Dialga

**Dialga Stankiewicz** (born 17 August 1932, age 91) is one the recruiting characters of Luke and Kyu. He likes to fly people and Pokémon all across the world. His home is Dialga's Spiral, located around the North Kildonan area of Winnipeg over on Chief Peguis Trail and Lagimodiere Blvd.

## Biography

Dialga Stankiewicz was born on August 17, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland. His father Dylan Stankiewicz (November 5, 1896 – January 23, 1945) was from Kraków where he served in the Polish army during the 1920's while his mother Anisa (née Zaborowicz, January 18, 1899 – August 13, 1980) was a housewife who worked as a maid and later, a teacher at Glenwood School until 1962. She was from Łódź. He had one older brother, Daniel Stankiewicz (May 8, 1921 – January 23, 1945), who also served in the Polish army. When Dialga was 12 years old, he and his mother fled Warsaw in 1945 after his father and older brother were killed in the Holocaust. The two lived in London for two years until they arrived in Canada in 1947, where Dialga graduated from Glenlawn Collegiate in 1950. He also enrolled at the University of Manitoba that same year. However, he was drafted into the Royal Canadian Army the following month. There, he enlisted in the Korean War, where Dialga represented the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He also survived the bombings of Pyongyang as a way to show that he cared for the citizens of North Korea. Dialga returned back to Canada in 1954 after he asked Kim Il-sung if it was okay to leave North Korea. Kim accepted Dialga's request to leave Pyongyang. Back in Winnipeg, Dialga was able to get himself back onto his university finals. He graduated in 1956, receiving a Bachelor of Kinesiology. Throughout the 1960’s, Dialga lived on Betournay St. in Windsor Park, which he calls it “The best street to live on”, according to an interview in 2018.

Dialga married his first wife Melody Matheson (1934–1996) in 1958 and with her, he had one daughter named Marilyn (May 5, 1961 – August 27, 2023) named after Marilyn Monroe. Dialga and Melody divorced in 1966. He remarried in 1968 to Julie Christie (born 1940) and divorced her in 1974. Since then, Dialga has remained single for over 45 years. His daughter worked as a real estate worker throughout the 1990's and 2000's before retiring in 2019. With Marilyn, he also has three grandsons (James, Dylan and Garrett) and two great-grandchildren (Isabel and James Jr.), both of them are from his oldest grandson James.

Dialga worked at a large variety of odd jobs after he fled North Korea. He worked at McDonald's, Safeway and many more. He also had plans to go back to Poland but when the Holocaust killed his brother and father, he regret it a lot as the suffering from World War II was enough for Dialga to make him not want to go back to Poland.

Dialga also has been suffering from dementia mainly due to his age but he's never shown it by his feelings due to feeling so mighty. His daughter had stated that her father had been suffering from dementia since he was 85 years old. She also fears her father is not going to make it to 100 especially when her mother died from heart failure back in April 1996. On August 28, 2023, Dialga’s only child died from an impact on her vehicle.

## Quotes

> "The best street to live on is Betournay Street." – Dialga
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> "So are you Polish or are you Ukrainian?" – Dialga on Millicent Anderson
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> "What’s a Croatia? Is it a crow that is from Asia?" – Dialga on Croatia
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> "Don't remind me of the DPRK! I never really liked Kim Il-sung in the first place, you hear me?" – Dialga on North Korea
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## Trivia

* The only European countries Dialga knows are Poland, Ukraine, Germany and the United Kingdom.
	+ The only African countries Dialga knows are Algeria and South Africa.
	+ The only Asian countries Dialga knows are North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, China, India and Japan.
		- The reason is, Dialga didn’t take geography when he was in school.
* Dialga smoked for 23 years, from 1951 to 1974.
* He suffered a heart attack in 1975, but recovered.
	+ In 1978, Dialga underwent a heart transplant surgery, which was successful.
* His daughter was named for Marilyn Monroe.
	+ One of Dialga’s grandsons was named after Dialga’s father, Dylan.
* His best friend is Bill, a bus driver from Winnipeg Transit. He drives the 85 every weekday and waves hello to Dialga every time Bill passes by him.
* Dialga’s brother was 11 years his senior. He died without children.