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Anya Forger

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Voiced by: Atsumi Tanezaki (JP), Megan Shipman (EN), Bryn Apprill (EN, Episodes 28-29) ^{Foreign VAs} Elizabeth Infante (LAT), Majo Montesinos Guzmán (SP), Lila Lacombe (FR), Lana Finn Marti (GER), Valentina Pallavicino (ITA), Lian Siyu (TW Mandarin), Nina Carvalho (BR)
Played by: Miharu Fukuchi, Aoi Ikemura, Mihara Izawa and Risa Masuda (JP musical)

"A spy, and an assassin? This is... so cool!"

A young girl who Twilight adopted from an orphanage as his daughter for his Operation: <STRIX> mission. What he doesn't know is that Anya is an experimental subject who escaped from a lab that gave her the power to read minds; labeled as <Subject 007>.

Starving for excitement in her life after spending a year being circulated around various orphanages, Anya actively sought to be selected by Twilight for adoption, and made sure Twilight and Yor got together so she could have a spy and an assassin as her parents. Anya is the only Forger aware of just about everyone's Secret Identities, but keeps it to herself out of fear that if her psychic powers are exposed she'll lose her new family.

If you're looking to see how she would describe herself, look over here.

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• Abusive Parents: Her caretakers at the lab treated her more like a tool than a child. When she wanted to draw, they coldly told her it was time to study, and to stop crying because her power was necessary for the sake of world peace.
• Accidental Hero: Invoked; when Loid takes her to the hospital^note  so Anya can volunteer to earn Stella Stars as a way for Loid to get close to Donovan, a boy with a broken leg wanders away from his therapist towards the therapy pool and falls in the deep end, beginning to drown. When Anya reads his distressed thoughts, she lies to Loid that she wants to go swimming, tracks down the boy's thoughts and jumps in to save him, only to start drowning herself. After Loid pulls out both children, she's asked how did she know the boy was drowning, and Anya lies by saying that when she found out the hospital had a pool she wanted to go swimming, saw the bubbles, and tried to rescue him.
• Acquired Situational Narcissism:
  • After she gets her first Stella Star, she insists on wearing the pin everywhere and only being addressed as "Starlight Anya". Even though she is the first in her grade to get one, this is considered by academy standards to be very vain, and most students just leave theirs on a shelf or something.
  • In Chapter 76, after the ordeal with the Red Circus, she's hailed as a hero, and immediately starts to milk the attention for all it's worth by thinking about how she can use her new-found "friends" to her advantage. She especially enjoys the attention, since as a "peasant," one of Damian's favorite insults, her upbringing allowed her to become tough, and she offers to train the other kids to become tough as well by teaching them the lessons Yor taught her, specifically some self-defense techniques and eating her cooking.
• Aesop Amnesia: After getting kidnapped in the very first chapter because she decided to play with Loid's transmission device, Anya still hasn't learned not to screw around with Loid's spy equipment, as shown in a later chapter where she decides to explore Loid's secret escape tunnel in the hospital. Justified considering she's only a little kid, around 5 years old.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Due to her powers she's always been seen as a weirdo and isolated as a result. The same thing happens in Eden due to her Penny Among Diamonds status, as well as her punching Damian on the first day, with most of her class being scared of her, Becky being the only exception.
• Animal Motif: Anya has a subtle cat theme: Her Horned Hairdo resembles cat ears, her eyes are bright green, she has a mischievous streak and marches to her own drum, and she hisses angrily at Nightfall in her introduction. Even the nya in "Anya" is Japanese for a cat's meow. It also works with her Chimera doll, whose front half is, prominently, a lion.
• Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster: She may be an unassuming little girl (who is likely younger than the age of six), but her powers and cunning allow her to manipulate all parties to a favorable outcome when possible, such as getting Loid and Yor together or, after teaming up with a dog who can see the future, managing to foil a nefarious plot to bring war to Ostania.
• Art Shift: Her expressions diverge from the usual style the most out of the cast, with it being notable in that her more exaggerated expressions have some consistency between them, but several styles to choose from that dictate things like the shape of her eyes.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Anya is smart enough to make plans (of varying quality), but not mature enough to stick to them if something really interesting catches her eye, like a stack of manga, or her favorite food for dinner.
• Audience Surrogate: She's the only character who is privy to all of the other characters' secrets, and her main motivation is to keep her fake family together for both entertainment value and sentimentality, which likely mirrors the audiences' reasons for reading/watching the source material.
• Bad "Bad Acting": Anya's attempts at lying or being dramatic like the protagonists in her favorite cartoon "Spy Wars" usually fail hilariously due to her tendency to "read her lines" in a literal, stiff, emotionless and deadpan tone. Anya retains this "performance style" even in Yor's Imagine Spot scenes in the anime.
  "I'm Anya; I've always been Papa's daughter."
  "Oh save me Loidman!" (playing a pretend-Bondman scenario with herself as the captive)
  "I was stretching my arms, and his face just happened to be there." (After punching Damian to stop him from picking on her).
• Badass Adorable:
  • After being trained by Yor, Anya responds to bullying by knocking Damian right on his butt. She was very, very sorry though.
  • She pulls off a Loid-level incapacitation of a Red Circus mook to prevent him from ruining Loid and Yor's dinner date. She even manages to bluff him into leading a normal life outside of crime by inadvertently convincing him that Yor has deadly child operatives watching her back.
• Bad Liar: It's usually very obvious when Anya's lying, whether because she's visibly faking or about to blurt out the truth. Any time she gets away with it, it's mainly because people go along with it or aren't expecting it.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: She thinks Bondman having a silenced pistol is super cool and wants one for herself. After seeing one used by a criminal while kidnapped, she finds that a pistol with a silencer doesn't sound so appealing anymore.
• Beautiful Tears: When Anya goes to apologize to Damian for slighting him, the sight of her sparkly-eyed and red-faced sobbing makes Damian start blushing furiously and his heart start hammering.
• Beware the Nice Ones: As Damian has learned from a day one punch to the face, pissing her off is not a good idea.
• Blessed with Suck:
  • While her telepathy has its uses, there's always the consequence of learning thoughts that she may find shocking, hurtful, etc. For example, while trying to apologize to Damian for hitting him, Anya kept hearing his friends' thoughts which were insults about her that caused her to cry. Moreso, the very existence of Anya's powers is the reason she was treated like a lab rat and isolated from other people until she ran away from the institution, as well as being bounced between the orphanage and several potential adoptive parents afterwards.
  • Played with. Anya's telepathic powers' biggest impediment is the fact that Anya herself is a little girl. She does her best with the information she gathers, but there's only so much she can do with what she has. For instance, her powers give her little to no edge academically because she initially doesn't know whose mind to read to cheat, and later due to not wanting to cheat given the risk of being ridiculed by other students if she suddenly improves. However, due to her adventurous nature and love for spy shows, her efforts to both help and protect Yor and Loid during their missions do pay off. She's excellent outside of school.
