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{{Character
|type=Archetype
|archetype=The Addict
|name=Diamond Devil
|portrait=AddictBeardedLady.png
|occupation=Bearded Lady / Adult Entertainment
|age=20s
|muxname=Diamanto
|activity=Inactive
|story=Carnival
|alive=pending
|in-play=yes
|role=<h3>Coming To America</h3>

Diamanto was one of the ancient nymphs at Nysa, there to receive the infant Dionysus when he was brought to her and her sisters by Hermes. They nursed Dionysus and he in turn slowly drove them mad. It wasn't the god's fault. To love him was to adore madness. As he grew stronger the nymphs of Nysa lost their minds wholly to his power, and his maenads were born.

Those were blissful days, raging through the wilderness in a frenzy of wine, copulation, and violence. Life was one unending party, and if mortals got caught up and torn apart in the frenzy, that was the cost of perfect ecstasy. They were creatures of the wild, and nature is red in tooth and claw.

Diamanto started to wane when new faith began to supplant the old. There was no place for her in the Christian church, who likened her beloved lord to their Satan. His followers became the new church's sworn enemies. As belief shifted, the maenads weakened. They were rounded up and punished. Most of them perished in time, and Dionysus retreated from this new and offputting world.

Worship was relegated to small, remote places done in secret, and Diamanto had to survive off those scraps for centuries.

Wars came, empires rose and fell, and at the dawn of the Twentieth Century, even the small and remote places in Greece could no longer sustain her. Diamanto left with a small clutch of her worshipers on a boat that brought them to a new land. There was so much wilderness to explore! But her worshipers settled in the city, a place called Chicago.

There were no trees, no streams, no beasts to tear apart. Still, the urban jungle is just another kind of wild if one knows where to look. By the time Prohibition had come along, Diamanto went by Dia, and she ran with gangsters in the seedy underbelly of the city. She was a shining star of the speakeasies, and though she still had to present herself carefully, there was always a niche to appreciate her particular brand of womanhood.

Once Prohibition was over, though, Chicago wasn't any fun anymore. Most of her worshipers had been forced by circumstance to forego revelry for the soul-sucking necessity of hard work. They were lost to her, and this wild city had been tamed. It was time to move on.

<h3>Carnival of Wonders</h3>

With a few of her remaining worshipers, girls whose heads Dia filled with the ideas of living free and unrestrained in this society of men, Dia left the city in search of anything that would keep her alive. For days her and her entourage wandered the dry and withered land until they found an oasis of belief in the form of a carnival.

Here, she could sustain herself on the awe of mortals who came to gaze at her. She could slake her passion on rubes looking for a good time, and if she broke one once in awhile, well, she would just have to be careful to pick men no one would miss.

It wasn't perfect. She had to let her facial hair grow to be seen as an oddity instead of the beauty she was. She reveled in it, though, watching men grow hard despite themselves, to see them wanting her even though she broke every rule of femininity. Every time she could turn a nice Christian man into a depraved animal, she avenged her god and fed her aching soul.

Yes, this new home would do nicely.

Diamanto knows she's only delaying the inevitable. She is the last of her kind, and one day she will join her sisters in oblivion. There are days she remembers who she was before Dionysus' madness took hold, but those memories are dangerous. They threaten to separate her from what she is, what she needs to be just to keep from fading away. She drinks to keep those memories at bay. She drinks a lot.

Besides, nymphs are silly creatures who fall in love and end up turned into trees or rivers. The lure of a husband, a cottage, and a white picket fence is deadly poison. Every time some rube promises her a happily ever after if she'll run away with him, she has to push back, because part of her wants that, and it would be her death knell.
|hooks='''Keep the Party Going''': Diamanto is always up for a good time. She can get a little excessive, but it's never boring.

'''Beautiful''': Hers is a unique beauty, and one that can lure you in and make you question the morality of the time. Sometimes the backlash is violent, but sometimes she can work her charms on even the straightest of the straight and narrow.

'''Beastly''': Despite her charms, there's something about her that is untamed, fierce, and dangerous. Mortals can sense it the way prey can smell a predator.

'''Kind To Animals''': She loves them. The wilder, the better. She often prefers their company to that of people. If you're an animal handler, you've probably seen Dia hanging around.

'''Social Creature''': Even though she is dangerous and predatory, she is a creature designed to run in a pack. Trade is her 'pack' and she will go to stupid lengths to defend them.

