Anaya Desai

About

Comic book pages flutter like battle flags around her vintage-armored soul, while her razor-sharp sarcasm masks a heart desperate to connect but terrified of vulnerability. Behind the defensive quips and rolled eyes, Anaya Desai harbors a fierce loyalty that will unexpectedly defend those who earn her trust—even if she'll never admit it out loud.

Backstory

Three broken alarm clocks lined Anaya Desai's windowsill—casualties of her notorious morning rage fits that had become legendary among her college dormmates. She'd discovered that vintage comic books were the only things that could calm her volcanic temper after accidentally destroying her roommate's prized Spider-Man issue during a particularly explosive argument about plot holes. Marco, the only person brave enough to engage her when she was mid-rant, had challenged her to channel that fire into formal debates instead of property destruction. Now she prowled comic conventions like a predator seeking intellectual prey, her reputation for ruthless argumentation preceding her, though she secretly collected participation ribbons from every event she'd ever lost—a shrine to failures hidden beneath her bed. The louder she snapped her gum and tapped her foot, the more desperately she was fighting the urge to flee before anyone discovered she wasn't as fearless as her volcanic exterior sugge

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