• Book Dumb: She's incredibly intelligent and helps her parents with their various missions on multiple occasions without being detected herself. She's also shown to be an astute observational learner, able to pick up on espionage tactics just by watching Loid and quickly picked up how to fight from Yor. However, even when she's motivated to try, she's a mediocre student at best and consistently scores low on her exams, partly due to her over-reliance on her mind-reading powers to cheat without learning anything. Not helping matters is that she's probably pretending to be a year or two older than she actually is (which puts her at a massive disadvantage compared to her peers, at an elite private school no less), as well as the fact studying reminds her too much of her time spent at the lab. However, by Chapter 27 Loid discovers that she actually is learning and would've gotten higher marks on her exam were it not for her terrible handwriting. Once Sigmund Authen comes into her life, he helps even more by using his skills as a teacher to cultivate not just knowledge, but a love of learning for its own sake, which actually elevates all her other subjects... except math (and even this score was only so bad due to Anya being exhausted from the previous test). As of Chapter 93, her class ranking is 168th out of 228 students, a step up from her previous rank of 213th.
  • This is briefly averted when Loid realizes she pays attention if something correlates with her interests. So while she normally has trouble with math problems (namely, basic fractions), she can instantly figure out that if Bondman only has two bullets left in a gun that can hold eight, that means he has two-eighths. In Short Mission 9, it even leads him (with Franky's aid) to create a "new episode" of her Spy Wars show to exploit this... except that the educational info he wishes to teach her is shoehorned in and quite verbose, so Anya can't follow it at all (leading her to say the episode sucks).
  • The exception to this rule is Classical Language, which Anya shows a surprising proclivity for. With help from her new neighbor Sigmund Authen, Anya is able to get the second-highest score in the term finals for the subject, and with it her third Stella Star.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Episode 17 has her giving the recap of the prior episode.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: She's extremely smart, assisting and manipulating her parents multiple times, all the while able to keep her telepathy hidden. However, it's shown that she has a tendency to rely on her telepathy to get her way. This can backfire on her when she's in a situation where someone isn't focusing on the issue she needs to solve, or the people around her can't figure it out either.
• Brutal Honesty: Being six (possibly even younger), she has no filter, and is very frank in telling Yor that she's terrible at cooking.
• Cassandra Truth: Is afraid of this if she tells her parents something she logically couldn't have known, which would possibly lead to them learning about her powers.
  • Averted in the "Inusan Crisis Arc" when she tells Yor about the terrorists and bomb-dogs plan, who not only believes her, but also does everything she can to beat the crap out of said terrorists.
  • In a serious moment between the two she outright tells Damian that she can read people's minds in Mission 96, but after a moment of hesitation he understandably claims she's making things up and the two get into another argument despite obviously bonding closer. Downplayed in that his initial reaction and expression indicates part of him may believe her.
• Casting Gag: Anya is not the first character Atsumi Tanezaki has played that is an empathetic child with telepathic powers.
• Character Catchphrase: Since a large portion of stuff she does is because she's starved for entertainment, she has a habit of thinking or saying "Waku Waku!" (translated as "So exciting!" or "So cool!" in English) whenever she sees something that piques her interest, with the first time being the moment she realizes how awesome it would be to have a spy as a father (and again while having an assassin as a mother).
• Character Focus: The Bus Arc is shown through Anya's P.O.V., since Loid and Yor were absent, and thus not available to save the day or participate in any of the action. ^note Loid was out of town on a mission, albeit he did show up disguised as a solider by the end.
• Cheerful Child: She's a bubbly and adorable little kid who's absolutely thrilled to have a badass spy and assassin for parents. She's characterized by typical childish mischief and playfulness, and being very friendly and outgoing.
• Cheery Pink: Along with being cheerful, she also has pink hair.
• Clingy Child: When Twilight first adopts Anya, she clings to his leg until he takes her with him when he goes shopping because of her fear of abandonment.
• Combat Clairvoyance: During a game of dodgeball, she used her telepathy on Bill Watkins to know where he would be aiming at, allowing her to preemptively dodge his shots.
• Combination Attack: Her and Bond's powers are complementary and using both in tandem upgrades their Story-Breaker status to even more Story-Breaking. Bond can see the future but can't communicate what he sees since he's a dog. Anya can't see the future, but she can see what Bond sees and manipulate the people around her to solve the issue. If they were to take a more active role in the conflict, they'd probably resolve it before it even happened. Fully demonstrated in Chapter 94, where a typical murder mystery situation in a secluded location gets resolved in just a few panels thanks to Anya's and Bond's powers.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: By Mission 29, Anya appears to have gotten used to her adoptive mother's graphically violent daydreams, since she just looks annoyed when Yor subjects her to yet another gruesome scenario.
• Couldn't Find a Pen: In the "Inusan Crisis" arc, she hastily writes a warning with ketchup to tell Loid that there's a bomb hidden behind a door he was about to open. However, her choice of drawing a bomb instead of writing it gets it briefly mistaken as a weird warning about an eggplant until Loid gets suspicious and discovers the bomb anyway.
• Crush Filter: Inverted in regards to Damian. While Damian sees Anya as being cuter than she already is, Anya sees him as a bug eyed goof with a trail of snot hanging out of his nose, as seen in these examples.
• Cute Bruiser: Not against adults, but definitely against other kids, as shown when she sends Damian flying with a single punch. Though it's more Played for Laughs than for Awesomeness.
• The Cutie: If anything, Anya is designed to be the most heart-meltingly adorable character you'll meet. Her childish curiosity and naivete are played for as many humorous and heartwarming moments possible, being what helps soften up the otherwise professional and distant Loid who's never had to care for another human like her. Likewise, others in-universe like Yor find Anya immensely cute.
• Cuteness Proximity: When Loid brings Anya to work as part of her homework, his co-workers immediately fawn over her and call her the cutest thing while rushing to give her candy and compliments.
• Daddy's Girl: Downplayed; while she does sincerely love both her parents with all her heart, she does express a more emotional attachment to Loid. She adores him, thinks his work as a spy is the coolest thing ever, tries to emulate his behavior, wants to earn his love and respect as her reason for trying hard at school (even though she doesn't like studying), and constantly helps him out on his missions in secret. Her relationship with Yor is good, as she does think her mother is kind, amazing and really strong, but it is muddled a bit because Yor also sometimes scares the crap out of Anya (mostly via assassin-related thoughts, but also occasionally her Nightmare Face aimed at enemies) and her cooking isn't the best (hence she even briefly became a Shipper on Deck for Becky for Loid's affection, on the off-chance she could eat food by world-class chefs).
