Anita Blake

Information
The stories are written from Anita's Point of View

Anita needs her weapon holsters to be custom fitted, as normally they are too big for her

Anita used to live in an apartment complex with several families and other day-dwelling people, but moved out due to her dangerous line of work

Anita prefers to live near people, but is now afraid to, due to her work

Anita listens to classical music to help her get to sleep

Anita collects penguin merchandise, her favourite piece is a stuffed penguin called Sigmund She uses him when she feels scared or needs company

Anita tends to make inappropriate jokes

Anita has a gun holster on her headboard, just in case she's attacked at night

Anita has a habit of collecting abused strippers, like Phillip or Nathaniel

Anita visits Phillip's grave whenever she can

Anita hates funerals

Her mother died when she was 8 years old in a car accident

Anita's mother died when she was younger, her father has since remarried.

She has a brother name Josh, who is variably described as her half and step brother

Anita loves coffee

She is episcopalian, since the Pope excommunicated all Animators

Anita doesn't like needles, there's no reason behind it, she just doesn't

Anita doesn't rely on Divine Aid, but does believe in god.

She has a notepad and phone next to her bed, for work and emergencies

She doesn't enjoy alcohol, but drinks it for Jean Claude's pleasure

Willie McCoy was Anita's first vampire friend, whom she cared for and liked

She refers to Zombies and Corpses as "it" so it is easier to cope

Anita doesn't trust Manny again after the events of The Laughing Corpse

Anita knew Manny for 4 years before The Laughing Corpse

Anita doesn't speak Spanish, despite her heritage

Weapons
Browning 9mm Hi Power gun

Firestar 9mm, 7 shot magazine gun

Knife sheaths on her forearms with silver knives

Spine Sheath and long sword

Thigh Sheaths with Silver blades

Ankle Sheaths with Silver blades

Silver Bullets

Holy Water

Silver Cross

Stake and Hammer

Machete (used for Animation, and as a weapon occasionally)

Silver Nitrate (used some times for a quick and relatively painless death whilst sleeping, introduced by Edward, only used on weaker vampires, and presumably Lycanthropes)

Sawed off shotgun (from Edward)

Derringer gun (from Edward)

Vital Stats
Full Name: Anita Blake

Alias : The Executioner

Species: Human

Status: Alive

Job: Animator at Animators Inc, Vampire Executioner, member of RPIT

Age: 24 in The Laughing Corpse

Description
Hair: Long, Black, Curly

Eye Colour: Very Dark Brown

Skin: Pale Germanic

Ethnicity: Mexican/German/American

Features: Various Scars

Powers
Necromancy: Can raise the dead, and has an affinity with all dead (zombie, vampire etc)

Resistance: She is resistant to vampire mind tricks, but only to an extent

Age Reading: Anita can guess the age of most vampires within a few years

Focus: Anita can act as an Animation focus

Hypocrisy
Anita says an awful amount of hypocritical things during the series, so here some prime examples:

"I don't work for Vampires" - Guilty Pleasures - Anita frequently works for Vampires after this statement

"I would rather die than be a vampire's flunky" - Guilty Pleasures - Again, she willingly works for vampires later

''"I don't date vampires. I kill them." - Guilty Pleasures ''- Ummm....she 'dates' A LOT of vampires in later books

Anita seems very disgusted at the thought of necrophilia in The Laughing Corpse - However, she sleeps with a lot of corpses (vampires) in later books (although it's debatable as to whether sleeping with vampires would be classed as necrophilia)

Appearances
Guilty Pleasures

The Laughing Corpse