Yor Forger

"I don't need to be at peace. I don't care if I have to bloody my hands. Even if it means living a life that could end at any moment... Even if it means having to leave the Forger family... I think Loid would respect that. He would understand. That's why I won't give up this fight!"

- Yor Forger in Chapter 53

Yor Forger (ヨル・フォージャー), née Briar (ブライア) is the tritagonist of the SPY x FAMILY series. While she works as an ordinary clerk at Berlint City Hall, she also leads a secret life as a Garden assassin with the code name "Thorn Princess" (〈いばら姫〉).

She and Loid Forger get married to fulfill their separate goals, with the former becoming the adoptive mother of Anya Forger.

Appearance
Yor is an attractive and fairly tall young woman with fair skin, long black hair and upturned red eyes. She splits her hair into two parts and crosses it over her head, securing it with a headband and forming two thick locks of hair that reach below her chest. When her hair is let down, she lacks the usual two thick locks of hair and her hair reaches about mid-back.

At home, Yor generally wears a backless red off-shoulder sweater with black tights, a red skirt and brown-heeled ankle boots. She wears a white headband and a pair of dangling gold earrings in the shape of small spikes. When going outside, she wears a long beige coat with black buttons over her clothes.

At Berlint City Hall, she wears the standard work uniform, consisting of a white long-sleeved shirt with a sleeveless green vest over it, with a knee-length green office skirt and black heels.

As an assassin, Yor wears a form-fitting halter-style black dress that shows off her shoulders and cleavage, with a rose choker and a red rose pattern on the inside of her skirt. The front of the skirt is mid-thigh length while the back of the skirt reaches below her knees. She also wears a pair of black thigh-high boots and black fingerless gloves. The headband she wears is gold-colored with a rose and two spikes on each side. Her weapons are of the same color as well. This is her only good dress prior to marrying Loid, after which she purchases more formal wear to better present herself for Eden.

As a child, Yor had shorter hair that reached just below chin-length.

Personality
Yor lacks social skills and initially comes across as a somewhat aloof individual, interacting minimally with her coworkers and being rather straightforward, and she's described by Camilla as a robot. Similarly, Yor is remarkably collected, able to keep her composure in the midst of combat. She is incredibly polite to the point of asking her assassination targets for "the honor of taking their lives." Despite her job, Yor is a genuinely kind person with a strong maternal and big sister instincts. After becoming a family with Loid and Anya, Yor becomes more expressive and opens up to her coworkers, asking for help on being a better wife or cooking. She is protective of her faux family, especially towards Anya whom she has no trouble defending with extreme violence.

Due to spending most of her life as an assassin, Yor's ways of thinking are often highly deviant. She is frequently inclined to solve problems through murder, such as considering killing everyone at Camilla's party after the latter threatens to tell Yor's brother that she came without a date, and assassinating the parent of an Eden Academy applicant so Anya is ensured a place. To this extent, she has an affinity towards weapons, being captivated by a painting of a guillotine and a table knife.

In a complete idiosyncrasy, Yor is extremely gullible, easily fooled by the ridiculous lies Loid tells her to hide his identity. In spite of her intelligence and competence, Yor has a startling lack of common sense, asking Camilla if boogers made coffee taste better in response to her suggestion that they put one in their superior's coffee. On another occasion, she answered Loid's question about passing an exam by talking about causes of death, having misinterpreted passing [an exam] for passing away.

Yor is shown to be insecure about herself and her abilities, believing she is not good at anything apart from killing or cleaning, and she constantly worries that she's not being a good wife or mother. After the interview at Eden Academy, she tries to be more of a normal mother to Anya by trying to cook and asking Camilla for cooking lessons.

History
Yor and her younger brother Yuri grew up in Eastern Nielsberg. Orphaned at a young age, Yor was recruited into Garden, where she began working as an assassin to provide financially for her brother. Wanting her brother to live without worries, she would use her paycheck to buy whichever educational books or snacks her brother desired.

She continued to support her brother with paychecks from her assassination jobs until Yuri was hired into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a diplomat, at which point she used the money for herself instead, and continued doing contracts into the present. Prior to her work at Berlint City Hall, she gave "massages" to customers, which were in fact a euphemism for her assassination work.

Introduction Arc
Yor is first seen as a female employee at Berlint City Hall. Her coworkers, Camilla, Millie, and Sharon, try to involve Yor in their gossiping and fashion talk, but her indifferent and air-headed response causes them to make fun of her. Camilla warns her of appearing suspicious as a single 27-year-old, then invites her to a party and suggests that she bring someone along. At her home, she converses with her brother Yuri, over the phone. She tries to appease his concerns about her getting married by lying that she is going to bring her boyfriend to the party. This backfires as Yuri decides to hear about the boyfriend from his friend attending the party and hangs up before Yor can protest.

