Anita Watson

> And... I don't care.
>
> - Anita Watson

* Anita Watson
* Anita's New Hairstyle

## Character Information

Adam Watson

* Twin Brother Who Passed Away When They Were 7.

Barbara Capo

* Part-Time Lover w/ Joe

## General Information

* Likes to rub Joe Ferraro's bald head.
* Anita has a short temper with bullshit, has as attempted and failed to quit the PD 7 times, due to her co-workers and friends taking extreme measures to ensure that she stays.

## Background Information

Anita is a former sheriff from Houston, Texas. She hasn't spoked much about her past, but did open up to Joe and Jimmy while on patrol that her childhood horse, Chesty, passed away shortly before she arrived to the city. In the depths of the mines looking for Biggs while investigating a scene involving the Adventure's Guild, Anita started to hyperventilate. Once Joe came up behind her to help, she opened up once more about how her family owned a mine, and when she was young she and her twin brother went outside to play. Her brother slipped and fell down a shaft, and his body was never found.

While talking to Barb about how she felt about Joe and how he called her “Hun,” and how things felt ***TOO REAL***, she opened up how she doesn't like her feelings or relationships in general. When things get too serious, she quickly leaves due to the nature of her past. Pushing away her feelings is just what she knows how to do because if you don't take care of yourself, no one will. She spoke about how she had a boyfriend named Johnny all through high school, who was quick to get engaged and had plans of a future together, just to find him in bed with her own mother. Emotions were high and Anita didn't know what to do. Within a week of finding out about Johnny's indiscretions, he slept with her cousin and his own cousin. Her father defended her mother, which caused a rift in the family, so she no longer speaks to them. The last word she heard of Johnny and her family was that he ended up getting ***BOTH*** her cousin and his cousin pregnant.

## Character Arc

She was accepted due to the Los Santos Police Department trying to reset their public image, and quickly rose to Solo Cadet. This was despite a situation that involved multiple senior officers where Anita was locked in the Davis PD's kissing room with Paco Burro, a fellow cadet. They were instructed that they were not allowed to kiss. The two didn't care for being told what they can and cannot do and kissed anyway because, “*Fuck the Police*.” Paco shot his way out of the room, but Anita took the blame. She was then told by her superiors she'd have to crawl around on the station floor on all fours like a dog to be able to continue her career as an officer.

She ended up doubling down and quit on the spot due to not wanting to be demoralized like that, deciding to take up construction work for a short while to earn a proper pay.

The offending officers who were involved with the hazing initiation; Senior Officer Zane, Officer Buddy Cobb and Deputy Marshal Barb found her and asked if she'd come back to the PD and not sue the Department. A *kind* offer of $1500k for her trouble was offered as well.

She decided to return to the PD and carry about her way, though she did inform some of her senior officers about the situation.

One of her first days back, an older gentleman by the name of Dutch Matthews who suffered from dementia was pulled over for running a red light and then was arrested due to having a stolen vehicle. When he was taken down to the cells, the majority of the officers who were around contemplated whether it was moral to send a man with dementia to prison. They ended up sending him for a short time after hearing about how his family lost him at the airport while on a trip to New York. Anita took it to heart, and he reminded her of his grand pappy back when she was young. She ended up taking him in and often attempts to keep him out of trouble while he's in the city.

After speaking with Rosner with an impromptu test to see if she was ready to be promoted to a full Officer. She was told that she for a most part ready, but he wanted her to brush up on her case laws. Continuing with daily patrols, she was told by a few others, including Zane, that she's ready, but they are now doing final evaluations due to the nature of Bazza's promotion, which he is now under review due to conduct. Hearing this, Anita was quite cross but understood, *SLIGHTLY.*

Had a long conversation with Joe about how she felt betrayed because he picked his adopted son Jimmy over her when she got a little too drunk. Jimmy was told to *“Take Care of Her”* by Joe while he was working. Jimmy ended up pushing her over the concrete wall at Davis PD and kicked her while she was down, which caused her to get a concussion, fracture skull and two broken ribs.

Anita spoke to both Joe and Barb about a proposition of a no-strings-attached threesome, which in her mind would cause her and Joe's relationship to be more free and less serious. They mutually agreed and had a wonderful night that left the two girls struggling the next morning. Later that day, Anita said that she didn't want to lose her lovers in one day, Barb was a little taken back but actually liked the fact that she concerned about her a lover.

While at the Governor's mansion watching movies with Gray, Barb opened up to both Joe and Anita that she would like to be taken into fully the fold of their relationship. Anita and Joe were a bit hesitant because they are still shaky in their own relationship and don't want to ruin Barb's, so they spoke about giving it time. During their time at the mansion, Lorette let it be known that she would like to have a quick interdepartmental relationship, along with Barb, Joe, Anita if Tommy would be okay with the idea.

Zane has a running gag with Anita that with her hair up, it looks like a fresh sushi salmon roll, which caused Anita to want to change her hairstyle after the 5th time of mentioning it within a week. Anita left to the hairstylist and they recommended a short bob. She returned to the PD to find Joe in the parking lot, and his reaction to his girlfriend was simply to faint. Desperate, she asked for Joe's help and approval of a new hairstyle. Joe mentioned that he wanted to mess with Zane a bit, and encouraged her to get a wig that looks fairly similar to an old friend of Zane. Both she and Joe picked up new hairstyles, hers a wig while he reverted to his EMS days haircut. The joke was short-lived after she was sick of seeing the amount of random blondes in the city. She quickly tossed the wig and grew out her hair to her current hairstyle of two long braids that there were being talks of Joe enjoying.