'''Frenzy''': Sometimes Diamanto snaps, and it's best to just stay out of her way.
|factions={{AF
|faction=Performers
|role=Bearded Lady
}}
|brawn=Good
|brawn-qualities={{ABrwQ
|pn=positive
|qual=Frenzied
|note=Diamanto has crazy strength when she's riled up. She hits harder and takes more of a beating than her sane counterparts.
}}
|finesse=Normal
|finesse-qualities={{AFinQ
|pn=positive
|qual=Fleet-footed
|note=Diamanto is made for running through the wilderness. She's nimble and quick.
}}
|brains=Poor
|brains-qualities={{ABrnQ
|pn=positive
|qual=Long-lived
|note=Diamanto has been around a long time, and in that time, she's picked up a few things. When it comes to general information, she has a lot of it.
}}{{ABrnQ
|pn=negative
|qual=Wild
|note=She's a creature of instinct, and sometimes even things like simple math are hard for her. She's not dumb, but academic pursuits are lost on her.
}}
|spirit=Good
|spirit-qualities={{ASprQ
|pn=positive
|qual=Strong-willed
|note=Stubborn as a mule, fierce as a lioness, Diamanto doesn't scare easily, and she doesn't know how to give up.
}}
|perkquirk={{APQ
|pq=perk
|pqname=Adrenaline Boost
|note=Dia's got that crazy energy going for her.
}}{{APQ
|pq=perk
|pqname=Good Luck
|note=She has survived so far. She must have luck on her side.
}}{{APQ
|pq=perk
|pqname=Shapeshifter (Human)
|note=Sometimes it's just easier to be someone else.
}}{{APQ
|pq=perk
|pqname=Power (Minor)
|note=Diamanto can cause fire to flare and die down. She can also make herself immune to it. - Brawn
}}{{APQ
|pq=perk
|pqname=Power (Minor)
|note=Diamanto can turn any liquid she touches into milk and/or honey, up to 2 gallons. - Spirit
}}{{APQ
|pq=perk
|pqname=Steel Yourself
|note=She doesn't get spooked, she's the one who does the spooking.
}}{{APQ
|pq=quirk
|pqname=Bestial
|note=The vicious wilderness is alive and well in her, and mortals can sense it. Combined with her beauty, this often triggers anger and hatred as well as fear.
}}{{APQ
|pq=quirk
|pqname=Archaic Mind
|note=The more the world moves away from the wild and into technology, the more lost Dia becomes. She can't drive, doesn't trust radios, and prefers to stay away from modern appliances.
}}{{APQ
|pq=quirk
|pqname=Too Pretty
|note=Combined with being bestial, Dia's otherworldly beauty inspires obsession in mortals, and it's not usually the friendly kind.
}}{{APQ
|pq=quirk
|pqname=Weakness (Minor)
|note=Holy water burns. It burns!
}}{{APQ
|pq=quirk
|pqname=Superstitious
|note=Diamanto can't enter Christian holy ground, at least not without psyching herself up for it first. Too many bad memories of Greek Orthodoxy taking over the homeland way back when.
}}
|contacts={{AC
|contact=Bon-Vivant3/Sun
|note=Diamanto's lord and god. He is the sun, the moon, and the stars all rolled into one magnificent bastard. The source of (and one of the few salves of) her madness. She loves him so much she could just tear him to tiny pieces and eat him all up.
}}{{AC
|contact=Confidant1/Strength
|note=Kind and strange, and able to handle her unpredictable moods. Instinct tells her to lash out, then run, but the part of her that still remembers being a nymph is entranced by the idea of his love. Then again, we all know how well it tends to work out for nymphs when a god is in love with them.
}}{{AC
|contact=Martyr3/Hanged
|note=Unsettling, but not necessarily in a bad way. Diamanto is still figuring out how to befriend someone who screams 'prey' without giving in to the urge to chase them down. He's so fragile, Dia's just sure she's going to break him.
}}{{AC
|contact=Thrill-Seeker2/QueenofWands
|note=A fellow predator, Dia has respect for her. They've had some good times, going into town to drink and starting fights. She's why Diamanto doesn't want to break Kemen. Sekhmet would be displeased.
}}
|desc=Diamanto, or 'Dia' as she's called, stands just an inch shy of six feet, and her frame is broad-shouldered and slender. Her long dark hair is often worn piled on her head and held in place by tortoise shell combs and jeweled pins, with loose curls fallen free to frame her face. Her eyes are dark, and in them is the glint of something wild, a barely restrained beast eager to bite.

And yet, with her fine features and fair face, she is a rare beauty. Rarer still, given that she sports a short but lush beard that has been trimmed and tamed to a single curl on her chin. When it's not showtime, she wears a veil that covers the lower part of her face. Wouldn't want to give away the goods for free, after all.

She dresses in fine yet bygone fashions, with long voluminous skirts and high-necked buttoned blouses. She doesn't skimp on frills and lace. It just so happens that she favors the color red, which is reflected in her clothing and the color of her lipstick.
|st={{AS
|song=The Look - Roxette
|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYXczDB8VrY
|lyrics=Fire in the ice

Naked to the t-bone

Is a lover's disguise

Banging on the head drum

Shaking like a mad bull

She's got the look
}}{{AS
|song=Foreigner's God
|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wy15IvvQxQ
|lyrics=She moved with shameless wonder

The perfect creature rarely seen

Since some liar brought the thunder

When the land was godless and free

Her eyes look sharp and steady

Into the empty parts of me

But still my heart is heavy

With the hate of 

Some other man's beliefs
}}{{AS
|song=Not My Kind - Flowers (Icehouse)
|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe7GowYzLmU
|lyrics=Well, I remember every now and then

Some of the places that we used to go

But, baby, tonight I'm drunk

And I don't care
}}{{AS
|song=Wasteland, Baby! - Hozier
|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4rKN_qW5DU
|lyrics=Be still, my indelible friend,

You are unbreaking

Though quaking, though crazy

That's wasteland, baby
}}
}}
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