| “ | Your mistake was liking it. Power. It's the kiss of death. That's okay. I liked it too. | ” |
| — Diyoza to Octavia [src] | ||
Charmaine Diyoza is a recurring character in the fifth, sixth and seventh seasons. She is portrayed by Ivana Milicevic and debuts in "Eden".
She is a major criminal before the Nuclear apocalypse. She was the most wanted terrorist in the world until she was captured in 2043 and became a prisoner aboard the Eligius IV. She and her fellow inmates successfully led a uprising and took over the vessel in 2047. She was aboard the Gagarin that landed on Earth in the Season 4 finale. Initially, she is the leader of the Eligius prisoners and thus the primary antagonist of the first half of Season Five. However, many of the prisoners were more loyal to Paxton McCreary and the two subgroups clashed with McCreary coming out as the victor almost near the end of Season 5. After that, she helps Spacekru for a bit before going with Kane to McCreary with Wonkru's plan of attack. However, after McCreary's death, she is forced to stay with Wonkru, due to the Damocles Event.
Eligius III, and their descendants knew about her and she was put in their history books for her own reputation of being a war criminal. She was banished from Sanctum, so she continued surviving outside the barrier. During Season Six, among with Octavia, she mostly spent her time in the forest investigating Children of Gabriel and The Anomaly.
In "The Old Man and the Anomaly", she enters the temporal anomaly on Sanctum, leaving her status unknown. In "The Blood of Sanctum", Diyoza's now grown-up daughter Hope emerges from the Anomaly and states that "he" has her, but it is left unclear who she meant.
Early Life
Diyoza was born before the Nuclear Apocalypse. She served in the US military, rising to the rank of colonel, and, at one point, a member of the Navy SEALs. During her service, she earned a bronze star and was decorated for valor three times. Shaw remembers watching her on TV in the aftermath of the Battle of San Francisco; she was giving orders to evacuate thousands of refugees into aircraft carriers and to push helicopters overboard to make more room for more evacuees.
Diyoza went AWOL after an IED explosion. She eventually resurfaced and became a terrorist, committing and ordering numerous bombing campaigns and assassinations for a terrorist group, known as the United Liberation Army. She claims that the government had become fascist and fought against them. At the time of her arrest, she was the most wanted criminal in the world.
In December 2043,[1] a SEAL team that she herself trained was sent to arrest her. Her father was helping her hide from them and was shot twice in the head. Diyoza attempted to commit suicide by slashing her own throat but survived. She was sentenced to life without parole for terrorism and homicide.
Diyoza was one of the prisoners on Eligius IV sent to an Asteroid Mining Penal Colony. On April 4, 2047, she led a mutiny on board killing all the crew except Miles Shaw, who had assisted her.
Throughout the Series
In Eden, she lands on Earth onboard the Gagarin and exits the ship with Miles Shaw. While she heads prisoners towards the village, they hear gunshots, which means that they are not alone.
In Sleeping Giants, she along with Shaw interrogates Clarke after she was captured by Paxton McCreary. At first, Clarke refuses to talk but decides to co-operate after realizing that Diyoza's prisoners are closing in on Madi. Clarke agrees to tell them everything and in return Diyoza orders her people to spare Madi's life. Clarke makes it clear that there's no one else in the valley besides her and Madi. Diyoza then asks Clarke to bring her up to date on how the world ended, which Clarke replies how first Nuclear Apocalypse ended the world. When Spacekru landed on the ground, they meet Madi who appeared from the bushes, she tells them that they need to hurry because Clarke is in trouble. However, they were spotted by prisoners patrol who reported to Diyoza that there are other people. Diyoza intensifies her torture for Clarke, claiming that she lied to her. Madi and Bellamy arrive just when Diyoza is dragging Clarke outside to torture her. Bellamy asks Diyoza to spare Clarke's life or else all the 283 prisoners in the ship would die. To prove that he's not bluffing, he shows Diyoza a mug that he carried from the ship. Diyoza agrees with the deal.
In Pandora's Box, she and Shaw notice that someone has hacked into the Eligius IV computer system. Shaw tries to hack back but Raven proves to be a challenge. Then she asks Shaw if he able to open the docking bay door to depressurize the ship. But its inhabitants manage to open all cryopod with the rest of the prisoners. She cancels her order meaning that Raven and Murphy are trapped on the ship. Later, she orders Shaw to launch missiles and attack the bunker to kill Octavia and her people. But Shaw refuses to launch the missiles, telling her that the hacker, has blocked the missile launch codes.
