Lydia Yager- "You treat Obsidians like we are monsters. We are human, just like you. We grow feelings, and we show it through emotion, just like humans do!”
Characteristics - Lydia is rather difficult to depict due to the fact that her personality changes gradually throughout the plot. Because her personality shards divided into seven pieces around the world, we are left with an emotionless teenager. From the first episode, however, we can assume that she is kind and seeks to be friendly with anybody she meets. She is seen as the complete opposite of Rina, but sometimes even Lydia has her moments of independence - or at least she tries to.
Appearance - Aside from Lydia's smile, her bright shirt makes her approachable. She has long, black hair that is tied together at the bottom of her strands. She usually has one strand sticking out from the rest of her haircut in order to differentiate her from the rest of the group. She has a short skirt along with a large, blue band on her right thigh, tied by Clyde to help heal her gunshot wound. Her preferred weapon is a flail, although her lack of personality was the one that chose it...
Other information:
Episode Debut: 1
Episodes Shown: 60
Age: 16
Height: 5'7
Weapon: Flail
Occupation: the last Obsidian
Story plot (contains spoilers) -
Lydia begins her journey with Rina as they both run away from Gammel soldiers within the Village of Saradeli. Off-screen, Lydia had already been shot on the leg, but slightly grazed. Upon resting atop a hill, they clash with a Gammel lieutenant, a lofty scientist who seeks Lydia's brain without having to fight. He extracts her memory and crystallizes it into an orb, but Rina accidentally shatters it into seven shards. With Lydia being heartless and mindless, Rina struggles to bring her along the journey to find the shards.
After a commotion began outside of Felix's hideout, the boys place Lydia into a closet, but she began to panic. Rina states that Lydia is claustrophobic for some odd reason.
On episode four, Lydia regains the first shard of Truth, but in return, she bluntly tells her mind to the rest of the group, including embarrassing facts such as needing to go to the restroom. Still, without the rest of her shards, she punches Felix for no reason without an Instinct shard.
When Lydia regains the Fear shard on episode six, she is the same as ever, only she begins to cry for reasons such as inevitably stepping on ants, or because she exaggeratedly claims she is useless to the group.
In the Silver Forest, she gets a nightmare involving a woman named 'Viola Santa Lucia'.
While heading to Ouli Brye, she chews on a sign with arrows pointing to either the west or east. Due to the fact that she broke the sign, the group had no knowledge on which way was Ouli Brye, so they headed west, hoping it was their next destination.
From the Isolated House to Ouli Brye, the group enters a train and there, they meet a young woman named Garnett who has a strange dislike towards Lydia without any legitimate reason. The train separates in half and Lydia is set free from Garnett's wrath.
In Ouli Brye, Rina admits that even if Lydia only has two shards, her intuitions are correct, such as knowing about the 'strong essence' back at the Silver Forest involving Lady Pria.
Furthermore, Lydia gets kidnapped along with Forrest by Garnett. They were sent to the capital where they met Lieutenant Floir.
After being set free from Floir's shackles, Lydia gains the third shard of Knowledge and remembers Rina.
Lydia begins to develop her own personality despite lacking a few shards while in the Lake City Prima events. In the auction, she finally yells at the audience on her own without any courage shard which is rather strange. Leo states that Lydia must have created more personality as the time went by after losing all the shards. Lydia then tells the entire audience about Gammel's conspiracy, possibly changing civilian views towards the Gammel army and the Obsidians.
Upon reaching the Prima docks, Forrest creates a small destruction and Lydia grabs Floir's hand before the lieutenant was about to fall into the ocean. This shows that Lydia has some courage, instinct, and sympathy of her own without needing such shards. Still, in the end, she regains the Violet shard of sympathy, causing her emotions to flow. From there on, she is able to smile (thus, fixing her blank face from episodes 2-16).
Starting on episode 20, Lydia's personality seems almost back to normal, except she cannot express her physical actions properly. She returns to her adoptive mother, Ekaja at the Meadow and offers her to live in the Village of Saradeli with newly acquaintances.
As she arrived at Loomin, she meets a man named Warren whom she trusted immediately mostly because he defied against the idea of using the Obsidian as an energy resource. When she reaches the end of the Air River, she receives the fifth shard - the Instinct shard; however, Floir captures her and takes her to Bafuul.
