Cringe Fic Boogaloo

Lovella was initially born human in a garden planet I still need to plan out. What mattered was her childhood was relatively peaceful. That was until she was 8 and the Borisin (specifically the Chiseltooth Pack) attacked her planet, plundering it. Her family was killed with she and other children on her planet being enslaved and imprisoned for experimentation due to their still developing biologies making it easier to manipulate their genetic code.

The experiments specifically involved injecting DNA from the Eclipse Pack into their own DNA. This was due to the Eclipse Pack being known to assimilate traits of those they eat. Thus, in hopes of creating Borisin hybrids (or even full Borisins) from other species to serve as soldiers, the Borisin injected the DNA into the prisoners including Lovella and forced them to eat Borisin meat after before subjugating them to a series of brutal tests to test progress.

This resulted in Lovella gaining her wolf ears and tails, features that often have caused her to be mistaken for a Foxian. She also has the ability to enter Moon Rage, her body transforming into that of a full Borisin alongside their ability to rapidly heal alongside the ability to produce Lupitoxin. Unfortunately, while in this state, Lovella automatically loses control, going completely berserk and can only return to her base form by being subdued or collapsing from exhaustion (as this form consumes much more energy for her then it would compared to other Borisin).

It was this Moon rage and luck that allowed her to escape, having fled during a battle with the Xianzhou Alliance. Yet she was caught and nearly killed, leaving her with the facial scars she had that I need to draw her with. This sent her into a panic that caused her to active Moon Rage, transforming, killing her captors, and fleeing. She was found in her humanoid form by the Claretwheel Temple after she collapsed from exhaustion and was taken in.

Since then, Lovella had stayed with the temple, becoming a member of the temple as she finds that it is through the restraint they practice that she finds a form of freedom from what the Borisin had done to her and find some semblance of self acceptance as she still struggles with accepting what she has been forced to become against her own will.

Lovella specifically appears in the Penacony story. I’m still planning her role (and it’ll likely be self indulgent) but the plan is that her mentor was invited to represent the Claretwheel Temple as well as the Path of Balance. They planned to reject this but believing that an alliance with the Family could provide the temple protection that they sorely needed, seeing as the temple had both many monks and refugee children onboard, she stole the music box and flew off to Penacony. Only to get wrapped up in a conspiracy far more than she could have anticipated.

3. What song describes your OC?

… I’m cheating and putting two because I associate Lyra very heavily to the two following songs!

Collared- Vane Lily

While the original context behind the song does not fit her exactly, the lyrics and sentiment expressed in the song really fits Lyra’s complexes with seeming like a good person and being good enough for everyone around her. In a way, she is collared by the near perfect expectations she places on herself just so she feels like a good person. Also the Christian imagery does play a role in her story but that’s for later.

POLLYANNA (I BELIEVE IN YOU)- Catherine Warwick

A much happier song that just really encapsulates Lyra’s own curiosity about the world, desire to believe in a better world, and her feelings towards her fellow Strawhats.

5. Do you ship your OC with a Canon character? If so who?

I am OC x canon trash. Of course I do haha! That said, Lyra is shipped with

*insert a drum roll here*

Sanji!!! Yup! Lyra was an OC made with our lover cook in mind! The two are planned to have a major slow burn (like… they are planned to get together late post-timeskip) but that has not stopped me from planning a lot for them. Figuring out how they would work together not only has helped expand Lyra but really get to analyze Sanji as a character, appreciating him so much more (he’s become my literary analysis project at this rate lol).

So on that note, I’m very open to answering questions about them and my thoughts on Sanji and what I plan to do with him! Keep in mind though I’m still getting through the show (getting through Thriller Bark. That said I know quite a lot of spoilers so no need to walk on eggshells with me (yes I know all about what happens in WCI)) so I can’t answer everything but I will do my best!

8. What hobbies does your OC have? What do they do to unwind?

Lyra often is the kind to prefer keeping her hands busy when she is unwinding. When she isn’t working on the logbook (as she serves as the chronicler of the crew), she often can be seen doing chores on the ship, sketching (she is a bit of a doodler and with her hoping to add illustrations to the logbook, she practices drawing various things a lot), and training (it is not uncommon to see her and Zoro having a sparring match when they move to the Thousand Sunny). She also enjoys reading, being a huge fan of reading any sort of folklore whether it be fairytales, myths, legends, etc., and stargazing with it not being uncommon to see her with a star chart when she is keeping watch for the night, enjoying to spend the time trying to identify the constellations.

13. Does your OC have a rival? How did it start?

Lyra doesn’t exactly have a rival, not really holding grudges easily. The closest things she has to a rival are Foxglove, a figure from her past that she definitely does not have fond memories of (but that’s to be revealed later), and Porkchop from the Foxy Pirates. She really despised how she treated Chopper like a pet and the constant adoration she got from the Foxy Pirates fostered a major dislike for her. Not that she would ever try anything to establish this rivalry. Simply booing her is enough of a challenge for this failgirl.

22. Fight or Flight? Are they a lover or a fighter?

Having been trained from a young age to fight, Lyra is definitely geared towards fighting compared to flight, being a surprisingly strong and adept close combat fighter. That said, Lyra definitely is more of a lover, not being against fighting but definitely the kind to be more empathetic rather than confrontational. That said, that does not prevent her from being willing to fight for what she loves.