Lyst Solais

Lyst Solais is an NPC in Reflection. She is played by Jay. Hailing from Skypoint, Lyst is a famous senator who has joined FLOW's second Wave for unknown reasons. She has proven herself to be an incredibly capable fighter on the front lines against the Coda.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Lyst is an adult woman with tanned skin and blonde hair that fades to purple at the edges. Portions of her hair are tied into two buns with purple bows. She wears elaborate earrings on both ears and has elaborate makeup. In terms of clothing, she wears a crop-topped white military shirt with bell sleeves and a blue skirt with white triangle patterns. The bell sleeves are also patterned with pink and purple triangles. She also wears long white boots go up to her knees.

### Personality

Lyst is a polite and friendly person, although she is often confused by the culture of Fuse City. In conversation she tends to be reserved and quick-spoken. She is quite confident in her own abilities and often treats challenging situations with an air of playfulness. She greatly dislikes when other people try to force their perception of her onto her.

Lyst has a violent side to her, and enjoys using powerful weapons, specifically lances and guns.

## History

### Early Life

Lyst was born in Skypoint some time following the appearance of the Coda. She became a senator representing a well-known entertainment district in the floating city-state. During her career as a senator, she led a scouting party to investigate a GEIST encampment attempting to establish GEIST presence in Skypoint. The two groups entered into combat, where Lyst was struck by a stray bullet. However, because nobody registered her as being shot, her ESP removed the bullet and the wound from existence. This event led to Lyst discovering she had developed ESP in the first place.

### Joining FLOW

Lyst eventually stepped down from senatorship to descend to Fuse City and join FLOW. While in training camp, she scored second overall in her test scores, marking her as an incredibly skilled agent. She was second in line during the procession on her first day on the job as a result, accompanying Ace Galatine to the Reflection hall. Upon arriving, she had difficulty finding a Reflection, but eventually settled on "Death of All Beasts: Villagekeeper" with the assistance of Willow Wisp. After Willow destroyed Basilisk Id's coffin to stop it from producing a mysterious fatal effect, Lyst was teleported into the desert on the edge of the Coda, where she encountered a group of Demons standing idly by the edge. Binding to her Reflection, Lyst dispatched them and turned them into weapons before being rescued by Fuse City authorities.

The following day, Lyst met with Hector to work out a fitness regiment. She then went to the Undercity on her own to recover Reflections that had gone missing after the previous day's incident. She managed to discover multiple, which she returned to OPIA that night before visiting Darkside with her teammates. Some time later, Lyst joined Ridill Arondite as an auxiliary agent after a man infected with Codan disease nearly caused a car accident.After the situation resolved itself, she got dinner with the rest of her team at Melli Luxity's house. Some time around this period, she began taking a part-time job as a bartender.

Lyst visited the OPIA saunas with the rest of Wave Two to visit the Flame of Creation. She wore a swimsuit to the event. The same night, she accompanied Lugh to a GEIST warehouse in an attempt to free his brother Colt from a trap set by the Demonic Courts of Logic and Compulsion. The entrance to the warehouse was guarded by a small army of possessed simulacrums of GEIST soldiers. The two initially made solid headway against them, but were eventually pushed back by the sheer amount of firepower before recieving surprise assistance from Aura Pridwyn and Ascalon.

The following day, Lyst accompanied Ace as they wandered around Fuse City in an attempt to lower their Burn. She tended bar for Lugh, which slightly lowered her Burn, and then visited Ridill Arondite in the Undercity. Ace then introduced her to his childhood home, where he revealed to her how his unique Elemental condition was affecting his mental state. Lyst, in turn, revealed the nature of her strange ESP. After a lengthy conversation, the two attended Cam's body coronation.

### The Court of Death

Lyst was tasked by Dr. Verona with making a choice about her future at FLOW. She accompanied Ace in delivering food to Ascalon and Twice at Station One. She then joined Ace on a bicycle ride around upper Fuse City, where they discussed Verona's question. Upon returning to OPIA, she decided to remain with FLOW. Some time later, Lyst fought and killed several lesser Demons in the Undercity, when she noticed that every clock left behind in the nearby area had been mysteriously destroyed.

Following the disappearance of Basilisk Id into the Coda, Lyst initially helped to defend the team fixing the broken elevator, but after GEIST began an assault on OPIA HQ, she joined Ascalon in defending it alongside Cast and Serve. After being pushed back to the Reflection hall by the GEIST AI and his forces, Lyst was encased in crystal after Cast unlocked their Reflection's hidden power. Lyst, however, was able to easily escape, and stole a Reflection from the hall. After encountering and freeing Cursor, who had inhabited a plush version of herself, Lyst lied about having noticed any Reflections being stolen.

