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 a very beautiful, graceful and fairly tall young woman with a slender yet curvaceous frame. She has long, straight black hair reaching her mid-back with short bangs framing her forehead 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.

At home, Yor generally wears a semi 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, 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 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 outfit was the only good dress she had before marrying Loid, after which she purchased more formal wear to better present herself for Eden Academy's interview.

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, described as robotic by Camilla. Similarly, Yor is remarkably collected and able to keep her composure during 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 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 when she considered killing everyone at Camilla's party after the latter threatened to tell Yuri that she came without a date and imagined herself assassinating the parent of an Eden Academy applicant to ensure Anya has a spot in the school. 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. Despite 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 is not 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.

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 throwing them hard enough to break through a wooden door and impale someone on the other side. Even throwing a simple ball can easily knock down trees. 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, throw grown men through ceilings, and serve as her preferred method of close combat to devastating effect. They were powerful enough to knock out Loid by merely grazing his chin, which had not happened to him since his training days. While attempting a strength-tester game, Yor destroyed the machine with a one-handed swing. Even Yor's dodgeball throws were able to fell trees.

Yor has difficulty controlling this strength. While taking cooking lessons from Camilla, Yor accidentally sliced up the cutting board 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 the ball would have been sent flying a mile away if she had not tried to hit it. While playing volleyball, Yor had to hold back her strength to try playing on even grounds with everyone, to varied success.

Two accidental slaps from Yor were enough to cause Yuri to bleed excessively to the point that some passersby were concerned and recommended that he should go to the hospital. By her admission, she had 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 Matthew McMahon's bullets.

She also has remarkably quick reflexes, being able to intercept a falling tray of hot food with just a motion of her leg and dodge rifle fire. Even when distracted, she was able to evade garden shears from several feet away and throw Becky out of the path of a car and catch her just in time. Yor's level of balance is also impressive, capable of catching multiple falling packages with her hands and feet and the previously mentioned tray of hot food, only spilling a few drops.

Durability and Stamina: Yor can withstand a gunshot wound to her glutes and move well enough to arrive home after treating it, though this feat caused her considerable pain and left her in a bad mood. During the fight on Princess Lorelei, she was able to kill over 22 assassins nonstop, coming away with only a jammed finger, a chest wound, and some swelling on her face. While rushing Becky Blackbell to the hospital after falsely assuming she was intoxicated, Yor was struck in the side by a car. Despite being sent rolling, Yor got up, caught Becky, and continued running with little issue, save for minor bleeding on her face.

Trained Combatant: Befitting her position as an assassin, Yor is highly trained in hand-to-hand combat, typically relying primarily on kicks when not using her trademark stilettos. Her skills are so great that she was able to keep Twilight, a highly trained spy and former soldier, on the defensive, despite Yor being heavily intoxicated at the time. Similarly, she has shown the ability to effortlessly dispatch both untrained thugs and even fellow assassins purely with her bare hands.

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

Intelligence and intuition: Though not as intelligent as Loid, Yor has some knowledge of pressure points, utilizing it on a raging cow to instantly knock it out. She has some knowledge about the human body, though this seems to 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 being unable to locate them. Yor can even sense the bloodlust of her enemies unless they are skilled assassins like herself. She is also capable of searching through a large crowd for mere moments upon reaching a vantage point, as shown when she was looking for a missing Anya. Her illustrious assassination career is a further testament to her impressive situational awareness.

Yor also possesses adequate medical knowledge to treat a gunshot wound, which healed without complications.

Poison Tolerance: Yor is highly resistant to poison. She drank a cocktail laced with the body fluids of a pufferfish, a family of fish that contains a neurotoxin that is lethal in the micrograms. Her only symptoms after ingesting the cocktail were a tingling sensation and an inhibited sense of pain which helped relieve her gunshot wound. During the fight on the cruise ship, she withstood inhaling a poison gas capable of taking 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 an opponent's head 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 have decent teaching skills, specifically when it comes to physical training. She has taught Anya and Becky how to punch to become strong. She also taught Anya how to prepare to play dodge ball, explaining to 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 of her meals, 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 (including random objects such as cacti), thinking that she can make something as long as there are meat and vegetables. Her attempt at cooking breakfast for the family resulted in meals consisting of messily chopped fish parts and other borderline-inedible substances, prompting Anya to call her a terrible cook. Even the prospect of Yor cooking or tasting her cooking is terrifying to most.

