Lyra Woods (Silver)

*"Not being myself is the closest thing I'd found to being safe."*

Initially a Faerie Practitioner and Glamour specialist, Silver is from a centuries-old British family invested in Faerie. Now disowned and a part-Faerie Other, Lyra Woods is the Familiar of Aubrey Shlotwitz.

Silver is friendly, helpful, and manipulative. Terribly possessive, Silver exerts Claim and strengthens Connections eminently casually. The baseline of her motivations is defending what is *hers* - but don't worry. It's not hard for her to lay Claim over you.

## Appearance

Silver's true shape is that of a wolf of blades, an SUV-sized Other which is entirely made out of silver swords and knives.

Silver's Familiar form and original true shape is that of a young, white British woman with brown hair and blue eyes. Her hair is shoulder-length with a silver streak woven through. She commonly wears a pink shirt, blue pants/skirt, and a small waist-bag.

Regardless of her shape there are half-real rats in her vicinity.

## Powers

A Glamour specialist, Silver's primary capability is pushing Glamour into anything she's touching with her hands and turning it into something else. As with all Glamour, her creations can be shattered with force or disbelief.

Silver is partially Fae, and can commensurately take metaphors in the same way that Faerie do, both from others and herself. She likes to collect emotions, which she can then use directly or infuse into items. Notably, Silver doesn't directly manipulate others' emotions or Connections, despite abusing patterns and 'mundane' methods to do so.

Silver has a talent for finding Faerie paths, which she can open with little difficulty. She can also, at the price of *someone's* blood, pull herself and those she has claim over into Dark Fall - though she doesn't like to do that, since she can't get back out easily.

Not a power as such, but Silver is an expert craftsman and artist with natural non-metal materials, primarily cloth, leather and wood. This was a trade with a Faerie in return for [redacted]. She also draws and paints. It helps make her Glamour more realistic.

### Weaving Metaphors

Silver weaponises emotion, very literally. Typically she prefers to draw only lightly off her excess as a bottled liquid, but she is entirely capable of pulling entire emotions out of her Self and twisting them into a variety of threats. Notable uses include:

* Fear - literally just balled up and thrown, Silver afflicts the target with a concentrated version of her own feelings, inclining them towards paralysis or flight depending on the exact *type*. She'll typically mix it with panic and/or worry. She has also woven it into a net.
* Worry - Not especially useful, but Silver has an extensive stock. Typically best after being concentrated into panic.
* Anger - easily turned to various endeavours, Silver primarily will literally armour herself in it.
* Self-Doubt - Not the most useful as a weapon, but handy to remove when hesitation could be deadly. Silver typically turns it into a fog cloud inside a glass ball.
* Sorrow - Highly acidic, Silver typically bottles this. Typically acquired from external sources, when she has it.
* Pain - most effective when used against the one who caused it, Silver will use it as a poison for her weapons, throw it as a ball, or occasionally just splatter it all over the environment.
* Love - an emotion Silver prefers not to dig into, it nonetheless can produce exceedingly solid constructions. Silver has a few drops bottled, and has also turned her love into a knife in the past.

Silver's own emotions are very dangerous for her to dig too deep into. Every single one costs her Self to pull on, and Silver has chronically damaged Self. Pulling out feelings also leaves *gaps* behind, which other things can expand to fill. Replacing one's feelings with Glamour is an unwise endeavour, for certain.

### Implement

Silver's Implement is a pair of elbow-length leather gloves woven through with hidden silver wire and ten silver knives. They enforce her claim and effect on anything which she is actively touching, encourage her capability with personal artistry and craftmanship and Glamour, hide that her Glamour originates from her, and act as a two-way barrier between her and the world; claim and curses are more likely to slip off her, and Silver's Self has a harder time slipping out of her and into her art. Silver is unfortunately denied easy Practice with anything beyond arms' reach. The silver in the gloves mean that Silver has to take care while physically interacting with non-Winter Faerie or else hurt them.

### Sight

Previously, Silver's Sight was a mess. She noticed small details about appearances, little factors that made her harder to fool when it comes to identity, with her Sight automatically comparing such things. It had the frustrating side-effect of also playing out different ways Silver could use her Glamour on people or objects if she chose, which was quite distracting and also an endless temptation to abuse her abilities.

With her bonding to Glory and partial Fall into Dark Autumn and Winter, Silver's Sight acts differently depending on her shape. It's much less effective in her human shape, letting her see in the dark, notice obviously magical things, and track Connections through a strange mixture of sight and smell. She's lost the easy visual distinctions and the constantly changing surroundings. As a wolf her Sight isn't optional, and she tracks her surroundings purely through scent-based Connections. The scents mostly emphasise whether the Connection is growing, decaying, or in stasis, according to the Glamour that clings to her most strongly.

