@AiralinName: Lyra Mistly
Age: 15
School Year Level: Sophomore
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Parental Status: Both of Lyra's parents are alive and married.
Personality: As the youngest child in her family, Lyra rarely gets to make decisions on her own. Her three older siblings, all brothers, are overprotective of Lyra to the point of being stifling. To combat that tendency, Lyra has become headstrong and stubborn, sometimes despite having very good reason second guess herself. She is quite intelligent, and prone to influencing those around her through sheer manipulation. She frequently becomes sarcastic, even condescending, when speaking to those who earn her disdain. Beneath her shell of snarky quips and fierce determination lies a girl who doesn't really understand herself but desperately wants to be accepted for the person she is, not the one she's supposed to be.
Bio:
As a small child, Lyra was nothing if not curious. If her parents or her brothers - whoever was in charge of her for the moment - dared look away, they would often find that she had ventured off on her own, across the street and sometimes even into the woods. When that happened, Lyra would inevitably become lost and cry out for help, which always resulted in her would-be guardian rushing to her rescue. She would inevitably be confronted by her parents, who would tell her she was precious, their little princess, and shouldn't take such risks. Lyra believed them, yet time and again, she would commit the same violation.
Eventually, Lyra outgrew that careless behavior, but she never did shed the notion that she was a princess. She became fascinated by books, and would spend many an evening on her porch, reading as the sun set. She strove to always do what was proper, as a princess should. Of course, her brothers would tease Lyra for behaving like royalty, and her commands that they stop would only increase their mockery. Lyra spent increasingly little time with them; she would sometimes spend entire days holed up in her room as much as possible.
As Lyra got older, her interests shifted, as all girls' did. She began to notice boys, to take interest in them in ways she'd never considered before. But any boy she dared invite into her home would be relentlessly badgered by her brothers and would never return. Lyra quickly learned not to invite them home, to keep her relationships at school and distance them from her family as much as possible. During her first year of high school, she did just that, and one night, she finally managed to sneak out and go to a dance with her boyfriend at the time. Lyra fell in love - not with the boy, who she'd discarded a week later, but with the freedom she'd experienced that night. She'd been viewed as a person rather than some little girl who didn't know what was best for herself, and she wanted
more of that. As she progressed into her sophomore year, Lyra developed a knack for sneaking out and a skill for deception. Those talents would help her once she got her hands on
it...