Born to the upper middle class Gassion Family, Tyra is the only child of Amber Gastian and Jonathan Gassion. Her childhood was a rocky one, as she was never an easy child to handle. She was always very excitable, with enough energy to power a small town for a week sometimes. She had a fair enough household, with very few express rules. She was told that as long as she knew what she was doing, she was allowed to do anything she desired.She suffered her fair share of scrapes and cuts, and learned from the experience, to the point of being a very careful teenager. And, for a time, her life was easy enough. She went to school, worked part time at a store, and went home. That was the pattern of her life until the fateful night that changed everything. It was the one and only day she had stayed after work to do her boss a favor. By the time she had started walking home, it was already dark out. She felt the hands come over her mouth before she saw them.
A dark mage and two of his lackeys had taken her and dragged her into an alley. They were drunk, but they knew what they wanted. They took turns raping her. They didn't bother gagging her either, because every time she screamed they would cut her wrists. Eventually, she had a total of ten scars: five on each wrist. After they had done the deed, leaving the girl with empty eyes and a tear stained face, one of them slit her throat, and made several lines down it. The only thing that saved her life was a passing mage. She had scared off the dark mage and his lackeys. If she had not appeared and screamed, alerting multiple other mages in the area to her location, she would have died that night. Several fire mages worked to seal the wounds on her wrists, while healers worked on her neck and increasing her blood production afterwards. It was at that moment that Tyra had a revelation.
She had been told up until then that everything that happened did for a reason. In other words, everything had a balance. At that moment, surrounded by healers, her vocal chords scarred beyond recognition or use, that she found the answer to one of her main questions in life. Which "god" she was to worship. And, upon realizing that the world was built upon balance, and that what was happening to her had reason behind it, she decided that she would worship the goddess of the sky-a goddess that her parents had said was dedicated to keeping the balance of the world.
For a few days after the incident, Tyra's parents were rather accepting of the mute status of their daughter. However, they could not accept how withdrawn and bleak that she had become. After a while, they became hostile towards her, and drove her further into herself. Eventually, her father became abusive, forcing her to run away from home. During that time that she was away, she lived in various halfway homes, adapting her normally bright colors into more subdued darker ones.
It was during the time away from home that she also met another mage. This one was a hermit, a dying one at that. Not dying of illness, or even dying of a wound. She was dying of old age. And the only thing she wished was that she pass on her knowledge to someone. Due to Tyra being mute, and not being as talkative as someone her age, the old woman taught her what little she knew of the lost magic known as Maguilty Sense. She spent six months with her, learning the basics of the magic, how it worked, and how her emotions affected the strength of it. In six months of being in hiding away from her family, she turned 19, had her parents start a search for her, and having the search be called off after a single month of searching. With the search for her by her parents having ended, she returned to them-with the possession of Magic-and the awakening of her potential as a mage. She has now struck out on her own, attempting to find others in order to either join or establish a guild, in the hopes of preventing things similar to what happened to her.
A dark mage and two of his lackeys had taken her and dragged her into an alley. They were drunk, but they knew what they wanted. They took turns raping her. They didn't bother gagging her either, because every time she screamed they would cut her wrists. Eventually, she had a total of ten scars: five on each wrist. After they had done the deed, leaving the girl with empty eyes and a tear stained face, one of them slit her throat, and made several lines down it. The only thing that saved her life was a passing mage. She had scared off the dark mage and his lackeys. If she had not appeared and screamed, alerting multiple other mages in the area to her location, she would have died that night. Several fire mages worked to seal the wounds on her wrists, while healers worked on her neck and increasing her blood production afterwards. It was at that moment that Tyra had a revelation.
She had been told up until then that everything that happened did for a reason. In other words, everything had a balance. At that moment, surrounded by healers, her vocal chords scarred beyond recognition or use, that she found the answer to one of her main questions in life. Which "god" she was to worship. And, upon realizing that the world was built upon balance, and that what was happening to her had reason behind it, she decided that she would worship the goddess of the sky-a goddess that her parents had said was dedicated to keeping the balance of the world.
For a few days after the incident, Tyra's parents were rather accepting of the mute status of their daughter. However, they could not accept how withdrawn and bleak that she had become. After a while, they became hostile towards her, and drove her further into herself. Eventually, her father became abusive, forcing her to run away from home. During that time that she was away, she lived in various halfway homes, adapting her normally bright colors into more subdued darker ones.
It was during the time away from home that she also met another mage. This one was a hermit, a dying one at that. Not dying of illness, or even dying of a wound. She was dying of old age. And the only thing she wished was that she pass on her knowledge to someone. Due to Tyra being mute, and not being as talkative as someone her age, the old woman taught her what little she knew of the lost magic known as Maguilty Sense. She spent six months with her, learning the basics of the magic, how it worked, and how her emotions affected the strength of it. In six months of being in hiding away from her family, she turned 19, had her parents start a search for her, and having the search be called off after a single month of searching. With the search for her by her parents having ended, she returned to them-with the possession of Magic-and the awakening of her potential as a mage. She has now struck out on her own, attempting to find others in order to either join or establish a guild, in the hopes of preventing things similar to what happened to her.
