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Character Name: Diana Ladris Series: Gone Timeline: Taken in the blazing aftermath of Caine and Gaia's final battle. Canon Resource Links: Gone is a long series of books, I'll be focusing only on Diana for this background section so for a brief overview of the plot and main events, here is the wiki which breaks down the individual books rather well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_(novel_series)
Diana is the beautiful daughter of a businessman which indicates that she was somewhat spoilt in her early life but also very smart, smart enough to know how to use her brains and charms to acquire the things she wants and needs.
At the age of 10 Diana discovered that her father had a mistress, because she was angry at him for refusing to buy her a horse, she told her mother about the mistress resulting in huge arguments between Diana’s parents and threats of divorce. However, before the divorce could be carried out Diana’s mother slipped and fell down a long flight of stairs, although she survived Diana has commented that ‘she can’t really do anything anymore’, being confined to her room and needing a full-time nurse. At the investigation into her mothers accident, Diana told the police she had seen her father push her mother down the stairs, he was subsequently arrested. The story was all over the news and led to major problems within his business. When they figured out she was lying, her father sent her to Coates Academy, a school for difficult children.
Diana has admitted that this is only part of the story, although she has never divulged more, implying she may have had more to do with her mothers fall than she lets on or has simply done more equally bad things in the past.
Diana has also mentioned that her mother has had many boyfriends which would contradict this story, implying that she either lied about it, or, more likely that it did indeed happen (resulting in her enrollment in Coates) but perhaps her mother was not as seriously injured as she implied or recovered and did eventually end up splitting from Diana’s father. Diana may simply lie about her mother being in an incapacitated condition to evoke sympathy from others.
At Coates, Diana met Caine. She used his infatuation with her to her advantage, allowing herself to be on the arm of the most charismatic person on the school. And so, as the FAYZ incident began, the two were already accomplices and later, to Diana's displeasure, the school bully Drake, joined their group, creating the power trio to run the school. Diana was the first person Caine told about his power of telekinesis and Diana eventually developed her own power, the ability to read the power of others.
Diana is introduced to the rest of Perdido Beach when she attends a meeting held by Caine in the church. She reads Sam’s power on the way in, but because he is a four bar, she lies and tells Caine she did not get the chance. She is the first to realize that Sam and Caine are twins when she reads Nurse Temple’s laptop and she convinces Caine of this. Under Caine's orders, Diana helps kidnap Sam, Astrid and Little Pete. She reads Astrid’s power, two bars, and goes to the gym to help Caine interrogate Sam. She tells Sam that Drake will hurt Astrid if he doesn’t answer all their questions. After Astrid and Little Pete escape, Diana confesses that she neglected to read Little Pete’s power as she assumed that he would not have one because he is five years old and autistic.
Later on, Diana reads Jack’s power while he is sleeping. He is now a three bar, although she once read him as a zero. She wakes him up and threatens to tell Caine he is disloyal unless he promises to do whatever she wants. Shortly after, Diana goes back to Coates along with Caine, Drake and Jack. There, they film Andrew as he poofs on his fifteenth birthday. The poof being the process in which anyone over the age of fifteen disappears from the FAYZ. Jack manages to get a shot of a monster tempting Andrew and they figure out a possible way to beat the poof. Sam and some of the other Perdido Beach kids are captured by Drake and plastered, a term which refers to their hands being encased in cement, but Little Pete makes the blocks of cement vanish. Sam uses his power to burn Drake’s arm off and Caine and Diana run for fear that the formerly plastered freaks will try to attack them. In an attempt to save Drake from infection, Diana is the only one who is willing to saw off his arm. Drake eventually got this turned into a long whip arm with the help of Lana, a healer, and the Gaiaphage.
