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Diva
Name: Diva
"Real" Name: Danielle Frenier
Gender: Female
Room Number: F29
Age: 174, but appears 16
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue (ranges from a dark navy to an inhumanly intense blue)
Height: Approximately 5'4"
Other Characteristics: When she feeds or enters into a battle, her eyes light up. And no, that's not a metaphor.
Backstory
1833: Two human-like baby girls were removed from the creature SAYA's mummified corpse. The first baby, named Saya, was raised as Joel Goldschmidt's daughter and observed throughout her life. The second was locked away and studied as a new species, never having contact with anyone beyond Joel's assistant, Amshel Goldsmith. At around sixteen years of age, both specimens stop aging.
1863: As experimentation on their reproductive abilities and blood properties continues, Saya begins to hear someone singing, something only she appears able to hear. After that, Saya begins to search for the owner of the disembodied voice, day after day, until finally she stumbles across a tower on the edge of the estate. Saya doesn't realize that the "song" has been a latent form of telepathy between the sisters, and sees nothing odd with carrying on a telepathic conversation from outside the tower.
Their first words to each other are, "Who are you?"
Upon learning the girl in the tower has no name, Saya then dubs her 'Diva', for the fact she's like a princess with a fair voice.
1883: As Joel's 72nd birthday approaches, Saya decides to let Diva out so she can sing at Joel's party. She unlocks the tower door but doesn't stick around to witness the results--her "bridegroom", Haji, calls for her and she runs off to pick flowers. By the time she returns, the mansion is in flames, the guests are all dead, and Diva is drinking Joel dry. From that point onward, Saya swears vengeance on Diva, and Joel's descendants then form the Red Shield, the organization intent on Diva's destruction.
Around this time, Amshel becomes Diva's first Chevalier, and soon after the two girls begin their sleep cycles (assumedly) in different years. Diva is taken to Russia, where Gregori Rasputin becomes her second Chevalier. Sometime during this period, Diva creates a third Chevalier, Martin Bormann, though the time of his creation is never given and he is killed by Solomon before the events of the series. At the end of WWI, in 1918, Saya kills Rasputin at the same time Diva creates her fourth Chevalier, Solomon Goldsmith. Waking from her second hibernation period during the second world war, Diva creates two more Chevaliers at the behest of Amshel. The fifth, Carl, is a Vietnamese boy turned Chevalier against his will, chosen to be part of a Delta Project experiment, where his body underwent extreme experimentation and modification to test the limits of a Chevalier. Seeking Diva's sole love, and unable to attain it as Diva is incapable of such emotion, Carl develops a strong obsession over Saya. The second Chevalier created during this time, James Ironside, instead has his attention firmly rooted on Diva, going so far as to carry a picture of her with him at all times and calling her "Mama."
For his part, Amshel sees Diva only as a precious specimen. He calls her his "treasure", the proof of his existence, and calls it a supreme love to want to know everything about Diva from a scientific standpoint, as to why she exists, how she was created, and what her potential is. So long as a person has ingested a serum called "Delta67", derived from Diva's blood and shipped in wine and in food, it is discovered that her singing can trigger the transformation from human to Chiropteran, increasing the natural rate (one in every 300, 000 people) to nearly 100% (one in every 30 people). As such, Diva's presence is compared to Jung's theory of synchronicity: basically, things happening together as meaningful coincidence. Diva is even capable of shapeshifting, manipulating her appearance (to the exception of hair color, eye color, and skin tone) and voice to match someone else's, exhibited when she later adopts the face of a young boy, Riku. Under the guise of "everything is for Diva," Amshel even experiments with Diva's breeding capability, having her sleep with both humans and her own Chevaliers (as "momma's favorite", this is assumed to be Solomon), so as to give birth to more test subjects. Nothing seems to work. Despite once being human, Amshel wants to see the world overrun by the Chiroptera--Diva is taught about the world and her place in it by this man, who she once calls "father."
The seventh and final Chevalier, Nathan Mahler, is given no background information or history and it is unknown when he was created--it's implied that Nathan was the Chevalier for a previous queen, possibly Diva and Saya's mother. His reasons for siding with Diva are unknown, but he's the only one to berate Amshel for using Diva the way he is, and points out that no one, not even Amshel, understands Diva as a person.
