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"running through the parking lot" - running through her house, trying to escape ethan because she was horrified of her own death.

"he chased me and he wouldn't stop" her running with scissors still STUCK IN HER DAMN HEAD

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Melanie Martinez - Tag, You're It (Official Audio)

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steven universe gives me muse lets not discuss it

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let's say there is a boss battle between donna and ethan, and we ignore the canon.

she would run out to her daughter's grave, legs pumping. they're circling around the grave, a mother who lost her child and a father who lost his.

she wants him to feel her pain, feel the ache because his is ALIVE and fine, hers is in that grave. she wishes all she had to do was gather flasks.

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this would be the piece of her death, body going numb as the scissors are implanted into her frontal lobe. angie beside her, in a tight grasp that is beginning to slowly loosen. all the dolls are slowly becoming lifeless, her body aches with pain before her last glimpse is ethan winters and the ceiling.

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like imagine 50+ dolls coming at you, a psycho doll maker that is telling you to run before she strings you up by (INSERT BODY PART)

angie isn't even a mouth piece anymore, so it's this deep voice telling you all the ways she plans to string you up like a doll. angie is your #1 hater though she ALSO wants to kill you

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her entire boss fight is a huge hide and seek that is abSOLUTELY HORRIFYING.

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not necessarily thinking that she is untouchable, but talking DOWN at someone, as if they're the stupid ones for daring to cross her, or referring only to her opponent as "human" or "thing." not even man-thing man she is past gender associated terms

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Steven Universe | The Crystal Gems fight Blue Diamond | Reunited | Cartoon Network

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the inspo from blue diamond..,,,

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- the psyche, i momentarily had mentioned, would come into play. perhaps instead of CONTROLLING them, she would enforce her emotions to overrule them.
- to control what is used to make dolls-- meaning, SCISSORS, fabric, rope, etc. in this case, i think the end goal would be to have another playmate.
- the final form would have something to do with the sun and the moon. due to donna already representing the moon, the hallucinations would be much stronger and harder to break from, especially when she wants to attack you. perhaps her form shifts into a much taller version of herself-- PERHAPS A SKELETON?
- she is represented by the dark weaver, who oddly resembles a skeleton.
- bright bursts of energy to represent the sun and when you defeat this form, there is another bright light and there she is DEAD AS HELL

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"That wasn't very friendly, Mr Winters. Would you have guessed that mortal souls tend to break much more easily than the likes of us?" Because our smol goth wife at least deserved a proper boss fight!...

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i like to think that because donna is AWARE she is one of the weakest lords physically (despite still needing three stabs to the frontal lobe with a pair of scissors). therefore, she studies the human body to know where to attack when invaders occur.

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donna has high intelligence, this is known.

i think that she probably studies the plants closely in her free time (just so she is busy) and will take note of their every effect.

she has a laboratory basically in her basement

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November 27th.

Mistress Donna seems happy.

It might be my imagination, but I feel her doll Angie is even more lively than before.

She came to me in the garden today and used Angie to talk with me. We had a mighty fine conversation.

Something about receiving a gift of power from Mother?

November 29th.

Mistress Donna gave me yellow flowers and told me to plant them in the garden.

I planted them in front of Miss Claudia's grave. I don't know if it was the scent of the flowers, but I felt like headed. Then, like a dream, I saw my departed wife.

I mentioned this to Donna and she seemed thrilled by it. She told me to go to the house tomorrow and see her. She said I could see my family once more.

I'm not sure what she meant by that, but she's so kind.

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Let Us Adore You (Reprise) [Blue Diamond solo]

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unlike the other lords, donna does not participate in experimenting with the cadou.

but, if she did, i feel like she would make mutated human dolls.

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while she may not be the strongest of the lords, i'm sure she has blood beneath her belt.

i imagine her to have a bit more strength than a regular human (hence why she was able to get stabbed with a pair of scissors three times in the head). i wouldn't doubt that she's taken travelers and given them to the dimitrescu's before bringing them back to have spare parts for her dolls. do I think she has human dolls? probably not, she doesn't seem like the type. but she does ABSOLUTELY seem the type to use their blood to study it, or study their bones.

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what if donna makes people into dolls?

and not just them into dolls, but incorporates their soul. it is apparent by the cadou effects that she can control dolls. so, that means she gives the dolls a momentary soul.

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this bitch makes dolls of people LMAO

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donna is a villain.

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"beg me for mercy
admit you were toxic
you poisoned me just for
another dollar in your pocket
now i am the violence
i am the sickness
won't accept your silence
beg me for forgiveness"

i feel as if there is another side of donna we did not get to witness. i think her illness could led to her snapping.

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"what you gon' do
when there's blood in the water?"

donna and her parents?

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to our kind lady, hear our prayer.

the one who caresses our dreams,
the one who caresses our nightmares.

pull our strings, we call upon
thee to guide us to safety, guide
us to home.

in grief and hope,
lady beneviento.

