Lyra Pendragon

[Lyra Pendragon]

[Lyra Magdalene Pendragon]
i'm lost and alone
and i'm fair and i'm free
you am what you is and i are who i be
what i'm lacking in strength,
i make up for in smarts
you keep your stability
i'll keep my heart

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who's in the bunker, who's in the bunker
i've seen too much, i haven't seen enough
you haven't seen enough
i'll laugh until my head comes off
women and children first, and the children first
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Age
twenty-six

Gender[/color]
Totes a woman. You see these boobs? You see them? You see how sexy they are?

Sexuality[/color]
Flaming. Flamboyant. She loves boobs as much as she has them. ... or, okay, well, that's what she'll flaunt. She'll flirt with anyone at all simply because flirting's fun, but she also has a more subtle way of flirting when she really means it. Although she seems to have a tendency to flirt and fixate and even crush on guys, she only seems to fall in love with and is attracted to girls. ... so, uh. Lyra's Lyra, really.

Place of Birth[/color]
New York, New York, the United States

Occupation[/color]
Dancer/stripper... oh, and Telum agent. That, too. She's excellent at blending in and out of crowds and infiltrating places she really shouldn't be. ... She also likes blowing shit up. Really, really likes blowing shit up. Like, you don't even understand.

life's too short, babe!
time is flyin'
i'm lookin' for baggage
that goes with mine...

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Personality Evaluation[/color]
» An optimist
» Something of an attention whore
» A free spirit -- and an independent one
» Loud, gregarious, enthusiastic, and kind of interfering, to be honest
» One of those obnoxiously loud girls who made you twitch in high school
» Possibly could be described as "fluid" and hard to pin down and categorize
» Not a linear thinker. Not really. But what makes sense to Lyra doesn't necessarily make sense to everyone else, it seems
» Can you say chaotic neutral? (it's a link!)
» Informal and non-hierarchal... infuriatingly so at times. She just doesn't see lines and boxes and ranks for people to be organized into; there is very little black and white with this girl
» Along those same lines, she also doesn't really hold especially strong loyalties to the Telum, and she doesn't hold grudges against people working for Os. She just doesn't think any of that shit matters, really -- For example, when I was reading through the accepted profiles, she sat in my headspace and read along with me and decided that she would very much like to be friends with a lot of these people. ... and then I pointed out to her that they worked for Os, and her reactions started with "Damn" and eventually became "So the hell what?" To Lyra, people are people, and that's what's important, not all this politics mumbo jumbo -- after all, all politics do is create more fighting, and haven't we had enough of that crap by now?
» The kind of person who will say an offensive joke just because the conversation set it up. ... and then she won't apologize for it, unless someone gets extremely offended (and only if they make a huge fuss about it)
» Passive aggressive. Well, not even so much aggressive, but she has that "run, run fast, run far, keep running" reaction to personal issues
» She is very honest about who she is. The face she puts forward is honest-to-god Lyra. She doesn't hide who she is; she can't hide who she is. She just wouldn't be Lyra otherwise, you know?
» She always does what's right by her. Always. Regardless of what someone else is telling her, regardless of orders, she does what's right by her -- and if she does something that isn't right by her, there's either a gun to her head or she's doing it so she can run away and save her own skin
» She's got something of an ego when it comes to her body. She looks good and she knows it and by god she is going to flaunt it (because it's fun)
» Has a history of being drawn to the kind, innocent kind of girls
» Has a bad tendency to not think about the consequences of her actions
» Has a good nature, really, she does; she always means well
» Kind of lonely, really, not that she ever lets on -- but if she makes a new friend, a real friend, she'll be ecstatic and hyper for a good while. There aren't really a lot of people who get close enough to see all the complexity to Lyra, which is a shame, really; it's not like she pushes people away or anything. She just... has a tendency to rub people the wrong way, ahahahaha
» Also has a really hard time seeing the line that shouldn't be crossed. It isn't unusual for her to completely blunder over the line without realizing it for a long time -- when she does realize it, it's usually far too late. She always feel bad for it, too, because she doesn't mean any harm, but... It also isn't unusual for her to get upset for a long time after this realization
» She acts on impulse. If you ask her later why she did something, she can tell you the exact reasoning, but she rarely considers the consequences of her actions until said consequences are staring her in the face
» She is action-oriented. One of her strong suits is that she gets up and gets shit done. She takes action, and if she can get something done, by god, she will get it done. She's very determined that way.
» Seems to be flamboyant and confident, even though she actually is very insecure about herself as a person. She hates who she is, but she carries on anyway, mostly because she doesn't believe she could change to become the kind of person she wants to be
» Under all that optimistic energy that is Lyra's trademark and the pillar of her personality, there is darkness -- a well-hidden darkness. It isn't a selfish, evil darkness, necessarily... Just fear, crippling fear, and nightmares, and self-hatred. Imagine sunlight dancing on the top of a lake or a pond or a river -- it's bright and sparkling and dancing, and under that is this beautiful shimmering color that's almost hard to follow, and under that is the shadow behind the light, tucked under the rocks. There, you have a good mental image of what Lyra's aura would look like if made manifest.
» Acts as if there's nothing wrong at all ever. She's gotta keep moving and happy and smiling and blowing things up because if she stops, if she ever stops, then the world can catch up with her, and so can her worries and her troubles and her fears and her guilt, and she is not gonna let that happen
» Although she cares strongly about people, she won't hesitate to cut and run when it comes down to her own life. That doesn't mean she's not altruistic and would just leave someone to die when she could save them -- It's just that if it came down to it, she could sever ties to whatever life she's got, drop it, and run. As she would say, running is what she's good at
» She'll say she joined Telum at first because she likes sabotage and explosives and other things like that, but truthfully, when she found out about Os... bells just kind of went off in her head. Her mind went like this: "Hidden organization secretly running things --> Government --> War --> BAD BAD NONONO (cue panic attack)!" And so... she became more devoted to Telum, yup. ... well, as devoted as Lyra gets to a political organization, anyway. (How the heck did she get accepted into that group with an attitude like that?)