As Yor is frantic about being exposed as a liar to her brother, she receives another call, this time from her employer, who dispatches her to The Royal Hotel. Yor is revealed to be the assassin known as the "Thorn Princess," who easily takes down her targets and any obstacles. As she is cleaning up, she realizes her only good dress is torn. The next day, Yor goes to the boutique to have her dress mended, where she meets Loid and Anya Forger. After her initial misunderstanding of Loid's marital status, she requests that he be her pretend boyfriend at the party, which he agrees to under the condition she pretends to be his wife at the school interview.

On the night of the party, Yor waits outside for Loid, who is running late. She eventually gives up, disappointed at being stood up, but attends the party alone to avoid worrying her brother. She endures being mocked by her coworkers for lying about bringing a boyfriend and even contemplates killing all of them to prevent her brother from finding out. When she decides to leave the party, Loid suddenly enters, bleeding and injured, and introduces himself as her husband by accident. Camilla, who is jealous of Yor having a refined and handsome husband, attempts to humiliate her, but Yor easily turns the tables without understanding her coworker's intent. Camilla exposes Yor's previous job of performing "massages," Loid expresses his admiration for Yor doing such harsh tasks for her brother, moving her. Loid excuses the two of them from the party, and they leave.

As Loid drives away, he apologizes for introducing himself as her husband. As Yor is about to propose an idea, they are interrupted by a car ramming into them. Loid makes up an excuse that they are his patients still suffering from delusions, which she believes. They escape into an abandoned factory and abandon their van. As they run around the factory knocking their pursuers out, Loid saves Yor from being shot and she, in turn, saves him, sending a surprise attacker rolling away with a single kick, much to Loid's surprise. They both laugh together, and he thanks her. Another attacker causes them to run away, and Yor decides to ask Loid to marry her, causing him to trip. She explains that she wishes to extend their agreement and remain together as camouflage. Loid agrees as he throws a grenade at their pursuers, using the pin as a wedding ring as he says his vows to her.

Admissions Interview Arc
With the marriage cover now established, Yor relocates to the Forger residence and receives a warm welcome. After unpacking, she helps Loid and Anya with an interview mock questionnaire on what to expect, but neither doing so well. Loid takes Yor and Anya on a tour of high society locations to broaden their perspectives and take in the culture so as to improve their standing with the admissions, but it doesn't go as planned again. To help them relax, Yor takes the two to a park overlooking the city, which Yor admits she visits to remind herself that her work matters. However, they see a purse snatching and Yor gives chase immediately but loses the thief in a narrow back alley. Returning to check on the robbed elderly lady, Yor regroups with Loid and Anya, where she watches over Anya as Loid finds the thief and knocks him out. With the purse returned, the Forgers visit the grateful old lady, who compliments the Forgers as looking like a sweet family. Returning home, Yor prepares some drinks as they retry their mock interview questions with better results, and they enjoy their evening before the admissions the next day.

On the day of the interview, the Forgers make their entrance onto Eden Academy and Yor immediately senses observing glares as Loid acknowledges the faculty observing them. Yor follows Loids lead to salute the statue of the school's founder to earn favor and proceeded to the next location as directed where Loid rescued a boy from a storm drain. Sullied by rescuing the boy, the Forgers took on new apparel before a stampede from the school's petting zoo came down the scene. Leaving Anya with Loid, Yor lunges at the cow leading the stampede and strikes it down with pressure point strikes, ruining her second dress. Realizing her actions, Yor hastily forms an excuse about learning yoga before Anya walks to the downed cow and it then walks away from her kindness. Once the animals passively depart, Housemaster Henry Henderson greets the Forgers and invites them in after they clean up, to which they had already done so.

Inside, Yor answers questions about her being Anya's stepmother just like her practice with Loid, but was caught off-guard about questions about her cooking by Walter Evans and Murdoch Swan's disappointment in her. Once they question Anya on Yor as her stepmother, the child gives Yor and Loid a perfect 100 score. However, Professor Swan asks Anya to compare her birth mother to Yor, resulting in Anya crying and Yor coming to her aid. Hearing Swan's dismissal of Anya's feelings, Yor's bloodlust flared up, but she was stopped after Loid shattered the table. As Loid gave a departing comment, Yor took Anya with her and the family went home where they sulked at the likelihood of Anya's failure to get accepted. Preparing tea to calm the nerves, Yor worried about her future with the Forger's but justified it as being about continuing her cover. Serving the tea, Yor asked Loid to cheer up as Anya noted Professors Evans and Henderson being more likely to recommend her. The family toasted to a positive future before growing dismayed at their family portrait falling, scared by the bad omen.

On the day of Eden Academy's admissions announcement, the Forgers look for Anya's application number on the board and are dismayed that it is not there. As they prepare to leave, Henry stops them and shows them a waiting list with Anya's name on the top, explaining that Anya will be given a spot upon an accepted student's withdrawal. While he continues to talk, Yor fears the possibility of none of the accepted students declining and imagines killing a parent of one of the accepted students to obtain a spot for Anya. After her daydream, Yor shakes her head and reminds herself not to kill an innocent person.