We next see Diana waking Jack up in the middle of the night. She reminds him of his promise and instructs him to go to Perdido Beach and tell Sam how to beat the poof, as she's worried about being stuck in the FAYZ with Drake if Sam isn't there to fend him off, while she remains behind at Coates. She attempts unsuccessfully to convince Caine not to attack Perdido Beach and on their way into town, Caine finds the talking coyotes and promises to let them kill and eat the kids in Perdido Beach if they will fight for him. When Sam seems to have died, Diana tells Caine to call off the coyotes but Caine refuses and Diana gets angry telling him that she thinks his real mother abandoned him because she knew he was evil. Sam turns out not to be dead and he and Caine face off. Diana realizes that Sam still doesn’t know how to beat the poof and she starts to tell him but is cut off when he turns fifteen. Both Sam and Caine survive and Sam wins the battle. He tells Caine to leave town so he doesn’t have to kill him. Astrid offers Diana a chance to live in Perdido Beach but Diana refuses, saying that “the bad girl always ends up with the bad boy” and walks away with Caine.
At the start of Hunger, Coates is running low on food. Diana is taking care of Caine, who has been driven insane by the Gaiaphage. He regains a little of his sanity and tells her he has a plan to get food and she warns him against doing anything dangerous like attempting to fight Sam again. Meanwhile, Drake finds a girl called Orsay at the Stefano Rey National Park and he takes her back to Coates, saying he wants to kill and eat her. Diana is disgusted by this and convinces Caine that they can use her as a spy because Orsay has the ability to see peoples’ dreams. Caine agrees and they send her to Perdido Beach to see what Sam is dreaming about. When she returns, she has seen Little Pete’s dreams and is in awe of them. When Caine asks about Sam’s dreams, she says that they are simple and he is dreaming of food. Caine decides that this means he is not worried about what they are doing and will not have anyone guarding the power plant.
Drake talks to Caine in private about his suspicions that Diana is disloyal. Caine does not want to believe it but he decides to test Diana. He orders her to persuade Jack, who is now in Perdido Beach, to come back to their side. Diana shaves her head and dresses like a boy to sneak into Perdido Beach and talk to Jack. Diana visits the McClub, a McDonalds made into a late night hangout spot, where she finds Jack talking to Brianna, another ex-Coates kid with powers. Jack recognizes her and leaves the club but Diana follows him and tempts him, first by flirting with him, then by offering the “ultimate technological challenge”. Eventually, she succeeds in persuading him and they go back to Coates.
Caine reveals his plan to turn out the lights in Perdido Beach. They arrive at the power plant and Caine allows Drake to nearly kill the guard, a ten-year-old boy named Josh. Drake also kills a girl named Brittany, she does not actually die, but her heart has stopped. They capture the two other guards to use as hostages. Sam arrives and tries to reason with Caine. He reminds the Coates kids that they don’t have any food with them and have no way of getting any. He says that he would rather not fight, and if they leave now, he will let them go back to Coates. Diana urges Caine to take Sam’s deal, but she realizes that food wasn’t the reason they came, he was manipulated by the Gaiaphage to get radiation for it to eat. Diana becomes worried and tries to reason with him, but he doesn’t listen. They steal uranium from the power plant and escape, while Caine tells Drake to stay behind and kill Sam.
On the way to the mine, Drake catches up with them. Diana at first thinks he is Sam and she is relieved that Caine will be stopped but worried that Sam will kill him. Once she realizes it's Drake, she teases him for coming back once again from a fight with Sam with part of his arm missing. At the mine, Drake decides to challenge Caine and he ends up using his whip hand to severely injure Diana, throwing her head first against rock and putting her hear death. This triggers a protective frenzy from Caine who impaled Drake and is not calmed until Diana is healed by Lana. At the end of the book, Caine and Diana run away together and Drake is presumed dead.
