Diedra Kain

"'I... I will not... I will not abandon you. I love you and I won't let anyone hurt you.'""-Diedra"Diedra Kain is a minor character in the Purrfect Apawcalypse trilogy and main character of her story TBN.

Appearance
Diedra's current body is that of a calico cat-dog hybrid, her paws looking more like a dog's than a cat's and is generally able to pass as a dog without issue. Her tail is of medium length and very fluffy. Her hair-fur is naturally long and her natural color is brown, but she dyes it pink for the most part.

For reasons unknown to her, after gaining this body she got pale green eyes despite having natural blue eyes.

When she's a spirit, her form is drastically different. She takes her original form, which is a short haired scottish fold cat. Her hair-fur is cut extremely short, her eyes are blue and her fur all around is a brown color.

Personality
Shy and quiet is an easy descriptor for Diedra. She sticks to herself and doesn't get into trouble if she can help it. She's very adept at staying quiet if the situation demands it and is the only reason she survived the events of Purrfect Apawcalypse, having been covered by the bodies of her fellow students when she fell trying to flee from the demons running rampant in Hachiko High School and knowing to stay completely still and as silent as possible to avoid dying herself.

As a result, she's developed an extreme issue in talking to those she doesn't know, her voice completely cutting out and making her effectively mute at times. She has no problem talking with those she knows but that's hard to do when she is mute until her brain decides it's safe to talk.

After these events, she is heavily traumatized by the death of her fellow students and as a result does not want anything to do with the cat who caused it. To add to this, she can have intense flashbacks to that day which she will uncontrollably narrate which often leaves her a crying mess.

Most of how she expresses her emotions tend to be in small ways, but for those she's comfortable around she's heavily expressive and vocal, if unsure if doing so is okay for her to do.

Before Purrfect Apawcalypse
Diedra was a normal girl, for the most part. A young cat born into a magic rich family, aside from her magic schooling she was an average student.

However, due to her high magic level, she was targeted for an experiment to increase the level of magic a cat could have and eventually kidnapped.

She was put through horrors she still can't fully bring herself to talk about even years later, with her soul being forced to be merged and spliced with several other souls of cats with high magic levels.

To say it became very crowded in her head was an understatement, what remained of the souls forced to merge with her own. Though it eventually culminated in her escape having so many in her head at the time.

You see, she had an amulet on limiting her magic to safely merge her magic levels with the other souls, and during an exercise outside of the place she was being held which pitted her against another cat who had undergone the same experimentation as her the entire time the splinters of the other souls combined with hers urged her to break the amulet, to unleash her magic.

And she eventually did, slamming it down against the ground and shattering it, which prompted an explosion that knocked her out. When she came to, she was in the body of a dog-cat hybrid, and everyone around her was either dead or completely knocked out...and her original body was charred to a crisp at the center of the explosion burn and the cat she was to be pitted against missing their head dead on the ground.

She was quick to flee, not noticing the dead silence of the souls or knowing exactly what had happened. Which was the other souls in her had managed to take hold, killed the other cat while stealing the magic from the souls within them, basically absorbing the souls, and took care of those watching. However her body couldn't take the stress, so the merged souls moved her and themselves to the body of the spying hybrid who had been watching the proceedings and been knocked out (and unfortunately killed) as well, upon which the splinters of the souls fully integrated with Diedra's own, effectively becoming part of her and giving themselves up so she could live.

And also giving her a high and dangerously powerful level of magic no mortal should ever possess.

Alone and unsure of where she was, she ended up getting a job at a local milkshake restaurant to help pay for an apartment and enrolling at Hachiko High School, lying on her papers saying she was a mix of Belgian Tervuren and Australian Shepherd to explain her coloring, tail and ears. Though she felt awkward around so many dogs, being a cat originally and having been raised to believe all dogs would kill a cat on sight, she had little trouble blending in and soon didn't feel like an outsider.

Purrfect Apawcalypse 1-3
As a result of her enrolling early in the year, she ended up being present during the massacre that occurred when Coco Grimalkin went on a rampage trying to find and kill Patches Ito. By utter sheer and dumb luck, Diedra ended up tripping while trying to flee, quickly being covered by the bodies of her fellow students within moments as the massacre continued.

Frightened and unable to move without drawing attention to herself, she had little choice but to lay her head down and play dead, frightfully keeping an eye open and making sure she made absolutely no noise whatsoever as she prayed to all the gods that the demons did not notice her playing dead.

Much to her surprise, she ended up surviving that day, only daring to move when she heard a commotion before the school went silent, no more sounds of the demons echoing and being as silent as the dead piled on her. Taking the risk, she was quick to scramble out from under the pile of bodies and body parts, fleeing the school as fast as her feet could carry her into the dead of night back to her apartment.