Three days later, Yor is ecstatic to hear that Anya has been offered a spot. Franky Franklin arrives at the Forgers' front door with a bottle of alcohol to celebrate Anya's success, introducing himself to Yor. The group drinks while eating delivered dinner, with Yor soon becoming drunk from the alcohol and unable to listen to Franky and Loid's conversation. Anya requests to be saved in castle, so Loid rents a castle, bringing Yor and Franky along. Anya assigns Loid and Franky roles to play while telling Yor that she can be whatever, to her shock. To stop 'Loidman', Franky summons Yor, dubbing her 'Yorticia', the world's deadliest witch. Yor drunkenly attacks Loid with a kick as he barely manages to dodge, leaving Loid with a bleeding cut on his cheek. Yor continues to attack Loid with rapid kicks but the heel of her left shoe eventually snaps, sending her falling backward and she falls asleep.

Eden Beginnings Arc
The Forgers go to the boutique to get Anya's measurements for her uniform. The shop owner expresses her surprise at Yor's marriage and asks why she wasn't told of the last time she visited, and Yor apologizes. The owner then warns the family about discrimination from Eden alumni families, friction between dorm and commuter students, and rumors of kidnapping students, which scares Anya. Five days later, Loid receives a call from the boutique telling him that Anya's uniform is ready. However, because he is busy with his work, he asks Yor to handle it. At the boutique, Anya tries on her new Eden Academy uniform, delightedly showing off and posing to Yor. Yor and Anya stop by the park, where Anya continues to show off her uniform to other people. As Yor overhears other mothers deciding what to cook, Yor is reminded of the events at the admissions interview and wishes to become a better mother to Anya, despite it being a fake family.

When Anya returns, Yor decides to stop by the supermarket and try to cook dinner for that night. As Yor purchases her groceries at the cashier, Anya decides to go outside but is nabbed by delinquents, who are hoping for some extra cash from Yor and Anya. Yor arrives and hits one of the delinquents in the face with her bag of groceries. The other delinquents attempt to extort Yor for the injured boy's hospital bills, but Yor reveals she just used all of her money. One of the delinquents grabs a pumpkin and tries to punch Yor with it, only for Yor to slice through the pumpkin with her bare hand and break it into several pieces. Yor asserts that she is Anya's mother and threatens the delinquents to end up like the pumpkin, scaring them away. Yor comforts Anya with a hug but becomes depressed that all of the groceries are in a mess now. Anya pats Yor on the head and declares that she loves Yor as she is, a cool and strong mother, and imitates Yor's punch. Anya asks Yor to train her to become strong like her and be safe at Eden Academy. Yor realizes she may not be a normal mother but becomes confident with her own abilities and they return home to train. Loid returns home and is confused to see them training, Yor telling him that they are preparing for school.

On Orientation Day, the Forgers listen as a faculty member gives a speech congratulating the new students. After seeing Loid urging Anya to make lots of friends, Yor giggles at his intensity. After Anya's class leaves for the school tour, Loid says he feels queasy and Yor says it can be hard to send them off into the world, unaware of his true intent. The two head to the Hall C Lounge for a meet-and-greet with the student's guardians, where Yor stays with Loid while he mingles with the parents. A faculty member announces that the orientation has finished and there will be a group photo in the courtyard. Loid notices that Anya is nowhere to be seen and is pulled aside by Henderson, who tells them that Anya punched Damian Desmond and earned a Tonitrus Bolt. Yor consoles Anya and apologizes to Loid. As the commemorative photo is taken with all the students' families, the Forgers are unable to hide their distressed faces.

The following morning, a sleepy Yor is greeted by Loid, who prepared breakfast. As the family have breakfast, both Yor and Anya apologize for the incident yesterday. Loid says that what's done is done and should be forgotten as long as Anya learned her lesson. Afterwards, they drop Anya off at the school bus, where Loid tells her to apologize to Damian. When the bus leaves, Yor tells him that they too should be getting to work.

The next day, Loid is forcing Anya to study. Yor's suggests giving her a break but Loid turns her down, insisting that Anya needs to memorize the math by today. When Anya asks Yor for help, Yor's thought process starts to go on a tangent, which shocks Anya who was reading her mind. Sick of studying, she runs off to her room while Loid orders her to come back. Yor intervenes, telling him that he shouldn't force the studies on her. Loid contends that if she doesn't study, she'll never become an honors student. Yor asks him if that is what Anya wants and tells him that she wants Anya to enjoy her school life while studying enough to keep her from flunking out. Yor gets flustered and apologizes for telling him how to raise his own daughter. Loid dismisses this, admitting that she's right and thanking her for speaking up. Yor suggests they take a break while she makes some tea.

