Anita Cicchetti

> You really think this is some sort of game that you can call quits if you lose? Grow the fuck up, Giorno. This isn't something you can play pretend with.
>
> Anita Cicchetti, calling attention to Giorno Giovanna's naivety and inexperience-ness.

###### Character Summary:

*A socialite set for life was what she was supposed to be. After the death of her husband that resulted in her infertility, Anita found herself about to be remarried when she encountered a bizarre serial killer on a train to Rome. In a blur, she woke up with new abilities and a new sense of life before she later found herself as a member of Hitman Team #47. Recruited by Zura, her charismatic, intelligent, yet hot-tempered nature helped the team prosper financially more than it did before. What she couldn't beat with her wealth and words, she could beat with TROYBOI, a Stand that allowed her to make a hivemind of mindless homunculi. She saw herself in Gigi and did what she could to ensure that Gigi lived a safe, life- sacrificing her life to do so and her death lead her team to defeat the enigmatic leader of Passione as a result.* * Introduction
* Gallery
* History
* Trivia

## Anita Cicchetti

### Namesake

Annada: Variation of Annapurna, the Hindu goddess of food and nourishment. Maria: Latin for "beloved", in reference to the Virgn Mary. Anita: Italian for "grace". Cicchetti: Venetian tapas.

### Family

Unnamed father and mother (alive), Unnamed husband (deceased), Unnamed daughter (deceased)

### Status

Dead

Anita Cicchetti is a member of The Hitman Team and a core ally in Fate of Zephyr. In Vento Aureo, she is the unnamed woman on the train who's body is used to create Melone's Junior; the anime credited her with the name Anita.

An Italian and Punjabi socialite who suffered the lost of her husband and daughter, she spiralled into alcholism and smoking before being sent to Rome for an arranged marriage by her family. Her trip led her to a traumatic encounter Ezio Romano and was subjected to the latter's Stand Babyface as his attempt to escape from the police. She would later be found by Zura Grattachecca near the train tracks and brought back to The Hitman Team soon after, becoming a mafioso in Passione as a result. Anita serves more on the business and financial aspects of the team but follows along with Giorno Giovanna and Olio Nero in their mission to bodyguard Gigi Una. She ultimately sacrificed her life to allow Gigi and Olio to escape and her death led to the team's decision to find Father Diavolo's identity.

Her interaction with Ezio on her train trip to Rome led her to become the Stand user of TROYBOI, a variation of Ezio's Babyface that allows her to produce humanoid entities at will.

## Appearance

Anita is a woman of average height and build. She has dark brown hair which she has cut into a short bob and bangs and golden eyes, the last which she received after her encounter with Ezio. The bob appears longer at the front and the bangs are cut to be longer and pointed more in the center. She also dons purple earrings decorated with henna motifs shaped as uppercase letters, wearing a capital 'T' on her right lobe and 'B' on her left.

Anita wears a red body suit that is cut revealing her cleavage and stomach. A sheer red high-waisted underwear and body stocking is worn over it, stopping above her mid-calf, as well as a matching color blazer with shoulder pad. Both the suit and bodysuit has motifs of simple floral design accented with green and black, which references the original Anita's dress design. She also wears nude pumps, revealing her toe nails to be painted red when one of them was removed during a scuffle. The heel is decorated with an image of a skull that looked similar to the original Junior. She also wears red lipstick and red nail polish on her hands, both of which match the color on her toes. According to Andreas Arancini, she smells like lotus flowers when she walks by, but her breath and fingers constantly reek the smell of wine and tobacco.

Anita identifies as half-Italian and half-Punjabi, sharing physical traits from both sides of her family. Prior to losing her husband and child, Anita had longer hair and often seen wearing designer outfits with matching or contrasting elaborate saris at social events. Even after her husband's death, she wore her engagement ring, only taking it off to put it in her bag right before she encountered Ezio, and often switches it from finger to finger when she is thinking heavily. She also grew up with dark brown eyes- its color changed after surviving her interaction on the train- and would briefly turn light teal sporadically.

