Lyra Shatel

— Raining Cats and Turnabout**Lyra Shatel** was a witness in the murder of Seargant Shepard. She was at the police station to visit her blackmailer after receiving a mysterious letter.

## Cheating and Scamming

For her whole life, Lyra was not exactly the best at taking tests. She understood the material, she just struggled to explain how she knew it. So, when she realized no college was willing to take her, she forged documents to become another person with high enough grades to be accepted into nearly any college. Her plan worked flawlessly, and she began going by the alias Kaname Fay. After getting in, though, she felt intense guilt, and ended up telling her friend Arei Nageishi about her secret just to alleviate some pain. This would turn out to be a terrible mistake.

## Blackmailed

Arei was being blackmailed by Seargant Shepard to extract information from people. She eventually ran out of secrets to give him, but she couldn't just let her secret be exposed, so she gave him Lyra's secret. The next day, Lyra received a threat in the mail that her lies would all be exposed unless she forked over $10,000. She began to have a crisis, and realized Arei was the only person she ever told, and believed she was the blackmailer. The blackmailer asked to meet her at the police station, and she obliged.

## Murder Plan

Lyra knew the only way to bury this secret was to bury the blackmailer. She went to the police station a few days earlier, to see what she could use to kill her blackmailer. She found out that Shepard had trained the dogs to be able to kill. This is when she realized she could use this to her advantage. She stole a dog whistle which Shepard had used to command them. Come the day of their meeting, Arei also was at the station as Shepard seemed to be planning on killing Tsurugi Kinjo. Lyra yelled at her over blackmailing her, but when Arei expressed confusion, Lyra realized she had the wrong person. As she walked away, she noticed a small paper planted by Marin Mizuta listing the names of everyone Shepard was blackmailing, and stating that he was the blackmailer. She saw him outside the window speaking with Kinjo, so she walked over to one of the benches and ordered a whistle dog (a type of hot dog) from a nearby food stand. She stuffed the whistle in it so when she signaled the dog, it'd look like she was just eating. When she noticed Shepard fumbling for his now missing whistle, she realized he had planned to kill Kinjo. She then noticed the dog near Shepard's feet, and blew the whistle. The dog jumped on his neck, and killed the man.

## Faking A Testimony

She managed to cover up her presence at the scene until Arei revealed it while testifying. She was forced to the stand as a witness. She acted as though she was simply eating, when she saw Kinjo blow the dog whistle. However, Phoenix Wright blows enough holes in her testimony that he realizes she was not a simple witness. He accuses her, and slowly exposes every part of her plan, until she is incapable of denying it anymore. She ultimately decides to confess, but tries to pin the entire thing as an attempt to save Kinjo's life, but Wright is able to undermine her testimony again and exposes her real name and what she was blackmailed over. She snaps, and screams wildly at him. She is escorted out of the courtroom and is arrested.

## Imprisoned

She is convicted and thrown in jail, but similarly to the other culprits, her case still has a few loose ends, namely the note's writer. She gives the note to Wright when he visits, which ends up being crucial evidence helping tie Marin Mizuta to the murder of Seargant Shepard.

## Trivia

* She is one of two culprits not to canonically kill someone in their original series, the other being Haiji Towa.
	+ However, Danganronpa: Antebellum is an in-progress project, so this is subject to change.
* A far younger version of her is used for her sprites, despite the fact Lyra is canonically 20.
	+ This is mainly because the Fanganronpa wiki didn't have halfbody sprites and I'm lazy-