Diana Paganini

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## Birth infomation

### Hunter Parent (or) Sibling

Father: Antonio Paganini - The Violinist.

## Story Infomation

### Cause of death

Near death experience: Survived a chandelier falling on top of her

## Overview and Appearance

**Overview**: Diana Paganini - Portrayed by Ruby Doohan, is a main character of the Nightingale Series. More specifically one of the main 6 students. She is the daughter of the hunter Antonio Paganini - The violinist, and her mother - Andrea Paganini. ( *Antonio's Identity V wiki )*

Her order is XVII (Aka 17th) due to her father joining the manor 17th out of all of the hunters. She is the head of Amethyst house, but dreads her job. Diana does not die in any season and survives the school, but she has a near death experience at the end of the last episode of season 2, where the audience and characters assume she is dead, and near the beginning of season 3 she is shown to be alive when she wakes up in the morgue.

**Appearance**: Diana has curly, wispy, black hair that reaches her elbows, and usually ties half of it up. She has green eyes and looks tired often, which is too shown in her personality. For her school uniform, she wears a sleeveless jumper and tights, along with the rest of the uniform that everyone wears. She doesn't usually wear her blazer and prefers to carry it around on her arm, and her skirt is thigh length. Diana is in Amethyst house, so she wears a purple and black striped tie, with the Amethyst head of house brooch clasped onto it.

## Backstory

Diana was born in Florence - Italy, to a generation of violinists, with her father - Antonio, being known as one of the greatest violinists of his time; playing for many concerts and exquisite events. Diana spent 5 years of her life in Italy, before her family moved to London for a job opportunity for Antonio. Despite her full Italian heritage, Diana has adapted a British accent through her time living in London. She was childhood friends with Karissa Diruse back in Italy, and meets her again at Nightingale School, as Karissa is the daughter of Luchino Diruse (A hunter)

When Diana was 13, the royal family offered Antonio a place to stay at the palace, and after that, Diana never saw her father again. Diana resulted in living at her current boarding school in the care of the staff, until 3 years later, when she received an admission document into Nightingale School.

## Personality and Body Language/Speech

### **Personality:**

 **Fears:** | Insects, Spiders, Death, Loosing friends and family, drunk people.

Diana presents herself as a calm and careless person, but contains her worries and anxieties with the fear that she would worry those close to her. She doesn't show too much emotion and speaks quite quietly and monotonal. Diana's manners aren't too great, being that she usually speaks very uncaringly and gloomily towards people, and vocabulary can be quite vulgar and rude.

## Intertextual References

* Diana has XVII (17 in roman numerals) tattooed on her back. This is because her father - Antonio, joined the manor 17th out of all the hunters.
* Diana's desk in class is placed on the first row, middle seat and middle column. This reflects the positioning of Antonio in the *detectives notebook* in the game.
* Diana's main hobby is sewing, this links into her father being stitched together on the hands, face, arms and legs.
* She dislikes alcohol and gambling due to Antonio's addiction. Diana also has a fear of drunk people, and gets extremely uncomfortable around anyone, even if they're slightly drunk.
* Diana survives a chandelier falling on top of her, but looses an eye. Lorelai aims to get her other eye after this incident and gets obsessive over keeping her eyes. Her father has full black eyes, that look like his eyes are missing, so by Diana loosing one, and Lorelai wanting both gone, it could be encoded that they want her to almost turn out like her father.
* Diana finds 3 violin strings under her bed. Antonio's violin has 1 single G string attached. This suggests that the strings found under her bed could be the rest of Antonio's violin strings.
* At Annaliese's funeral, Diana is given a cross to hold. This relates to how the school believes she is a demon child, due to her father being possessed by a music demon, so the school is trying to purify her.
* Diana bonds with Calista Filkania. Calista is a child born with superhuman abilities due to her being sent down to earth to live a human life by Yidhra. The extremely religious beliefs of the Victorian era caused both Calista and Diana to be looked at as evil, since Calista has powers and Diana's reputation is heavily influenced by her father.