Diana Burnwood

This character, Diana Burnwood, is 50 years old in 2022, based on his/hers birthday, which is 1972.

## Personal Info

### Age

48 (2020)
49 (2021)

## Details

### Occupation

Agent 47's Handler
Member of the International Contract Agency (until *HITMAN III*)
Operative of the Franchise (formerly)
Constant of Providence (undercover)

### Powers/Skills

High intelligence
Manipulation
Multilingualism
Mastery of disguise
Charisma

### Goals

Assist Agent 47 on killing any assigned targets. (all succeeded)

### Type of Hero

Honourable Anti-Hero

**Diana Penelope Burnwood** is one of the "handlers" at the International Contract Agency (also known as the Agency, or ICA), providing Agent 47 with clients, targets, and information. She has, since Hitman's inception, been a prominent part of every story and proved a valuable asset to Agent 47 for the most part. She is the deuteragonist of the Hitman series.

She has a composed British accent and a business-like demeanor. For the vast majority of the series, Agent 47 never sees Diana or her face, recognizing her only by voice. She is not supposed to meet 47 in person, nor develop a personal friendship with him, but does so anyway (meeting him in person after his near-death experience and again just before his funeral to use the "fake-death serum" to maintain her cover as Alexander Leland Cayne's nurse, to dodge death herself).

Diana is an ally of the Unity Force, who will appear in a future Unity Force Series story. She is firstly mentioned in Chapter 18 of Unity Force: Stories.

## Appearance

Diana's appearance had remained largely unknown throughout the series. She had been noted as being of a slim build and having black hair. However, because of her training with the ICA, she had mastered the art of disguises, and this is most notable in the changes in her hair color throughout the various games. More recent intel showed her as 175 cm tall, with red hair, brown eyes, and a slim, athletic build. Her face was described as having a high forehead and somewhat small eyes, but still having a straight nose, high cheekbones, and sensual lips. A hazy reflection of her face was visible at the end of *Hitman: Blood Money*, and viewers were finally given a clear image of her face in the trailers leading up to *Hitman: Absolution*. Players also got another clear shot of Diana multiple times in *HITMAN™*, showing that she has blue eyes, instead of brown, also sporting now a shorter hairstyle and a more refined demeanor.

## Personality

From an early age, Diana was observed as being socially fluid. This meant that she exhibited an understanding that the world around her is not a representative sample of the world as it is. However, she maintained the tact and poise to keep this awareness largely sublimated. This meant that she was more aware of what was happening around her than others, and definitely more than she let on. During her initial recruitment phase, Diana showed to be of superior intelligence, scoring well above the 90% rate of the ICA's specialized BHL/A tests. In fact, her score was 97%, which greatly impressed her superiors. It was noted though that, like many people who fall under this "above average" category, she suffered from sporadic bouts of self-doubt.

According to her handler and mentor, Benjamin Travis, she was brought up as a typical patrician and Baronetess of the Beaconsfield Estate in Buckinghamshire, England. This upbringing led to the development of personality traits such as the habits, tastes, and prejudices of someone of her class. Her mentor described this as a "first-class mind in an upper-class skull."

Diana is an enigmatic manipulator, as she is able to manipulate anyone into believing her and yet able to hide her true motives to anyone. Most of her notable examples were that she tricked both Cayne and Edwards into believing her to be 47's enemy and lure 47 into assassinating the targets.