## Personality

Anita gives off the impression of a prideful yet somber and bitter socialite with high-class tastes. With a no-nonsense attitude and blunt way of speaking, she often tells things as she sees them regardless of the reaction it will entail and at most watches the antics of her team from afar. She is rarely seen smiling, oftentimes scowling and earning a reputation for always looking annoyed, although would occasionally smirk or play along with conversations when she finds them amusing to her taste. This was seen when she humorously asked Andreas if he would consider engaging in sex with the same man that screwed his mother.

She prioritizes the completion of a mission before the life of his allies due to her views on fulfilling missions and would do anything to see it through. However, her willingness to abandon her allies mostly stem from her confidence in them surviving and being able to fulfill their jobs rather than leaving them to succumb to fate. This was seen when she demanded Giorno to leave Clara while heavily emphasizing that the other member could take on Bavaroise Fugo alone, but also doing so to figure out a new strategy plan to help the latter from encountering Fedel Agnello and resulting in a two-against-one situation. Anita shows herself to be self-sacrificing for her teammates despite appearing to abandon them, willing to faced Father Diavolo alone at St Mark's Campanile and demanding Olio to leave with Gigi instead of remaining to fight.

Anita eludes confidence and can easily blend herself within the high-society events with ease, to the point of arrogance. Her taste in the arts gained her a reputation for being an admirer of fashion, art, and design. Despite her appearance as being a shallow socialite, she is revealed to be an avid reader and accomplished violinist according to Zura, capable of holding detailed conversations about music theory and history.

In the past, Anita was revealed to be more loving and friendly, albeit more ignorant of her surroundings outside of the high-society bubble she was raised in, and grew up expecting to be another socialite wife and mother. The lost of her husband and child led her to spiral into alcoholism and smoking addiction, as well as her distaste for crying children- a trait shared with the original Anita- willing to raise her voice at them when she finds them acting irrationally. However, she is shown to have a maternal side and a soft spot for Trish, especially since they share similar interests in fashion and arts, and Marsala despite her association with Ezio. Her maternal side is most prominent when she is seen angry towards Father Diavolo for his actions against his daughter and told him that she hoped Gigi will find a family that will value her more than he did. Anita also secretly envies those who still find optimism despite their circumstances and chances of success, which explains her critical and contempt behavior towards Giorno in the beginning, but later admits how impressive he is for succeeding with each situation thrown at him. This was especially seen in Anita's last moments before her death when she mentioned Giorno's abilities to her late husband during her vision before death.

## Abilities

### Stand

TROYBOI is a far-ranged Stand that is described as a "variation" of Ezio's Babyface. Like Babyface, it performs similar functions with notable differences in how it is used. Because of this, it has both strengths and weaknesses that foil the original Stand.

Anita frequently uses it to create clones, which she calls her homunculi, to be a mindless hivemind that will only kill whatever provoked them- due to its inability to become sentient enough to be intelligently conscious like a typical Junior or have more resilience against attacks. However, TROYBOI is able to create multiple homunculi at ease with just a male blood sample that is consumed by Anita and without consideration regarding astrology or pseudoscience.

### Knowledge of Arts, Culture, and Communication Skills

As a socialite, Anita is experienced with practicing and maintaining social formalities and cues that are expected in high society of both Italy and India. Her vast memory and knowledge of culture from both sides of her family allow her to be familiar with works of art, which is shown when she was able to deduce the location of Trish's final stop as Venice from a reference to a known Venetian work used as a clue. She is also mentioned to be a great classical musician, as Zura mentioned her ability to play by ear, and her home is revealed to be full of antique instruments she collected over the years. It was also mentioned that she was going to pursue a degree in Music Theory and Public Relations after her marriage and birth of her child but never ended up pursuing either after the death of both her husband and daughter.

