Llyra
- Llyra is a Nebulan from the Marvel portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Llyra is the kind-hearted daughter of Nebulan politician Lord Zarak. Her hatred of war is dismissed by Lord Zarak as youthful idealism, which is why she dislikes her war-hungry father and has fallen in love with the seemingly peace-loving Galen, to whom she is betrothed.
Fiction
[edit]Marvel The Transformers comics
[edit]After a group of Autobots led by Fortress Maximus arrived on Nebulos looking for peace, the citizens of Nebulos rioted, turning their paranoia against the strange visitors, demanding war. Llyra, who did not wish to see Nebulos's millennia of peacetime come to an end, was a worried spectator.
Her worry turned to horror when Galen leapt into the crowd to break up a fight and was beaten to the ground. After Galen left, her father suggested she put too much trust in Galen's strength of character, noting that he was but a man who could fall prey to weakness like any other. Llyra dismissed this out of hand.
However, Zarak's judgment of Galen appeared to be correct when Galen announced that he and several others would binary bond with the Autobots to become their Headmasters. Though Galen insisted he was only joining forces to protect Nebulos from the Decepticons, Llyra decided Galen was no longer the man she thought she loved and broke off their relationship. Broken Glass!
Later, she brought a message to Galen and his new Autobot comrades—the Decepticons had captured Zarak and many others! However, the message was a set-up for a trap, and Llyra soon discovered that her father had also binary bonded, but with his alleged captor, Scorponok. Mindwipe hypnotized her, and she ordered the bystander politicians into the safety of a nearby building, where they fell prey to one of the Decepticons' experiments. She and the rest were concealed inside polymer alloy bubbles and began floating helplessly into the atmosphere. Though Zarak wished to save his daughter, Scorponok's influence was too strong, and it was up to the Autobots to rescue her before she floated off into space. The Decepticons took advantage of this distraction, and the Autobots were defeated. Thankfully for Lord Zarak, the hypnotism blocked most of the event from his daughter's memory, and she believed that he had saved her from her power-hungry ex-fiancé. Love and Steel!
Galen was taken captive and strung up into a macro-restraining harness. Lord Zarak caught his daughter visiting her former fiancé, and had Krunk rouse the captive from unconsciousness so she could talk with him. Galen immediately began proclaiming his innocence, causing Llyra to storm off to hear no more of his "lies." But Zarak soon began to realize the monster he was becoming, and so he orchestrated a series of events, including the release of Galen and the Autobots, which would necessitate the evacuation of both Autobot and Decepticon from the planet. Llyra met with Galen one final time, this time willing to believe his side of the story. But Galen lied to her, claiming he was heading off-planet for conquest. Knowing that she now hated him completely, he could leave Nebulos and take the war far away from it, keeping her safe. Brothers in Armor!! The action would haunt him for the (not very long) remainder of his life. Trial by Fire!
The Transformers' war removed from her homeworld, Llyra was left alone, betrayed and abandoned by both her father and her lover. Sucks to be her. Brothers in Armor!!
Wings Universe
[edit]Llyra was daughter to Lord Mo Zarak, and eventually rejected her villainous father. Learning from the experience, Mo kept her half-brother, Olin, under his thumb. Tornado - Decepticon Saboteur
Beast Wars: Uprising
[edit]When the Cybertronian Wars came to Nebulos, Llyra's father Borx aligned the Hive nations with the Decepticons against the World Watcher alliance. He eventually binary-bonded with his Decepticon liaison, Zarak, and then became a double-Headmaster by converting the entire city of Kinodia into the Transtector body, MegaZarak. Llyra chose to side against her father, though, becoming allied with the Autobots and World Watcher Alliance. She also married Daniel Witwicky of the Human Confederacy. In the final conflict between MegaZarak and his counterpart Fortress Maximus (a double-Headmaster bonded to Llyra's father-in-law), Llyra entered the field of battle. This caused Fausto Borx to hesitate, and it led to a Decepticon defeat. A Brush With Infamy–Prologue
In the generation that followed, Llyra and Daniel had twin sons named Olin and Galen. Daniel and later Galen would each have their turn bonded to Cerebros and Fortress Maximus, but Olin Witwicky turned against his family and bonded with Zarak and MegaZarak, fighting Megamaster to Megamaster against his twin brother in one of the final battles of the war. Llyra's position on her family drama is unknown, and she presumably died before the end of the wars. Derailment
Llyra was mentioned in Plasma's emotional stream of consciousness as her "wife" and "mother", based on the memories contained within the Cyberdroid trio that controlled Fortress Maximus. Head Games
Ask Vector Prime
[edit]In Primax 1086.0 Kappa, Llyra was the daughter of Mortilus Zarak and the mother of Olin. When her father binary bonded with Zarak Maximus and went on a rampage across Nebulos, she and her son came under peril. Ashamed of his actions, Mortilus left the planet. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/06/11
Games
[edit]Transformers Roleplaying Game
[edit]Llyra was a Nebulan who underwent the binary bonding process. The Enigma of Combination
Notes
[edit]Foreign names
[edit]- Japanese: Llyra (リーラ Rīra)