Anita

Anita, drawn by Glamist on the webtoon "Not Even Bones".

**Anita Sánchez** is the main protagonist throughout the series *Market of Monsters.* She usually goes by her nickname, Nita.

## Appearance

Nita is described in the books as having curly brown hair that's almost orange and light brown skin. She is seventeen, has freckles across her face and a slim figure. In Not Even Bones Nita has a dream where she describes her own eyes as golden brown.

## Personality

> "But when it came for the true acts of monstrosity---luring strangers into buildings to kill them, demanding that Kovit murder the man who raised him---it was Nita, not Kovit who pushed for it...The monster in the room right now was...everyone else. Including Nita."
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> Nita, Only Ashes Remain

Nita is a morally complex character who struggles with who she is and what she is to become. She has murdered over a hundred people in self-defense, and lightly talks of killing others. Nita also has what she describes as an "almost dissecting fetish", as dissecting people calms and soothes her based on her upbringing. Even though others tell her that revenge will bring her nothing but trouble, Nita opts for torture instead of forgiveness.

Initially she is seen as a sympathetic character who is only doing things to survive. She worries about Fabricio when her mom brings him in, and she worries about her dad and where he is.

Later when Nita is taken to the Death Market, she sees herself as the highest priority, and is quite willing to put others at risk because of that. This translates to a strong sense of self-preservation, where she'll do pretty much anything to get herself out alive. This includes standing up to her imprisoner (one of them, anyways), Kovit, who is a Zannie and will willingly feed off any pain she feels. She also sees her closest friend up to that point Mirella (they aren't friends as defined by the dictionary, but Nita hasn't really put her faith and trust in anyone else up to this point) get shot because they were trying to escape. And finally, Nita kills Reyes with a gun in order for her and Kovit to escape.

By the end of Only Ashes Remain, Nita starts to realize hurting those around her is not what she wants. This shows she's gained a conscience and is less self-involved and bent on her own preservation then she was in the previous book.

Nita also demonstrates awareness not only of her surroundings, but also of herself. Because of her ability, she is able to change and heal parts of her body, which gives her a better awareness of what she can and can't do physically. This is still a learning curve for her as the books progress and she gets better at controlling her ability. For example in Not Even Bones she strengthens her muscles in an attempt to punch through the glass (which fails) and she turns off her pain circuits for much of her time in the Death Market.

Her surrounding awareness extends pretty much to her mother, and what not to say when talking around her, or even how to not act when around her. When Nita frees Fabricio she is keenly aware of what her mother could punish her with for disobeying her. When she wakes up in the Death Market she quickly realizes she needs to escape, and this awareness shifts to include Mirella, Reyes, the other guards, and Kovit. The fact she switches so quickly shows her awareness and observation of the situation, and how quickly her brain responds.

Despite her dark tendencies, she tries to keep herself somewhat morally stable: Near the end of Not Even Bones she and Kovit talk about rules one must set if they want to stay morally "good" and not turn into serial killers. For Nita she decides not to hurt/dissect or kill anyone she cares about, since it's too late to swear off killing.

She grows to listen to Kovit when he tries to help her, and reminds herself that she has one rule: to not dissect anyone she knows. She cares for others, mourning for Mirella, someone she barely knew, and wishes happiness for Kovit.

## History

Nita was born somewhere in Spain. Her early days were spent in Madrid but she packed up and left for Peru and other parts of the world with her mother. She has also lived in the States.

## Powers and Abilities

**Supernatural Physiology**: Being a supernatural being, Nita has a physiology very different from that of humans.

**Regeneration**: Nita has the ability to regenerate any physical injury, however if the injury is very serious she will not be able to regenerate it.

## Relationships

### **Monica †**

Monica is Nita's mother, and during her time in *Not Even Bones**,* she appears manipulative, controlling and in some aspects: abusive. She forces Nita to dissect and package unnatural bodies for selling. Nita betrays her mother when her mother brings a live boy for her to help dissect, and later on is captured away from her mother.