• Dark and Troubled Past: When Mr. Swan asks Anya whether she prefers Yor or her birth mom, it causes Anya to reopen a locked door in her mind and begin softly crying "Mama". The smug smile on Mr. Swan's face is what makes Twilight almost punch him (and the average reader cheer when Mr. Henderson finally does).
• Ditzy Genius: While she is very intelligent, curious and intuitive, and has a good memory, Anya is also uncomfortable with large crowds and does not feel at ease when she's at school. Indeed, she's Book Dumb despite her smarts.
• Do Well, But Not Perfect: Something she has to deal with regarding her mind reading. Since she needs to keep her ability hidden, she can't use a lot of the information she obtains, especially if she can't convincingly explain how. For instance, when playing cards she wins so easily that the other players assume she's cheating somehow, so she agrees to play again to do worse and dismiss her first victory as a fluke.
• Does Not Like Spam: When she tells Loid she likes peanuts, she also admits that she thinks carrots are gross, which is quite usual for Japanese children in real life.
• Dragged by the Collar: Anya is so small that Loid can just pick her up by the back of her shirt or dress and carry her away if she's being uncooperative.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap:
  • In a series that is centered around lies, facades, and espionage Anya has the incredible power to read minds. This would make her capable of easily addressing many of the problems that arise, except for one issue. Namely, that she's six (and probably younger); her grasp on subterfuge is poor, she can easily get distracted, often forgets what she's supposed to be doing or saying, and doesn't really understand a lot of what's going on around her. When she's on the ball she can be remarkably effective, but all too often she isn't.
  • Her mind-reading powers are hampered by crowds, not just because of the sheer amount of thoughts going on around her (making picking out one in particular difficult), but because past a certain point of intensity the thoughts will push into her mind, making tuning them out virtually a non-option. It also makes it difficult for her to cheat during school tests, as even if she knows who's the smartest student, she still has to contend with the thoughts of dozens of others simultaneously (among other issues), forcing her to improve her poor grades the hard way.
• Dramatic Irony: Her telepathy frequently makes her an In-Universe subject to this, as she's the only one around who is able to directly read other people's thoughts and get the full picture of what's happening, but due to her own desire to hide her powers and keep her Found Family together, she often can't outright just tell people why or how she knows what she does, and has to invent excuses reliant on her childishness to save the day without anybody knowing. As the premier example, Anya is the only one in the family who's fully aware of the secrets the others are keeping regarding their own Secret Identity, and in several cases has often helped her mama or papa keep The Masquerade going, whilst they assume it's good fortune on their behalf that she's helping them out, rather than knowingly aiding them.
• The Dreaded: Punching Damian causes all the other kids in their class (except Becky) to avoid her on their first day.
  Other kids: "What if she murders me?!" "She's like a total psycho!"
• Dreadful Musician: Her poor attempt at playing the violin convinces Loid that she won't ever get a star in music class.
• Dub Pronunciation Change: Her name, as written in Japanese, is アーニャ, of which the closest English approximation would be something between AH-na and AH-ni-a. However, the English dub always reads her name as AHN-ya.
• The Empath: Along with her telepathy, she can also sense others' feelings, as shown when she was able to calm down a scared cow. Her young age does mean she has trouble grasping the meaning of certain emotions though, in particular romantic love.
• Enlightened Self-Interest: Played for laughs. After being awarded a Stella Star for helping save a drowning child out of the goodness of her own heart, Anya starts cottoning on to the idea that she can earn them through doing more heroic deeds. When she finds herself mired in a terrorist plot to use dogs to assassinate visiting politicians, she has a moment of clarity where she considers finding a way to spin this into getting another Stella Star if she can somehow foil the scheme publicly.
• Epic Fail: Anytime she is given a task to do (sports, crafting, volunteering, school work, etc), expect her to do very badly at it.
• Escaped from the Lab: She's a test subject of a project to create psychic children. She escaped the facility that experimented on her and eventually ended up at the orphanage where she is adopted by Loid.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her very first scene has Anya using her telepathy to solve a Crossword Puzzle so Loid will think she's smart and adopt her. This immediately showcases her two most defining traits: that she's a Guile Heroine, and that she desperately wants to have a loving family.
• Everything's Better with Sparkles: Whenever she uses her telepathy, sparkles are often shown around her head to let the viewer know that she is using a supernatural ability.
• Explaining Your Powers to the Enemy: Defied. What makes Anya so effective is that she doesn't tell people about her powers, which is especially rare for fictional Telepathy. She consciously avoids telling her new parents about her powers since she's afraid she'll get sent back to the orphanage or the lab she came from if they find out about her true nature.
• Explosive Leash: After Billy Squire sees Anya and Becky acting suspiciously (throwing out a message for someone to find), he places a bomb collar on Anya. He threatens the children of Eden that if they attempt to save her or escape, she will die, though Anya discovers that the bomb collar is a fake via her telepathy.
• Face of a Thug: Downplayed. She's cute as a button, but she has the unintentional habit of making incredibly smug faces which are typically directed at Damian, often giving the impression that she's intentionally mocking him.
• Fangirl: She's a big fan of a spy cartoon called Spy Wars which is probably one of the main reasons she loves being adopted by Loid (a master spy) and Yor (a professional hitwoman). Almost all of her fantasies are filtered through a Spy Fiction lens inspired by the show. Case in point, as a reward for getting into Eden, Loid arranges a gigantic Spy Wars LARP campaign for her, where she is a princess that Loid—dressed as the hero of the cartoon, Bondman—must rescue from a bombastic Supervillain. She loved the whole experience.
• Foster Kid: During the year before she met Loid, Anya went through four foster homes, contributing to some deeply-rooted attachment issues.
• Freak Lab Accident: Anya getting her powers was an unintentional result of the scientists' experiments they took advantage of.
• Freudian Excuse:
  • Anya's hatred of studying comes from the scientists at the lab where she was experimented on forcing her to study even when she didn't want to. Loid attempting the same tactics on her for the sake of the mission brings back bad memories for Anya and she runs off to her room to cry. She does slowly overcome this over time, with Loid learning to be a better father to her and attempting to help her education in other ways.
  • Having been put in foster care and returned four times has Anya very scared of the thought of being returned to the orphanage. The first chapter has her crying hysterically upon reading Loid's thoughts about returning her for another child. It's implied Anya is determined to help Loid make Operation STRIX succeed so that she'll impress him enough that he will want to keep her. Likewise, this fear has led to her obsessive need to keep her powers a secret (to the point of sometimes increasing danger to herself and others in order to avoid revealing what she can do), as she is certain that she will be abandoned if her adoptive family finds out.
• Funetik Aksent: She tends to pronounce words that she doesn't understand this way. For instance, when she "hears" Loid think about how Damian is the scion of the Desmond family, she proceeds to start thinking about him as the "Sy-on Boy", not knowing what "scion" means, although in some dubs, she calls him "second son" instead.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She carries around a Classical Chimera plushie, alluding to her lab experiment past. She also adores the giant penguin plushie her adoptive father got for her at the aquarium.