### Epilogue

Some time after the battle against the Court of Death, Lyst tended bar for Lugh at Darkside. She asked him about a Burn-inducing handkerchief he had acquired. In response, Lugh asked her about the Reflection she stole. Lyst took a strange pleasure in the antagonistic exchange. Some days later, Lyst was present to see Ace off from FLOW.

### Act Two

Over the break, Lyst fought The Pristine One at some point, during which he stole one of her Reflection's guns. During Wave Three's orientation, she joined Willow as a supervisor for the Gate of Dreams. She interrogated her prospective students as to their motivations in joining FLOW, and found most of them satisfactory. To her embarassment, she did not recognize Saru, despite his alleged presence at OPIA since Wave Two. Later, she participated in fighting against a massive Demonic invasion, using her Reflection to summon a skeletal rocket launcher to attack nearby Demons. When Ace arrived at the dorms to search for a roomate, she attempted to submit herself, but was barred by Ridill.

The next day, Lyst briefly ran a shift at Darkside before heading out on patrol with Basil. While patrolling the abandoned district of the Undercity, she got into a conversation with Basil about their relationships with OPIA, specifically regarding why people choose to stay there. They eventually came across a pool of water filled with faceless bodies, which prompted Lyst to sound an alarm alerting the other patrol groups to her location. After sounding the alarm, she rushed back to Basil's location and helped her take down the beast. After killing it, she apologized to Basil for running away to sound the alarm and leaving her alone. Basil told her it was the right thing to do, but she still felt bad about it.

Several days later, Lyst joined Willow in speaking to the Gate of Dreams about the upcoming global offensive. She and Twice were deployed to Gravnir for reconnisance, where they encountered legions of minor Demons of the Court of Death assisting various Gravniri with day-to-day activities. While there, she was given a message from Vinter to give to Ace. Soon after, Lyst was called back to OPIA after the Court of Compulsion launched a massive attack on Fuse City and Cialla. Despite Compulsion hijacking long distance teleportation on the surface, Lyst somehow managed to return to Fuse without issue using an unknown method. She was joined by Circuit and eventually Mic in hunting down Compulsion's "Demon factory" in the Undercity, which turned out to be the laboratory of Dr. Radmilla Saakova. Upon breaking into the facility, Lyst followed Circuit through the vents and used one of her Reflection's guns to murder a Simulacrum that Compulsion had created before fleeing the area inside Ridill's ESP. She immediately redelpoyed to Cialla to help refugees, where she delivered Vinter's message to Ace.

## Abilities

According to the FLOW tests, Lyst is an incredibly capable operative, ranking number two in the rankings overall. In active missions, she has proven herself to be an extremely skilled fighter, able to dispatch groups of Demons entirely on her own.

### Reflection

Lyst wields the Reflection "Death of All Beasts: Villagekeeper". It is a Reflection cast from the memory of a legendary hunter, who created weapons from the bones of his prey and after his retiring, used them as symbols to ward off an apocalyptic horde of beasts from his village. As a Reflection, it allows its wielder to fashion weapons from the bodies of enemies that they've slain, usually with a skeletal aesthetic. So far, Lyst has fashioned a knife, a semiautomatic rifle, two pistols, a rocket launcher, sniper rifle, and a hammer with a skull head, which are all kept in a container resembling a cello case.

### ESP

Lyst is an ESPer. Her ESP is unnamed, but it gives Lyst the ability to attain any abilities or qualities that people expect her to have. Generally, this ability manifests when enough people assume Lyst can do some activity, for example, running very quickly. If a large amount of people believe she can do it, she can. However, this ability has several more esoteric functions. For example, if Lyst is struck with a bullet, but nobody sees the impact, the bullet and the subsequent wound will vanish from existence immediately after making contact.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Above and Below
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Neon Sparks
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 I'm Still Alive
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dying Flame
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Dear Sweetest Me
6. ↑ Beachside Burn
7. ↑ Bedside Manners
8. ↑ Sum of Experiences
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Colt Classic
10. ↑ Night Ride
11. ↑ Chasing Ghosts
12. ↑ For Today
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 For Tomorrow
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 Lock And Key
15. ↑ Crossing Threads
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 No Options
17. ↑ Through The Gate
18. ↑ Lost Blade
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Uneasy Future
20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 Strong Enough
21. ↑ Faded Flame