### Wolf of Blades

Silver gains no particular Other abilities from her shape, but as a car-sized wolf made from silver swords and knives she is inherently bane to non-Winter Faerie, many immaterial creatures, and certain other Others. She's inherently more durable and immune to attacks based on the target having flesh, but highly vulnerable to effects that rot or decay metal. She's only *so* durable against bashing attacks; silver is a notably soft metal. She can move quite, quite fast, and tires minimally.

The wolf has a limited ability to naturally use the Glamour it is partly made from, primarily hampered by the fact that this shape doesn't have hands. This Glamour includes Dark Fall, Bright Spring, Bright Summer, Corrupted Autumn, and Winter, with Dark Fall and Winter being the most innate.

The wolf is incapable of not scratching surfaces it walks on, and is likely to greatly damage anything it passes by. It takes immense care from both Silver and anyone she is touching to avoid damage, though its possible by only touching the flat edges of her swords.

Silver can exploit her true form while in her Familiar shape in various ways, including rapidly changing between them, momentary partial shapeshifts (not something she can maintain long-term) and pulling out her own blades. Pulling out her swords is very painful; as long as Silver keeps a hold of the sword the damage is minimal, but separating from it at all can be compared to ripping out her own bones, causing her crippling pain and damage.

Damage to one form only partially damages the other. Damaging the wolf's blades makes the Familiar form bleed in sympathy, rust and similar crippling weakens it and exhausts it. Damage to the Familiar form is mostly ignored by the wolf, but sufficiently severe damage may crack or break the blades.

## History

### Pre-OMO

Born and raised in the Woods family manor, Lyra was first introduced to Fae when she was six years old when she befriended a fairy. Unbeknownst to her, this was at her mother's request. She bargained for the fairy to bring her woodland animals to befriend for a week, and was rewarded with a bear and a hornets nest.

Silver was saved from the bear by her brother, Eden, an incident both remember fondly, and she used the hornet nest to take vengeance on her cousin Elliott for literally-damaging criticism.

Silver was then further introduced to Faerie and Glamour, visiting the different Courts and learning their ways.

When Silver was 16 she was invited to a Dark Fall party, which was the first time that she ever unmade an Innocent.

A few days before her Awakening Silver killed her aunt at her Mother's request to 'free' her from a curse of decay.

### OMO

Silver's first introduction to OMO was assisting deathbyroses, which introduced her to Landis. Other notable involvements included bargaining with Grey in his introduction post and agreeing to join the Stella hunt.

Silver escorts the Hare to speak with Lord Grey II

The Battle of King Leer: Silver was a notable participant in the slaying of King Leer.

Immediate Aftermath of King Leer: Silver relinquishes Hard Cleft.

Some Fights Are Just Stupid: Coming home *after* killing King Leer was an experience...

A Tiny Alliance Discusses A Bladed Wolf

Silver and Satterly discuss an Antidote

A Wolf Is Hit By A Van

Lord Grey Announces Silver's Fall

In The Safety Of A Desert

Bound By Desert Flowers

Seamus and Silver talk to Chaska's Familiar

Seamus and Silver Discuss A Challenge

The Containment of Erectus - not present, but she arranged it

Glory and Silver upset Lord Grey

Silver Appeals to Lord Grey II

Silver and Glory Collect Erectus

Glory and Silver find sanctuary at Sanctuary

Lord Grey II and the Smith Discuss

Silver runs in Sanctuary

Silver requests Starry check on Seamus

A Truce With Stella

Silver and Glory visit Tecumseh

Seamus Roasts Glory

### Post-Tecumseh

Silver awoke the day after their visit to Tecumseh to find her partner missing, the only clue as to why a note that Glory had written reading "Go on head without me/Meet you back in Pendleton", the trash can to the Warrens open. Silver could also see that Glory had written 'I'm sorry' eighty eight times on the note, which she had erased. Glory had also left her phone behind.

After an argument with the goblins over her right to order them around, Shatbraggart taught Silver to drive. Mostly. In return, Silver gave him one of the haggis-juice drinks.

The next day Silver woke up to discover that Shatbraggart had been using Glory's OMO account, which Silver decided to ignore.

As she got to driving the van, Silver yet again encountered the endless, frustrating interference of the Faerie. Eventually the Knight came again to attack the van. Silver killed him by launching her own blades at him, blades which she'd torn out. In the process Silver discovered that whatever Glory was doing involved fucking with her own Self in a way that made Silver physically ill. After three hours recovering from that incident, they received a call from Stella.

