From 6ad820351433781d0de865d76ab5750529ceb908 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PAE Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2026 18:01:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] staging: character-lyra-vance.md task=c1339f99-a3e2-46bd-b271-ef7eee28ac49 --- .../staging/character-lyra-vance.md | 43 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 projects/cypress-bend/staging/character-lyra-vance.md diff --git a/projects/cypress-bend/staging/character-lyra-vance.md b/projects/cypress-bend/staging/character-lyra-vance.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f247b6 --- /dev/null +++ b/projects/cypress-bend/staging/character-lyra-vance.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +# Character Sheet: Lyra Vance + +## Identity +- Full name: Lyra Vance +- Age: 27 +- Role: Protagonist +- Faction/School: Independent (Locals of Cypress Bend / The Unseen) + +## Voice Signature +- Stress expression scale: "It’s fine." = minor | "We need a plan, now." = upset | [Dead silence and white knuckles] = furious +- Verbal tic: Uses technical or architectural metaphors to describe people (e.g., "he has no load-bearing integrity"). +- Sentence length pattern: Short, clipped declaratives when stressed; dense, descriptive observations when she feels safe or solitary. +- What they REACH FOR: Tactile. She feels the texture of wood, the weight of a crowbar, or the temperature of the air to ground herself. +- What they NEVER say: "I'm scared" or "I need help." +- Imperfection signature: When she is truly overwhelmed, she stops finishing sentences entirely, leaving the logic hanging in the air for someone else to bridge. +- One example line of their dialogue that could not belong to any other character: + "The foundation of this entire town is rotting from the water table up, and you’re asking me if I like the new paint job on the gazebo?" + +## Magic / Power / Special Ability +- School/Discipline: Psychometric Intuition (Structural focus) +- Core principle: Everything built by human hands retains the kinetic energy and intent of its creator. +- Signature move or approach: Touching a doorframe or transition point to "see" who passed through it and what their emotional state was. +- Limitation: It causes severe physical migraines and sensory "echoes" where she can't distinguish her own memories from the building's. +- Shared uncertainty: Does the house hate the inhabitants, or did the inhabitants teach the house how to hate? + +## Arc +- Want: To flip the Blackwood Manor and leave Cypress Bend forever with enough money to never look back. +- Need: To acknowledge that she is part of the town’s history and stop running from the "rot" inside herself. +- Fatal flaw: Hyper-independence. She views any form of reliance on others as a structural weakness. +- Wound: The mysterious disappearance of her father during the 1998 flood, which the town blamed on his "unstable" nature. +- Transformation: From a cynical outsider trying to dismantle the past to the guardian who must reinforce the town’s spiritual foundations to save it. + +## Relationships +- Elias Thorne: Love Interest — A wary, intellectual tension defined by Elias's desire to document the supernatural and Lyra's desire to physically gut it. +- Mayor Miller: Antagonist — A paternalistic but suffocating dynamic where Miller tries to "manage" Lyra while she actively tries to expose his family's role in the town's decay. +- Sarah Vance: Mother — A strained, distant relationship where both women use household chores and small talk to avoid discussing the "gift" they both share. + +## Notes for Writers +- Lyra’s tell: She constantly adjusts her sleeves or checks her watch when she’s lying; she hates having her wrists exposed when she feels vulnerable. +- Speech quirk: She refers to buildings as "he" or "she" rather than "it," treating architecture as a living, breathing antagonist. +- Readers must NEVER see Lyra cry in front of another person; if she breaks, she ensures she is behind a locked door or deep in the woods. +- She carries a heavy brass key on a leather cord that doesn't fit any lock she’s found yet—she threads it through her fingers like a worry stone. +- She has a "contractor’s eye"—she will notice a hairline crack in a ceiling or a damp patch on a rug before she notices the person standing in the room. \ No newline at end of file