Annai
Portrayed by Gal Gadot
Name: Annai Curran
(ANN-ee CURR-ən)
AKA: Miss Curran
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Class: Druid
Role: Damage
Professions: none
Homeland: Drustvar, Kul Tiras
Player: inkie
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RP Hooks

  • Anyone who has done business with Siamus Fallon may have encountered Miss Curran.
  • Kul Tiran expats may have met her.
  • People with connections in finance, shipping, international business and the like may have had cause to meet or work with her.
  • Underworld sorts with sketchy connections in finance, procurement, etc. may have done business with her. Keep the name Fallon out of your mouth, thank you very much.

Appearance

Miss Curran is a slim woman in her early thirties, who generally wears her long, sleek dark hair pulled back severely. She is a relatively tall 5'8", and dresses modestly in tailored skirt-suits or high-necked dresses with low-heeled button boots and occasionally a brimmed hat; if she isn't wearing her spectacles, they are hanging on a gold chain around her neck.

If anyone were to try her spectacles on, they would discover the lenses are plain glass, a purely cosmetic affectation.

Her posture is straight and her manner brisk and sure; her demure style seems to derive not from shyness or diffidence but a pragmatic desire not to call unnecessary attention to herself. She is a woman with confidential things to do and discreet places to be.

Personality

DISSEMBLING • CONTROLLED • COMPETENT • LOYAL

If you have done business with the Fallons of Stormwind — or, perhaps, attended the Ference-Fallon Charity Gala? — you have encountered Miss Curran. The prim young woman in a severe skirt-suit or demure dark dress and tortoiseshell spectacles is Siamus Fallon’s personal assistant, his indispensable Girl Friday: secretary, clerk, notary, and… security?

She takes impeccable shorthand, does faultless double-entry bookkeeping, knows the ins-and-outs of the banking systems and tax codes of every Alliance nation, has a network of underworld contacts her employer would strenuously disapprove, and can maul a man to death in a dark alley without breaking a nail. No one has ever seen Miss Curran sweat.

She is the sort of young lady whose closest friend is her employer — who may be unaware that he is her closest friend — and even he refers to her as “Miss Curran” ninety percent of the time. She does not seem like a woman who is on a first-name basis with anyone. It seems possible that even her parents call her “Miss Curran.”

Miss Curran is the young lady who might appear in a music video as the “plain” girl who removes her glasses and shakes her hair loose and transforms as if by magic into a hottie. And then she transforms magically again into a vaguely cat-like construct of bones and teeth and vines and tears a man’s head off and suddenly it’s a music video they won’t show on MTV.

Miss Curran wears masks over her masks. And tortoiseshell spectacles over them all.

This character is romanceable.

+ Romancing Miss Curran

History

Miss Curran's early life was unremarkable. She grew up in the hills near Fletcher's Hollow in Drustvar, Kul Tiras, with her parents and two younger brothers. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father a woodsman, and her childhood was humble but comfortable.

When he was 10 and Miss Curran 13, her brother Eoin was killed in a lumbering accident while working with their father. They rushed his body to the local priest, but the boy could not be brought back. Their father, consumed by guilt, retreated into the forests, spending less and less time at home. At some point he encountered the Thornspeakers, and threw himself into the faith of the Old Drust; the Light had betrayed him in failing to save his son. Young Annai stalked her father's footsteps, hoping to coax him back to the family fold; instead she found herself drawn in by the Thornspeakers' teachings, too.

She met Captain Siamus Fallon when she was employed as a secretary at the mine in Fletcher's Hollow, which was owned at the time by the family of Alsbeth Grier, Captain Fallon's then-fiancée. Initially she was his point of contact for business with the mines — the Fallon fleet bought stormsilver from the Griers — but she and the Captain were mutually impressed by one another's acumen and struck up a cordial, if businesslike, friendship of their own.

In the wake of the Battle of Theramore and Kul Tiras's break with the Alliance, Miss Grier broke off her engagement to Captain Fallon. It was Miss Curran who traveled to Stormwind to personally deliver this news to the Captain, and who followed it immediately by presenting her résumé and requesting a job.

Relationships

 Vice Admiral Siamus Fallon
Her employer. Also her closest friend and confidant, though he would be frankly astonished to hear it. A remarkably keen mind for both business and strategy; desperately in need of a personal assistant to manage everything else.
Lady Sintha Fallon
Lord Fallon's sister. A skilled and charming young woman. Makes it her business to know too much, trades in other people's secrets. Deeply loyal to her brother despite outward appearances, but not to be confided in.
Duchess Avrenne Esprit Fallon
Lord Fallon's wife. A woman of admirable competence, connections, and devotion to his lordship. Miss Curran has not had to find any stray teacups for Lord Fallon since Her Grace joined the household.
Mr. Shine
The first footman of the Fallon household; in his Kul Tiran days, Lord Fallon's lieutenant of marines. Lost an eye at Theramore and stepped out of the fleet to join the his lordship's Stormwind household. Also deeply loyal, a little scary in his own right; Miss Curran approves. Possibly the only staff member who is not at least a little afraid of her.
Lady Alwynneria Demasco
The attorney hired by Lord Fallon for Harvey Morningdew; Lord Fallon arranged Miss Curran as a bodyguard secretary for Lady Alwynneria for the duration.
Harvey Mourningdew
The death knight that Lady Alwynneria defended from murder charges in Stormwind City, at Lord Fallon's behest. Unpleasant, as all death knights are, but less unpleasant than most. Miss Westwind's fiance, ill-advisedly, but Miss Westwind seems an ill-advised young lady in general.
Ralaea Westwind
A Fallon ward, of sorts. Lord Fallon took her in at Fallon House during Mourningdew's trial for her own security; a mutual affection of sorts seems to have formed between the young lady and the family. Miss Curran approves; Miss Westwind seems desperately in need of stable attachments and sensible guidance.
Lathrik Dinnsfield
The court-appointed guardian of Harvey Mourningdew during the latter's trial. Allegedly a paladin, but something off about the man. Deeply ill-mannered.
Finley Boutille
One of Her Grace's wards from Lordaeron, now a family protégé of sorts. Has potential, but less socially canny than he thinks.
Isla Lenaire
Another of Her Grace's wards from Lordaeron. A sweet girl, bookish and dreamy, something of a disciple of Lady Sintha's.

Writings

Title Summary
(2023-05-23) The Signing Avrenne Esprit signs her marriage contract to Siamus Fallon. 3300-ish words.
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