Diana Prince (Wonder Woman)

# Wonder Woman

## Diana Prince

Wonder Woman

*Description here ~ Jusitinian*

## History

### Early Life

The Pantheon forbade Queen Hippolyta from bearing a daughter from which her legacy might be extended, but it did not stop the Queen of Themyscira from sculpting a child of her own from clay. Defying the gods was normally met with a wrath that would burn all civilization… but something stirred the gods of Mount Olympos to stay their hands. The child that had been fashioned from the Earth of Themyscira was granted an unorthodox blessing by that of Zeus, and the clay was able to breathe for the first time. Diana, firstborn of Queen Hippolyta, had been welcomed into the world. A miracle child through-and-through… and the pride of the Amazons as the coming of their future.

Despite her emergence into the world via an alternative path, the Amazonians treated Hippolyta’s firstborn the same as they had any inhabitant of their island paradise. Diana was trained in the way of her sisters as a scholar and warrior…. And where her sisters had been trained a sufficient amount, Hippolyta saw that greater expectations should be put on the princess of their tribe. Initially, the Princess of Themyscira had been denied the training of a warrior, but it was a decision that had been overruled by that of General Antiope. For what good was a diplomat that could not hold a sword and know how to use it? Diana had been cut out from the politics that guided her elders on why exactly she had been trained in a specific way… but she tried her best to fit their schemes, all while living the life of a child. It was lonely being the only person on the island with a youthful outlook, but that didn’t keep Diana from exploring and making adventures on her own when the time arose.

Centuries of life on the island had been filled with rigorous courses of fashioning Diana into becoming the foremost warrior in Themyscira. There were few left on the island that could muster the strength to be competitive, and given their ceaseless commodity of time Diana could use every second of every year to further prepare herself for whatever it was Hippolyta and Antiope were strengthening her for. There was an overarching sense of power that lingered in her cells. It was as though every single cut of a sword through the air, every kick and punch -- they felt influenced by the divine. They were actions that none of her sisters could command… and one day even Antiope wouldn’t be able to out-fineses her pupil. Secret meetings between her aunt and mother left her more confused as to why she wasn’t allowed the same conversations. What was she not ready for? The knowledge of the Amazons was a skill that Diana had excelled in, as was the warrior spirit that allowed them to keep safe the secrets of Themyscira. What more could they want? The explanation never was uttered from the lips of Antiope or Hippolyta, not until after the invaders approached their island.

The illusory boundary that buffered Themyscira from the rest of the world was breached by an aircraft piloted by a captain known as Steve Trevor, and then by his pursuers, that of the German army. Having rescued the captain from his steel coffin, the pair and her sisters fought off the makeshift invasion that the Germans mustered to finalize the capture of Steve Trevor…. And despite their strange weaponry, the Amazons of Themyscira remained victorious… though at great loss. Antiope had been slain in the struggle, which turned greater suspicion on the man that Diana had sought to protect: Steve Trevor.

Thorough interrogation followed and a damning truth sprung from the lips of the American operative -- that the world had been plunged into war. Only one such being could produce conflict on a massive scale, and it was Ares. There was little doubt in Diana’s mind that should Ares be defeated, humanity could know peace once more. Only one instrument remained on Themyscira that could defeat the god of war, and that was the aptly-named ‘Godkiller’. Queen Hippolyta forbade her firstborn from leaving with the captain to right the wrong that the Pantheon had made… but it did not keep the headstrong warrior from taking the sword and armor of her ancestors and leaving Themyscira after a heartfelt goodbye. Diana could never return to the mystical island, her home for millennia, but the need to save humanity from themselves was far greater than her desire to remain in a familiar environment. She set off with Steve Trevor to rid the world of evil, and it was a quest that she hoped her ceaseless training had prepared her for.