Amidst taunts, Stella informed Silver that they would be meeting in the Fine Dime Dining Restaurant in Pendleton in two days, and to bring any heist participants along at that time since anyone who wasn't there wasn't coming. When Stella decided to continue taunting her, Silver put the phone into a jar of shit.

A short while after that, Silver finally tired of the goblins being petty with her and challenged them to their Warrens contest. Shatbraggart refused, on the grounds that it was sleep time, so Silver woke them up with a van-rattling howl before preparing herself for the battle by ripping out various emotions.

In order Silver took down Burnbums, Inchpinch, Spattergasm, Gutsuckler, Shitdick, Goryhole, Cockshocker, Shitshotter, Shitpits, Rotrubber, Nitburrow, Bitchhiker, Pisslord, Ragglesnatch, Switchstain, Nibbles, Fatman596, 69MyPussyFucker, beating them down to surrender or binding. Throughout the entire thing Shatbraggart's voice taunted Silver with things Glory had said before leaving, culminating with the discovery that 69 had Shatbraggart's text-to-speech device and that Shatbraggart had locked her in the Warrens and taken the van. At this point, Silver resigned herself to running to Pendleton through the Warrens for the next two days.

Over OMO Silver spoke to Shatbraggart. He offered to stop and let her back into the van, even let her rest, *if* she acknowledged his victory and made certain oaths. Silver did not do so.

Silver also spoke to Landis, mentioning the invite by Stella. Landis countered with an invitation to a wine bar called Tastings. He then managed to get Silver to vent about how much she missed Glory.

While in the Warrens Silver picked up the goblins Splinchwinch and Flitjibe.

Silver Picks Up Timestamper

Pancake Pranks

Glory's 21st Birthday

Silver and Business Casualty discuss her father

## Associated Characters

Aubrey Schlotwitz (Glory) - Silver's Practitioner and partner.

Eden Woods - Silver's ex-brother.

Felicity Woods - Silver's Mother.

Elliott - Silver's cousin.

## Trivia

* Silver's favourite food is stuffed pigeon.
* Silver's favourite drink is tea.
* Silver's favourite normal food is pizza.
* Silver's favourite colour is pink.

### Theme Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6FixoUyQQQ&ab\_channel=AgainstTheCurrent

*weapon*, by Against the Current. "When all you are is a weapon/You shoot em down till you end up alone/I seem fine/But I can’t take the highs and the lows."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tpIMDy9BE&t=0s&ab\_channel=LindseyStirling

*Shatter Me*, Lindsey Stirling. “Somebody make me feel alive and *shatter me*”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvhwU5Pl1Wk&ab\_channel=CitizenSoldier

*Hallelujah (I’m Not Dead)*, Citizen Soldier. “I’ve lost wars inside my head, Wake up another fight, am I the victim or the homicide? What's in my head left scars behind… I’ve learned to live in shadows even without the light. So if you’re black and blue and feeling so abused, no it doesn’t make you damaged, it makes you living proof that you are so much more than all this hell you’ve known. Hallelujah, *I’m not dead!*”

*Gone with the wind*, Blackmore’s Night. “Take all I know, turn it into darkened shadow…”

*The One Who Laughs Last*, Downplay. “My words are weaponry, now waiting patiently; I’d crawl on broken glass, to be the one who laughs last…”

*Welcome to the Masquerade*, TFK. “Welcome to the masquerade… I’m not ashamed, I’m not to blame, I’m not okay…”

*This Ain’t a Scene…*, FOB. “And the lies I weave are oh so intricate…”

*Keep Them Close*, The Paper Melody. “Locked away, you’re masked by charm”

*Under a Violet Moon*, Blackmore’s Night. “We will dance the whole night through… under a violet moon”

*Midsummer*, Heather Alexander.

*Elan*, Nightwish. “Come, surf the clouds, race the dark, it feeds from the wrongs undone!”

*Sorry*, Falling With **Glory**. “I’m sorry, I can’t tell you, how I feel inside, but I wish you knew…”

*Weak Fantasy*, Nightwish. “Behold the crown of a heavenly spy, forged in blood of those who defy… Fear is a choice you embrace! … You live only for the days to come.”

*Last Ride of the Day,* Nightwish. “Wonder, mystery, everywhere my road goes!”

*Fake It*, Seether. “I can fake with the best of anyone, I can fake it all… Who’s to know if your soul will fade at all, the one you sold to fool the world? Good god, you’re dragging it out…”

*Lovely*, Billie Eilish. “Tear me to pieces, skin and bone… hello. Welcome… home.”

*The Dark Ones*, Karliene. “Come dance in the dark, and you will be fearless! Let the dark kill the love in your heart until your heart is painless… Come let’s leave this world behind. Dance with the dark ones in your mind.”