In Lies, Caine and Diana have once again returned to Coates Academy. Conditions at Coates are very bad, the remaining kids are literally starving to death. One kid, named Panda, commits suicide by driving a car off a cliff. Caine lifts up his body using telekinesis and the kids end up resorting to cannibalism to stay alive, something Diana finds repulsive but still takes part in. Shortly afterwards she implies to Caine that she wants him to kill her, because she hates herself, but Caine refuses. Caine is the only one who is really taking care of her and he states she is one of the only two things he has in the world: Diana and the idea of the island that Bug told him about. Diana finds this hard to believe but shows no true attempt to stop Caine from leaving. Shortly after, Caine and Diana make plans to go to San Francisco De Sales, the island that Bug, a child who can camouflage, read about that belongs to two actors. Caine makes a deal with the Human Crew, who are a bunch of kids without powers who despise and blame their problems on kids with powers, convincing them to start a fire as a distraction while the remaining 16 Coates kids sneak through town to the Marina. The Human Crew double-crosses them and attacks and Hank, one of the Human Crew, shoots a hole in an inflatable boat that they had stolen. Caine kills Hank and he, Diana, Penny, Bug, Tyrell, Paint and Jasmine escape on a second boat. Before long, Jasmine becomes suicidal and jumps off the side of the boat.
During their journey to the island, Diana contemplates her relationship with Caine. In her thoughts, she admits to being in love with him though she seems to think that the two of them are only in love with each other by process of elimination, because nobody else would want them. She compares the concept to flies and worms finding mates among their own kind. She also seriously considers suicide but admits that even now, she would still choose to live.
When they arrive at San Francisco De Sales Island, Caine levitates Bug, Penny, and then Diana and throws them toward the island. He then follows, leaving Paint and Tyrell stranded on the boat, Diana decides that he left them because they have no powers or useful skills. Caine, Diana, Penny, and Bug find a small group of sheep and Caine kills one with his powers, causing them all to try to eat it raw in a frenzy, but they can't get past its fleece to the meat. Two children find them, they are wrapped in bandages and disguised as lepers. They claim that this is the San Francisco De Sales leper colony, run by two celebrities for charity, and invite the Coates kids to come back to the hospital with them. Diana notices that one kid seems hesitant about this and sees that the two boys look healthy. She tells Caine to tell them to take off their bandages, which he forces them to do. It turns out that they are not lepers, they are adopted children of celebrities. They take the Coates kids back to the mansion, where Diana reads their power. Sanjit is a zero, and Virtue is a one bar. Caine demands food, and they give the Coates kids drugged food that causes them to pass out. They then tie them up, except for Diana, and prepare to vacate the island.
Diana wakes up and sees that the other three Coates kids are tied up and she pretends that she was too. Diana walks out without untieing her companions and sees Sanjit and Virtue, along with three younger children, preparing to board a helicopter. She goes back to the room where the other three are and finds that they are no longer tied up. Penny has woken Bug up using her powers, the ability to see illusions so realistic they believe it with every part of their being, pain and all. Diana picks up a vase and tries to knock Penny out with it. She decides to try to kill Caine while he is asleep even though she is in love with him, to save the lives of the island kids. She is about to smash the vase down on his head when Penny stops her. Penny reveals that she also has feelings for Caine and then wakes him up using her powers.
Diana follows Caine to the cliff, where he prepares to smash the helicopter and kill the kids inside. She tries to convince him not to do it, but he won't listen. They have an argument in which he accuses her of hating him. She tells him that she loves him. This is the first time she has said it out loud. Penny shouts abuse at them both so Caine also makes Penny hover above the spinning rotor blades. He says that if Diana loves him, then she must love the things that he does. She realizes that he is still planning to crash the helicopter and lists all the things that she has done to stay with him that she would never have done otherwise and tells him that she will not stay with him anymore if this is the sort of thing he is going to do. She steps backward a little too far and falls off the cliff. At first Diana struggles, but then she accepts the coming death and drops freely. Caine releases the helicopter and Penny in time to catch her, resulting in Penny having mutilated legs. At the end of Lies, Caine, Diana, Penny, and Bug are stranded on San Francisco De Sales Island.