Loid and Yor later try to coax her out with the cocoa, but she continues to stay in her room. Yor says that this situation reminds her of her brother and the two start talking about Yuri. Loid says that his intelligence must be pretty impressive since he works for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and asks how he studied back when he was younger to which Yor just says that he is more on top of things than she is. She says that, embarrassing as it is, he taught her more than she ever taught him, remembering their numerous lessons and telling Loid how happy he seemed when she praised him for his studies. Loid realizes that Yuri's motivation was likely earning Yor's praise and she wonders if they can do the same for Anya. When Loid starts doubting himself as a father, Yor reassures him, telling him to believe in himself more and reminds him that Anya gave him 100 points during the Eden interview. Touched, Loid thanks her, and Yor again grows flustered and apologizes for being so forward despite being an outsider, but Loid tells her that she's part of the family now and he'll always be counting on her for things he can't do. Yor then remembers that she's his wife and Loid laughs and says not to forget that when they're outside, then asking her if she could help with Anya's study sessions. She agrees, saying there's no rush and that they can do it together.

Secret Police Arc
At Berlint City Hall, a shaken Millie explains to Yor and Sharon that Jim Hayward was arrested today by the SSS for espionage. A sleepy Camilla then walks in and greets the three, then turning to Yor and asking her if she's told her brother about her marriage yet, since he seemed confused on the matter when Camilla's boyfriend ran into him the previous night. A shocked Yor exclaims that she knew she was forgetting something. Yor asks what she should do but Camilla just says that Yuri said he'd be calling the office later as Yor remembers that she never gave him her new house's phone number. Yor worries that she totally forgot about Yuri despite the fact that she married so he wouldn't worry about her, thinking about how busy she's been with Anya's exams and all. Millie then asks if Yor's brother is hot and if she could be introduced to him. Yor shows her a picture of her and Yuri and they both comment on how cute he is, Yor then going on to tell them all how he clings to her going "'Yor' this and 'sis' that." Millie then rebounds, saying she'd give him a hard pass if he was one of those types and another commenting that if he loves Yor that much it's even more awful that she forgot to tell him.

Yor then comes home, worriedly announcing that Yuri is coming over to visit that night to congratulate her on her marriage. She asks Loid what she should do and he replies that it's exactly the occasion they prepared the "loving couple" set for, decorating the house with stereotypical things a loving married couple would have. Anya asks if they're going to kiss now, and her now flustered parents say that they're not. While waiting for Yuri to arrive, Yor comments that he must be working late and Loid asks if it has been a while since she last saw him. Yor confirms that, and says that she's really excited to see him again all circumstances aside. When Yuri finally arrives, the couple welcome him with smiles on their faces.

After Loid and Yuri greet each other, Loid excuses himself to the kitchen to make dinner while the siblings catch up. Yor notices Yuri's scowl and remarks that his face is scary, commenting that he must be nervous. While showing him to his seat, Yor pledges to act as a loving wife in front of Yuri, not wanting him to discover her reason for getting married. Yor arranges the flowers Yuri brought in a vase as he sits down in the living room, thanking him which prompts Yuri to then say that this doesn't mean he approves of Yor's marriage, telling his sister that it's just too sudden and asking her why she kept it a secret from him for a whole year anyway. Yor looks him straight in the eyes and says to her brother that she just forgot to tell him. Yuri is confused and brings up their last phone call during which a partner was mentioned, wondering aloud why she didn't just tell him then. Yor confidently says that she forgot that she forgot to tell him. Yuri accepts her response, losing all reason when dealing with his sister, who then laughs and apologizes when Yuri says that she can be such a klutz sometimes.

Yuri reveals a bottle of wine that he brought, inviting Loid to join him. Loid whispers to Yor that she shouldn't drink if they don't want a repeat of last time. Yuri asks the two how they first met, and they explain their first meeting at the boutique. Yor bluntly says that Loid was staring at her, with him saying that he could not help but look. Yuri then starts asking specific questions about their relationship, which gets Yor flustered. After Loid says that he calls Yor by her name, a frantic Yuri asks Yor what she calls Loid, suggesting nicknames like "Loidy" or "Loi-Loi". Yor is too embarrassed to speak, and Yuri assumes it is true, picking up the wine glass as he starts to drink away in anger. After calming down, Yuri is asked about his work and Yor tells him that she heard from Dominic that he went to Hugaria. Yuri talks about his trip to the country and how he wishes he could take Yor there. Loid and Yuri end up having a conversation together about their travels to Hugaria which ends with Loid telling Yuri that they'll have to treat him next time for the wine. Yor asks Yuri if he is happy to have such a wonderful brother-in-law, but Yuri angrily reminds them that he does not recognize the marriage or Loid as a brother-in-law. He explains how Yor's raising of him motivated him to become a successful man who could protect her and asks Loid if he can understand having the most important person in his life being taken away by some stranger. While Yor is touched, Yuri continues, saying that he always wanted his sister to settle down with someone who could protect her more than him and asks Loid if he can do that.

