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★ Character Information ★

Character Name: Yor Forger
Character Age: 27
Character Species: Human
Current Health: Alive, moderately injured (a cut on her hand and a slash across her chest. Nothing life threatening).
Outfit: Dressed for a day at the beach

Character Canon:
Link to History: https://spy-x-family.fandom.com/wiki/Yor_Forger

Canon Point: Chapter 56, after she falls asleep and Loid has to carry her back onto the boat.
Canon Iteration: Original Canon

★ Folkmore Roles & Attributes ★

Skills:
- Expertise in martial arts, both hand to hand combat and fighting with weapons. She specializes in using long, ice pick-like spikes. She’s also familiar with all of the pressure points in the human body, and is capable of disabling an opponent non-lethally that way.
- Assassination. She is one of the deadliest assassins in the world and knows just about every way you can kill a human being. In addition to training with various weapons, she’s also highly knowledgeable about how to use poisons.
- Cleaning. Part of being an assassin is cleaning up the mess she makes. Yor is very good at removing any trace that she’s been in a place, no matter how gory of a mess she’s left. This also translates fairly well to standard domestic cleaning.
- She’s very good at cooking exactly 1 (one) dish. Everything else she makes is inedible.

Canon Abilities:
- An absolutely ludicrous level of strength. One time she kicked a car off the road, another time she threw one of her spikes through a solid wood door and hit a man in the head hard enough to pin his head to the wall.
- The ability to sense when someone is looking at her, particularly when they intend to do her harm. This ability is never really explained in detail; she can just sort of sense it.
- An incredible constitution and a near immunity to all poisons. This stems from a combination of her assassin training and her own cartoonish inability to cook - she’s poisoned herself often enough that her body just doesn’t react anymore.
- General toughness. As expected of someone who fights to the death for a living, she can take a hit. At least once she’s been full on hit by a car and barely reacted.
Role: Familiar
Role Qualities/Attributes: As a familiar, Yor has the ability to shapeshift into a venomous snake.. In her human form she has a thin, black snake tail.

Role Reasoning:Yor is a very sweet and kind person who genuinely wants the best for everyone in her life. And she’s also a cold blooded professional killer. And while she sometimes feels bad that her job as an assassin leads to her being dishonest, she’s never once expressed any sort of regret or disdain for her huge body count.

Part of the reason for that is that she’s more or less devoted her entire life to The Garden - an organization that decides who she kills, when she kills them, and why someone deserves to die. When The Garden tells her someone is a traitor, she believes them unquestioningly.

So I don't think she's a good character, necessarily, but it didn’t feel right to make her a Myth either. That, combined with her near complete subservience to an organization made Familiar feel like the right call.

★ Personality ★

Spy x Family is a story about duality, as much as it is about deception. As one of the three main characters of such a story, it should come as no surprise that Yor is also a character with two sides to her.

On the surface, she’s a ditzy but kind and compassionate woman. She cares deeply about her family - which, at first, just meant her kid brother Yuri, but now she’s come to love her daughter Anya and seriously admire and respect her husband Loid. She’s protective of them, wants the best for all of them, and works hard to keep them all as happy as she can.

However, Yor also has a secret double life where she operates as the Ostanian assassin known as Thorn Princess. She seems to be unerringly loyal to the Garden, the organization that decides who she’ll kill on her missions. In this life, she’s cold, efficient and unforgiving, and she kills her targets efficiently and without question.

And at first glance, this seems like a harsh disparity between her two personas. But it really isn’t.

Throughout much of Yor’s childhood, her homeland was at war. She lost both of her parents to that war, and was left to care for her younger brother by herself. At a young age, she was recruited by the Garden to serve as one of her operatives, and in exchange she was given money and resources to help her and Yuri get by.

Because of this relationship, she (perhaps naively) trusts the Garden when she is told that her targets are a threat to national security, that the people she’s sent to kill are traitors or that they’re going to reignite the cold war between Ostania and Westalis. She trusts the Garden when she’s told that the only way to protect her home and the people in it is to kill these targets.

Yor understands all too well how bad war can be, and she wanted to protect Yuri from the effects of another one. Now, as an adult and adoptive mother, she wants to protect Anya from the same thing. She wants the world - or at least Ostania - to be a safe place for them both, because she loves them and is fiercely protective of them. In Yor’s mind, anyone who she perceives to be a threat to her loved ones, be it a direct threat (ie someone attempting to harm Anya) or an indirect threat (a terrorist group attempting to jumpstart a war), is someone that needs to be dealt with harshly.

That being said, Yor still has a heart even when she’s dealing with threats, and she’s not completely without mercy. Her targets are still human beings, and she has said that she tries to kill them in as painless a way as she can manage. When a band of hooligans tried to hold Anya for ransom, she let them go as soon as she had Anya back and they were no longer a threat. And during her mission on the Princess Lorelei, Yor tried to convince some attacking hitmen to give up their attack (as they weren’t her targets, and she would only feel obliged to kill them if they continued trying to hurt the woman she was protecting).

All of that is to say: At her core, Yor Forger is pretty much how she seems to be on the surface. She’s kind, caring, very protective, and a bit of an airhead. It’s just that a traumatic and hard childhood, and an unconventional set of circumstances growing up, have skewed her perspective and have made her into a potentially very dangerous person.