Diane McClintock



"He said, 'Innocents? If they haven't chosen to defend Rapture, they've chosen to side with Atlas and his bandits. So there are no innocents. There are heroes, and there are criminals"

- Diane McClintock

Diane McClintock was Andrew Ryan's fiancee/lover before the period of the Civil War in Rapture. As Ryan began to show signs of extreme megalomania, she grew more and more disturbed by his excesses in combating the rebels; as a result, she joined Atlas to resist Ryan, even going so far as to join combat and scavenging missions.

As mentioned in the first few diaries, she went to the Medical Pavilion to undergo some form of facial reconstruction, after sustaining injuries to during the 1959 New Year's Eve Riots. It is insinuated (through both her and Dr. J.S. Steinman's audio diaries) that she may have been the first victim of Steinman's obsessive insanity. Needless to say, her face was not in the same condition when she left the Medical Pavilion as it was prior to sustaining her injuries during events of the New Year's Eve ball.

While in the Medical Pavilion, McClintock heard rumors of what was happening between Atlas and Ryan, as well as the subsequent social decline of Rapture from citizens in the Pavilion. She did not really believe these rumors, but she realized how much the citizens of Rapture were suffering from the effects of fear-induced splicing and the battle between Atlas and Ryan after visiting to Apollo Square. In fact, she was initially furious at the supporters of Atlas for "ruining" her body until she became aware of Ryan's corruption. After seeing the murders and mass executions of people that were considered opponents of Ryan, she became disillusioned and was taken in by the supporters of Atlas.

An Audio Diary insinuates that Frank Fontaine, posing as Atlas, killed Diane out of fear that she had discovered his true identity when she accidentally walked into his office while he was talking in the diary in his normal voice. A body that is likely to be her corpse can be found on a desk in Atlas' headquarters.

Audio Diaries

 * Welcome to Rapture
 * New Year's Eve Alone
 * Medical Pavilion
 * Released Today
 * Arcadia
 * Heroes and Criminals
 * Fort Frolic
 * Stood Up Again
 * Apollo Square
 * What's Happening Here?
 * Atlas Lives
 * Meeting Atlas
 * Today's Raid

Trivia

 * It is possible, though unlikely, that Diane's last name, "McClintock", is a reference to renowned cytogenetecist Barbara McClintock, who contributed considerable understanding to the concept of genetic recombination during cell division, among other topics (her work eventually netted her a Nobel Prize).