[h2][color=gold]Diana Lotus[/color][/h2] [hider=Operative File] [center][img]https://i.pinimg.com/564x/05/59/90/05599053927c8835c909c73903c274d4.jpg[/img] [color=gold][b]D I A N A L O T U S 22 | Female | 5’4” | AB-[/b][/color][/center] [color=gold][h3][i]General Information[/i][/h3][/color] [b]NAME:[/b] Diana Lotus [b]PSEUDONYM:[/b] Lynn Evans [b]APPEARANCE:[/b] Diana is by no means nondescript, though she does seem to evade the eyes of a crowd if only by choice. She treads gently and quietly about her environment, her wispy form not all that imposing upon her surroundings. Diana has short black hair resting lightly around her neck with long bangs in the front. The darkness of her well-groomed hair heavily contrasts the stark shade of light grey that fills her eyes, as though two orbs of ash glint in the sunlight. Diana is very forward in her choice of fashion, alternating between a number of extremes. She is most often seen wearing sleek streetwear in dark colors. This manifests commonly in the form of a black designer jacket that always seems just slightly too large for her, and a skirt or shorts of a similar hue over leggings. Opting for practicality to be inherently mixed in with her style, Diana usually wears a pair of running shoes that maintain a similar ‘techwear’ aesthetic. Almost always, Diana sports her signature black beret and sunglasses to match. [b]OCCUPATION:[/b] Diana was a studying student at an undergraduate university aiming to graduate with a major in physics. Her studies seemed to consume most of her time as she is very interested in her field, so she worked very little with any official long-term employers. She sought to use her degree to employ herself working in engineering or architecture, but the ever-growing scarcity in the job market brings only worry to Diana. [color=gold][h3][i]Psychological Profile[/i][/h3][/color] [center][b]Analytical | Fast-Paced | Decisive | Meticulous | Pretentious | Isolated[/b][/center] [b]VIRTUE:[/b] Devotion Diana is a paragon for her own devotion. When she sets her mind to accomplishing a goal, there is little that anyone can do to stop her. This virtue manifests most commonly when Diana encounters a problem that prevents her from getting what she wants. The logical nature of her mind constantly seeks to optimize and work around such problems. While this process can sometimes take weeks or months, Diana’s determination remains true. She is devoted to the optimization of her own chosen issues. This devotion can appear to consume her time and waking energy on occasion, as Diana strives to complete any task she truly believes in without heed. [b]VICE:[/b] Anarchy When it comes down to analyzing Diana’s worldly outlook, her penchant for a more anarchic world is hard to overlook. Diana never really learned the lesson of the importance of order and law in society. She has found that in her experiences societal attempts at order are often cruel and debilitating to the many. Recognizing this, Diana seeks to live her life by taking more discordant paths. She just never seemed to follow the orderly nature of society. This can manifest in a number of different ways, some ways innocent and others more cruel. If Diana sees something in her life that doesn’t seem to be working properly, she often seeks to seize the initiative to fix it in spite of order or common culturally accepted norms. She isn’t afraid to make a scene, go against the grain, or rock the boat to keep life both interesting and chaotic. Attempts to explain a more organized society to Diana seem to fall on deaf ears. She sees the best course of action to be through anarchic ideas. Rules, to Diana, act more as guidelines. This gets her into a whole host of different troubles as she defies what would be commonly accepted in all aspects of her life. [b]PERSONAL GOALS:[/b] With little left to pursue in regards to her old passions, Diana has devoted herself whole-heartedly to uncovering the secrets of Pyramid Microsystems so that she may discover the truth behind her father’s new position. Outside of that, she has become almost fanatically interested in Gage’s cause. Diana is often the first to back the most risky but rewarding operations he unveils in an effort to further throw a wrench into the side of their opposition. [b]PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY:[/b] Diana likes to view herself as a sort of ‘solider of the common people’. Struck by the inescapable equality of the world, she tries to see through a philosophical lens and observe the problems of modern times. As such, Diana defines herself mostly on the principle that for the problems of the masses to be solved, a collective has to act. The only way that a collective can act is if individuals act first. Diana seeks to be one of these individuals. While she may be preaching a message she doesn’t wholly practice at times, Diana believes in powerful symbolic action to accomplish goals. Diana has developed a deep interest in ancient eastern philosophy to the point where she brings it up far more than she should and far more than she is knowledgeable. Guiding principles of Taoist and Buddhist writings stick in her mind and lead her down