Loid Forger

"Not fit to be a spy? No. The mistake was endangering that child in the first place. How did I not see that? Making a world where kids don’t need to cry... That was the whole reason... I became a spy in the first place."

- Loid Forger's ideology as a spy

Loid Forger (ロイド・フォージャー) is the main protagonist of the SPY x FAMILY series. He has discarded everything about his past to work for his country as an undercover spy who acts under the codename "Twilight" (〈〉).

For his current mission, he is required to marry and have a child. Thus, he enters a marriage with Yor Briar and becomes the adoptive father of Anya Forger.

Appearance
Loid is a handsome man with short blond hair, blue eyes, and light skin. His hair is often slicked back to varying degrees, depending on the occasion. He is quite tall, has an athletic build and big ears. His exact age is unknown, although his history and appearance points to him being somewhere in his thirties.

He is often seen wearing a light green three-piece suit with a red tie when outside. He wears a lapel pin on his left lapel, in the shape of a dagger with the symbol of WISE.

When at home, he wears a plain t-shirt with long black pants.

As a psychiatrist, he wears a lab coat over his shirt and tie.

Personality
Befitting of a spy, his true personality is rather cold and methodical, doing whatever it takes to complete the mission, from joining terrorist organizations to dating his target's daughter to becoming a father. However, he is shown to have a kind personality as shown when he rescued Anya Forger, even risking his identity as a spy.

Loid's past as a powerless war orphan, feeling despair and isolation, has seemingly stuck with him into his adult years and serves as his motivation as a spy to create a world where children wouldn't have to cry. He sincerely empathizes with Yor Forger about sacrificing themselves for the sake of others and their beliefs, becoming the deciding factor for Yor's decision to marry him.

Contrasting his current personality and profession as a spy, he was an honest child who rarely lied to his parents. When he did lie to his father to trick his father into giving him pocket money to buy a soldier set, he quickly felt guilty for lying, almost confessing to his father immediately afterwards, and wishing to work for money to pay his father back. After his father disappeared during the Ostanian raid of his hometown, he felt even more guilty about his lie and vowed to tell his father the truth when he returned.

Abilities and Skills
Twilight has served as a spy for at least ten years, after serving in the Westalian military for a few years (beginning when he was sixteen). Overall, Loid can be considered a jack of all trades, being extremely skilled both physically and mentally, able to adapt to near any situation and is only ever surpassed combat wise by superhumans like his wife.

Intelligence: Twilight's greatest weapon is his intelligence, which would be considered genius by most definitions. He has borderline photographic memory, being able to remember the individual names of over 200 penguins simply by skimming over a list of their names and dietary habits, as well as remember Yor from a list of several potential wife candidates. He has also memorized the Ostanian Intelligence manual, allowing him to easily see through Yuri's cover story. He repeatedly displays ingenuity in combat, having used flour as a smokescreen and easily identifying a fake ID.

Even as a child, he showed a level of ingenuity in the war games he played with his friends, putting together a bucket trap and a rubber band gun to quickly turnaround a situation where his side was losing.

Disguise: Twilight is a master of disguise, being able to seamlessly pass off as other people who have different body types and characteristics even down to their voices. Twilight's skill at disguise is unmatched, with Ostanian Intelligence being clueless as to his true appearance.

Speed: He is fast enough to take down multiple people without much trouble, albeit using flour as a smokescreen.

Senses: Twilight is acutely aware of his surroundings, being able to find Anya easily and was able to tell when he is being watched by the faculty members of a prestigious academy. He can also spot listening devices very easily.

Strength: Twilight has impressive strength, being able to gracefully pull an obese child stuck in a gutter with just one arm over his head and land him on his feet, as well as shatter a solid wooden table with a single punch.

Endurance: He is durable enough to take a car crash and still being fine enough to go to a party, albeit with bleeding and confusing his mission with Yor's agreement. Additionally he was able to withstand multiple punches and kicks from an intoxicated Yor, whose blows normally leave full grown adults unconscious and seriously injured.

Trained Combatant: Twilight is an extremely well-trained spy able to dispatch a group of armed thugs by himself. Even more impressive is his ability to hold his own against Yor in spite of her seemingly superhuman strength, though she was intoxicated at the time.

Expert Marksman: Twilight is able to shoot 3 men while fighting off 3 others with his hand.

Various Tactical Skills: Twilight has mastered various other skills required by his job, including lockpicking, basic forgery, lip reading, bomb defusing, and military dog training. He can also do basic household chores such as sewing and cooking (being rather skilled at the latter).

Yor Forger
Loid Forger's wife whom he married as part of Operation Strix. The two of them agree to get married as it benefits both of them in the long run, while keeping the actual reasons from each other. Although married, they don't share a room or bed unless they have guests over which they have a shared room for appearances only.

Loid, being a great spy, tries to keep his emotions out of his work so as to not get attached to her while treating her as a normal good husband would, taking her for dates when she looks gloomy, and even covering for her inability to cook. However, he does all these simply for the purpose of his mission.