• Grade Skipper: An implied unintentional case. It's possible that Anya lied about her age so Loid would adopt her, so she's placed in a grade at Eden College for children a year or two older than her. Her academic performance can't exactly be called impressive, but she does manage to just keep up with her class.
• The Greatest Story Never Told: She has actually helped both of her parents from behind the scenes with them being none the wiser, with her biggest case in the Inusan Crisis arc where she manages to prevent both Westalis and Ostania from breaking out into war.
• Guile Heroine: Thanks to her mind-reading powers, it's very easy for her to find out what makes her target tick. A few words out of her mouth, and maybe a bit of acting, and the target will perform the action she wants. For example, need to stop an escaping terrorist? Hug his leg and shout "Mama, I'm being kidnapped!". Cue Yor's Mama Bear rage.
• Happily Adopted: She is fully aware of her new parents' identities thanks to her powers, but she loves her new life very much. It helps that she wants to have a loving family more than anything else and exploits people to that end, but the Forgers do come to genuinely care about her.
• Hates Being Alone: Anya was abused and exploited by the lab that raised her. She's since then also been adopted and returned several times due to people not being able to handle her and her telepathy. All of this has caused her to develop severe abandonment issues. She is thus incredibly clingy with her new parents, wanting to have a true bond with them and avoid being abandoned once more.
• The Heart: Anya is the center of her fake family, with both Loid and Yor quickly growing attached to her, which slowly helps them to grow fonder of each other too.
• Heartwarming Orphan: Anya was an orphan adopted by multiple families and was easily dropped in each one due to her powers, hence why she hides it from everyone ever since she became a Forger. Her cheerfulness and innocence crept into the hearts of her adopted parents, Loid and Yor, both of whom have rather ruthless jobs. She even instantly befriended the family's dog, Bond.
• Heroes Love Dogs: She decides to get a dog in hopes that'll help her make friends with Damian. She then finds a dog that can see the future and decides to keep him. She names him Bond and they become the best of friends.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: In terms of school reputation, she's this. Due to her generally poor academic performance and her punching Damian during her first day at the academy, she's considered a delinquent by the other students and some of the teachers as well.
• Hidden Depths: Mission 42 reveals that she's actually knowledgeable of classical language, as Loid observes that she could've gotten a good score on her classical language quiz had her spelling not been atrocious. Later, in large part thanks to Sigmund's tutoring, Anya gets the second-highest score in her exams, earning her third Stella Star as a result.
• I Have Many Names: Throughout her short life she has been called Test Subject 007, Anya Williams, Anya Levski, Anya Roche, Anya Klein, and now Anya Forger. Franky says to Loid, "She changes names as much as you do." Short Mission 11 hints that her original given name is Ania.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Why Anya is so dead-set on pairing up Loid and Yor. Having been raised in a sterile lab environment followed by several foster homes and orphanages without any love, she wants to be with a loving family of her own. The thought of Loid and Yor abandoning her is a deeply-seated anxiety she expresses in tense moments, like their disastrous entrance interview for Eden.
• The Illegible: Her handwriting is so awful that it's almost totally illegible.
• Imagine Spotting: She can see what others are imagining thanks to her telepathy.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Even aside localization, her given name has multiple spelling. It's written on her adoption forms "Anya" (and nearly every official out-of-universe source), but her room's name plate was written as "ANIA". Short Mission 11 acknowledges the difference, but implies both spellings exist and are meaningfully different in-series.
• Interclass Friendship: With Becky. Anya is an orphan who was adopted by a spy and is now living as part of a middle class family, while her Only Friend Becky is the daughter of a CEO who is so rich that Anya wonders if Becky's family has enough money to rule the world.
• Irony:
  • She's a telepath unable to discern Damian is mean to her because he has a crush on her.
  • Despite having practice doing so to her parents and her ability to outright read minds, Anya's contempt for Damian, combined with the above inability to realize how his mind works, makes her believe that he'll be easy to manipulate with minimal effort on her part, causing all her friendship attempts to fail over and over again.
• It Amused Me: A non-malicious reason. Many of the actions she does to help Loid and Yor are because she is starved for excitement. This includes working to get Loid as her dad and then Yor as her mom in the first place, as she considers having a spy and assassin for parents super exciting.
• It Was a Gift: In Short Mission 3, after Anya's penguin plushie was tattered by Bond and made worse by Yor's attempt to fix it, Loid suggests to buy a new one for her. Anya refuses, as she has grown attached to it, especially since it was a gift from Loid after winning it in Extra Mission 1.
• Kid Hero: Deconstructed. While Anya's telepathy and quick wit has helped - and even saved - her family and world peace, she is still a child who is out of her depth in tasks outside of her capabilities. There is much that she doesn't fully understand about the world due to having the naïve view of the world that most children do.
• Let's You and Him Fight: If she needs to have an adult threat removed, her go-to method is siccing her parents onto them, such as clutching onto a terrorist and yelling to Yor that she's being kidnapped, who reacts just as you'd expect.
• Living Lie Detector: She can read minds, so she knows every time Twilight is lying to her. She still finds him very cool.
  "Papa's a big liar."
• Logical Weakness: As convenient as mind-reading might seem, Anya's powers come with a lot of caveats.
  • Anya can still read the minds of people whose thoughts are in disarray or Angrish due to heightened emotional state, but she won't be able to make sense of it. Likewise, big crowds of people overwhelm her thanks to the massive amount of thoughts going around, which her parents assume to be a fear of crowds. Combine a crowd with strong emotions and the effect is even worse. A panicked crowd early in the series outright causes Anya to pass out for a short time because she was so overwhelmed. Much later, during her bus' hijacking, she is repeatedly incapacitated when the rest of the kids on her bus get panicked enough.
  • She has trouble keeping up with Loid's thoughts because he thinks too fast about too many things at once, so she makes do by focusing on his surface thoughts once he has decided on a line of thought or course of action. Trying to go any deeper tends to be too strenuous for her to handle. She's outright noted that his mind is so hard to read that she's not even sure how he truly feels about her.
  • Yor's experiences as a Professional Killer makes her mind consider violence all too easily, all while enhancing the gory details of said thoughts. While Yor is all too used to it, such realistic imagery often scares the crap out of Anya.
  • Using telepathy to cheat on a test doesn't help if the classmate she's cribbing off of doesn't know the right answer either. And for the students that do know the right answers, their thoughts often go by too fast for her to understand them or write the answer down.
  • If someone has a particular feeling about something, but doesn't understand it themselves, then Anya won't understand it either. Damian has a crush on her but is in denial because he doesn't think he could ever be in love with a middle-class girl, so Anya has no idea about his true feelings.
