Sofja Zhdanova

I'm pretty sure that lovely bow in Anisa's hair is not that much alike cat ears by an accident. I guess the artist meant it.
          
          And seeing Sage's pointy ears reacting to his emotions immediately and so very signally all the time makes me expect the same from those pointy edges of Anisa's bow  I almost see them turning here and there when she switches her attention to some new subjects.
          
          But then I go on expecting those fake cat ears to fall down and snuggle up her head when Anisa's annoyed, or disappointed, or upset. And certainly it never happens - a bow is a bow, it's not alive, not a part of her body.
          
          This made me think of a possibility to make that poor bow look like Sage's ears when they're down. And I guess the way is to make it all wet at once. Like to turn a bucket of water over Anisa's head. But well. If someone'd dare to manage it I'd probably kill him there and then. With no freaking mercy! 
          
          'cause Anisa's a sweetheard. And her personal image is a treasure 

Speaking of the idea Anisa's part ilephta. Just look at the evening drinkig scene in 'Runny Eye' at Sage's chapter 3. She sits next to Sage (Hi, Sage!)* as if on purpose to compare them and admit their likeness. That sweet girlish bow fastening her hairdo looks quite like a pair of pointy ears almost similar to Sage's (Yours however are the best all over Astraea, Sage, I'm serious. Honestly, I mean it!)*
          
          And there is a moment in Anisa's route making me almost sure she's not an ordinary human. It's when we need to explane at once to cap Barani who the freak we are and why Anisa's babysitting us (Are you pleased now Sage?..)*
          
          Anisa's forced to think fast and she decides to call us Felix's cousin. But later we have no chance to explane this to Felix in time. And meeting Felix unexpectedly in front of captain Anisa improvises again.
          
          Felix quikly decides to play along saving us an laughing up his sleeve. And later when it's over he certainly wants to know why in thousend hells Anisa's chosen him to be our cover. And Sage says it's obvious. (Hi there, Sage, nice to see you again)* He says the two of us look the most alike. Felix immediately asks if it is because we're both HUMAN. As if we're THE ONLY ONES in this fellowship.
          
          And this is the moment I realised Anisa could simply tell captain Barani we're relatives. She could probably call us her own cousin. But she didn't. Well, it could mean cap knows all her family. Or it means it's obvious to every astraeanian we can't be blood relatives. Me, an ordinary human and this beautiful woman with vertical slit pupils in her unbelievably bright green eyes and those vibrissaelike thin strokes on her flammable cheeks. (Seems like I haven't mention Sage in this paragraph yet...)*
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          * Oh yes. I just miss Sage. BADLY!!!

I'm curious if Anisa is part ilephta. I mean, yes, we can see her regular human ears. And probably our fair girl has no tail (I believe the artist'd drew it). But look at her eyes and ckeeks. (Honestly those whiskerlike strokes remind me of Naruto ) Seems like they are just marks on her skin, not vibrissae... At the same time Sage has nothing like that on his cheeks. Neither other ilephta we'd met. Sage seems to have some catlike strypes on his skin, but well... I'm definitly not going to let my favourite Sage distract me, I want to speak about Anisa's possible secrets right now 
          
          So.. In her route Escell mentions some 'low birth' limiting Anisa's career. May be it's nothing. The arkhmage also says she's not 'noble'. But what if this means some of her relatives are ilephta and ilephta are not equal in Astraea human society?.. (It'd be a shame, I allready feel like being fond of ilephta and pretty amused...)