Loid lies to Yuri that he loves Yor as much as he does, which catches her by surprise. He says that whether from knives, bullets, or even a nuclear bomb, he will stop at nothing to shield her from harm. A drunk Yuri starts accusing Loid of being a liar and spills some water on the table. Yor and Loid both reach out to clean up the spill and accidentally touch hands. The two awkwardly back away, much to Yuri's suspicion and he questions their relationship. The couple try to convince him that they are in love, but Yuri tells them to prove it by kissing each other or he will have their marriage annulled. Loid quickly accepts his terms, telling Yor that they will just do what they always do. On the other hand, Yor is unprepared for her first kiss, blushing furiously as Loid moves in closer.

Yor starts panicking and decides to down the bottle of wine to help calm her nerves. Loid whispers that they can find another way if she doesn't want to do this, but Yor insists that she can. Yuri sees them whispering and questions whether they'll actually kiss or not. In response, Yor throws a fork at her brother, grazing his cheek as she tells him to be quiet. Yor then pushes Loid down onto the couch and moves in to kiss him. Yor can't help but be embarrassed by this, so she tried slapping Loid. However, Yuri jumped in at the last second stop them and ended up being on the receiving end of her slap, causing him to fly across the room. Yuri gets up with a bloody face and misinterprets the slap as Yor being mad that he tried to stop their kiss.

Yuri concedes defeat for now, but being drunk and having lost some blood, is having trouble keeping his balance. Yor asks if he needs a taxi and takes him on her shoulder so he can regain his balance. Yor, who is also drunk, has trouble balancing as well is caught by Loid who holds them both up. He grins at the two of them and tells them how much he admires how wonderful of siblings they are. Loid thanks Yuri for all the work he has done to protect and support his sister and assures him that he'll do everything he can to support her as well. Yuri, embarrassed, slaps away the hand Loid was using to hold him up with and announces he's going home. Loid tells him that he's welcome to come back and visit anytime for Yor and also to meet their daughter Anya. Yor tells him that Anya tried to stay up for him, but ended up falling asleep. Yuri announces he will come back to prove that Loid tricked her into this marriage. Yuri gives Loid a warning before rushing off as Yor wishes him a safe trip home.

While the couple clean up the house, Yor apologizes to Loid for Yuri's behavior but thanks Loid for how he was willing to accept Yuri as family. Loid comments how he envies the two of them as someone who doesn't have any other family apart from Anya. Most of all though, he was just glad that Yuri didn't find out that their marriage is a sham. Yor comments that she just wants to go to bed to which they remember the shared love bed they had set up for Yuri's visit and say they'll sleep separately. Muttering in her sleep, Yor says that if Yuri hits Loid she'll be very cross.

Yor greets Anya good morning and mentions that it was too bad she couldn't meet Yuri last night. A sleepy Anya doesn't remember at first, surprising Yor. After Anya remembers about Yuri and gets upset over not getting to meet him, Yor tells her that they'll see him again soon. While having breakfast, Anya is about to tell Loid something about Yor but pauses and says that she is a bad cook. Yor is shocked that Anya could tell that she made breakfast today and apologizes saying she did her best. As they prepare to leave, Yor is called out by Loid who says she has gunk on her neck and wipes it off. Yor thanks him but is flustered thinking he was going to kiss her after what happened the previous night, unaware that Loid had just planted a listening bug on her. She reflects on how she can't cook, how last night only went well due to Loid, and her performance as a wife was awful. She determines that Loid was seeming distant this morning because of all that and must have been upset. As Anya is about to get on the school bus, she looks back to Yor and Loid and tells them to get along, but they respond by telling her they're not fighting.

At Berlint City Hall, Yor is typing at her desk while holding back tears, telling herself that she is a failure of a wife the whole day. Sharon arrives and questions why Yor wants to know how to be a good wife and asks if things are not going well at home. Yor explains that she just doesn't know how to behave since it's her first relationship. Yor even questions whether their relationship can go on since she can't even cook, hurt by Anya's comment in the morning. They tell her she should just break up with him already but she responds that she can't do that. Their conversation is interrupted by Chief Barnes, who tells the girls to get back to work but asks Yor if she can drop off a letter at the post office for him. Yor drops off the letter and heads out of the building. She notices a sign about savings accounts for married couples and thinks about how her and Loid still have separate bank accounts. She wonders if the money she earns as an assassin could make her useful as a wife but also realizes it might end up being suspicious and that he probably doesn't need financial support. As she is thinking about this, she gets stopped by two Secret Police officers. Unbeknownst to her, they are actually Loid and Franky in disguise, who are trying to see if Yor has connections to the SSS through her brother. They say they have some questions for her which makes her wonder if she seemed suspicious looking at the married couples account poster because she doesn't look married. She tries telling them she's married which puzzles them. Yor is told that in their mail inspection they noticed that the letter she just posted was a coded message to the West. They ask her if this "Barnes" on the letter is her superior which she confirms. When asked for her name, she tells them her name is Yor Forger.

