Cyra

**Cyra Woodsworth** is a minor character in *Believing In Me.* She is one of the homeschool kids, often attending events hosted through HHS, which is her former school district.

## Appearance

Cyra is athletically built, with broad shoulders and a sharp face. She has a medium skin tone and reddish-brown hair, kept long on the left and shaved short on the right. She wears an eye patch covering a missing eye on the left side, and the scar runs from above her hairline down to her chin, pulling the corner of her mouth down. She also has a prosthetic left leg, though neither that nor the eye patch are worn at home. She's almost always wearing a leather jacket with silver studs on the shoulders, ripped jeans, and hiking boots.

She almost always has her service dog, Horizon, with her. Horizon is a 3 year old male German Shepherd (50% WGWL and 50% ASL), pale tan with a black saddle and mask markings and dark brown eyes. He wears a dark red leather Y-front harness, finished with gold hardware and equipped with an upright counterbalance handle and a braided leather pull strap. He wears a matching studded leather collar.

## Personality

Cyra is wary around others, manifesting as rudeness and a sharp tongue. She has a bitter, cynical outlook on life countered only by her sheer stubbornness to keep going. She has trouble trusting, and hates having to rely on others or feeling that she owes anyone anything. She has a strong competitive streak, always pushing herself to be better than others. Though incredibly difficult to get close to, among friends she's fiercely loyal, willing to protect them from any unjust treatment whether they want that or not.

## History

Cyra doesn't like to talk about her past, and what little is known is what Taiga and Laurence were told when they applied to foster her. She lost most of her family, as well as her eye and her leg, at a young age under circumstances nobody is entirely sure about. From there, she spent a lot of time in the foster system, being bounced around between group houses and school districts, until she found herself in the Halian School District in 8th grade. Despite her personal determination not to make friends or grow attached to anybody, it was impossible to stick to that resolution because Taylor Svarior-Arctaeus refused to let her be without friends. Taylor convinced their parents, Laurence and Taiga, to apply to foster Cyra, and not long after she moved in with them.

In 10th grade, both were pulled from HHS and homeschooled due to inaccessibility and bullying. It was at this point Cyra grew closer to Taylor's childhood friend Ryan, mainly because he spent a lot of time in the Svarior-Arctaeus home as well to avoid bullying in his private school. Their former wariness around each other melted away, and the three of them began to get involved in the extracurriculars HHS offered knowing they had each other to watch their backs.

During the college arc, Cyra and Ryan move into an apartment in Toledo, Ohio together, and she attends a 2-year vet tech program. During this time, Ryan gifts her a green 2014 Subaru Forester for Christmas after she learns how to drive from him and Taylor, and she retaliates by getting him a car for his birthday. After some time, she gets Horizon's successor, a Dutch Shepherd named Skylar.

## Trivia

* Cyra's coat having anything you could need in its pockets is a running gag throughout the show.
* She doesn't like wearing her prosthetic leg and at home often resorts to just crawling across the floor.