Anita Baniti

Anita is one of the main antagonists of the Curse of Europe. We are introduced to Anita in the first episode of Season 2 as Fabian girlfriend. After Fabian's failure, she is given his job by Michael, to pursue Abraham to prevent his strength growing.

### Early life

Not much is known of Anita's early life. She was born into a poor family, with only enough to make ends meet and a small apartment. Her family were finally forced to move out due to an increase in rent. They briefly stayed in homeless shelters. While out in the city of Milan, at aged 7, her parents were killed in a crossfire between Police and armed thieves. She was then saved by a man who took her in and became her mentor. He took her into the Southern Desert to train. Anita took to her training vigorously, even training when her mentor did not. She was trained within 4 years. She travelled to Belgrade then to other cities, gathering a large sum of wealth by stealing, at first from criminals but then turned her attention to wealthy people. She then returned to Milan where she met Fabian Hudson. They were quite taken with each other, but Fabian returned to Paris quickly to be with his mentor. Anita followed and they began a relationship

### **Personality**

Anita is a very cold, calculating and excellent manipulator. She is a excellent planner as evident when she makes her first move against the gang. She doesn't confront Abraham, but goes after Patrick first. She introduces herself as nothing more than a fellow Kemiya and manages to seduce Patrick. What she did not count on was Fabian showing up to foil her plan but she decides to use the situation to taunt Fabian, showing a sadistic side to her. She even tries to kill both Patrick and Fabian while they fight, also showing an ability to think quickly and deal with two problems at once. When she catches Abraham, Patrick and Fabian in the fighting arena, she tries to bargain for Abraham but is refused. Seeing she has little position, she suggests another deal beneficial to both her and the fight organiser, again showing her ability to think quickly. In both situations, she is also shown to be an incredible combatant, able to take on two Kemiya at once, albiet briefly. While good as she is, she knows her limits and has been forced to retreat on at least two occasions when confronted with Patrick and Abraham together. Her planning prowess is shown when she knows Abraham will seek to meet the King of the Bronze Kingdom and thus plans to meet him first and when she correctly deduces Abraham's route to return to Paris through Berlin. She also show abilities in manipulation when she at first gains the attention of the Bronze Prince by throwing a fight against him then using her good looks and charm to seduce him. She urges him to act on his wishes to protect the Kingdom, by overthrowing his own father before she in turn betrays the Prince, thus eliminating the King and Prince without a single drop of blood spilled. She even manages to sway Fabian into helping her take the Bronze Kingdom by promising all he ever wanted, the respect of his mentor. Her sadism is shown again by her physical torture of the Bronze Prince and even her giving Fabian the credit of kill Abraham, knowing full well that if Abraham was indeed alive, he would be blamed, keeping him off balance. This does somewhat backfire on her when Michael learns of her trick and scars her for it. Anita is quite sexually adventerous, such as when she seduced Patrick and the Bronze Prince and even her keeping him around for her own pleasureas nothing more than a sex slave to her. She is not above fear. When her lie about Abraham is exposed, Michael scars her face. Her hand shakes when she examines it and is even scared when Michael warns her not to fail. When she finds Patrick alone in Berlin, she manages to take him down and poison him, knowing it would either deprive Abraham on a valuable ally or at least slow Abraham down.

In terms of her fighting style, Anita likes to drag fights out, to cause as much suffering and hurt unto her opponent and will hold back. She never goes for a killing blow until her opponent cannot fight anymore, like a cat playing with a mouse. She is not overly agressive in her combat though. She acts calm and in control and relaxed. She will move and dodge to try and frustrate her opponents and will make quick jabs and cuts. And while she tries to remain in control, this is only when she is in control of the fight itself. If her opponents put up a good defence or are able to contol the fight, she can become frustrated and lose her cool as shown in her fight against Fabian

### **Powers and Abilties**

**Iron Manipulation:** Anita can manipulate her personal piece into almost any shape or form she desires as long as its not too big or small due to the alchemic symbol of Iron on her thigh. This `Personal Piece` is considered unbreakable due to her power of control. She can maintain focus on a maximum of 2 different metal pieces by touch, or one metal piece though sight and make it near unbreakable by magical or physical means unless the touch or focus are broken, or if a force over 85 tons is applied. She can't make her metal into any object that requires non metallic components, like a lighter.

**Iron Transmutation:** She can also transmute any form of matter into any metal she wishes, due to the transmutation circles on her palms but they can be controlled by others with stronger powers than her own. She can only transmute solid materials into Iron

**Soul Sensing:** Anita can sense the souls of other people to tell if they are weak or strong. She can sense other magic users and other Kemiya’s. This unique ability allows a Kemiya to find his/her destined apprentice, one who has a dormant Kemiya ability. Anita can detect distortions within the soul, possessions, evil etc but sensing these traits are all Anita can do in that area

**Superhuman Abilities:** Anita has speed, strength, reflexes, agility and balance far above that of a normal human, but not as high as a vampire or werewolf.

**Superhuman Combat:** Due to training, Anita is considered a superhuman melee combatant, and is able to wield her chosen weapon with such speed, strength and accuracy to superhuman levels

**Spiritual Pressure:** Anita has the ability to increase her spiritual pressure, to increase her physical abilities to superhuman levels. When not in combat Anita keeps her power suppressed and only increase it when preparing for battle. Those close to Anita while increasing her spiritual pressure will feel a great deal on their bodies, like a waterfall falling on them

**Sword Beam Emission:** Anita can put her power into her weapon of choice and use it to cut through solid objects, at point blank range or at a distance, by creating arc shaped beams

**Instinctive feel:** Anita can place her hand on almost any object and instantly tell its elemental make up

**Perceptive Combat:** Kemiya's are trained from a young age and are trained to think very carefully when in combat, not just about her moves, but her opponents moves and concoct strategies to achieve victory

**Other Powers:** Like all Kemiya’s Abita can use alchemy not only to create and manipulate metals but to break apart almost any solid material by severing the molecular bonds.

#### **Weaknesses**

**Damaged Hands:** If Anita has his hand tattoos broken she will basically be rendered powerless. She can however draw a circle to use his power, but this requires time and is not suitable in combat

**Consecrated Items:** Anita's abilities do not work on items that are blessed. Any metal they form is also vulnerable to consecrated weapons, mainly bullets

**Hunters Amulet:** Being within 50ft of a Hunters Amulet will render Anita almost powerless. Anita will be unable to strike or defend herself with any more power than a normal human. Even her transmutations will slow down greatly

**Over use:** Being immensely powerful, Anita's body can only handle so much power and must be trained correctly to increase the her body's ability to handle such power. If Anita uses her power beyond the bodies ability, it can break her bones due to the pressure and even kill if used even further