Diane Shernall

**Diane Shernall**

## Appearance

Diane has pale skin, light blue eyes, and light brown hair that she styles in a high bun with a yellow ribbon. Her go-to outfit is a light blue dress with short, puffy sleeves, and a white apron on top, with black mary janes shoes and white socks.

Due to her nature as a Kl'ietii, a shapeshifting alien species, she can shift into any form she pleases. However, this is the form that she's the most comfortable in, and she almost never changes her appearance if she can avoid it.

## Personality

Diane is often very by-the-books, contrasting Edwin's far more laid back approach around the house. Even so, she's rather caring and often motherly at times. Diane largely attributes her sometimes strict nature to wanting the best for those she cares about. She used to be more bubbly and excitable, but has calmed down considerably over the years - though her excitable bursts do pop up on the odd occasion.

## Relationships

### Klaus Melfton/Lightning Dust

Diane has been taking care of Klaus alongside his father and Edwin ever since the boy was born, having taken on more of a motherly role to him - especially with his birth mother's passing. When Klaus was young, Diane used to use her shapeshifting abilities to entertain him. This quickly came to an end following the first instance of Klaus being captured by Blood Scouts, as she had shown her more fierce nature in order to protect him, and unintentionally scared the boy. She's decided to keep her abilities and alien nature as a whole a secret to him ever since. Despite this, Diane has grown close to Klaus as he's grown up, and often finds herself quite proud of the hero he's growing into - even if his antics do tend to stress her out.

Diane ended up revealing her secret of being an alien to Klaus again following the incident with Hemtry (see 01-09: Bright Eyes and Devil Horns). She does hold some regret for having kept it from him for so long, especially from Klaus's initial reaction - but now that her secret is out in the open, she does feel rather relieved, and considers it to have brought them closer than before.

### Edwin Dowley

Diane's fellow co-worker, who she often spends plenty of personal time with due to this. They're often ones to tease at each other throughout the day, and care very deeply about one another, despite their occasional disagreement - particularly when it comes to Klaus's antics, especially now with his hero work. All in all, however, Diane trusts Edwin deeply, just as he trusts her.

### James Melfton

Though James is Diane's boss, the two are rather close, and have been for a while now. When they initially met, James and his future-wife-to-be helped to save Diane's life; so, when they met again years later and Diane learned he was hiring for help around the house, she jumped at the opportunity to pay the pair back. Despite his insistence that he didn't want her to feel obligated to, she ended up getting the job after all. Nowadays, she's far more casual around him - though she'll always be thankful for how he's helped her over the years.

## Skills

* **Shapeshifting:** An ability that her species has, though she rarely ever uses it anymore.

## Trivia

* Though Diane is genderfluid and goes by both she/her and they/them, she does prefer to default to she/her far more commonly.