During the events of the Vietnam War, Saya (during a sleep cycle of her own) was forcibly awakened with an injection of Haji's blood (by then her Chevalier), causing her to have an unnatural reaction. Going berserk and under the influence of Diva's singing, Saya proceeded to kill everything in sight before falling asleep at the end of the fighting. When Saya wakes up in 2004, she has amnesia, and isn't contacted by Red Shield until 2005 when Diva's Chevaliers are seen on the move with Diva's cocoon. Living with an adopted family, Saya has two brothers: Kai, seventeen, and Riku, thirteen. When Saya is lured back to the Zoo in Bordeaux to "learn" more of her past through Diva's Chevaliers, Red Shield and her brothers come along.
Riku, hearing Diva singing from the top of her old tower, mistakes her for Saya and is nearly drained of all his blood. Saya walks in on it, and this is the first time Diva meets Saya face to face. In the ensuing battle, Diva comes out the clear winner but instead chooses to leave on Solomon's arm rather than stay and continue to fight. As Amshel, Solomon, James, and Nathan make plans to launch an organized attack on Red Shield headquarters (a giant warship, where Riku is taken to recuperate), Diva decides she wants Riku above all else.
She wakes up in Landel's before she can launch her own attack on Red Shield HQ with Carl in tow.
Personality
As the sixth descendant of the original Joel points outs: "Locked inside a gloomy tower and given only minimal sustenance, she did not receive any education, love, or human contact." All she knew of for fifty years were the birds, the spiders, and Amshel. Amshel makes it clear that he resents Saya for ever giving Diva the chance to gain her own feet and search for her own identity, as this gives her the potential for free thought--however, there is nothing to be done, as Diva's superiority is second to none, and so she was placed on a pedestal by her Chevaliers and kept secluded from human life.
No doubt a by-product of such child-rearing, Diva's most reputable characteristics include being naive, selfish, and extremely childish. Probably the biggest consequence of how Diva was raised is her all-encompassing ignorance when it comes to the moral ramifications of her actions. She doesn't understand why killing is considered bad because she's never been told "no," never been given a reason to stop, and has never had to consider her actions--exactly like a spoiled princess, she will change plans at the slightest whim, throw temper tantrums, and step on other people's toes without care. Diva is not tentative when it comes to physical violence, and certainly understands it more than physical intimacy. It comes to the point where harming her own Chevaliers means little, as she is privileged to do what she wants, and they'll allow it.
This pretty much ensures that she has no understanding of how normal people relate to one another, how they have meaningful relationships, how they feel, and why they feel it. What love she's known has been extremely perverted and twisted into something unnatural--none of her Chevaliers loved her as a person, only as a Queen, and she is later even betrayed by Solomon, her favorite, after he claims to have fallen in love with Saya and tries to kill her. Fanatical idolization only ensures that Diva is too alienated from a normal, healthy existence to understand anything about humans, nor allow them to understand anything about her, and she says as much to Saya.
In perhaps the most revealing words of all, Diva once says, "Sister, you aren't being fair. You were the only one to be treated like a human, the only one to have happiness, the only one to enjoy life. You're really selfish. It was you who set me free from that tower."
All in all, Diva's existence is quite tragic, and it's reflected in her personality.
At Landel's
Diva retains a small portion of her monstrous strength, at the most having the physical power of an adult male, and capable of a few short bursts of extreme speed. Although it has more to do with her mindset than actual body, she can take more damage than she can dish out--she typically doesn't acknowledge pain despite being able to feel it. Whether being punched, stabbed, or shot, her body will give out long before she calls a retreat. As a Chiropteran, feeding will somewhat boost her healing capacities.
The potency of her blood, too, retains some of its effect. Depending on the wishes of the player involved, Diva will temporarily be able to create pseudo-Chevaliers in her name. Basically, by ingesting her blood, it would be like a hit of steroids which increases physical abilities slightly, and returns some of a character's power.
With all good things, there's a catch. Just as in canon, this would create somewhat of an instinctual bond between the two. Creating an urge to protect Diva might not be worth the boon.
