeped out from Yuri's overly obsessive thoughts about his sister. Using Yuri's love for Yor, Anya is able to persuade him into tutoring her seriously and he eventually shares his motivation for studying when he was younger. Although Yuri later stomps off in frustration when she fails to learn anything, his story allows Anya to reflect on the recent bombing incident and how she could have better helped Loid if she were more knowledgeable.

Bond Forger
Anya encounters Bond while at an adoption fair where they make eye contact through a window, allowing Anya to discover his precognition abilities. Through teamwork, they are able to avert a future where Loid dies in a bombing incident and Anya persuades her parents to adopt Bond into the family. They are quite close as Bond's enhanced intelligence and Anya's telepathic abilities allows the two of them to communicate easily. They have an argument due to Bond's jealousy causing him to rip up her beloved stuffed penguin, though they eventually reconcile.

Henry Henderson
Henry Henderson is Anya's housemaster and homeroom teacher at Eden Academy, whom she met during the interview process. In somewhat of a running gag, Henderson has a low opinion of Anya's intelligence, and will frequently look at her specifically when warning students about the consequences of poor performance. After Anya receives her second Tonitrus Bolt, Henderson teaches her the lesson of working hard and patiently to achieve her goal of becoming an Imperial Scholar.

Becky Blackbell
Becky Blackbell is Anya's first and only friend at Eden Academy. Anya initially has a bad impression of Becky when she thinks of Anya as immature and attempts to take her under her wing, causing Anya to snub her. Becky also thinks of her as pathetic when Anya does not stand up for herself under Damian's bullying but changes her mind when Anya returns Damian's insults with a smug smile, even being moved when Anya gets mad at Damian as an excuse for punching him. Becky often stands up for Anya whenever Damian antagonizes Anya during their time at Eden Academy. Her frank nature and intention to be Anya's friend have helped Anya's fear of people when she is isolated by her classmates. As a memento of their shopping trip and a token of their friendship, Anya buys both of them matching sheep keychains.

Damian Desmond
Anya had a disastrous first meeting with Damian after she punched him in the face for bullying her. Since then, Anya and Damian have had a strange relationship, as Anya tries to get closer to Damian for her mission of "world peace" for Loid's mission and is oblivious to his growing feelings for her. While they throw insults at each other regularly, there have been moments of Damian being kind to Anya. She occasionally helps Damian get out of trouble, but only for the sake of her mission. After Anya saves Damian from receiving a Tonitrus Bolt, he promises to pay her back while she waits impatiently for a cake he off-handedly mentioned.

Franky Franklin
Nicknamed him "Scruffy Head" by Anya, Franky is usually tasked with babysitting her whenever Loid and Yor are unavailable. He often acts as her partner in crime and goes along with her schemes, especially if it is at Loid's expense.

Fiona Frost
Due to her telepathic abilities, Anya is aware of Fiona's true personality and how she is actually madly in love with Loid. Though Anya is amused by the dissonance between Fiona's straight face and lovesick thoughts, Anya dislikes her for trying to replace Yor as her fake mother as Fiona plans on using an extremely strict and painful method for her to become an Imperial Scholar.

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Trivia

 * Anya is a Russian diminutive of the name "Anna", meaning "grace".
 * Anya's name was originally Romanized as "Ania" by Tatsuya Endo, and thus, often written as such in the backgrounds of some of the earlier chapters.
 * This carries over to the anime, as evident by the sign on her bedroom door.
 * Anya's former code name 'Test Subject "007"' is a reference to the fictional character James Bond and his code number 007.
 * Anya has a childish manner of speaking by frequently mispronouncing words. In Japanese, this is expressed through her using hiragana in speech instead of kanji.
 * As further proof of this, she refers to Loid and Yor as "chi-chi" and "ha-ha", even when addressing them, which is an incorrect use of the terms.
 * Anya's favorite things include her chimera doll, peanuts, spy cartoons, silenced pistols, bombs, castles, penguins, her uniform, Loid, Yor, and Becky.
 * Anya likes the extra toys that come with some candy brands and attempts to use her telepathy to read the content of the box to obtain her desired toy.
 * As Loid stated, Anya is quite picky about her food. Some of the food she likes including peanuts (her favorite), cake and hamburg steak. She hates carrots.
 * Anya barely passed the written exam of Eden Academy's admissions process with a score of 31. She is bad at most of her subjects and resorts to using her power to get the answers most times. However, she has talent in Classical Language (equivalent to the Latin language in the real world) and scored a 41 on the test.
 * It is quite possible that Anya is four or five years old instead of six, which she only claimed to be after reading Loid's mind and discovering he needed a six-year-old. Loid himself assumed she was four.
 * If she is four or five instead of six, it might explain her academic difficulty.
 * Anya was initially planned to be older and taller, as seen in an initial sketch of the family. Her expression also appears to be much more serious or aloof.
 * Anya's design is adapted from Ashe, a character in Tatsuya Endo's previous one-shot Rengoku no Ashe.
 * Anya is the first of her grade to receive a Tonitrus Bolt; she is also the first to be awarded a Stella Star.
 * Anya's chair, featured on the cover of the second volume, is a Marshmallow sofa designed by Irving Harper of George Nelson Associates.

Quotes

 * (To herself, regarding Loid and her powers) "I have to hide my power too. If he finds out I can read minds... I'll have to run away."
 * (To herself, thinking about Loid): “Papa is the world's biggest liar. But… he’s the coolest liar!”