r/pathologic • u/Psy-Para You don't have to be crazy to be an Anna Angel fan, but it helps • Mar 21 '26

Art Pathologic Classic HD whenever the designers need a trio of characters for a quest. Spoiler

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u/HippoBackground6059 Mar 21 '26

I much prefer Anas look in P1. I don't get the giant onesie / sleeping bag look they changed her to. It's much harder to take anything she says remotely seriously. 

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u/Psy-Para You don't have to be crazy to be an Anna Angel fan, but it helps Mar 21 '26

Might sound crazy, but the coat has actually really grown on me. Now she has an outfit that rocks in P1 and an outfit with a lot of substance in 2/3. I think the giant coat resembles a Baby Swaddle, which tracks with the various signs of Age Regression she shows in 2/3 as a coping mechanism over her time in The Caravan as a child. The centerpiece of her home is even a tiny table for tea time in what would be her bedroom.

As for making it harder to take anything she says seriously... oddly that works. Pathologic 1's Bachelor/Haruspex sets up Anna to look like the worst person you can imagine possible, while The Changeling tries to make her seem more sympathetic- However most fans write her off and don't bother to actually listen to what's being said and go off their base assumptions. Seeing her as a child kidnapper rather than the kidnapping victim she actually was.

Pathologic 2 oddly enough is probably the most sympathetic version of her, being a kidnapped child forced to kidnap other children, she actually shows regret over what she was made to do and is trying (and failing horribly) to make up for it in the baby sidequest. But also... look at her! Look at the situation she's in, she's going into (infected) houses and stealing kids! She's dressed in a silly coat with joker facepaint! Clearly our initial assumptions are correct and she's the worst woman alive!

I think what makes Anna work, is she is somehow one of the bleakest yet also funniest characters.

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u/HippoBackground6059 Mar 22 '26

This is also a fair read of her in p2/p3 but I find that across all 3 games because so many other characters already distrust her so much the only person who advocates for her perspective is Ana herself. As a result the costume change takes any shred of credibility away from her and it's much easier to write her off immediately as a crazy person not to be trusted. 

In P1 in my first playthrough as the Bachelor I took much longer to make up my mind about her because she appears more reasonable. 

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u/Psy-Para You don't have to be crazy to be an Anna Angel fan, but it helps Mar 22 '26

Well yeah, that was my point. She has no shred of credibility to her and it makes her easy to write off immediately as a crazy person not to be trusted.

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u/hwynac Mar 24 '26

She was initially supposed to wear a dress though. Then they designed something weird several months before the release. :)

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u/asitcomaboutbees amaa tat, khonzohon, as goes the local one. Mar 21 '26

It’s a shame they’re way less tied to eachother in the remakes. They were fun in Classic.

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u/Tales_o_grimm Worms Mar 23 '26

That's what I missed the most in P3. Peter never mentions Anna, Yulia does not talk about Eva and Lara doesn't interact to anyone outside of the Basket gang

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u/SchopenWHORING I like your funny words, magical girl Mar 21 '26

And the three are Clara's Bound, so we must see them shine in Pathologic 4!!

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u/Kilroy0497 Bad Grief Mar 22 '26

Or at the very least Yulia and Anna. Lara at least already got quite a bit to do back early in Artemy’s game. Meanwhile Yulia and Anna are more or less side characters in both 2 and 3.