Anita

Though Honey has always had Anita's best interests in mind, Anita can't help but feel abandoned by their mother after she suddenly sent Anita away to live with their uncle, not knowing why until beginning to piece together that it had something to do with their father's criminal activity, but they're sure they still don't know all the pieces, and likely never will.

Anita feels that their mother was emotionally unavailable in their life, leaving them feeling less like a part of their own family.

Anita attempts to bury these feelings of uncertainty and abandonment by distancing themselves from their family altogether, but the walls they've put up are undeniably fragile.

Though some may regard Presley as a two faced liar and absent father, Anita sees a man who was forced into illicit work to provide for his family who tried the best he could to keep his work and home life separate despite the unfortunate circumstances. In many ways, they're quite alike — it especially seems that Anita has inherited his ability for giving people the runaround and his enthusiastic curiosity.

Anita was close to their father, and the conflict that brewed between him and their mother culminating in Anita's relocation to St. Louis left them feeling bitter and infantilized amongst an already tense relationship resulting in Anita breaking contact with their mother.

In their father's absence, Bookie in some ways Anita wished was their father. He's the one responsible for Anita's musical enthusiasm, and the one who provided the emotional support that their mother did not understand they needed. However, when Bookie discovered that Anita's gotten into the bootlegging business themselves, he kicks them to the street, accepting that he must create an irreversible rift between them, a result of his intolerance for vices such as drinking and gambling due to his own past with his father and his brother, Presley.

Though they never formally met during Anita's time in New York, Zippy was well aware of Anita's presence, finding it rather endearing that Mordecai finally found a friend. She sensed there might be a bit more to the relationship than "just friends," particularly when Anita gifted Mordecai and the siblings new coats just because, and she is a bit bothered that Anita was a bit of a troublemaker, but she wasn't all too concerned as long as Mordecai is happy. Anita, in turn, attempted to make a good impression on her through Mordecai.

Zippy's concerns only grew further when Anita visits her 14 years later, dropping the bombshells that not only do they know where Mordecai is, but also that they're engaged to be wed. She feels that her greatest fears have come true, and that it was Anita who lead him astray all those years ago, prompting her to adopt a rather tense relationship with Anita, which only grows more strained when she comes to the mistaken conclusion that Edna is Mordecai and Anita's child had out of wedlock.

Though Anita is able to dispel some of the myths, it still takes some time for her to come around to them.

Anita and Esther got along quite well as kids. Though they didn't know each other all that well, it wasn't uncommon for her and Rose to tag along on Anita and Mordecai's excursions. While Anita enjoyed indulging in a bit of mischief with her, they have difficulty comprehending the lengths she goes to antagonize her brother.

They've had quite a few squabbles in which Anita tries to defend Mordecai from his own sister's wrath, and on occasion, ends up on the receiving end of one of her pranks too.

There are few people in the world Anita desired to protect more than Rose. She was a bright, young girl who reminded Anita of themselves when they were younger, and as a result, they wanted nothing more than to foster her curiosity and creativity. That being said, she's certainly a handful and Esther, Anita, and Mordecai always seemed to be playing tug-of-war over Rose, trying to get her to side with them for the purpose of pranking or defending Mordecai.

These days, Rose is a mother, and once Anita and Mordecai reunite with his family, Anita encourages him to spend time with his niece. Anita is happy to see that she hasn't lost her joyful spark.

Kehoe is a friend of Anita's father. Though he was close to Anita's father, Anita themselves doesn't exactly feel the same. He's an old, mean, crusty, cheapskate of a man that Anita feels is clinging to hopes of monopolizing on the barely-afloat Lackadaisy, rather than looking towards new opportunities with Marigold. And when business relations go south in a career path like theirs... well...

Though 'friendship' is perhaps a strong word for their relationship, there's no denying that Billy and Anita flock to each other for company whenever the lonely isolation of the sailor's life becomes too much to bear. The pair have become solid dance partners, at first just to pass the time, but sometimes even just for the fun of it when they aren't out on the river.

That being said, not everything is as it seems between them. Though Billy is more experienced in matters of seamanship, Anita takes advantage of his emotional issues and war trauma to make him their puppet captain of the operation in order to dispose of Kehoe.

Anita has none other than Mordecai and Poppy to thank for allowing them into Asa's good graces. With their support, intentional or not, Anita was able to weasel their way onto Asa's payroll and leave Lackadaisy behind.

