Nia Worn

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## Nia Worn

Nia in Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavely Creatures

### Aliases

Sister Spider, The Glass Widow, Queen of the Dark

### Relatives

Nostrand Crane (partner)
Vaxis (son)
Morrey Worn (father)
Unnamed Mother †

## Appearances

### Appears in

*Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*

### Debut

*Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures* (2018)

**Nia Worn** is the partner of Nostrand Crane and mother of Vaxis. She used to belong to the criminal gang known as the Unheavenly Creatures under the code name "Sister Spider," until she was shot by her fellow thief, Otto Cruger. This left her unconscious, but her body was retrieved and she was revived by the Five Houses of Star Supremacy (HOSS) government to act as the Glass Widow on The Dark Sentencer.

## Appearance

Worn seems to have naturally turquoise hair that is mostly straight, but a little wavy. She has "football"-shaped eyes that seem to be brown or hazel and has light skin. She seems to be of an average height and on the thinner side. As the Glass Widow, she has bleached blonde hair, though this may be a wig due to how quickly her turquoise hair came back after she decided to abandon that post.

## History

### Early Life

Worn was born on the planet Ruetama in the city of Galadoline, a picturesque suburb. Worn had lost her mother when she was born, and was raised primarily by her father, Morrey Worn, in a one-room cottage. As she grew up, she struggled with depth-perception and would periodically bump into objects such as chairs, leading her to be diagnosed with a rare form of one-sided blindness which manifested visually as a glow in her left eye. She never had any siblings, so she grew up a bit lonely and would mischievously act out, but ultimately was a good kid. When she was just nineteen, her father also passed away from some sort of sickness.

### The Unheavenly Creatures

When she was of college age, she had moved to Maracin, and rode an old bicycle around the big city. One day, she crashed into someone as she was trying to cross the street. This turned out to be Crane. She told him off for not watching where he'd been going, but this didn't deter him and they quickly formed a relationship. Within the following year, the pair lived in a modest apartment and working together at a theater company; she was a costume designer, and he was a prop maker. Crane told her about his activities as a thief with his friend, Cruger. Upset that he had lied to her and the pair didn't speak or see each other for a week. Being that no one got killed, Worn was fine with his thievery. In fact, she wasn't upset about the stealing, but about the exclusion. She made him swear that he wouldn't lie to her again and that he would let her in on these activities, resulting in her joining the masked criminal gang known as The Unheavenly Creatures, which comprised of just her, Crane, and Cruger.

After six months in the gang, she participated in what was meant to be their last, big heist at Potts International Bank. Since the bank insured the money kept there, the plan was for Cruger to break into the vault and keep watch in the back, Worn would collect the money, and Crane would babysit the bystanders and remain on look out in the front. Everything was going according to plan, but in the middle of her part, Cruger stopped her, and without much warning, shot her in the head. He quickly gathered a few bags of money and left her. She lost consciousness shortly after. HOSS officials found her and took her to a government facility where she was kept on life support for 176 days, when she finally regained consciousness. HOSS wanted more info about her team, Crane and Cruger, but she kept the information close. Eventually she was given a choice: be prosecuted for The Unheavenly Creatures' crimes, or she could give them information about the two men and give her a position within their organization (supervising the sublevels of The Dark Sentencer). After the planet's core was completely harvested and the planet turned cold, she would be free and granted a new name and such. She gave them only the locations that she had shared with Crane and HOSS arranged for her to have "died" in the local paper.

### Role as The Glass Widow

On the planet, she watched as the highly toxic core wasted away her charges. She and her guards were protected by glass suits to resist the radiation, and some of the subservers were assigned to create mechanical apparatuses to supplement or hold the their bodies together. Ultimately, she had made the decision to recruit, even if by force, additional labor. There was also never enough food and she solved this by using some of the indignant prisoners she collected as a supply instead. She only ever left the Zero Level to meet with The Warden who watched the planet from a docked ship called *The Watchtower*. He only ever referred to her by her Glass Widow title often calling her Ms. Glass, much to Worn's chagrin. These meetings were usually progress reports, but Worn also used them to request additional support, such as food, protective gear, or other supplies. These requests were rarely fulfilled, though the Five Houses did give her a few Quintillian Speakers to help with the labor.