In Shifting Sands, she, Shaw, and Paxton McCreary on the Gagarin spot Wonkru marching to the desert towards Shallow Valley. After unlocking the missiles they fire it at the Wonkru camp. However, some of the Wonkru members survived the sandstorm.
In Acceptable Losses, she interrogates Echo. Echo tells her that it was Shaw who disabled the missiles. Raven then confirms it by showing system logs. Charmaine order to beat up Shaw for his betrayal and put a shocking collar on him because they still need a pilot. Later she gets a call from Clarke, she asks her what would it take to Diyoza to share the valley. Diyoza tells that the only way is unconditional surrender.
In How We Get to Peace, she receives another radio call, but this time from Murphy. He proposes her a deal to exchange McCreary for Raven. However she doesn't need him at all and rejects the deal saying that they can kill him. After solving both problems with Wonkru and McCreary, she takes a walk with Kane. She tells him about the future trading posts and settlements and then reveals that she is pregnant and that she would like to build a school. She then names her unborn child, Hope.
In Sic Semper Tyrannis, Paxton comes back with imprisoned Murphy and Emori. Diyoza knows that he knows about the rejected deal. This leads to a showdown between McCreary and Diyoza's people. Diyoza tries to avoid a fight by coming clean about the cure and telling them her plans for the valley. This calms both sides down. Out of options, Murphy decides to incite a fight by throwing a stone at the crowd. This instantly causes both sides to break into a fight. Charmaine goes to the medical center to get Abby and escape together, however she gets interrupted by McCreary and his people. She successfully defeats all of them except one, but here Kane comes to save her from a shot. Together they escape in the woods.
In The Dark Year, she along with Kane, Raven, Echo, Shaw, Murphy and Emori hides in a cave. They begin working on plan to stop McCreary. Spacekru decides to go to scan the area. They comes back telling that they found an outpost with a lot of deadly weapons. Diyoza figures out that McCreary is using the battle plan she wrote. She tells them that it was very thorough and no loopholes. However, she says that she has a plan. So, Echo calls Bellamy and Indra to tell them about the plan. Just before Wonkru's arrival, Diyoza and Kane surrender themselves to McCreary. Diyoza tells him that she knows he's using her battle plan and they've used a loophole in it to tell Wonkru how to get inside the valley. Kane offers to help him stop Octavia if he lets him and Diyoza back in. Kane then justifies his position by saying that he would never let the devil (Octavia) inside that valley.
In Damocles (Part 2), Diyoza is imprisoned aboard Gagarin when Clarke enters her cell. Clarke takes her to the captain's bridge and threatens McCreary to kill his unborn daughter if he won't surrender. Realizing Wonkru are about to win, McCreary deploys the Damocles bomb with the words that if he can't have they valley - no one can. Diyoza shouts at Clarke to stop him, but it's too late, he already entered the launch code. Clarke, Raven, and Shaw kill McCreary and his men, but there is no way to stop the bomb. In the Shallow Valley village, McCreary's group surrenders. Just then, the sirens sound and Raven broadcasts a message that the valley is about to be destroyed. She orders everyone to get to the Gagarin, and the survivors, Wonkru, Spacekru, and the prisoners, run to the ship. As the bomb is about to destroy Shallow Valley, the Gagarin lifts up and escapes to space. Below them, the bomb explodes and destroys the valley. She later talks to Octavia about them being two serpents fighting over the Eden. She says she understands her hunger for power. Later they all go into the cryosleep.
In Red Sun Rising, Raven wakes her up in need of help taking control of the ship from Prime Kaylee and her family. She quickly takes two of the invaders out and leverages their dead bodies. She then has Raven put on the smaller invader's suit and pose as him. With the help of Madi, they successfully take the ship back. She is then with the crew that went down to help the initial exploration crew, but stayed back at the transport ship, by the command of Abby. She then listed her reason as staying in order to keep it from being stolen again.
