Diana Tejada

It's like when I'm in class, I'm focused on everything but class. And when I'm in the streets, I don't know, it's like... all I can think about is school. Dru, I can't help but— I can't shake this feeling that I lost something, and I'm not just talkin' about the baby. I fuckin' feel lost.

—Diana, to Dru Tejada
"Married to the Game"
Power Book II: Ghost

Diana Tejada
Seasons	Ghost: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4
Portrayed by	LaToya Tonodeo
Created by	Courtney A. Kemp
Biographical information
Nicknames	D Di Dirty Diana
Age	Teenager (Season 1-3)a
Occupation	Student Drug dealer
Status	Alive
Relationships
Family	Monet Tejada(mother)† Lorenzo Tejada(father)† Cane Tejada (brother) Dru Tejada(brother) Zeke Cross(half-brother)† Janet (aunt) Bronze (cousin)
Affiliations	Tejada organization Tariq St. Patrick Effie Morales Brayden Weston
Enemies	Mecca † Kevin Whitman † Tariq St. Patrick (formerly) Brayden Weston (formerly) Tasha St. Patrick Salim Ashe Freeman† (formerly) Detective Felicia Lewis†
Partners	Tariq St. Patrick (baby father) Salim Ashe Freeman† (ex-boyfriend)
Appearances
First	"The Stranger"

Diana Tejada is a major character in the Power Universe, serving as a deuteragonist in Power Book II: Ghost. She is the only daughter and youngest child of Monet and Lorenzo Tejada, and is the sibling most distant from the family's drug operations. Diana is portrayed by LaToya Tonodeo.

Bright and tenderhearted with scholarly dreams, Diana is a reluctant participant in her family's drug organization like her brother Dru, her confidant in the family, yet despite her dream of a life outside the game, Diana is forcibly kept by her mother within it and under her thumb, determined to make Diana her successor. Monet's grip threatens to break as the family's new business partner she falls in love with, Tariq St. Patrick, arrives and exposes her to a world beyond the family business, and Diana becomes determined to fight for her independence, and with her father's release, she achieves her dream of being a college student, but finds she cannot completely escape the life she wants to leave behind. When she becomes pregnant with Tariq's unborn child, she decides to put her life outside the game entirely, until the child's death at the hands of a dirty cop shattering her only hope of getting out. After following a path of violent vengeance, Diana finds herself and her innocence lost in the aftermath, ultimately resembling her late Mother as she becomes ruthless and shows interest in rebuilding the Family Business.

Description

This section consists of the character's official description/s, provided by Starz.

Power Book II: Ghost

• Season 1
• Season 3
• Season 4

Season 1

As the Princess of the Tejada family, Diana is intelligent and beautiful, but still learning the game. Monet has deemed her "next in line" to the throne and will do whatever it takes to ensure she is ready for the job. But when Diana unexpectedly falls for Tariq and starts seeing the allure of a world outside her family, she will have to decide if she wants to continue being her mother's puppet or cut the strings and determine her own fate.

Season 3

Diana Tejada enters Season 3 on the outs with Monet for exposing Zeke’s true parentage. When Lorenzo finally offers her the chance, she eagerly transfers to Stansfield. But college life isn’t easy; Diana is forced to work to pay for books, and is quickly brought back into the business to move product. Diana craves freedom from the business, but finds it difficult to completely break ties with her family.

Season 4

At the end of Season Three, Diana and Dru’s botched attempt to avenge the death of their father, Lorenzo, by killing the person responsible — their mother, Monet — is just the first in a series of major life cataclysms Diana is about to experience For Diana, Season Four is a season of emotional and physical turmoil which takes Diana from semi-trepidatious teen to a young woman trying to captain her own life. By the end of Season Four, Diana makes a decision about the direction she’ll ultimately take her life in, as she finds herself morphing into the woman she’s fought so desperately not to become: her mother.

Biography

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Power Book II: Ghost

Early life

As a child, Diana was taught by her mother Monet the game, making her bag and weigh cocaine with her older brother Dru and teaching them to lie about their family's criminal activities.

