Dina Domme (Gems)

***As with all pages labeled with the "possible" descriptor, this concept isn't officially in the FOG cannon, but may be included at some point.***

## Dina Domme

### Occupation

Women's Clothes Brand Owner, Adult Entertainer

## Disambiguation

Dina Domme, whose birth name is Alysa Peters, is a character in the *Gems* books that is suggested to be the great, great, great (etc.) grand daughter of Ailios from *Arm.*

## Story

Dina Domme is a twenty five year old introduced in a bar scene focusing on a few men, suggesting to the reader that one of these men is the new character being introduced, with the girl being only being hinted at, coming as one of the men's girlfriends. However, she is pushed into the limelight when she whips one of the men around the throat and strangles him to death. It is suggested (and realized by the reader) that she is a domanitraix, following *Gems'* theme having a focus on the secks industry and seckshual side of things. As well as this, she is shown to be a new character that Kaycee and team will have to deal with at some point. As well as this detail, another trait in *Gems* is that characters are identified by their adult entertainment handles in-story (such as Sara Selfie and now Dina Domme) rather than their real names. This may hint at the stories being written by a third party (perhaps to retain certain information), or it may just be the voice of the story itself.

**Author notes:** It makes more sense that Alysa finds out about her ancestry and then looks for the sword or the whip after finding out about it. She would need a special connection, maybe Kaycee, to get ahold of something like this and the discovery would change her viewpoint on herself drastically.

In the story, Dina at some point finds Ailios sword; either that or the backstory of her whip is explored. It may be that she simply bought the whip on Amazon. Regardless, her whip comes into contact with the sword, and absorbs some of the aura of it (see *Arm*). Because of this, she is aided somewhat to have some leverage in the story. She becomes a threat to Kaycey when she sees how he is running the industry and becomes a competitor. She is a two sided individual--kind of like both Kaycey and Sara--and can be unhumanly viscious, acting as one of the, if not the, most inhumane and ruthless antagonists in both the book and the FOG series, yet also has a human side explaining her vile attitude. Possibly, that she was seckshually abused. In the same way, Kaycey may have been seckshually abused as a child.

Dina goes to school for business administration and graduates with a bachelor's. She accomplishes her dream of starting a business and then gets ideas.

Her ruthless torture--both long and drawn out--of men mirrors Kaycey's god complex in abusing and demoralizing women and even children (as seen in his c\*nt throne, which consists of naked whipped, possibly bleeding women acting as foot stools for him to step up onto a chair made from women stooping over and standing to act as the back rest and arm rests). In regards to Dina, it is even suggested that she had her v\*g\*na sown shut. As for Kaycey, "he's still a d\*ck and he still has a d\*ck but he's not a man," says Columbus Blue, one of his helpers. The subjects in *Gems* are very deep and can only be understood those who have went through similar traumas. As such, the story will undergo constant changes to reflect this fact, being that the author has not had experience with these situations, and may remove some of them if they aren't worth offending those who have, or for various ethical reasons.

Obviously, **the theme, voice, and content of *Gems* is both politically incorrect and contains traumatic and violent themes** and reader discretion is advised.

## More About The Whip

As stated, Dina's whip is connected to Nat's sword from *Arm.* For now this has nothing to do with the fact that Dina is the great descendant of Ailios, but simply that it was in close proximity to Ailios' sword for a long time.

Dina herself already has quite a bit of business savvy and is a strong character in and of herself. However, her whip essentially makes her incredibly lucky...even though the Arm ability can only be exploited when directly use to help someone else, completely unknown to her. In fact, this caveat doesn't usually work in favor of Dima, because she is very self centered at first; nothing she does is for anyone else. She doesn't love anyone. So ironically, in actual fact, her whip aura doesn't accomplish much at all.

## Character Arc

After first meeting Dina in the scene above, we backtrack. She's first expounded upon in her graduation ceremony where friends and family flock about her, after the camera zooms out shows her taking her diploma for a Master's in Business from a Washington university. Flashing to the reception, a character moment is built when Dina's uncle comes to her, the first person to graduate in her closet family. He's an easygoing ginger with way more intelligence beneath his words than his simple get up desires. He and Alysa (her birth name) have a long talk about things and her plans for the future. Somehow it's mentioned how he's in a similar business (say, footwear) and is successful, and an observant reader can see that's where she's headed too--he's a mirror. But even more attentive readers will learn here that what Alysa really takes from her uncle is his flaw: to give up his family for personal gain. And in that, she will fulfill her career.

We next see Dina at a job that is nothing at all reflective of her strengths, but she does it for the money to eventually start a business; she is principle oriented. In this time, we also see her try to build her credit. It's pretty simple to assume she's trying to get a business loan, but a few friends etc. ask if she's trying to get a house, better car, etc. Eventually she's able to get a loan and starts something, but it fails. A [possible character] note is that she despises her dad who hates her uncle, because her uncle constantly lends money to her dad who needs him, and so she wants to get to a place where she doesn't need anyone.

Later in her arc, she discovers a whip that is imbued with the aura of Nat. It may be that she acquires this using her successful business endeavors, but it may make more sense to make the whip help her achieve her success. When she discovers her ancestry about Ailios being her great ancestor, her character arc makes a switch--she becomes less sinister and more empathetic to people in general, and eventually finds a boyfriend. This entire arc will be explored in a solo part of Gems (Tourmaline) that centered on her life story and how it relates to the *Gems* narrative.

This arc occurs before the *Gems* bust and/or radiation event.

### Relationship with James Shumaker (Possible)

One idea for Alysa's arc is for her to be in a fling with James Shumaker from *Heart.* James will likely be involved with the Gems' bust, and the two will meet somehow. Both characters have strong extrapersonal/altrustic goals and values and will relate in this way--the difference being that Alysa is an antivillian and James is just a decent person.