The work under Marigold is good, but Anita suspects that Asa's only interested in keeping them around not to contribute anything of value to Marigold, but simply to starve out Lackadaisy. For this reason (paired with his rather intimidating presence tucked beneath his Santa-like facade) Anita tends to walk on eggshells around him.

Though unsure of the nature of the relationship, Asa knows there's something between Anita and Mordecai, and while he pokes fun about it, in truth he's keeping an eye out for any suspicious behavior between the two Lackadaisy-runaways.

When Atlas was alive, the only thing Anita knew about Mitzi was learned from Mordecai's complaints about the way she teases and prods at him. Anita considered her fairly harmless, all things considered, but with her running Lackadaisy, Mitzi and Anita have a... close relationship. Not one of mutual trust or friendship per say, but one made from the knowledge that beneath their bubbly exteriors is a ruthless businesswoman, ready to step on whoever they need to reach their goals. This is great when they're allies, but when they aren't, it can get ugly really fast.

Anita didn't know Atlas well, but what they did know is that many Lackadaisy members thought of him fondly, and as a result, his untimely death shattered the gang so thoroughly that they're still picking up the pieces to this day. While Anita feels for their plight, it won't stop them from taking advantage of the situation.

Anita respects that Mordecai sees Atlas as a father figure held in high esteem, Anita can't help but secretly despise the man for corrupting and indebting Mordecai after realizing that Mordecai's switch to Marigold was motivated by his grief for Atlas, and not his own personal wants as they has originally assumed.

Viktor and Anita never talked much. They knew of each other, and Viktor would often unload liquor shipments that Lackadaisy received from Kehoe, but the most Anita really knows about him other than that is that he was a friend of Mordecai's.

Anita's pieced together something about Mordecai shooting him in the knee, but they can't be bothered to dwell on some such incident due to their own troubles with Lackadaisy and the complexity that it represents.

When it comes to people involved in the criminal underworld, Anita has few qualms about screwing someone over one way or another, however Ivy is one of the few exceptions. It's clear that she doesn't quite understand what she's gotten herself into, and Anita doesn't really want to be the one to give her that wake up call. Perhaps if the situation were different, they'd be good friends.

Anita only really knows her through the occasional nights she spends at the speakeasy, and even then has only really observed her from afar.

Anita is just as intrigued by Rocky as they are horrified by him. His poetry is fairly impressive, but everything else tends to leave more to be desired. If there's anyone who understands Rocky's logic, it's Anita, but that doesn't mean they're going to start taking advice from him. Anita finds themselves curious about his various eccentricities and wonders if maybe they have something to do with his graduation from the band to the pick-up boy, but they haven't interacted with him enough to glean much more than that. Perhaps Anita should be a bit more worried about being on the wrong side of his loyalties.

In their desperation, Freckle became Lackadaisy's new hired gun. Anita hasn't spoken to him before, but they can tell that the poor boy is out of his depth.

Despite realizing that Nico and his sister were the hijackers who often raided their shipments, Anita really can't be that mad at them. It's just business after all. Anita doesn't particularly like him, especially because of his association with Serafine, but he doesn't otherwise occupy much space in Anita's mind.

Anita has similar feelings for Serafine as they do about Nico, save for a few problems. Anita sees a stronger, more intimidating version of themselves in Serafine, and this intimidates Anita. It doesn't help at all that she also carved a diable into Mordecai's chest, making Anita fear that although that's all she did, she could do much, much worse to him and Anita would be powerless to stop it.

Their similarities greatly unnerve Anita.

Anita's done business with the farmers for some time. They don't have any strong opinions on them personally besides just being another bunch of clients, but being relegated to selling poor quality moonshine to some hillbillies does make Anita yearn for something more.

Though Wes also works for Marigold, chances are Anita wouldn't have even known of his existence if it weren't for the fact that Poppy's dating him. Quite frankly, Anita doesn't think they'd be missing much of anything if he hadn't been brought into Anita's company. He consistently antagonizes both Anita and Mordecai, and his respect for Poppy seems tentative at best, but if she says that the relationship is working out, Anita's in no place to judge.

Frankie is Anita's friend by proxy of Poppy. They're not particularly close but it seems Anita's destined to be in her company, not only because of Poppy, but because she's become a constant in their life after she begins seeing Billy.

Though Anita and Frankie come from very different walks of life, the pair often connect over their experiences in their criminalized careers in a way neither of them can quite relate to with Poppy.