Diary continuity

The diary continuity is one of the three main Monster High continuities, told through the diaries that are included with several lines of dolls. The diary continuity lightly overlaps with the webisode continuity, in that most storyline events are either confirmed to happen in both or implied to happen in both. However, those events do not occur in exactly the same way or in exactly the same order between the continuities, which causes them to be separate continuities.

The diary continuity is a little less story-heavy than the other continuities, but makes up for that by offering a level of insight into the characters that no other continuity does. Technically, the diary continuity encompasses all the information in the doll logs, but it's the diaries alone that form a storyline.

The fact the diaries are created by a small team makes their continuity a flexible one. The diaries are prone to contain clever explanations to tidbits in both their own continuity and the webisodes, making them a vibrant read. On the downside, the continuity is completely dependent on the doll releases. If a certain character does not have a release in one of the diary-containing lines at a certain moment, their story either doesn't continue in sync with the other characters' and may have to awkwardly get back to in a diary entry of a later date, or it is only told through the limited perspective of other characters.

Continuity
Though the diary entries mention the date they were written, they neglect to mention the year, leaving the order a bit muddled. On account of all diaries in a line sharing mention of an event, such as the fight between Clawd and Spectra in the School's Out diaries, it is certain that the diaries of a line describe the months of the same year as one another. Based on this, the order appears to be as follows:

Year 1: Year 2:
 * SDCC Frankie Stein's Diary (June 26, Frankie's day of creation)
 * Basic diaries (June 30 - September 6)
 * School's Out diaries (September 7 - October 26)
 * Dawn of the Dance (Doll Line) diaries (no date, but when both Draculaura is 1599 years old and Frankie on the Fear Squad)
 * Sweet 1600 diaries (November 11 - February 3)
 * SDCC Ghoulia Yelps's Diary (no date, but presumably late July)
 * Campus Stroll (July 20 - August 31)
 * Core line v4 (September 9 - November 15)

The Stardoll chat with Draculaura confirmed that her Sweet 1600 happens in 2012. This would mean that Year 2 corresponds to 2012, and Year 1 to 2011.

Continuity hiccups
The diary continuity has few outright continuity errors, but there are holes in the storyline. Most of these can be explained away, but the canon itself is silent on the matter.


 * Deuce's Year 1, July 18 entry has him meeting Jackson on the casketball court. However, Holt's diary states that he didn't move to the city until Year 1, July 23.
 * Holt mentions going on a date with Operetta in his Year 1, August 10 entry. He also states that Operetta's father is a teacher at Monster High in his Year 1, August 20 entry. However, Operetta's diary starts a year later, in Year 2, and details how she and her family move to the city.
 * Clawdeen's Year 1, August 22 entry has her being very adamant she will not ever join the Fear Squad. Her Year 1, December 15 entry has her casually mentioning she has to go to fearleading practice.
 * Holt's diary ends in Year 1, September 5, and makes it clear he does not know about his alter ego Jackson. Jackson starts his entry of Year 2, September 9 with the revelation he and Jackson have learned about their dual nature. This is a rather late entry considering that according to Frankie's Year 1, November 30 entry, she already knew Jackson and Holt were the same.
 * Jackson's Year 2, September 9 entry states that his mother is a Jekyll/Hyde and his father a fire elemental, and implies it's through his father that he is related to Heath. However, the video game Ghoul Spirit stated that it was Jackson and Holt's mother who is the sibling of Heath's father.

Undated
- Cleo begins her diary.

June 26th
- Frankie writes down her very first diary entry, describing her first day alive.

June 30th
- Frankie begins her diary.

- Lagoona beings her diary.

July 1st
- Deuce begins his diary.

July 3rd
- Cleo is bored.

July 4th
- Draculaura begins her diary.

July 10th
- Cleo gets her new pet cobra Hissette in a shipment of things from Egypt.

July 14th
- Clawdeen begins her diary.

July 15th
It rains.

- Frankie is excited by rain, which she has never seen before, and she and her parents play in it.

- Draculaura takes a walk in the rain to look at her vegetable garden.

- Clawdeen hates rain because it affects her hair, so she gives herself a new short haircut.

- Cleo secretly loves to dance around in the rain, but she has to keep her father from seeing.

- Deuce couldn't skate because of the rain.

- Lagoona loves the wet weather.

- Ghoulia Yelps starts her diary. She gets caught outside in the rain and is soaked by the time she shuffles inside.