In The Children of Gabriel, she is guarding the Gagarin while Gaia is trying to get Madi to learn more about the flame. She laughs at what Gaia is saying and Gaia asks her why it's funny and Diyoza responds "it's not funny, it's sad". The Children of Gabriel silently approach the ship in an attempt to steal the bodies of Kaylee's family. Diyoza heard them, while the others didn't, she stands up quickly and takes one of the men out with a throw of her knife, but they are disabled by the poison darts before they can mount any further resistance. Diyoza later reveals to Madi and Gaia and that she hasn't actually been hit by the darts, as her bulletproof vest protected her. Soon after, Bellamy, Echo, Raven and Octavia come to their aid, and Diyoza quickly executes one of her captors. When they arrive back to Sanctum, Diyoza reveals that she is six months pregnant, and is offered pre-natal care by Simone Lightbourne. Gratefully, Diyoza accepts. Madi then says "Diyoza took out the terrorists" which causes Russell Lightbourne to ask if she is the same Charmaine Diyoza in their history books, next to Bin Laden and Hitler. He is shocked. When she confirms, she is swiftly denied sanctuary and banished to beyond the radiation shield. Madi tries to go with her, but Clarke Griffin stops Madi and Diyoza tells the girl to "stay frosty" as she is escorted away by two guards.
In The Face Behind the Glass, Diyoza is in the woods making a fire to keep warm, while trying to comfort her unborn baby that everything will be okay. Suddenly Jade and two other guards from Sanctum approach her on motorcycles. Jade offers Diyoza a deal - save Rose and bring Kaylee's family's decapitated heads home and Russell will let her baby be born and raised in Sanctum. Diyoza accepts the deal and takes one of the motorcycle to lead the search for Rose. Meanwhile, Octavia has escaped with Rose and the two are running in the woods from the Children of Gabriel. Diyoza arrives just when Octavia and Rose have been surrounded and have nowhere to run. Diyoza shoots all the Children of Gabriel in sight. When Jade tries to go get Rose, Diyoza warns that one of them could be still alive. This turns out to be true when Tosh gets up and quickly kills Rose. Tosh was then killed by Octavia. With Rose dead, Diyoza's deal with Jade is off. To avenge Rose, Octavia vows to hunt the remaining Children of Gabriel and kill them all including their leader, "the old man". Diyoza takes up the opportunity to join with Octavia and kill the Children of Gabriel's leader. And in return, Jade agrees to reinstate the deal to raise Diyoza's child in Sanctum. Diyoza asks Octavia to hop on her motorcycle and jokes about how the two enemies from Earth are now going to be working together.
In The Gospel of Josephine, she and Octavia are chasing after Xavier, who leads them to a swamp-like ground called "the crucible", where they get stuck and begin to sink. He offers to save them after they tell him who else of their people have Blood Alternation. Octavia asks Diyoza to tell him nothing.
While Diyoza remains calm, Octavia actively struggles to go free, which only causes her to sink faster. Diyoza asks Octavia to give up and tell Xavier but Octavia would rather die. Diyoza asks Octavia if she really wants to die and offers to kill Octavia. She points a gun at Octavia's face but Octavia is not scared at all. She figures out that Octavia wants to die because people in her life hate her. Diyoza advises Octavia to stop caring about whether her friends hate her. Being hated by her friends pales in comparison to Diyoza's situation where her face is placed next to the worst people of all time.
Just as Octavia is about to completely sink, they notice a bright flare in the sky. Xavier says it's a temporal flare and it's very dangerous. He throws them a rope to escape and run to safety. However, Octavia is too sunk to move. So, to avoid slowing Diyoza down, she asks Diyoza to run and save her baby. Diyoza promises to come back for her. As the flare hits, Octavia closes her eyes and goes underground. Afterwards, Diyoza comes back to check on Octavia. She starts looking around and notices Octavia's body frozen underneath the ground. She breaks the ice layer and pulls Octavia out. Luckily, Octavia regains consciousness, but her hand looks damaged. Diyoza concludes that Octavia went underground for cover from the flare because she didn't really want to die despite acting like it. Octavia and Diyoza resume their hunt for the Children of Gabriel and their leader.
In Memento Mori, Charmaine continues her journey with Octavia to find the Old Man. However, Octavia's hand is still hurting after being exposed to the temporal flare. Xavier finds them and says he can help with it. He and Diyoza retrieve tree sap which is supposed to be the cure but it doesn't work on Octavia. Instead Octavia's arm starts spiraling. After noticing the pattern, Xavier gives her a rock to let the hand draw freely on the ground. She draws a logarithmic spiral, which Xavier recognizes as the shape of The Anomaly where the temporal flare came from. He says that the temporal flare was a message for Octavia that The Anomaly is calling her. After revealing that he has a similar spiral too and Charmaine confirming it by showing her book full of spirals, they agree to go together to The Anomaly.
In Nevermind, Clarke and a projection of Monty Green enter one of Josephine Lightbourne's memories from before the First Nuclear Apocalypse. Monty finds a newspaper with a picture of Diyoza on it and the headline "Got Her! Inside the Trial of the Century." Putting the paper down, Monty sarcastically comments on how nice of a place it is.
