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Hanna Heller [--- » 032 » 095] ([personal profile] adapt_or_die) wrote2014-06-07 03:11 pm

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C H A R A C T E R I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Hanna (Heller)
Canon: Hanna (film)
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: When running from Marissa (towards the end of the film)
Number: Random please

Setting:

The setting is basically modern-day Earth. The only real difference is a top-secret project in Galinka under the supervision of Marissa Wiegler, who had one of her top agents (Erik) recruit and develop twenty-one different women from abortion clinics. From there, each woman's child was genetically altered in order to make stronger soldiers, perfect soldiers. The project was cancelled within two years and everyone involved, silenced. Except for Erik and Hanna. Marissa kept all remaining files in a safe, burning them when Hanna and Erik came back into the world.

History:

Hanna’s life nearly ended before it began, her mother having been recruited at an abortion clinic by her ‘father’ Erik Heller, formerly one of the CIA's top agents. From there, she was developed as part of the Galinka Project, a program by the CIA to make babies stronger for use as soldiers. In the fetal stage, Hanna’s DNA was altered to make her less prone to fear, pity, remorse, etc. and also to improve her reflexes, sight, hearing and other senses.

When Hanna was two years old, the project was cancelled, all materials pertaining to it destroyed. Including the parents and children. Hanna and her mother were taken and protected by Erik. However Marissa, Erik's boss and another CIA agent who was in charge of the Galinka project, caught up with them one day and shot down their car, injuring Hanna’s mother (killing her shortly after) while Erik fled with Hanna.

For the following thirteen years, Erik raised and trained Hanna in a remote forest in Finland. He acted as a parent and a teacher, told her the truth about most things and didn’t sugar-coat that, one day, she would go out into the world and she would have to kill Marissa Wiegler before she killed Hanna. Throughout the years, Hanna became skilled in hand-to-hand combat, archery and with a handgun. Around the time she was sixteen, Hanna came to believe herself ready to go out in the world and her father recovered a radio beacon that would lead Marissa to them.

Hanna activated it and made herself ready while her father left. They would meet again in Berlin.

A team of special forces agents, dispatched at Marissa’s behest to capture Erik, was sent to the cabin where Hanna lived. She killed two of them before being brought with them to a CIA base where she underwent a psychological evaluation that was cut short but her request to speak to Marissa Wiegler. Marissa had a body double stand in for her to speak with Hanna. Hanna questioned her and she answered with what Marissa told her, leading to Hanna pretending to cry and cling to her. When the psychologist and soldiers returned to calm her down, Hanna killed the body double as well as everyone else in the room and fled, escaping the complex and wandering the desert.

It was during that time that Hanna met Sophie, a teenaged girl on holiday with her family, who offered her a lift which she rejected. They met again later at a small resort where Hanna met Sophie’s parents, sharing dinner with them and discussed family, telling them that her father encouraged her to be independent and that mother was dead (killed by three bullets). Later that night, Hanna “hitched” a ride with them to Spain by breaking into the van via the sunroof and hiding there through the entire trip.

When there, Sophie and Hanna ran into each other again, the latter completely unaware that Hanna had stowed away in the van until she asked whether or not it would be "very bad" if she had been the one responsible for the sunroof. Sophie agreed to smuggle her in on the condition that Hanna go on a double-date with her, which she readily agreed to.

The dates did not go well, the night ending with Hanna pinning a young man to the ground after he tried to kiss her. She and Sophie returned to the campsite and spent most of the night talking, where Sophie told Hanna that she has it's a rule that she has to be honest if they're going to be friends. That surprised Hanna who asked if they were friends and said she would like to have one. Hanna told Sophie that she couldn't tell her everything because there were people who wanted to harm her and that it was safer for Sophie not to know. She did tell her where she was going and that she was meeting her father. It was then that Sophie gave her a friendship bracelet to remember her and Hanna gave her a kiss.

Meanwhile, Sophie's little brother was listening.

The next morning, Sophie asked her family where Hanna was and told them that she told Hanna they'd vie her a ride with them to Lille. Sophie's father expressed that Hanna was basically an orphan with how her father allowed her to travel on her own. Her mother seemed approving of Erik's "methods" but also took to wanting to mother her. Likely due to Hanna's mother having been murdered.

Either way, they took Hanna with them. With them, Hanna learned a bit more about family and friendship, it helped her to learn what she wanted in life rather than what she'd gone out into the world to do. Hanna grew very fond of them during the time she was there.