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donna secretly loving tarot cards? yes.

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half the sun and half the moon

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"illusion and deception" - hallucinogenic plants.

"could be a misunderstanding on your part or a truth you cannot admit to yourself" the baby in donna's basement for ethan winters.

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card of illusion and deception, suggesting a time when something is not as it appears. could be a misunderstanding on your part or a truth you cannot admit to yourself.

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portends good fortune, happiness, joy and harmony.

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donna has statues in the forest that leads to the house. i think this represents her, for she is always in a state of grief.

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"William Wetmore Story. His wife's death so devastated Story that he lost interest in sculpture, but was inspired to create the monument by his children."

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donna is a loyal follower of miranda, but only because she transformed her. otherwise, i don't think she has much attachment to miranda.

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"our lady of sorrows." specifically i feel represents donna. as well as crying mother mary.

i think the village is more religious than we believe, that even represents mother miranda. mother miranda has her own chant, but i cannot help but think that the other lords also have their own chant.

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donna DOES understand humans and their emotions, for she is the most human out of the lords but doesn't understand their functioning around it.

my theory is that she didn't truly want to fight ethan because she knew it would end in her demise, but also that she wanted to be friends.

donna, already, canonically cannot let go of the past. she wears all black mourning garments.

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from steven universe, it is known that she suffers from sadness due to the death of pink diamond.

"she has a reputation for mercy and forgiveness."
"she is unable to let go of the past."
"additionally, blue diamond seems not to understand humans."

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"Concept art states that the base concept for Donna is simply that "she's a ghost." - "Since most of her communication occurs using Angie as a medium."

could donna have a direct connection with ghosts? mediums are people who can contact with spirits & communicate between the dead and the living. i could see her being able to do this.

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"The English localization claims that Donna developed interpersonal anxieties due to a scar on her face. This is absent in the Japanese version, which instead suggests it came from the death of her parents during childhood."

i find the childhood death much more believable, hence why this could be the STARTING of her mental illnesses.

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i imagine someone who could probably have direct control over people. a momentary effect that causes them to be controlled like dolls, but this is OP as hell. perhaps it's only momentary and she only uses it when necessary. or perhaps there is a way to break out of her control.

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- "Donna has the ability to divide her Cadou among dolls, allowing her to control them remotely. She uses this to animate Angie for use as a companion and mouthpiece."
- Due to the fact that she is using her power to control the dolls, this could mean that she doesn't have a final form due to expanding her power.

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- Bernadetta Beneviento, experimented on in the 1950s by Miranda. 21 years old.
- Sir Beneviento & Lady Beneviento, her parents that committed suicide when she was younger.
- Claudia Beneviento (my personal headcanon), Donna's only daughter that died at nine years old.

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Prime universe
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Donna Beneviento

Modelled after (Model):

Daniela Aiko (credited as "Daniela L") [2] (Body; Face on portrait)
Lisa Goodwin (Corpse face; Reused asset) [3]

Donna Beneviento was a mutant human doll-maker who resided in an Eastern European mountain range. Dressed in mourning garbs, she was usually seen with her doll, Angie, through which she often communicated.

Donna Beneviento was born into gentry sometime in the 20th century. The family of House Beneviento had ancestral links to Berengario, an ancient mutant in folklore said to have settled the region with three others, from whom the Dimitrescu, Moreau and Heisenberg families are descendant. Whether this feudal rule over the region was continually maintained or had disappeared by the Great War is uncertain, though Miranda - a prophet serving the Black God - sought to establish their descendants as a council controlling the region under her oversight.

During Donna's lifetime, the Beneviento family slowly fell apart; Bernadette was lost to Miranda's experiments in the 1950s, and her parents committed suicide when she was still a child. Due to an undiagnosed mental health problem, Beneviento developed deep-seated interpersonal anxieties which kept her largely isolated, preferring to talk to people through Angie, a doll made by her father. Donna's adulthood was mostly focused on her hobby of doll-making, effectively replacing her deceased family. Whether Claudia was a sister or her only daughter is uncertain.

At some point in adulthood, Donna was implanted with the Cadou like Bernadette before her. She survived the experimentation with little change in physical appearance or cognitive development, gaining the ability to secrete a psychoactive chemical which could induce extreme, even violent hallucinations in people. She was, however, judged to be a failure by Miranda, who saw her as mentally ill and underdeveloped. In spite of this, Donna was welcomed as an adopted daughter, and given a council seat at the Cave Church as one of the Four Lords. This had a positive effect on her and she would talk about it to her gardener, though was still not able to express it without Angie.

Abduction of Rose (2021)

When Ethan Winters was captured by Heisenberg, the four house lords held a meeting to discuss his fate. Donna stayed quiet throughout the meeting, interacting with the others through Angie.

