Anya

Anya is a recurring character in the first and second season. She is portrayed by cast member Dichen Lachman and debuts Unity Day. She is the leader of a unit in her clan.

Anya is an original inhabitant of Earth. She has been living with her clan in the area the 100 landed from before the events of the series premiere.

Anya has suffered from the losses of her tribe members, losses which were caused by the 100. This has made her harsh and vengeful.

She leads her people into a war by the end of the first season. She is one of the few survivors of her kind, as she was taken hostage by the 100.

She is currently held prisoner by the Mountain Men who are using the Grounders for their blood.
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Anya is first seen taking part in the truce between the delinquents and Grounders set up by Finn and Lincoln. She rides in on a horse beside two guards and dismounts. She walks toward Clarke and introduces herself. They soon begin discussing their recent conflicts with the delinquents and potential ideas for peace. Below the bridge they are on, Jasper notices grounders in the trees and he fires at them. Bellamy and Raven fire their guns as well. In retaliation, the Grounders begin shooting arrows at the delinquents. One shoots at Octavia, but Lincoln manages to block it. He rips it out, calling it only a scratch and Anya flees back to her village with the grounders.
 * Unity Day

Anya, with the help of the other Grounders, abduct Clarke and Finn, demanding that they help save Tris, a young grounder that was caught in the explosion of the bomb that the 100 set off. Anya threatens Clarke by stating that if Tris dies, she will kill Finn. Anya says she needs Clarke's help to heal Tris because their healer is gone. Clarke is furious and demands to know why they sent a young girl into battle, and Anya explains that Trist was with her, as her second, and that's how they train them to be warriors. Clarke fails to save Tris, and Anya is deeply upset by this. She cuts a piece of Tris' hair off, and then allows one of the Grounders to take her away. Anya then turns to another Grounder and orders him to take Finn away and kill him. Clarke is held back by the remaining Grounder as she screams and cries, saying she did everything she could to save Tris.
 * The Calm

Anya keeps Clarke as a prisoner, and she later chases down and shoots Lincoln with an arrow because he helped Clarke and Finn escape.
 * We Are Grounders (Part 1)

Anya participates in the war between the Grounders and The 100. The Grounders lose and she is taken as their prisoner. However, the Mountain Men attack them, so it is unknown if she escaped in the middle of the chaos or not.
 * We Are Grounders (Part 2)

Physical Appearance
Anya has dark blonde hair and black roots. Her hair is braided and she has hazel eyes. Anya wears leather clothes and dark eye shadow. She appears to be in her late 20s.

Personality
Anya naturally displays a lack of trust for the delinquents and as an experienced leader of the Grounders, she approaches them with enmity. Initially her character is one defined by stoicism but later in the season Anya's subtle response to the death of a young tribeswoman illustrates an as of yet undefined passional dimension to her character.

Tris
Tris was a young tribeswoman that Anya has shown to care a lot about. She was deeply hurt by Tris' death and kept a lock of Tris' hair in memory of her. She cared about Tris enough to have Finn be killed due to it being part of his fault she had died, as he was one of the Delinquents who set off the bomb that resulted in Tris being killed. It was not until Tris was dying that we saw the other, less brutal side of Anya.

Clarke Griffin
Clarke and Anya maintain a negative relationship with one another. Clarke is one of the Delinquents that comes to the peace meeting in Unity Day. They discuss peace, however, Anya blames Clarke for starting a war that she didn't know how to end. The meeting soon ends with Grounders and Delinquents fighting each other. In The Calm, Anya captures Clarke and demands she save Tris, and threatens Clarke she will kill Finn if she fails. In We Are Grounders (Part 1), she takes Clarke as a prisoner and gives orders to a fellow Grounder to kill her. She is enraged when the Grounder turns out to be Lincoln and saves Clarke instead. Anya is almost killed by the other Delinquents in We Are Grounders (Part 2), however, Clarke stops them. In Inclement Weather, Clarke sees Anya amount the Grounders being held captive and drained of their blood in Mount Weather.

Quotes
"I understand. You started a war that you don't know how to end."

- Anya to Clarke during the peace meeting in Unity Day.

Notes and Trivia

 * Anya is the first female grounder to appear in the series.
 * She is also the first grounder to be in a position of authority in the series.