They were followed by Isaacs, an ex-CIA agent that Marissa had hired to find Hanna because he could do things for her that the agency wouldn't allow her to, and his men until they got lost and stopped, at which point Hanna told them not to leave the van and thanked Sophie for being her friend. Hanna made Sophie promise not to follow her before leaping out and leading Isaacs men away. She fought them, and killed at least one when she noticed that Sophie followed her and one of them went after her.

When she couldn’t take care of them all, Hanna jumped into a river and boarded a garbage scow, making her way to Berlin and the house of Wilhelm Grimm, who planned to make her a cake (it‘s her birthday!). However, Marissa and Isaacs tracked her down there (thanks to Sophie’s brother, Miles, telling Marissa what he overheard when she questioned Sophie’s family) and Mr. Grimm had Hanna hide in the upstairs bedroom. There Hanna discovered that Marissa was still alive and that Erik wasn’t really her father.

Hanna escaped them and went to an internet café to look up information about genetic engineering and her father, eventually making her way to her grandmothers house. Marissa had been faster though and already killed her. But she met Erik there and spoke with him, questioning him on whether or not he was her father and about the program that had created her. Angry with the answers, Hanna tried to leave and fought Erik when he tried to stop her.

When Marissa and Isaacs arrived, Erik acted as a distraction to give Hanna time to escape, eventually being killed in the act by Marissa but not before he took out Isaacs and one of his men. Hanna and Marissa both returned to Grimm’s house, where Hanna found Mr. Grimm dead, having been tortured by Isaacs in an attempt to get answers about Hanna.

Taking an arrow from his corpse, Hanna fled, grabbing a bungee cord as she went to create a makeshift bow, with Marissa in pursuit. They confronted one another at the mouth of one of the theme parks rides where Hanna pleaded for Marissa to end this, that she didn’t want to hurt or kill anyone else and began to walk away.

In anger, Marissa yelled and shot Hanna just as Hanna turned to fired and arrow into her chest. Marissa ran and Hanna pursued but it was clear that Marissa was in worse shape than Hanna, an arrow to the chest doing more damage than a bullet to the side.

The film ended with Hanna picking up Marissa’s gun and commenting “I just missed your heart.”  Immediately after, Hanna shot her.

Personality:

Hanna, to begin, is very inexperienced when it comes to the real world. She spent the first 13 years of her life with her father, Erik, in the forest where she learned to hunt and fight, growing stronger. Strong enough to, eventually, kill the woman who had murdered her mother. However, regardless of her inexperience in a more modern world (which she adapts to quickly, “adapt or die” as she’d been taught) she is one of the most confident people you may ever know when it comes to wilderness survival.

She is incredibly intelligent, quick to form strategies and learn new things. She’s capable of quoting definitions and facts she’s learned but this doesn’t imply an understanding. Throughout the film, Hanna shows that she doesn’t understand the concept of music until she actually hears it for herself. At first, Hanna doesn’t understand much of anything, from love or friendship to music.

Her father taught her facts, encyclopedic information that she does come back to later on, but there are many things he didn’t prepare her for. For example, she has no idea about modern slang or concepts like “ho” or “lesbian.” One must also consider that she never expected to be overwhelmed by new things which she reacts to by either trying to figure out how to fix something or runs somewhere to clear her head so she can return and finish what she’d started.

Due to being genetically altered, Hanna is much less prone to feelings of fear, remorse or pity. Less prone but not incapable. The intent was to create more effective soldiers but obviously it wasn't perfect because Hanna shows genuine remorse at the death of Mr. Grimm, concern for Sophie and her family when they were being followed by Isaacs and his men.

Also, because of her inexperience with worldly matters, Hanna sometimes tends to take things far too literally or she’ll agree too easily. Especially if agreeing has the potential to accomplish something she’s set out to do in a more timely fashion or if it helps her in some way. While she does and has learned quite a bit during her time with Sophie’s family, Hanna doesn’t have a concept of what’s “normal.” For example, she goes out hunting and brings back two skinned rabbits for breakfast for Sophie and her family. These are things that aren’t frequently observed in normal society.

She also doesn’t know how to act like a typical teenaged girl. When a boy tries to kiss her while out with Sophie, her first instinct was to tackle him to the ground and question whether or not she should let him go. Shortly after, Hanna experiences very little embarrassment when they return and Sophie’s parents were having sex in the van and even less shame when she kisses Sophie as she begins to understand their friendship.