"Real" Name: Danielle Frenier
Gender: Female
Room Number: F29
Age: 174, but appears 16
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Blue (ranges from a dark navy to an inhumanly intense blue)
Height: Approximately 5'4"
Other Characteristics: When she feeds or enters into a battle, her eyes light up. And no, that's not a metaphor.
Backstory
1833: Two human-like baby girls were removed from the creature SAYA's mummified corpse. The first baby, named Saya, was raised as Joel Goldschmidt's daughter and observed throughout her life. The second was locked away and studied as a new species, never having contact with anyone beyond Joel's assistant, Amshel Goldsmith. At around sixteen years of age, both specimens stop aging.
1863: As experimentation on their reproductive abilities and blood properties continues, Saya begins to hear someone singing, something only she appears able to hear. After that, Saya begins to search for the owner of the disembodied voice, day after day, until finally she stumbles across a tower on the edge of the estate. Saya doesn't realize that the "song" has been a latent form of telepathy between the sisters, and sees nothing odd with carrying on a telepathic conversation from outside the tower.
Their first words to each other are, "Who are you?"
Upon learning the girl in the tower has no name, Saya then dubs her 'Diva', for the fact she's like a princess with a fair voice.
1883: As Joel's 72nd birthday approaches, Saya decides to let Diva out so she can sing at Joel's party. She unlocks the tower door but doesn't stick around to witness the results--her "bridegroom", Haji, calls for her and she runs off to pick flowers. By the time she returns, the mansion is in flames, the guests are all dead, and Diva is drinking Joel dry. From that point onward, Saya swears vengeance on Diva, and Joel's descendants then form the Red Shield, the organization intent on Diva's destruction.
Around this time, Amshel becomes Diva's first Chevalier, and soon after the two girls begin their sleep cycles (assumedly) in different years. Diva is taken to Russia, where Gregori Rasputin becomes her second Chevalier. Sometime during this period, Diva creates a third Chevalier, Martin Bormann, though the time of his creation is never given and he is killed by Solomon before the events of the series. At the end of WWI, in 1918, Saya kills Rasputin at the same time Diva creates her fourth Chevalier, Solomon Goldsmith. Waking from her second hibernation period during the second world war, Diva creates two more Chevaliers at the behest of Amshel. The fifth, Carl, is a Vietnamese boy turned Chevalier against his will, chosen to be part of a Delta Project experiment, where his body underwent extreme experimentation and modification to test the limits of a Chevalier. Seeking Diva's sole love, and unable to attain it as Diva is incapable of such emotion, Carl develops a strong obsession over Saya. The second Chevalier created during this time, James Ironside, instead has his attention firmly rooted on Diva, going so far as to carry a picture of her with him at all times and calling her "Mama."
For his part, Amshel sees Diva only as a precious specimen. He calls her his "treasure", the proof of his existence, and calls it a supreme love to want to know everything about Diva from a scientific standpoint, as to why she exists, how she was created, and what her potential is. So long as a person has ingested a serum called "Delta67", derived from Diva's blood and shipped in wine and in food, it is discovered that her singing can trigger the transformation from human to Chiropteran, increasing the natural rate (one in every 300, 000 people) to nearly 100% (one in every 30 people). As such, Diva's presence is compared to Jung's theory of synchronicity: basically, things happening together as meaningful coincidence. Diva is even capable of shapeshifting, manipulating her appearance (to the exception of hair color, eye color, and skin tone) and voice to match someone else's, exhibited when she later adopts the face of a young boy, Riku. Under the guise of "everything is for Diva," Amshel even experiments with Diva's breeding capability, having her sleep with both humans and her own Chevaliers (as "momma's favorite", this is assumed to be Solomon), so as to give birth to more test subjects. Nothing seems to work. Despite once being human, Amshel wants to see the world overrun by the Chiroptera--Diva is taught about the world and her place in it by this man, who she once calls "father."
The seventh and final Chevalier, Nathan Mahler, is given no background information or history and it is unknown when he was created--it's implied that Nathan was the Chevalier for a previous queen, possibly Diva and Saya's mother. His reasons for siding with Diva are unknown, but he's the only one to berate Amshel for using Diva the way he is, and points out that no one, not even Amshel, understands Diva as a person.
