Giana

Giana is the main and titular protagonist of the Giana Sisters series. Since Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, she's able to switch between her "cute" persona and her "punk" persona.
==History==
For The Great Giana Sisters, See Giana (Retro).
In Giana Sisters DS, Giana fell asleep while admiring her treasure chest. After a magical power emerged from the treasure chest, Giana wakes up and leaps off the bed, following her diamonds into the darkness. She suddenly found herself in the Dream World, where all of her diamonds were scattered all around her. She had to travel the world to collect back her diamonds and return home with.
In Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, Giana and her sister Maria were busy in their bedroom until a diamond entered inside from the window. Both sisters broke it, which created a portal and sucked Maria in. Giana enters into the portal leading to an altered dream world and discovers her sister being swallowed by Gurglewocky in front of her. Giana had to travel again through the dream world, avoiding her twisted obstacles, beating bosses in her way, and defeating the dragon to save Maria. However, the diamond that would help the sisters return home was stolen by the Owlverlord and trapped Giana in a cage. She managed to break out with her Punk persona's Fire Dash before being chased by an army of Purple Owls .She crossed the sky and the jungle, and found the Owlverlord's secret owls and devils factory to blow the core. She succeeded in getting the diamond back after beating the Owlverlord to death, and returned home with Maria and the diamonds Giana collected in the meantime.
In Giana Sisters: Dream Runners, more specifically in the Storybook, Giana was divided into 4 clones by Doc Owl's magic spell, creating not only different entities based of her traits, but also a rare Rainbow-Colored gem. Doc Owl challenged them into a race competition; whoever catches the gem will rule Giana's real world self. Eventually, Purple Giana won, pretty much giving Giana a burning desire to win at everything once she was waking up in the real world. But she also felt disengaged.
==Appearance==
In Giana Sisters DS, Giana has short blond hair, just reaching her shoulders. She wears a blue dress with a white under-dress and wears red wristbands. She wears white and red shoes. As Punk Giana, her hair becomes red, grows in length and wears a loose pony tail. Her eyeliner becomes thicker. She wears a pink sweater with magenta sleeves and a purple skirt with a white skull. She has black and purple shoes.
In Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, Giana's skin became pale. Her dress became cyan and now she wears a blue belt. As Punk Giana, her sweater has variety of pink and purple stocking. She now wears a spiky black necklace in her wrists and brown gloves. In several artworks, she wears a sleeveless brown shirt and the end of her hair is purple.
==Personalities==
Giana is a young Italian teenager girl that can switch between her two forms. She is shown to be perky, playful and courageous. She went through the Dream World to get her diamonds back and save her sister Maria from Gurglewocky. In the Dream World, she likes to annoy owls by doing tricks with her twist ability, although she still loves them and finds them cute. She also loves collecting diamonds and tries to collect as many as possible. In the real world, she likes to spend her time by playing with her plushes, appreciating her diamond necklace and even sleeping in class. But despite these, she's weak. She can't protect herself from her abusive father, the bullies and also being humiliated by her teacher in front of her classmates. She portrays them as giant monsters in her Dream World. Her twist ability comes from her transition phase as a teenager, a stage of her life that is all about transformation. It allows her to change her world however she feels. Yet the background musics represent more her state of mind rather than the world itself.Black Forest Games Forums • View topic - Q&A Thread
Giana can transform to her Punk persona only in the Dream World, with her twist ability or the Fire Wheel power-up. As Punk Giana, she is very rebellious, mocking and abusive towards enemies, doesn't fool herself and just wants to smash things with her Fire Dash or her own head. She wishes to beat the kids that bullied her and her teacher that humiliated her in class. Even as Punk, she cares about Maria and would do anything to save her. Even though she doesn't like the owls, she can spare them sometimes but only if the owls are nice or aren't a threat to her.
In Dream Runners, Giana was divided into 4 clones with different colors of herself, with each one representing a traits. Yellow Giana represents her joyful, courageous and thirst of adventures. Green Giana represents her curiosity and sociability with her family and friends. Red Giana represents her anger and rebellious rejection of authority. Purple Giana represents her intellectual interrest, sense of justice and competitiveness.
==Abilities==
Giana has several abilities:
*Twist : Can be cute or punk, Giana can twist her dream. Sceneries change appearance, platforms moves, enemies get different behaviours, allowing her to progress and find secrets. It is the core mechanic of Twisted Dreams.
*Twirl : Only Cute Giana has that ability. She's able to glide down as well as move left and right while slowly descending. Twisting won't stop the twirl.
*Fire Dash : Only Punk Giana has that ability. She can curl up and ignites in a direction determined by the analog stick. She can also bouncing off solid blocks, defeating enemies and breaking bricks. Twisting won't stop the fire dash.
gianatwist.gif|Twist.
twirl.gif|Twirl.
firedachwallbounce.gif|Fire Dash (bouncing off solid blocks).
firedashenemydefeat.gif|Fire Dash (defeating enemies).
==Relationships==
*Maria : Giana's older sister. They care about each other a lot. In Twisted Dreams Giana travelled through a wormhole portal into a radically altered Dream World to save Maria.
*Giana's Father : Not much known about their relationship. However, he's abusive to Giana and cares a little about her.
*Giana's Teacher : Not much known about their relationship either. He humiliated Giana in front of her classmate for sleeping during lesson, but got quarreled from her dad. In the Dream Runners Storybook, he got replaced by Doc Owl, disguised as a human substitute teacher only to make the situation worse.
==Trivia==
*Giana's modern design from Giana Sisters DS was made by Alexander Pierschel who also goes by the name of "Pikomi".
*In Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, Giana and Maria are voiced by Katie Leigh, who is famous for voicing cartoon characters.
*In the limited edition of Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams, Giana have alternate costumes for said edition. However, more costumes were added for the Steam and GOG version of the game. Fortunately, pictures, renders and textures of those costumes can be found online, which took years to be revealed again. There are currently 5 pairs of additional costumes: Opposite, Fanatic, Hardcore, Puppeteers and Twisted Sisters.
**If we add Maria (with her unused Punk variant) and the Dream Runners costumes, it would make a total of 8 pairs of additional costumes, plus 1 with the default, making a grand total of 9 pairs.
*Her name doesn't pronounce "Guiana", Gaiana" or "Jaiana", but pronounce like "Jiana".Because we still get asked... Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams | Facebook
*Few fans confuse Punk Giana as Cute Giana's sister, Maria, due to her high presence being right next to her Cute persona in artworks and promotional arts.
*As Doc Owl called her "Miss Sisters" in Owlicious Revenge from the Storybook of Giana Sisters: Dream Runners, it confirms Giana and Maria's last name is Sisters, just like the series's title.
*Cute Giana loves spooky things.Project Giana by Black Forest Games - Twisted Dreams
*Punk Giana is able to play electric guitar in a concert, with Chris Hülsbeck himself.
*While the game's Project Giana Kickstarter campaign was active, voice actress Cristina Danielle Valenzuela (Cristina Vee) went to Black Forest Games' forums and offered to voice Giana for the game. While her offer was considered, voice actress Katie Leigh got the role instead.Black Forest Games Forums • View topic - Voice Over Actress
*Dolls in the appearance of Cute and Punk Giana can be found in hidden places in the world of Fade To Silence as easter eggs.Alice's toys? :: Fade to Silence General Discussions SPOILER_image.png
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