Diana Cavendish

Diana Cavendish is one of the main characters from the Little Witch Academia series.
== Charactah Account ==
The top student of Luna Nova who is greatly admired by her classmates and teachers alike. Hailing from Great Britain as daughter of a noble family of witches, she has a serious and arrogant nature and oftentimes clashes with Akko, whom she holds in disdain for her admiration of Shiny Chariot. She is also responsible for a few of the magical disasters that occur at the school, and usually works alongside Akko to correct them, developing a grudging respect for her persistence.
Diana was born from a 1,500-year-old family of witches that both have a large influence in the magical world and access to knowledge even the faculty of Luna Nova does not know. Due to her origins, she was born with "talent in her veins". While this remained true in the anime series, she was unable to perform magic during her childhood as the result of Chariot's use of Dream Fuel Spirit which in turn, part of Croix's decade of Noir Fuel Spirit plan. Even so, through her extreme dedication to magic from her early childhood, she becomes the most skillful witch in her class, and according to some, in modern times.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Little Witch Academia
* Little Witch Academia (TV)
* Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade
=== Light Novels ===
* Little Witch Academia: The Nonsensical Witch and the Country of Fairies
=== Manga ===
* Little Witch Academia (Shounen Ace)
* Little Witch Academia (Ultra Jump)
* Little Witch Academia: Crown of Midnight
=== Video Games ===
* Little Witch Academia: Chamber of Time
* Little Witch Academia: VR Broom Racing
== Trivia ==
* Despite being British, in the English dub, she lacks an actual British accent, having more of a mixed accent instead. This is because her voice actress, Laura Post, is not of British descent.
** Laura Post also voices Ragyou Kiryuuin from Kill la Kill, another Trigger production. Similarly, Akko and Lotte's English voice actress, Erica Mendez and Stephanie Sheh, also voices Ryuuko Matoi and Nui Harime respectively in the same series.
* Diana's birthday of April 30th coincides with the Germanic festival of Walpurgisnacht, or Walpurgis Night, which celebrates the start of summer. In German folklore, it was when the German Christians prayed to God through Saint Walpurgia to protect them from witchcraft.
* Diana's personality in first and second short films contrasted to what later established in anime, as she shown more snobbish and arrogant. In fact, she called Akko names and belittled her for being Chariot's fan and even made fun of her alongside Hannah and Barbara while in the series she was more reserved and merely criticized Akko from a genuine point of view. Though not confirmed, said change is likely done to so she and Akko can gradually become close friends, making the character' anime iteration much more likable.
** On a related note, during the short film's development, Diana was originally intended to be a downright bully as bad as, if not worse than Hannah and Barbara and therefore and not a top student as in final versions.
** Ironically, Yoshinari regretted toning down unpleasant and immature aspects in Diana's character for her TV Series iteration and wished he made them more prominent than they were. Moreover, he also wanted her and Akko quarrel more prior of becoming friends as all of it made her too perfect than intended.
*** This could be attributed to her portrayal in Keisuke Satō manga adaptation of the series and The Nonsensical Witch and the Country of Fairies where she is shown more antagonistic towards Akko albeit not to the same extent as with in short films.
* According to Yōko Hikasa during Studio TRIGGER's promotional livestream of Chamber of Time when inquired about Diana's future after Luna Nova, she proposes that Diana would embrace her childhood dream and then combine it with her current dream and become a traveling performer dedicated to sharing her family's magic around the world.
* Two short comics revolving drawn by Shiori Miyazaki which she originally posted at her Twitter account before it was no longer online (one about Diana mildly envious by improvement on Barbara and Lotte's friendship, and another revolving the heiress preparing cakes for everyone prior to Akko's first flight) impressed Yoshihiro Miyajima that he decided to make them canon to the anime TV series in his Twitter post in 28 June, 2017.
* In November 12, 2020, Yusuke Yoshigaki posted an image depicting Diana in her iteration of Shiny Chariot costume in his Twitter account which, unlike Akko's that featured in Enchanted Parade movie, sports elements found in typical phantom thieves, most notably the red domino mask.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Diana Cavendish at Little Witch Academia Wiki
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