Name/Alias: Lyra D’Aramitz
Age: (actual; age immortalized): 92 years; turned at 23; 69 years as a Vampire
Physical Description/Picture: Lyra is no stranger to beauty. From the day she was born, she had been pretty. She is 5 feet and 6 inches of natural radiance and she knows it. Appearance, while not the only thing she worries about, is a very important feature to her. She believes that the way a person presents themselves to others says everything about how they think of themselves. She is never seen without her makeup intact and her hair done in just a way that it looks natural but not
too natural. Her bright blonde hair is kept at shoulder length, gently framing her heart shaped face.
She dresses nicely, almost always preferring dresses and skirts unless she is expecting a fight. Her wardrobe focuses mostly on darker colors, blacks and grays and blues, but has some unique pieces for when she wants to make a statement. She is often seen wearing simple silver jewelry, but never overdoing it.
Strengths: Captivating Touch: Lyra’s beauty isn’t the only thing she uses to sway others to her side. Physical contact, while normally fairly convincing in its own right, allows her to sway the emotions of just about anyone she wills. Her power is more powerful if her target is already feeling an intense emotion. Swapping one emotion for another is much easier than creating one from nothing.
Thrall My Children: Lyra’s captivation is useful in more ways than one. Because of her influential persona, she has a much easier time creating and maintaining thralls. She can have two at a time without much effort, any more quickly compounds the cost and becomes too much to handle.
Weakness: Besides the obvious requirement of her needed to be physically in contact with the person she is trying to control, Lyra’s power has a few more drawbacks. If she uses it too much too quickly, or tries to change emotions in extreme directions (e.g. rage -> passion) too quickly she runs the risk of not only being unsuccessful, but also transferring some of that emotion to herself. She can get overloaded in a way, where the various emotions leave her dazed and sometimes unconscious. It can lead to panic attacks as well. There is also the general rule that the older the vampire, the harder time she has compelling them to feel something they don’t quite want to.
Lyra also has an aversion to entering buildings occupied by living beings without being invited in. She can fight this aversion but she very much prefers not to.
History: Lyra was born on a beautiful fall day in the south of France. The air was crisp and clean and life was good. The 20’s were a great time to be a child, as things were booming and she and her family lived in relative comfort. She lived on a small dairy farm, so she spent a lot of time playing with the animals and enjoying the sun on her skin.
At 15, she moved to Paris to attend a private school. Her parents were wary due to the war that seemed to be right on the horizon, but Lyra convinced them she’d be safe in the city. This was mostly true, as she survived the bombings, but other things threatened her.
In 1942, at age 17, Lyra left the school due to what she called “a difference in beliefs” when it came to a few key moral issues. She didn’t mention this to her parents, and sent them occasional letters to keep them from worrying. She encouraged them not to send letters back, as she didn’t want the Germans reading what they had to say. She knew this was a fairly poor excuse, but knew her parents distrusted the Germans enough to agree with it.
Now without a place to stay, Lyra turned to what so many young girls do when they’re desperate and out on their luck. She sold herself. Though this wasn’t the sad story of some farm girl who moved to the big city and let men have her for a penny. Lyra was much too pretty and much too convincing for that. She found a high class establishment in a richer part of the city,
Marceline’s, and easily found work. The place was owned by a wealthy and mysterious man who lived in America and only visited once a year.
Lyra came to learn that she enjoyed her new line of work. With the prices her clients were being charged and the classiness of the place she worked at, she never had to experience some of the darker sides of such a business.
Several years after the war ended, Lyra was offered an opportunity she would have never imagined for herself. The mysterious proprietor of Marceline’s had been visiting and she had caught his eye. He offered to take her to America with him, where she’d find a whole new life. In reality, she found death before the new life the man, her sire Daniel, came to her. But she was eternally grateful for it.
That was the start of what she believed to be one of the greatest loves the world had seen. Daniel was smart, strong, successful, and incredibly unbelievably charming. She was instantly taken with him and much to her surprise this infatuation didn’t end once he turned her and she grew less and less susceptible to his abilities.
Now, she lives her life in lavish luxury, spending most of her time surrounding herself with new and interesting people. Occasionally her sire uses her to sweeten a deal, or she gets the deal for him in the first place, but for the most part he lets her be.
Motivations: Love. Lyra’s story is one that is much too common, one of unrequited love. The oldest story in the book, some might say, but her story nonetheless. Despite her natural beauty and the extra boost she gets from her way of captivating almost anyone she meets, there was one who would not return her affection. The one, perhaps the only one, she felt she actually cared for. She confessed her feelings early on, only to be shrugged off. In her mind Daniel refused her because he is so used to people bending to his whims he can’t tell when it’s real. Whether she be right or these are just the delusions of a girl head over heels, Lyra plans on having her sire look at her the way she looks at him. And she’s willing to do just about anything to make that happen.
Connections:Daniel Bernard (Sire): object of Lyra’s affection
Anne Williams (Thrall): Lyra considers her a friend, is a source of company
Ryan Hughes (Thrall): Lyra considers him a friend, is a source of company
Louise Noir (Associate): Lyra knows him from common connections between their sires and a great love for his club