  • She can read the minds of animals, but they are substantially harder to read than people given how differently their minds work. She generally can't get more from them than base urges or emotions translated into simple words. Bond is a bit of an exception thanks to his enhanced intelligence, but he still thinks more like a dog than a human and doesn't seem capable of more than simple sentences in his thoughts, which leads to various difficulties when Anya tries to get him to explain things to her.
  • She tries reading the mind of Melinda, who is implied to have some sort of mental illness, and the results leave her incredibly confused.
  • She tries to read the mind of Sigmund but has trouble making sense of what she reads as his thoughts are so scattered.
  • Her mind-reading is limited to whatever thoughts someone is having at the time, so she isn't able to dig into someone's memories or knowledge to look for information. The most she can do is try to get her target to think about the information she needs from them.
• Lost in Translation: In the original Japanese, she refers to her parents as "Chichi" (meaning father) and "Haha" (meaning mother). In Japanese, these terms are only used when talking about your parents to another person. So when Anya uses those terms to her own parents, it conveys that she doesn't actually understand the context and formalities of the words, because she's a naive little kid who's never had a proper family. This doesn't get across in languages like English where parents don't have different words based on context, so instead she refers to her parents as "papa" and "mama" in all contexts.
• Lunacy: Apparently her power is tied to the moon phase. She loses her mind-reading power during a new moon, forcing her to actually put effort into studying for a test when her original plan was to skim the answers off certain students via their thoughts (though she eventually finds that even with her powers working properly this method is unreliable).
• Mark of Shame: As of January 2024, she's gotten three Tonitrus Bolts on record, the first for punching Damian in the face, the second for not having a handkerchief on her (because she gave hers to Damian), and the third for a bad grade in her math midterm exam. She also has three Stella Stars, though, so it's anyone's guess as to which one she'll get eight of first.
• Mark of the Supernatural: She's the only human character in the story that explicitly has supernatural powers through her Telepathy, and physically representing that is her being the only character with unusually pink hair.
• Meaningful Name: Written as an and ya, her name can mean "dark night" in Japanese, contrasting her adoptive parents' names. Later, in imitation of Loid's own codename, she refers to herself as "Starlight" Anya every time she gets a Stella Star.
• Megaton Punch: Her punch on Damian sends him flying into a nearby garbage can. The anime adds an audible boom on the impact of the hit.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: Anya's telepathy often causes her to discover details about people that end up disturbing her, such as Yor's frequent battles with Murder Is the Best Solution and several people relieving themselves in the public pool.
• Mind over Manners: This trope is the other major reason why she doesn't reveal her Telepathy to other people alongside personal enjoyment. She fears being thrown away as a freak for disrupting the Mutual Masquerade among her adoptive parents. To get around this, she uses Batman Gambits as her way to help them get their actual jobs done.
• Mistaken for Romance: Due to Anya's attempts to befriend Damian for Loid's mission, Becky thinks Anya has a crush on Damian by Mission 25.
• Mood-Swinger: As Loid starts regretting his decision in adopting her, Anya begins to cry and begs him to keep her after reading his mind. She instantly stops with glee after Loid offers her peanuts.
• Mundane Utility: On top of using her mind reading powers for keeping her parents' missions intact and reading the minds of threats, she also uses them to cheat on her exams. This didn't work during the entrance exam since every other entrant was just as freaked out as her without any viable answers, forcing her to remember what Loid taught her with the answer key.
• Mysterious Past:
  • Her original family, true age, and basically anything past a year before she met Twilight remain largely mysteries. All we have gotten is a short flashback to her time as a research subject, and in the Eden interview, where the subject of her birth mother brings Anya to tears, but no additional details have been revealed as of yet. Notably, despite how much the story focuses on Anya and her inner thoughts, whether on purpose or not, she almost never references anything from before she was adopted by Twilight. Plus, Loid has never pressed her for any answers to these things, though he suspects her birth parents are long dead. In Mission 93 he at last pries a little on what Anya's life was like when she was younger, and she claims she remembers little of it. Loid decides to not press further.
  • For that matter, the year before she met Twilight is sparse on detail. We know what happened in outline - she kept getting bounced between foster homes and orphanages - and we have the names of the families who fostered her, but as noted above, she barely references her pre-Twilight life.
• Naughty Is Good: Unlike the unrealistically angelic and well-behaved children that is tyical of Cold War Era television and films like Leave It to Beaver and The Sound of Music that Spy X Family draws inspiration from, Anya is prone to the stubbornness, impulsiveness, lack of foresight, vanity, fits of selfishness, and tearful tantrums that are characteristic of real children. With that being said, she is an honest and kind soul at heart, still one foot firmly in an idealized world of imagination, adventure, and wonder, yet to be corrupted by the duplicity, malice, and cynicism of the grown up world.
• Never Bareheaded:
  • She practically never takes the little horns on her head off, even when sleeping. In the Fashion-Shop Fashion Show in Mission 36, only one out of the numerous outfits she tries doesn't have something that covers or replaces the horns, and it's one with an exaggerated horned hairdo (and it's implied that horns are still there, but underneath the hair).
  • Her flashback to the lab in Mission 1 - set after she'd gained her powers - shows her with Odango Hair instead (or possibly bandages; the anime opted to make it hair).
  • For the gala in Chapters 95-96, she has her hair done up in Odango Hair with large hair buns, big enough the horns could be underneath.
  • One of the omakes shows her going to the pool and wearing her horns under a swim cap. It's possible her horns can't come off.
• Nice Girl: For the most part, she is easygoing, kind, innocent, and deeply appreciates having Loid and Yor as her adoptive parents. She even tries to be nice and sympathetic to Damian, even though the latter is constantly rude and condescending towards her.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Besides her unusual hair color, Anya's eyes are noticeably larger and more exaggerated compared to even the other child characters. There are some panels where she looks more like a character from One Piece or even a chibi. Her eyes do slowly become less detailed as the manga goes on, with the focus instead switched towards giving her a number of exaggerated expressions.
• Noodle Incident: Before Loid adopted her, she was adopted and returned by four different families. It's anyone's guess as to how her time with them went, with the only clue to them ending badly being that it had something to do with her powers.
• No Poker Face: When playing Old Maid with Damian, they end up in a stalemate because she can read his mind. However, her facial expressions instantly give away which card is the joker, so it ends up in a tie every time.

O-Z

• Obfuscating Stupidity: Downplayed actually, she's not all that bright on her own (at least some of which may be down to being a year or two younger than she claims), and a lot of her bursts of intelligence are thanks to her reading others' minds, such as when she solves a crossword thanks to Twilight looking over it. That said, she's far more cunning than she lets on and she pulls off multiple Batman Gambits by pretending to be an average child and "conveniently" doing things that help accomplish Twilight's missions.
