Anita Katerine Blake

"I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard....
But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude."

(Burnt Offerings, page 248, paragraph 1)

* Anita prefers to wear Nike sneakers.

* Jean-Claude has nicknamed her ma petit, which annoys her.

* She collects stuffed penguins and her favorite is a large one she calls Sigmund. When she is upset, she will often sleep with it.

* 24 years old at the start of GP, she used to be a Catholic, until it was decided that animators must be excommunicated from the church. She became Episcopalian instead.

* Anita was 8 years old when she lost her mother in a car accident. Her mother had a heart murmur.

* When Anita's father remarried 8 years later (based on Christmas gift of lavender blouse Anita got from Judith not returned, while her 8 gifts given to her stepmother have been), it was to a blonde haired, blue eyed woman named Judith. She had two children with him, giving Anita stepsiblings - Andria and Josh.

* At 13, she lost her dog Jenny. Three days later, Anita inadvertently raised her from the dead, which prompted her grandmother from her mother's side of the family,  Grandmother Flores, a priestess of vaudun, to teach her how to control her burgeoning powers.

* Grandmother Flores was a vaudun priestess. She encouraged Anita's father to avoid her side of the family and encouraged her Christianity. She was afraid for Anita's soul, because it would be hard to be both necromancer and vaudun and yet not be evil.

* At the start of the series, she has been an animator for about four years.

* Anita was engaged to be married when in college. She had had sex with her fiancé and his mother forced him to break the engagement. This is why she is very skittish about physical relationships and love.

* Take the turnoff to 40 West, then 270 up to Olive and it's a short jaunt to Anita's apartment.

* Bert recruited Anita straight out from college. She had a B.S. in biology with an emphasis on the supernatural. She also minored in creatures of legend. While in college she had a semester in herpetology, taught by Dr. Greenburg.

* She has said she has affinity with the dead. She is able to send out tendrils of her power, like ghostly fingers, and examine the graves of a graveyard and "sift" through them to determine what sort of supernatural creatures exist therein.

* Anita is a coffee connoisseur, using gourmet coffee beams that she grinds on her own.

* In her will, she has stipulated that when she dies, she is to be cremated. She does not want to be brought back from the dead as a zombie.

[THE LAUGHING CORPSE NOTES]

* Anita is shot for the first time in LaC (by Cicely) Before that she had been bitten, stabbed, beaten and burned.

* With 2 human deaths, Anita managed to raise an entire cemetery by herself and subsequently put them to rest once more. She did this without calling them by name, which is also unusual. This is the first time that Jean-Claude admits being afraid of her (cautious is the word he uses).

[CIRCUS OF THE DAMNED NOTES]

* Her car is a 1978 Nova in CotD. By LuC she has purchased a deep, deep green Jeep Cherokee Country.

* In CotD, Edward finally gives her a phone number if she ever wants to reach him.

* Anita's vampire kit consists of a sawed-off shot gun with silver shot, mallet and enough crosses and holy water to drown a vampire. However, without an actual court order of execution, it is illegal for her to carry it in her car. She can go to jail simply for having it in her possession.

* Because of her association with Richard, and her threat to kill when she says she will, the other lycanthropes considered her a rouge dominant lycanthrope.

* Anita doesn't envision herself ever being pregnant. "Shit. Kids, me? Pregnant, me? Not in this lifetime."

* Even before the triumvirate was formed, Anita, Jean-Claude and Richard had a bond between them because of their sexual tension.

[THE LUNATIC CAFE NOTES]

* Richard proposed marriage in LuC. While Anita said yes, she reconsidered because Jean-Claude wished to have a chance to woo her as well.

* For Christmas in LuC, Anita gave Jean-Claude an antique cameo for his lacy shirts. She gave Richard a gold cross and made him promise to wear it.

* Anita could hold a vampire's gaze without being sucked in by their power when she was marked by Jean-Claude. However, she discovers in LuC that she can do so without the marks, thus showing her own rise in power.

* At a particularly grisly murder scene, Anita threw up on the body. The cops in RPIT poke fun at her for it. She tells this to Larry when he is about to view his first murder scene.

[BLOODY BONES NOTES]

* Anita is afraid of flying.

* She is the legal Vampire Executioner for a three state area.

* As of BB, she has been working with RPIT and Dolph for about 3 years.

