Diana Freeman

**Diana "Dee" Freeman** is one of the main characters in *Lovecraft Country*. She is portrayed by Jada Harris.

She is Atticus’ younger cousin and George and Hippolyta’s daughter. She enjoys reading sci-fi and fantasy books and expressing herself by drawing and writing comics.

## History

### Biography

Diana was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago by George and Hippolyta Freeman. She is very close with her cousin Tic.

## Throughout the Series

### Season 1

#### Sundown

Diana is in the living room, sketching a photo of her mother for her next comic strip. She hears her parents having sex from the other room and retreats to the kitchen, where she is startled by the arrival of her cousin Atticus. Her scream brings her parents to the kitchen. Atticus greets them.

The following day, Diana and her mother go over the check-list before seeing Atticus, George, and Letitia off on the guide trip. Diana gives her father one of her travel comics, designed after her mother. Later that night, Diana calls her father and goes into further detail about her comic strip.

#### Holy Ghost

Three weeks have passed since her father's funeral. Diana and Atticus prepare breakfast. Diana almost sets a place at the table for her father. Hippolyta joins them. Diana wants to check the scrapyard for robot parts later in the day, but Atticus is leaving.

Diana and three of her friends play with a Ouija board in the attic. The lights flicker as one of the kids, Bobo, asks if he's going to have fun on his trip to the south. The answer he receives is "No." They follow that up by asking who they are talking to. They spell out George’s name, which Diana suspects is a crude prank by her friends, but they insist that the planchette moved on its own.

#### A History of Violence

Diana and Hippolyta accompany Tic, Montrose, and Leti on their trip to the Museum of Science in Boston. They go to the Light of the Universe exhibit, where Hippolyta points to a comet named Hera’s Chariot. That credit officially goes to Nancy Studebaker. The niece of an astronomer in Sweden. Hippolyta won the astronomical society’s naming contest, but they didn’t want a colored girl to be the face of their competition. Diana tells her that she should’ve fought for the credit and then exclaims to the entire room that her mother named the comet.

Diana and Hippolyta head back to Chicago without the others. Diana says that everything has been weird since her father died. Hippolyta notices Diana with her father's atlas, which she found in the glove compartment. Hippolyta notices that Devon County is marked as a no travel zone on the atlas and turns the car around, determined to get answers.

#### I Am.

Three days ago, Hippolyta and Dee went to the Sons of Adam Lodge, where all that was left of it was a pile of rubble. Dee called out to her mother from the car and told her that they should leave. Hippolyta then spotted the burned remains of Dee’s travel comic mixed in with the charred remains of the lodge.

Ruby has agreed to watch Dee as her mother heads out for a guide trip. Hippolyta asks Dee if she wants to go over the checklist, but she is uninterested and leaves, a tradition that she no longer wishes to continue now that her father is gone. Later that night, she plays with Leti and her friends.

#### Jig-A-Bobo

Dee attends Bobo's funeral after he was lynched in Mississippi for being accused of offending a white woman. She wanders off from the funeral distraught over the passing of her close friend. She lashes out, throwing rocks at two laughing girls. She is then apprehended by Captain Lancaster, who found her travel comic at the observatory. They ask where her mother is and what her name is. Dee claims that she's on a guide trip. Lancaster asks Dee about magic and how much she knows of it. Upon realizing that she is clueless, Lancaster performs a spell. He chants in the Language of Adam and wipes his spit across Dee’s forehead before leaving.

Dee returns home and confronts Montrose about the lies she's being told about her mother being on a guide trip. Dee is certain that he’s lying and hides away in the bathroom. She scrubs Lancaster’s spit off her head and puts on a baseball hat. Montrose can relate to Dee’s pain. He and George learned early on that no matter what they do, the white folks always take it from them. He tells her that when they come for her, she better make them work for it. Dee then sneaks out the back window after being startled when a book goes flying on to the floor.

Dee waits on the platform for the train to arrive. She notices two demon-like girls with wild hair, yellow eyes, and sharp teeth, coming towards her, though only she can see them. She rushes off the platform as they slowly approach, pushing past bystanders to get to safety. She eventually arrives on the North Side, but the two demon girls have followed her. Dee notices Woody hidden on the side of Leti's house, but she is forced to flee on a bike as the two girls approach.

