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From birth Lyra had the ability to change her appearance. As a child she loved changing her appearance to match different animals, especially animals she particularly liked, and this continued well into Hogwarts. She would also use it to prank her mother to make herself look like her siblings, though eventually she stopped doing this.

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Most of the time, she uses it to change her hair colour. She uses it for this function so regularly that she doesn't remember what her original hair colour is, though doesn't really want to find out.

At her job, she uses it to take on the features of animals to make them feel more comfortable to her presence and/or make the same sounds as them. She is far more used to animal features than human, and usually puts more detail and effort into sculpting an animal feature than resembling a person. There are some sounds she just can't make even using the ability however.

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She squeezes her eyes shut and concentrates to change her features. Since animal features are harder to change to than human, she needs about 10-15 minutes to acclimatise to the new structure, and only can maintain it for up to half an hour before she needs a break. Human features are easier to resemble and she can maintain that for 3-4 hours, but she needs a reference and she tends to miss out minor details.

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Character History 2013 - 2017:
After Lyra’s return to Britain she found her plate laden with work moreso from the rest of Europe than Britain itself, keeping her working in the Black Forest Dragon Reserve as its liaison. Most of her work revolved around the study of dragons, but she was also travelling to schools to educate students on her work as a magizoologist in general. While she was more of an expert on dragons this did not discount her knowledge on other magical creatures.

She found herself discussing more issues on environmentalism and the preservation of magical creatures, topics that she was not unfamiliar with, and due to her participation in moving animals to safer places refreshed her skills as a beast handler, using her Metamorphmagus ability to mimic the sounds of animals to appease and lure them.

However she was not always successful, or lucky. When Erklings kidnapped two children in 2016 she and a few other beast handlers entered the Black Forest to rescue the children and repel the Erklings. She mimicked their sounds and was rewarded with an ambush by one of their target Erklings, which struck her across the face and chest and had to be repelled off by her colleagues. Though she was not incapacitated the Erkling poison left thin scars after the healing. THe children survived and were rescued despite the attack.

2017 saw her changing her hairstyle and becoming a liaison with China regarding a case about artefacts empowered with dragon’s blood and dark magic being smuggled into the country. The news that the dragon’s blood was from Europe was not a surprise, but she was more shocked to find that the majority of the blood was from Hungarian Horntails, who had particularly potent blood in terms of magical composition. Surface investigations of major Horntail reserves in Europe turned up possible poaching, but as the number of Horntails had not decreased the matter was considered closed. Lyra remained unconvinced.

Despite her mother’s wishes, Lyra is making more stops in Britain of late as part of her investigations. She is personally trying to avoid the rest of her family for reasons only known to her.

She remains one of Arcturus’ best friends, dropping by to visit or have a coffee. She’s also a regular visitor to Level Four, usually Beast Division unless she has to consult with Being and Spirit Divisions since those are not usually her forte. As per normal for a magizoologist, even if she doesn’t normally work as a beast handler, she tends to make friends with the local healers on Reserves, plying them with their favourite snacks.

Being known for being loud, energetic and talkative, over the years Lyra has mellowed out a little more and while she is still a chatterbox with exaggerated physical gestures being a staple of her body language, she appears to be more transparent to others when she’s upset rather than glossing over her feelings to put others over herself, and she is more likely to think before she speaks.

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Lyra continued her work on magical creature education on preservation and protection, and relocating magical creatures across Europe. With her work she draws ever closer to Britain despite her intentions to avoid her family other than her mother, and has had more time to reflect and mellow, leading to a more mature woman stepping into 2018.