Diana Ladris | Gone Part 1
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Character
Name: Diana Ladris
Series: Gone
Timeline: Taken in the blazing aftermath of Caine and Gaia's final battle.
Canon Resource Links: Gone is a long series of books, I'll be focusing only on Diana for this background section so for a brief overview of the plot and main events, here is the wiki which breaks down the individual books rather well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_(novel_series)
Diana is the beautiful daughter of a businessman which indicates that she was somewhat spoilt in her early life but also very smart, smart enough to know how to use her brains and charms to acquire the things she wants and needs.
At the age of 10 Diana discovered that her father had a mistress, because she was angry at him for refusing to buy her a horse, she told her mother about the mistress resulting in huge arguments between Diana’s parents and threats of divorce. However, before the divorce could be carried out Diana’s mother slipped and fell down a long flight of stairs, although she survived Diana has commented that ‘she can’t really do anything anymore’, being confined to her room and needing a full-time nurse. At the investigation into her mothers accident, Diana told the police she had seen her father push her mother down the stairs, he was subsequently arrested. The story was all over the news and led to major problems within his business. When they figured out she was lying, her father sent her to Coates Academy, a school for difficult children.
Diana has admitted that this is only part of the story, although she has never divulged more, implying she may have had more to do with her mothers fall than she lets on or has simply done more equally bad things in the past.
Diana has also mentioned that her mother has had many boyfriends which would contradict this story, implying that she either lied about it, or, more likely that it did indeed happen (resulting in her enrollment in Coates) but perhaps her mother was not as seriously injured as she implied or recovered and did eventually end up splitting from Diana’s father. Diana may simply lie about her mother being in an incapacitated condition to evoke sympathy from others.
At Coates, Diana met Caine. She used his infatuation with her to her advantage, allowing herself to be on the arm of the most charismatic person on the school. And so, as the FAYZ incident began, the two were already accomplices and later, to Diana's displeasure, the school bully Drake, joined their group, creating the power trio to run the school. Diana was the first person Caine told about his power of telekinesis and Diana eventually developed her own power, the ability to read the power of others.
Diana is introduced to the rest of Perdido Beach when she attends a meeting held by Caine in the church. She reads Sam’s power on the way in, but because he is a four bar, she lies and tells Caine she did not get the chance. She is the first to realize that Sam and Caine are twins when she reads Nurse Temple’s laptop and she convinces Caine of this. Under Caine's orders, Diana helps kidnap Sam, Astrid and Little Pete. She reads Astrid’s power, two bars, and goes to the gym to help Caine interrogate Sam. She tells Sam that Drake will hurt Astrid if he doesn’t answer all their questions. After Astrid and Little Pete escape, Diana confesses that she neglected to read Little Pete’s power as she assumed that he would not have one because he is five years old and autistic.
Later on, Diana reads Jack’s power while he is sleeping. He is now a three bar, although she once read him as a zero. She wakes him up and threatens to tell Caine he is disloyal unless he promises to do whatever she wants. Shortly after, Diana goes back to Coates along with Caine, Drake and Jack. There, they film Andrew as he poofs on his fifteenth birthday. The poof being the process in which anyone over the age of fifteen disappears from the FAYZ. Jack manages to get a shot of a monster tempting Andrew and they figure out a possible way to beat the poof. Sam and some of the other Perdido Beach kids are captured by Drake and plastered, a term which refers to their hands being encased in cement, but Little Pete makes the blocks of cement vanish. Sam uses his power to burn Drake’s arm off and Caine and Diana run for fear that the formerly plastered freaks will try to attack them. In an attempt to save Drake from infection, Diana is the only one who is willing to saw off his arm. Drake eventually got this turned into a long whip arm with the help of Lana, a healer, and the Gaiaphage.