Quirks and Habits![/color]
» The cackling and the pranks and the explosions don't count?
» Well, there's the whole flirting thing...
» Sometimes people wonder if she thinks life is a musical or something because every now and then she'll just burst into song and interpretive dance. ... she'll also dance to any music with a beat; she's not picky
» She has a couple of catchphrases. Yes, really. The two main ones are "Sorry, babe, I'm just too gay for you" and "Have faith"
» Uh, she kind of has post-traumatic stress disorder... sort of... It's hard to tell with her, but she will have panic attacks when something triggers a bad memory. (Man, she was six when the 'world ended.' Six. Of course she's scarred from all that.) Lyra panic attacks are not especially fun, because that bright cheerful woman crumbles and she's a sobbing twitching screaming donottouchmemakeitstop mess. ... and self-destructive, too. ... ... This is why she likes to be as far away from her explosions as possible, mmhmm. It makes one wonder why she would use something that would trigger her own panic. ... To be honest, it's probably partially so she can keep that piece of history, that piece of her past, that piece of her alive and kicking. Lyra fears things dying and fading away just as much as she fears being crammed in a box.

Family[/color]
Well, once upon a time, she had a family. A big one, too. Mother and father (the former rather pushy and controlling, to be honest) and four younger siblings (that's right, Lyra's an oldest!), two of which were twins. Lyra was about six when the world ended, and she was about six when she lost all her family except her father. While she was growing up, he didn't know what to do with such a spirited child, but he tried his best to be encouraging and affectionate. When she was old enough, she moved out to the new center of everything, leaving her father behind. They're now kind of distant and awkward, but they trade letters every couple of months or so to let each other know they're still alive.

you know, you know, no, you don't, you don't -
i wanna shine on in the hearts of man
i wanna make it from the back
of my broken hand

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Fighting Experience[/color]
She fights with a grin and a cackle... and preferably with explosives, though she can do some street fighting if she has to (but her strength isn't the greatest, tbh). She'll turn anything around her into a weapon if she can, and... well, she fights pretty dirty, when you think about it. Whatever it takes to survive!

General Apperance[/color]
» Long dark hair - almost to her hips
» Green eyes (don't let those icons fool you!)
» She has aaall the right curves in all the right places; girl is gorgeous
» She's got a fondness for bold, flashy colors: red, orange, black, gold (... yes, black isn't flashy, but it's "bold"... in Lyra's world... just accept it and move on okay? hahaha)
» She has scars on the backs of her arms and legs and on her back from the burns caused by the bombings...
» A "tattoo" on the back of her neck that reads "Sinless", but no one can see it because of her hair. Tattoo is in quotation marks because it's more of a scar, but she calls it a tattoo when people see it. ... Or maybe just because then she can say "I have a tattoo hidden somewhere on my body!. <3" ... You can't really tell with Lyra

Weapons and Possessions[/color]
Nothing in particular, really. She really does prefer explosives and such when it comes to weaponry, though. She also likes things that she can pick up and just smack people hard enough to knock them out -- or even make 'em dizzy, she's not picky -- so she can run off.

Face Claim![/color]
[Final Fantasy VII + Advent Children] -- [Tifa Lockheart] -- [[b]Lyra Pendragon[/b]]

comin' outta my cage
and i've been doin' just fine
gotta gotta be down
because i want it all

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you have agreed to abide by the laws of A Perfect World and the word of the staff members. You have also agreed to abide by the Proboards ToS. Any violation of any of the above may result in immediate terminated. If you understand and are of sound mind and body, malathyne[/color]

From Winston Churchill, for Lyra
» Quotes! Just for fun. ;D
» "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
» "I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."
» "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
» "Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong."
» "This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."
» "We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm."

Lyra Songs
» Used in profile (titles are all YouTube links):
- Wanderer's Wandering Daughter [Kimya Dawson]
- Idioteque [original by Radiohead; cover by Obadiah Parker]
- La Vie Boheme [from the musical RENT]
- All These Things That I've Done [The Killers]
- Mr. Brightside [The Killers]
- The Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkle)
- Another Day [from the musical RENT]
» Song in sig: (title is a YouTube link)
- Out Tonight [from the musical RENT]
» Other theme songs for Lyra (again, titles are YouTube links):
- Hate Me [Blue October]
- Just Dance [Lady Gaga]
- Stay (I Missed You) [Lisa Loeb]
- Chemistry (Kimya Dawson)
- So Nice, So Smart (Kimya Dawson)


For My Reference
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fools, said i, you do not know
silence like a cancer grows
hear my words that i might teach you,
take my arms that i might reach you
but my words like silent raindrops fell
and echoed in the wells of silence

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there is no future, there is no past,
i live this moment as my last
there's only us, there's only tonight
we must let go to know what's right
no other path, no other way, no day but today

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[Lyla]

ACCEPTED!

-exploded into tiny sparkling pieces when she saw this-

OH.
MY.
GOD.

I love her. :3

Welcome to A Perfect World, Malathyne!

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