Lydia Day Break

**Lydia Day Break**, or simply **Lydia**, is a member of the Syndicate and suspect in the Crime To End All Crimes. She is also Sam Day Break's wife.

Lydia can always be found on the pier in the Danchi once the investigation begins.

## Biography

Lydia was born in Mwana Falls, Kenya in AD 1001 under the sign of the Beautiful Spectre. She enlisted in the army in her teens after a childhood spent in worship of the Beautiful Spectre. She became known as **Titan Killer** after successfully defending a temple from three monstrosities.

Eventually, she retired from assassination after meeting Sam Day Break, and they fled to the Syndicate together. She then became a ferry woman, transporting people and cargo between and around Island Sequences. She ferries people around in her relatively new car, Burn Parliament, manufactured by Masahiro Heavy Industries, which serves as an upgrade to her old muscle car. She has the ability to drive through dimensions, not just roads, and acts as the player's fast travel.

## Personality

Lydia is a gregarious and laid back, yet spirited woman with a lust for life.

She prefers to leave the past as the past, but will eventually open up if prompted. Prior to joining the Syndicate, she worked as an assassin. Describing the work as 'simple', it became a mindless process to her once she became skilled.

Despite her checkered past, she looks optimistically to the future, keeping herself occupied with hobbies such as painting. Her artworks can be found scattered around the Island, used even to illustrate historical events. She likes to throw herself into new skills to master, describing it as a release from the complications of love. She is creative and deeply sentimental, procuring a bespoke perfume from Dead Nebula and refusing to ever replace her old battle jacket. Through her paintings, she processes and expresses her complex emotions; hope, despair, excitement, and boredom, hoping others can look at her work and see a reflection of their own feelings there.

Lydia is tired of life in the Syndicate, yearning for the excitement and chaos of the real world. She and Sam secretly write songs together documenting their wanderlust.

## Relationships

**Lady Love Dies:** Love Dies and Lydia are old friends, immediately evident from the painting that Lydia painted for Love Dies that still hangs in her room in the Idle Lands. Despite their millennia apart, Lydia is immediately warm and friendly towards Love Dies, affectionately reviving her old nickname, 'LD' and expressing that she missed her.

**Sam Day Break:** Sam and Lydia have managed to maintain a romantic relationship over the span of thousands of years, surviving even as the Islands change and crumble around them. Lydia affectionately calls Sam by his nickname, 'Sammy Baby'. They are not co-dependent, both individuals with hobbies and desires of their own, but it is clear that their love for one another goes incredibly deep. Neither will allow the other to be convicted in the trial without admitting their own involvement, both unable to fathom a world without one another within it. If Love Dies executes or exiles one of the Day Breaks, the other will vanish (presumably out of grief or to plot revenge) and will no longer be accessible. All the same, Lydia does not take Sam's love for granted, acknowledging that love is something that requires constant work. Sam shares Lydia's passion and curiosity for life, and both long to leave the Syndicate for the real world.

**Yuri Night:** Yuri is Lydia's handler, telling her who requires to be picked up and where. Despite their professional relationship, Lydia has little love for Yuri, and it does not take her long to confess to Love Dies her suspicions of him. This may be in part tactical--Love Dies has no prior connection with Yuri but has reason to trust Lydia--but does seem to be driven by a genuine distaste for the man. Lydia does not trust Yuri, seeing through his sycophancy and charm, and accuses him of being not only arrogant but power-hungry and cruel. She scoffs at his pretentious nature, recalling to LD a time where he claimed to be able to tell the difference between synthetic and real meat despite having never been to the real world at all.

**Crimson Acid:** Crimson is implied to be part of the 'old drinking gang' alongside Sam, Lady Love Dies, K. HX and Lydia.

**K. HX**: K.HX was part of the 'old drinking gang' alongside Love Dies, Sam, Crimson Acid, and Lydia. Lydia calls him 'K Man', to Love Dies' surprise, implying they may grown closer during Love Dies' exile. She expresses that she liked 'hanging out with him' and worries for his disappearance.

Lydia has affectionate nicknames for many of the Island residents, including 'Akiko-chan' for Grand Marshal Akiko 14 and 'Carm' for Carmelina Silence. Notably, she does not seem use nicknames for Yuri Night or Witness to the End.

## *Paradise Killer*

Lydia is one of the suspects that Love Dies can question during *Paradise Killer*. She confesses to Love Dies that she hopes that Henry was responsible for murdering the Council. If it were anyone else, the Syndicate risked collapse. Lydia insists that she and Sam have no motive, claiming that both of them avoid the Island's politics, scheming and drama. While hesitant to pin the blame on any Syndicate member, it does not take long for her to voice her suspicion of Yuri Night and Carmelina Silence. She identifies that Carmelina has long felt slighted by the Council and Monserrat and characterises Yuri as ambitious and megalomaniacal, emboldened on unearned power.

Lydia's alibi provided for both herself and Sam is that they were at the Paradise Gates at the time of the murder. The Gate needs time to warm up as it requires an immense amount of power to transfer the user through realities, and the procedure to transfer the Day Breaks was shut down by Judge as an emergency protocol following the killings. This can be verified with logs obtained from the Nightmare Computer at the Gate.

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