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this is your comeuppance, your hamartia was believing that you could escape it at all in hidden cafes with their liquid courage. you kneel on the docks on the edge of the city, eyes wide as they take in the beautiful, horrifying sites of the radiant city, buildings arching and curving and elegant and indifferent. tears stream down your face, your spittle iridescent yellow from your earlier dalliance in stock you should not have touched. you beg, and are met with ancient eyes upon a cold face. “I take no pleasure from this,’ he says with a sigh, his cybernetic hand whirring as it morphs into a hammer. you try to speak, but are met with all consuming black.

NAME Tyr

ALIAS UTP

APPEARS 35-45

PRONOUNS He/him

PANTHEON Norse

OCCUPATION Hitman

THE GOD HIMSELF

Justice in the face of all adversity. For a long time, that was what Tyr stood for. He sacrificed his right arm to Fenrir for the gods’ deceit and while the other gods rejoiced, Tyr was silent. For while Fenrir was bound the onslaught of Ragnarok was not stopped, just stalled. The great wolf would one day devour Odin, no matter how many limbs he took in the process.

His time on earth has always been brief and disappointing. Human justice is hardly ever true, or uncorrupt. Power has always been slated to the powerful, and when war comes along to try and even the tide, that old inbalance creeps back in again. It exhausted him; why bother fighting for justice when justice was not just? For the past millenia Tyr rarely stepped foot onto earth, happy to stay in Asgard. That was, until Odin began calling on the Norse gods to prepare for Ragnarok.

Odin became obsessed that the end was near, beat the wardrums in the middle of the night to test the gods’ defenses. Valkyries were sent to hunt for more souls for Valhalla, gods descended to walk amongst the mortals, building their own strength and causing strife for humans to test themselves. Tyr did not want to go, but Odin forced him, casting him from Asgard like a petulant child for refusing to help a helpless cause.

The indignity of it, the uselessness of it all struck Tyr. Odin and Asgard would fall when the time would come, and Tyr was supposed to inspire justice, self-sacrifice in the humans? Bitter and disenchanted, Tyr listened when Tezcatlipoca found him. She offered no glory, no fortune. She did not wish to prevent the unpreventable, in fact she embraced change in all its forms. Her words like boas constricted around his heart, and they whispered sense as they squeezed. They spoke not of loyalty, or the glory of the gods, but a simple truth. Do what Tezcalipoca wished, do not think of the consequences, the end-game, and be happy. There was a beautiful simplicity in it and Tyr found himself taking to the work well. He hasn’t found cause enough to leave, or to return to his godly purpose. He is a god of war as well as justice, and has always been prone to violence.

DID HE MURDER A GOD?

Tyr hangs around Tezcatlipoca because she’s his boss. Pan hanged around her because he was her number one ambassador, which gave him Tezcatlipoca’s latest creations at a steep discount. Tyr knew Alekto spent her spare time with Pan, but Tyr was never tempted to tag along with them.

WHO DOES HE LOVE, HATE AND DESIRE?

Alekto They have an understanding, these two beings of violence and justice, now working together for a criminal. While they don’t consider the other confidants, they get along well enough together to call each other friends. They each have their own secrets and darkness that they are happy enough to forget over a couple of drinks.

Aušrinė Vamp is home to the lonely, and it is hard not to be taken away by its main star. Tyr isn’t sure when visits to Vamp became somewhat regular, or why Aušrinė would ever bother lowering themself to talk to Tyr. It feels good to have someone who believes the best in you, when you are your worst.

Brynhildr Brynhildr was always more eager to please Odin than Tyr. She sees his current employment as treason against their king. Tyr wished her bitter words didn’t hurt so much.

Tisiphone Tyr has been an annoying anomaly on Tisiphone’s radar for years. She would love to sink her teeth onto him, but for some reason no witnesses are alive or willing to say what they have seen Tyr do.