Dee follows Captain Lancaster to his office and asks if her mother is dead. He’s not sure but says that she mostly likely is. She then asks about the curse he placed on her and what will happen if the demon girls get to her. Lancaster is willing to remove the curse if Dee retrieves the orrery, but she refuses and spits on Lancaster’s shirt, saying: “Fuck you, pig,” before leaving. Dee gets on her bike and tries to leave, but she finds herself surrounded. One demon girl in front of her and one behind her. She pedals ahead towards one of the demon girl as if to run her over but steers away and escapes.

Dee retreats to her family’s garage and locks all the doors but one. She then draws pictures of the two girls. Upon their arrival, she arms herself with a led pipe and attacks. She beats the two demon girls but they refuse to stay down. Not long after, Montrose enters the garage to see Dee randomly swinging the pipe, though she’s the only one he sees. He restrains her, unaware that she’s under attack by two demon girls.

#### Rewind 1921

After being attacked by Topsy and Bopsy, Diana remains unconscious as the curse begins to take effect and slowly kills her. Fortunately, Christina performed a restoration spell to reset the curse, giving Dee and her family another 24 hours.

#### Full Circle

Tic, Leti, Montrose, and Hippolyta return home with Dee and try to use the Book of Names to heal her. Tic recites the spell to unbind the book. It opens up to a page featuring Tic’s birthmark. He and Leti then lose consciousness and fall to the floor. They are taken to an ancestral plane, where Hattie and Dora assist them in removing the curse. Unfortunately, removing the curse doesn't heal Dee's decayed arm and hand.

Dee’s upset with her mother for leaving her. Hippolyta admits that she did leave Dee behind. Though, in her travels, she became who she always wanted to be. Eventually, she named herself “mother” and it brought her back to Dee.

They arrive at the Winthrop house, where Dee reads the paper. On the front paper of the Chicago Defender is the ruling of Bobo’s case. The headline reads: “All white make jury acquits Emmett Till’s Murderers.” Dee takes a pencil and scratches out the faces of Bobo’s killers. Hippolyta joins her and shares a new issue of Orithya Blue, which she drew herself. She was taught by an artist named Afua. She offers to show Dee how to draw but with her hand in its condition, Dee fears she’ll never draw again. Hippolyta tells Dee that time never stops and assures her that she will draw again. She then takes Dee into a room, where only machine whirring and clanging can be heard.

Dee leaves for Ardham with her family, though she stays in the car as they head to the ceremony. Dee reads the Orithya Blue comic her mother drew for her while hidden in the back of Woody. She becomes alarmed at the sound of noise in the nearby woods and crouches down behind the seat. Dee screams for help as a monster attacks the car in an attempt to get to her. Fortunately, Tic’s domesticated shoggoth comes to her rescue. Accompanied by Tic’s shoggoth, Dee finds Christina trapped under a pile of rubble. Dee reveals that she didn’t come to save Christina, who is helpless. She exposes her robotic arm and uses it to brutally murder Christina, squeezing her neck so forcefully that blood spews out.

## Personality

Diana's favorite genre is sci-fi, and she enjoys reading and fantasy books and drawing comic books.

## Physical Appearance

Diana is a young black girl with black hair that stretches past her shoulders and dark brown eyes. Additionally, due to her mother's aid, she eventually gains a robotic arm.

## Relationships

* George Freeman - Diana's recently deceased father, who died during a guide trip. Every time he'd leave for a trip, she'd draw up a comic book specifically for him.

* Hippolyta Freeman - Diana's mother who she loves and has dedicated one of her most recent comics to.

* Atticus Freeman - Diana's older cousin, who she shares a close bond to.

## Appearances

Season One
* *Sundown*
* *Whitey's on the Moon* (credit only)
* *Holy Ghost*
* *A History of Violence*
* *Strange Case* (credit only)
* *I Am.*
* *Jig-A-Bobo*
* *Rewind 1921*
* *Full Circle*

## Quotes

> Everything's been weird since Pop died.
>
> Diana to Hippolyta, A History of Violence

> Stop fucking lying to me! You're all lying to me!
>
> Dee to Montrose, Jig-A-Bobo

## References

1. ↑ *Sundown*
2. ↑ *Holy Ghost*
3. ↑ *A History of Violence*
4. ↑ *I Am.*
5. ↑ *Jig-A-Bobo*
6. ↑ *Rewind 1921*
7. ↑ *Full Circle*