Graves/Lore
“The dead have been making a whole lot of demands lately.
The daughter of high-power defense attorneys, Darcy Graves grew up in a home where every conversation was a debate, argument, or negotiation. It was exhausting. But while her parents were often too busy meeting with clients or working on cases to bond with her, the dead were always there to listen.
Graves enjoyed her time in the cemetery. It was a quiet place to calm her thoughts and talk through her problems...but one day her one-sided conversations started to change.
It began with a faint whisper. A woman's voice that seemed to respond to Graves' complaints. Intrigued, the teenager listened...and followed the voice's instructions until it guided her to a lead-lined box buried in Van Cortlandt Park. But while most high school students would freak out if they were to unearth a severed lich hand, Graves was certainly not most teens. The hand now free of its prison, the lich's voice grew stronger... It had spent years looking to find a student she could pass her knowledge to, and Graves was eager to learn.
Now a fledgling necromancer, Darcy balances not only her homework at Blackmore Academy...but the demands of graveyard denizens, each of whom have their own unfinished business that they seek her aid in resolving.
Overview
[edit | edit source]Graves' motivation in the ritual is unknown, but she seems to be fighting on behalf of her mentor: the lich.[1][2][3]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Graves' parents are wealthy, owning a penthouse in Midtown Manhattan,[4] and enrolled her in the elite Blackmore Academy. Their law firm seems to be called "Whiteside & Graves".[5]
While Graves' age hasn't been mentioned, she shares classes with Apollo, who is 18 years old.[6][7]
According to the Patrons, Graves works tirelessly to honor the dead and grant them peace, and many souls are in her debt.[8][9]
Graves once wrote an essay about Johann Geist in a humanities course.[10] She's currently writing a paper on Wuthering Heights.[11]
Graves has a sister.[12]
Personality
[edit | edit source]Graves is a cynical and snarky girl, but she also shows a sensitive side, being sympathetic to the plight of the dead.[13][14] She considers her role as a voice for them as "an honor".[15]
Graves has a strong conviction that the lich is helping her, and disregards those who warn that she may have been manipulated.[16][17][18]
Graves likes people who are blunt and direct.[19][20][21]
Graves seems to like cats,[22][23] and believes that the world would probably be better off if 90% of humans were replaced by cats.[24]
Appearance
[edit | edit source]Graves is a short, slim young woman with pale white skin. She has green eyes with dark makeup and long eyelashes, black lipstick and fingernails, a hooked nose, and short white hair with bangs covering the left side of her face, with a top knot on each side. She wears a red Blackmore Academy uniform jacket with a white shirt, a uniform gray skirt over 3 layers of black skirts leaning to her left side, pantyhose ripped at the knees, fingerless black gloves, and worn black boots. She carries a backpack with a skull motif and has a green pin in her jacket, a spiked bracelet in her left hand, chains over her skirt, black pendants in her chest in the shape of a skull, and a pair of black coffin-shaped earrings.
Her weapon is the necrotic severed hand of her lich mentor, flaming green. She carries her Deadhead skulls in a green jar. Her ghouls are skinny green undead humanoids with black legs and a floating skull head burning with green flames, like the lich hand.
Information
[edit | edit source]Graves does babysitting.[25]
Character Relationships
[edit | edit source]The Lich
[edit | edit source]Speaking through their severed hand, the lich is Graves' mentor.
Graves idolises the lich and considers her her best friend.[26][27]
There are some implications, however, that the lich is just using Graves to get what she wants.[28][29] While occasionally warned about the dangers of a lich's hand, Graves ignores the warnings.[16][17][18]
The Lich knows Grey Talon and warns Graves of him.[30] She also warns Graves about
Seven's power.[31]
The Lich wants Abrams' Tome.[32] Graves also thinks her mentor would want to get her hands on
Kelvin's stone.[33]
Graves and Apollo are classmates, and are each other's lab partners.[34]
Graves calls Apollo "the Golden Boy".[35]
Graves recognizes Calico. Calico apparently attended a Christmas party at the law firm of Graves' parents.[5]
Graves likes Calico and wants to stay in touch with her after the ritual.[36] She also likes Ava, despite finding her ugly.[22][23]
Character Interactions
[edit | edit source]- Graves shows interest in trying to help the undead characters, such as
Kelvin,
Vindicta and
Victor.[37][13][14]
- Graves thinks
Dynamo's jacket is cool.[38] She dislikes
Infernus' fedora.[39]
- Graves really likes
Yamato, even though she knows she shouldn't like her.[21][40][41]
Seven warns Graves that her mentor is using her to "live glories they could not achieve on their own."[42] He also warns Graves that the path she's on will eventually get her killed. Seven warns Graves because he "hates to see talent wasted."[43]
- Graves would like to be Seven's "intern".[44]
- Graves agrees with
Billy that "the OSIC sucks".[45] However, she does consider
Haze's offer to work for them as a Medium, saying that "it might not suck".[46]
Holliday and the
Shopkeeper call Graves a "theatre kid."[48][49]
- According to
Rem, Graves smells like wet dirt.[50]
- On a kill line, Graves mentions
Shiv "took something that doesn't belong to him".[51]
References
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The Hidden King's in-game voice line (Graves start): "Your devotion to your mentor is admirable, Graves. Use what she taught you to complete the ritual."
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Graves' in-game voice line (select): "This should make my mentor happy."
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- ↑ Graves And Celeste Conversation 2 -
"Ever thought about leaving home for the circus?" -
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Graves And Calico Conversation 1
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"Most 18-year-olds aren't about to summon an Elder God."
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The Archmother's in-game voice line (Graves start): "Many souls are in your debt, Graves. If you finish the ritual, the Archmother herself will join that number."
- ↑ Graves And Lady Geist Conversation 1
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- ↑ Graves And Wraith Conversation 1 -
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Graves And Grey Talon Conversation 3
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Graves And Seven Conversation 2
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Graves And Venator Conversation 3
- ↑ Graves And Venator Conversation 2 -
- ↑ Graves And Silver Conversation 1 -
"I think I don't hate you too."
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- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Graves And Calico Conversation 3 -
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Krill's in-game voice line (killed Graves): "The poor girl didn't even realize she was being used."
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