After some time in this role, Worn was surprised to find Crane was collected in her forceful collection of Gutterless, fugitive prisoners. She assigned him to labor. Shortly after this brief meeting, Worn went to a meeting where The Warden confided in her that the planet would be dead sooner than they anticipated, and she requested that, like her, the subservers also be considered for pardon since they gave their all for the Five Houses. Their meeting was temporarily interrupted by an alarm, and with The Warden distracted, she quickly carved a password into her arm. Turning back to her, The Warden gave her a noncommittal response and dismissed her before they could hash out the details of her own pardon. This was a common occurrence and left Worn with a sense of betrayal.

Soon after that last meeting, she decided she would leave the planet and try to get the subservers out too, rather than trust in The Warden and wait to see what he did. After one of Crane's shifts ended, she snuck into his sleeping sector and quietly woke him, signaling him to follow her. When they were a safe and secluded distance away, she explained the situation and asked for his help. After a brief exchange and even an attack from a HOSS soldier (showing she was correct), Crane both agreed to help and devised a small plan.

Sneaking around the sublevels to make their way to The Pavilion, Worn was relatively silent, still a bit angry about being abandoned, and shut down talk between them. After Crane told her about how their old friend Pilo was on the planet and they decided to head for her place, but along the way they were intercepted by a humanoid reptilian Window who spirited them away to what seemed to be a cave with an underwater entrance where the pair stayed the night and reconciled. Crane told Worn about a vision the Windows had shown him of his son and implied this son would be her child. Later that night, she dreamed of a child, and was sure this child, named Vaxis, was hers. In the morning, they continued their way to The Pavilion, not needing to stay at Pilo's after all. Once there, they found a hanger and ambushed pilot Edson Aresso as he used his retina to enter. Crane stripped Aresso to use his uniform to blend in while Worn broke into the locker of Janine Small to do the same. They walked into the hanger of the aerodrome and looked for the ship labeled GVD8001. Excited to finally be getting out of there, especially together, they seemed to be drawn to each other in that moment, but before they could actually meet, a hole was blown in the side of the hangar with the familiar silhouette of Cruger in its space.

Cruger called out to Crane, brandishing an bionic grenade launcher, which ultimately knocked Worn out. When she came to, she saw everything on fire and Cruger pummeling Crane. She remembered what happened at the bank and angrily got up. She found Crane's discarded blaster and tried that, but it needed to be recharged. Just as Cruger was about to smash Crane's head in with a mace, Worn used the password she'd recorded into her arm during that last meeting with The Warden to activate Cruger's Gutter and kill him. Safe and sound, the pair truly embraced this time. Worn pulled out their masks from their gang time from her bag and asked Crane if was ready. Agreeing, the pair donned the masks and prepared for whatever came next.

## Trivia

* The password she stole from The Warden was Sa#9432DL+w\*\*81.
* A replica of Nia's "Sister Spider" mask went on sale on December 9, 2019.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 8-14. Evil Ink, 2018.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 47-63. Evil Ink, 2018.
3. ↑ Stone, Chase. 2018. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures* by Claudio Sanchez and Chondra Echert, Evil Ink, 2018, p 18-19.
4. ↑ Stone, Chase. 2018. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures* by Claudio Sanchez and Chondra Echert, Evil Ink, 2018, p 42-43.
5. ↑ Stone, Chase. 2018. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures* by Claudio Sanchez and Chondra Echert, Evil Ink, 2018, p 54-55.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 32-42. Evil Ink, 2018.
7. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 17-25. Evil Ink, 2018.
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 65-72. Evil Ink, 2018.
9. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 30-32. Evil Ink, 2018.
10. ↑ Sanchez, Claudio and Chondra Echert. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*. Pg 42-45. Evil Ink, 2018.
11. ↑ https://twitter.com/coheed/status/1204087698488586240