Is she related to this plant? It's called bear's breeches and belongs to the genus Acanthus.
No, I was just looking up names that mean thorn and I thought acantha sounded like a cool name. Also when i was making her I was thinking of the phrase every rose has thorns.
Huh, neat.
I just saw the name and thought it sounded familiar, so I looked it up and found the plant. Funny coincidence.