#like when Yor is drawn as barely more than a shadowy mass with glowing white eyes. no notes I love it

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Spy x family headcannon(? It's my typical perception of the character that I wanted to share):

The Thorn Princess has a lot of cryptic energies, and it makes up a lot of the cover for her secret identity. It's canon that garden is often thought of as an urban legend, and so thorn princess being thought of one as well isn't too big a stretch, but I think that yor unconsciously adds to it when she's out as the thorn princess.

Yor's stealthiness making her able to basically appear behind her target during broad daylight does add to that too. But the most cryptic part about the thorn princess is that it is always cloaked in darkness. The idea that on has seen the thorn princess's face would be considered ridiculous. Why that would imply it had a face.

While Garden is considered an urban legend with murders and shadow governments, the Thorn Princess is for those who indulge in the occult. Its home is deep within the shadows, deeper than anyone could hope to go. They believe that it might take the form of a gray cat in the day.

Yor doesn't really know much about her alter ego's status. All she really learned of it was when she saw one of her knives at a pawn shop, and went in to purchase it. The owner asked if she "was one of those pagans who was going on about a thorny duchess or something?" She simply said she enjoyed the look of the knife(yor prepared that when she first saw her knife the day before). As she headed back home, she realized he meant the thorn princess, or her.

Anyway, Yor as Thorn Princess is just very creecher to me.