Joanna

**Joanna Joannascore Adorian Uljika** (イオアナ, *Ioana*) is the Heir Princess of all Vampires and one of the four Dukes of Darkness, servant of the Demon King, and daughter of Wallen Joannascore Adorian Uljika. Although only a minor character in the manga, Joanna is one of the chief antagonists of the anime.

## Appearance

Joanna is a young girl with long purple hair that features a fringe and two big curls which frame her face. Her eyes are red with white eyelashes. She has fangs, but they are only visible when she is talking or laughing.

She wears a gothic black & wine-colored dress and matching mini cape that covers her shoulders. Pairing it with black tights and Mary Jane shoes.

She is often seen with a devilish grin on her face.

## Personality

### In the Anime

In the anime, Joanna is a cunning but petty young vampire whose mastery of dark magic is only rivaled by her ego and capacity for grudges. The daughter and heir of the House of Draculia, her courtly mannerisms belie a massive superiority complex and disdain for those she sees as inferior. For this reason, when she lost a sparring match as a child to Hanako, the daughter of House Fafnir and in many ways her polar opposite, it befuddled and enraged Joanna that someone so gluttonous, simple-minded, and in her eyes unworthy of her high birth had nonetheless bested her. Since then, Joanna has held an obsessive grudge that sees her constantly try to defeat, one-up, or at least find a weakness in Hanako that would allow her to finally claim her overdue revenge.

For all her genuine intelligence, Joanna's hubris and fixation on revenge leads to oversights and blindspots. When confronted with an unfamiliar topic, she is prone to mistake her own speculation for absolute fact. It absolutely baffles her why Hanako, a fellow demon duke scionness, is so attached to her vampiric servant Carmilla despite not only her incompetence but her low station as a lesser vampire. Years later, when Joanna receives concurrent reports that the Demon King's human enemies have summoned a powerful being known as the Hero, and that her old rival Hanako has gone missing, she automatically concludes that Hanako wants to kill the hero before anyone else and gain the glory for herself. It never occurs to her that Hanako, however oafish in her eyes, doesn't desire the life of a duchess.

### In the Manga

By the time Joanna reappears in the manga as a named character, presumably after whatever events in the Anime could be deemed canon, it would appear that she has matured somewhat. Now the duchess of House Draculia in her own right, she tells her attendant Rose that she has given up and moved on from revenge, and instead busies herself with affairs of state. However, when she automatically assumes that Hanako has likewise grown into her aristocratic station, she still displays the slightest inability to comprehend that someone's birth and station are not all that defines them.

## Plot

Years before the events of the anime or manga, a young Joanna was training and told she may win the next tournament, but at the tournament, she was easily defeated by Hanako. Joanna requested a rematch, but as Hanako was hungry, she was refusing, so Joanna had to give her lunch. She ended up getting her rematch, but ended loosing again and again. After that Joanna got obsessed of Hanako and started observing her, trying to learn from where she got her strength. Years later during a party, Hanako wasn't able to recognize who Joanna was. Joanna then spoke about Camilla Vanstein saying she was a lesser vampire, and telling Hanako she can get a better servant, an elder vampire, that would secretly find Hanako's weakness, but Hanako declined the offer. Joanna then wanted Carmilla to face Rose and if she would win, Joanna would accept Carmilla. Hanako quickly accepted, as she wanted to go to the party and eat.

A bit later at quiet place, Rose and Carmilla started fighting. Carmilla put a good fight, but ended up losing. She started clinging to Rose's skirt, pulling her and saying that she can't lose, while Rose was feeling embarrassed and asking Carmilla to let go. Hanako asked for the fight to stop and Joanna told her she will arrange her a new better elder vampire as servant, but Hanako still wanted to use Carmilla. Joanna asked for Hanako to get on her knees and to her surprise Hanako did. Feeling like this was her first win over Hanako, Joanna left. On their way back, the cart stopped and Joanna and Rose went to see what was going on. They saw Hanako, who apologized of how useless Carmilla was, but she was trying to do everything for her, so she was thinking that Carmilla was someone precious to her and didn't want to lose her. Joanna thought that Hanako would want not to reveal that Carmilla lost, but instead Hanako took her clothes off and transformed into a dragon, challenging Joanna to a fight, seeing that both Joanna and Rose were trembling in fear and were beaten by Hanako.

When Joanna learned that Hanako had left her castle when the hero appeared, she thought Hanako was going after him to obtain glory. Joanna then summoned a demon king from another world, MAO, she introduced herself and wanted he to help them defeat the hero that Altena had summoned. Rose showed him a poster of the hero and MAO started laughing saying he found where Animal Mask was hiding. Joanna was surprised that MAO knew him, but MAO told her there was more between them than just knowing each other.