The Background Six aren’t gonna be finished for a bit (character designs take time, especially when you’re writing a final paper), so I’m gonna post the current “final” draft of Lyra now.

Lyra is Ponyville’s resident eccentric artist. Although young, she’s got plenty of ambition that’ll take her far one day… hopefully. She’s still working on her sci-fi book manuscript about an aliens with weird, fleshy meat hooks. As her side gig, she helps put together productions at Ponyville’s local theater. She also enjoys singing jazz, dancing, and painting.

She’s a Romaniote Jew, her family originally from Athens, Greece and immigrating to New York City in the late 1800s.