"C'mon. You're, like, totally overthinking this. Just sign and enjoy your sweet new bling."
Full Name: Lydia Thorne / Yviastralanastrinivindrayna
Age: 23
Appearance: Lydia is... not quite normal. Without the help of illusions, she has features commonly associated with demons in human culture, with maroon horns and a pointy tail, pointed ears, and claw-like nails. More commonly, those features are downplayed enough through magic to help her fit in among mundanes. She favours luxurious and expensive fabrics and accessories, and seems to actively seek out where the line for the dress code is drawn by altering her appearance. Her ethnicity is hard to pin down - her features are almost a blend of what is considered attractive rather than distinct markers. She's average height, and just slim enough to fill out a cocktail dress.
Worldview (Personality): Lydia appears to approach society with a playfully challenging ideal. She doesn't always seem to consider the seriousness of a situation or task, and that flippant behaviour and high elevation of her own interests can put her at odds with people who want swift, professional and uncomplicated results. She loves deal making, bets, and false promises through legalese. Her approach to people is more like puzzles to be solved rather than living beings deserving of empathy. As such, her view of others is very arbitrary - she does not necessarily find reasons to help or harm in the same ways others would. Rather, she is interested in novelty, self-actualisation, and squeezing success out of whatever she can get away with.
Position: Marketing and Sales; Lydia is an eternal salesperson, looking for deals and profit where others are focused on clocking out.
Magic: Lydia is skilled in illusions, but has little to no book smarts on the topic and no interest in learning how to develop her talents beyond minor glamours, sound distortions, and blurry imaging. Her real talent is in elemental magic. Her heritage has given her a leg up in channeling some manner of fey fascimile of the infernal, and she can use that deplorable energy to leech lifeforce, spray beams of foul and terrifying energy, or otherwise corrupt and warp the bodies of the unfortunate.
Resume (Background): There are ancient tales of children being swapped and taken, of diabolical rituals to bring a destroyer to the earth, of dark desperate deals made for the future depravity of a firstborn in exchange for salvation or power. Lucy is the result of none of those. Rather she is the result of a notorious fey being, who strongly resembles demonic folklore, getting totally wiped out in a bar and getting absolutely overrun with affection after being sweet-talked by a lonely lady taking a break from her struggles in the fast world of finance.
Initially intending to ditch and never recall such a disgrace on his self-respect, curiosity and something akin to obsession drew him back to the woman, who he found had recently given birth to an adorable abomination. He came clean to his love, and inducted her into the world behind the veil, resolving to stay with his mortal lover and his new spawn.
Lydia grew quickly, and was unstoppable in her advance to take advantage of the world. Her dad couldn't be prouder when she fleeced her classmates of their foiled trading cards for mere trash basics, when she argued her way out of a red card in soccer, or turned an alley cockroach into ashes out of pure instinct (and terror).
But such a peace would not last. Though Lydia's own cheerful ambition was unbeatable, her parents worried she would fit in with neither the regular world - where her odd campaigns for success and appearance would her at risk for attention, nor the truly fantastical - where her lack of talent for truly amazing feats of magical skill and mortal shell would pose a real setback. Instead, they began to seek out a safe place for Lydia to be herself.
To skin the world of all it's got.
Interests (Likes): - Gambling, betting, wagers
- Games and competition
- MATERIAL WEALTH
Non-Interests (Dislikes): - Prejudice
- Sticks-in-the-mud
- Cats (it's mutual)
Other Junk (Misc.):- Uttering Lydia's true name makes her irritated and stressed out. Her dad only used it to scold her.
- She is very good at learning new games, and seems to have a knack for most recreational games. Unfortunately she isn't as good at things requiring luck.
- Totally loves the Panko Chicken Poke Bowl from that place on the corner down the street.