Outside of general missions, Anita's knowledge in navigating the upper class of Naples allows her to serve as a liaison for negotiations and had allowed the team to earn connections and benefits from higher-ups. Paolo Bucciarati mentioned once how Anita's abilities to speak led The Hitman Team to increase their wages compared to similar teams and and her "smooth talking" led her team to be punish less severely than his after Sorbetto and Stracciatello were caught trying to identify the Boss.

## References

* Anita in the anime encountering Melone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u55OLzI6Yhs
* Flashback of Madam Red's life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joGkmKNmo40
* The legend of Annapurna by TED-ed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztoUaJFEi8M
* Interview with TroyBoi about his song "AJA AJA": https://edm.com/music-releases/troyboi-aja-aja-amar

Anita in the anime version of the story.Baroness Angelina Dalles-Burnett, also known as "Madam Red", from Black Butler, who served asMulger's Spring 2020 outfit on Cardi B, as reference to Anita's outfit.
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 Anita Cicchetti was born Annada Marie Cicchetti and identifies herself as Italian and Punjabi. Throughout her life, she is often referred to by Anita, and only a few close friends and family members has referred to her as Annada.

## Life Before Passione

Anita was the only child of her two socialite parents and lived a life of relative luxury. Raised with the finest tutors and entertainment, Anita grew up expecting to become a socialite wife and mother and was raised to prepare herself for such a life. Due to her parents being Italian and Indian, Anita often traveled between her two countries during her childhood. She held dual citizenship for both and raised to be knowledgeable with both heritage. Due to her lavish lifestyle, she was also raised in a bubble as a socialite and her biracial identity often led her to experience diaspora from both sides of her family. She often got herself involved in charity and non-profit work, specifically those involved in children's education, and ultimately decided to pursue Public Relations and Music Theory as a result. She ended up having a vast group of friends, but remained ignorant of their intentions of seeing her higher status as a money grab.

### Marriage and Tragic Ending

Despite being set up for an arranged marriage as a means of maintaining social status and being married at a young age to discourage further education, Anita ended up engaged and married to her childhood sweetheart and wealthy businessman Harsh Dosanjh. The two had lavish ceremonies in Italy and India, leading to Anita to consider changing her last name to Dosanjh while she was married, and she quickly became pregnant with their first child. According to Anita's relatives, the relationship was a loving one, and Harsh encouraged her to pursue her studies despite social expectations discouraging her to do so. However, on a trip from Venice to Rome together, Anita and her husband ended up in a car crash that instantly killed Harsh and nearly killed Anita. A failed emergency operation to save Anita led to her uterus to be infected and doctors removed it, along with her unborn daughter, rendering Anita to become infertile and suffering chronic pain post-operation for months. It was later revealed that her in-laws had the order to remove the uterus and child despite doctors claiming that the child and mother had a chance to be both saved. Their reasoning behind the order remained unknown but caused Anita to resent them as a result; this contributed to her resinding her documents to change her last name to Dosanjh.

Anita spent several months in self-isolation from her family, friends, and developed a habit of heavily smoking and drinking in response to her grief of losing both her husband and child, as well as her inability to become a mother as a result. She also earned a reputation for being arrogant, short-tempered, and prone to hysteria to those she deemed suspicious, and developed an bigger elitist view than before. It was heavily implied from Anita's conversation with Fedel Angello that the police and legal procedure of rescuing Anita and her husband was not properly done due to racial bias against the Indian community in Italy, which contributed to her contempt against law enforcement as well as the hysteria. This development due to grief led her to lose many friends and some of her family members, much of whom revealed their superficial intentions and refusing to help Anita cope with her situation. Despite her instability, she continued to maintain some sort of appearance to the outside world as a socialite and ultimately as a businesswoman, as she inherited her husband's business when he died and living off its profits.

