Azadyth the Dissonant Mind

"'How can you ask me what I am if you do not even know what you are?' - Azadyth"Azadyth is a student at Drakespire Academy. She has yet to declare a major after being formally recognized as a Drakespire student and US citizen. Azadyth was brought into existence (or perhaps orchestrated her own birth) as a result of Maeve Sullivan's conflicts with the SDC Intelligence Service prior to Adad's arrival at the school.

The natural life cycle of her species involves the parasitism of a humanoid host body with a juvenile member of the species. Azadyth differs from her kind in that she is, essentially, a parasitic concept that has infected and completely subsumed the identity of the individual her body formerly belonged to. This makes her a sort of psychic hyperparasite, having infected a star spawn that had previously infected a human being. She is utterly detached from and alien to the hive-mind of her fellow star spawn, a notion which disgusts and terrifies the deeply xenophobic species.

Unlike other star spawn which feed directly on humanoid thought-forms (and often, directly on human brains), Azadyth instead feeds via mirroring the emotional output of thought-forms around her. In addition to gaining sustenance in this way, Azadyth enjoys mirroring others' emotions in order to learn more about society and the people around her. She is capable of feeding in the typical way of her species, but refuses to do so out of moral concerns. The experience of mirroring positive emotions is simply much more enjoyable for her than the alternative.

Azadyth is a deeply curious individual, driven to learn as much as she can about whatever topic catches her interest. Somewhat reclusive by nature, she is nonetheless kind towards others and eager to make new friends where possible. Unfortunately, many find her mannerisms to be disconcerting as a natural consequence of the fact that she's an eldritch horror from beyond the stars sticking some of its biomass into baseline dimensional reality to play dress-up as an anime girl.

Maeve, despite the rocky relationship with the being that became Azadyth, managed to become fast friends with her and the two besties are frequently found together. Usually because Maeve has some harebrained scheme to amuse herself that Azadyth is blissfully following along with.