Lyra

Personality:

Ambitious & cold-hearted, she is deeply fascinated by magic to the point where she will harm others to get it. Does not necessarily take pleasure in suffering, but doesn’t care about inflicting it. Doesn’t care about other people in general - her studies are her true love.

Strengths & Abilities:

• Ambitious: too ambitious for her old university :/ 

• Intelligent: and academically gifted

• Determined: very little will deter her from “research”

• Magically powerful: due to stolen “artifacts”

• Knowledgeable: in-depth knowledge on how magic works

• Flight: not very well and not for very long, as they aren’t her wings - they’re more useful for long gliding but she can flutter above the ground a couple feet

• Knife-throwing: used to compete in it and is quite good. Now uses it to hunt people down

• Dagger skills: her weapon of choice

• Sewing: comes in handy!

• Light magic: comes from the tattoo on the skin on her skin. Can manipulate light

• Fast: fast

Weaknesses & Flaws:

• No real connections: family is distant, “friends” are more like opportunists

• Arrogant: quite literally thinks she’s better than 99.9% of people

• Short temper: comes with having a big ego. Will go into a fit of rage

• Darkness: magic doesn’t work well without light

• No muscle: not very strong 🙁her bench is 30lb 

• Easily stressed: too much time in a stressful field made her sensitive

History & Summary:

 Lyra was a PhD student at an elite university who researched magic. She excelled at her work and studies but was expelled 2 years ago because she murdered a fairy to take her wings. 

Before she snapped, Lyra had been on a steady moral decline triggered by the stress of academia and her deep obsession with taking magic. If she saw some kind of magical ability or artifact she wanted, she had no issue taking it by force. Her school swept her unethical conduct with magic artifacts under the rug until the problem escalated to murder. She feels betrayed because of all she sacrificed and worked for as a student. Therefore, she killed her mentor in a fit of rage.

Now, she works alone with nothing to hold her back from real research.

Description & Visual Reference: (Can also use picrew to create a reference if you’d like)

• Her wings are sewn on

• Has someone else’s skin (with a magic tattoo) sewn on her belly

• Blue parts of boots are mermaid scales

• Leaves are from enchanted tree

• All potions are harmful in some way. The pink and pink are poisons, and the blue waters down magical ability

• Gems on boots enhance magical ability

• Heels are knives

• Not very visible in the photo, but she has long purple nails

Practical Details (i.e. quirks, ways of speaking, etc.)

• She wears little black shorts under her skirt 

• Extremely protective of all magic artifacts/body parts on her

• Wings glitter a bit

• Talks formally, but in short and simple sentences

• Not terrible socially, but just not really interested in that stuff

• Takes care of her stitches regularly

Rounds (Linked): 

Round 1 (24/36) - Lyra v. Mr.President

Round 2 (28/36) - Lyra v. Avery

Round 3 (31/36) - Lyra v. Haith (n/a)

Round 4 (28/36) - Lyra

Joined Round 1