July 16th
- Frankie is worried that she'll be overexcited at school.

- Deuce wants to make a ghoulash recipe but his mother won't let him.

- Ghoulia wakes up with a cold.

July 17th
- Frankie complains about her dad.

July 18th
- Cleo spends the day choosing this year's fearleading uniforms.

- Deuce goes to the park to play casketball, and ends up meeting Jackson Jekyll.

- Lagoona hangs out with Draculaura and Clawdeen Wolf, and they all get pizza and try on bathing suits.

July 20th
- Lagoona goes surfing, and teaches some gremlins how to catch a wave.

July 21st
- Draculaura's dad buys her clothing for school.

- Lagoona invites everyone to a nighttime beach bonfire.

July 22nd
- Lagoona accidentally wipes out on the beach in front of some cute guys.

July 23rd
- Holt begins his diary. He wakes up in the cab of a moving truck.

July 25th
- Ghoulia starts a new graphic novel about a zombie who gains the power of superspeed.

- Holt writes about falling asleep as soon as it becomes daytime.

July 26th
- Draculaura gets a new neighbor: Jackson Jekyll

July 27th
- Holt puts up flyers at the Maul to advertise his DJ business.

July 31st
- Ghoulia writes about her crush on Slow-Moe.

August 1st
- Holt writes about all the houses in the neighborhood.

August 3rd
- Holt gets deja vu when he sees Draculaura on the dance floor, though he doesn't know how he knows her.

August 4th
- Clawdeen writes about sharing a room with her sister Howleen.

August 7th
- Draculaura takes a casketberry pie to Jackson Jekyll's house to welcome the family to the neighborhood.

- Clawdeen begins planning her outfit for the first day of school.

August 9th
- Lagoona goes to the Maul and sees Cleo de Nile, so they go shopping together. Lagoona talks about dressing casually.

August 10th
- Clawdeen tries a new hair remover for werewolves.

- Lagoona hangs out with her dad and talks about school.

- Holt goes on a date with Operetta, where he gets into a fight with a gargoyle.

August 11th
- Holt gets in trouble with his mother for fighting. He writes about accidentally burning things when he gets upset.

August 15th
- Draculaura and Clawdeen Wolf paw through clothes together

- Clawdeen writes about her day at Draculaura's house.

- Ghoulia goes to the mall late, and is stopped while trying to enter a store. Clawdeen Wolf appears and forces the clerk to treat Ghoulia respectfully. Ghoulia laments that Clawdeen is mad at Cleo for dumping her brother.

August 17th
- Jackson Jekyll returns Draculaura's pie plate, and meets her father.

August 18th
- Deuce's pet rat Perseus eats all of his mother's fetid cheese.

August 19th
- Clawdeen goes to the Maul with her brother Clawd, spots Deuce Gorgon checking out cookbooks, and teases him.

- Deuce is annoyed by Clawdeen's teasing but doesn't want to annoy her brother, who's on the team with him.

- Cleo runs into Clawdeen Wolf at the Maul, and they fight. Cleo leaves without buying a new nightlight.

August 20th
- Cleo talks about her fear of the dark.

- Ghoulia meets Frankie Stein and explains the way of zombies to her.

- Holt thinks about taking night classes.

August 21st
- Clawdeen tries razor cutting her hair.

August 22nd
- Clawdeen isn't interested in joining the fearleading squad.

August 23rd
- Frankie goes to the Maul, where she meets Clawdeen and Draculaura for the first time.

- Draculaura meets Frankie and suggests she should try out for the fearleading squad.

- Clawdeen decides to help educate Frankie in "the ways of the fierce fashionista".

- Cleo goes on a date with Deuce, where she is incredibly demanding of him and of the waitstaff at the restaurant.

- Deuce laments Cleo's behavior.

August 24th
- Frankie's dad is busy, Frankie is naive.

- Draculaura misses fearleading practice because Count Fabulous had a mothball.

August 25th
- Draculaura relates how every year on her birthday, her father tries to convince her to start drinking blood again.

- Deuce tries to convince his mother to let him get a driver's licence, but ends up getting his skateboard taken away.

August 26th
- Frankie fights with her parents after not being allowed to visit a moonlight party on the beach with Clawdeen and Draculaura. She cries for the first time.

August 28th
- Frankie's dad gives her Watzit.

August 29th
- Draculaura goes walking with Jackson Jekyll and he asks her to bite him (she refuses).

