Lydea Thorne

Lydea Thorne, a character in the Crimes of Passion series, is the Captain of the Drakovian Royal Guard, and one of Trystan's half-sisters. She is first seen in Book 2, Chapter 2, although she can be mentioned for the first time in Book 1, Chapter 2.

Appearance
Lydea has short black curly hair, brown eyes, and dark skin. She wears a grey uniform with silver buttons, pins and decorations.

Personality
Lydea is severe and tight-lipped. According to Olivia, murder would be out of character for her.

Background
According to Trystan, Lydea runs the Drakovian Royal Guard, which is like a secret service, only with more throat-slitting. Lydea joined the Royal Guard at the age of 13, was promoted to Sergeant at 17, and to Captain at 22. She's the right hand of Queen Viktoria, and she holds a red belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, a black belt in Krav Maga, and 10th degree black belt in Judo. Lydea is the first Captain to reduce crime in the Drakovian Capitol by 8%, and she sabotaged the arranged marriages of some people. Lastly, she's a key player in international politics, she brought the Drakovia to the 21st century, and it is rumoured to have killed a person with a single sheet of A4 print paper.

Book 1

 * Chapter 2: Follow My Lead (Mentioned; Determinant)

Book 2

 * Chapter 2: The Price of Infamy
 * Chapter 3: Drakovian Intelligence
 * Chapter 4: Objection
 * Chapter 5: A Rose Among Thornes
 * Chapter 6: Served Cold
 * Chapter 7: The Drakovian Heir (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 9: The Royal Tea (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 10: The Mask Drops (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 11: Footage Not Found (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 12: Fashion Victim
 * Chapter 13: In Memoriam
 * Chapter 14: Illegitimate
 * Chapter 15: The Drakovian Nightingale
 * Chapter 16: Heavy Is the Crown

Your Character
When Lydea shows up at Trystan's apartment to arrest him/her, you fight her and her agents. She then tells you to stay out of the confrontation, and once you are eventually overpowered, Lydea takes Trystan away.

Trystan Thorne
Under Queen Viktoria's orders, Lydea shows up at Trystan's apartment with a few Drakovian agents in Book 2, Chapter 2, in order to arrest Trystan and take him/her back to Drakovia for the long-delayed trial of Juliana. Lydea says that their mother at least tried asking nicely at first for Trystan to return to Drakovia, and that if Trystan thinks that he/she can keep playing detective in America, he/she is sorely mistaken.

At Trystan's trial, she states for the court that Trystan confessed to being responsible for Juliana's death and that confession was good enough for her to believe that Trystan did it, without having to investigate it further.

In Chapter 16, Trystan gives her the throne.

Miscellaneous

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Trivia

 * Her character model resembles Naya Pratt from The Nanny Affair.
 * The name Lydea is one for girls of Greek origin and means "beautiful one", "noble one" or "from Lydia", which was a region on the west coast of Asia Minor said to be named for the legendary King Lydos. It's a variant of the name Lydia.
 * In Book 2, Chapter 7, her first name is spelled "Lydia".
 * Lydea is the second-oldest child of Maksim and Viktoria and the third-oldest Thorne sibling overall, preceded in age by her oldest sibling Trystan and her older half-brother Vasili.
 * She and her family share the same surname as Garrett Thorne from Open Heart: Second Year and the default surname of Attorney and Reese from Surrender.
 * In Book 2, Chapter 14, it is revealed that she's not Maksim's daughter and is the illegitimate heir.