a path that emphasizes balance and formlessness. She tends to appear as a rather enigmatic individual because of this, perceiving herself as a “calm, detached, and analytical warrior” rather than one who is driven by anger, greed, or fame. [b]FEARS:[/b] [color=gold]►[/color]Commitment [color=gold]►[/color]Insects and Spiders [b]LIKES:[/b] [color=gold]►[/color]Reading [color=gold]►[/color]Designing Schematics [color=gold]►[/color]Cleanliness [color=gold]►[/color]Fashion [color=gold]►[/color]Action [color=gold]►[/color]Model Cities and Model Figures (some would call them dolls) [color=gold]►[/color]Chess [b]DISLIKES:[/b] [color=gold]►[/color]Germs [color=gold]►[/color]Unkempt Appearances [color=gold]►[/color]Being Cold [color=gold]►[/color]Not Knowing her Surroundings [b]QUIRKS:[/b] [color=gold]►[/color]Diana has a habit of pretentiously quoting and misquoting Sun Tzu’s [i]The Art of War[/i] and its commentaries in all situations. [color=gold][h3][i]Background Information[/i][/h3][/color] [i]”’Only the formless cannot be affected. Sages hide in unfathomability, so their feelings cannot be observed; they operate in formlessness, so their lines cannot be crossed.’ Sun Tzu said that— I think...”[/i] Diana has been a New York native from her birth. Her father worked in business while her mother worked in a small church. As an only child, her early life was anything but particularly exciting. She had a picturesque childhood, an exact caricature of any child in the city. Things began to swiftly change as Diana and her parents grew on in age, though. Diana’s mother wasn’t around forever. Diana’s father first told her that her mother “left”, hoping to leave it at that. Further prodding reveals that he believed her “unfit to continue parenting”. The mystery of what truly happened to her mother was an enigma for quite a long time, as she was vastly too young to observe her mother’s state. As her life went on, she began to piece together the mystery. Diana soon started to receive letters from her mother in a psychiatric hospital. As much as her father tried to hide the letters at first, Diana grew more clever in obtaining them before he could. She never returned her mother’s correspondence, but never failed to read a letter. Even as she planned to move off to college at her father’s insistence, her mother’s letters followed her somehow to her new address. Diana remained very close with her father throughout her first years at her university. The two kept in touch, exchanging tales of work and school. Pushed by her father to attend school for something that would get her a good job, Diana opted to major in Physics, under the assumption she’d be able to find simple engineering work somewhere or go to graduate school. It wasn’t until she finally began to delve into her classes, however, that she realized her passion for the subject and one of its specific applications: architecture. Diana became entranced by design and planning, something she’d always had a penchant for in her everyday life. A dream was formed, however impossible or unlikely it was that Diana fulfilled it. Diana worried for her father quite a bit, as his company was slowly crumbling, and layoffs were growing more and more common. He worried too, though he tried to hide it. He worried for both his job and his daughter, as Diana struggled with money just as much as every other broke student. If he got laid off and Diana tried to help him as she was planning to, her dream of going through school for architectural design would falter. Diana was starting to divide her work ethic as well, focusing on both her architectural ideas but also associating with a new group of friends rather interested in ancient philosophy, poetry, and architecture. She started to find herself infatuated with the past and drawn ever further from her present experience. While things didn’t necessarily get better for Diana’s situation, her father experienced quite the turn of events. As Diana was preparing for yet another exam, she received a frantic call from her father. He told her of his newfound promotion. His company had been bought out by a corporation known as ‘Pyramid Microsystems’. Both Diana and her father had never heard of the company before, but that didn’t stop her father’s excitement. He was going to be moving offices into a prestigious building known as the Beacon. There, he would work alongside officials from Pyramid to coordinate projects. Of course, the only catch was that he would have to move further from his daughter. Diana’s studies started to falter from there. She was unsure if such a drop in her concentration stemmed from her father’s ever-busier days where they would never see one another or speak, or from her mother’s letters which grew more worrying as time went on. Diana could only imagine the state of her mother, but still such a worry was at the back of her mind. On June 6th, 2019, Diana hadn’t made it to class. She hurried to a nearby student pub where she spent the entire day focusing intently on the coverage of the Beacon. Even in the eerie inaction, she found her stomach twisting in knots. The hardest part of the event, though, turned out to happen after the Beacon