While investigating a shots-fired up in the abandoned mines of the Great Chaparral. Anita and Joe responded with back up to Biggs only to find Boblyn King and his group of adventures saying that they were tracking down their most recent monster endeavor. Biggs went in to investigate further into the mines. Anita and Joe stayed to question Boblyn and his gang of misfits, becoming bored with their story, Anita went inside to assist Biggs without realizing that she would be affected by childhood trauma. Memories of her brother and her playing back in Texas in their family's mine, despite knowing they shouldn't because it wasn't safe. A panic attack came in full swing, the blood pounded in her ears, her heart thudded in her chest, her hands shook, her feet tingled, and her vision looked as if she were looking through a fish-eye lens. Finding herself lost within the mines, she was in a full sense of dread, not knowing how long she'd been gone. She tried to run back, running straight into Joe who went in to find her after Biggs came back out. He escorted her out of the mines, trying to calm her down. After leaving the scene, she revealed that her family owns a mine back home and that when she and her twin brother were 7, they went into the mines to play around; as kids do, only to have her brother not return. He had slipped and fallen to the depths after a board gave out from underneath him. According to Anita, his body was never found, and her family never really looked at her the same.

With her day-to-day duties as police officer, a solo cadet no less, Anita started to become discouraged with how long it had taken for her to become a full officer. She'd confided in her boyfriend, Joe, who currently was the Sheriff due to her and his antics of daring the Governor in a drinking game. They were very surprised at the time that he actually went through with it. At this point, Anita had attempted to quit the force at least 8 times due to things either no going her way or just had enough for with the bureaucracy. It was how others being promoted while the ones who were there every day, like Paco and herself, were stuck at solo cadet. It was a confusing time, along with how the city's gang violence continued to rise, and each day it was an unknown risk going into work. She started worrying about Joe, Barb, herself and the other friends she's made on the force.

A few days after her breakdown to Joe, there was a celebration for both her and Paco after being trapped in Zane's kissing room like they were on the first day as a new cadet. Anita was told to come out first, right before Paco, and Anita was quick to rub that in his face. There has always been a sibling rivalry between the two, and whenever Pack was out of line, Anita would remind him who was 'boss' by slapping him across the face, leaving him to suffer in silence on the floor.

She spoke to Joe about how she's been worried about their relationship and how she often runs away from things that start to get serious. She had started to get true feelings for him, and she didn't much care for that. She came into work one say with a note for Joe stating that she was going to move back to Texas and that she'd wish to keep their relationship going, but she knew it was for the best to break up, so he wouldn't be hurt if she didn't communicate enough. Barb got to her first, and broke down after speaking to her. Anita was her best friend, and she truly loved her, of course, she didn't want her to go but understood her reasoning with how bad the city had gotten.

Anita attempted to slip out the PD, leaving Barb in tears, but she was caught off guard when Joe, Jimmy, and Zane walked in asking where she was going. She said that she'd be heading for the airport and that Barb had a message for Joe. Anita, trying to keep it together because she truly didn't want to go, but it was what was best for her at the time. Joe took her aside and asked if they would be able to talk about it, and if she was going to tell him to his face that she was going to be leaving. Breaking down, she had told him she'd turned in her badge and gun and that this time was different. She was never worth his time, that it was best to just leave him with the note due to not wanting to watch him get hurt by her hands. Joe was angered by this because, he thought that she would have some common decency to tell him, herself, if she had any respect for their relationship.

During this time, there was a shot fired outside the police department. When the two ran outside to help, they only found Anita's SUV out in the middle of the road with flat tires and a Jimmy's head in the hood of her SUV. It seemed that Zane and Jimmy took it upon themselves to prevent Anita from going to the airport via her SUV. Wade, the walking hypothetical, told Anita that he walks all time and that he would be able to walk her to the airport. The sentiment was there, but he wasn't understanding the point why she was leaving for the airport in the first place. With how precedent, everyone was about her staying, she was determined to leave. No one, no one in their right mind, would want someone like her to stay and be their friend. *(Did we mentioned Anita had commitment issues?)* She hoped into her SUV and drove off, though it didn't get her far, after a few city blocks, her car's engine started smoking.

She left her SUV broke down on the side of the road to walk to the nearby garage that held her motorcycle. Her plan was to then ride back to the police department to give them a piece of her mind, one last time, before she left. Because, Who-- Who does something like that? She ended up going back to yell at Jimmy and Zane about everything, but Joe got hold of her first, only to ask a simple question. If she was going to tell him to his face that she was going to be living. She wasn't leaving to join a gang or leave the department out of spite, it was for the good of their future, and how she will never be good enough for Joe, he'd deserve better. Joe was very understanding because over the course of their relationship he's started to see how she truly operated, she was not only afraid of commitment but of anyone who would show her any type of support or love.

Taking her aside once more, he asked her to stay with him and they would make the relationship work. He encouraged her to still go to visit Texas and her family occasionally but come back and see him as well. They've been through a lot, and they would be able to get through this as well. She asked if he would stay safe for him while she was away, and he promised that he would.

## Quotes

* “Joe isn't gonna fuck your mom.” ~ Barbara 1985

## Trivia

* Gets claustrophobic in crowds, that often involves the E-WORD.
* Anita is afraid of mines, and causes her to have a panic attack.
* Zane shot out her tires and wreak her bike the last time she tried to quit and leave the city back to Texas.
* Jimmy pushed her over the concrete barrier at the PD, breaking two of her rips.

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