They are then reunited in *Only Ashes Remain* by Agent Quispe under the false circumstance that Monica is her aunt rather than her mother.

In the last series, Nita murders her mother by planting a bomb in her computer and allowing it to blow up in her hands.

### **Mirella**

Meeting Mirella in the Death Market as a fellow prisoner, Mirella was the only other person Nita could talk to and conspire escape with. She was curious about Mirella's ability, not out of friendliness, but escape tactic.

Nita and Mirella get along, though weren't super close. Mirella cared for Nita, and vice versa, though the two didn't try to talk and understand each other deeply. Nita describes them as not being friends, but allies, and never forgets the sacrifices and pain Mirella went through in the Death Market.

When Nita tries to escape the Death Market the first time, Mirella is seemingly killed by Boulder who was interested in buying Nita and Mirella. In chapter 38, it is revealed that she is alive.

In *When Villains Rise*, Nita decides to anonymously warn Mirella about a planned assassination of her. She also admired how effective of an anti-black-market activist Mirella had become. However, Nita claims to dislike her due to not understanding why Mirella would "waste effort" fighting for unnaturals she didn't even know.

### **Kovit Sangwaraporn**

> "I wouldn't lie to you like that. I \*am\* happy that it's over. I was scared. For me. For you. But I'm not happy about how it ended. I never wanted you to break your rules. I never wanted to cause you pain."
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> Nita, Only Ashes Remain

Nita and Kovit had first met as the captor and the captured with Kovit as the captor and Nita as the captured. Though the two quickly bonded over escaping and bringing down the Death Market. Later, in the second book, they meet up and defend themselves against Kovit's Mafia Family and Fabricio Tacunan. Nita often tramples Kovit's warnings and hesitations, though not on purpose, and is uneasy from remembering how he tortured Mirella in the Death Market.

When Kovit is forced to rejoin his Family, Nita is anguished, and despite reminding herself he is a monster, feels lost without his presence. When captured by Henry, who raised and betrayed Kovit, Kovit tells Henry that he will never work for him if Nita is sold or hurt. He ends up killing Henry, who murdered his former friend and threatens to torture his internet ones. This damages his mental state greatly.

Nita, realizing her mistakes of how she treated Kovit, helps bring him back from the darkness he had felt, apologizing, and tells him that she would do anything for him as long as they can still be together. The two later kiss and become somewhat romantically involved by the end of Only Ashes Remain.

In the third and last book, When Villains Rise, their relationship was discussed a bit but not a lot. Despite kissing and cuddling here and there in the book, both Anita and Kovit are unsure of where there relationship stands but know they need each other. Both don’t know what real romance is like and Anita feels no sexual attraction towards Kovit. Anita felt the only way to get her feelings out was through romance and one of the reasons she kissed Kovit in the previous book. It’s implied their relationship is queerplatonic.

### **Fabricio Tacunan**

When Nita first met Fabricio Tacunan at her home in *Not Even Bones,* she felt sympathy for him and did not want to dissect him because he was alive. (This is also the first time she does not want to dissect someone). This is shown when Monica asks her to cut Fabricio’s ear and Nita was hesitant to do so, eventually cutting her hand instead to escape from doing it. Some of Nita’s sympathy turns into care as shown when she fed him pizza to eat.

Eventually, whilst her mother was asleep, she fled her home with Fabricio, stopping at a bus station so he could escape safely. During this, she gave him her cell phone so he could call someone and they (temporarily) went their separate ways.

Afterwards, when she is in the Death Market escaping with Kovit, she pulls out Reyes’ phone and discovers that she had been sold by, not her mother but Fabricio. The betrayal from the first boy she felt sympathy for left her anguished and her sympathy for him dissolved into shock which was shown though her hyperventilating on the floor whilst reading the messages. This is the stage where she starts to hate Fabricio and plot to kill him.

