Anna Limón

Anna Limón is played by Becca De La Rosa. She is one of the two main protagonists of Mabel.

Season One
Anna works as a live-in carer for Sally Martin, starting somewhere around June of 2016. During this time, she finds a box of letters in the attic of the

Martin home, and upon Sally's terrified reaction to it, she continuously attempts to call one Mabel Martin, Sally's granddaughter. Mabel never picks up, but Anna continues to call her, telling her about her life and her time as Mabel's grandmother's carer. When the voicemail box on Mabel's phone is full, Anna tries calling again, only for it to be mysteriously emptied. Now aware that Mabel is not dead, and can in fact hear her, Anna is reinvigorated to continue calling, telling Mabel more and more of the day-to-day goings-on in the Martin household.

Anna tells Mabel that she gets angry sometimes, and is currently very angry at Mabel herself. She decides to tell Mabel about Sally's struggles, because she knows that Sally and Mabel had a fight, but she also knows Sally is all alone and wants Mabel to be able to understand some level of that pain. She speaks of their daily routine and then tells Mabel about a dream that she had, where she was stuck in a mall with another woman with a red mouth. The woman mouthed a word at her-- she thinks it might have been penumbra or autumnal. It is later revealed to have been datura.

Later on, in the evening of the same day, Anna calls Mabel again and tells her about her various worries-- her sick mother, Sally, and her ever-present curiosity about the letters. She decides to attempt to open one, and brings the phone she's using to call Mabel with her, saying that she's making Mabel an accomplice. As she opens one, she hears Sally fall, and hangs up the phone.

The next time Anna calls Mabel, she tells her that there's a man in the street who has been there since she woke up. She also tells Mabel that Sally is fine-- she fell out of bed before Anna had time to read the letters. However, Anna did see two things; a return address to 'Fairy Hill,' and a name on the envelope: 'Luna Thorne.'

She hangs up and calls back at ten o'clock that night, telling Mabel that the man had come inside. He'd asked her "Hey, I'm really sorry about this, but I'm so lost. Could you give me directions to [get back to town]?" When she told him the directions, he simply goes back to the lamppost he had stood at before. He waits another hour and then says the exact same thing to Anna. Before she can finish the story, Anna's phone dies and she calls Mabel back later. She says that when the man tried to come in, she threatened to call the cops. He looked at her like she had broken his heart-- like she "was his daughter he’d been trying for years to save"-- and went back to the lamppost. The third time he tried, Anna saw how incredibly sad he looked, and tried to hug him. He pulls away from her arms and mouths get out at her, over and over. He then walks away and leaves for real. Anna finishes the call by telling Mabel she'd realized the word in her dreams was datura.

Anna calls Mabel the next day and tells her that she's begun researching in the library, trying to find the encyclopedia description of datura. She finds an Encyclopedia Britannica, but when she reaches the section datura should be in, she finds the pages ripped out. The pages have been carved out to hold an EP record. The label is missing, but written on it is "hold with the hare." When she plays the record, a blue bead falls out of the record player. It's from a doll's dress.

Anna (and the phone she's using to call Mabel) goes looking for the doll, and finds it in the room called the Blue Room. While she walks there, she tells Mabel that she's staying in Lily's room. Lily was Mabel's mother, and many of her things remain in her room, such as Lily hearts Juniper carved on her closet wall. When Anna finds the doll, she finds the page from the encyclopedia in its dress. It's written on in reddish ink, and holds a riddle. Anna hangs up.

When she calls back, she tells Mabel she had just gotten bad news from her mother, before explaining what was written on the EP: it was from a saying that referred to calling someone a hypocrite, run with the hounds, hold with the hare. She then tells Mabel about her dream the night before, which involved Mabel (as a child) showing Anna the outside of the Martin house, wrapped in vines as if being choked by them.

The next we hear from Anna, she is having more strange dreams, involving the words the cage on the hill is a cage of bone. She calls Mabel some time later to complain about the strange singing that she hears in the Martin house. Seeing as herself and Sally are the only living people there, she finds it odd that there is singing in parts of the house neither of them reside in. Sally says it's just old houses being strange, and Anna asks Mabel if she thinks Sally is lying.

