Lyon Morcant Wight

**Lyon Wight** is the helmsman of the Phœnix, and the chronologically newest member to join the crew. Relatively young (in age if not in appearance), he takes a long time to earn the crew's trust, and an even longer time to trust the crew himself. His deeply-rooted superiority complex and abrasively polite mannerisms rendered him hard to like for quite a long time after his joining, although he showed himself trustworthy in the end.

## Appearance

Lyon appears to be in his late thirties, and is just short of six feet tall. His skin is a medium brown, his eyes a dull green, and he has long and slightly wavy black hair that he keeps tied back in a loose ponytail or braid. His face and hand bears a variety of scars, the most notable of which runs all the way across his throat. Several others surround his wrists and line his face. He has several small moles on his face and torso.

His most distinguishing characteristic is the fact that he does not have a biological right arm. Instead, this arm from the triceps down is composed of a mixture of wood fragments, various metals, and rope: pieces of past ships he has destroyed. This feature frequently leads to the other members of the crew mockingly calling him a deckhand.

His taste in clothing tends towards the clean-cut and tidy. He wears a variety of suits when off duty, but for the sake of keeping said suits tidy, has taken up wearing more casual clothes, often covered by a long brown trenchcoat, while at the helm. His accent colour is green.

He owns a pair of pince-nez, which he uses for reading. He is thus assumed to be farsighted.

## Personality

Lyon is convinced that almost every member of the human race is flawed except for a select few, which he believes he himself is one of. His nature is nevertheless typically polite and dignified; this leads to a notable dichotomy between the content of his words and the way he usually presents them. However, his personality can be extremely volatile. While he is usually calm and collected, he snaps incredibly easily, and can go from no outward indication of anger to attempting murder in a matter of seconds.

He has also been shown to be broken down by how few good people he sees in the world, occasionally being observed openly crying over it, often late at night. He expresses a desire to find these righteous people, and considers it a heavy burden on his shoulders that he must bring justice to those who are unrighteous by killing them. Occasionally, other crewmembers notice indications that he may not even want to be an avatar.

Enigmatically, Lyon enjoys reading and staring majestically out to sea when not at the wheel or delivering a righteous reckoning upon the foul masses.

## Early time on the Phœnix

Lyon's relationships with the other members of the ship begins extremely rockily, as his first encounter with most of the members was directly after boarding when he immediately attempted to kill Kailani. Being overwhelmed by pure numbers of avatars, he was imprisoned in the brig, and so was extremely slow to like the crew after being released. After several weeks of being passive-aggressive towards the crew and generally bothering everyone, he was eventually directly confronted by Augustin, whose words near-instantaneously changed Lyon's mind about the ship. Following a breakdown, Lyon lost nearly all his negative sentiments towards the crew (which was not Augustin's intended reason for shouting at him, but it worked nevertheless).

## Relationships

As of the present, Lyon openly considers all the crewmembers of the Phœnix as equals to himself, and while his egotism has not diminished, his respect for the others has grown exponentially. He is aware of his appeal to the other crewmembers, and after his change of heart, even flirts back from time to time. He idolizes Augustin after their argument (although because of their similarity, his may be in part because of his own massive ego). To a lesser extent he admires Micah in a similar way, as Micah has also spoken up against him loudly and at great length.

## Powers

* **Deck Hand of Doom:** Lyon's right arm is inhumanly strong, and is easily capable of killing a human being. It also grows and sheds pieces periodically, and Lyon tends to maintain it by trimming or removing unwieldy pieces that have become incorporated into it and replacing them with more manageable materials.
* **Call of the Ship:** Lyon is able to hear a constant faint music, which he describes as beautiful singing. He understands this music as the world (and various objects in it, such as the Phœnix herself) speaking to him, telling him what he needs to do. It is currently unknown as to whether or not this singing is real (manifesting as an aspect of the Slaughter) or simply a figment of his own mind.
* **Catching Flies:** Through speaking, Lyon is able to bring elements of the Slaughter's music into his own voice to cause violent or unpredictable tendencies in others. Being a skilled orator and longtime lecturer used to convincing people to see his point of view, he is far more subtle than Miriam was, and once nearly drew Augustin close enough to his view of the world to get him to free him from the brig (although Augustin broke away before doing so).

## In other AUs

Lyon features relatively little in AUs, being a fairly new addition to the ship. The AUs featuring him most prominently are:

* Vampire + Hunter AU
* Pokemon AU

## Trivia

* Lyon's middle name, Morcant, means "defender of the sea", reflecting how he thinks of himself.
* His gender is ambiguous, and has stated that people using the title "Mr." makes him uncomfortable. He asks only to be called "Professor", despite the fact that he is no longer employed as one.
* He has been infrequently observed making puns, and appears to enjoy the chaos they wreak on the crew immensely.
* His surname, Wight, is a synonym for a spirit or ghost. The relevance to his character is as of yet unknown, as he tends to be fairly tight-lipped about his backstory.
* Lyon was, at one point, a professor of musical arts at an unspecified university. It is unclear why he abandoned this position, especially as he still asks to be referred to as Professor.
* He has a magnificent voice, an impressive musical repertoire, and is always happy to sing for the others, although he must be reminded not to try and invoke feelings of uncontrollable violence through his music.
* He is attempting to teach Clarence how to read, which is going poorly, mainly because of the latter's insistence that he has no need to learn.