When Nita escapes the Death Market, she then turns to INHUP for help which results in an unfortunate meet-up with Fabricio and it leaves off there in *Not Even Bones*. This is then picked up upon in *Only Ashes Remain*.

In *Only Ashes Remain,* Nita has a strong hatred for Fabricio for the events that occurred back in *Not Even Bones*. Her hatred is then made apparent when she attempts to poison Fabricio with deadly flowers from the flowers that she had picked up in INHUP’s garden. It fails miserably and because of this, Fabricio is now trying to kill Nita. At the end he orders Henry to capture Nita, going to Adair’s shop to pick her up since he thought he gained the upper hand on her. This backfires however once he arrives and he is tied up and tortured by Kovit.

It is implied that he is quite scared of her, resulting in him wanting to try and murder her.

### **Reyes** †

Reyes was Nita’s captor, during her time at the Death Market. Her relationship with her was as you could expect, captor and prisoner. Eventually, in an attempt to save [[Kovit] from being killed by Reyes, she shot her in the shoulder, leaving Kovit to bash her in the head as a finishing blow to her demise. After this incident, she sells her body parts to the market under the identity that it was Mirella's and not hers.

### **Adair**

In *Only Ashes Remain**,* Kovit and Nita needed to seek refuge somewhere in Toronto as they had no place of shelter to stay in. As a result of this, they stayed at Adair's place, an old colleague of Kovit’s. At first Nita was slightly weary of Adair due to him being a kelpie unnatural and his abominable amount of eating human jokes but since she and Kovit had somewhere to stay for the next few nights, she put up with it. Adair and Nita’s relationship would be fine up until she and Kovit lured some of the Black Market into an apartment in an attempt to scare them off, to which Adair angrily responded he did not want the police to go into his shop and find out he is a kelpie.

After Kovit went back to Henry, leaving Nita without her friend, she went back to Adair. She then shares a somewhat heart to heart discussion with him, announcing her opinion that all Zannies are dangerous to which Adair suggests that their ability could be of advantage rather than disadvantage. The police then arrive at Adair’s shop, making Adair angry and not trusting Nita from then on.

Due to the events that escalated in the shop, Adair betrays Nita by selling her out to Henry. Upon returning to his shop, Nita then retaliates by dumping hot water on him, resulting in his true form being revealed: a slimy creature. He then tells Nita to go far away and that revenge isn’t always a good solution.

### **Enrique Leornado Sánchez Roca** †

Enrique Leonardo Sánchez Roca was Nita’s father. During flashbacks involving Nita and sometimes Monica ,he is shown to be a loving and caring father and husband to his family. At the end of *Not Even Bones,* it is revealed that he had been murdered just a few days before Nita had arrived at INHUP. To this news, Nita is greatly saddened upon in *Only Ashes Remain* and she vows to avenge her father.

### **Diana**

Nita first meets Diana at Adair's place when she and Kovit were looking for a place to stay. She is later revealed to be a ghoul unnatural after Nita deducts that she is.

### **Agent Quispe**

Agent Quispe and Nita meet at the very end of *Not Even Bones.* Upon Nita’s arrival, Agent Quispe can be seen helping Nita and questioning her. Nita informs her of the video that Reyes took which showed her healing ability. If that video ever got out to the public, she could be again captured by the black market only with different people to which Agent Quispe tells her that she will do everything in her power to try and stop. Afterwards, Quispe mentions to her that her father had recently been murdered resulting in Nita to burst into tears.

Agent Quispe also was involved in a kidnapping that Nita and Kovit did in an attempt of kidnapping Fabricio Tacunan and killing him. Nita was then later was questioned by the agent, and after Nita's mother comes to her aid, Agent Quispe vows to find the traitor in INHUP responsible for all of this.

Their relationship is slightly stronger in *Only Ashes Remain* as Nita remains under her surveillance for a short time.