August 31st
- Ghoulia receives a "Zombies Are Monsters, Too" t-shirt, but writes that she's too shy to wear it in public.

September 1st
- Frankie's arm flies off while playing with Watzit and must be sewed back on.

- Draculaura works on a newsletter for Vampires Advocating Meatless Protein (VAMP).

- Cleo hangs out with Ghoulia Yelps and they plan their classes together.

- Deuce gets his regular pre-school letter about keeping his shades on.

- Lagoona talks about scheduling regular pool time during the school day.

- Ghoulia writes about how Cleo helps her break out of her shyness to talk to people and what a great friend she is.

September 5th
- Draculaura takes Jackson Jekyll to Clawdeen Wolf's annual end of summer boo-b-que.

- At the BBQ, Clawdeen isn't sure about the human boy Jackson Jekyll until he and her brother Clawd start talking about football and hit it off.

- Holt writes a song about his life.

September 6th
- Frankie receives her Monster High welcome letter.

- Draculaura writes that she will miss the freedom of summer.

- Clawdeen is excited for the new school year.

- Cleo is not looking forward to mixing with "the commoners".

- Deuce is bored with summer, but not excited about the school year.

- Lagoona spends time in a secret cove by the ocean to relax before the start of school.

- Ghoulia is eager to begin the school year so she can learn and hang out with her friends.

September 7th
- Clawdeen is surprised by how tough her Advanced Creature Economics class turned out to be, but is glad she'll be prepared for owning her own business.

September 12th
- Clawdeen has a tough day; she tries to shave a patch on her leg and cuts herself, which leads to Draculaura fainting, and she can't help her and stop the bleeding at the same time, so she gets detention for being late, and breaks her shoe.

September 13th
- Abbey is given a tour of Monster High by Headmistress Bloodgood, who she says she will be staying with during the week so that she doesn't have as long a journey to make to and from school.

September 14th
- Clawdeen talks about her open-toed soccer cleats.

September 15th
- Cleo has a nightmare about the Fear Squad and decides to practice more

- Frankie's dog Watzit gets into mischief while she's at school, so she decides to walk him more in the mornings.

- Draculaura breaks up with Jackson Jekyll because he never shows up, but she fancies a guy named Holt Hyde.

- Lagoona receives a custom surfboard from a friend from her home down under.

September 17th
- Abbey writes about learning to speak English. She says that she finds it easier to read and write than to speak, as it is difficult to find the right expression to use.

September 18th
- Spectra writes about getting her own gossip column in the school paper.

- Clawd wakes up feeling sore after being hit by an ogre during a big game the night before. However, they won the game, so it wasn't so bad.

September 20th
- Cleo startles Ghoulia, who yells at her, and Cleo decides to tell her friends she appreciates them

September 21st
- Clawd writes about how his gargoyle bulldog Rockseena chewed up a pair of Clawdeen's shoes, and he had to pay to replace them.

September 24th
- Frankie admits that she still makes lots of mistakes even though she's been at school for a while, like getting lost; Spectra helps lead her back to class, but she's late and gets a detention. Ghoulia shows her how to use her iCoffin's GPS.

- Abbey is embarrassed because she accidentally insulted Draculaura when trying to explain that her makeup was wrong. She says she feels like she wants to "quit".

September 25th
- Frankie goes to breakfast with her dad and his funny friends, and she eats banana scary pancakes.

- Draculaura goes to the beach with Frankie, Clawdeen and Clawd to watch Lagoona surfing.

- Lagoona talks about going surfing, and how Gil couldn't make it there to watch her.

September 26th
- Spectra sometimes thinks the only one who understands her is her pet ferret, Rhuen.

September 28th
- Abbey writes about how she met Lagoona. She says that she asked Lagoona what it was like for her when she was new, and Lagoona explains that she also found it hard at first, until she made her first friend. Abbey says that she has stopped wanting to quit.

- Lagoona talks about hanging out with Abbey Bominable, and how difficult it can be to be somewhere new away from your friends and family.

September 30th
- Draculaura stays up late reading a romantic novel and oversleeps, but Ghoulia helps with her makeup the next day.

October 1st
- Frankie tries some new, stronger thread for her stitches, but her limbs keep falling off. In the gym, she falls off a ladder and is caught by a Scottish gargoyle football player, whom she seems to have a crush on.

- Draculaura takes a quiz in a teen magazine that tells her she's a "Woodland Nymph" who loves nature and animals.