* Anita's middle name, Katerine, is for her father's favorite aunt. When she died, Anita sensed her soul hovering over her body at the funeral. She didn't see the soul, though. This is how she knew it took three days for the soul to leave the body.

* Anita is officially declared a master when Ivy must resort to brute strength in order to defeat her. This troubles Jean-Claude for a bit. ^.^

* Her zombie bag is burgundy and her vampire bag is white so that it is easy to tell the difference even in the dark.

* Niña was Anita's mother's nickname for her. Seraphina knew it and tried to use it against her to woo Anita to her side. She also invaded Anita's dreams and left the scent of Hypnotique, which was her mother's scent. Larry smells it as well.

* After BB, Anita no longer considers Jean-Claude to be one of the monsters, which terrifies her all the more.

[THE KILLING DANCE NOTES]

* When Dominic Dumare comes to her for help, he explains that she is gaining notoriety in Europe.

* By tKD, Anita has been dating Richard steadily for seven months.

* When Anita and Richard order Chinese food, he always orders an extra serving of crab rangoon.

* Anita considers her hair to be her best feature, because it's a natural curl.

* According to Jean-Claude, Anita's power as a necromancer only flares or shows it self when she feels that she is being threatened. When Liv tried to intimidate Anita, she did not detect this until Anita reacted to her.

* When Richard accepted the marks from Jean-Claude, he was able to share power with Anita during the Lupanar.

* Anita chose Jean-Claude first. Yay! *ahem* Unfortunately, she lost Richard because of her choice - at first.

* Thomas taught her to call Richard's beast into herself so that when he was enraged she could calm him down by restraining his beast in her body where it would have no outlet since she wasn't a lycanthrope.

* Anita got her diving certification in college. Just after she finished, though, she was in a diving accident in Florida which left her claustrophobic.

* Because of the triumvirate, Anita finds that Jean-Claude and Richard can invade her dreams, and vice versa.

[BLUE MOON NOTES]

* When Anita was still in college, one of her professors committed suicide but they couldn't find his body. Because she could not control her powers yet, he came back from the dead in three days, when the soul has fled the body, and entered her dorm room. Her roommate switched out of the room.

* Anita gets a little better with touchy-feely in BM because of the wereleopards. Zane has an unspoken agreement with her that he can touch her for the sake of touch alone, but not to be sexual.

* In BM, Anita fears that she is becoming a sociopath because she is able to blank her mind  completely when she is about to shoot someone. She can also drain her face of all emotions, though she was not very good at it in the past.

* Because of the marks, Jean-Claude is able to give Anita memories of Asher and she ends up feeling more comfortable around him because of it.

* Although she is hurt badly in a fight, Anita's injuries heal so quickly that it scares her. 

* Anita almost never apologizes for being wrong. But she does so for Richard at least twice in BM.

* While channeling Raina, Anita inadvertently declares herself Frejya and runs away from Richard while the other werewolves chase after her for the chance to mate with her. Eventually, Richard catches up and they consummate their passions for each other.

* After Anita and Richard make love, Anita notices that the marks between them are stronger and Richard admits that Jean-Claude thought that this might happen between them, which of course, annoys Anita.

* When Anita reached out at one point to touch Richard, their auras converged and became one. Howard was able to see this.

* In this book, the munin are very strong, especially Raina. Anita  uses Marianne to help her learn to control them so that they don't submerge her personality and make her do things she doesn't wish to do.

* For the longest time, Anita has been saying that certain events might break something inside her which would never be fixed again, but not until she saws off Thompson's fingers does this become a reality. 

* Anita is able to use the power of the munin and her links with Richard and Jean-Claude to heal Nathaniel of a fateful wound. After she  heals Nathaniel, Richard declares that he has found his lupa and swears not to "audition" any other women. 

[OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY NOTES]

* At the start of OB, Anita is taking Kenpo lessons.

* On the plane to Albuquerque, NM, Anita is reading Sharon Shinn

* Anita doesn't like clover honey or veal, but she can tolerate small mounts of sage honey.

* Edward admits that neither Olaf nor Bernardo are good enough to kill him, but Anita is, although he still has to slow down his reflexes a little for her.