### Encountering Ezio Romano

Anita's family eventually intervened to have her remarried, despite her protests and trying to reason that her inability to provide children and her status as a widow would make her unfit to be a bride. Nonetheless, she was sent on a train from Naples to Rome to meet her potential spouse by herself. The train ride was mysteriously delayed and stopped due to fights breaking out between local gangs in the area, much to Anita's annoyance, but she spent much of her time attempting to get her self drunk and deranged enough to make the arrangement fall through. After berating a worker for not quieting a child, she began contemplating about her life, especially thinking about whether she would be in this situation if her husband and daughter didn't die. She mused herself with whether she should try to make her new marriage proposal work and move on.

It was on this train ride that she encountered Ezio Romano, who was on the run from authorities and Passione for being a potential suspect of his wife Vittoria Shelley's murder. Ezio had managed to sneak into the same compartment she was sitting in. Anita noticed the man sitting near the door, inspecting a vial of blood he revealed to be his. As she tried to call for someone to arrest him, Ezio locked the door and commented how the train is able to implement sound-proof compartments for their passengers. He then rummaged through her bag, pulling out items to try and identify her, when she slapped his face and pulled her bag from him. Her wedding ring fell out in the scuffle, which she immediately picked up and placed close to her chest. Ezio took notice and gave his condolences, correctly assuming that her husband died. He then explained how Vittoria's death had greatly affected him, and that he was innocent in her murder. He inserted the vial into his Stand, typing away as he further detailed his discovery of Babyface, and how he has been trying to recreate Vittoria's dissertation as a means of proving her critics wrong and hopefully regaining what remains of her. He also stated that he never tried to use his Stand using his own blood but tried justifying the kidnapping and murders of the women as a means to save lives for the sacrifice of a few. Anita looked in horror as Babyface transformed and Ezio madly talks about how everything was meant to happen due to Anita's birthday indicating her supposed destiny. Anita turned to the window, attempting to pry open the latches to escape before Babyface comes behind her and breaks the glass. She felt Ezio hold her down before blacking out.

When Anita woke up, she found herself near the train tracks and the train she was on ultimately gone. Ezio was nowhere to be found, but Anita began to hallucinate his past through his eyes before passing out from exhaustion. TROYBOI made its presence known by encapsulating itself around Anita to protect her.

## Discovery By Olio's Team

Zura Grattachecca was sent on a mission to pursue Ezio, who Passione had been tracking for the past few days via a hidden tracker, in order to take him into Passione's custody; it is highly implied that the syndicate planned on taking him in as a member due to his Stand or sell him off to the law for bribe money. She was caught off-guard when the tracker led her to the middle of nowhere on the train tracks and met with a large twisted tree revealed to be TROYBOI. The tracker indicated that the source was coming from inside the Stand, and Zura attempted to call out to whoever was inside. As her eyes met a pair of yellow glowing ones that were eventually closed, two homunculi that was recently birthed from the Stand began crawling to the front of the tree, guarding it fiercely. The Stand began creating more, surrounding Zura and getting defensive when she tried to get closer. After slowly coaxing at the homunculi and TROYBOI, it eventually opened up to reveal a now unconcious Anita, and Zura deduced that Ezio must have done something to her that led the tracker to track Anita instead. She carried Anita into her car after the Stand disappeared, and the two drove back to headquarters. Despite being offered medical treatment, Anita refused to be looked at and argued to go home against the doctor's wishes. When left alone with Zura and Cassio Montagna, she opened up her fear about seeing another doctor due to her in-laws causing her to become infertile and recounted what had happened on the train to the best of her ability.

Olio Nero, after being told by Zura and Cassio of their inteaction with Anita, was able to determine that Ezio had fused himself and his Stand into her, killing him as a result but allowing Anita to obtain her own Stand. Anita was offered a position on the team as a means of protecting herself from other Stand users in exchange for providing the team better financial support, acting as their connection to the Italy's elite , and serving as a liasion when it came to negotiations. Anita returned home, doubling down on her desire to no longer be married and live her own life, before accepting her membership and was able to get herself out of performing Ogio Engio's test completely due to her Stand. It was through Anita's negotiating skills that she was able to convince Father Diavolo via speaking with Uriele that Sorbetto and Stracciatello's actions was not her team's responsibility nor were her team was at fault, leading to Team Bucciarati's humiliation and punishment instead.

