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Character Name: Diana Prince
Series: DCEU
Timeline: End of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
Canon Resource Link: diana at the dceu wiki.

Character History:

Our story begins many years ago.

Imagine an island of only warrior women and a child being born to their queen, Hippolyta. A child who seemingly has to father. Diana grew up on the island of Themyscira, a safe haven ruled by amazon women. She was the only child on the island and so she spent her earliest years watching her sisters train in battle, wanting to do battle themselves. The Amazons were the only inspiration Diana had and she sought out to protect and fight like all of them.

Her mother refused to let her train, however. That was because of a secret she kept from Diana – that she was the daughter of the God Zeus, created as the God Killer, the one weapon that can destroy the God of War Ares and cease his dominion of terror over men. Diana's aunt, Antiope, did not share her sister's view. In her opinion, training Diana was necessary to help her one day face Ares. For a while, she train Diana in secret, showing her every move, pressuring her to become stronger, to become the fighter she knew she could be. With time, Hippolyta began seeing eye to eye with her sisters and finally gave her permission for Diana to train, all the while demanding the truth of her birth to be hidden from her.
And so Diana grew into a young woman, she nursed battle from her sisters and became every bit as strong as them. However, it was made clear she was much stronger – one day when she fought her aunt, she released a powerful wave knocking her back. Much like the other amazons who did not know she was half-god, she felt scared and surprised at her own strength.

That day, the Great War has reached Themyscira quite by luck, or by fate's hand. A plane reached Themyscira for the first time in forever, bringing in a man. Diana saved him from drowning, surprised to see a man as she has never seen one before, growing up with only women around her. The young pilot introduced himself as Steve Trevor but before he could say anything else, the island was attacked by the Germans who followed Steve's plane in order to capture him.
The war brought the awful sight of modern war to the peaceful island. The amazons killed all the men but Antiope was killed in the battle, leaving Diana crushed at the loss of the woman who believed in her and trained her. Antiope told Diana to kill Ares with her dying breath.

This, in addition to Steve introducing himself as a good guy and the Germans as the bad guys played on Diana's beliefs in the stories of the gods. The more she heard about the Great War that was tearing the world apart, the more she believed that Ares was behind it all and he must be stopped by an Amazon. Diana went against her mother's wishes, too the sword she thought to be the God Killer as well as Hestia that can compel people to tell the truth, and tried to sneak Steve off the island so she can help fight the war.
They were caught, of course, but Diana told her mother that protecting the world of men and fighting against Ares are the Amazons duties and that she refuses to shy away from her duty, choosing to fight along men in the war. Hippolyta gave her the tiara that once belonged to the greatest amazon warrior, the late Antiope, and told her to be careful in the world of men as they do not deserve someone as good as her.
Diana left with Steve, filled with innocent ambition to kill Ares and in so doing, make the war stop as she believed humans are only fighting because they are being compelled by the god of war.

The first stop on their journey was London, where Diana first glimpsed the modern life. She found the style of dress to be odd, thinking women needed comfortable clothing to fight battles in and she found the patriarchy appalling, having grew up in an island ruled by fierce women. During an encounter with German spies who tried to threat Steve to give up the journal he stole from the scientist Dr. Poison, she tried to ask them to lead her to Ares to no avail.
The next stop was the war itself. Steve built a team of men and they got the blessing of Sr. Patrick Morgan to go ahead and leave and try to destroy the rest of the gas Dr. Poison was working on, one that can kill many civilians at once. Those days marked the beginning of Diana's split opinion on humanity. She found joy in seeing babies and tasting ice cream, but was also shocked at the many wounded and killed at the Great War. When they reached No Man's Land, Diana was horrified to see civilians suffering the result of the bombings and the war, she demanded to stay and help them. Steve said it's futile, that the war in the trenches was lost and that they need to focus on stopping Dr. Poison and not on battles that are lost to begin with. Diana, however, knew that every battle was her battle. In her armor, she walked through No Man's Land, knocking back bullets with her bracelets and inspiring all the other men to fight and push back the Germans, saving the civilians in the village of Vlad.

Those simple people witnessed Diana's great strength and she inspired all of them, becoming a hero. The team that was supposed to bring her and Steve until that point, was filled with hope at the sight of the warrior women fighting for the simple people and decided to stay and help. Those days revealed two of Diana's greatest gifts, doing battle and inspiring hope in the hearts of even the most uncertain of men. Those were also the days in which she and Steve shared stolen moments of quiet love and fierce passion.
Diana at that point, still firmly believed the war happened only because of Ares. She heard so much talk of the great general Ludendorff of the German army and decided he must be Ares as he was the force behind the attacks. That put her in odds with Steve. While they were infiltrating the man's gala, his idea was to find out more about the gas while she wanted to kill the man himself. He stopped her from doing so, telling her they won't be able to destroy the gas without intel but by then it was too late, Ludendorff released the gas and killed everyone in the village they helped save only days ago.