was secured. As Diana frantically called her father and tried to get a report of what it had been like, he remained almost entirely caged off about the subject, revealing very little. Diana never really understood this, though she assumed he was just trying to prevent her from worrying about him. Diana did watch the Beacon with forlorn eyes whenever she saw it after that. She always saw something off about the whole building and the dealings that took place inside. She found herself at the pub more often, and as time went on, she spent more and more time with the wrong sort of associates. Her mind for art started her off down a darker path of more dangerous substances at that point in her life as well. The further Diana grew from her father, the closer she started to associate herself with her mother, taking the frantically written words of the letters to heart. Diana ended up wandering aimlessly and ending up at her favorite pub in a slight haze where she was reading one of her mother’s letter when she encountered a new acquaintance who called himself Gage. [color=gold][h3][i]Operative Information[/i][/h3][/color] [b][color=gold]T H E A R C H I T E C T[/color][/b] [b]ROLE DESCRIPTION:[/b] Diana’s talent for looking at the big picture and acute sense for detail provides her with the perfect basis to act as The Architect. Whenever entering an unfamiliar place, she finds herself quick to pick up the layout and how it could be utilized in ways not otherwise seen. This comes from her love for architecture and her study of physical science. Applying her studies and keen sense of detail to the real world, Diana is uncannily aware of her surrounding environment. As such, she specializes in altering the group’s physical surroundings during operations. Going into operations with no small time spent studying and observing schematics, Diana is prepared to attack any task from a objective standpoint, and surpass a building’s defenses. If the group needs to find an alternative way through a structure or find themselves needing to manipulate the terrain around them in order to proceed successfully, Diana holds the knowledge necessary to manufacture disruptions in the building’s architecture and plan strategically on the spot so that the group remains both defensively sound and offensively at-the-ready. [b]POSSESSIONS:[/b] [color=gold]►[/color]Notebook and Sketchpad [b]SKILLS:[/b] [color=gold]►[/color]Quick Storage and Recall Diana has a rather fast-acting memory, especially in high stakes situations. If the layout of a structure needs scouted and memorized, Diana can effectively use that information to guide an infiltration through a successful route in the building’s defense. Her memory tends to generally offer her a lot of insight into any given situation as she readily recalls more information that may have been forgotten or thrown out by others. [color=gold]►[/color]Physical Mechanics Diana has a keen awareness of the physical world and how its forces interact. If a mission necessitates that the group facilitate a drastic change in the environment, Diana seeks to find a way to enact change through the physical interaction of her surroundings. If a door needs blocked off, or a group of people need rerouted, Diana may find a structurally weak point in the building to exploit and open up or close off different pathways. [color=gold]►[/color] [b]FLAWS:[/b] [color=gold]►[/color]Addiction Diana is not without facets of her daily life that she can escape. As much as she believes that she’s entirely in control of herself and what she does, an increasing use of smoked opium in small doses has left her developing an addiction that can only grow worse as time goes on. [color=gold]►[/color]Detached There is something the other members of the operation seem to notice about Diana when the group casually interacts. She often keeps herself at a distance from the others, and avoids intimacy with her allies. While she is by no means disloyal, it is difficult to get Diana to willingly bond with the other members of the team. [color=gold]►[/color]Sacrifice Diana’s zealous devotion to their cause of taking down corrupt corporate and political entities has come to consume her waking moments. She is overly ready to accept sacrifice in the way of greater victory. Should she see the opportunity to elevate the success of the cause in a way that puts her in direct danger, Diana doesn’t hesitate to capitalize on it. [color=gold]►[/color]Vindictive As much as she’d like to pretend that she isn’t affected by such emotionally-driven issues, Diana can become rather vindictive in the face of her opposition. A strong line between good and evil drawn in her head causes her to seek revenge and justice against the operation’s enemies even when their morality may appear crooked. [b]SECRET COUNT:[/b] 1 [b]NOTES:[/b] [hider=Relationship Table Template] [table=bordered][row][cell][color=gold][b]Character name[/b][/color][/cell] [cell][i][color=gold][b]Relationship[/b][/color][/i][/cell][/row] [row][cell][Name of other character][/cell][cell][i][Write out your character's opinion and relationship with the character in question.][/i][/cell][/row] [/table][/hider] [/hider]