Anastasia

Anastasia (アナスタシア) is a human resident of Apotos in Sonic Unleashed, and the wife of Eric. She is a talkative elder lady, but because she is toothless, she needs her dentures to speak in a proper language. Otherwise, she can only speak gibberish. While she has her husband fully convinced that she is a gentle and modest soul, the truth is that Anastasia has a horrible temper.

On the PS3/Xbox360 version of the game, Anastasia loses her dentures, and her husband chose to serve as her translator. He translates Anastasia's mumbles poorly however, and he often takes what she is actually saying completely out of contexts, which leaves Anastasia quite angered, until she eventually reaches the boiling point which is when she reclaims her dentures.

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''Eric's wife, talkative but toothless after misplacing her dentures. Her husband usually steps in to interpret her attempts at speech. Anastasia has her husband thoroughly convinced she is a gentle and modest lady... but the jury's still out on that one.''

History
During her youth, Anastasia came to a young Eric's aid when the young man got bitten by a crab. While Anastasia only tried to be nice however, Eric took this as a sign of affection from her side and he fell in love with her. From that point on, Anastasia found herself the target of Eric's overly eager affection, even though she did not have the same feelings for him. Eric would then bring Anastasia beautiful shells each day, and he would yell to her "Marry me! I can’t go on if you won’t". Eventually, Anastasia could not take Eric's pleas anymore, but she could not refuse him either, so she gave up resisting and married him.

Over the years however, Anastasia and Eric came to have a happy marriage, and she eventually came to truly love Eric. At some point in her life, she lost all her teethes and needed dentures to replace them, properly mostly because she could not speak properly without teethes.

During the events of Sonic Unleashed, due to the tremors caused by the Earth's shattering. Anastasia lost her dentures and she and her husband began looking for them. During her time with her dentures, Anastasia could only speak in mumbling gibberish, and as such, Eric decided to take on the role, as translator for gibberish. While Anastasia was glad her husband would help in her time of need, it would soon become apparent to her that her husband was a horrible translator.

She first appeared alongside her husband, when Sonic and Chip arrived for the first time in Apotos. During this time, her husband would translate her mumbling as heartfelt greetings, and that she had seen Tails the following night. While it is questionable, if she meant these things Eric said, it did not appear to bother her.

As the planet began to come together again however, Anastasia soon found out that her husband began to take whatever she said as if she was agreeing with him about something, even though she did mean anything like that, and she began to find it quite the annoyance. As a result of these translations, she found herself being dragged on a trip to Chun-Nan, because her husband thought that she wanted to see Chun-Nan, and her husband telling Sonic and Chip that she liked the different things about Chun-Nan such as the scenic views and meatbuns, even though she did not appear to be interested.

After she and Eric returned to Apotos after their trip to Chun-Nan, Anastasia had yet to find her dentures, while Eric translated all her gibberish as if she loved the trip. Anastasia soon after found herself quite offended however, when her husband began explaining about their early romance to Sonic and Chip, where Eric described himself as shy, yet debonair fella and stand-up guy, while he described Anastasia as shy, awkward and plain unlucky in love. Anastasia could then only continue to get madder, as Eric continued to explain that she fell hard for Eric when he decided to talk to her, and that he could not get rid of her after that. Anastasia tried to speak out loud in angry protest, but Eric only took her mumbling as if she was agreeing with him.

Around time Sonic defeated Dark Guardian, Anastasia finally found her dentures and is able to talk again. She then waste no time and starts yelling at Eric about what the big idea were for saying whatever that came into his fool of a head. Despite Eric's attempts to calm her down and soften her up, she remains steamed about all his lies, and "sends him in the doghouse".

While Eric was being schooled, Anastasia comes to Sonic and Chip to sort out all the bold-faced lies Eric had told them, especially about their early romance. After explaining everything to the duo she feels relieved to get the truth out with her own words. Later on, when she had cooled down, Anastasia admits to Sonic and Chip that even though she yelled at Eric and that his translations were a mess, she was nonetheless really glad that he had remained with her the whole time after she lost her dentures, and that maybe she was still right to marry him. She then tells Sonic and Chip nervously not to tell what she just said.

During the following day the two of them made up, as Anastasia tells Eric that she is sorry she got mad, and assures him she is truly not mad anymore, much to Eric's relief.