They tell her that she is listed as a collaborator and suspect that she's part of the conspiracy, but Yor tells them that she knows nothing about this. The officers try intimidating her with stories of torture in the SSS, but mention that someone with a SSS family member can be cleared of any suspicions, a perk of the job. Yor tells them that she works hard for this country every day and would never commit treason. Franky tries to grab her but is thrown to the ground by Yor as she reminds him that she's a married woman and asks not to be touched. Loid tells her there are consequences for resisting that may affect her family. Yor tells them that her husband and brother are respectable men and if they are going to harm them she'll show them no mercy. The officers double check the letter and realize that they incorrectly decoded the letter, which is from Mr. Barnes to a renowned hemorrhoid specialist. They apologize for the misunderstanding and excuse her, but not before asking her to keep the contents of the letter a secret.

After work, Yor walks back home concerned about the events of today and almost getting her and her family in trouble by striking a government agent. As she's walking, she runs into Loid who asks her if she wants to walk home together. He again pretends to get some gunk off her collar as he removes the bug he planted. Yor apologizes for being a failure as a wife who's not even able to keep her clothes clean. Loid tries to comfort her by telling her that there's no correct way for a wife to act. Trying to live up to an ideal is admirable but they can constrict you from being who you are and utilizing your true strengths, as having to perform all the time is exhausting. He tells her he just wants her to be exactly who she is and how it would make Anya happy to see her smile. Yor thanks him for saying that and tells him she's glad she married him. Loid throws the gunk away and tells her they didn't do anything to celebrate their fake one-year anniversary and should get some cake to which Yor agrees. Anya returns home on the bus and is welcomed by Yor. She is relieved to see them getting along and Yor tells her they bought cake, which Anya begs for.

Stella Star Arc
When Anya tells her parents that she has a chance to earn a Stella Star in a dodgeball match for P.E. class. Determined to help Anya do well, Yor trains with her in preparation of the game and even teaches her how to make a strong throw.

While Loid and Anya study together, Yor joins them, takes a look at Anya's test, and compliments her for her score being not bad despite still being a failing grade. Yor watches on as Loid tries to find out a skill that Anya is good at, even handing her a jumping rope to use. After Anya saves a boy from drowning while doing community service, she earns a Stella Star. Yor is very much happy for her and gives her a big hug, squeezing Anya a little too hard. She then tells Anya that she'll cook her something special tonight, but Anya says that she'd rather have her father's cooking, shocking Yor.

When Anya arrives home, she tells her parents that she wants a dog as a reward for her Stella Star. Yor tells Anya that taking care of an animal is a big responsibility but Loid tells Anya that he'll give the idea some thought. While thinking about dogs from her experience as an assassin, Yor envisions a dog that would attack and kill Anya. After reading her parents' minds, Anya tells the two of them that she wants a small cute dog which makes Yor envision a small dog slashing Anya's throat with a knife in its mouth. The family then spend the rest of their night looking at different kinds of dogs that Anya might want. Somewhere else, a large, fluffy white dog's ears perk up as it gets a vision of the Forgers happily smiling at the dog.

Abilities and Skills
Strength: Despite her slim frame, Yor possesses monstrously superhuman physical abilities. She is capable of easily piercing human skulls with her weapons throw them hard enough to break through a wooden door and impale someone on the other side. She can easily crush people with her raw strength, and a thrust from her hands alone can destroy pumpkins. Yor also has enough leg strength to jump an entire floor while carrying a woman and her child. Her kicks can move speeding cars, brutalize humans, and serve as her preferred method of close combat to devastating effect. Her kicks were powerful enough to knock out Loid by merely grazing his chin, something no one has done to him since his training days. While attempting a strength-tester game, Yor destroyed the machine with a one-handed swing.

Yor has difficulty controlling her strength. While taking cooking lessons from Camilla, Yor accidentally sliced up the cutting board that she was chopping vegetables on. During a tennis match against Fiona Frost, she accidentally diced a tennis ball from the power of her swing. While she held back her strength on her next serve, it was still so powerful that Frost, a WISE agent with considerable strength, could barely hold back the ball until her racquet snapped. Frost claimed that the ball would've been sent flying a mile away if she had not tried to hit it. Two accidental slaps from Yor was enough to cause Yuri to bleed excessively to the point that some passing civilians were concerned and recommended that he should go to the hospital. By her own admission, she has accidentally broken two of Yuri's ribs from a hug when she was in her teens.

Speed and Reflexes: Yor is imperceptibly fast and agile. Despite moving in heels, she can jump and land from tall heights, effortlessly knocking out a raging cow, and move fast enough to intercept and kill another assassin who was fast enough to evade the Director's bullets.

