Lana Loudoun

**Lana Loudoun**, known in Toontown only as **The Diary Pig**, is an enigmatic figure in the history of Toontown, first mentioned in *Rewritten*and alluded to throughout the first three seasons. She made her first appearance in the 2018 Christmas Special "Silent Night" and is a main character in *War.* She made two special guest appearances in *Revolution*.

In terms of the series narrative, the Diary Pig is one of the original 500 settlers of Toontown. Her name unknown for nearly all of Toon history, she is a legend in Toontown lore, as she provided the only surviving record of life in the Kingdoms before and during the War, as well as after the founders escaped and established Toontown.

## Appearances

### *Rewritten*

The Diary Pig was first mentioned in "Doctor Who?" during a flashback to when Doctor and Piggy Pie met. The Diary Pig was said to have been born and raised in the pig Kingdom of Porcinia before the War. At the outbreak, the Diary Pig began keeping a meticulous diary of the events that were transpiring. She, along with hundreds of others, escaped the wartorn Kingdoms and traveled south, eventually establishing Toontown. She died at an unspecified date, later revealed to be 44 years after Toontown's settlement. Years later, her Diary was donated anonymously to the Toontown Museum, where it was put on display and published to immediate success. Nearly every Toon in Toontown owns a copy and the diary is used to educate Toons on life before and during the War. Perhaps what makes the Diary Pig so legendary is the fact that she never signed her name in the Diary. Her reasons for doing this were not explained in the episode, but were explained in the fourth season episode "Unknown by Name or Rank."

### *Justice*

The Diary Pig was mentioned again in "Trouble." It was said that the Diary was written anonymously by one of Toontown’s original settlers, known merely by her species—pig, implied only by the author’s mentioned residence in the pig kingdom of Porcinia. The author received a diary as an ordinary gift shortly before the outbreak of the War, and kept assiduous details of every event in very small handwriting from the first shot to the daring escape from the Kingdoms to the founding of Toontown and the Inauguration of Maximilian Walters. After this point, the author ostensibly ran out of space and purportedly concluded the Diary nondescriptly.

An excerpt from her Diary is first included in "Edicts of War," recording an edict released by the Vulpus Foxes declaring themselves the supreme species on the continent, which was very similar to an edict released by the Cogs in the same episode.

### "Silent Night"

The Diary Pig made her first true appearance in "Silent Night," the 2018 Christmas Special. On New Year's Day, an unnamed pig heard news that Vulpus invaded Mallardia and the nations of Mallardia, Willie, Canis, and Eusuchia retaliated with declarations of war on Vulpus. The Diary Pig made her first entry on that day, at the outbreak of war.

### *Contact*

The Diary Pig's daughter appears in "They Came From the North" when she delivers the Diary of War to The Curator in a flashback sequence. The Diary Pig is mentioned to be dead by this time (year 67). In addition, the Diary is revealed to not have concluded nondescriptly, as instead the last seven pages were removed posthumously.

The Diary Pig's name was finally uncovered in "Out of the Frying Pan" to be **Lana Loudoun**. She was a member of the royal Hamleigh family, but she and her mother were often excluded from royal circles due to her mother's young pregnancy and failure to uphold the royal image. After the War, Lana Loudoun was the heir to Porcinia. She kept this fact hidden throughout the Diary, but finally admitted her royalty in the last seven pages. The seven pages were removed from her Diary and kept hidden by her daughter, Laila, for years. Laila passed the pages to her children, and onward until they ended in the possession of Charlotte Pie. Through Charlotte and following the death of Hog Pie in "Wistful Oceans," Lana Loudoun's heir is Piggy Pie.

### *War*

Lana returned in "Winter of Discontent." At the beginning of the War in 708, Lana was living with her mother, Diana Loudoun, in Ripper, Porcinia. She began writing in her diary on the very first day of the War. Her first entry was shown in "The Lamps Are Going Out." In 709, she wrote of the abrogation of the Harmony Crown and the rapid declarations of war that ensued. She documented the invasion of Gallix and the execution of King Poultrus III in "Suddenly the Skies Darkened" and the murder of Queen Ana III in "The White Ship."

In "Unknown by Name or Rank," Lana struggled with her role in the war effort following Porcinia's declaration of war. She continued to write in her diary, but wanted to do something larger. When her draft notice came, her mother begged her to appeal. Behind her back, Diana communicated with King Bacon IV to have Lana permanently exempted from military service. The King did in fact intervene, and Lana's draft was rescinded. She was greatly affected by a parade of bodies passing through Ripper from the front, the dead soldiers unknown by name or rank. Because she could not serve in the army, nor could she therefore die like the nameless, she chose not to sign her name in her diary. This decision, made only two years into the War, did not yield and her name was never printed in the diary until the final pages (as illustrated in "Out of the Frying Pan").

Lana continued to document the War in "In the Trenches of Despair," "Fall As Lucifer Fell," and "Infamy," including the downfall and surrender of Capricon and the Siege of Talonclaw Castle. Her entries in "Remnants of the People" detailed the horrific effects of the War Plague (712-715), which ravaged all of Cartonia. She noted the end of the pandemic in 715 in "Buried in Satin." Subsequent entries in "Lest We Forget" described the fall of Mallardia and Willie.