It is revealed that, through Ezio's influence, Anita became acquainted with his sister Marsala. In exchange for information for her team, Ezio's sister would be provided protection and connections from Anita; she did not detail this with the team, believing that it wasn't necessary. When the Hitman Team went to investigate her for the death of her late boyfriend and Anita explained that Marsala was under her protection, it led to a disagreement that carried onto the day Giorno was introduced to the team. After Olio, Cassio, and Zura first confronted Marsala, Anita was told of Olio's impending death as a result of Shangri-Las' predictions. However, Marsala stated that the change that Zura made in their scuffle might have altered the course and therefore causes a chance that Olio's death has been voided. She offers to tell Anita of the new results once she checks on it, but Anita tells her to only let her know if Olio's death is avoided.

## Death

Before Anita died, she found herself asleep in a train cabin but being awaken by an attendee telling her that she was at her last stop. Anita got herself up, realizing that she was in the same train cabin as the one she took on her trip to Rome and during her encounter with Ezio. For a second, she thought everything that had happened before she blacked out had been just a dream, only to find what should have been a broken window near her seat unbroken and looking out to Roma Termani full of people walking around. Her compartment was also not messed up, like it was when Ezio rummaged through her stuff. After being told that she needed to leave once more, Anita walked out, wondering if what she went through the past several years was a dream. Upon stepping off the train with other people, she wondered whether she would be greeted by her new intended's family or those working for him, when she heard Harsh's voice calling to her. Turning to it, Anita sees her late husband and the two run to embrace each other. Anita mentioned that she didn't care if this was just all in her head or whether someone thought she was being crazy right now for thinking that he was in her arms, but Harsh explained that he was really there and that this was one of the places where people go to when they pass; he mentioned that he was suppose to leave the station once he died but decided to wait for her so they could leave together. Anita realized that she really had died, briefly wondering whether Olio and Gigi made it out alive, to which Harsh mentioned he knew what she was thinking and reassured her that the team and Gigi are okay. The two decide to leave the station hand in hand.

In the living world, Clara E. watched Anita's bleeding body disintegrate into block pieces before vanishing into air. Some of the particles are shown to float briefly around the remaining team members sailing away before they disappeared into the sky. Only Zura is seen visibly crying.

## Post-Fate of Zephyr

Giorno eventually told Anita's remaining family of her end, although not providing details regarding her whereabouts and her encounter with Ezio, saying that she died in an accident and her body was irretrievable. Marsala ultimately knew of Anita's end after checking Shangri-las's product after the Hitman Team left, although not the exact details.

It was heavily implied that Anita knew that Olio's end was near based on Marsala's promise of not telling unless he lives, but Marsala did not tell her of the other deaths, including Anita's. Marsala was commissioned to create a painting of Anita by Giorno a few weeks after her death, which is given to Anita's family soon after. A copy was put in a memorial.

## Comparison with the Original Anita

The original Anita merely served as a minor character that became a "surrogate" for Melone's Stand due to her blood type, star sign, and unhealthy habits- the latter which is shared by Anita. It is unknown what the orginal Anita's ethnicity but it is highly implied that she is an Italian socialite. There is no backstory for her due to her lack of characterization in *Vento Aureo*. However, her bitterness and snobbish attitude remains.