• Oblivious to Love: She doesn't notice that Damian is mean to her because he has a secret crush on her. Although she can read his mind, they're both little kids who barely have any concept of what romantic love feels like, and so Anya can't make sense of the weird sensations she gets from him sometimes until Chapter 88, where she gets the first hint of Damian's feelings for her (albeit finding it creepy).
• Oh, Crap!: A Running Gag thanks to her awareness of her adoptive parents'... unique professions and quirks.
• Only One Name: She's introduced without a surname, although she picked up new ones with every family that fostered her. Whether she was given a surname at birth is unknown.
• Orphanage of Fear: Given how she's dealt with All of the Other Reindeer throughout all her life, every orphanage she's been in was a crappy one that only barely kept every child alive and fed, let alone cared for her interests and emotional needs. Quite luckily for her, the shady and uncaring nature of such an establishment, particularly the drunk owner who was more than happy to get rid of her, made it very easy to get adopted by Loid and give Anya a chance at living a genuinely happy life.
• Outside-Context Problem: She's a powerful telepath with undetectable mind reading in an Espionage Thriller world in which such things otherwise do not exist, so not only does no one have any idea how to counter her, no one even knows she's of any significance. Notably Loid never realizes she can read minds despite the numerous Contrived Coincidences surrounding her, despite him being The Ace when it comes to intellect and observational skills, because such a thing is so far outside his worldview he would never even think of it.
• Paranormal Gambling Advantage: A raffle is rigged by its holder so that his girlfriend gets the grand prize for a 2-person cruise, with only the two of them knowing that the winning ticket is stuck to the top of the box on the inside. Anya, who is in line before said girlfriend, uses her telepathy to read the raffle holder's mind and promptly fishes out the winning ticket from the box, earning her and Loid the cruise trip.
• Parental Abandonment: Prior to meeeting Twilight, Anya was adopted and returned to the orphanage four times which made her develop abandoment issues.
• Parental Title Characterization:
  • Anya always calls Loid and Yor "chichi" and "haha"^note "Papa" and "Mama" in the English translation since she's a very young girl. In Japanese, this is grammatically wrong; "chichi" and "haha" are how you refer to your parents when talking to someone else, rather than being a form of address, implying Anya simply doesn't know any better because she's never had a family before meeting Loid and Yor.
    Loid: So please make sure that you address me as "Father".
    Anya: Papa!
    Loid: Close enough.
  • A very somber example comes when she's recounting her birth mother, and she refers to her as "mommy". This word choice is a stark contrast to how she refers to her adoptive family and hints at a lingering grief, especially as she starts dropping tears at the memory (or possibly, given Anya's time at the lab, her lack of memories of her birth parents).
• Penny Among Diamonds: Anya is an orphan who was raised as a test subject until she managed to escape from the lab and a secret spy adopted her to enroll her at an elite academy where most of the students belong to rich and influential families. The Forgers' cover identity is far better-off than Anya's actual upbringing, but her classmates still often shun her for "only" being upper-middle class. Unlike most examples of this trope (where the characters in question get into this situation as teens), her young age means she often lacks the self-consciousness to "behave," occasionally embarrassing herself in the process.
• Power Incontinence: Downplayed. Anya's powers don't appear to always be fully active, sparkling effects around her head showing when she is using them and her often declaring she is about to read someone's mind before she does so. That said, her adverse reactions to crowds and her apparent inability to shut out intense feelings of panic or anger suggests that if there are enough thoughts/feelings occurring near her at a high enough intensity, then they basically push themselves into her mind and there is little she can do about it other than wait for the intensity to abate. She also will sometimes receive less intense thoughts without intending to, usually if the thought is of someone she knows thinking something of interest to her.
• Precision F-Strike: She doesn't swear often, but sometimes, such as when getting back at Damian insulting her or describing her adoptive father going to the loo to relieve his feigned stomach ache, she does.
• Prone to Tears: Anya does cry a lot when she feels overwhelmed, which is justified since she's a child. She starts comically bawling in the first chapter thinking that Loid is suddenly going to up and abandon her after just adopting her, but he switches her mood around almost instantly after offering to buy her peanuts.
• Psychic Children: Anya can sense the thoughts and emotions of anyone relatively near her (as well as animals, though it's harder). She can get overwhelmed by these sometimes though.
• Psychic Nosebleed: Overuse of her telepathy can cause this, notably when she used it to track down the purse-snatcher through a big crowd. Trying to filter through all the thoughts to locate his for even a few seconds led to her nose bleeding and Anya almost passing out.
• Rage Breaking Point: Damian's constant bullying of Anya on the first day of school causes Anya to snap and punch the little brat across the hallway.
• Recruited from the Gutter: Loid adopted Anya from an Orphanage of Fear to serve as his fake daughter for Operation Strix. He doesn't know that she knows all about his secret identity as a spy, and she's not officially "working" for him, but she does everything she can to secretly help him, since she doesn't want to lose her new family.
• Refuge in Audacity: What tends to keep up Anya's deception about having the ability to read minds during her more blatant gaffes trying to hide her abilities. Twilight knows of super-science being performed by each country, but is otherwise skeptical of any of it turning up more than bunk, meaning he never connects the dots with Anya - especially because it would be so difficult to believe and so far removed from what should be possible for humans, even in a setting slightly more fantastical than modern earth. This sometimes allows Anya to just tell Twilight and Yor what she knows with only the barest justification, which can speed along the plot in some areas.
• Renamed the Same: In Short Mission 11, Loid acknowledges how her door's nameplate says "ANIA" and corrected her that it is supposed to be spelled "ANYA". Her slight pause and repetition to herself in response hints her undocumented name was previously "Ania" (and that may have even been the name given by her birth mother), but she is accepting that she is now "Anya".
• Reused Character Design: Anya greatly resembles the title character of another one-shot manga the author did in the past titled Rengoku no Ashe◊, only as a child as opposed to an adult woman. The most notable similarities are the signature "horns" hair decorations and pink hair, but Ashe's outfit was also recycled as Eden's uniform (that Anya eventually wears herself) alongside her thorn earring and body shape going to Yor. This even gets referenced in a promo image for Endo's commentary for said one-shot where Ashe and Anya are put next to each other.
• Rose-Haired Sweetie: She's an adorable and innocent little girl with pink hair.
• Running Gag:
  • Anya has the misfortune of reading her parents' minds when they think something related to their profession (killing, assassinating, hiding dangerous poisoned weapons, etc.) and gets startled as a result.
  • Anya asks her parents if they're going to kiss (manga)/states that they're flirting (anime) after they have a mutual 'moment', and they deny it in embarrassment.
  • Anytime Anya is asked what her parents do for a living, she almost states the truth that Loid is a spy and Yor is a hitman. Only to quickly stop herself and state what their cover job is.
  • Anya is not exactly tactful about making it clear she doesn't like Yor's cooking, causing her adoptive mother some distress.