She also has remarkably quick reflexes, being able to intercept a falling hot pan with just a motion of her leg and dodge rifle fire. Even when distracted, she was able to dodge garden shears from several feet away and was able to throw Becky out of the path of a car and catch her in time.

Durability and Stamina: Yor was able to withstand a gunshot wound to her glutes and move normally, making it home, though this feat caused her considerable pain and left her in a bad mood. During the fight on the Princess Lorelei, she was able to kill over 22 assassins nonstop, coming away with only a a jammed finger and a chest wound. While rushing Becky Blackbell to the hospital after falsely assuming she was intoxicated, Yor was struck in the side by a car. Despite the car being damaged enough to start smoking and being sent rolling. Yor got up, caught Becky and continued running without issue.

Cleaning: Having to clean up the aftermath of her assassinations had left Yor with near-unrivaled cleaning skills, which she uses to keep the Forger home spotless.

Intelligence and intuition: Though not as smart as Loid, Yor has some knowledge of pressure points, utilizing it on a cow to instantly knock it out. She has some knowledge about the human body, though this seems to only extend to lethal points such as the jugular or carotid. She displayed a sharp intuition at the Eden Academy interview, sensing the gazes of the faculty members but not suspecting the source. She was also to search a large crowd for Anya mere moments after reaching a vantage point. Her illustrious assassination career is further testament to her impressive situational awareness.

Yor also possesses adequate medical knowledge to treat a gunshot wound.

Poison Tolerance: Yor is highly resistant against poison. She drank a cocktail laced with the body fluids of a pufferfish, a family of fish which contain a neurotoxin that is lethal in the micrograms. Her only symptoms after ingesting the cocktail was a tingling sensation and a inhibited sense of pain which helped relieve her gunshot wound. During the fight on the cruise ship, she withstood inhaling enough poison gas to take down a bear.

Weapons: When in combat, Yor uses two golden stiletto-type weapons. They have a handle with a thin, circular loop at the butt and a long, conical point designed for stabbing and thrusting. She has yet to be seen using them outside of her assassin work. Yor uses them to stab into opponent's heads or arteries, though she has demonstrated the ability to throw them with great speed and force. These weapons are a reference to the thorns of a wild rose.

Teaching: Yor has shown to be a decent teaching skills, specifically when it comes to physical training. She taught Anya how to defend herself at her school. She also taught Anya how to prepare to play dodge ball explaining her how to perform a "secret ball throwing technique".

Weaknesses
Alcohol: Despite her tolerance to poisons, Yor is a lightweight. She is prone to drinking large amounts of alcohol in a short amount of time, pouring wine into her glass eagerly, and drinking wine straight out of the bottle. Intoxication renders her temperamental and aggressive, as she is willing to use her martial arts against Loid and barely misses throwing a fork at Yuri, grazing him. She seems to share this trait with Yuri.

Cooking: Due to only considering the nutrients involved and not the taste or appearance of the meal, Yor is consistently bad at cooking and usually leaves the task to Loid. When she does attempt to cook dinner, she is unaware of what ingredients to buy and opts to get one of everything instead, thinking that she can make something as long as there are meat and vegetables. Her attempt at cooking breakfast for the family results in meals consisting of messily chopped fish heads and tails, prompting Anya to call her a terrible cook.

Yor's dishes cause any taster, even Loid, to collapse to the ground. However, all other dishes have resulted in the tasters collapsing on the ground, incapacitated. The only individual shown to withstand Yor's cooking is her brother Yuri, though he violently throws up endlessly even while eating. Despite this, Yuri grew up with no significant health issues. However, it was implied that Bond saw himself die at the hands of Yor's cooking in one of his visions. The only dish she can successfully cook is her late mother's southern stew, after Camilla gives her several cooking lessons and recreates the dish from their memories.

Her skills with handheld weapons are completely inapplicable in cooking, as she sliced meat razor thin and destroyed a cutting board. Yor also injured herself using a potato peeler.

Lying: Yor is extremely bad at lying and her alibis are successful only through sheer luck. After Yuri Briar asks Yor why she didn't tell him about Loid, Yor simply said she forgot. When pressed further, she told Yuri that she'd forgotten that she forgot to tell him. After destroying a strength tester machine, she attempted to explain her strength to Loid by lying about a former blacksmith apprenticeship.

Yuri Briar
Yuri is the younger brother of Yor and her only remaining family member alive after their parents died at an early age. As a result, she took on a parental role for her brother when she was young, taking assassination jobs to provide for him and cooking meals. When Yuri became sick with a fever, Yor went into the forest to pick herbs for him, getting stung by bees and killing a boar in the process.

When Yuri was a child, Yuri told Yor he wanted to marry her when he grew older and Yor jokingly said she would save herself for then.

