Man, totally fired up by this Anna theorycrafting. More I think about it, the morelikelyI want to believe. I never really thought about that seniority angle before. I think she'd be a pretty interesting character, aside from being a fairly recognizable and consistent element within the franchise - a fast, fairly unpredictable blade user with a lot of nice tricks under her sleeve. I could easily imagine her Side-A whacking someone with her big sack of gold, too, haha.
I think you could get absolutely tons of mileage out of the RPG merchant angle, too. Her projectile could be pulling out random items from her inventory and just chucking them at people - and maybe some items could have random effects (competitive players are gonna slay me, haha) - like, she'd usually be throwing out stuff like trinkets and baubles, and then out of nowhere just tosses out a honking Helswath or Falchion at some poor fellow, haha. Maybe stun an opponent for a couple seconds with a sales pitch.
Not sure what her Final Smash would be. Maybe powering up to Goddess Anna mode, haha.
You know it.
She could have a move similar to Peach's FSmash, where she pulls out a different weapon at random.