We next see Diana waking Jack up in the middle of the night. She reminds him of his promise and instructs him to go to Perdido Beach and tell Sam how to beat the poof, as she's worried about being stuck in the FAYZ with Drake if Sam isn't there to fend him off, while she remains behind at Coates. She attempts unsuccessfully to convince Caine not to attack Perdido Beach and on their way into town, Caine finds the talking coyotes and promises to let them kill and eat the kids in Perdido Beach if they will fight for him. When Sam seems to have died, Diana tells Caine to call off the coyotes but Caine refuses and Diana gets angry telling him that she thinks his real mother abandoned him because she knew he was evil. Sam turns out not to be dead and he and Caine face off. Diana realizes that Sam still doesn’t know how to beat the poof and she starts to tell him but is cut off when he turns fifteen. Both Sam and Caine survive and Sam wins the battle. He tells Caine to leave town so he doesn’t have to kill him. Astrid offers Diana a chance to live in Perdido Beach but Diana refuses, saying that “the bad girl always ends up with the bad boy” and walks away with Caine.
At the start of Hunger, Coates is running low on food. Diana is taking care of Caine, who has been driven insane by the Gaiaphage. He regains a little of his sanity and tells her he has a plan to get food and she warns him against doing anything dangerous like attempting to fight Sam again. Meanwhile, Drake finds a girl called Orsay at the Stefano Rey National Park and he takes her back to Coates, saying he wants to kill and eat her. Diana is disgusted by this and convinces Caine that they can use her as a spy because Orsay has the ability to see peoples’ dreams. Caine agrees and they send her to Perdido Beach to see what Sam is dreaming about. When she returns, she has seen Little Pete’s dreams and is in awe of them. When Caine asks about Sam’s dreams, she says that they are simple and he is dreaming of food. Caine decides that this means he is not worried about what they are doing and will not have anyone guarding the power plant.
Drake talks to Caine in private about his suspicions that Diana is disloyal. Caine does not want to believe it but he decides to test Diana. He orders her to persuade Jack, who is now in Perdido Beach, to come back to their side. Diana shaves her head and dresses like a boy to sneak into Perdido Beach and talk to Jack. Diana visits the McClub, a McDonalds made into a late night hangout spot, where she finds Jack talking to Brianna, another ex-Coates kid with powers. Jack recognizes her and leaves the club but Diana follows him and tempts him, first by flirting with him, then by offering the “ultimate technological challenge”. Eventually, she succeeds in persuading him and they go back to Coates.
Caine reveals his plan to turn out the lights in Perdido Beach. They arrive at the power plant and Caine allows Drake to nearly kill the guard, a ten-year-old boy named Josh. Drake also kills a girl named Brittany, she does not actually die, but her heart has stopped. They capture the two other guards to use as hostages. Sam arrives and tries to reason with Caine. He reminds the Coates kids that they don’t have any food with them and have no way of getting any. He says that he would rather not fight, and if they leave now, he will let them go back to Coates. Diana urges Caine to take Sam’s deal, but she realizes that food wasn’t the reason they came, he was manipulated by the Gaiaphage to get radiation for it to eat. Diana becomes worried and tries to reason with him, but he doesn’t listen. They steal uranium from the power plant and escape, while Caine tells Drake to stay behind and kill Sam.
On the way to the mine, Drake catches up with them. Diana at first thinks he is Sam and she is relieved that Caine will be stopped but worried that Sam will kill him. Once she realizes it's Drake, she teases him for coming back once again from a fight with Sam with part of his arm missing. At the mine, Drake decides to challenge Caine and he ends up using his whip hand to severely injure Diana, throwing her head first against rock and putting her hear death. This triggers a protective frenzy from Caine who impaled Drake and is not calmed until Diana is healed by Lana. At the end of the book, Caine and Diana run away together and Drake is presumed dead.