She does not show up in Purrfect Apawcalypse 2 at all, staying in her apartment for several days as she tries to not only clean herself and clothes up, but also process exactly what happened at Hachiko High School.

In Purrfect Apawcalypse 3, she is a minor character who can majorly aid Patches if the player is not aiming for the Purrfect Ending and is instead on a misbehave/Impurrfect run, otherwise, aside from interacting with her to get her heart up, she plays a very minor role. She shows up for the dogs and cats learning alongside each other day because she's vastly curious how it'll go, as well as on the lookout for the one who caused the massacre.

She is first encountered in the literature class chapter, where she is introduced as a member of the literature club and notably one of the few non-mangled dogs there, but when she tries to speak to introduce herself, nothing comes out. Visibly panicking, she's quick to write her introduction on a piece of paper before hiding in the corner way in the back after everyone is dismissed to read.

Patches can approach her, where she'll visibly become nervous, before motioning for a pen and note pad as she tries to speak again but nothing comes out. Patches can then go and get it from the book cart, returning to her and giving the pen and notepad will award one heart point for Diedra and she can begin to converse with Patches normally.

She introduces herself before nervously apologizing for her voice not working, explaining she thinks it's because of the massacre she survived that made the other dogs like this. Patches can confirm if she is indeed talking about the Hachiko High School, and point out she literally looks like a cat aside from her paws.

Asking the former leads to her becoming uncomfortable, but does explain how she survived by hiding under dead bodies for literal hours, whereupon Patches can call her lucky or say it must have been gross. The latter gives a heart point and the other takes away a point.

Asking the latter makes her snort in amusement, giving a heart point, silently laughing as she writes out that at least he can tell that. She enrolled claiming she was a dog and no one batted an eye, so she's not surprised he was able to tell. She then offhandedly remarks she didn't even need to try to use a spell to hide her cat features, shocking Patches with the fact she could use magic. Inquiring about it leads to her shyly admitting she is in fact a magic user, a rather powerful one, but she's really nothing special in her opinion compared to the other cats at the school and even the one who caused the massacre, two options then show up that will both give hearts.

Compliment or Manipulate.

Compliment will do as suggested and have Patches tell her he doubts she's nothing special, after all, she wasn't the one who caused the massacre and she was better in his book for it, making her audibly squeak slightly before she writes out a thank you, this is where interaction with her in a Purrfect ending run will mostly end.

In a Purrfect Ending run, aside from talking with her to get her heart up to max, she does not play a large role in events. However...

(Impurrfect run section not yet completed)

She can have a massive role in a Impurrfect run if the manipulate option is chosen and Patches' collar is already dispelled. Having chosen that option, Patches will then have him tell her this is not his own body, telling her he is actually Patches and not Angel, spinning the lie he was forced out of his original body by the original inhabitant of this cat body while they took his own body during the massacre, leaving out the details of why Angel took his body or any of what truly happened.

She's absolutely horrified at this information, asking if there's anything she could try to do, seeing as she was a powerful magic user perhaps there was something she could do, she even admits she doesn't even know the limits of her own magic by this point. She also says that explained "Patches"(Angel)'s different aura and weird mannerisms which made her fur crawl and is relieved Patches himself is mostly okay.

Patches can then either only ask for her help getting his body back, or both that or "tracking" down the ones responsible for the massacre and making them pay for their actions.

The latter actually makes her able to speak around him, which massively relaxes her as she readily agrees, wanting to make that person or group pay and that includes possibly banishing them to the inferno.

When following Angel, Patches can have her sneak up on him and knock him out, at which point she offers to see if she can use her magic to swap their bodies, she just doesn't guarantee she can heal the broken arm Patches' body has.

Post-Purrfect Apawcalypse 3: Patches' Inferno Purrfect Ending
Frankly speaking, things were normal for Diedra for a while after that day, even after finding out exactly what was going on with Patches and the summoning of Bapawmet to heal all those killed in the massacre, she went to school and worked at her job on the weekends, albeit having to tell her boss about her new found speech impediment and trying to work around it.

Until while she was in the library and she was carrying such a large stack of books, ones for studying, to a table and she nearly tripped and spilled the books all over the floor if it wasn't for someone catching her and stopping her books from toppling over.

Coco Grimalkin
"'Y-You...' 'Eh? Patches, what's up with that look on her face?' 'You...you...' 'Diedra? Is something-' 'She...She-SHE'S THE ONE WHO MURDERED EVERYONE THAT DAY!'""-Diedra Upon meeting Coco for the first time and remembering her from the massacre"So, to say Diedra is not fond of Coco is a mild understatement. Diedra's memories of the massacre are unfortunately sharp as a knife, so she remembers the face of the witch who caused the whole ordeal in great detail.

Trivia

 * Her tail behaves more like a dog's than a cat's and tends to wag if she's happy.