Anyanca Edelweiss Schmidt

Born December 31, 1920 in Stuttgart Germany to Johan Schmidt "The Red Skull" and Arisel Zola, Arim Zola's younger sister who was an enhanced individual.

Gifts pre-experimentation are dream state visions and the ability to revive certain things, such as plant life and a baby bird fallen from a nest one summer.

The summer of her twelfth year she had found the bird at the base of a tree and as was her nature she gently picked it up, holding it close to her chest. Feeling it struggling to breath she closed it loosely in her hands as her eyes closed, focusing on her breathing and that of the birds, slowly she begins transferring her own life energy (unbeknownst to her or anyone) into the creatures. After a brief moment the bird begins to stir causing Anyanca's eyes to snap open with elation and run toward the house where she then shows Frauline and her father. Upon showing her father the bird and explaining what had transpired he forcefully took the bird from her grasp and snapped its poor neck. "Compassion and gentleness are weaknesses Anyanca! You are not weak, you are Schmidt." Never again did she allow her father to see her compassionate side.

As a child Anyanca was brought up in the ways of her father, the SS and later on HYDRA. To be raised under Schmidt she was yet a very gentle and loving though odd. She went through 6 nannies before Frauline Ramayana, or Yaya as she called her, settled with her.

Yaya was the closest to a mother she had as Anyanca never knew of Petra other than her name. Frauline accepted the quirks her young charge possessed without hesitation though as the years passed she became worried that Herr Schmidt would exploit the child. Instead he seemingly accepted them and encouraged her grow in her abilities yet it never came to be. Sadly Yaya paid the price of Anyanca's curiosity. When she was 18 Anyanca went into her father's study as he had summoned her only to find maps and papers concerning experiments spread across his desk. Curious, she looked over them seeing the formula for what would be a super human soldier, an asset to HYDRA and the SS. As minutes pass with her standing behind her father's desk reading the plans and correcting the mistakes on the papers of her Uncle Arim & Dr. Erskine's, she didn't notice her father and both doctors enter until she fell to the floor. Bringing her hand up to her stinging cheek as Dr. Erskine knelt down to see to her. Her father's words lost on her as her mind replay's the information on each paper. It was not until she heard Yaya telling him he never should leave such work lying about for innocent eyes to see and that a young lady should never be subjected to such a vile faction like HYDRA. As she finishes her rant on Herr Schmidt he tells her "Your services are no longer required" before putting a bullet between her eyes.

Erskine takes Anyanca from the room to see to her face, she can see that he's talking to her but all she can hear is the gunshot that took the one person who loved her from this world.

After Erskine left her father began pushing her to enhance her gifts, sadly she was unable to do so until 1943 when she met a young American soldier that had been taken prisoner and used to experiment on at the current base her father and uncle were visiting.

She had been used to perfect the original serum and Zola and Schmidt both assumed she could do the same a second time. Anyanca had gone into the lab many times as a result, though today was different. Today she would meet an American. This was the day she met Sgt. James Buchanan Barnes of the 107th, today is the day the world would change forever, especially hers.

Standing in the lab facing the tray which held the vials of Zola's serum containing her blood, the serums they hope would be as sufficient as Erskine's. After the unfortunate incident of Yaya's death she helped Erskine perfect the serum, the formula he then took when he ran. The formula she had imprinted like a picture on her brain, but she would never tell her father or uncle that. She was lost in her own thoughts when they brought the soldier in…..