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Anne Marlon, born Anne Sui, is a queen of the Kingdom of Marlon and mother of Lennon and Rina. Conspiring with the sorceress Abyss E.L., Anne plotted against her close friend, Queen Prim, among others to overthrow the Kingdom of Lucifenia and install her son as the ruler of Evillious.

Early Life
Anne was born in the Kingdom of Lucifenia in the year EC 457 and raised as a noble of the House of Sui. She had been good friends with another noble, Prim Rogzé. When they were young, Anne and Prim had met and fallen in love with Prince Arth. Although both women desired to wed him, the Prince ultimately married Prim and Anne reluctantly gave them her blessing. Soon after, Anne attempted to poison Arth's wineglass but the assassination attempt failed. Suspected for committing the deed, her friendship with Prim started to fall apart. Afterward, she traveled west and met the King of Marlon, eventually marrying him.

Visit to Lucifenia
Around EC 482, she met Abyss E.L. and the sorceress offered her the Venom Sword, claiming it was a love charm. The queen accepted the mage's gift and returned to Lucifenia to visit Arth and Prim. With the kingdom entrenched in war, Anne learned that Prim's marriage with the King was failing. Through the power of the sword, Anne seduced Arth and had an affair with him for several months. While there, Anne became acquainted with Irina Clockworker and was fascinated by her magical capabilities. Having great magical potential, Irina began training Anne in the art but the queen returned to Marlon before it was complete. Shortly after, Anne discovered she was pregnant with Arth's child and later gave birth to two twins, Lennon and Rina.

Abyss E.L. offered to continue helping the Queen in exchange for using the older twin as a test subject for Marlon's intelligence network. Provided with an opportunity to fulfill her ambitions, Anne then gave Rina to the sorceress and publicly declared the child stillborn. However, she became obsessed with her beloved son, the Marlon queen desired to make him a great king that ruled the greatest nation in the history of Evillious. Under the tutelage of Abyss E.L., Prim completed her mage training and gave her access to the mage's Seven Deadly Sins collection. When the sorceress proposed creating "new facilities" for espionage, Anne gave her permission to develop this Espionage Task Force. Three years later, Prim gave birth to her firstborn son, and Anne began plotting to ruin her former friend's life.

Political Maneuvers
The queen later noticed that Lennon had taken great interest in painting and disapproved of the hobby. Around the same time, the royal family faced heavy criticism from Lennon's art teacher,Megan, and her politically high-ranking husband, forcing both Anne and her spouse into open arguments with them. In EC 489, the couple was arrested and convicted as political prisoners. Afterwards, Anne ordered Megan's guard to hand the art teacher Gift and commit suicide with the poison. Despite her efforts, Lennon became even more enthuastic about his art career after Megan's death. To break his confidence, Anne hired multiple art dealers and critics to demean her son and his works, including the famed Nikolay Tolle.

With her son's confidence broken, Anne asserted Lennon as the next king. In EC 490, Anne had Abyss E.L. use the Glass of Conchita to cause a Goula outbreak in the Beelzenian Empire and goad King Arth into invading the weakened state. Succeeding in her plan, Arth was infected and died of the plague the following year. Beginning the next stage of her plan, Anne sent Abyss E.L. with a letter addressed to her brother,Genisa, to have him cooperate with the sorceress to have Prince ??? become possessed by the Demon of Pride and elevate both Genisa and Anne's designs. Using her sibling, Anne allowed him to inevitably be possessed to bait Irina into believing she sealed away the Demon. As a result of what transpired, ??? was declared dead and Rina, carrying one of the Four Mirrors of Lucifenia, was adopted by Gast Futapie and made a maid of the royal palace while Anne's involvement remained undiscovered.

At some point, Prim suggested ??? marry Lennon when the princess turned fifteen and the dowager queen strongly objected to the arrangement. However, because her husband and a number of ministers had no objection to the proposal, Anne reluctantly gave her consent. In EC 492, Anne traveled to Yatski village in Elphegort. While in disguise, she found a Keel Freesis unconcious at the bottom of a steep hill and carried him to an inn in the village. When he awoke, Keel begged Anne to help her, explaining how he was commit suicide due to his and his wife's failing business. In response, Anne gave Keel the Marlon Spoon, promising it would bring him good fortune. Assuring Keel that his business would be successful, Anne left to return to Marlon, saying she hoped Mikina gave birth to a strong child. After returning to Marlon, Anne added Keel's father, Duke Freesis, as a conspirator with her and Abyss E.L.