Lana's personal life unraveled in 717 when the parrots overwhelmed the Porcinian trenches and invaded. King Bacon issued an emergency evacuation proclamation, moving citizens to the south of Porcinia to settle in refugee camps. Lana and her mother were housed in O Camp, a few miles from Canis. Lana befriended the camp's commander, Monica Oll. She met King Bacon when he came to visit Diana, but the circumstances of the visit were deliberate to avoid Lana realizing that she and her mother were members of the Hamleigh family.

Lana continued to chronicle the War in "Something Wicked," detailing her first year in O Camp. She named Nicholas Porker in her diary entry in "Two Moths Drawn to the Flame," mentioning her love interest for the first time. The two later moved into a cabin together in "Blood for Blood." She transcribed an edict from the Summer Sun in "Requiem Aeternum" to describe the annexations of Mallardia, Willie, and Felexa into Vulpus and Cervidium. The annexation of Capricon was written about in "No Matter What" and the delay over Leprolian annexation was covered in "Never Trust a Fox." In the same episode, Lana appeared alongside Nicholas Porker and her mother gradually accepting the inevitable defeat of the Granite Bloc.

Lana turned 38 in "Pro Patria Mori" in the year 725. She detailed in her diary the worsening conditions in Porcinia and her personal decision to not have children with the war raging. Several refugee camps were forced to evacuate westward, away from advancing Summer Sun forces, and in "In the Meadows of Sorrow," Lana and Nicholas accepted refugees into their home at O Camp. Her diary entries in "The Good Must Associate" further summarized the fall of the refugee camps, including neighboring P Camp. She also wrote verbatim the Vixen Queen's edict proclaiming the foxes as the superior species on the continent, which was previously revealed in "Edicts of War."

Lana's luck turned in the autumn of 725, when O Camp was liberated by forces from Canis. Unbeknownst to Lana, King Bacon had brokered the camp's rescue by proclaiming Diana Loudoun as heir to Porcinia. This guaranteed her a spot on the expedition south, organized to spare the lives of the royal families. Lana, Nicholas Porker, Monica Oll, and Diana were liberated to Canis, where they attended an orientation about what to expect on the journey south.

Lana, Nicholas, and Diana departed Canis on November 3, 725, in "Bless My Homeland." After the passengers entered enemy territory and began the long journey to the Vixen Cliffs, Lana learned that the Summer Sun was hunting Diana as heir to the throne of Porcinia. At last, Lana learned from her mother that she was a royal Hamleigh. Diana confessed the identity of Lana's father as a palace guard, and that her forced flight from Sowtown was the result of King Bacon III's detestation for Diana's unwed pregnancy. Lana bore no ill will toward her mother for keeping such a monumental secret. The pair finally reached the Vulpus Dam on November 11. Diana joined the control room team, and so Lana was separated from her mother at the Dam. When the foxes attacked the Dam and began slaughtering the passengers, Nicholas ferried Lana onto the only waste receptacle not bombed by the foxes. Lana desperately tried to escape and get back to her mother, but Nicholas held her back. Unbeknownst to Lana, Diana flooded the Dam basin and inadvertently caused the Dam's failure. The flood carried Lana and the surviving passengers out of Cartonia. The deluge also killed the Vixen Queen, who had gone to the Dam to thwart the attempt. Lana escaped with her diary.

Lana mourned her mother in "Until I Die," but ultimately surged on with the other survivors. They wandered south for a year, finally reaching the site that would become Toontown. As the *de facto* heir to Porcinia, Lana was involved in the drafting of the town's first constitution. Lana advocated for a democracy similar to the small-town government she knew in Ripper. The peaceful society was developed, and Lana attended the inauguration of Maximilian Walters.

In the "Epilogue," Lana married Nicholas Porker in a ceremony officiated by Monica Oll. They had one daughter, Laila. A town-wide purge expunged the community of written records of the War, with Lana's diary the only survivor. She kept it hidden even after her death in the Year 44. Laila turned the diary into the Museum of Toontown, and thereafter it was published anonymously to instant acclaim.

Lana's diary remained the only firsthand account of the War for centuries.

### *Revolution*

Lana Loudoun made a special guest appearance in "Aurora" when she appeared in the night sky Aurora to her distant descendent, Piggy Pie. She told Piggy she was almost home.

She appeared in the Aurora again in "Toontown Asunder," alongside all of her descendants.

## Character

### Secrecy

The Diary Pig is the most enigmatic figure in Toontown's history. Her identity was deliberately omitted at the Diary's publishing. Though she had signed her name at the very end, the Diary Pig remained anonymous due to the last seven pages being removed. Not even the Curator of the Museum of Toontown, a founder of the town, knew of her identity at publication.

It has been said multiple times that the Diary Pig was intentional about leaving her name off the Diary, a decision made in "Unknown by Name or Rank."

## Trivia

* Producers planned this character rather early on and did not intend to introduce her until later seasons. However, to shed more light on the settlement of Toontown, producers opted to add subtle mentions in during the first season.
* Lana's initial appearance at the very end of "Silent Night" was added as an afterthought.
* Lana's role as the heir to the Kingdom of Porcinia was established since the conception of her character.
* The only episode of *War* that does not feature Lana or her diary is "Where the Anomaly Lay."