Daiane Meyer

A quote goes like this: “In life, there is death, but in death, there is life.” Daiane is perhaps the perfect example of this, with her birth coming a little more than three months after her eldest sister’s death. Despite never having gotten to meet the famed Aline, from the day she was born, comparisons of the late girl were imposed on Daiane and she found herself having to live up to someone she would never know. As if this wasn’t enough for a young child to be conscious of, she was also (un)fortunate enough to be living with a father who had Alzheimer’s for as long as she could remember. A lot of her childhood was punctuated with wishes and daydreams of being born a few years earlier, as then she would know Aline and her father would have the memory of the famed plastic surgeon she was constantly told that he used to be. Instead, she grew up amongst tearful gazes as her family members looked at her and saw Aline and the outbursts and confused fogginess that her father experienced. It was often a stressful environment to grow up in, and she learned at a young age to be a people pleaser, to try and do things that make everyone happy. Dai is a pretty flexible and adaptable person, able to go with the flow rather than being strictly opposed to change. She is the youngest, so not much more responsibilities fell upon her as much as they did on Andi and Nadalia, her older sisters, but she often felt like she had to be the perfect child, in order to not be the cause of stress to her family. Even now, she usually isn’t comfortable opening up about her issues, instead, she puts a smile on her face and pretends to be alright for the sake of not burdening the people around her. And unless you really know her, you might not even know she was struggling to begin with. Despite this attitude towards herself, she is always there for anyone who needs it, holding back her tears to give someone else a shoulder to cry on. She deals with her own problems through avoidance, choosing to distract herself from them until they go away. Adventurous and brave, she likes to try new things and usually takes any opportunity to do so. This is seen in her multitude of hobbies that she enjoys, though most of them are abandoned within several days---the only one which hasn’t met this fate is fashion design, which she has loved since eleven.

In her sophomore year, her father passed on. By then, he wasn’t ever lucid, and it was generally a difficult time for everyone. With his death, she felt herself letting out a breath she’d been holding, while also going through an intense period of deep mourning. She loved him, she did, but she did not love seeing him suffer and, well, at least in death, he would be granted eternal peace. Maybe the hardest part of his death was the way her sister, Andressa, acted towards her. She invalidated Dai’s emotions towards his death, saying that their pain wasn’t the same because Dai never knew the him he used to be. Their relationship had always been difficult, for reasons Daiane never understood, but that blowup had effectively shattered it. Even now, as her sister rises to stardom through a singing career and more of the public’s eyes shift to her, there relationship is hanging by a thread, if that.

Maybe this is why she took an interest in Blue Royalty out of the blue---Andressa ended up on the Blue Bloods at the end of her high school year, so perhaps Dai is thinking that if she can achieve that, then maybe her sister will be able to see her who she is, see her as someone not so different from herself, and they can finally have that bond she always wanted with her.

Daiane tends to be upbeat and chatty, able to ramble for hours if no one stopped her. About meaningless things though, as there aren’t many people with whom she feels comfortable venting to. It’s not that she’s always happy, it’s that she doesn’t want other people to know when she’s not. She can be pretty charming, easy to make laugh and generally easy to get along with. Dai is a dreamer, her head often in the clouds, doodling and daydreaming when she should be working, but she can’t help it. She loves fairytales, loves imagining having her very own happily ever after. While she knows logically that life isn’t peaches and roses, hell, her childhood was pretty bad by rich kid standards, she likes to imagine that it is. She assumes the best of people, and she is way too quick to forgive the people who’ve hurt her, offering them chance upon chance and never really thinking that they’re the bad people they’ve shown themselves to be.