Loid Forger
Loid Forger is Yor's fake, although legal, husband. First meeting him at a tailor, Yor went there to mend her clothes damaged from a recent assassination contract. After having a discussion, they both agreed to help each other out, with Loid agreeing to be her lover at the party while Yor would act as Anya's mother for the Eden Academy interview. On the night of the party, an injured Loid mistook his mission with Yor's and stated himself as Yor's husband instead. After leaving, they were attacked by Loid's "deranged patients" before subduing them and heading to city hall to become a married couple, all while concealing their true identities from each other. When tasked with raising Anya, Yor gives advice to Loid on the matter for which he is always thankful for. The pair treat each other as husband and wife inside and outside the house, but they neither share a room nor a bed.

When Yor's introduced younger brother, Yuri, he quickly didn't trust the reality of Loid and Yor's relationship, and drunkenly ordered them to kiss or he would annul the marriage to protect his sister. The two were flustered, but to Yor's surprise, Loid calmly agreed, while she gulped a bottle of wine to quickly get drunk, saying she can't kiss sober. After Yuri's visit, Yor started to develop lingering insecurities about not being a good wife for Loid, moping for a whole day until Loid encouraged her. This insecurity reoccurs a few more times, as Yor feels she's a bad wife and mother because she cannot cook.

Over time, their relationship changed from just working together to fulfill their own goals into a faux-marriage somewhat resembling husband and wife. Frequently, both Yor and Loid will furiously blush whenever Anya asks if they will kiss, followed by a shared denial. Upon meeting Fiona Frost, Loid's coworker (for his spy job in W.I.S.E.), Yor becomes jealous and overthinking of Fiona and Loid's relationship, appeared to be genuinely depressed at the thought of losing her role as Loid's wife to Fiona. When the pair went out for a drink, a drunk Yor asks Loid if he is in love with Fiona, even though he used to say she was pretty. This was enough to lead Loid to suspect Yor harbored genuine romantic interest in him, but as he tried to seduce her further, a flustered Yor responded by kicking him upside the chin, knocking him out. When he awoke, he reassured Yor that she was already an incredible mother and that he won't replace her with Fiona.

Yor's feelings for Loid appear to be developing further, as she grows fond of her family and her new home. Loid, along with Anya and Bond, are now part of her reason to keep the assassination job, that is to protect their peaceful life.

Anya Forger
Yor believes Anya is Loid's biological child from his first marriage and that his late wife's dying wish was for her to go to a good school. Yor is significantly more encouraging and patient with Anya compared to Loid, who often expresses exasperation or impatience at Anya especially with regards to her academic abilities. Yor often gives advice to Anya, though due to a variety of factors (e.g Anya failing to understand) this rarely works out. Yor has strong maternal instincts towards Anya, likely stemming from her raising Yuri when he was a child and gets extremely sad when Anya insults her cooking. This motherly behavior makes Yor extremely protective over Anya, as she tends to violently, and sometimes excessively, deal with anyone antagonizing the child. As part of her maternal behavior, she scolds Anya when needed such as when Anya runs away. In return, Anya is also protective of Yor, willing to put herself in harm's way to save a cornered Yor.

Bond Forger
It has been implied that they hold a very strong relationship off-screen, that she is responsible for all his baths and that she is the one who always takes him for a walk whenever Anya isn't around.

Shopkeeper
The Shopkeeper is Yor's handler within the Garden organization, similarly to Loid's handler. The Shopkeeper calls Yor when a "client" is available and sends her out to complete assassination contracts. In rare instances, he will assign her missions whereby she will protect someone, such as Olka Gretcher and her infant son.

Camilla
At the beginning, Yor and Camilla are not on good terms. Camilla is openly envious of Yor's attractive appearance and mocks her for her aloof attitude and lack of a partner at her age. She even exposes unsavory rumors of Yor's previous job to Loid in an attempt to discourage him from courting Yor, though it fails. Later on when Yor asks Camilla to teach her how to cook, she warms up to Yor a little and they reconcile, though Camilla remains somewhat thorny with her.

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Trivia

 * Her first name is a shortened form of "Yolanda", an Eastern European name. Despite popular belief, Tatsuya Endo did not plan for her name to be a homophone of the kanji for "night" (夜).
 * Yor originated from Tatsuya Endo's love of fighting heroines, particularly Princess Alena from the Dragon Quest series.
 * Yor's personnel file has the date "06 APR 63". This may be her date of employment, as neither the calendar year has been revealed nor has her birthday been disclosed.
 * Yor dislikes insects, to the point she hates even looking at pictures of them.
 * Yor likes eating apples.
 * Yor and Yuri used to hunt rabbits in the mountain when they were children.
 * Yor's maiden name, rose motifs and codename hint at the inspiration for her character being drawn from Little Briar Rose, which is an alternative title for the fairytale Sleeping Beauty.
 * Yor's pointed earrings are traits that she shares with Ashe, the character of Tatsuya Endo's previous one-shot Rengoku no Ashe.
 * Yor's chair, featured on the cover of the third volume, is a La Chaise designed by Charles and Ray Eames.

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