Following Ethan's battle with Alcina Dimitrescu, he embarked on a mission to retrieve all of Rose Winters' body parts. The first area he was able to visit was House Beneviento. On the way to the estate, he unwittingly inhaled the pollen of Mold-infected flowers, allowing Donna to taunt him with hallucinations of his dead wife.

Upon reaching the house and travelling to the basement, Ethan came across the seemingly unattended leg flask on top of Angie. As he tried to grab it, however, Donna cut the power and the flask disappeared, along with all of Ethan's weapons. As Ethan searched for a way to escape, she taunted him with dolls resembling Mia, recordings of Mia's private thoughts, and mementos of their time raising Rose. As he searched further, he was pursued by a grotesque foetus-like monster which echoed a baby's wails throughout the halls. It is likely that many of the things he experienced after reaching the basement - including both the monster and the loss of his weapons - were hallucinations created by Donna.

When Ethan managed to return to the ground level of the house, Donna appeared with Angie, begging him not to leave. She sent her dolls to attack him, but he managed to fend them off. Angie hid throughout the house, instructing Ethan to find her before her "friends" killed him. He managed to find Angie three times, stabbing her with a pair of scissors each time. After stabbing Angie once more, the illusion broke and Ethan realized he had been stabbing Donna herself all along. He only caught a glimpse of her before she calcified and crumbled away, leaving behind a lifeless Angie and a piece of the Four-Winged Unborn Key; afterwards, a hidden pedestal with the Legs Flask was revealed near the front door of the mansion.

Donna has the ability to divide her Cadou among dolls, allowing her to control them remotely. She normally uses this to animate Angie for use as a companion and mouthpiece, but she can control several dolls at once in order to attack Ethan. Her mutation also allows her to secrete a pheromone which controls plants infected by the Mold; she can induce hallucinations in those who have inhaled the pollen of the infected plants.

As a side effect of her mutation, Donna suffers from a debilitating mental illness, which seems to have given her a child-like mentality while exacerbating her agoraphobia and fixation on dolls. Despite this, she remains a talented dollmaker, even outfitting some of her creations with retractable bladed limbs for combat purposes. Unlike most Cadou-mutated entities, her physique is seemingly no different from a normal human, apart from a mutated abscess growing over her right eye. Due to this and the relatively mundane means of her death, it's likely that she is the weakest of all the Four Lords in terms of physical ability.

Unlike her fellow Lords, Donna Beneviento never transforms or even fights Ethan directly, instead inducing hallucinations in the player. Her final encounter involves pursuing Angie around the first and second floors of her house in order to stab her in the head with the Scissors. Angie's first hiding place is always the second floor bedroom, and her subsequent hiding spots will be exclusively on the first floor. Angie can be easily overlooked if the player is rushing, but she can be distinguished from the other dolls by her white dress and her position; she sits on the floor with her head slumped forward while the other dolls are standing up. Once the player has stabbed Angie three times, the hallucinations will end and they will be revealed to have stabbed Donna herself to death.

If the player takes too long to find and stab Angie during the "game", they will be attacked by other dolls crafted by Lady Beneviento. As the player has no healing items, each hit cannot be healed; the health of the player prior to the fight is important to determine how many hits they can take. The doll attacks will be preceded by increasing laughter and shaking from the dolls standing around the house. The attack from these dolls is also unavoidable once triggered, as they attack the player during a cutscene.

It is currently unknown if Angie moves when the other dolls attack; further testing is required to determine that.

Further notes

Her name is likely of Italian origin. "Donna" directly translates to "Woman", but could also stands for "Lady", as "Donna" is used as a synonymous of "Signorina", which in Italian means, precisely, "Lady", and "Beneviento" combines the Italian bene meaning "good" with the Spanish viento meaning "wind". Of note is the similarity to the Italian word benvenuto, meaning "welcome", as well as the southern Italian town of Benevento.

Donna is the only one of the Four Lords to lack a monstrous second form. It's unclear if she was incapable of mutating further or if she was simply killed before she had a chance, although the ease with which Ethan killed her and her heavy use of hallucinations implies the former.
It is also possible that dividing her Cadou among multiple dolls prevented her from mutating.

Donna is the only of the Four Lords not to drop crystallized remains upon death: she instead drops Angie, worth the same amount as the other lords' drops.

As with all the Four Lords, Donna is based on tropes of gothic literature; specifically, she is based on stories of ghosts and hauntings of objects like dolls. Concept art states that the base concept for Donna is simply that "she's a ghost".

The English localization claims that Donna developed interpersonal anxieties due to a scar on her face. This is absent in the Japanese version, which instead suggests it came from the death of her parents during childhood.

Since most of her communication occurs using Angie as a medium, Donna herself only has one line of actual dialogue in the game.

Donna appears to be the only Lord which does not perform any Cadou experiments on human subjects.

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