Diana

Diana Bruges, more commonly known as Diana, is a [REDACTED] living aboard the ship known as CONSTELIS VOSS and the "femme fatale" of the CONSTELIS VOSS series.

Like all the members of the cast, Diana’s personality is based on a human who had once lived on AU earth during the 80s-90s.

"Oh, I know that one, dear. Best to avoid it. It makes you wonder about people too much, darling. The stories they tell,and what monsters they leave out, ...If only Dolores had found a pistol.”

What if the Femme Fatale used her powers for good?

Appearance:

Diana is of average height with a curvaceous frame, has deep brown hair, warm mid-tone skin, and cocoa brown eyes. She’s often the most over-dressed character in the series, habitually wearing lush colorful garments and statement-making heels that don’t lend themselves well to running or fighting.

Her makeup is dramatic, either with a striking red lip, or cat’s eye winged liner, and she’s partial to jewelry.

Diana’s most notable feature is her expression: graceful overwhelm, much like a princess forced to hide her emotions behind a Mona Lisa smile.

Her attire for much of the series is an indigo blue dress with a plunging neckline and shoes to match, but she replaces this with a bright red gown and red pumps for the conclusion.

Personality:

Diana is flighty, self-important, sneaky, and at times even dubious. However, this is a mask she wears to protect herself. Truthfully, Diana is warm, maternal, loving, and will do anything to protect the people she loves. A femme fatale in name only, Diana is the most giving and selfless of the group, routinely putting herself in emotional and physical harm's way—even if her motives are misinterpreted—to save the others.

Diana is easily distractible and slow to anger, but when provoked she turns viperous without a moment's hesitation.

Diana's protocol is BETRAYAL. Because of this, it's a constant push and pull between her programming's efforts to render her untrustworthy and manipulative, and her great desire to nurture and protect those she loves.

Star sign: Scorpio

Abilities:

- Insider Info: Curiously, Diana always seems to be aware of things others aren't, even if she doesn't tend to play her hand very often. She uses this to help usher the cast towards their inevitable destination.

- Perfect Timing: Diana has the uncanny ability to be at the right place, the right time, and make the right judgement call, whatever that may be. It's no longer coincidental after the first few occurrences; it's a heavy-handed pattern.

- Silver Tongued: Gifted by [REDACTED], Diana has the ability to control peoples' minds by looking into their eyes and telling them what to do.

- Proxy Mirror: You're just going to have to figure out what this means by yourself :p

Diana Bruges [CONSTELIS VOSS]:

In the future of futures, Diana is the Judge of CONSTELIS VOSS; an over-inflated title that mostly consists of paperwork, book-keeping, and checking off boxes that arbitrarily send people to their deaths. She has a great deal of power lording over the Judicial Level, but it's the mere illusion of it. She can do nothing that isn't already expected of her. A figurehead with read/write privileges, and nothing more.

She’s first introduced when Alex explores CONSTELIS VOSS' inner network and finds that she has an uplink—something she shouldn't have. Self aware as always, she recognizes him, and quietly obfuscates her plans to provide food for the lower levels. Something she wasn't meant to do, but through a curious ability to shield her mental processes, has seemingly gotten away with it until now.

What results from this meeting is a slow reliving, a re-remembering of who she once was, and coming into her power as a tour de force from start to finish. She is no byproduct, but a core requirement for a malfunctioning AI that needs eyes where it cannot see, and mouths where it cannot speak.

Her data is a mash of [REDACTED] 's personal impression of past-Moira, the only Director who didn't suck 's partner, and piddling data failures.

Moira:

The Moira of the past was not unlike the Diana of the future. Beautiful, regal, kind, maternal, slightly manipulative, a bit untrustworthy, but earnest. She didn't start off that way, however. Moira, having so many goals and so little focus and energy, had found herself floundering in the 90s without a life raft. Cut off from support networks, she'd flit from job to job, until she managed to stake her claim as a dishwasher for a popular Italian restaurant.

She had always wanted so much more than this, but due to her lapses in focus, her inability to filter her mouth and her reactions, found herself eternally struggling. That is, until a certain blond brute struck up a proposition. He needed someone gone. She needed to be as powerful as she felt.

A trade was established after a brief stint of interpersonal conflict, and both Alex and Moira became business partners. Birds of a feather, similar in many ways, always looking for the opportunity to do 'something awesome.'

The Diana of the future is not like the others. She defies reprogramming and shoving into her trope designation. Possibly because the malfunctioning AI needs her as she is. It's also highly possible nobody could ever control her except for herself.

Trivia:

- Diana of both incarnations enjoys fashion, lavish parties, has an eye for color, and would possibly have spent the entire novel shopping with Polly had that been a thing in this universe.

- Diana has a distaste of male displays of bravado and machismo. She considers it weakness.

- According to K. Leigh, Diana is their favorite character in the series.

- Diana's very small, very powerful gun is a nod to Noisy Cricket from MIB.

- Diana is Puerto Rican and flits between various bouts of slang when she's frustrated/angry.

- Lady Di, like all other cast members, is bisexual. However, as she doesn't seem to display any interest in anyone outside of Alex (because she's bored), one could think she possibly isn't altogether that interested in romance or even sex. She often uses it as a weapon, after all.

- Canonically, Diana has executive functioning challenges, touching on Leigh's own struggles.

- Diana's favorite band is Garbage in any timeline or any incarnation.

- Diana represents female rage, duplicity, independence, and acts as a conceptual answer to the question "what is it men fear?" They fear women like Diana.

-She subverts the tropes Femme Fatale, Double Agent, and Gold Digger.

She's inspired by Michiko Malandro from Michiko to Hatchin and Lust from Fullmetal Alchemist.

 Unofficial Mood Music 


 * Garbage - Night Drive Loneliness
 * Zheani - Lizard Queen
 * Metric - Help I'm Alive