Yor's dishes cause any taster, even Loid, to collapse (in one case, sending Loid to the toilet for an entire day). The only individual shown to withstand Yor's cooking is her brother, Yuri, but he violently throws up between bites and even recalls seeing his life flash before his eyes. Despite this, Yuri grew up with no significant health issues. This issue affects even Bond, who saw himself die at the hands of Yor's cooking in one of his future visions. The only dish Yor successfully cooked was her late mother's southern stew after Camilla gave her several cooking lessons and helped her recreate it.

Her skills with handheld weapons are completely inapplicable in cooking, as while using a knife, she sliced meat razor-thin and destroyed a cutting board. Yor has also badly injured herself using a potato peeler. Despite all this, Yor has a strong desire to improve at cooking, regularly having Camilla teach her despite her frequent injuries and crying in relief when Loid and Anya enjoy her stew instead of immediately collapsing on the floor.

Lying: Yor is a terrible liar, and her alibis only work through sheer luck. After Yuri asks Yor why she did not tell him about her marriage with Loid, Yor simply says she forgot. When pressed further, Yor says she forgot that she forgot to tell Yuri. When unintentionally displaying her powerful skills around Loid and Anya, she gives various excuses, from taking yoga classes to apprenticing for a blacksmith in the past.

Book Smarts: Because Yor has been working as an assassin since she was a child, she appears to have not learned much from school to the point that Yuri would be teaching her more than she did when they studied. Despite this, Yor has enough basic literacy, typing and organization skills to get a job as a clerk at city hall as an adult. However, she cannot solve a math problem from Anya's homework or knows what the term "First Lady" means.

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.

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. 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 do not share a room or bed unless they have guests over, to which they share a room for appearances only. When tasked with raising Anya, Yor advises Loid on the matter, for which he is always thankful.

When Yor introduces him to Yuri, he is wary of the nature of their relationship. After Yuri's visit, Yor starts developing lingering insecurities about not being a good wife for Loid, moping for a whole day until Loid encouraged her. This insecurity reoccurs, as Yor feels incompetent as a wife and mother.

Upon meeting Fiona Frost, Loid's coworker (and fellow WISE agent), Yor overthinks Fiona and Loid's relationship and is distraught at the thought of losing her role to Fiona. When the pair go out for drinks, a drunk Yor vents her feelings to Loid, causing him to suspect that she harbors a genuine romantic interest in him. However, as Loid tried to seduce her, a flustered Yor responded by kicking him upside his chin and knocking him out. When he awoke, he reassured Yor that she was already a strong and incredible mother and would not be replacing her.

Yor's feelings for Loid appear to develop further as she grows fond of her new family and home. In instances where Anya would say the two are flirting or when Yuri makes the two do romantic things, Yor quickly gets flustered. Loid, along with Anya and Bond, are now part of her reason to remain in her assassination job, 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 than Loid, who often expresses exasperation or impatience at Anya, especially concerning her academic abilities. Yor often advise Anya, though due to a variety of factors (e.g., Anya failing to understand), it rarely works.

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 is implied that they hold a very strong relationship off-screen, as she is responsible for all his baths, and is the one who always takes him for a walk whenever Anya or Loid is not around.

Unbeknownst to her, Bond is terrified of Yor and her cooking, as not only is her cooking capable of killing him, but he is afraid she would kill him if he refused her food.

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
In 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, 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.

Melinda Desmond
After Yor saves Melinda from falling down a flight of stairs, the woman is deeply grateful and impressed by her skills. At Melinda's insistence, Yor participates in a volleyball match with the Lady Patriots Society, where they enjoy the game and have tea afterward.

Yor later learns that Melinda is Damian Desmond's mother and immediately apologizes for Anya's behavior towards him. It is here where Yor gets a glimpse of Melinda's colder nature when she tells Yor that she does not care. Despite this, Melinda hopes to be friends with Yor and asks her to attend another get-together with the organization. After receiving a ride home from Melinda, the lady makes a strange face as she says she hopes that Damian and Anya can get along, startling Yor.

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Trivia

 * Her first name - "Yoru," is Japanese pronunciation of "Yol" which's a shortened form of an Eastern European name "Yolanda." "Yoru" is also the kana reading for the kanji for "night" (夜), but despite popular belief, Tatsuya Endo did not plan for her name to be a homophone of that.
 * 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.
 * When Yor was younger, her favorite Whistle Candy flavor was apple.
 * 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.
 * Yor is from Eastern Nielsberg.
 * She has nice handwriting according to Franky.

Quotes

 * (To herself, referring to Anya): “I know that this family is just for appearances. But… I still feel like… I want to be a better mother to that girl… maybe I’ll never be like a normal mother, but I’ll do my best with what I’ve got!"
 * (To the Assassin's Leader): “Yes, I killed them. Why wouldn't I? When you point a blade at someone, you don't get to complain when one is pointed back at you. Same goes for me."