When Diana saw the mass destruction the gas caused, killing men, women, children and babies, she was devastated. She blamed Steve for stopping her, claiming she could have saved the people if she killed the man she thought was Ares. She even thought Ares managed to touch even Steve, making him blind to the true battle. She left and stormed Ludendorff's base, she killed the man, saying that she had rid humanity of his shadow.
However, with the man dead, the war still went on. That was the moment Diana's faith in men had shattered. She couldn't realize why they were still fighting when Ares, their corruptor, was dead. Steve told her that it may not have been Ares, that men might just be corrupted, capable of great good and great evil. Diana refused to accept it, unwilling to believe humanity able of creating weapons that were meant for mass destruction. She tells Steve she will no longer help him as her mother was right – humanity does not deserve the amazons as they fought with honor and humanity lacked honor or any redeeming qualities.
Steve went on to stop the gas attacks with his team. Diana stayed behind. It was then when Sr. Morgan appeared and revealed himself to be Ares. Ares told her that he doesn't make war, he only whispers in people's ears, giving them ideas but it's humanity that follows those ideas on its own sheer will. He told Diana that humanity was corrupted, unable to do good and that she must help him. His plan was having humans destroy one another until they are all dead. Diana, for all her broken faith, refused to help and fought against him. At the same time, Steve took over the plane carrying Dr. Poison's gas and went with it up to the sky, exploding it and himself at the process.

Steve's sacrifice, watching him die while saving others, giving up his life for the hope of humanity being able to do good and not just evil, had two effects. At first, Diana was mad with grief and started attacking the Germans and destroying their base. However, when Ares delighted in her anger, telling her to kill Dr. Poison the woman in charge of the gas – she refuses. For all her anger, Diana remembers Steve confessing his love to her, she remembers him giving up his life for a hope of better days, of a better future. She tells Ares that humans are indeed capable of great horrors and hate but they are also capable of great love, of kindness and compassion. She spares Dr. Poison and kills Ares in the following battle.
The Great war ends, leaving Diana heartbroken over Steve and scarred by what she had seen but still believing in humanity. Diana returns to London but eventually moves to Paris, becomes the curator of the Department of Antiquities in the Louvre. Her decision for the following years was to keep humanity safe, fight for them but also maintain her anonymity.

The following years were spent like that. Diana was left sobered, grown up in the wake of the Great War. It didn't help that she was also there to see WWII and other horrors that followed. She realized that she may not be able to save humanity from itself but she will do her best to try. No longer innocent, she hid from the world, too traumatized to engage in personal connections after the loss of Steve and eventually, the demise of their team as the years passed.

This leads us to the current 21st Century and to a madman named Lex Luthor. Lex, at some point, acquired a picture of Diana from the Great War. Using a software of facial recognition, he was able to determine that the woman in the picture was still alive and looked just the same, living under the alias Diana Prince, in Paris. Diana was eventually made aware that he had the picture and was determined to get it back. Firstly, it was the only proof of her being Wonder Woman and secondly, it was the only picture she had with Steve Trevor, the man she loved and lost all those years ago.
And so Diana traveled to the US and infiltrated a gala thrown by Luthor. Two others were at the gala, funnily, Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne. Diana, knowing Wayne was a tech genius and there to steal intel from Luthor, stole his hacking device he used, taking everything he stole with her, disappearing once he realized what she has done.

The Batman eventually catches up with her when she comes to Gotham on a business arrangement. Wayne asks her to return what she has taken. She replies that she had only burrowed the device but was unable to hack it. She tells him she returned the device to his car and confesses she was only after one photo, not any other intel. Wayne, curious, says that he has met many women like her. Diana smiles and leaves him with a sentence that will linger in his mind for a while, that he has never met a woman like her.
Wayne eventually cracks the code and is exposed to the intel Luthor kept in his servers. He finds the picture from the great war and contacts Diana, showing her Luthor's information on what he calls metahumans – people like Diana, the Flash, Aqua Man and Cyborg. Diana, having kept herself away from the world, is shocked to see others with such astounding abilities. She decides to study the subject and leave for Paris.
However, when Doomsday ( created by Luthor ) attacks Matropolis, she comes back as Wonder Woman to fight alongside Batman and Superman. However, in the battle, she lost her balance and in the process, Superman got stabbed by a spear of Kryptonite and died. They were able to stop Doomsday but they lost Superman. Diana was once again struck by grief and the understanding she will never get to know the man of steel.
Bruce and Diana go to Smallville to attend Clark Kent's funeral, showing their respects to the man. Bruce offers to gather the rest of the metahumans and make a team, telling Diana he thinks the future will bring greater threats than even Luthor and Doomsday. Diana doesn't give him an answer right away – she leaves the US and returns to her work in Paris. It's while she's there that she gets one last gift from Bruce, the only physical copy of her picture with Steve. Diana smiles at the memory and quickly changes to her Wonder Woman outfit to deal with whatever threat that's looming in Paris, ready to keep protecting humanity from itself, firmly believing that only love can change the world.

