Diana Lovelle

## Diana Gabrielle Lovelle

### Relatives

Darren Lovelle (brother), Deshaun Lovelle (brother), Deandra Watkins (half-sister)

## Appearances

### Debut

Sisters of the Thorn

**Diana Lovelle** is captain of the cheerleading team at Birchwood High School. She is the main protagonist in Cry for the Moon.

## Biography

### High School and Becoming an Influencer

Diana fought to become one of the most popular girls in Birchwood High School, earning class valedictorian her junior year and becoming captain of the cheerleading team. She travels in only the most popular circles and has built up her own business from nothing, making YouTube videos about black beauty including reviews and demonstrations of makeup, hair products, and clothing.

Early in her senior year, Diana falls during cheerleading practice and twists her knee horribly, requiring a brace and crutches. In her downtime, she expands her YouTube channel and makes more videos than ever, eventually earning more money per month than most of her teachers, but still lagging behind subscribers compared to Dominique McDowell's channel.

Diana learned everything she knew about YouTube videos and influencing by watching other creators, including even those whose content had nothing to do with black identity or beauty at all. One of those influencers she discovered whose videos she admired was creator Eric Bardoff, who records all of his videos in the nearby forests of the Pacific Northwest. Diana takes to Eric as an example of the type of quality she strives for in her own work.

### Relationship With Eric Bardoff

After finding Eric's van at a filling station one night while recording videos with her half-sister Deandra Watkins, she gives her business card to Eric friend and colleague Miles Cafferty, whom she mistakes for Eric in the darkness.

Following the discovery of the remains of Terrence James, Diana is contacted by Eric and requests they meet. She assumes it is in response to her wanting to discuss making videos and improving her channel, but Eric is more interested in questioning her about the remains that had been found in the woods. Diana is hesitant to divulge any details, but he says he knows what happened. Diana agrees to discuss the case but only under the condition that her best friend Alyssa Brouse is with her, because it was her boyfriend who died and she knows more than Diana knows herself. Now it's Eric who is hesitant, but he agrees.

Diana and Alyssa meet with Eric, Miles, and Gary Stevens, and go over the details of what happened Thanksgiving night from each of their perspectives. After this, Eric says he wants to show them something that may be disturbing, and if Alyssa doesn't want to see it, she should leave the van. Alyssa demands to watch whatever it is, she can take it. Her desire to know the truth overwhelms her other emotions. Eric then shows Diana and Alyssa a video that Gary shot on Thanksgiving night, of an old abandoned barn way out in the forest somewhere. It shows Officer Cody Silsby driving up to the barn in his patrol car, and gets a handcuffed Terrence out of the back seat. He shoved Terrence inside where an unknown number of others have gathered, and the door is locked.

Eric stops the video and Gary says there's more but you can't see anything. Whoever was inside, they were in the the whole night. No one came in or out in that time. It's not until morning that the doors opened and Officer Silsby leaves with a black carpenter's garbage bag slung over his shoulder. Gary says he did not get this on video because the gathering of others inside the barn all left at once and Gary had to take cover to not be seen. Alyssa is distraught and extremely emotional upon seeing Terrence on video, but she demands to see the rest.

After showing the full video, Diana asks what it all means. She wants to ask how Gary knew where to film that night but she is too afraid, being there all alone with only her distressed friend in case Eric and his buddies turn out to be crazy people. Eric tells her this gathering happens every month in the same barn in the woods surrounding Birchwood Vale, and all the same people attend. Officer Silsby is there every time. And every time, from inside the barn on the night of the full moon, terrible sounds are heard, and howling goes on throughout the night. Diana puts two and two together and asks if they are werewolves. Eric nods and says that his job is to hunt them, and he needs her help.

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## Notes and Trivia

* Runs a successful YouTube channel where she uploads videos about black beauty and fashion.
* Is vegan.
* At 5'10", she is the tallest girl in her class.
* Best friends with Alyssa Brouse.
* Previously dated Doug Miller, star of the varsity basketball team. They broke up over the summer break between junior and senior years.
* Has two older brothers (Darren, 22 and Deshaun, 20) and three younger half-sisters (Deandra, 16, Destiny, 12, and Daria, 10).
* Is extremely close with her half-sister Deandra, who often helps her record videos. They are closer in age than Diana is to her brother Deshaun and Deandra is to her sister Destiny.
* Raised by her single mother after her father, a long-haul truck driver, died when his semi flipped over after sliding on ice in Pennsylvania. She was not yet born.
* Grew up dirt poor and had to share a bedroom with her sister and her mother in their two-bedroom trailer.
* Family initially came into money when her oldest brother Darren signed a contract to play for the BC Lions in the Canadian Football League.
* Along with her brothers and sister, helped buy her mother and step-father a house in Birchwood Vale so they could move out of the old trailer.