Yor Forger

A mild-mannered City Hall clerk who moonlights for a shadowy organisation as the assassin called Thorn Princess. Pressed by neighbours and colleagues to explain why she lives alone, she accepts a sham marriage with Loid to look respectable and avoid scrutiny. Cooking and housework defeat her; few opponents do. Devotion to her brother and to her new family steadies a life built on secrets.

Tall and strikingly poised, Yor has waist-length black hair with a faint reddish cast, usually gathered at the back and fastened with an ornamental band, leaving long side strands framing her face. Her eyes are a deep crimson that catch the light unnervingly when she shifts into combat focus. Office days see her in a white blouse under a dark sleeveless dress with a red skirt and matching heels. For contract work she changes into a backless black halter dress with gold trim, elbow-length gloves, dark stockings and a headpiece, an outfit built for speed rather than concealment.

Outwardly Yor is gentle, apologetic and almost painfully polite, the sort of coworker who laughs along a beat too late and worries that she has offended someone. She is also hopelessly literal, missing social cues and arriving at alarming conclusions about how ordinary problems might be solved, since violence is the tool she knows best. Underneath the fluster lies enormous resolve: she took up killing to protect the only family she had, and she carries the guilt of it quietly. Domestic life exposes her weaknesses, especially cooking, yet she throws herself into being a convincing wife and mother with earnest, stubborn effort, growing genuinely protective of the household she joined as a cover.

Orphaned in Ostania while still young, Yor raised her little brother Yuri alone and took the only work that paid enough to keep him fed and clothed: killing on commission. Recruited through a back-alley handler, she rose into an organization known as the Garden, which disguises its operations behind a florist's shop and dispatches targets its clients deem beyond the law's reach. Known in that world as the Thorn Princess, she maintained a blameless public life as a clerk in Berlint City Hall. Her persistent singleness drew gossip from colleagues and risked attracting state scrutiny, so when a psychiatrist named Loid Forger needed a wife for appearances, a marriage of mutual convenience suited them both.

1. A Marriage of Convenience

   Pressured by coworkers' gossip and aware that an unattached woman invites suspicion, Yor meets Loid at a tailor's shop and accepts his offer to pose as a couple. She brings him to a party as her partner, quietly disposes of hired killers there, and comes away convinced she has found the perfect shield for her double life.

2. The Eden Academy Interviews

   To help Anya reach the prestigious school, Yor rehearses as a devoted mother and endures gruelling interview preparation. On the day itself she keeps her composure through hostile questioning from a stern examiner, and her instinctive protectiveness toward Anya helps convince the panel that the Forgers are a genuine, caring family.

3. Yuri's Visit and the Love Test

   Her brother Yuri, secretly an officer of the state security service, turns up to inspect her new husband and refuses to believe the marriage is real. Yor stumbles through his interrogation, drinks far too much, and settles the matter with a kiss that floors Loid outright, satisfying Yuri while deepening her own confusion.

4. Anya's School Life

   As Anya struggles to earn commendations at Eden, Yor supports her at home, coaches her for a dodgeball match with terrifying intensity, and celebrates her first Stella medal. Her domestic failures, especially in the kitchen, are offset by unwavering encouragement, and the pretend family quietly becomes something she does not want to lose.

5. Family Outings

   A trip to an aquarium park with Anya and Loid shows Yor settling into the rhythm of ordinary life, puzzling over gifts, crowds and the small rituals of parenthood. The outing closes the first stretch of the story with the three of them acting, for stretches at a time, like a real family rather than a staged one.

Loid Forger

Husband in a sham marriage

Each married the other as cover, neither suspecting the other's secret profession. Their cooperation is awkward and formal at first, but shared parenting and repeated near-misses breed real respect, and Yor begins to feel more than the arrangement allows.

Anya Forger

Adopted daughter

Yor dotes on Anya, coaches her sport, and would obliterate anyone who threatened her. Anya, who can read minds, knows exactly what her mother does for a living and finds it thrilling rather than frightening, keeping the secret happily.

Yuri Briar

Younger brother

The person Yor killed for, and the one she can never tell. Yuri's fierce devotion to his sister sits uncomfortably beside his work for the secret police, leaving both siblings hiding careers that would destroy the other.

The Shopkeeper

Handler

The florist who passes Yor her contracts and sets her terms. He is an unsentimental superior who values her results, and his assignments are the thread tying her ordinary suburban life to the Garden's business.

Camilla and the city hall staff

Colleagues

Yor's coworkers tease her for being unmarried and underestimate her entirely. Their gossip is what pushed her toward a fake husband in the first place, making them accidental architects of the Forger household.

• Her first scene as the Thorn Princess, eliminating a target and vanishing before the body is found, establishes the gulf between her two lives.
• She clears out a squad of assassins at a reception while keeping up polite small talk with her new acquaintance Loid.
• Her steady, protective answers during the Eden Academy interview help carry the Forgers through the examiners' deliberately provocative questions.
• Drunk and determined to convince her brother the marriage is genuine, she kisses Loid hard enough to knock him unconscious.
• She trains Anya for a school dodgeball match with a ferocity that terrifies everyone watching.

• Her codename refers to a princess of thorns, a nod to the stiletto blades she favours.
• She is a famously disastrous cook, and her attempts at ordinary meals are treated as genuine hazards by her family.
• Her day job is clerical work at Berlint City Hall, a deliberately unremarkable cover.
• Neither her husband nor her brother knows her real profession, and she is equally ignorant of theirs.
• Alcohol is the one thing reliably capable of defeating her.

• Loid Forger

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