Season 1

Diana Tejada is the youngest child of Monet and Lorenzo Tejada, and the princess of the Tejada family. She is described as, intelligent and ambitious. Diana is also the voice of reason and the family's rock, and she is known to put her own goals aside to make sure her family is taken care of. However, her mother, Monet, often limits Diana's ability to use her looks to get what she wants, and manipulates her to suit her own ambitions.

Season 2

In Season two of Power Book II: Ghost, Diana Tejada is the Daughter of drug traffickers Monet Tejada and Lorenzo Tejada. Diana begins the season trying to establish herself, but after revealing her mother's secret and being shunned by her family, she starts to consider a life outside of the family business. However, she soon finds herself deeper in the drug game than ever before after helping Monet kill a detective and moving drugs for Lorenzo.

Diana's Evolution in Season 2

• From Naivete to Ambition: While initially wanting to go to school, Diana becomes tired of her mother's control and begins to develop her own cunning and ambition to gain independence.
• Strategic Manipulation: She actively works against Monet's wishes, secretly making moves to help her family. A prime example is her manipulation of Tariq, using his feelings for her to secure a referral to lawyer Davis MacLean, which ultimately helps free Lorenzo.
• A Partnership with Tariq: Diana's deep feelings for Tariq become more complex as she navigates her loyalty to her family and her own desires, eventually leading to a sexual relationship and their joint participation in the family drug business.
• Challenging Monet: Diana confronts her mother, leading to a climactic dinner scene where she exposes family secrets, including Monet's role in Zeke's death.

Key Plot Points

• Father's Release: Diana plays a key role in securing Lorenzo's release from prison by leveraging her connection with Tariq and her own strategic thinking, much to Monet's chagrin.
• The Tejada Family Dinner: This iconic scene sees Diana confront Monet about her manipulations and secrets, leading to a brutal family breakdown and the exposure of family truths.
• Zeke's Death: Diana's actions and the ensuing family conflict directly lead to Zeke's death, a major turning point in the Tejada storyline.

Increased Entanglement in the Drug Game: By the end of the season, Diana finds herself deeper in the drug business than ever before, a stark contrast to her initial desire for a normal life.

• Betrayal of Tariq: Diana's actions at the end of the season 3, driven by a desire to protect herself and her family, result in her betraying Tariq, creating significant tension for the future.

Season 3

Diana's third season journey is one of ambition and awakening. She starts the season wanting to escape the family business and pursue an education. However, her father's death and the shifting power dynamics of the drug world push her into a more ruthless role, similar to her mother's cunning. She becomes a calculating player, ultimately betraying Tariq, a move that could set her up to claim a powerful position in the family's future.

Season 4

In Power Book II: Ghost Season 4, Diana is caught between wanting a life free from the drug game and her mother's Monet control ultimately facing tragedy. Her trauma deepens after Monet's death, leading Diana to embrace her family's legacy for revenge, culminating in a violent confrontation and acceptance of her power within the dangerous world of the Tejada empire.

Murders

Committed by Diana

• Felicia Lewis: Beaten to death with a frying pan as revenge for killing her unborn baby.
• Russian Mob Member: Shot to death save Tariq and Monet. (w/Dru)
• Vadim: Shot to death to save Tariq and Monet. (w/Dru)
• Anya Covington: Shot multiple times in the back to get revenge on Noma for killing Monet.

Connected to Diana

• Rico Barnes: Went to pick up Monet, after being killed by her, Diana destroyed the burner phone she used to call him.
• Joseph Parks: In the basement with Tariq giving him more product, before hearing the shot from Monet's gun killing him in self defense.
• LeShawn: She framed him after taking Monet money to pay Davis to get her father out of prison, with Monet blaming him for stealing the money, killing him in the process.
• Caridad Milgram: With Monet's secret exposed to her family which caused Zeke to disown her, Monet killed Caridad via strangulation to prevent Zeke from going back to Carrie.
• Zeke Cross: Lorenzo shooting him in the back killing him, entering the plane after believing he was Mecca, Diana told her Father Lorenzo Tejada what was in Mecca’s bag that Tariq, Cane, Monet, Effie, Dru, Brayden and GTG had stolen in a robbery plot from Mecca. Connection to the events lead to Zeke's death.
• Kevin Whitman: Lured Whitman to the Tejada household to frame him for breaking and entering, making Diana an accessory to murder, he was shot to death by Monet.
• Salim Ashe Freeman: Diana went to him to get away for safety, resulting. Tariq braking in, getting in a scuffle, leading to being shot and killed. searching for her.
• Zion: Diana asked for Tariq’s help in which she gave the location of Zion’s whereabouts, so he can kill him for her

