Alita Tiala

"Wocky Kitaki"

- Man, what's past is past. She knows that. When I'm with Alita... I feel like there's things worth protecting out there. You feel me? And my Alita, she's down with that all the way.

Alita Tiala was a witness to the murder of Pal Meraktis and the fiancé of said case's defendant.

Gold-digger
Alita Tiala was once a nurse under Dr. Pal Meraktis. One day, Meraktis was given the task of removing a bullet from Wocky Kitaki, but he could not. Meraktis and Tiala both agreed not to tell the Kitaki family about the failure. They told the family the operation had been successful, while locking the real report inside a safe in Meraktis's office.

Tiala proposed to Wocky in order to gain all of his inheritance the moment he died from the wound.

Murder of Meraktis

 * Main article: Turnabout Corner

Six months later, however, Wocky was still alive, and a health checkup revealed that the bullet was still in his chest. Enraged, Wocky took a pistol from the family stash and was ready to give Meraktis "a taste of his own medicine." At one point, however, Tiala managed to get the gun away from Wocky and went to see Meraktis herself.

Tiala threatened Meraktis with the pistol, telling him to open the safe and give her the medical report so she could dispose of it. She knew that if the Kitakis saw the report with her name on it, her plan would fail.

Meraktis opened the safe, but then suddenly turned on Tiala, tackling her. She managed to get a shot off, but it missed and impacted the inside of the safe. Meraktis then strangled her with the cord from a lamp on his desk, causing her to black out.

When she awoke, she was in Guy Eldoon's noodle cart. She heard Wocky and Meraktis talking, and realized that Meraktis was about to reveal that she was in on the plot. She quickly grabbed the pistol that was in the cart with her, aimed, and fired, shooting Meraktis in the head and silencing him permanently.

Tiala heard running, then silence. Leaving the pistol in the cart, she got out and made her escape, throwing the clinic slippers she was wearing into the trashcan when she stepped in a mess of paint caused by Meraktis's earlier hit-and-run on Phoenix Wright.

When she heard that Wocky was arrested for Meraktis's murder, she went and hired rookie attorney Apollo Justice, believing that he would fail miserably and get Wocky convicted.

Second attempt and witness testimony
Desperate to protect herself, Tiala would later break into the Meraktis Clinic again to try to get the Medical Report from the safe. However, Justice and Trucy Wright heard her, and broke into the office, forcing Tiala to flee once again. She then offered herself as a witness in a last-ditch attempt to use her testimony to get Wocky convicted. This failed, however, as Justice ensured that she was exposed as the real killer and even the prosecutor took his side.

Personality
Tiala was a selfish and arrogant woman who used her petite and serene appearance to make herself seem innocent, similarly to Dahlia Hawthorne ; her true personality was revealed when she was forced into a corner.

Name

 * The Japanese name, when written surname first ("Namina Minami"), consists of two syllables repeated three times. The staff apparently had a hard time remembering her name and often mistook it as "Nami Minami".


 * "Minami" (美波) means "south" in Japanese, with the kanji meaning "beauty" and "wave". Wocky Kitaki's Japanese name ("Kitaki Takita" (北木滝太)) consists of "kita" meaning "north", linking the two characters.


 * "Alita Tiala" is probably meant to mirror the repetitive nature of her Japanese name; "Tiala" is an anagram of "Alita".


 * "Alita" means "little wing" in Spanish, which may refer to the wings on her dress.


 * Wocky often calls Tiala his "fallen angel". While "fallen angel" can refer to an angel who rebelled against God and was exiled from heaven in Jewish, Christian and Islamic theology, it can also refer to an attractive woman who has become deprived of money or morals or, alternatively, a type of high-yield debt. All three meanings could arguably apply to Tiala, since she is an unpleasant woman who puts on an angelic demeanour in order to gain access to the wealth of the Kitaki family.