Wendy Lyrik

:"These past few months have just been a conga line of 'this might as well be happening'. I'm a teddy bear doctor, not a rocket scientist." - Lyrik on her involvement with Wyssel's UNWD activities.
Wendy Lyrik is a toy doctor, or toy repairwoman, who is also capable of creating incredibly sophisticated plush machinery. Her plush engineering work is dubbed 'Stuffitech', and it is funded by UNWD grants. She is responsible for upkeep and upgrades to Wyssel Wagtail's mech, Ruff Stuffin'.
==Character==
===Appearance===
Lyrik is a stocky woman with brown skin and charcoal-grey hair. She has an eyepatch over her left eye, and typically wears scrubs with a knitted cardigan and toy-themed t-shirts.
===Personality===
Accepting and adaptive, she takes life as it comes and tries not to question the strange incidents that happen around her. She's highly empathetic and somewhat socially awkward, avoiding confrontation and preferring the company of toys and machines to people. She is level-headed and likes to be ready for anything.
===Skills & Abilities===
She is very intelligent and capable of creating intricately working equipment out of plush parts. She is also remarkably cunning and emotionally intelligent, capable of using her disposition to get the advantage in conflicts, and is one of the few people able to consistently communicate with Wyssel.
==History==
Formerly a mechanic on cargo liners, she was half-blinded by a workplace accident and made a drastic career shift, using the insurance money to help open her Toy Hospital, while also refurbishing vintage toys to sell to collectors. When she found a stuffed rabbit at a car boot sale and repaired it, it sprung to life and implored her to help it. Despite her incredulity, Lyrik complied, and created the plucky bunny's first few mechanical suits - the Hare Splitter MK I and MK II, and the Ragamuffin, before creating the optimised Ruff Stuffin' mech with superior speed and defense, despite somewhat lacking offense.
Having been creating mech suits for a stuffed rabbit for a year and a half, she was unsurprised when the UNWD showed up, conscripted Wyssel into their forces, and began supplying her with grants to help fund the development of her plush armoury. She works out of the same shop as before with a stuffitech laboratory in the basement, and is visited periodically by the UNWD to help repair or update Wyssel's mech.
==Relationships==
===Wyssel Wagtail===
:“Look at you. You're definitely well-loved.”
Wyssel was the start of Lyrik's absurd spiral into the wild world hidden by the UNWD. She sees him as a valued patient and ally, and appreciates the faith he puts in her. She is torn between wanting to help him on his quest in any way she can, and being totally incredulous that any of this is happening.
==Trivia==
Category:Humans
Category:Normos
Category:Females