Anxiety is a character and one of the four new emotions in Inside Out 2. She is Riley Andersen's anxiety.
History[]
Inside Out 2[]
Anxiety was introduced along with Envy, Embarrassment, and Ennui shortly after Riley started puberty. She told the old emotions that she was super excited to be there and immediately started taking control of the console and Riley's actions. While Joy wanted to focus on Riley keeping the friendships she already had, Anxiety worried about Riley having friends at her new school and wanted Riley to focus on growing those. Anxiety and Joy fought over control over the console. When Anxiety had Riley approach Val Ortiz and talk to her privately, the other emotions applauded her great work in getting on Val's good side.
When the time came for the players to split into two teams, Anxiety had Riley choose to go to Val's team instead of the one with Grace and Bree, saying they needed to plan for Riley's future. When the other emotions tried to stop Anxiety from shaping Riley's future, she had Embarrassment put them in a jar and send them away. Anxiety then started her work on growing a new Sense of Self for Riley after discarding her old one.
Anxiety had Riley get up early in the morning to practice on the ice before everyone else got there, saying she needed to be prepared. Anxiety and Envy were pleased when Val did the same thing and used it to help them bond. When Val offered Riley an energy bar, Anxiety insisted that she take it, despite disliking the taste, to avoid upsetting Val.
Riley got invited to hang out with Val and her friends and Anxiety worried over everything that Riley said and did. Ennui had to step in, and pretend Riley was being sarcastic when she said Get Up and Glow was her favorite band. That night, Anxiety had several Mind Workers drawing every possible outcome for Riley in the game. When they started drawing positive possibilities, Anxiety knew Joy was behind it and tried to get the Mind Workers to take her out. However, Joy was able to get the Mind Workers on her side.
Anxiety worries that they wouldn't be ready for the game without the projections. She pushed Riley to get up in the middle of the night and steal the coach's notebook to read it and learn what she really thought about Riley. When Riley did so and learned that the coach didn't think she was ready, she started a Brainstorm to think of ideas to get the coach to change her mind. They decided to have Riley dye part of her hair red and score three goals during the game, no matter what she had to do. At the same time, Anxiety added a final memory that completed Riley's new, anxious Sense of Self. She was shocked when the new Sense of Self held the belief that Riley wasn't good enough, but she brushed it off as Riley knowing there's room for improvement.
When Anxiety saw Sadness attempting to bring the other emotions back to Headquarters using the Riley Protection System, she broke it. Anxiety took control of the console and had Riley play aggressively, stealing the puck from her teammates and eventually knocking Grace over. This got her sent to the penalty box. Anxiety tried frantically to fix this, but Riley ended up having a panic attack as Anxiety flitted across the console. Joy stepped in and told Anxiety that she didn't get to choose who Riley was. Anxiety gave up control of the console, allowing the other emotions to remove her anxious Sense of Self and replace it with the old one. When Joy realized that was stifling the growth of a new, complex Sense of Self, she removed it and allowed the new Sense of Self to take its place.
Later, with camp over and Riley back at school, she was sitting with the FireHawks at lunch while waiting to learn if she'd made the team or not. Anxiety started to worry about it, but Joy sent her to her special chair and said they couldn't control that, but there were things they could. Anxiety remembered that Riley needed to study for her Spanish test. All the emotions agreed that whether Riley made the team or not, they loved Riley and every aspect of her.
Personality[]
Anxiety is shown to be work-minded and is a perfectionist with her work; this is evident as she is shown to have knowledge of how the console works, even knowing more than Joy as she pulls out a laptop that the original emotions aren't familiar with. She is also shy.
Loyal to her own plans, she will go out of her way to create what she believes is a "better Riley" by feeding her bad thoughts so that she is prepared for the worst. She also went as far as capturing the original five emotions so that they didn't tamper with her plans.
Notes and Trivia[]
- Anxiety appears as an orange emotion with a stretched oval head and volcanic eruption-like hair of a darker shade of the same color and jade green eyes, orange and off-white striped long-sleeved shirt, reddish-brown wide leg pants attached by a dark brown belt with a gold button-shaped buckle, and brown lace up medieval boots.
- Anxiety is the very first new emotion to be formed in Riley's mind since her toddler years.
- She is the only one of the new emotions, and first emotion since Joy, whose eye color doesn't match the color of her theme.
- She has a slight lisp.
- She is the only one of the four new emotions whose name does not start with the letter E.
Gallery[]
Quotes[]
- "Hello, everybody!"
- "Oh my gosh. I am just such a huge fan of yours. And now here I am, meeting you, face to face. (excited squeal) Okay, how can I help? I can take notes, get coffee, manage your calendar, walk your dog, carry your things, watch you sleep."
- "Oh, I'm sorry. I can get ahead of myself. Uh, I'm Anxiety. I'm one of Riley's new emotions, and we are just super jazzed to be here. Where can I put my stuff?"
- "That's Embarrassment. He's not really big on eye contact, or uh, like talking, but he's a really sweet guy."
- "Oh Yeah, That's The Stuff~"
- "Ooh! This is exciting! But, we can't let her know we're excited."
- "Yes, I agree completely. We need new friends or we'll be totally alone in high school.
- "Joy, the next three days could determine the next four years of our lives."
- "Look, we all have a job to do. You make Riley happy, Sadness makes her sad, Fear protects her from the scary stuff she can see, and my job is to protect her from the scary stuff she can't see. I plan for the future. Oh! I can show you. You're gonna love this."
- "Okay, so my team has run all the data, and we're looking at the following likely scenarios: first, we don’t take this camp seriously, and we goof off with Bree and Grace. Riley looks really uncool in front of Val. She fails to impress the coach, does not become a Firehawk, and finally arrives at highschool. She has no one. She eats alone, and only the teachers know her name."
- "Nostalgia! You aren't supposed to be here yet! You still have about ten years, two graduations, and a best friend's wedding before you're invited, but I will keep you in the loop I promise!"
- "No, you're totally right. That's not gonna haunt us for the rest of our lives at all."
- "We build her a new sense of self. A brand-new-her!"
- "Riley's life is more complex now. It requires more sophisticated emotions than all of you. You’re just aren’t what she needs anymore, Joy."
- "Embarrassment, get that out of here!"
- "Ennui, are you paying attention?"
- "You've got to score Riley... or this'll all have been for nothing!"
- "Joy, I know you're in there."
- "We need to be prepared!"
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