- Abbey writes about how Headmistress Bloodgood lets her keep her wooly mammoth, Shiver, in the stables with her Nightmare. Abbey says that she finds it calming to clear out the stables and feed the two animals.

- Clawd writes about his trip to the furmatologist to see about his shedding problem, and how he was not happy with the advice that he received.

October 7th
- Spectra sees Deuce and Operetta together and starts a bunch of rumors about them, as well as Cleo and Clawd.

- Cleo yells at Spectra for publishing a false rumor about Deuce and Operetta, and herself and Clawd. She calls Clawd honorable and says under different circumstances they might still be together. She can't concentrate on Fear Squad and cancels practice.

- Frankie is sad because of the tough Fear Squad practice and the catgirls' gossip about Cleo, Deuce and Clawd. She talks to Lagoona and feels better.

- Draculaura is sad because Clawd and Cleo are fighting, and Clawdeen seems mad at Cleo again.

- Clawdeen says that she and Cleo will have to have a talk about what happened.

- Clawd confronts Spectra about the rumors that she has been spreading about him and Cleo, landing them both in the Headmistress' office.

- Abbey hears about the rumors and says that she does not like gossip as it clouds the truth.

- Lagoona relates the rumors circling the school to some rules that her mother told her about storms.

October 8th
- Spectra posts a gossip column about the Cleo/Clawd/Deuce/Operetta rumors.

October 12th
- Cleo doesn't want to write her family's history essay because they were betrayed. She reveals that she can charm snakes, but has never done it to Deuce.

- Frankie is excited about her heritage essay; she asks her parents about the Frankenstein novel, but decides in the end she doesn't have to read it because she sees that her parents are in love every day.

- Spectra talks about her alleged family history, which sounds suspiciously like an amalgamation of stories from classic literature.

- Clawdeen discusses wolf pack dynamics, and says her Monster High crew is like her own family too.

- Draculaura discusses her monster essay and describes a bit of her family's true history

- Abbey asks Headmistress Bloodgood if rather than writing an essay, she can draw pictures, as this is how stories are told by her people on the mountain.

- Clawd discusses how there are a lot of things that he is banned to talk about outside of his pack, and decides to ask his parents what he is allowed to write about, aside from the things that he thinks everyone will already know.

- Lagoona reflects on her parents and her past, and says that she thinks she inherited the best aspects of both or her parents.

October 13th
- Clawdeen gives herself a terrible haircut.

October 15th
- Abbey writes about how she stops Howleen Wolf from being bullied by Manny Taur, and is invited to a Wolf Family cook out.

October 16th
- Cleo regrets allowing Purrsephone, Meowlody and Toralei to stay on the Fear Squad because she doesn't trust them.

- Frankie has a strange dream about a dance under the school.

- Clawdeen is glad Frankie and Draculaura brought her a scare package to make her feel better about her haircut.

- Draculaura discusses Clawdeen's hair mishap.

- Lagoona talks about how her Mad Science class had to be cancelled due to Heath Burn's impulsiveness, which earns him a few days off school to recover.

October 18th
- Clawdeen apologizes to Clawd now that she knows the truth about him and Cleo.

- Clawd tells the true story of his relationship with Cleo, and how it ended.

October 20th
- Spectra is surprised by Ghoulia, who can not only see her, but knows the truth about her family's history. She cries on Ghoulia's shoulders and ends up very impressed.

October 21st
- Abbey writes about how Heath Burns flirted with her in class. She says that she didn't understand some of the phrases he used, but recognized the tone he used. She said that she will ignore him until he formerly asks her out on a date.

October 22nd
- Cleo gets an email from her older sister Nefera, who's very critical and mean.

- Clawdeen is mad that Howleen borrowed her jacket and messed it up.

October 24th
- Frankie meets Abbey Bominable in the lunch line and agrees to teach her English-language slang if Abbey will teach her how to snowboard.

- Abbey talks about how she met Frankie Stein, and about the deal that the two of them made. She says that she is glad that she didn't quit after all.

- Lagoona writes about how she and Gil had a fight during swimming practice.

October 25th
- Cleo runs into Clawdeen and they have a laugh together, resolve their feud and agree to be friendly with each other.

- Draculaura writes about her chance meeting with Clawd and her developing feelings for him.

- Clawd writes about how he found Draculaura in the rain on the way home from the library, and how he returned home with Draculaura's lipstick mark on his cheek.

October 26th
- Clawdeen is a little shocked and hurt that Clawd and Draculaura are starting to date.