Trivia

• Diana, Cane, and Dru are Black and Puerto-Rican, as she states in the first episode of Power Book II: Ghost.
• Salim was Diana’s love interest, later becoming an antagonist towards her in season 3.
• When Tariq compares the Tejada's to chess pieces, he refers to Diana as the Bishop.
  • The Rook, Knight, and Bishop's arrangement in chess is the same as the order of the Tejada siblings from oldest to youngest (or youngest to eldest, depending on the side of the board).
• Prior to Felicia Lewis's killing, Diana was the only Tejada to not commit a murder.
• Diana and Dru are the only characters besides Tariq to be paralleled to James St. Patrick.

• Diana's official character images mirror Monet's.
  • The character images of the Power Universe sometimes parallel or mirror each other if those characters have a connection. For example, Vic and Claudia Flynn's images are parallel as an indication of them being siblings, as with Dru and Cane's Season 3 images.
  • Diana's character images resembling Monet's indicates their mother-daughter connection, Monet's wish to make Diana her successor, and Diana's eventual transformation into her mother.
• Diana, Cane, and Dru played three-card monte as children, as Dru once recounts to Tariq. Dru mentions Cane would distract Dru so Diana would steal the money card, ensuring Dru's loss.
• Diana was the only Tejada without a rap sheet, at least before she is arrested.
• Diana is currently the only last standing Tejada left in Queens, New York, Cane is on the run, Dru left for Paris on an internship for his art, Monet, Lorenzo and Zeke are all deceased.

Quotes

"Well, to be honest, I know a lot of things."

—Diana

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"I ain't the only one fucking somebody I ain't supposed to, Ma! How about the fact that you're fucking some dude named Dante? I'm sorry, let me clarify real quick. I mean Zeke's dad!"

—Diana to Monet

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"This whole time you made me feel worthless, saying what happened to Zeke was my fault, but it's you. It's you that kill everything good in this family, first Zeke, now Papi. You know what? If anybody should be dead, it's your ass, not them!"

—Diana to Monet

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"Listen to me. I know it's been a hard year. You've done things you never thought you could do. We both have. And despite everything Monet's done to fuck us up... Dru, we ain't like her. And we don't have to be, you hear me? We don't have to be. Look at me. We can be better than her. I know we can."

—Diana to Dru

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"I've had some time to think. Some people told me this baby could be a fresh start, and some straight up told me to get rid of it. But honestly, the only thing that made sense was to listen to how I feel. To think about my life and how much this decision could change it."

—Diana to Tariq

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"Bitch, do I look like fucking Colombiana to you?"

—Diana to Felicia Lewis

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Cane Tejada

Ain't no skinny n***** named Tariq comin' through to flirt with, huh?

Diana

Ooh... you got jokes!

Cane Tejada

Oh, I do.

Diana

Well, how's your mistress in here and you not even married yet? Turn around.

Dru Tejada

Mistress!

Diana

Mistress. A whole mistress.

— Diana, Cane, and Dru at the Tejada bar before Cane's wedding with Noma

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"Now she knows how it feels."

—Diana after killing Noma's daughter

Gallery

Power Book II: Ghost

The Tejada's as chess pieces. Diana appears as the Bishop, which Tariq compares her to.

Diana's first appearance.

Tejada family pictures.

Diana talks about her family with Tariq. A photograph of younger Diana sits on the left.

Tariq reaches for Diana's baby picture.

Tejada's with Zeke and his coach.

Appearances

Power Book II: Ghost
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Notes

a. ^ During a Season 2 post-episode Q&A, Kemp stated that Diana is in her teens, while Monet's sons are all in their twenties. While the sons' ages can be estimated, all that can be found about Diana's age in Season 1 to Season 3 (Season 2 and 3 takes place within the same year) of Ghost is that she is in her teens. Her possible age range throughout the series are: 16-18, 17-19, and 18-20.