During the events of the Vietnam War, Saya (during a sleep cycle of her own) was forcibly awakened with an injection of Haji's blood (by then her Chevalier), causing her to have an unnatural reaction. Going berserk and under the influence of Diva's singing, Saya proceeded to kill everything in sight before falling asleep at the end of the fighting. When Saya wakes up in 2004, she has amnesia, and isn't contacted by Red Shield until 2005 when Diva's Chevaliers are seen on the move with Diva's cocoon. Living with an adopted family, Saya has two brothers: Kai, seventeen, and Riku, thirteen. When Saya is lured back to the Zoo in Bordeaux to "learn" more of her past through Diva's Chevaliers, Red Shield and her brothers come along.
Riku, hearing Diva singing from the top of her old tower, mistakes her for Saya and is nearly drained of all his blood. Saya walks in on it, and this is the first time Diva meets Saya face to face. In the ensuing battle, Diva comes out the clear winner but instead chooses to leave on Solomon's arm rather than stay and continue to fight. As Amshel, Solomon, James, and Nathan make plans to launch an organized attack on Red Shield headquarters (a giant warship, where Riku is taken to recuperate), Diva decides she wants Riku above all else.
She wakes up in Landel's before she can launch her own attack on Red Shield HQ with Carl in tow.
Personality
As the sixth descendant of the original Joel points outs: "Locked inside a gloomy tower and given only minimal sustenance, she did not receive any education, love, or human contact." All she knew of for fifty years were the birds, the spiders, and Amshel. Amshel makes it clear that he resents Saya for ever giving Diva the chance to gain her own feet and search for her own identity, as this gives her the potential for free thought--however, there is nothing to be done, as Diva's superiority is second to none, and so she was placed on a pedestal by her Chevaliers and kept secluded from human life.
No doubt a by-product of such child-rearing, Diva's most reputable characteristics include being naive, selfish, and extremely childish. Probably the biggest consequence of how Diva was raised is her all-encompassing ignorance when it comes to the moral ramifications of her actions. She doesn't understand why killing is considered bad because she's never been told "no," never been given a reason to stop, and has never had to consider her actions--exactly like a spoiled princess, she will change plans at the slightest whim, throw temper tantrums, and step on other people's toes without care. Diva is not tentative when it comes to physical violence, and certainly understands it more than physical intimacy. It comes to the point where harming her own Chevaliers means little, as she is privileged to do what she wants, and they'll allow it.
This pretty much ensures that she has no understanding of how normal people relate to one another, how they have meaningful relationships, how they feel, and why they feel it. What love she's known has been extremely perverted and twisted into something unnatural--none of her Chevaliers loved her as a person, only as a Queen, and she is later even betrayed by Solomon, her favorite, after he claims to have fallen in love with Saya and tries to kill her. Fanatical idolization only ensures that Diva is too alienated from a normal, healthy existence to understand anything about humans, nor allow them to understand anything about her, and she says as much to Saya.
In perhaps the most revealing words of all, Diva once says, "Sister, you aren't being fair. You were the only one to be treated like a human, the only one to have happiness, the only one to enjoy life. You're really selfish. It was you who set me free from that tower."
All in all, Diva's existence is quite tragic, and it's reflected in her personality.
At Landel'sDiva retains a small portion of her monstrous strength, at the most having the physical power of an adult male, and capable of a few short bursts of extreme speed. Although it has more to do with her mindset than actual body, she can take more damage than she can dish out--she typically doesn't acknowledge pain despite being able to feel it. Whether being punched, stabbed, or shot, her body will give out long before she calls a retreat. As a Chiropteran, feeding will somewhat boost her healing capacities.
The potency of her blood, too, retains some of its effect. Depending on the wishes of the player involved, Diva will temporarily be able to create pseudo-Chevaliers in her name. Basically, by ingesting her blood, it would be like a hit of steroids which increases physical abilities slightly, and returns some of a character's power.
With all good things, there's a catch. Just as in canon, this would create somewhat of an instinctual bond between the two. Creating an urge to protect Diva might not be worth the boon.
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