Dalila LaCienega

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> ### Full name
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> Dalila Amancai LaCienega de la Cruz
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> * Dalila Salazar (former married name)
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> ### Birth
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> July 27th, 1969 in Granda, Granda Department, Nicaragua
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> ### Age
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> * 51 (as of 2020)
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> ### Gender
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> Female
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> Dark brown (graying)
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> Hazel
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> ### Height
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> 5'6" ft
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> ### Relative(s)
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> * Ernesto LaCienega (father) †
> * Esmeralda de la Cruz (mother)
> * Seffora Salazar (oldest daughter) †
> * Unborn grandchild/stepchild †
> * Talita Salazar (youngest daughter)
> * Leone de Felice (grandson)
> * Sasha Chenier (grandson)
> * Maria LaCienega (younger sister)
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> * Walter Salazar (ex-husband, not officially divorced)
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> “You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
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― Warsan Shire

**Dalila Amancai LaCienega de la Cruz** is the oldest child and daughter between Ernesto LaCienega and his wife Esmeralda de la Cruz.

She is the mother to Seffora and Talita through her ex-husband Walter Salazar.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Itzpa Physiology** - Dalila is a Itzpa, a fae native to Latin America that can use magic and possessing the additional abilities of limited shapeshifting, osteomancy, and has venomous claws in her true form.
	+ **Animal Shifting** - Like all Itzpa's, Dalila can transform herself completely into four animal forms a butterfly, an eagle, a moth and a bat.
	+ **Bone Magic** - Dalila uses this magic attribute to generate and manipulate her own bones. She typically releases massive tangles of bones that offer no openings for her enemies to evade and are sharp like spears, allowing her to brutally skewer their opponents. She can increase these bones' regeneration for defensive purposes, repairing them faster than they can be destroyed. She can also shape the bones into weapons to wield by hand, like a sword.
		- **Electricity Generation** - By compressing the bone structure's Dalila creates she can generate electricity that could be used in combat.
	+ **Venom Scratch** - Itzpa's can alter the size of their nails, and when they manage to scratch its targets, the venoms forced the person to relive their worst mistakes, and everything bad they ever did. It also caused the person an enormous amount of pain.
	+ **Flight via Wings** - Dalila can pop out her wings in her human form and true form, her wings are shaped like a butterfly but have the iridescent colors of a moth.

## Etymology

* Dalila is the latin form of Delilah which means "delicate, weak, languishing" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament she is the lover of Samson, whom she betrays to the Philistines by cutting his hair, which is the source of his power. Despite her character flaws, the name began to be used by the Puritans in the 17th century. It has been used occasionally in the English-speaking world since that time.
* Amancai is a variant of Amancay which is from the Quechua *amánkay* which is the name of a yellow lily with red streaks native to South America. By extension, the word also means "yellow".
* LaCienega is a variant of LaCienega translates as "the wetlands, the swamp, marshes" in Spanish.
* De la Cruz a Spanish cognate of Delacroix means "of the cross" in French. It denoted one who lived near a cross symbol or near a crossroads.

## Trivia

* Dalila is of Spanish, Miskito, Maroons, Rama, Nigerian and Zapotec descent.
* She speaks Spanish, Miskito Coastal Creole, and Rama.
* She is a lapsed Catholic.
* Her favorite meal is seafood paella with chicken stuffed peppers.
	+ Dalila's second favorite meal is a grilled cheese with tomato soup.
* Her dream job as a child was to be a dancer on Soul Train.