After having received reinforcements upon reaching the realms of mankind, they set off into the heart of the conflict, fighting their way into the center of Ares’s machinations. Blood and smoke was found on every corner, death filled the air, though it did not keep Diana from being able to find a warmth that emboldened her heart with that of the pilot who considered her to be an ‘angel’. The journey they had taken to get to this point was arduous, though it culminated in the death of Ares at her hands. War had not stopped when Ares’s influence was halted… each country still fought on in a bloody conflict that lasted for months after their mission had been complete…. And once more Diana had lost a shepherding figure in her life. First Antiope, then Steve. Was the world not without loss? Man’s world was cruel. That was the truth and true nature of man. Themyscira had been a beacon of hope and simplicity… and doubts had begun to seep into her mind as to whether leaving was the correct decision. If men didn’t want to save themselves, Diana had no choice but to withdraw into the fringes of their society. No longer would Wonder Woman serve the interests of lesser men. Her mother had been right… and that admission broke an already-grieving heart.

Diana had fully assumed the role of ‘Diana Prince’, a moniker that Steve Trevor had given her on their journey to stop Ares. The timeless Amazonian traveled the Western World for the next century, learning what she could of the new landscape while trying to forge an existence that could be seen as tolerable to the one that she had once lived on Themyscira. The Amazon had taken up the hobby of art collection and study to pass the time and also make a living. It was through this hobby that she found her muse once more. Timeless artifacts that had been forged by the gods pulled her into youthful bliss, and the experience that she had in the field made her an asset for the Louvre in Paris. This employment then furthered to other cultural centers, Washington D.C., London, and Milan being the most notable.

Even while her work within man’s world had engrossed her, on few occasions she donned the armor she had left Themyscira in to thwart influences that originated from her world. The distinguishable instance in these dozen encounters had come when Diana crossed blades with the witch, Circe. The two had fought throughout the years, but when the Princess of Themyscira had denied the witch her soul, a great hatred brewed between the two… eventually culminating in the witch’s damnation to Hades’s realm.

The twenty-first century contained surprises that Diana never believed she would have faced. She had already played the role of a mother for her adopted daughter Donna Troy for nearly a century and a half before strange prospects loomed with the stealing of a priceless artifact in the form of a meteorite. Little did Diana know that following the trail to its sources would lead her to meeting her two greatest allies: Batman and Superman. The three banded together to construct the three pillars of the Justice League, even though Batman took the most convincing, and the formation of the organization brought profound joy within that of Wonder Woman. There had been times where the guilt of laying her armor in storage had become overbearing… she had laid such failures into that of her daughter, wishing for Donna to be stronger than she had ever been. Perhaps that was how Hippolyta had coached Diana -- hoping to write wrongs where she had made them in the past. In the modern day, those times had passed. While still serving as an art advocate and curator, the call for a Wonder Woman occupied even more of her time… as did a brief opportunity to find love in that of Arthur Curry. It was as though the entire world was opening before Diana once more -- new experiences bringing the Princess of Themyscira back to a reality that she had long-since believed gone.

Zod had been the first hurdle that the Justice League had to conquer… and the second hit close to Diana’s roots.The Gates of Hell were threatening to burst and bring about an apocalypse to the world. Wonder Woman, and the members of the Justice League, set forth on collecting the fragments of the seal that would bind Hades within his realm and keep his creations at bay. Once all of the pieces were assembled from various points in the world, Diana took the task of placing the seal on her own. She didn’t wish to risk the lives of her comrades, not while the world could potentially use their help. After leaving her comrades, Diana took to completing her duty…. One that ended successfully in preventing widespread devastation…. But it was one that claimed her corporeal form within the Underworld. It was a fate that she had believed would ultimately befall whoever went to complete the sealing of the gates… but it was one that she sought to be rid of. Her destiny was not to forever roam the fires of the Underworld. No. Her destiny was to save the world of man -- and stand with her friends in the Justice League as the **Wonder Woman**.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Superhuman Strength**
* **Superhuman Speed**
* **Durability**
* **Immortality**
* **Flight**
* **Enhanced Senses**
* **Super Stamina**

### Skills

* **Combat Expertise:** expert in all forms of close-proximity combat