* Anita is unable to fall asleep in cars because her mother was killed in a car accident. But she is so exhausted and she trusts Edward enough to do so, which surprises her before she falls asleep.

* Anita's exercise regiment consists of running 4 miles every other day, lifting weights, kenpo and judo classes.

* Anita's Great-Uncle Otto is from Hapsburg, Germany which is why she recognizes Olaf's accent. Her father's family, specifically Great Grandmother Blake, is from Baden-Baden which is on the edge of the Black Forest.

* Edward had a fake ID made for her: Anita Lee.

* Anita tolerates Pinotl putting Ramona under even though she once would not have done so.

* Anita discovers that much of her lycanthropic power from Richard is activated by smell. She is able to call power when she smells Seth's skin.

* She has been sleeping with Sigmund every night since taking her "vacation" from the boys.

* Anita still says grace before she eats.

* Anita's fourth grade teacher was Miss Cooper. She used to hang Christmas decorations on the wall using sticky putty.

* Anita's father is a veterinarian.

* When she was in college, Anita studied comparative religion and has some knowledge of Native American religious practices, but not too much.

* Agent Bradley had thought about inviting Anita into the FBI, but had deemed her too independent. However, his inquiries have moved her file up on the list and other folks are looking into Anita's past now.

* Anita's left hand is her "power" hand and is more sensitive to detecting magical things.

* Because Anita has been neglecting Jean-Claude and Richard, she has hole in her aura over two chakra points: her heart and her groin.

* In OB, Anita is twenty-six years old.

[NARCISSUS IN CHAINS NOTES]

* When Anita was little, she would have given anything to have a pink canopied bed and ballerina wallpaper.

* Although Anita went with Ronnie to a dance club for her birthday, she herself doesn't dance and doesn't do clubs.

* In NiC, Anita finally admits to Jean-Claude in a phone call that Marianne suggested she close the holes between the triumvirate. She, Jean-Claude and Richard marry the marks at last and are drawn much more closer together as a result.

* She owns a pair of five-inch spike heels that Jean-Claude gave to her as a gift, along with a more sensible pair.

* Anita's mental shield is a stone tower with no doors and no windows.

* Anita used a memory from Jean-Claude in order to defeat Coronus the first time.

* When she is attacked by the snake lycanthropes, Gregory comes to her aid, but "inadvertently" uses his claws on her, There is the possibility she will be a true Nimir-Ra by the next full moon. But she appears dead and Jean-Claude is arrested for her murder and Richard takes Gregory because he killed their lupa.

* She inherits Jean-Claude's arduer/incubus and uses Micah to appease it.

* Nathaniel recognizes that the two things Anita always does first is get dressed and get armed.

* The Lunatic Cafe could have been hers, since she killed Raina, but since she used a gun, it doesn't count.

* Zerbrowski sees Anita with Jean-Claude and observes that he makes Anita feel safe.

* Because of the arduer and her growing position as Nimir-Ra, Anita marks Nathaniel and finds herself taking pride in the fact that he marks her as well. He is a choice candidate for her pomme de sang.

* Jean-Claude admits that the reason he fell in love with Anita, from the first moment he saw her (or heard her interacting with the police, as the case may be) was not so much her voice as her words - he knew she would never die waiting for him to save her because she would save herself.

* Jean-Claude gives Anita a list of acceptable partners should she need one to appease the arduer. They include: Nathaniel, Jason, Asher, Richard and Micah, although he is not pleased with the last one. Damian is a possibility, but Jean-Claude doesn't elaborate.

* Anita's beast, while more feline now, can still recognize Richard's lupine beast.

* When Anita discovers that Richard had Gregory put in the oubliette, she punches his face and does some serious damage.

[CERULEAN SINS NOTES]

* Anita has yet another mug, which says, "If you slip me decaf, I'll rip your head off." This was in response to Bert switching their coffee from regular to decaf.

* Anita, and the other animators, are considered full partners in the firm of Animator's Inc. Bert is now only considered a business manager.

* Anita has been taking off on nights when there is a full moon in order to be available for her lycanthrope "duties," namely Bolverk and Nimir-Ra.

* She now has a new Jeep Grand Cherokee, and only has full car insurance if she keeps her car from being destroyed for two years.

* Although she used to use an ointment made of Rosemary for raising the dead, she has discovered she is powerful enough not  to bother with it anymore.