In The Old Man and the Anomaly, Diyoza grows more and more suspicious of Xavier as they approach the anomaly, making fun of a picture of Josephine Lightbourne and only reluctantly giving up her weapons. As Xavier goes to help Octavia, Diyoza sees a Mind Drive scar on the back of Xavier's neck and realizes that Xavier is in fact Gabriel Santiago himself in a new host. When confronted by Diyoza, Gabriel admits it and reveals his knowledge of her own scar from her suicide attempt. Gabriel leads the two women to the anomaly, explaining that his adopted son Eduardo resurrected him in Xavier's body against Gabriel's wishes after his last host died. Diyoza helps the weakened Octavia walk and experiences hallucinations of her unborn daughter Hope. Upon reaching the anomaly, Hope urges Diyoza to enter. Despite warnings that it could kill her, Diyoza enters, followed closely by Octavia. Octavia is spat back out moments later, fully healed, but Diyoza doesn't return, leaving her fate unknown.
In Ashes to Ashes, Octavia tells Bellamy that she had followed Diyoza into the anomaly and while it spit Octavia back out, it didn't Diyoza. Octavia believes that Diyoza is dead, swallowed by the anomaly.
In The Blood of Sanctum, after Octavia and Gabriel activate the symbols on the Anomaly Stone that appeared on Octavia's back, the anomaly expands and a grown-up Hope emerges. Hope tells Octavia that she couldn't get out and that "he" has her mother. Hope stabs Octavia, who told her to tell "him" that it's done. Octavia vanishes as the anomaly returns to normal and Hope collapses.
Personality
She is cold and sarcastic. She is the alpha wolf among the criminals and is fearless, confident and very calculating. She seems friendly towards her allies but most likely keeps them close for the sake of numbers not friendship. She's also very maternal and has displayed a softer side to her unborn daughter. As seen in The Children of Gabriel, she is seen to have been more calm and nice, for example Madi, and she tells her to "Stay Frosty," as Diyoza is banished.
Physical Appearance
Diyoza has pale skin, blue-grey eyes, light brown hair with blonde highlights and hair done up with bangs. She also has a large scar on her neck. She along with most of the prisoners wears the armor of the former security guards including a stamped service badge on the right chest plate. She bears a tattoo on her shoulder of the flag of the former United States which is hardly recognisable as it has been burnt off and shows mostly scar tissue.
Relationships
Paxton McCreary
Not much is know about the relationship between the two, but Diyoza told him that he is her favorite mass murderer. It was later revealed that at one point, they were sexually involved and she is pregnant with their child. However, Diyoza and McCreary have a lot of disagreements about leading the Eligius Prisoners, even when Diyoza refused to trade McCreary for Raven Reyes after he was captured by John Murphy and Emori. This made McCreary very upset with her. When Murphy reveals to McCreary that Abby's medical treatment helped cure Diyoza's people, McCreary got angry at Diyoza for keeping this a secret from him. He then tries to kill her, but stops when he finds out that Diyoza is pregnant. However, when she surrenders herself to him, he tells her that after the baby is born he will kill her. In the season 5 finale he is killed by Clarke after making Earth uninhabitable. Due to his actions and his abusive nature, Diyoza doesn't appear to be upset by his loss.
Madi
Diyoza and Madi seemed to have become friendly with each other despite their disagreement while guarding the Gagarin. When Diyoza is banished and Russell asks if anyone else would like to join her, Madi tries to go with her. Diyoza then tells Madi to "stay frosty".