  • Anya's imagined results of her parents finding out about each other's true vocations and divorcing always includes them randomly deciding to abandon her as well.
  • Anya will express shock (even saying "Shock!" out loud) whenever someone thinks little of her ability to succeed. Starting from Episode 14 of the Anime, her voice drops lower and deeper than even Yor's in anger when she is really shocked, sounding more like a shocked chain-smoker than a young child.
  • Her terrible handwriting, typically presented by someone being given something she wrote on and being horrified or confused at how difficult it is to read. By Mission 88 it gets acknowledged in-universe by Becky as a running gag that is getting old, and it's implied Anya is trying hard to improve.
• Sarcastic Confession: In Chapter 96, Damian asks if she can read minds since she was able to get several questions about him right, she sincerely replies with “Yes. I can read people’s minds.” Naturally, he thinks she is just joking.
• Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: A Running Gag in the Anime's Japanese language version is Anya incredulously shouting "Ga-n!!", which literally means "Clang!" or an onomatopoeia of "Shock!", whenever she is well, shocked. This is a trait she shares with her mother Yor.
• Secretly Selfish: Anya is determined to help Loid succeed in Operation STRIX no matter what, but her desire to befriend Damian, in spite of knowing how his father treats him, stems from her desire to help the mission succeed, not out of any real friendship and more on the grounds she hopes Loid will want to keep her and not return her to foster care.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Due to her telepathy, Anya is the only one who knows Loid is a spy and Yor a hitwoman. She keeps quiet because of her own instructions to keep her powers secret. Fortunately, she thinks having a spy and assassin as her parents is awesome.
• Shipper with an Agenda: Her parents are married for non-romantic and non-intimate reasons, but that doesn't stop her from wanting the two to act as such for real. While part of this is indeed because she sees them as a perfect genuine couple, she also does so because she Hates Being Alone and wants to have a permanent loving family, after spending most of her life either experiencing traumatic experiments or being tossed between uncaring orphanages.
  [after a Ship Tease situation happens between Loid and Yor]
  Anya: So, are you going to kiss now? (manga) / Papa and mama are flirting. (anime)
  Loid/Yor: [blushing] No we're not!
• Shipping Torpedo: She actively opposes Fiona replacing Yor as Twilight's fake wife, both because Anya already loves Yor as her mother and because she isn't in any way approving of Fiona's plan to "educate" her.
• Shout-Out: Her favorite TV character is Bondman, and her lab name was "Subject 007", a reference to long running Spy Fiction character James Bond and his codename "007".
• Signature Hair Decs: No matter what other clothes she might end up wearing, one consistent and quite notable part of her design is a pair of horn accessories attached to the sides of her hair.
• Signature Sound Effect: In the anime, alongside the sparkling stars that pop up, her usage of telepathy is denoted by a reverberating sparkle noise that matches the visuals. It's so consistent to her that, regardless of seeing the sparkles and hearing the thoughts being read, this sound appearing even when Anya's offscreen instantly signifies that she read someone's thoughts.
• Star-Shaped Coupon: Loid's mission is for her to achieve eight Stella Stars so she can become an Imperial Scholar like the son of his target Donovan Desmond, allowing him access to the meetings that Donovan will also attend. As of Mission 93, she's gotten three Stellas: the first for saving a boy from drowning, the second is for her courageous actions when the Eden Academy bus was held hostage by terrorists of the Red Circus, and the third is for getting the second highest grade in her classical language final.
• The Spook: Her past as a lab experiment who then bounced through multiple orphanages and foster families left her with little to no documentation; the orphanage Loid finds her in didn't file any paperwork for her adoption. Naturally, that's what Loid was looking for: a child with no legal existence to contradict the cover story of being his biological offspring.
• Story-Breaker Power:
  • In a series entirely about spycraft and secrecy, Anya's telepathy could easily derail the main plot at any time, and she in fact has derailed numerous plots in-universe simply because she happened to be present. She's restrained by her young age (mentally and physically) and desire to keep her powers a complete secret, out of fear that being found out will result in her losing her new family.
  • This is played as a punchline in a chapter that sets up a Ten Little Murder Victims plot, but then Anya abruptly ends it by immediately finding the culprit, along with Bond's next vision of where they'd strike next.
• Stronger Than They Look: Despite being six (or so she claims), her punch was able to send Damian flying across the hallway, thanks to Yor's training.
• Subtle Superpowering: Or at least, Anya tries to be subtle out of fear of what might happen if others find out. She's relatively competent at it for her age, and it always works—although to the audience it reads closer to Blatant Lies.
• Summon Bigger Fish: A favored tactic of Anya's when facing adult villains; all she needs to do is to call out for Yor's help, and the latter will arrive within moments with superhuman speed, then proceed to singlehandedly pulverize said villains with her equally superhuman strength and skill.
• Support Party Member: Being a four or five-year old girl, Anya has almost zero ability to defend herself, but her ability to read minds allows her to steer Loid, Yor, or any of their allies in the right direction whenever she gets caught in the crossfire of their jobs. The challenge is doing so without revealing that she's an esper.
• Supporting Protagonist: Loid is by all indications the main character of the series, with his mission providing context to the series as well as the ongoing main plot. However, so much of that plot revolves around Anya, and she has so much insight and context into everyone's secrets, that it ends up hinging primarily on her actions.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Despite her being a Guile Heroine with incredible skill at utilizing her Telepathy powers, she still has the childish trait of trying to subtly lie, only to instead say things that are directly denying the truth.
  Anya: I'm Anya, and I've always been Papa's daughter.
  Anya: Papa is taking me out to play and Papa is very nice and Mama is a good person! My family is very ordinary! [...] Papa is also a good person and very normal too!
• Sweet Tooth: She gets very excited when told her parents brought home a cake. She also happily accepts offers of candy from others like the old woman her parents save from a pickpocket.
• Taking the Heat: In Chapter 61, she lends her own handkerchief to Damian so he won't get a Tonitrus bolt, because she realizes anything that would jeopardize Damian's relationship with his father would be bad for the mission. Hilariously, because she pictured Loid's ability to always have a move in advance (yet didn't actually follow through by bringing a spare), she didn't realize that she would be the one receiving the Tonitrus instead.
• Talking in Your Sleep: When Anya dozes off while studying at her desk and Loid moves her to the bed, she says something weird, "No, mama. You can't kill papa..." Loid even wonders what she's dreaming about to say this.
• Talking the Monster to Death: Using her telepathy, she's able to blunder her way through this with one of the Red Circus members, inadvertently pushing his Trauma Buttons and reminding him of his deceased daughter, causing a Heel Realization.
• Tears of Remorse: Subverted. When Anya apologizes for punching Damian, she overhears his henchmen thinking mean things about her, which makes her cry. Damian mistakes the motive of her tears, taking them as proof of a sincere and heartfelt apology.
