Dreamspeaker

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**Dream Speaker** (夢語 *Yumegatari*), alias **Thea**, is one of the main protagonists introduced in *Spy Classroom* series. She is a member of the Intel squad as with Daughter Dearest

## Appearance

Thea has straight black hair, a dazzlingly beautiful face, and a curvy figure. She's the most attractive and physically mature member of the team.

In the anime, her hair is tinted a navy blue.

## Personality

Thea is a graceful, seductive femme fatale and prides herself as such. She is well aware that men find her attractive and acknowledges than she can swoon any man she desires

Thea holds herself in high regard and she's the defacto leader next to Lily. Now while Thea is not the official leader of Lamplight, she acts as the team's glue. Her personality is naturally caring and big sister like and takes a resonant approach to socializing with others.

Thea had been following in Veronika's footsteps since she was 11 after being kidnapped and saved by her. Veronika made a promise that Thea would become a hero and they would meet again, which drove her to becoming a spy and following that ideal. She dreamed of a bright future, one where she joined Inferno someday and worked side by side with Veronika.

After Volume 3, she began to think that becoming a hero was unattainable as spies only saved their countrymen while heroes saved their enemies too. If she kept letting her softness control her, all it was going to do was put her teammates in peril. For the first time, Thea had to ask herself what kind of spy she should become.

During a breakdown, she felt as though she was a failure of a commander, just designating everything to Grete. Wondering why someone as useless as her was doing in Lamplight anyway. She didn't think she had any real talents. Feels superior to others for petty reasons, and thought she was the weakest, most childish member of the team.

## Plot

### Prior to Joining Lamplight

Thea was the daughter of a well-known newspaper company's president. and abducted when she was 11 as a hostage. The kidnappers being foreign spies motivated by current discourse regarding left wing drastic reforms that the newspaper company criticized.  When they did, the 11-year-old girl got a taste of true despair.

Thea was held in captivity for over two weeksand she spent the entire time being treated like a caged animal. She was stripped of her possessions and was tossed on the cold, hard, floor in nothing but her undergarments. The only place she had to relive herself was a small bucket in the corner making the entire room smell foul. At first, the man in charge of feeding her would his gaze over her bare limbs with a vulgar smile, but when two weeks of not bathing made Thea hard on the eyes, he thankfully began averting his gaze from her and just stuck to feeding her bread and water once a day. Thea wanted to die. She was born rich and spoiled, and the suffering was too much for her to bear. Thea figured out she had been taken to another country because she could hear her kidnappers speak in a language she didn't recognize outside her 'living' space. She had little faith the nations soldiers or police would be searching for her as the influence of the Republic didn't stretch that far. At that point, Thea ran out of hope.

One day, she heard a man and woman speaking outside, and moments later, the door to her room swung open with Hearth standing on the other side. Thea regarding this woman as beautiful. The faces of the men who had imprisoned her had all been crushed, obliterated by Hearths overwhelming force. The leader had a crowbar running straight through his head.

From there, Thea was moved to a safe house where she spent the next ten days together with the woman. She knew the woman was part of a larger team, but her allies never showed themselves around her. But she occasionally heard them arguing outside her door. Hearth was the only member of Inferno who looked after her. Whenever Thea was bored, Hearth would entertain her with tales of spycraft. Including some about Klaus--whom she was in the same proximity as.

Back at her spy academy, she'd take several opportunities to sleep with the men in town. The men in question sometimes happened to include the academies male faculty. The way Thea saw it, this was all part of her training to enhance her seduction skills as a female spy. She was kicked out after one of the teachers she slept with happened to be married and the other teachers got mad and started taking her grades.

## Skills

### Negotiation

When staring into someone eyes for three seconds uninterrupted, she can see their deepest desire. While she can't get exact details, she can get anything from twisted fetishes to someone's deepest aspirations. She rarely uses her ability on those younger than her, Erna being an exception in Volume 3.

She can use information, whether obtained from staring into some's eyes or from other sources and offer her target something corresponding with their desires to hold people in the palm of her hand. According to Thea, negotiating with people and getting them on her side is simply how she does battle.  Her ability is not suited for combat and is useless against anyone actively trying to kill her.

During Volume 3, Thea got into a battle with Monika over whether or not they should turn Matilda in to the police. Thea gained an upper hand of Monika by using her negotiation skills to recruit a group of gang bodyguards on her side to act as extra muscle.

## Relationships

### Hearth

Thea regards Hearth as her idol. 11 years before the events of Spy Classroom, Hearth, Inferno's boss saved Thea after being kidnapped by Imperial spies. Hearth told Thea about Inferno and told her stories to help her fall asleep. She was the nicest person Thea ever met, yet she was not a pushover and was willing to use violence or even kill when needed. She Thea, using her ability to see into other's hearts, saw that Veronica wanted nothing more than to save as many people as possible. Thea wondered how she reconciled that contradiction. Hearth--Veronica, was and is her savior and her idol She saved Thea from the depths of hell itself. An angel who soothed Thea's terrified heart all those years ago yet fierce as a hellfire. Yet Thea knew she lacked that courage that Veronica so effortlessly acquired. Hearth made her a promise.

> *"If you hone that special talent of yours, you'll be the strongest spy around. But the thing is: I don't want you to become any old spy. I want you to become a hero. If you can do that, then I'm sure we'll meet again. And when we do, I'll prepare a wonderful present for you."*
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Those words were the reason she'd become a spy in the first place, but in Volume 4, seven years later, they felt like a curse weighing her down. She had no idea what to do or what Veronika even saw in her.