Octavia
- Main article: Octavia and Diyoza
Appearances
| Season Five | |
|---|---|
| Episode | Appearance Status |
| Eden | Appears |
| Red Queen | Absent |
| Sleeping Giants | Appears |
| Pandora's Box | Appears |
| Shifting Sands | Appears |
| Exit Wounds | Appears |
| Acceptable Losses | Appears |
| How We Get to Peace | Appears |
| Sic Semper Tyrannis | Appears |
| The Warriors Will | Mentioned |
| The Dark Year | Appears |
| Damocles (Part 1) | Appears |
| Damocles (Part 2) | Appears |
| Season Six | |
|---|---|
| Episode | Appearance Status |
| Sanctum | Mentioned |
| Red Sun Rising | Appears |
| The Children of Gabriel | Appears |
| The Face Behind the Glass | Appears |
| The Gospel of Josephine | Appears |
| Memento Mori | Appears |
| Nevermind | Mentioned |
| The Old Man and the Anomaly | Appears |
| What You Take With You | Mentioned |
| Matryoshka | Absent |
| Ashes to Ashes | Mentioned |
| Adjustment Protocol | Absent |
| The Blood of Sanctum | Mentioned |
| Season Seven | |
|---|---|
| Episode | Appearance Status |
| From the Ashes | Mentioned |
| The Garden | Appears |
| False Gods | Absent |
| Hesperides | Absent |
| Welcome to Bardo | Absent |
| Nakara | Absent |
| The Queen's Gambit | Absent |
| Anaconda | Absent |
| The Flock | Absent |
| A Little Sacrifice | Absent |
| Etherea | Absent |
| The Stranger | Absent |
| Blood Giant | Absent |
| A Sort of Homecoming | Absent |
| The Dying of the Light | Absent |
| The Last War | Absent |
Quotes
- This is Colonel Charmaine Diyoza currently in orbit transmitting from the Eligius IV spaceshuttle in low Earth orbit. As we continue our descent to the surface i issue a critical warning: You lined your pockets with the profits from Eligius Corporation while they built their industry on the backs of prisoner slaves. Men and Women ripped from Earth... Stripped of their rights. Forced to mine poisonous gas to make your miserable lives on Earth more comfortable... then abandoned to die alone in space. But we refused to suffer that fate.
- And today we bring you to reckoning.
- Allow us safe landing and reintegration back into our former lives, or we will release the full payload of our mining operation onto every capital of every country that defies us. 1700 tons of fuel that will level and burn the cities where you hide behind policies and lies.
- THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES hangs over your head, so choose your response wisely. Should you refuse, you and all of your profits will be reduced to dust when blue hell-fire rains from the sky. All we ask for is a second chance, peace is up to you.
- — Diyoza's speech to the so-called Free World from her book
- Charmaine Diyoza: "I've been fighting the abuse of power, my whole life, Kane. I'm no dictator"
- — How We Get to Peace
- Charmaine Diyoza: "Calm down, Sensei. I'm too pregnant to argue." (to Gaia and Madi.)
- — The Children of Gabriel
- Gabriel Santiago (posing as Xavier): "Ah, so you're looking for Gabriel. What did Russell promise you?"
- Charmaine Diyoza: "40 vestal virgins and a side dish of none of your damn business."
- — Memento Mori
Killed Victims
- Unknown number of civilians
- 80 civilians (killed in a plane bombing)
- 19 civilians (killed in a metro suicide bombing she ordered)
- One Eligius prisoner (mercy kill)
- Several Eligius prisoners (shot)
- One Eligius Prisoner (indirectly, used him as a shield)
- Victor Lee (shot)
- Daniel Lee VI (shot)
- Geo (shot)
- Several Children of Gabriel (shot)
Notes and Trivia
- The character was announced on August 22, 2017.[2]
- She is likely named after one of the series' writers, Charmaine DeGraté
- Several of the baby names she considered are the first names of the female writers and writers' assistants for the TV series, including:
- Blythe – Blythe Ann Johnson (writers' assistant)
- Paula – Paula Sabbaga (writers' assistant)
- Heidi – Heidi Cole McAdams
- Maya – Maya Houston (writers' assistant)
- Lauren – Lauren Muir
- Julie – Julie Benson
- Justine – Justine Juel Gillmer
- Shawna – Shawna Benson
- Kimberly – Kim Shumway
- She is the second pregnant woman shown on the show. The first was Aurora Blake, seen in flashbacks pregnant with Octavia.
- Due to cryosleep, she had been pregnant for 109 years and 5 months when she revealed it to Kane and Abby.
- Though still 5 - 6 months along in her pregnancy, after her second cryosleep she had been pregnant for roughly 234 years.
- The actress portraying her, Ivana Milicevic, was actually pregnant during the filming of Season Five.
- Originally, the character was going to be as bad as Paxton McCreary but, when Milicevic informed the production team that she was pregnant before shooting Season Five, her storyline was changed.[3]
- Being born before the first Nuclear Apocalypse, Diyoza is chronologically one of the oldest characters in the series.
- In the sixth season, she is seen wearing Miles Shaw's jacket.
- In "The Face Behind the Glass", she mentions the US Marine motto, "improvise, adapt, overcome". She also says, "Good thing there's no Marines left. I'd never hear the end of it for stealing that. Cocky bastards." This may mean she was once part of the Marines, before or after her time with the Navy SEALs. This would explain why she got the rank of "Colonel", which is not a rank in the US Navy.
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