* Anita's appearance was heavily inspired by American rapper Cardi B, who is known for wearing French designer Thierry Mugler's collections.
	+ Initially, Anita's Stand and backstory would be inspired by Cardi B's album *Invasion of Privacy*.
	+ Her hair style, is especially inspired by *Black Butler* character Angelina Dalles/Madam Red, a widowed Baroness and doctor who is revealed to be the infamous Jack the Ripper due to the grief of losing her husband, child, and her distaste towards women able to abort their children.
		- The hair someway resembles the original Anita's own short hair and bangs.
* Anita's favorite cigarette brand is Sobranie Pinks, which she has personally shipped to her home. Her favorite wine is any red wine produced in Côte de Nuits, France. Anita herself stated that she preferred red wine over any type of alcohol.
* Anita's backstory was inspired by previous headcanons that hypothesized the original Anita coming back alive after the events of Vento Aureo.
	+ In this original version, she is able to retain her Junior's ability to manipulate matter and was a part of a different mafia family based in Spain.
	+ Unlike Anita, the original Anita was simply Italian and Spanish, with no connection to being Punjabi.
* When redesigning Anita, it was decided to make her part-Punjabi in reference to the original Melone's knowledge in the *Kama Sutra*, his potential history with the Desi community, and TroyBoi's identity as half Indian.
	+ The connection to the Desi community, most notably Punjabi, stems from history, as Italy saw an influx of Northern Indian immigrants coming to Italy to work in the technology sector due to government programs incentivizing their immigration. However, many in the Desi community tend to serve in the dairy and farming industry.
	+ The name Annada was chosen to reference to Hindu Goddess Annapurna due to her association with food and nourishment. The variation of the name is chosen due to how close it resembles the name Anita.
		- The only people who have called Anita by her full first name include Olio, Zura, Marsala, and her late husband.
* According to the team's documentation, Anita's code name is Biscia, which is Italian for "snake". Alternatively, snakes are symbols of fertility, medicine, and guardianship in some cultures but also destruction, death, and chaos in others.
	+ In Hinduism and various cults in India, serpent entities known as nagas are significant in their beliefs and represent rebirth, death and mortality.
	+ The references to snakes also reference to how the original Melone died: bitten from a snake that was "reborn" from Junior's flesh.

## Notes from the Author

Anita... she had a very interesting development. I already had an idea that the actual Anita was a socialite who survived the Junior ordeal and ended up with its powers, but I initially never thought about whether it would be considered a Stand or something entirely different. But I knew right away that she was going to be a character to be in place of Melone.

Usually, I would create the character's backstory and personality first and then figure out a Stand based on that, because it would make sense to create a Stand that is a manifestation of what its user was or is. I ended up going the other way when creating and developing Anita, choosing her Stand first before diving more into her characterization. That's probably because Anita is already a canonical character with some of her characterizations already established, but also because I had no idea what her Stand will be. I knew that Melone's stand Babyface is based on the producer of the same name; Babyface himself was a pioneer in the R&B genre as well as one of the founders of New Jack Swing. So, I needed to find an artist that either is a pioneer in their own right or someone who is iconic in the R&B genre or New Jack Swing. I thought about New Jack Swing artists like The Jacksons (Michael and Janet), Bruno Mars, TLC. At the same time, I tried considering artists who would give off a similar vibe to Melone's abilities. I thought of Daft Punk's *Discovery* album or their *Interstella5* series; I even tried diving into the world of EDM and related genres with ODESZA, Adventure Club, and more. But nothing stuck with me.

EDM eventually got more of my attention in life. While I was trying to find the right music influence for Anita, I was also listening to TroyBoi's album *Left is Right* on repeat after getting it reintroduced by my significant other. I've been a casual fan of TroyBoi, falling in love with his song "Lalaach" first and then hearing his rendition of Bendaly Family's "Do You Love Me?" before I got into *Left Is Right*'s song "ili". During this time, I finally took notice of the album's art cover work and then looked into the artist that drew it; Marwan Shahin collaborated with TroyBoi (and other Desi artists like MIA and The Asoka) for this cover and I am still blown away with how the music led him to create such a masterpiece. He drew the artwork based on what he heard, which was not only his interpretation of industry clones being shelled out but also incorporated the fusion of Asian, African, European culture, which TroyBoi himself identifies with, into the imagery too. I read about TroyBoi explaining his album's themes, how it's about him subverting the EDM and music industry's expectations, and how he used many parts of his heritage as inspiration for his work. At the time, I didn't know that he identified as Portuguese, Nigerian, Indian, and Chinese, and now I can see where he got his influences from.

