Diaya Oro

"'To awaken to the living dream within one's life and remain awake in a world trying to kill everyone to sleep involves repeated struggle, yet also presents something truly worth fighting for'""- Michael Meade"Diaya Safka Oro née Bien-Aimé was the second wife of Syletsu Oro and is the mother of Asla, twins Soeli and Soria, John, and Mimosa. She is also the surrogate mother to Syletsu's son Kynan and daughter Torina.

Diaya and Syletsu owns a large piece of property on the island of Kū in the Pele Archipelago where they build there home and other Qudshans who had reject their species culture start anew. She and her husband opened the popular restaurant known as Syletsu and Diaya's Kitchen.

Skills
Skilled Gardener - To enhanced her cooking anything she's can grow Daya uses her garden with many different types of vegetables and flowers and uses them in her restaurant.

Hospitality - Daya has no particular style of cooking, but according to children, her cooking is founded in hospitality, which may originate from her background helping in her mother restaurant. Daya always cooks thinking of the eater in mind, looking for ways to make them feel better or to ease their stress. Daya also believes that if you cook with someone in mind, the end product will be more delicious.


 * Vegetables - Daya's strongest ingredient affinity are vegetables due to the notoriety of her island's vegetables from all year round mainly to show others the beauty of her hometown.
 * Seafood - Her home island was also near a port and through her time spent at a fishery, she also developed a strong affinity for using various seafood.

Vegetable Carving - Vegetable carving is an artistic skill of carving vegetables into things such as flowers and animals. Daya used this skill to make numerous different types of vegetables resemble animals.

Dried Vegetables - Daya has shown having great knowledge of drying vegetables to be used in her cooking. She can quickly dry them in a matter of minutes in a kitchen or prepare them by sun-drying them in a special drying device.

Etymology

 * Diaya is from Ilocano diaya meaning "gift, gift giving, offering".
 * Safka possible means "grandmother" but this is possibly not true, it is of Ukrainian origin.
 * Her married name is Oro which means "exiled, failing, or philistine" in Modern Qudshu. Oro also means "gold" in Judeo-Spanish. Her maiden name is Bien-Aimé meaning "beloved", which is from French bien meaning "good" and aimémeaning "love".

Trivia

 * Diaya is associated with the Queen of Pentacles.
 * Her middle name Safka is in reference to Melanie Safka.
 * Her hobbies are gardening, playing with her children, and trying new things.
 * Dayana's favorite meal is osam-bulgogi with roe rice.
 * Dayana is also a fan of shaved ice with passionfruit, mango, and kiwifruit.
 * She has an intense fear of heights and spacecrafts.