Ivana Oswald-Descieux

**Ivana** **Oswald-Descieux** is a character in the Secret Palace series who first appears at the end of chapter one in James Oswald-Descieux's route. She is also the wife of Henry Oswald-Descieux and the step-mother of James. She is also the current head of ABC (Absolute Body Care) company of beauty products and cosmetics. She is also the true main antagonist of this route.

## Appearance

Ivana has shoulder length straight blonde hair and green eyes with fair skin. Her main outfit is a a light pink blazer with a plaid pattern and a white shirt tucked into a light pink knee length pencil skirt and white stilleto heels.

At the gala, she can be seen in a black, white and gold dress with a matching gold mask.

When she visits her family villa, her casual outfit is seen in Cameron's route. She wears a light pink dress with a single hole at the right side of her short sleeve to show her right shoulder.

## Personality

Ivana is described by Cameron Cooper as being a bitter character that has her mood swings, but that it's not personal and the player describes her as a mean woman. She is first seen at the end of chapter 1 with her husband Henry at the gala, but officially meets the player in chapter 3, where mistakes her for being a waitress and asks her to bring her wine from the cellar, and expected her to talk about the wine like it's usually done despite the player knowing nothing about wine. When Ivana tried the wine she hated her pick and almost spit it out. After the player stated to her that she was new, Ivana apologized for yelling at her, but then gave her a nasty grin and said everyone learns at their own speed. As the player left from their encounter, she heard Ivana and Damian Krug muttering that she won't last long and that her service is deplorable. Later on it is found out that Ivana had complained to Henry about the player's bad service and nearly got her fired, only for it to be decided that James would train the player on wine services.

At the near end of the first chapter, Ivana also is also shown to have a conservative side when she was disgusted by the player's revealing dress.

Similarly to Cassidy Sparke from Carter Corp, Ivana also abuses her power as she uses her current position to abuse her employees, including the player. But in Chapter 4, Ivana displays her calm and materialistic side, despite her bitter personality she explained her reasons for being mean, which is because of the maintenance of the beauty of the hotel as well as handling her cosmetic business, and how she needs to keep up a firm and cool exterior for the look of the business, and told the player that it's nothing personal. The player also noticed how suspicious she was because of her mean streak and it was possible that she really knows about what happened to her mother Rose Murray. However, after the player had put the face cream on her face, she realized how sinister and cunning Ivana is as she tries to ruin somebody's else beautiful looks after the face cream she had gave her caused her face to have allergies as it wasn't safe, much to her anger and rage.

In the final chapter of the story, it reveals her true antagonistic side and her manipulations to both Celeste and Henry during the meeting and tried to avoid herself from getting implicated over Rose's sufferings. Although, the player learns that it was Ivana all along who was responsible for ruining her mother's life when James arrives at his father's office, causing her to escape. She is a master manipulator and became violent and outraged when her true motives were all revealed within the palace. She ruined Rose's life entirely because of her relationship with her husband and succeeded in manipulating him to fire her on the spot after framing her for stealing which led Rose to her current state of depression and having suicidal tendencies by taking her own life by drug overdose. Ivana also displays her emotional break down after being disarmed by her step-son before she attempted to kill her husband and then herself due to his infidelity, leading to her apologize to them all and wanted them to forgive her and making the decision to make a volunteer arrest for all the misdeeds she had been done to the family and letting them call the authorities on her since she knew that she deserved it,

Despite her misdeeds however, she was released from prison according to James in the bad ending, and was not going to stand trial for her crimes. But Henry filed for a divorce with her and both had an agreement to become separated and she went to another country. Although, she was mentioned by both James and the player when they had a massive argument and during their break up.

In Cameron's story, Ivana is shown to have a good side towards her niece which is the player which was a stark contrast to her current actions in James' story. In Chapter 2, she had a brother named Dimitri who is actually the player's father whom she had criticized him for living in a rural place. Although, the player sees her aunt being disrespectful to her father for her harsh words, Ivana soon takes it back because both her and her brother are in different point of views of life.

## Allies

* The Main Character (Cameron)
* James Oswald-Descieux (sometimes)
* Henry Oswald-Descieux (sometimes)
* Julian Devolt
* Damian Krug
* Ethan McAllister

## Enemies

* The Main Character (James)
* Celeste Devolt
* Margaret Lawrence
* Rose Murray
* Cameron Cooper
* Henry Oswald-Descieux (sometimes)
* James Oswald-Descieux (sometimes)

## Trivia

* Her name could be inspired by Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump.
* Her first name (Ivana) is of Slavic origin suggesting that she may be Central/Eastern European.
* She is similar to Veronica Razon-Santos (portrayed by veteran actress Sheryl Cruz) from the hit TV series *Magkaagaw* (Broken Faith) and both portrayed as the main antagonists who were left by their respective husbands (Henry and Mario respectively) and ended up falling in love with their mistresses (Rose and Laura respectively) which led them to ruin their current lives.
	+ Both women shared their actions for being manipulative and cunning.
	+ Both women also shared their killing attempts as Ivana attempted to kill the player and Rose while Veronica attempted to kill both Clarisse and Laura for her misfortunes.
	+ They had different outcomes at the conclusion of the story, Ivana was volunteered to be arrested for her crimes while Veronica was immediately arrested after she fell off the stairs which resulted to have a sprained ankle and right arm and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
* Judging by her full appearance, Ivana appears to be very tall.
* She was the first Big Bad in Secret Palace.
* Due to her brother's name being Dimitri and her niece's default name being Oksana Andropov, she probably comes from Russian decent.