Anna Novackova

Anna Novackova (Cyrillic: Анна Новачкова/Romanized: Anna Novačkova/Kanji: アンナ - ノバーチュウコバ/Hepburn: Anna Nobāchukoba) is one of the main characters of the Project Zero-X, and the protagonist of Project I-X.

Etymology

 * Her surname, "Novačkova", derives from "Nováček", means "rookie".
 * Her first name, Anna, is a common name in both Slavic and non-Slavic country.

Appearance
Anna's a 6'0" (182cm), born with heterochromia iridum which cause her left iris to be blue while right eye is ocean cyan, blonde hairs, white skins and a thin build.

On most occasions, she wears a pair of worn-out jeans, slightly-washed leather jackets and black shirts, though she may also wears a pair of black-yellow tracksuits at home or exercising.

Background History
Born in Kochenyovo, 50km West to Novosibirsk, she was the only daughter of a Russian father, Jardani Romanov, and Ukrainian mother, Vitalevna Novackova. Her father secretly moves the family to Southern Ukraine when she was 4.

Her father mostly went absent (though fully known that he was residing in Russia) from her life due to his status as officer for the SVR, while her mother was just a regular housewife. Sometimes later, her mother died. She was in severe debts with the local mafias, that she was beaten to death. Carrying the vengence, her father exterminated the entire yakuza. She was then returns to Russia to lives with her father, and to properly buries her mother. Since then, Anna was mainly homeschooled, and provided special trainings by her father.

Of those times, she also helps out in The Flame of Peace Orphange, from there she met Praskoviya Dmitrieva, whom she gave the nickname "Marcy". With her father, she trains self-defenses for the whole orphange, in addition to SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) training, weapon manipulation, counter-intelligence, as well as escapology and sniper trainings.

Following the tensions between, her family moves to Tokyo, Japan. She attended Tokyo University of Foreign Studies to major in Japanese, but drop-out midway due to unknown reasons, and moves back to Russia after the wars has ended. Anna was adviced to joining the military by her father, which then she did, and attended Combined Arms Academy.

After passing-out from Combined Arms Academy, she was deployed to 3rd Special Brigade, 2nd Division in Tolyatti, rank Major Sergeant.

Special Operations in Ukraine
In 2022, she was promoted to Lieutenant, and deployed to Ukraine to conduct. Her unit was commanded to transfer weapons and supplies to Kyiv, where she was ambushed by "Marcy"'s unit. The resistance takes on for an hour, before "Marcy" was captured and taken to Russian's base in Hostomel camp.

Realizing the war has taken her humanity away, and as fear the camp may did something bad to Marcy; she tried to delay the arrest, before she went on shooting in the base and saves Marcy, and went AWOL.

Joining Team Alpha
Recognized as a war-criminal in Ukraine, and a betrayor in Russia, she have no choice but to went in with Plamya Mira Orphanage Survivor Camp, a bootcamp founded by former survivors of The Flame of Peace Orphange in Desna.

Sometimes later, the bootcamp was under siege by Russian PMCs and Ultranationalists. In a brutal 7-hour resistance, she was on the verge of dying, as SAS 22nd Regiment swoops in to control the situation. Madison Taylor (who was a Major Sergeant at the time) forms a friendship with her and Marcy, and stayed in PMOSC to provides extra manpower for 6-month.

As the finale of resistance comes in and Madison's unit was retrieved, she (along with Marcy) was on the list for recruiting to Team Alpha by Colonel Motoko Kusanagi.

Quotes
See also: Anna Novackova/Quotes

Personal firearms

 * HK P38KPL: based on Heckler&Koch P30L V3. Retro fitted with a custom compensator, and fires .40S&W Rounds in a 13 (12+1) rounds magazine.
 * Glock G26: backup firearm
 * Kimber Aegis: her supplemental pistol, hidden in a 1976 reissue of "Anna Karenina", which she hids in Tokyo Public Library. She destroyed it upon killing the cousin of Hirashi Hishikimori, Masahiro Hishikimori.

Trivia

 * Anna's design was partially based on Makima from Chainsaw Man.
 * She used to be left-handed, but she switched to right-hand at some points in the series.
 * In Project I-X, she switches back to use her left-hand for the majority of tasks.
 * Anna's hand is the biggest among female characters, and the 2nd biggest compared to Ayato Toukoryo.
 * Anna do have "heterochromia iridum", which makes her left iris slightly darker than her right.
 * Her motto, "С нами бог" (S nami bog), translated to "God is with us". The "us" referring to both her and Marcy.
 * Anna used to be an Atheist, but later religiously follows since Marcy's death.
 * Her menace aura and the villianist vibe was based on Vladimir Makarov, the main antagonist of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3.
 * Her 5 quotes that written in her journal are based on the 4 quotes that Makarov spokes in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Teaser Trailers.
 * Her backstory, was partially based on John Wick, the titular protagonist of "John Wick" Series.
 * Anna's favorite books are s "" and "''' (War and Peace)".
 * When she's not in "combat mode", she closes and hold the book with her left hand; on the other hand, if she's in "combat mode" then she'll close the book with her right-hand, facing forward.
 * She prefers to wear her watch face inwards (also known as "tactical style" or "millitary style").
 * Anna's favorite radio channel is VladiFM 96.77MHz, while her favorite singer/songwriter is Origa.
 * The majority of her backstory are mostly based from 's songs, whom also a friend of her voice actor, Jenya.