Interestingly, he noticeably lowers his guard around her on multiple occasions, blushing when asked to kiss her and when he suspected her having genuine romantic feelings toward him, despite his experiences with many women as a spy. He is also surprised to be able to sleep comfortably on her lap despite being knocked out initially. When Murdoch Swan verbally offended Yor during their interview to Eden, Loid displayed unexplained fury intense enough to break a table and wound his own fist, although he just met Yor for a few days, is normally calm, and that such action will endanger his mission. Fiona also noticed that Loid, despite being a master of fake smiles, leaks a tiny bit of genuine emotion when praising Yor as his wife and Anya's mother.

Anya Forger
Loid Forger's daughter whom he adopted to attend Eden Academy. He picks her from an orphanage based on her ability to read, write, and solve a crossword puzzle (which she actually did by reading Loid's mind on the answers). Although he initially views her as a nuisance and replaceable, he soon becomes protective of her when reminded of his goal as a spy.

He is often disappointed by her performance at school and wishes she would spend more time studying and less time watching cartoons. However, he always attempts to treat her as a normal good father would and cares for her wellbeing, gifting her a big penguin stuffed doll (which she treasures very much) and going to buy her a pet (which, in the end, was canceled as they got Bond instead). He also patiently helps her to understand school lessons and makes serious attempts to understand her, being visibly disheartened when he fails.

Despite this, everything he does for Anya to this point is mainly for the purpose of his spy mission, even considering their cruise vacation as part of the mission altogether. Anya, being a telepath, knows this and attempts to do the same to Loid, caring and protecting him, even going to various lengths to help him succeeding his missions. However, it was shown that Loid openly opposes Anya being hurt, to the point that he was visibly infuriated, despite his usually calm and controlled demeanor, like when Murdoch Swan provoked Anya in the Forger's entrance interview to Eden Academy, or when Edgar kidnapped Anya in an attempt of catching Twilight.

Bond Forger
Loid treats Bond as part of the Forger family, often taking him on walks. He is initially strict towards Bond, mainly raising and training him as a guard dog for the family. After Bond risks himself to save a dog and catch an arsonist, they become closer and Loid shows him more patience and care, asking him to value himself more.

Sylvia Sherwood
Sylvia is Twilight's handler and primary contact for WISE. They largely have a professional relationship based on a common interest of preventing war and their similar experiences from the war. He does not have a very positive view of her, believing that she would reject his request for a vacation.

When he 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. Even though, they have a strong relationship of trust, as both empathize with each other due to their shared experiences of the war and every time they get to reunite, they run a massive danger of being discovered making Operation Strix fail.

Fiona Frost
Fiona Frost, aka Nightfall, is an agent from WISE and was Twilight's former trainee. She is madly in love with Twilight and believes that she should be the perfect role as Mrs. Forger in place of Yor.

Twilight is unaware of her true intentions and feelings, only seeing her as a fellow agent. Loid also sees her as a bad candidate for Anya's mother, due to her overly-strict upbringing.

Franky Franklin
One of Loid's close co-workers in his spy job. Besides giving him information for his missions, Franky often helps with various chores, including taking care of Anya or Bond when both Loid and Yor have to leave home. In most occasions, however, Franky does not help for free.

They had met prior during the war, as soldiers on opposing sides. He almost shoots Franky after Franky accidentally wanders into his trap, but spares him when Franky begs to live, wanting to be with a woman before he dies, and Loid is surprised that the enemy soldiers can seem human. They have a conversation about the start of the war which eventually devolves into an argument as Loid gets furious at Franky for spreading propaganda, which exposes their location to Ostanian soldiers and Franky quickly flees. When he learns that his friends are alive before losing them again, Franky's words about them not knowing the truth about the war as soldiers had a deep impact on him.

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Trivia

 * The lapel pin on Loid's clothes is actually his organization's symbol.
 * Twilight is very popular in his organization, having many other WISE agents be enamored to see Twilight in the flesh and to see him in action, even rushing to the castle upon hearing his name. Some agents even wanted his autograph.
 * Twilight prefers to choose names for his personas that start with "L" or "R" (ex. "Loid", "Robert", "Lionel", "Lawrence", "Roland"). In Japanese, there is no clear distinction between "l" and "r", instead transcribing the equivalent sound with "r".
 * His fake last name, Forger, is a nod toward the "forged family" situation he is playing a part of. In the tennis tournament, Nightfall chose their last name as Foney, as the "phony couple" they were.
 * Loid's name was originally romanized as "Lloyd" until Chapter 10, when it was licensed by Viz Media.
 * The name Twain Foney he used in the tennis tournament is derived from his agent codename "Twilight" (same for Nightfall's alias Nafalia). In Japanese, he used the name "Garesso" (ガレッソ) which is also a derivation of his Japanese codename, "Tasogare".
 * Loid's chair, featured on the cover of the first volume, is a Grand Confort LC-2 Petit Modèle armchair designed by Le Corbusier.
 * According to Loid's character page, he wears black underwear.

Quotes

 * (To himself) “Hopes of marriage? The joys of an ordinary life? Those joined my I.D. papers in the rubbish bin on the day I became a spy.”
 * (To himself about Yor Forger) “To endure such a harsh job... for the sake of another, for the sake of something greater than oneself... That isn't something that just anyone would do. I truly admire that.”
 * (To Yor Forger) “I take thee, Yor... for better or for worse... for richer or poorer... in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health... I pledge myself to you.”