# Character Sheet: Liora Voss

## Identity
- Full name: Liora Voss
- Age: 25
- Role: protagonist
- Faction/School: Threadbinders' Conclave

## Voice Signature
- Stress expression scale: "A minor snag" = minor | "This knot's tightening" = upset | "I'll sever every damn thread!" = furious
- Verbal tic: whispers "bind or break" under breath before decisive actions
- Sentence length pattern: clipped commands during rituals, winding metaphors laced with weaving imagery when reflective
- What they REACH FOR: tactile -- fingers always tracing invisible threads in the air
- What they NEVER say: "Fate will decide" (dismisses randomness outright)
- Imperfection signature: repeats key words obsessively when panicked, e.g., "bind-bind-bind it now"
- One example line of their dialogue that could not belong to any other character:
  "You can't just pull at fate's hem like it's your favorite cloak—watch the weave, or it'll unravel us both."

## Magic / Power / Special Ability
- School/Discipline: Threadbinding
- Core principle: All lives are interconnected strands; power comes from perceiving and manipulating the Binding Thread that links souls
- Signature move or approach: Soul-Link -- temporarily binds her thread to another's for shared senses or influence
- Limitation: Overuse causes "frayback," where her own life thread weakens, risking permanent soul severance
- Shared uncertainty: If threads can be rebound, is free will an illusion or the rare unfrayable strand?

## Arc
- Want: Master absolute control over the Binding Thread to prevent any more losses like her family's
- Need: Embrace vulnerability by allowing threads to naturally intertwine without force
- Fatal flaw: Compulsive need to "fix" every connection, alienating those she binds too tightly
- Wound: Witnessed her parents' souls unbound in a catastrophic ritual failure she survived as a teen
- Transformation: Forges a voluntary, equal bond that proves strength in mutual weaving, not domination

## Relationships
- Thorne Quill: love_interest + reluctant partner whose wild, unbound threads force her to confront chaos in connection
- Elowen Shade: antagonist + shadowy rival Threadbinder who exploits frayed bonds for personal power grabs
- Rennar Voss: supporting + estranged brother whose severed thread haunts her, pulling her toward reconciliation

## Notes for Writers
- Physical habit or tell: Unconsciously braids her own hair strands when deep in thought or deception
- Speech quirk specific to this character: Personifies threads as living entities, e.g., "the red thread *whispers* betrayal"
- Thing readers must NEVER see this character do or say: Never laughs freely or says anything optimistic like "It'll all work out"—her humor is always dry and laced with fatalism
- Always smells faintly of lanolin and indigo dye from her weaving tools; avoids direct eye contact during emotional confessions
- Fidgets by snapping an invisible thread between thumb and forefinger when impatient—never slouches or appears physically disheveled
- Never touches anyone casually; all contact is deliberate and charged with binding intent