Nadia Moore

Nadia Moore, later known as Juni Swan, is a character in The Demonata, a series of books by Darren Shan. She is the albino love interest of Dervish Grady and has the ability to see things before they happen.

In the 6th book, Demon Apocalypse, it is revealed that Juni is in fact Nadia Moore from the 2nd book, Demon Thief, who has now joined forces with Lord Loss.

Early years
From an early age, Nadia's parents noticed that she had the ability to accurately predict the future. During her childhood, she travelled around, gaining money using her powers. One day, Beranabus found out about her and kidnapped her to join The Disciples. Nadia gained an undying hatred for Beranabus because of it, even when she had travelled with the Disciples for years.

Nadia's visions into the future are never specific, but often still helpful. In Demon Thief, she told Beranabus that a piece of the Kah-Gash would be found soon and that somebody from the group would die (this turned out to be Raz). Although in the book Kernel is able to lead her to freedom in the human world, Beranabus makes Kernel open a portal so that Nadia can be taken back into the Demonata universe. Nadia hated Beranabus even more for it.

When The Disciples arrived at the castle of Lord Loss in Demon Thief, Nadia made a deal with Lord Loss that, if he would stage her death and relieve her of Beranabus, she would use her abilities to help him. This deal goes through, and Nadia is presumed dead by all the Disciples except for Kernel, whom she saves from a lava river on the Board. Nadia claims to Kernel that she doesn't hate any of the Disciples except for Beranabus, but will still fight on the side of Lord Loss, and advises him not to get in her way or she will kill him.

In Blood Beast Nadia changes her features and takes the name of Juni Swan. She says she once had a baby, but he died. She also says she was at the concert that Dervish was at, possibly the one demons attacked in Demon Thief. This is almost definitely a lie because she spent most of her time between Demon Thief and Slawter in the Demonata universe. There is also the possibility that the baby was Lord Loss' as she states her love for him in Demon Apocalypse.

Nadia is distantly related to the Gradys. In 'Lord Loss', Bill-E mentions a young blonde woman from the hall of portraits, even saying that he asked about her. Dervish replied that she wasn't a very good chess player and died 30 years before the 'Lord Loss' book, meaning the blonde was Nadia.

As Juni Swan
Juni Swan was Davida Haym's assistant on the set of "Slawter"(but she was really working for Lord Loss.) Her job on-set was to make sure the children on the set were happy and being treated well.

While assisting Davida Haym in the making of the movie, Dervish falls for her and Juni mentions at the end that she has strong feelings for him as well. However, she kills one of the leaders of the massacre plot and leaves in the night, leaving a note saying she has to think about it and he shouldn't search for her.

In Blood Beast she reappears as Grubbs' school councillor and continues her relationship with Dervish, and helping him overcome his dangerous nightmares. Dervish and Juni's relationship becomes more serious and she nearly moves in with him. When Grubbs becomes a werewolf and supposedly kills Ma and Pa Spleen, she convinces him to board a plane with her, where it is revealed she is working for Lord Loss.

In Demon Apocalypse, Grubbs discovers that Juni had actually killed Ma and Pa Spleen, and convinced him that he was a murderer. Later in the story, she is thought to be the key to opening the portal to the demon universe that would lead to the "Demon apocalypse" the title of the book suggests, by Beranabus. He, along with Grubbs and Kernel, are tasked with killing her before she opens the portal for the demons to slip through. Her true form is revealed to be Nadia Moore, first seen in Demon Thief. She seduces Dervish, who she had previously tied up, but Dervish does not fall for this, and impales her on a stalagmite in the cave, nearly killing her. Lord Loss shows affection for Juni, screaming, "My swan!" He then takes her body with him after this confrontation with the Gradys. Dervish said that Lord Loss most likely ate her, as a joke.

She reappears in Death's Shadow as a hideous rotting monster. She is believed to have planned opening the portal at the hospital where Dervish is. On the rooftop, she attacks Bec but is injured when Dervish knocks her off the roof, so she returns to the Demonata's universe to heal.

She appears in Wolf Island at the Lambs' building, awaiting Grubbs and his "crew". Towards the end of the book, she has a fight with Grubbs and has a vision that he will destroy his universe. Seeing this as an advantage, she doesn't kill him, and decides to leave.

In Dark Calling, she is killed by Meera Flame, who achieves it by exploding while clutching Juni tightly.

It is also believed she got her name "Juni Swan" because she loved the month June and her dad had told her she would turn into a beautiful swan once she grew up, thus Juni Swan was born.

Appearances

 * As Nadia Moore she had short shoulder length hair and a kind loving face covered in acne scars.
 * As Juni Swan she was taller, always dressed for business. She had bright pink eyes and pure white hair and pasty white skin, because she was and albino. Her hair was also much longer than Nadia's and was put back in a pony tail.
 * As a demon, she was a large beautiful and elegant swan with bright red eyes, she was much different than other demons who were shown to be some of the ugliest creatures alive.
 * As a zombie, she had circular green eyes with a thin red slit for a mouth. He skin is a mass of cuts, blisters and scars, which would make contact with anything painful, so she wore no clothes. Her skin was also a tender pinky colour and resembled that of a jelly fish. She also had sprouts of hair shooting out from her head.