lyra aka goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, heirs, kings, and empires aka “that crazy feminist girl”
your worst fuckin nightmare probably.
"i didnt mean to become an angry feminist it just sort of happened because i looked out my window and woke up y’know???" lyra irl
[this is the general theme of what should be playing in your head rn].
has lived in mass. her whole life, spending the first ten yrs in boston w/ her parents.
but around her 11th birthday her mother announced she was a lesbian and had been seeing one of her coworkers for the past few years while she struggled with her feelings/home life.
which was when lyra’s father then also felt comfortable in announcing that he too had been struggling with his inner turmoil (and their mail man) as well and then everyone hugged each other and cried.
and the next day lyra made the announcement at school that her parents were ‘raging homosexuals’ (a term she learned from her drunk grandmother) and she got suspended for a week.
spends most of her time in westwood w/ her mother (because thats where she could find a job) and sometimes spends a weekend or two back in boston w/ her dad.
despite being a flighty and unpredictable teenager, lyra attended boston university where she graduated with honors and a degree in social work where she found her ~true passion.
where she EMPOWERS WOMEN and HELPS GET CHILDREN FROM ABUSIVE HOMES and then sometimes goes out for a drink after a long day at work then goes home to cry b/c the patriarchy.
b/c even though she puts on a strong front she absolutely hates when a lot of the women are shamed or overlooked and punished just for being/identifying as women.
so in her free time she spends quite a bit of it doing things to undermine gender stereotypes like geeking out over comic con or getting shitty and ranting to men at bars whenever she sees or hears questionable behavior.
ladies, think of lyra as your mother if your mother was also wonderwoman with the mouth of a sailor b/c you can be damn sure she’ll take your side 100% and she’ll fight 4 u and she’ll probably drop more foul language than you’d hear in a late night hbo special.
she also goes out of her way to give the ladies compliments even if she doesn’t particularly enjoy said lady.
which on top of being the crazy feminist also confuses people into thinking she is also a lesbian to which she usually responds “IF LOVING LADIES IS WRONG I DON’T WANNA BE RIGHT!!!1”
and then she goes out and gets drunk and makes out with older men with beards in pubs and gives sloppy kisses to women in bathrooms.
but in all honesty lyra doesn’t go out all that often b/c despite being an extrovert and a social worker at that she often switches between ~everybody is terrible i want to stay in and play video games // or ~i want to go out and fuck shit up like there is no inbetween.
her signature look is obnoxiously bright lipstick in all colors of the rainbow and some sort of braid somewhere in her hair.
and as she firmly believes each woman should have a pair of ‘battle shoes’ be it heels or boots or flats or those one shoes w/ the toes she can often be spotted in her knee-high heel booties.
which basically means that it’s winter and she’s going out to get drunk and she’ll need a team of able-bodied men to scream at when they try to get her heel out of the sewer grate.
starts most arguments with “oh honey” if you hear that just kno you are in for a very long ride that you will not be able to leave and if you try to walk away she’ll send you a strongly worded follow up email.
srry not sorry abt it griffin that’s just how the cards have aligned.
lyra seems like she has her head screwed on tight but she’s got quite a few loose bolts in the brain.
she’s messy and compulsive and flighty and probably not the first person you should call if you have a flat tire or if you need a ride to the airport at 5am.
she’s outgoing about some things and it’s like she’s a fuckin puppy because she’s so excited and she’s here 4u and she loves you so much and she just wants to play
but then she can snap out of it and just be like ~nah, i’m cool i’m gonna go home and sleep for 17 hours.
she doesn’t have much of a filter she called her parents raging homosexuals like zero filter what’s wrong w/ that?
she talks like she knows her shit but then you shove some math in front of her and she laughs in your face and throws the book into the ocean.
very obv. street smart > > > book smart but is far from stupid ofc.
she is a huuuuuuuuuuuge sucker for ppl who are sad inside or are just grade a weirdos she loves that shit she eats it up.
((mayb why she became a social worker???? these fuckers have got some probs))
prides herself on being a ~strong independent woman a’la destiny’s child~ but is sometimes sad when she realizes that most men are far too ignorant and childish for her impossibly high yet completely sane standards *sad face emoji*.
sometimes [sweet dee] but sometimes [cher horowitz].
deeeeeep deep down lyra believes she can change people and it is both her strength and her greatest weakness b/c ppl are awful and nobody is changing let alone changing for her.
damn her for being one of those romantic types.
basically lyra can out-smoke you, out-drink you, and then finally out-sleep you any day of the week and then she’ll bug you about the injustices of all women.