Abilities/Special Powers:

Goddess – Diana is really a demigod – the daughter of an amazon and the God Zeus. As such, she doesn't age, doesn't change between the Great War and the 21st century. It will take the power of another God to kill her. As shown in the movies so far, she's basically immortal.
Strength and speed – Diana has the strength of demi-god and the training and discipline of an Amazon. She's strong enough to lift cars and even move tanks, soaring through the air and breaking through a church's stone walls without so much as a blink. She can crumble guns in her grip, can stop bullets with her bracelets and is basically an unstoppable warrior once she puts her mind to it. She is also able to move faster than humans due to her physiology but she's certainly not faster than Superman or the Flash. Later in the series, in Justice League, it's shown Diana is even strong enough to fight against Superman, the strongest being in the universe at the time. Diana is able to leap through the air or across fields and she makes it look effortless and graceful. In the Great War, she also discovered she heals very quickly from most attacks and is immune to the poisonous gas of Dr. Poison.

Mind – she's not a mind reader, nope. But she speaks many languages – all human languages, actually, including dead languages. She's also read most of the classic books that were written including some very interesting ones about sex.

Weapons – Diana never uses modern weapons, she uses the same weapons she did as an Amazon. She's a master archer and swordswoman and she also uses her shield as defense. She has bulletproof bracelets that are basically indestructible – when knocked together, they create a shockwave that can knockback most opponents. She's also very good at horseback riding.

The Lasso of Hestia – Diana wields the lasso in battle but she also uses it to make people tell the truth. In modern times, she doesn't use it to force the truth out so often. In fact, she only used it in Justice League on Aqua man because she thought it was funny. Mostly, she uses it to pull the rug under her enemies' feet and to restrain them.

Pure heart – Diana isn't perfect but she is good and kind and carries with her that kindness and that sense of compassion like a weapon. Not many could live through the horrors of two world wars and still maintain trust in humanity, after all. Beyond all her skills, her greatest one is the ability to instill hope in the hearts of men, to inspire them to do and be better and protect them from harm.

Third-Person Sample:

[ It's the first time she had ever woken up in a place she doesn't know. She's a light sleeper, and so surprising her would be impossible – or so she thought. When Diana wakes in a land that is unfamiliar, the first reaction is to sit up in her bed, look around, listen and only then move.
She dresses in her civilians clothing, a pencil skirt and a sharp blouse. These days, she doesn't need the Lasso of Hestia with her. She has many ways to get the truth out of people, with smiles and suggestions and questions. The instinct of fight is there but she buries it under the decision to try and approach with diplomacy, first.

No one has ever sneaked up on her, which means it's not really a normal situation. Diana isn't worried for herself but she doubts the great mansion was built for her and her alone. Somewhere, there are people and those people will need protection.
She doesn't know what force trapped them here but she knows it's intentions are ill and that others must be kept safe, that is her first and foremost duty. If she comes upon a person – man, woman or child, she will offer them a smile, first - ]

Hello. Have you just woken up as well? You can walk with me. These journeys are always better if one isn't alone.

First-Person Sample:

[ The woman on the network is dressed in a sharp two-piece suit and high heels, her hair is pulled back and her lips are red. One would think they're engaging in conversation with a business woman and not a demigoddess. ]

I've read Alice in Wonderland some years ago. I am certain that there are similarities and differences between this world and the novel it's based upon. If there is anyone out there who is closely familiar with the book and with the other one, Through the Looking-Glass, I would be glad to discuss them. This world is an adaptation and the more I know about it, the better.

[ She smiles, the very sight is reassuring ]

I realize that simply telling you to tell me of this world may be too much to ask and so maybe we can begin by drawing comparisons and contrasts. If you're willing to humor me, I'll be glad to meet you in the tea rooms.

[ And, most importantly, ]

Thank you.