With her husband's death, Anne began purging the royal family, killing her husband's concubines and any of their children that could be considered legitimate heirs to the throne. Shortly after killing several dignitaries, Anne established Lennon's legitimacy and he was crowned king in EC 494 with her as Queen Regent. That same year, Keel visited Anne and told the queen dowager how the Marlon Spoon conjured blue fire that killed his father and his son's nanny when the patriarch threatened to take the child away. After explaining the vessels of sin to her, Anne told Keel that he unwittingly made a contract with the Demon of Greed and that it was slowly eating away at his family's souls. In order to prevent this, Anne demanded Keel replace his father, Duke Freesis, as their collaborator. After she begrudgingly joined their conspiracy, Anne had Keel secretly allocate some of the Freesis Firm's wealth to fund Anne's ambitions. With the continued success of the Espionage Task Force, Anne consolidated their position and increased their influence. At some point, she began taking up residence at Castle Hedgehog over the years as a resting place from the royal palace.

Decisive Play
In EC 499, the second Goula plague that Abyss E.L. conjured killed Prim and Rina successfully transplanted the Demon of Pride to Princess ???. In response, Anne continued to maintain a façade and openly support her son's marriage to the princess. To have her son fall under the influence of the Demon of Lust, Anne gave Keel the Venom Sword as another one of his trinkets, knowing Lennon was his close friend and often visited him. In EC 500, when Lennon discarded his engagement to ??? in favor of Gumillia, Anne told the visiting Prime Minister Minis that she would respect her son's decision. Pleased with the honoraria given to them by Lucifenia, she sent back a magical octopus as a gift for Irina, believing her former mentor would be pleased with it. At some point, it was discovered that Gumillia was Irina's apprentice and had been helping search for the vessels of sin.

As Lennon prepared to leave Marlon for Elphegort, the Queen Dowager imprisoned the king and kept him under house arrest to delay his departure until Rina learned her location from Keel and had the diva killed. After the events of the Lucifenian Revolution, Anne accepted her son's actions for joining the Resistance and helping to overthrow ???, so long as he obeyed a list of conditions she sent him, including Marlon's occupation of Lucifenia and eventual integration as one of its territories. Lennon obeyed his mother and the vast kingdom was made a part of Marlon. Ruling from Lucifenian, Lennon handed over administration of Marlon to Anne.

Later, Anne greeted Rina after her daughter returned to Marlon from Lucifenia. Anne told her absent daughter that she grown up since she last saw her. The double agent reported that with ???'s execution, the Three Heroes ceased to exist and that there was no one who could stop her. Anne noted that Irina was still alive but Rina insisted the sorceress would not interfere. Dropping the subject, Anne praised her daughter for her efforts and commented how it was possible for their nation to be the largest in history with Anne's brother as king. The Queen Dowager then told her daughter to rest, saying she would take care of everything else.

Endgame
Having the Demon of Pride possess Lennon from the mirror he carried, Anne allowed her son to seek vengeance on those Rina blamed for Gumillia's murder and prove himself as king by conquering all of Evillious. When the Marlon king asked to borrow the Espionage Task Force from her for his Witch Hunt, Anne agreed on the conditions that the organization have absolute freedom for matters regarding the Witch Hunt and, on Abyss' suggestion, that the sorceress would decide who to place in charge of the group, namely Rina. In EC 505, after Lennon had been freed of the Demon's control by Michaela and her compatriots, Anne moved to Castle Hedgehog in the north and had Abyss E.L. counteract Lennon's voyage to Marlon. Accompanied by Rina, Anne had her daughter use the Glass to begin building up an army of undead soldiers for her retaliation. During the ensuing battle at the castle, Anne set up the Clockworker's Doll in the castle's clock tower in preparation for unleashing its capabilities; having set up the vessel, she waited in the clock tower for Lennon's arrival.

After Lennon arrived and sent two soldiers after Rina, leaving Lennon and Anne alone, Anne revealed her schemes to him and explained her motives. After Anne finished recounting her story, Lennon refused to believe her and said she had gone insane. The Queen Dowager then showed her son the Mirror in her possession, mocking Gumillia and Lennon's art tutor and saying that they were like the Gumina Glassred, the origin of all sin. Admitting that she found Lennon's state to be ideal, she contemplated having the Demon possess Lennon again and began summoning it when Rina returned from killing her pursuers. After ignoring Rina's pleas for appraisal, the child finally snapped and stabbed Anne, killing her.

Legacy
After her death, Anne was buried in a cemetery next to her daughter, Rina. Abyss E.L., having fled from Marlon after Anne's death, took the vessels of sin Anne had used with her before being defeated by her pursuers soon after. Yukina Freesis would later write a novel detailing the true Story of Evil and Anne's actions, gaining popularity around the world.

Personality and Traits
Anne was a vain, spiteful, and cruel woman. Although having a close relationship with Prim, Anne grew to despise her for earning Arth's love and was even willing to attempt murder to deprive her friend of their beloved. This hatred later included Prim's children and she refused to have her son Lennon be married to Prim's daughter, ???. After becoming the queen of Marlon, Anne ruthlessly opposed any opposition and used her power to its maximum when silencing her critics. The Marlon queen also became obsessed with her son. Determined for the prince to grow up and become a great king, Anne manipulated every aspect of his life to keep him on the road she envisioned for him, even killing his art tutor and later bribing art dealers and critics to criticize his work in order to break his dream.As a result, she believed the demon-possessed Lennon was ideal, representative of the champion king she envisioned him to be.

