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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.
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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 child, she decides to put her life outside the game entirely, until the child's death at a dirty cop's hands shatters 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[]
Official character description from and
Power Book II: Ghost[]
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[]
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.[2]
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.
Murders committed by Diana[]
- Felicia Lewis: Beaten to death with a frying pan as revenge for killing her baby.
- Russian Mob Member: Shot to death save Tariq and Monet. (w/Dru)
- Vadim: Shot to death 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 shot 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.
- 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 her safety, as a result of Tariq braking in, got into a scuffle and was shot by Tariq looking for her.
- Zion: Diana asked for Tariq’s help which she gave him a location of Zion’s whereabouts, so he can kill him for her
Goals[]
- Pursue a relationship with Tariq (failed/formerly)
- Follow Monet orders (formerly, possibly ongoing)
- Convince Monet to let her go school (Failed later succeeded through Lorenzo)
- Get her father Lorenzo out of jail (Succeeded)
- Find out who killed Lorenzo (Succeed)
- Have Monet killed for setting up Lorenzo (Ongoing/failed)
- Kill Tariq and Brayden (formerly)
- Get free of the game (Possibly ongoing)
- Hide from Tariq (failed)
- Make amends with her Mother (succeeded)
- Avenge Monet Tejada (succeeded/through Cane)
- Kill Anya Covington (succeeded)
- Kill Noma (succeeded/through Cane)
- Rebuild the business (ongoing)
Trivia[]
- Diana, Cane, and Dru are Black and Puerto-Rican, as she states in the first episode of Power Book II: Ghost.[3]
- Salim was Diana’s love interest, later an antagonist towards her in season 3.
- When Tariq compares the Tejada's to chess pieces, he refers to Diana as the Bishop.[4]
- The Rook, Knight, and Bishop's arrangement in chess is the same as the order of the Tejada siblings from eldest 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.
- She serves as one of the deuteragonists in seasons 1-2, one of the deuteragonists turned final antagonist in season 3 and one of the secondary antagonists in the first half of season 4 and one of the deuteragonists in the second half.
- 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.[5]
Quotes[]
- "Well, to be honest, I know a lot of things."
- —Diana[6]
- "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[6]
- "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[7]
- "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[8]
- "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[9]
- "Bitch, do I look like fucking Colombiana to you?"
- —Diana to Felicia Lewis[10]
Gallery[]
Power Book II: Ghost[]
Appearances[]
Seasons | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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Season 1 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Season 2 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Season 3 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Season 4 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
References[]
- ↑ Post-episode Q&A for Ghost S2E6
- ↑ "Birthright". Ladarian Smith (writer), Ben Semanoff (director). Power Book II: Ghost. Starz. June 21, 2024. 4x3. 20.82 minutes in. Event occurs at 20:49.
- ↑ "The Stranger". Courtney Kemp (writer), Anthony Hemingway (director). Power Book II: Ghost. Starz. September 6, 2020. 1x1. 42.4 minutes in. Event occurs at 42:24. "We're Black and Puerto Rican."
- ↑ "The Gift of the Magi". Andre J. Ferguson (writer), Erica A. Watson (director). Power Book II: Ghost. Starz. October 4, 2020. 1x5. Retrieved on July 15, 2024. "All right, look. Lorenzo's the King. Monet's the Queen. Cane is the Rook. Dru is the Knight. Diana's the Bishop."
- ↑ "Love and War". Gabriela Uribe (writer), Rob Hardy (director). Power Book II: Ghost. STARZ. February 6, 2022. 2x10.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Drug Related". Julian Ouanés (writer), Shana Stein (director). Power Book II: Ghost. Starz. January 23, 2022. 2x8.
- ↑ "A Last Gift". Gabriela Uribe (writer), Brendan Walsh (director). Power Book II: Ghost. Starz. May 19, 2023. 3x9.
- ↑ "To Thine Own Self". Sara Rose Feinberg (writer), Jono Oliver (director). Power Book II: Ghost. Starz. June 14, 2024. 4x2.
- ↑ "Ego Death". Lacey Herbert (writer), Batan Silva (director). Power Book II: Ghost. Starz. July 5, 2024. 4x5.
- ↑ "The Devil's Playground". Paul Eriksen & Stacey Matthew (writer), Sharon Lewis (director). Power Book II: Ghost. Starz. September 6, 2024. 4x6.
- ↑ "Title sequence". Power Book II: Ghost. Starz. Retrieved on July 12, 2024.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 "The Stranger". Courtney Kemp (writer), Anthony Hemingway (director). Power Book II: Ghost. Starz. September 6, 2020. 1x1. Retrieved on July 9, 2024.
- ↑ "Monster". Gabriela Uribe (writer), Bart Wenrich (director). Power Book II: Ghost. Starz. December 27, 2020. 1x9.
Notes[]
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^ 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 and Season 2 of Ghost is that she is in her teens. Her possible age range throughout the series are: 16-18, 17-19, and 18-20.