In Lies, Caine and Diana have once again returned to Coates Academy. Conditions at Coates are very bad, the remaining kids are literally starving to death. One kid, named Panda, commits suicide by driving a car off a cliff. Caine lifts up his body using telekinesis and the kids end up resorting to cannibalism to stay alive, something Diana finds repulsive but still takes part in. Shortly afterwards she implies to Caine that she wants him to kill her, because she hates herself, but Caine refuses. Caine is the only one who is really taking care of her and he states she is one of the only two things he has in the world: Diana and the idea of the island that Bug told him about. Diana finds this hard to believe but shows no true attempt to stop Caine from leaving. Shortly after, Caine and Diana make plans to go to San Francisco De Sales, the island that Bug, a child who can camouflage, read about that belongs to two actors. Caine makes a deal with the Human Crew, who are a bunch of kids without powers who despise and blame their problems on kids with powers, convincing them to start a fire as a distraction while the remaining 16 Coates kids sneak through town to the Marina. The Human Crew double-crosses them and attacks and Hank, one of the Human Crew, shoots a hole in an inflatable boat that they had stolen. Caine kills Hank and he, Diana, Penny, Bug, Tyrell, Paint and Jasmine escape on a second boat. Before long, Jasmine becomes suicidal and jumps off the side of the boat.
During their journey to the island, Diana contemplates her relationship with Caine. In her thoughts, she admits to being in love with him though she seems to think that the two of them are only in love with each other by process of elimination, because nobody else would want them. She compares the concept to flies and worms finding mates among their own kind. She also seriously considers suicide but admits that even now, she would still choose to live.
When they arrive at San Francisco De Sales Island, Caine levitates Bug, Penny, and then Diana and throws them toward the island. He then follows, leaving Paint and Tyrell stranded on the boat, Diana decides that he left them because they have no powers or useful skills. Caine, Diana, Penny, and Bug find a small group of sheep and Caine kills one with his powers, causing them all to try to eat it raw in a frenzy, but they can't get past its fleece to the meat. Two children find them, they are wrapped in bandages and disguised as lepers. They claim that this is the San Francisco De Sales leper colony, run by two celebrities for charity, and invite the Coates kids to come back to the hospital with them. Diana notices that one kid seems hesitant about this and sees that the two boys look healthy. She tells Caine to tell them to take off their bandages, which he forces them to do. It turns out that they are not lepers, they are adopted children of celebrities. They take the Coates kids back to the mansion, where Diana reads their power. Sanjit is a zero, and Virtue is a one bar. Caine demands food, and they give the Coates kids drugged food that causes them to pass out. They then tie them up, except for Diana, and prepare to vacate the island.
Diana wakes up and sees that the other three Coates kids are tied up and she pretends that she was too. Diana walks out without untieing her companions and sees Sanjit and Virtue, along with three younger children, preparing to board a helicopter. She goes back to the room where the other three are and finds that they are no longer tied up. Penny has woken Bug up using her powers, the ability to see illusions so realistic they believe it with every part of their being, pain and all. Diana picks up a vase and tries to knock Penny out with it. She decides to try to kill Caine while he is asleep even though she is in love with him, to save the lives of the island kids. She is about to smash the vase down on his head when Penny stops her. Penny reveals that she also has feelings for Caine and then wakes him up using her powers.
Diana follows Caine to the cliff, where he prepares to smash the helicopter and kill the kids inside. She tries to convince him not to do it, but he won't listen. They have an argument in which he accuses her of hating him. She tells him that she loves him. This is the first time she has said it out loud. Penny shouts abuse at them both so Caine also makes Penny hover above the spinning rotor blades. He says that if Diana loves him, then she must love the things that he does. She realizes that he is still planning to crash the helicopter and lists all the things that she has done to stay with him that she would never have done otherwise and tells him that she will not stay with him anymore if this is the sort of thing he is going to do. She steps backward a little too far and falls off the cliff. At first Diana struggles, but then she accepts the coming death and drops freely. Caine releases the helicopter and Penny in time to catch her, resulting in Penny having mutilated legs. At the end of Lies, Caine, Diana, Penny, and Bug are stranded on San Francisco De Sales Island.