Sylvia McCurdy

"You are only truly happy when you learn to be by yourself." 
Sylvia Ellen McCurdy, born Fleming, also called Sylvie by her mother's family and nicknamed Silly by her husband, is the biological mother of Alice and the adoptive mother of Lisa McCurdy, who is later known as Empress Daprehied of Continent Jagga. She is happily married to Jonathan McCurdy. She is the daughter of Christopher Flemming and Sarah Chevalier. She has a younger brother, Roger Fleming, a sister-in-law Nathalie, a niece Cecile and a nephew Gabriel. Sylvia and Jon joined OSS as extraneous partners and were contacted by Maia Mizuki while living in Oxford to take care of a pregnant Eilith. 
She is based on the writer's mother, Elen Slavec.
== Character and traits ==
Sylvia has piercing blue eyes, thin lips, thin eyebrows and light, wheat-coloured hair she regularly dyes and wears in a short bob. She is petite and slender, prefers wearing elegant, dark clothing.