Her disregard for Lennon's personal wants and dreams extended to the rest of her kin. Anne compared her family to pawns and considered them pieces to be used for her designs, holding no true affection for Rina or her brother, Genesia. Extremely ambitious, Anne had no qualms with using deceit to maintain a façade and manipulate her family, friends, and other associates to her own ends. She similarly held her husband's numerous concubines and their children in contempt and purged the royal family of its members. The queen also had a fascination with magic and therefore was intrigued to learn the art and held both Irina and Abyss E.L. in high regard. Anne's ambition left her arrogant in the success of her plans and her own abilities and indifferent to the countless lives ruined by her designs. Confident they were harmless, she ignored her husband's children whose heritage made it impossible for them to be legitimate heirs. She also had tremendous faith in Rina and Abyss E.L.'s loyalty, an overconfidence that led to her downfall

Skills and Abilities
Befitting her arrogance, Anne was a talented individual. As part of the Sui family, Anne was well-versed in the creation and utilization of poisons, with the relatively new and readily available Gift becoming her poison of choice. Despite her youth, Anne was also able to move to a foreign country and quickly impress the Marlon king, marrying him and bearing a child to use as an heir. Although often controlling the scene through her deceit, Anne also had great influence in the political scene and was able to maintain her position of power even after her son was crowned king, ruling Marlon from the shadows.

Anne was also very intelligent, able to concoct large, interlaced and complex schemes to achieve all her goals. Her skill's manipulation and lies allowed her to easily maintain false relationships with those around her and often planned her actions years ahead of time when seeing their potential. Compounding this, Anne had strong magical potential and studied under two of the most powerful mages from the Magic Kingdom Levianta's era, becoming a capable sorceress herself. Having finished her mage training under Abyss E.L., Anne was knowledgeable on the vessels of sin, their history, and their potential, integrating the Demons of Sin as key elements in her plans.

Character Connections

 * Lennon Marlon: Anne's son. Anne had an obsessive fixation on her son that manifested in controlling his every action, wanting to make him into the perfect champion for the Kingdom of Marlon--to that end, she was willing to sacrifice his emotional and mental well-being to achieve that image, and saw him as a pawn more than a person. She also held a low opinion of Lennon's judgment, mocking his choice in women.


 * Rina Marlon: Anne's daughter. Anne recognized Rina as her daughter through a warped lens of viewing her as a pawn, willing to let the girl be experimented on and manipulating her into becoming a tool in her revenge-scheme. She relied on the girl's skills in espionage and subterfuge for manipulating events to her liking, and only showed affection towards when necessary to secure her loyalty.


 * Abyss E.L.: Anne's partner. Anne held the Abyss E.L. in high regard, seeing the sorceress' skills in magic and manipulating the Vessels of Sin as very useful and relying on her to help orchestrate her plans for revenge. The two had a close confidential relationship over the course of their dealings.


 * Prim Lucifen d'Autriche: Anne's childhood friend and later enemy. Anne had an amiable relationship with Prim until the latter married her childhood crush Arth, her affection for Prim turning to hatred for living the life she had wanted. Anne became consumed with a desire to ruin Prim's life, and was thus disappointed by her death from the Goula disease.


 * Arth Lucifen d'Autriche: Anne's childhood love. Anne fell in love with Arth when she was young, and losing him to Prim was one of the factors that drove her to hate her childhood friend. Afterwards, she saw him only as another means to hurt Prim, attempting to kill him while undermining the couple's marriage.


 * Genesia Sui: Anne's brother. In spite of--and in part because--of being her brother, Anne saw Genesia as little more than a pawn to further her plot against Prim and was unaffected by his death. She relied on his close position as Lucifenia's Prime Minister to relay information to her and carry out necessary actions, such as planting the mirror with the Demon of Gluttony inside it.


 * Keel Freesis: A pawn of Anne's. Anne saw Keel as a reliable pawn due to the latter's desperate circumstances and believed her useful for her revenge scheme, as a skilled merchant.


 * Irina Clockworker: One of Anne's teachers. Anne held Irina in high regard as a sorceress and looked to her tutelage for learning about magic. Despite this, the two stood opposed to each other and Anne had no qualms having her pursued as an enemy later.

Conceptualization and Origin

 * Her original surname, Sui, is likely a derivative of "Sweet" from Sweet ANN.
 * The meaning of the name Anne is derived from the French and Hebrew term for "favor" or "grace".
 * Anne's name is partially inspired by the name of her representative Vocaloid, Sweet ANN, using "Ann" at the start of the name.
 * Her surname Marlon is a reference to the demon of greed, Mammon.