Lita Salazar

### Significant Other(s)

* Édouard Chenier (off-and-on again boyfriend, deeply in love with, father of Sasha)
* Doriano de Felice (ex-boyfriend, father of Leone)
* Phoenix Borges (ex-boyfriend)

> “A song she heard of cold that gathers like winter's tongue, among the shadows it rose like blackness. In the sky that on volcano's vomit rise. A stone of ruin from burn to chill like black moonrise her voice fell still...”
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**Talita Akasha Salazar** is the youngest child and daughter between Walter Salazar and his ex-wife Dalila LaCienega, and is the younger sister of Seffora. She also has an unnamed younger sibling whom she isn't in contact with.

She is the mother of Leone and Sasha. Her oldest son is from her ex-boyfriend Doriano de Felice and her youngest son from her current partner Édouard Chenier.

## Appearance

### Tattoos

* Her first tattoo is the ankh on her right pec in between her tit and armpit.
* Lita has a poinsettia-colored plus flower black cat that look's almost like a silhouette. It is on her right calf.
* Lita has a half-sleeve consisting of a peony on the front of her arm and on the back with a mandala and other geometric designs in the sleeves.
* On the right side of her neck Lita has a spider with a web.
* Across her chest just below her breasts Lita has Old Gothic Script of the word "*Nausea*" which comes from the name of Jean-Paul Satre's first published work and one of her favorite books.

## Abilities and Skills

* **Itzpa-Witch Physiology** - Lita is half-Fae and witch, specifically a Itzpa, a fae native to Latin America that can use magic and possessing the additional abilities of limited shapeshifting, osteomancy and has venom claws in her true form.
	+ **Animal Shifting** - Like all Itzpa's, Talita can transform herself completely into four animal forms a butterfly, an eagle, a moth and a bat.
	+ **Osteomancy** - Talita is still learning about magic and specifically bone magic, but Talita can employ a method of reading the future, the present and the past and/or provide help to a problem at hand by using the of the bones of the deceased as a focus.
		- **Bone Magic** - Even though Talita is still learning as a Itzpa she can generate and manipulate her own bones. At the beginning of the series, she could only create bone whips.
	+ **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** - Talita 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.

### Possessions

* **Armandine** - Lita's wand is named Armandine, which is 101/2" inches long, crafted from jacarandáholz wood and possessing the core of Itzpa hair and claw from her grandmother. Her wand is described as "*exotic*".

## Etymology

* Talita is the Portuguese form of Talitha means "little girl" in Aramaic. The name is taken from the phrase *talitha cumi* meaning "little girl arise" spoken by Jesus in order to restore a young girl to life (see Mark 5:41).
	+ Lita is of Latin origin and means "gladly".
* Akasha means "ether (quintessence)" in Sanskrit and Hindi. Related to the masculine Akash meaning "open sky". Used by Anne Rice in her Vampire Chronicles for the mother of all vampires, a pre-Egyptian queen. The term has also been adopted in Western occultism and spiritualism in the late 19th century.
* Salazar is from Spanish *sala* meaning "hall" and Basque *zahar* meaning "old". It can also refer to the town of Salazar in Burgos, Spain, which is of the same origin.

## Trivia

* She is associated with the number "10" which is a reference to the Wheel of Fortune.
	+ Lita is also associated with the Page of Wands.
* Talita is of Spanish, Basque, Maroons, Miskito, Rama, Nigerian, Zapotec, Dutch, Italian and Croatian descent.
* She speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Miskito Coastal Creole, and Rama.
* She is a lapsed Catholic.
* She has Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome which she inherited from her father.
* Talita can play the drums, guitar, keyboards, piano and saxophone.
* Her voice type is contralto.
* Talita is allergic to oats.
* Her favorite meal is spaghetti alle vongole with a fresh chopped salad.
	+ Talita's second favorite meal is salsa verde chicken tamale's with cilantro lime rice and black beans.
* Her favorite artists are Soda Stereo, Ivy Queen, Paulina Rubio, Cindy Blackman, B\*Witched, Tini, Soledad Pastorutti, Smashing Pumpkins, The Cure, The Rolling Stones and Captian Beefheart.
* Talita dressed up as the Corpse Bride at Édouard's Halloween Party.