OOC: 10 things meme

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1.  Annabelle has never had any formal schooling.  Her parents taught her how to read, write, and figure, but the rest of her education was... eclectic.  She has picked up a few things over the years , but they tend to be a bit random.

2.  She lost her mother to the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic.

3. By the time she was 12 years old Annabelle was starring in her own act, performing trick shots with firearms.

4.Annabelle first killed another human being when she was 12 in self-defense.  Annabelle had shown up an older, male, trick shot expert whose career was on the ropes.  As might be expected, he took this very poorly.  He tracked her down later that evening.  Annabelle did not have her gun with her and he would almost certainly have killed her if he hadn't been nearly too drunk to stand.  Even so, she got a minor bullet wound in the side.  Luckily, there was a knife nearby and she killed him by putting it through his eye.  Annabelle has never been voluntarily out of lunging distance of a weapon since.

5.  Unlike many Inspired, Annabelle discovered her talent gradually.  She simply noticed that she was making shots every time that should have given her difficulty.  Indeed, it almost seemed that she couldn't miss.  Without the challenge of making ever more difficult shots  she was looking for something more to do by the age of 14.  Then Whitley Styles showed up with an invitation to join the AEon society.  The rest, as they say, is history.

6.  (This one is something Austin suggested via Jennifer Landers that I decided to incorporate)  Yes, she can kill a man with at least eight different kinds of tableware.  If you ask politely, she may even tell you how.

7.  One of Annabelle's least favorite missions involved being stuck in a small building,in a blizzard, with Jack Tallon, for 3 days.  When Tallon told Styles later that it had been a close thing he was not, in fact, referring to the gun battle.

8. Annabelle used to chew tobacco, but that changed after one particular adventure.  AEon was investigating the strange, inexplicable behavior of the local residents in a tobacco growing area in Cuba.  They found out that someone had altered the local tobacco plants to produce an additional compound that made people more susceptible to mind control.  Unfortunately, they discovered this when a mesmerist forced Annabelle to shoot Whitley, who nearly died.   Annabelle had been chewing the local tobacco for several days.  This incident distressed her enough that she quit cold turkey.

9.  When AEon finally caught up to the mesmerist mentioned above, Annabelle emptied both pistols into him at point blank range.  Her teammates pretended not to notice that she was still badly shaken up even after said mesmerist was very, very dead.

10.  She won't admit it, but she did buy a copy of Tales of the AEon Society whenever it came out, even the ones by Evans.