Anna tells Mabel she sees a ring of thirteen mushrooms; these are, of course, more commonly known as "fairy rings." Later, as she's walking along the estate and telling Mabel stories from when she was a kid, Anna finds a very old sign that reads Fairy Hill. She goes back to the mushroom ring and finds them uprooted, as though they were bleeding. Anna thinks about quitting and finds that, try as she might, she cannot make herself leave.

The next time Anna calls Mabel, she tells her her uncle Jack had gone missing in the hills when her mother was a child; she then tells Mabel she knew that the same thing had happened to Lily, and apologizes for it. As she's talking, she realizes she has to go wake Sally up. When she gets to Sally's room, however, she's missing.

Anna finds Sally in the garden, wrapped in rose thorns and freezing cold, and takes her to the hospital. Sally tells Anna about "trying to save her", and Anna figures out that "her" is referring to Luna Thorne.

Anna says she is going to save Mabel and everything will be okay.

Season Two
We hear nothing from Anna in the new season. Her sister, Mona, calls several times. She never responds. She is reported missing by Mona about a week after she disappears.

In episode ten, Home Again, Anna returns to the Martin house, talking to the walls as if they are Mabel. When she asks Mabel to make noise, the lights buzz, suggesting that Mabel is stuck inside the house itself. She tells Mabel that she was only gone for about an afternoon, but everyone else believes she was missing for days. Anna speaks about being kidnapped by a woman with "moon eyes"-- Luna Thorne-- and being brought down into the Underhill, where she met Mabel for the first time. She then gets a call from the hospital staff, who tells her that Sally had passed away while Anna was missing. Anna and Mabel discuss Sally's death, before Mabel begins to make the lights in the house buzz uncontrollably. Anna asks if it's "him," and when Mabel confirms it, she tells Mabel a story about her nephew, Aaron Jenkins, to calm her down. She then asks Mabel to stay alive in the Underhill until she's able to get her out.

Anna goes to visit Sally's grave and then to a hospital, where she finds out Sally was visited by a man wearing a coat with silver hunting dogs on it before she died. She gets angry at this point, saying that he-- that is, the King of the Underhill-- couldn't even let Sally die in peace.

Anna goes back to the Martin house and talks to Mabel about her dreams and the myth of Ariadne (who gave Theseus the red string to help him find his way in the labyrinth). She then opens one of Luna's letters and discovers that Sally broke her promise to Luna and left Luna in the Underhill. Anna promises Mabel she would not break her promise.

The man from before comes back to the house, and speaks to Anna. It's revealed that his name is Thomas, he's Mabel's father, and he has been lost for a very long time. He tells Anna "Hay una puerta; necesitas descubrirlo" which translates roughly to "There is a door; you need to find it [or find out]." When Anna tells Mabel this, she stops responding using the lights.

Anna learns that Sally left her the entire estate; she's angry, because she knows she can no longer leave. She then finds a recipe-- which uses datura seeds-- to make a poison that will "open doors." She repeats tenebra tenebrarum -- which roughly means "darkness" -- three times before drinking the poison. The episode ends with her falling to the floor and the phone hanging up.

The next time we hear from Anna, she is rambling about the story of Orpheus. We learn that she had tried to get Mabel out of the Underworld but had not turned around -- just as the story of Orpheus and Eurydice had warned against -- and accidentally left Mabel behind. She goes through a series of doors and solves several riddles (one of which literally gets carved into her stomach) and finds Mabel again. Mabel is then sent to the Martin house, leaving Anna in the Underhill against her will.

Season Three
Anna does not show up in season three pre-Bull in the Maze, but at some point during the events of the season, part of her is torn out and made into a changeling, who takes her place in the 'real world'.

When she finally does return, she calls Mabel and parrots the first phone call she ever sent to her, then laughs and explains that she was attempting to play a trick. She speaks about learning to be unkind as she rots under the hill and gets very, very angry at Mabel, who she is sure cannot hear her, before talking about how they're literally integral to each other. The author is breaking the formal tone of this wiki to say: Anna, that is super gay.