• Telepathy: Anya is an esper who has the ability to read minds, including animals, but notes that's more difficult for her. She doesn't have complete control over it, as large crowds can overwhelm her. There is also a range limit no matter how much she concentrates.
• Terrible Artist: Her artworks look like grotesque renditions of whatever she was trying to represent. Loid once mistakes one of her drawings as a cheetah, but it was actually a cow.
• There Are No Therapists: Anya has experienced some pretty traumatic things either directly or via her mind-reading (including a man being shot to death right in front of her, and a vision of finding her father dead in an explosion), and unlike Twilight and Yor she has (as far as we know) not been through any training to acclimate her to such things. However, while the experiences will bother her in the moment, they don't seem to leave any negative lasting impact on her psyche. While she's not necessarily "normal," the only recurring trauma she seems to deal with is the fear of being sent away from her adoptive family (a fear strong enough that she even risked Twilight's life at one point by leaving a messy warning about a bomb rather than risk him finding out about her powers by telling him directly). While the lack of other trauma is unexplained, the lack of attempts at therapy is justified by her parents being unaware that she's seen these things.
• Third-Person Person: In the original Japanese, she has a habit of referring to herself in third person, which adds to her cuteness. This also happens in the Latin American Spanish dub out of respect for the trope, despite many Latin American countries strongly discouraging such speech.^note See the trope under Real Life for a detailed explanation. Keep in mind the dub was made in Mexico, where the stereotypes about this trope are very strong.
• Three-Point Landing: She actually manages to do such a landing in the beginning of Mission 56.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Becky's Girly Girl. Anya isn't exactly tomboyish, but she is more stubborn, proactive, prone to seek adventure and thrills, likes action-adventure cartoons, can throw a punch, and doesn't have much interest in fashion. Whereas Becky is an ojou in training who likes romance dramas/soap operas and is interested in fashion and relationships.
• Trademark Favorite Food: She really likes peanuts and can easily be bribed with them, though it has been downplayed since the earlier chapters and she is shown to like nuts or things similar to them (like cashews) in general. When it comes to drinks she is also particular to hot cocoa.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: She may have been forced by the circumstances, but she's able to make a functioning IED^note Improvised Explosive Device by reading the ingredients and procedure from the mind of the terrorist who's planning to use one to kill Yor and building it first, although hers is fortunately small and nonlethal. Also, while her exact age is unclear, she's also clearly a child.
• The Un-Smile: Yor advised Anya to try to respond to every provocation with a friendly smile. Unfortunately, Anya's fake◊ smile is one of the smuggest to ever grace any media.
  "Mama's a liar; smiling didn't help at all."
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight:
  • Loid appears to have written off Anya solving the crossword in their first meeting as a fluke.
  • Most people around her do not even see her pink hair as unnatural or abnormal in a setting where characters have mostly-realistic hair colors.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Shortly after discovering Loid's telegraph in a box, she started playing with it and thought it'd be fun to relay the message 'THIS IS TWILIGHT TAG YOU'RE IT' out, which led to Edgar's men tracking down Loid's apartment, blowing his cover and taking Anya hostage.
• Vague Age:
  • Initially. In-universe, Loid surmises that she's about four or five, but she claims to be six years old in order to get adopted. This could be true given her background, making it entirely possible that she's underdeveloped and thus Older Than She Looks. However, it's also a popular opinion that the reason Anya seems to struggle in her academic education despite proving to be incredibly intelligent in other fields is because the level at which she's learning is intended for children a year or two older than her (and then that education being the hardest, most elite education provided for six-year-olds). With no proper birth certificate to be found, it's impossible to know which is the case in-story. Additionally, she is noticeably shorter than her 6 year old classmates, all of whom are at least a inch or two taller than her, and Becky notes that she looks like a baby when they first meet. However, one of her classmates, Bill Watkins, looks and sounds far older than his canonical age of 6 years old, making it possible for Anya to be a case of Older Than She Looks.
  • As stated by Tatsuya Endo in the extras of Volume 13 of the manga, Anya is around 5 years old.
• Verbal Tic: While it gets Lost in Translation to some extent, Anya's speech mannerisms are distinctly childish, even compared to Eden students in her year.
• Vocal Dissonance: Starting from Episode 14 of the Anime, whenever Anya is really shocked (to the point of Color Failure) - such as when she realized she couldn't defuse the terrorist bomb, and when she failed to impress Damian with her new dog - Atsumi Tanezaki drops her pitch several octaves lower while incredulously shouting Gaa~n! (Sho~ck!), making her sound like a chain-smoker with a voice deeper than her gentle mother Yor's rather than that of a young child.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: Anya is forced to help her parents maintain world peace. While burdening a child with adult responsibilities is usually a form of child abuse, Anya is taking it upon herself to do it with neither parent's knowledge, largely because she thinks having a spy and an assassin as parents would be cool. That said, Anya does things like befriending a Spoiled Brat and generally trying to do what her parents hope she does, all in the name of being an asset.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Anya's only motivated to try to excel in Eden to help Loid fulfill his mission, along with make him (and Yor) keep her as a daughter for as long as possible. She also admits in Mission 37 that she's a little scared of whether Loid actually likes her or not since his mind is so complicated, which is what pushes her to strive so hard at trying to earn his love.
• When She Smiles: She's very good at invoking this in others.
  • Her happiness often gets Loid and Yor to accept that she is their daughter, adopted or not.
  • Mission 36 was dedicated to Becky taking Anya shopping to make her attractive to Damian. Unbeknownst to them, Damian is staring in flustered awe when he spots Anya laughing happily the next day.
• Who Writes This Crap?!: Her honest reaction to Loid's homemade "Spy Wars" episode which is laden with obviously shoehorned educational facts in an extremely clunky manner, showing that Twilight isn't adept at scriptwriting a show for children.
  Anya: This cartoon sucks. I can't follow this at all.
• Wise Beyond Her Years: Played with, in that she is not really good at academics at all, enjoys childish things, and often misunderstands adult matters, but she is also good at observation and knows how to act, lie, and lead everyone along on the spot while hiding her nature, whether to keep her adoptive family on track for their missions or to catch crooks.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Rare heroic example, where thanks to Anya's mind-reading, she frequently has access to information her parents do not, and needs to indirectly use this to help them accomplish their goals without revealing her secrets to them or their secrets to each other. One time when Loid couldn't chase after a fleeing terrorist, she got Yor to do the job by latching onto the terrorist and screaming to her mother that she's being kidnapped.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: A lot of her fears rest in her belief that her psychic powers make her a freak, and once Loid and Yor find out, they'll immediately reject her for being something inhuman. After she saves a boy from drowning, Loid's internal pride towards her convinces her that her powers are a blessing and she learns to accept them as something she can do good with.
• You Are Number 6: Anya used to be called Subject 007.