Dia Mante

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 Signature Color

Holographic

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 Focus

Fashion Design & Music

I like my fashion loud, and my music louder.

**Dia Mante** is a 2023-introduced and all-around character. She is a student at Shadow High that focuses in Fashion Design with a second focus in Music. To Dia Mante, there's no place like Michigan. From the history to the music, cars, and of course, Detroit-style pizza. There is nowhere else she'd rather call home. So, while she reigns supreme at Shadow High, there's definitely a big part of her that can't wait to head back to the Midwest after graduation and start building her fashion empire. When she isn’t working in her fashion design sketch books, you’ll find Dia on her laptop making hours-long playlists for her closest friends.

## Looks

### Physical Appearance

Dia is a dark indigo skinned girl with a medium build. She has shiny iridescent white hair styled in a short bob with holographic shine, blue eyes and black eyeliner, with iridescent white eyeliner bordering her whole eye, and glossy dark purple colored lips.

### Outfit

Dia wears an iridescent white sparkly puffy jacket with “SH” patterns in a holographic material. She wears a glittery diamond one piece bodysuit underneath, Shadow High printed tank top with white holographic shorts with pockets showing. She also wears black laced tennis shoes with iridescent white soles attached with tiny strapped pouches on both sides of her footwear. For her accessories, she wears silver stud earrings, and silver white "SH" printed framed sunglasses. Her fingernails are painted iridescent white, and are pointy.

## Personality

Dia is described as being very thankful of her hometown and culture, loving Shadow High but waiting to head back home. In the animated series, she is seen passionate about her art.

However, she is also shown to have a bit of an ego and a problem with liking to be in control, always wanting to be the one in the spotlight. This can make her very domineering when put in a group project, wanting to be the leader of the team while pushing for her ideas to be upfront and speaking for the group instead of letting anyone else voice their opinions, ideas, or concerns. Despite this, she is not shown to be outright selfish and seems to be oblivious that her actions are not fair for others from the excitement she feels from being a part of the group project, which gets her into trouble.

## Etymology

### Dia

Dia is a girl’s name with multiple origins and meanings. In Spanish, Dia simply means “day". In Arabic and Sanskrit, Dia is a variant of Diya, which means “light, shining, radiance,” and in the Lembaama language, it means “love.” Dia may also derive from the Latin word dea, meaning “goddess,” while dia is the Irish word for “god.”

### Mante

When paired with her first name Dia, her name says diamante, an artificial glittering jewel. So named probably because of the diamante style glitter covering her body suit and the shine of her shorts and hair tinsel.

## Timeline

* July 2022: Her artwork and box photos are leaked.
* December 24th, 2022: She along with the other dolls from Shadow High Series 2 are available on Amazon USA and Canada.

## Trivia

* "Diamante" is a Latin word that means "Diamond".
* Her name appears to be almost the same as the Mexican-Italian-American hard rock/alternative rock singer Diamante, which is most likely unintentional.
* Some of the real-world inspirations for Dia’s outfit include:
	+ Dia’s shoes are inspired by Prada leather platform combat boots with logo pouch.
	+ Dia’s outfit is from Gucci fall 2017, also popularly worn by Rihanna for Coachella in 2017.