Mabel makes a deal with the House and brings Anna back to the 'real world,' where they finally get to kiss after Anna pushes Mabel against a wall. They finally get to have an actual conversation, where they discuss Mabel killing Anna's double (amongst other things). They fight over Mabel wanting Anna to leave her behind and Mabel eventually admits that she gave away a piece of her arm to the House in order to get to Anna. They go and find the arm piece, which is how Anna realizes she-- as the owner of the Martin estate-- has power over the House itself. She orders the House to let them both go.

As they are running through the house, Anna's hand is set on fire, leaving her with a skeleton-style hand, commonly called her "fist of bone." After this all happens, Mabel and Anna make the mutual decision to take down the King, planning to kill him and take his place.

Season Four
Anna's story is broadcast across news stations throughout the country, including several conspiracy theory podcasts (such as the Daily Bite & Spook City). Back in the Underhill, Anna and Mabel have a fight before they are interrupted by none other than Anna's doppleganger, now calling herself Veratrine. Veratrine tries to turn Anna against Mabel by telling her that Mabel had killed her, but Anna replies that she already knew that, and that Veratrine should thank Mabel because it was only due to her that Veratrine was able to gain her own identity.

The trio arrive at a ballroom for the Court in order to attempt to usurp the King and Anna hurts Veratrine after Veratrine threatens Mabel. They solve a riddle to get into the ballroom and Anna threathens to kill Veratrine again for touching Mabel. The various faeries call out to "Madrigal"-- her mother's maiden name, here referring to her uncle, who is stuck in the hill-- and Anna sees her uncle Jack. She runs after him despite Veratrine and Mabel's attempts to stop her. The King chases them and they manage to escape back to the House; Mabel goes back to the House for Anna, but fights with her over it, bringing to light the issue of Anna's new godlike status over every piece of the Martin estate-- including Mabel.

The House tries to eat Veratrine, but the girls save her, and they decide to head to Mabel's room, as it is the safest area in the House for the three of them. Anna is confused, seeing as she's been in Mabel's room, but Mabel explains that Sally usually kept her locked in a bare room and had the bedroom Anna had seen for appearances. Anna, appropriately, gets very upset, and the two of them have a good conversation. Veratrine mocks the two of them and Mabel is then eaten by the House, pulled back into its walls.

Anna tries to to kill Veratrine when Veratrine begins to mock the both of them again, and Veratrine tells Anna she is acting as if she owns Mabel before saying that she knows the real reason Anna came to the Martin home. Anna responds that she'd kill Vera a thousand times over for Mabel. Anna then tears open her own flesh-- presumably her arm or stomach-- in order to pull Mabel out of the House's walls, seeing as Anna is now, in some way, the god of the place. When they get Mabel out, Anna strikes a deal with the House in order to get its help, and then tells a story to the audience about how much she loves Mabel and how their stories are intertwined. The author is again breaking formality to say: it's adorable.

Anna finds a key and uses it to open a clock in the Green Parlor; in it, they find Mabel's collection of owl pellets from when she was a teenager, along with a drawing of Lily's bedroom. They decide to go check the room, and when Vera insults Anna, Mabel threatens to kill her. Anna tells Mabel she loves her, and Mabel is momentarily dumbstruck.

Lily's room is completely wrecked, and they find a datura seed pod within it, which causes them to believe the cycle is simply beginning again. After a mild double panic attack on the part of the girls, they continue on, finding an old journal in the back of the old encyclopedia. Anna reads from it and Mabel stops her-- it turns out it's Mabel's diary from when she was a child. Vera makes fun of Mabel and Anna asks her to provide a single reason why she shouldn't just kill her; Vera asks if Anna wants Mabel to know what a murderer she is.

