Anita Cicchetti/History

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.