At the Bafuulian bridge, she discovers Mr. Wolfram as Felix's father and a renowned familiar face: Viola Santa Lucia. At the Bafuul basement bedroom, she argues with Viola about good will and Obsidian truths that the Gammel government is conspiring against. However, Viola leaves to protect the rest of Bafuul, leaving Lydia stuck in a flooding bedroom. She attempts to cut her hand off to free herself from handcuffs, but a mysterious figure appears and breaks the handcuffs with a silver arrow.
Upon escaping, Lydia clashes with Garnett and Floir. As the two women fight, Lydia took the opportunity to escape as she finds the main group and rejoices with Rina. Volume 2 closes with Lydia installing the 6th of the 7 shards, the Courage shard.
At the Grandine Hillage, Lydia lashes out at the indecency with the Obsidian genocide during the discussion with the main group. Afterwards, Lydia and Felix bond for the first time. Lydia also took care of Rina the most, but she worries that Rina is getting too out of hand on her duties. She forces Rina to stay in bed until she is healed.
When reaching the Hollow Cavern, she sets out to find Rina at the other side of the cape. When Rina is hurt again (from training and learning Wind magic), Lydia breaks down and tells Rina that she should not overdo herself.
Lydia rejoices with her adoptive mother, Ekaja, at the Village of Saradeli, but she begs to journey for the last missing shard.
At the left end of Vector, Viola appears, and Lydia is the only person to accept her without hesitation. She has the intuition that Viola is trustable. They also bond together overnight at the Li'Opa Jungles, discussing the importance of trust.
In Taujiko, Lydia remembers the similarities that haven't changed, but is disappointed by the fact that the chief is still unaccepting towards humans.
Lydia decides to admit to the entire city of Lament that she is the Obsidian. Because of this, she gets thrown into the castle bedrooms to wait until the situation is handled. In the end, she manages to escape once mutated beasts started rummaging through the city.
In the shoreline before Mishu, Lydia discovers the proof that Viola only joined because the group made her happy.
When reaching the City of Celestia, Lydia takes sight of her hometown after seven years. At her house, she finds her blue teddy bear intact but she planned to abandon it so she could forget about the genocide. She later pairs up with Felix to bond and almost admit their feelings to each other. By the time the group rejoiced, she tells Magnus that she knows the true meaning of love, without needing her red shard back.
Magnus gets infuriated, and he attempts to kill Lydia with a beam of light. Instead, Felix rushes in front of her and he sacrifices himself.
The beginning of Volume 4 switches to Lydia as the main character who has been in a coma for about a month. Viola has been around to protect her since then. When Lydia wakes up, she hears Forrest has been held captive in Phardia while Leo was out on a mission to defeat a plant monster nearby. When both Lydia and Viola decide to help Leo, they set Forrest free with the help of Viola's kissing scam with the chief of Phardia.
Heading north into the Zweiland Mountains, the group of five become excessively sick from the cold. With surprise, Hazel takes them into a cavern and sets a fireplace for them all. She agrees to head further west into the city of Wiserheim, however they find Warren being taken into the Frolix Volcano as sacrifice to the religious views of the Winstel army.
The group of five go through several main challenges in the tournament, catered by Wiserheim to prove that their strength and willpower will surpass their expectations. The final battle of the tournament resulted in the main group vs. the Gammel army (and Garnett). Rina appears to make a surprise victory for the main group, causing Warren to be saved by the sacrificial altar.
Lydia and the group of 7 head south to Amitt, a peaceful land known for famous shipwrights. She senses strange malevolence, but ignores this until arriving at the Tree of Revision. Successfully reviving Felix, Lydia fails to keep her bond with Felix as Magnus steals the opportunity to revive Felix himself.
During the battle of the central world, Lydia finds Rina on the ground in a battleship, almost close to death. Lydia helps her out of the battleship while the war was coming to a close.
Before entering Zozna, she admits her interest in Felix.
When entering Zozna, Lydia was then forced to pass a trial in which she sees her parents in a vision, alive and well. They persuade her to stay with him, to be safe forever. During the last episode, Lydia is seen absent from the rest of the group - which means she possibly failed the trial and stayed with her family in the vision.
On the last episode, Lydia makes an appearance to the rest of the group to prove that she could pass the test and refuse temptation of false peace. She confesses her love to Felix before he sacrificed himself. With that, she was forced to leave the world of Zozna and fear for Felix's safety.
For the resolution, Lydia is seen using a 'camera' to explain the situation with everybody else and to conclude the story. However, she was told to head for Felix's old abandoned hideout to find an important artifact.
As Lydia entered the building, she saw the old apple from the first few episodes, then she begins to cry and think about her entire journey. After hearing a knock on the front door behind her, she turns around with surprise.
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