I began listening to the entire thing once more with a new mindset, considering what I learned from his interview and Marwan's explanation on the artwork. *Left is Right* ended up being my favorite album by far. The imagery of clones being grown from trees and then being "birthed" started to really reference Babyface's abilities with homunculi generation, the influences of Asian culture references the pseudoscience and text that Melone uses while calibrating his juniors, the creativity and style of the album itself matched Melone's unique aesthetic. To make TROYBOI its own Stand and not a simple rehash of Babyface, I decided to make it a Stand that make mindless clones that serve as a hivemind instead of being able to individually make sentient Juniors that are trained to do tasks. The hivemind and mindlessness is in reference to the "industry clones" Marwan Shahin drew in the album cover art. By doing that, it balanced the ability for TROYBOI to make multiple clones in exchange of having the clones be trainable to do more complex tasks. Even though the Stand is mostly inspired by Left is Right, I still wanted to pay homage to the works outside of it, especially the "VIBEZ" series and his other singles, so that's why I decided to use the name TROYBOI instead.

The fusion of Indian culture in the album seemed to connect with Melone's own connection with Indian culture via the *Kama Sutra*. I headcanoned that Melone himself is well-versed with Desi culture due to being in contact with various members of the community as a professional in the computer sector during the 1990s. It was a little weird to think that a white man would be immersed in Asian culture without some concerns raised, especially if the mention of it is for a book often mistaken as just a "sex guide", so I decided that Anita herself should identify as Desi as a means of reclaiming the culture to someone who identifies as Indian. Like Clara and many other characters who are multi-racial and non-Italian, I did my best to avoid stereotyping characters and make them meaningful. I wanted to make Anita a strong character who went through a lot but also subvert the expectation of what Asian women are expected to be- both within their cultures and the society they reside in.

It was kind of interesting to see that Anita was about to be put into that expectation of being this young, beautiful, wife and soon-to-be strong mother with a loving husband and soon to live that privileged life that was expected for her gender and status, but then that was taken away from her. As tragic and traumatic as it was to lose her husband, fall from grace, and encounter Ezio, her encounter with the latter caused a rebirth both literally and spiritually for her. She started realizing there was more to life than her bubble and became a powerful player in a rather male-dominated world of both crime and high society in her own way, where she represented the hyper-feminine soft power, albeit able to do so with money and status, but showed how she is not only a strong Stand user but a valuable member of the team. I think that's why she and Zura work so well together; they're opposites of each other in terms of how they define their femininity yet are able to work together well and see each other as equals instead of rivals.

I think I love her too much, in a sense that I tend to make the characters I love most suffer the most. I felt so bad for taking her husband away and killing her in Fate of Zephyr that I decided to give her a happy ending where it's confirmed that she finally meets Harsh again at the train station before actually passing away. I initially thought about having her wake up on the train and seeing him in the same cabin, to be a foil of her seeing Melone there when she was alive, and both her and Harsh leave the train together to signify that Anita officially passed on. I even thought maybe she was "awoken" by her daughter and the three of them leave the train instead. However, I thought it would be more powerful that Anita wakes up to find her finally at Roma Termani and getting off the train herself, not expecting to be greeted by the man she loved and be in his arms once more and leaving the station with him. I debated on whether she would also see Ezio in that station too, but decided against it.

I feel like Anita after obtaining her Stand is who I want to aspire to be in the professional setting: this elegant, intelligent, witty professional who takes no shit from anyone and has a reputation that is built on both charisma and fear. Yeah, I love her a lot.