Sophie is Hanna’s first, and probably only real friend. And Sophie is an excellent example of a teenager, eager to go out with boys, wear makeup, talk things like purses and boob jobs. She shows Hanna what it is to be a teenager, or at least starts to, and shows her a good time while Sophie’s family shows her what family can really be like, happy and fun, caring for one another.

Erik, Hanna’s father, had a much more… clinical influence on her life. He acted as a teacher and father to her, training her in combat, reading to her from encyclopedia’s to teach her what she would need to know in the real world. He taught her to adapt or die, that she should always be thinking on her feet even when she’s sleeping. But because of their isolation, being the only person she knew or interacted with, Hanna failed to learn social cues and the proper way to interact with others. As such, when meeting new people, Hanna’s instinct is usually to recite the persona that her father taught her.

A lot of Hanna’s motivations throughout the film are focused on Marissa. Her chances at having a normal and happy life, or of having a life in general, relies on Marissa dying. Or at least, somehow, making her leave Hanna alone.

Simply, Hanna aches to know about the world, the people in it. She doesn’t want to fight and kill people, she wants to know what it’s like to be normal because, at one point, Hanna refers to herself as a freak. Hanna wants to learn and make friends, not be a soldier.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:

Hanna is a genetically altered teenage girl. The Galinka Project altered her DNA to reduce the capacity for fear and pity, all for the sake of creating a perfect soldier. They also improved her senses, sharpening her eyesight, hearing and improving her muscular strength, lung capacity and reflexes. Erik made sure to train Hanna to the best of her abilities as such.

She is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, with using a handgun and a bow as well as a knife. Hanna has spent most of her life in the forest as well, so she knows wilderness survival as well as how to hunt, gut and skin animals. In addition to that, Hanna was raised and trained in Finland, in a landscape that was typically covered in ice and snow so she's used to cold climates.

Otherwise, Hanna has limited experience with modern technology and appliances (burned her hand on an electric teapot) but she learns quickly. As an example, she only took a few minutes of instruction to be able to use a computer at an internet café.

Inventory:
~ One pair of dirty jeans
~ One dirty hoodie
~ One pair of sneakers
~ One bloody arrow (and a bungee cord)
~ One friendship bracelet (gift from Sophie)

Appearance: PB is Saoirse Ronan who portrayed her in the film ‘Hanna.’ Hanna is a young woman with wavy white-blonde and blue eyes. She has a lithe but muscular physique. She doesn’t frequently show her feelings due to having little to no social contact for the majority of her sixteen years of life.

See icons.

Age: 16

AU Clarification: N/A

S A M P L E S
Log Sample:

Her father had taught her about space. At least a little bit, about rockets and landing on the moon, about a test rocket being designed to be irretrievable and the animal they had put in it being a dog. It had always made her sad to think that the dog hadn’t survived. This was no rocket though.

This was a ship, a large ship, with an artificial atmosphere, gravity, oxygen, people. Something like this shouldn’t have been possible but here she was. She’d woken up with a tube down her throat, been ejected from a stasis tube, she’d found her way to the shuttle bay and looked out at the stars. She had seen stars before, of course, but from the Earth. She’d never imagined seeing anything like this and it left her in awe.

She wished Sophie were here to see it.

Hanna wasted no time asking questions when she had woken up and her head had cleared, learning as much about the ship and its layout as she could. Adapt or die, she had been taught. She would adapt and make sure she had as much of an upper hand as she could get. And suspicion had gripped her since she had woken up, even more harshly when she remembered everything. There wasn’t any way for Marissa to do anything like this but that didn’t erase her suspicions.

Comms Sample:

[She fiddles with the device at first, flying through the settings and likely confusing anyone that’s paying attention to the comms right now. Hanna had grown up in the forest, there had been no technology. She’d spent all those years training, learning, hunting. Expanding her skills in the eventual hope of killing the woman that had killed her mother and hunted her father and herself.

Her father had taught her about technology though. It was part of her lessons, understanding who had discovered what and when, who invented something. Things that a normal teenaged girl should know.

Eventually it‘s settled on the text function and Hanna resorts to what she’s been taught and types:]


My name is Hanna. I come from Leipzig, population zero-point-seven million peoples. I live at number seven Wiessingerplatz. I like literature and sports, in particular tennis and athletics. I go to school at the Klaus Kohle Gymnasium, and my best friends are Rudi Gunther and Clara Schliess.

[Nailed it.

No, wait.]


I also have a dog called Trudi.