Diana

**Diana** is a female E2 Class tank engine who currently hides away in a hidden cove. She is a version of Danielle from an alternate reality, and was the only one to survive Demon X's takeover of alternate dimensions. After dying eventually, her soul was placed into a new clone body, which gave her new triplet siblings in the form of Tom and Tori.

## Biography

Diana lived a life extremely similar to Danielle, but when Demon X attacked in her reality, her version of Jungle Rusher 5 got destroyed in the attack, leaving her severely injured. She then got thrown through a portal by Junkator, leaving her trapped in the multiverse and forcing her to witness the destruction of several universes. This fate left her in a severe case of depression, which grew worse the more Thomas deaths she witnessed. She eventually got hit by a meteor shower that sent her to the prime dimension, where she saw the alternate Thomases die up close, worsening her condition. Aware of her prime reality counterpart, she remained hidden from view, before eventually interacting with her prime counterpart and the main Thomas. She passed away not long after Danielle's own demise, though her soul was eventually recovered by Ricardo Starkley, who cloned her siblings and her new body from genetic samples belonging Thomas, Danielle and Tim, created to carry on the legacies of their predecessors after their deaths.

After wandering around for two weeks, the triplets ended up stuck in what Tom would later nickname the Global Transit Terminal's "Criminal Metropolis", protecting a number of orphans sorely lacking in protection. As the orphanage in the area they were stuck in was constantly under threat of assassins, Tom and Tori would spend most of their time killing anyone who attempted to attack the group while Diana stuck with the orphans to take care of them. This continued for five months until the triplets managed to lure General Orion and Adventure Squad to their general location, as Tom was unwilling to trust Richard Murphy, the International Safety Committee official in charge of the area. Their involvement ended up bringing down all local crime rings while the orphans were able to be safely evacuated, with General Orion personally overseeing the reforms of the area.

Following the evacuation of the orphans, Diana and her new siblings were taken to Sodor and left at The Leonold Yard, where they eventually became part of the North Western Railway fleet. Having retained the memories of her past life in addition to the memories of the triplets' genetic donors, Diana immediately felt uncomfortable around what only brought back traumatic memories of relatives who never bothered to care about her. While this did hinder her performance on the railway and on the team, efforts from her family and friends quickly helped her grow as a person, and she became just as much of an effective leader as her younger brother.

## Personality

Diana's mindset was extremely similar to Danielle's, but due to suffering a far worse fate, she lost her will to speak or interact with others. Because of this, she is much more timid and skittish than either of her brothers, and is more likely to hide in the face of danger than confront it. Despite this, she fears losing a life far more than anything, and often heads into the line of fire to save others. Because she has actual life experience that her brothers lack, Diana immediately understands if something is dangerous, though her past life's memories mean that she is very reluctant to get close to the living Leonolds. It took several sessions with her family and friends in addition to hooking up with a similarly-affected Vicki that she started to grow out of her past flaws, eventually forgiving Ella for all of the abuse she dished at her expense.

While Diana still retains her shy nature following her recovery, she is much more outgoing than her previous self, though she is also becoming increasingly violent to Tom's extent, which elicits feelings of pride and concern from the tank engine and others. While she still harbors feelings for the Thomas she originally knew, Diana is more than accepting Tom as her new biological younger brother and Vicki as her significant other, though she tends to refer to the former by his full first name when she gets really worried about him.

Due to finally being able to live a successful love life after failing in her previous life, Diana is very protective of Vicki and is willing to kill if she feels a line has been crossed. That being said though, she always makes sure to love everyone else she cares for just as much as her brothers and girlfriend.

## Appearance

As an alternate reality version of Danielle, Diana was originally built as a LBSC E2 Class tank engine. Several other engines share this basis, though unlike her prime counterpart, Diana was never rebuilt into a new form, and remained as an E2 for the entirety of her life. She was originally painted Leonold green, but as time went on her paintwork became severely rusted with very minimal amounts of her original colors showing up.

After her rebirth, Diana received a radically different look, as while she still retains the E2 template, her bufferbeam is now level up front but dipped at the back, a reversal to much of the E2s of her design. Additionally, Diana uniquely features the side tank designs of both variations of the E2 Class, as while she features the extended side tanks on her left side, her right side tanks lack the extensions, and has an external brake pump whereas the other Leonold E2s had collapsing and retractable internal ones. Unlike Tom or Tori, she has a funnel-mounted lamp.

While her face is very much identical to Danielle's in his youth, Diana is unique compared to her brothers in that she has both the split and complete forms of heterochromia; both of her eyes are an even split with different colors, but none of the colors on one eye is shared with the other. This results in her having 4 eye colors; her left eye is pink and purple, while her right eye features both of her brothers' signature eye colors. While her eyes retain these colors under normal circumstances, Diana at her angriest will instead sport "Killer Eyes"; her pupils become purple, her irises become all black, and her scleras turn yellow with red bloodshot veins. Unlike her default eyes, the "Killer Eyes" affect both of her eyes in the same way, making her eyes symmetrical.

After her rebirth, Diana was painted in charcoal black with violet lining surrounding colored panels, painted in a light shade of pink. This same color applies to the front, top and rear of her cab, boiler and side tanks. She has red bufferbeams and coupling rods and sports a running board and access steps in a jet black color. Diana now sports a pink version of Thomas's speaker equipment and she has silver nameplates on the sides of her smokebox. Her new number is painted on the sides of her tanks in navy blue with cyan lining, and on her bunker sides, she has the NWR's initials painted in cyan with a navy drop shadow. Diana's lamp is painted in a golden bronze color, while her brake pump is charcoal black with cyan and violet stripes and pink tube fittings. Prior to receiving this livery, Diana was painted in a plain black with red bufferbeams and silver coupling rods. Due to her skittish and nervous nature, however, she often refrained from claiming kills, and as such received much less damage than either of her brothers.

## Mech

Diana's Guardian of Nature mech is the exact same as her predecessor's, though Jungle Rusher 5 was given a thorough overhaul by Carson before she received it.

## Behind the scenes

Diana shares her alternate self's main source of voice clips.

## Notes

* Diana was made from a classic Thomas model, but with a different face.
* While her new livery is based on a Bachmann Junior E2, unlike Tom or Tori, whose liveries were based on existing variants, Diana's paintwork variation was created specifically by the creator.