Mabel finds writings from when she was a child and realizes the reason them challenging the King didn't work last time was because there was no ritual involved; they have to challenge him. Vera says she's out, and Mabel asks her to stay, which convinces Vera. Anna and Mabel promise the House that they will return and then go back to the Underhill. They meet Luna Thorne, possessing a faerie, and Anna gets mad at Mabel when Mabel communicates herself as a faerie, a member of the Court, rather than a human. They have a fight, and Vera runs after Luna after Luna leaves. Mabel compares Anna to Sally, and Anna, in an attempt to apologize, explains to Mabel the real reason she came to the Martin house.

When Anna was in college, she had visions of another girl, all the time. She had the feeling she was going insane, and she cut the connection to the other girl-- who was, of course, Mabel. The cutting of the cord, so to speak, left Anna feeling numb to the world until she arrived at the House. Mabel has Anna promise to never do that again, and Anna explains that all she wants is to be with Mabel. Mabel says that, because there aren't any secrets between them, she wants to stay in the Underhill rather than going back to the human world. They both apologize to each other and hug (or possibly kiss?) before Mabel says they're going to go gut a tyrant.

They go to challenge the King and Anna gets possessed by him. When she's let go, Mabel gets her to a safe place and they talk about it. Vera comes back in perhaps the greatest line in the entire show. Vera then reveals that Luna created her, rather than the King, and that they are all trapped. Anna and Mabel attempt to comfort her before going off to challenge the King for the final time.

Anna addresses Luna herself, drawing the King's ire, and says that she did have a cat when she was alive. This isn't relevant, but the author of this wiki can do what they like, and they want everyone to know Anna had a cat. Anna challenges the King properly and names Mabel as her champion.

Anna wins after some Absolutely Buckwild Challenging (the author recommends you read the episode transcript for 32 if you don't listen to it, because it's too awesome to really be put into a summary) and frees Mabel of her bonds. They tell each other they love each other before a boy named Brandon walks into the room of the House they are in and shoots Mabel, and then himself.

Season Six
Anna first appears in season five attempting to get Mabel to let her look at her bullet wound. Mabel, in the midst of what seems like a panic attack, does not let her, but Anna eventually manages to dig it out, telling Mabel secrets in order to presumably keep her distracted. Mabel eventually faints and Anna holds her while trying to wake her up. Anna wraps Mabel's wound in her shirt and sphagnum moss and the bullet burns her when she attempts to pick it up. The House brings her a box of SD cards, which are from Aurora Silver's collection.

Mabel wakes up and chugs some silver water, and they have a small discussion before falling asleep.

The House puts them in the attic, which is filled with locusts. Mabel tells Anna she was poisoned by the bullet and then refuses to say anything else on the matter, causing Anna to become frustrated. Mabel calls Anna a tyrant. Anna attempts to leave the room, but then the girls have an actual discussion-- Mabel tells Anna Sally put her in the attic as a child, and she ate the locusts to avoid starving. Anna tells Mabel she wants to know everything about her, even the most boring parts, and Mabel takes that to mean Anna believes the abuse she went through as a child was boring. Anna retorts that she'd never said that, and after a brief fight, the dead body of the boy with the gun arrives in the attic. A snake, from inside it, jumps out.

Anna drags Mabel to a safe place, but Mabel continues to be unconscious. Anna solves several riddles (getting yet another one carved into her flesh) after making a deal with the House and realizes Mabel is allergic to the iron in the bullet, and she needs to cut out everything the bullet touched in order for Mabel to heal. She wakes her up and they have a slightly-hysterical reunion. Mabel then tells Anna they have to go to her coronation.

Aconite challenges Anna for the throne and Anna and Mabel use the tapes they have to prove to her that she is not the King's daughter, and was instead tortured until she believed she was to escape from the abuse she was suffering.

After she is officially crowned, there is a time skip. Janet Kirk finds her, half-starved, three years after she disappears under the hill.

Trivia

 * As a kid, Anna was scared of the dark.
 * Anna owned a cat pre-moving in with Sally.
 * She used to listen to the podcast 99% Invisible.
 * She is taller than Mabel.
 * She's got curly black hair and is, apparently, 'soft & round.'
 * She cries when she's scared or angry.
 * She was close with her father before his death, presumably when she was a teenager. He gave her a bracelet she later turned into a knife/scalpel.