Sylvia Sherwood

"Stop waiting for easy answers to fall into your lap, Rookie. Use that head of yours to find them for yourself."

- Sylvia Sherwood in Chapter 63

Sylvia Sherwood (シルヴィア・シャーウッド), also known as Handler (管理官) or the Fullmetal Lady (鋼鉄の淑女), is a recurring character of the SPY X FAMILY series. She is Twilight's main contact at WISE.

Appearance
Sylvia is a young woman with a slim figure and narrow blue eyes that droop at the corners. She has long and wavy strawberry-blonde hair that reaches the middle of her back.

She sports a pair of round framed glasses and a black wide-brimmed hat with a dark red-purple ribbon. She also wears an elegant black dress with a low-cut square neckline over a white collared shirt, along with a large black ribbon under the collar. The back of the dress is long, reaching below her knees, while the front of her dress reaches mid-thigh. She wears dark stockings with black high heels.

As Secretary Sherwood, she ties her hair in a ponytail. She wears a black coat over a white top and a black skirt.

Personality
Not much has been to shown to get an understanding of Sylvia's personality but from what's been shown, it's that she is similar to Twilight in which she is dedicated, skilled and logical with her approach to ideas but still is a somewhat impatient person albeit the target, Donovan Desmond has been doing some suspicious activity, willing to artificially make it so Anya would get more Stella Stars showing only to be told that it would expose the agents and having Anya under scrutiny. It can be assumed that she doesn't really understand kids, as seen when she told Loid to just bribe Anya with candy.

It has been shown she once had a daughter of a similar age to Anya, but, possibly lost her in a war. It can be assumed based on her previous actions that she had her daughter quite some time ago and, as a result, no longer knows how to handle children. Though, she is still shown to have some motherly instinct left in her. Because of this, she despises war, which could be her reason for joining WISE. She comforts Anya about what they will do with the bomb dogs and promises to treat them with care.

She has an extreme distaste and hatred for war. This is evident in her words to the terrorist group when they planned on using bomb dogs to instigate a war based on nationalist pride and propaganda. Her anger and cold dismissive words decrying the atrocities and horrors of war seem to indicate that she suffers from a great deal of trauma incurred during the war.

Abilities and Skills
Disguise: Sylvia can disguise herself pretty well, having passed off as an old woman to contact Twilight.

Handler: As a handler, Sylvia is the agency's main contact between them and the agents, and is responsible for managing them and their missions. Despite the strict surveillance of the nation's secret police, she manages to evade notice while competently handling her agents, even earning her the nickname of "Fullmetal Lady."

Fighting Skills: Sylvia is shown to have abilities for fight and defense, as she quickly attacked and immobilized Pance Karmer when he tried to kill Jonas Wellman, though she later had serious shoulder pain due her age.

Loid Forger
Loid Forger, as Twilight, is one of the intelligence agents under her command. She is extremely demanding of his spy abilities, frequently sending him on missions without rest due to the lack of manpower, but she has been shown to worry for his well-being, since she uncharacteristically let him go on vacation since WISE was scolding her for overexploiting her agents, accepting that it was Loid’s moment to rest from work (which surprises him because he expected her to refuse). Though their relationship is largely professional, the two appear to empathize with each other due to their shared experiences of the war.

When Twilight first joined Westalian Intelligence, Sylvia was his new commanding officer and was responsible for training him into a first-rate spy. Her extremely strict practices has resulted in Loid having a fear of her, to the point of having nightmares of her.

WISE Agent
Sylvia seems to have a good relationship with him, as she normally assigns him for missions with Twilight, and knowing that Twilight is her best managed spy, she trusts the agent to support him in his missions. Although their relationship is professional, they are shown to get along pretty well starting casual conversations, and even when most agents are afraid of Sylvia's temper, it is seen that the WISE Agent is already used to it and is not as scared as the other agents.

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Etymology

 * The name Sylvia means "wood/woods, forest/from the forest/of the forest" in Latin.
 * Sylvia's surname Sherwood is a habitational name from any of several places called with Old English scīr + wudu 'bright or clear (perhaps sparsely-grown) wood.'

Trivia

 * Sylvia's room is messy. After work, her appearance becomes slovenly.
 * The German Shepherd that attacked Loid was taken in by WISE and is currently under Sylvia's care.

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