### Klaus

Thea finds Klaus to be frustrating when it comes to seduction. Thea had tried to seduce him over and over again, but she had yet to get a reaction out of him. Klaus doesn't even bother to entertain her seduction attempts. Initially when Thea was recruited for Lamplight, she suspected that Klaus surrounded himself with eight female students because he had intentions of pursing them sexually and called in a 'sex-crazed fiend' in a lighthearted manner.

### Daughter Dearest

When Lamplight first came together, Thea thought that Monika was head and shoulders above the rest, during the Mitario Manhunt, she realized how wrong she'd been. Like Monika, Thea sees Grete as having abilities similarly outsized. Grete had not been so skilled when Thea first met her. She had been resourceful, but her frail physique and androphobia made it no wonder that she washed out of her academy. But when Grete developed feelings for Klaus, that all changed. Thea sees this change as positive and wants to encourage Grete to pursue Klaus.  Thea does not understand how Grete can be so brave. nor does she think she has the same ingenuity or mental fortitude to dive into danger like Grete and felt as if she needed her guidance.

In the end, she delegated everything to Grete. Grete called the shots and Thea nodded along. It was pathetic.

### Glint

According to Thea, Monika lacks a single humble bone in her body. Monika has a unique talent of rubbing people the wrong way. And Thea thinks there is something fundamentally messed up about her as a person. Throughout the vents of Volume 3, Thea never once felt any passion for espionage from Monika. All Monika ever did to her was made cynical comments and belittle her teammates.

In reality, a lot of this hatred stems from jealousy--which she herself admits is misdirected. Thea believes that she works tirelessly for the sake of Lamplight while Monika is always able to find more success. The two quarrel a lot--most of which not being play. Monika commonly insults Thea by calling her a 'whore' or a 'slut'. Words which Thea chooses to embrace.

When Thea looked into Monika's eyes, she saw her deepest desire, the desire in question was love. Love for a certain unrevealed member of Lamplight. Thea noted that she went out of her way to hide it so thoroughly that nobody would ever notice her affection. Even after cornering her however, Thea still didn't feel like she ever gained the upper hand on Monika, not one bit.

Since staring into Monika's eyes, she notices now that while Monika is still arrogant and cynical, she could never truly become cruel. Monika always let her true emotions bubble to the surface.

### Forgetter

When Thea peered into Annette's heart, she only saw emptiness, no driving motivation or long-term goals, just childlike innocence without a driving purpose. Nothing. No reason or want to be a spy--and no reason to stay with Lamplight. Annette operates to Thea in pleasure and displeasure. While the other spies put their lives on the line, someone without memories or a sense of purpose, didn't seem right to Thea. This is a part of the reason she believed that Annette may be better off with Matilda.

### Matilda

Upon first meeting Matilda, Thea felt sympathy for her and thought that reuniting the woman with her daughter was the best course of action. Matilda gave off the impression to Thea that she was humble and meek. At the end of Volume 3 when Matilda and Thea came into contact with a solider, Thea saw how she was gripping the screwdriver in her hand like she was going to stab him, and from how quickly Matilda moved, it looked to Thea that it wouldn't have been the first time.

> *"Thea Honey, you're a nobody" - Matilda*
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Even after Matilda's untimely demise, her worlds still held a chokehold over her. Refusing to fade. Thea described it as a bucket of cold water for her.

### Purple Ant

Thea did not care about Purple Ant's messed up moral code. When Thea was kidnapped by captured by Roland, she could say with full confidence that as of that moment, he was the strongest spy in the city. Picking a fight with him then was the worst move they could have made. But only as of that moment.

## Catchphrase

```
"I'm code name Dreamspeaker--and it's time to lure them to their ruin." - Dreamspeaker

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## Gallery

Dreamspeaker's light novel character designDreamspeaker's Light Novel character designDreamspeaker's anime character designDreamspeaker's anime character design in her teaserSara and Thea's profile from Volume 4
## Trivia

* The name **Yumegatari** means "dream, vision" (夢) (**yume**) and "word, language" (語) (**gatari**).
* Thea is the oldest of the Lamplight students

## References

1. ↑ コードネーム《夢語》（CV：上坂すみれ）「スパイ教室」ヒロインPV【ファンタジア文庫】
2. ↑ Spy Classroom Volume 1, Chapter 4 Page 175
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Vol 4 page 131
4. ↑ Vol 4 page 21
5. ↑ Volume 3 page 111
6. ↑ Volume 3 page 111
7. ↑ Volume 3 page 113
8. ↑ Spy Classroom Character Handbook, Thea’s Member Profile
9. ↑ Volume 3 page 31
10. ↑ Volume 3 page 124
11. ↑ Vol 4 page 130
12. ↑ Volume 3 pages 121-124
13. ↑ Volume 3 page 115
14. ↑ Volume 3 page 24
15. ↑ Volume 3 page 7
16. ↑ Vol 4 page 110
17. ↑ Volume 3 page 103
18. ↑ Volume 3 page 105
19. ↑ Volume 3 page 130
20. ↑ Volume 3 page 169
21. ↑ Volume 3
22. ↑ vol 4 page 42
23. ↑ Vol 4 page 142
24. ↑ Spy Classroom volume 1 chapter 1 page 18