Hybris

Hybris "Sweet Tooth Detective"
high school student
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race	Detective
pronouns	she/her/hers
age	15
birthday	July 14
residence	221 W. Baker Street, Unit B Sterling Heights, Lakeland, FRZ
affiliations	Fletcher High School (student)

• "Being a detective isn't about what's right or wrong. It's about solving puzzles and showing everybody how smart you are!"
• —Hybris

Hybris is a Zeor high school student known for her keen deduction skills. Her extensive track record of solving mysteries and her fondness for sweets and candy have earned her the nickname Sweet Tooth Detective.

Appearance

Hybris is a slightly chubby 15-year-old girl with long pink hair and horn-rimmed glasses. Her usual outfit consists of a pink hoodie, a slightly wrinkled pair of dark blue jeans, and the silver wristwatch she inherited from her late mother.

Personality

Hybris's defining quirk is her passion for candy and sweets. She is rarely seen without a lollipop in her mouth. Her love of candy is so extreme that she often can't stop herself from outright stealing candy wherever it is sold. Incidentally, she's not allowed in most of the convenience stores in Sterling Township anymore.

Befitting her name, Hybris tends to conduct herself in an arrogant and self-important manner. Her detective work is motivated not by a sense of justice or morality but simply by the desire to flaunt her intelligence and feel superior to others. She sincerely believes herself to be the smartest person in the room at all times, and she enjoys nothing more than condescendingly explaining her deductions to the adults around her.

Hybris is a resolute atheist and adamantly asserts her lack of belief in the paranormal, the supernatural, Santa Claus, magical girls, and the Double Horse. This is, of course, an entirely reasonable stance to take as a denizen of a nation ruled by an omnipotent alien and leads to no cognitive dissonance whatsoever.

Hybris almost always addresses others by their last name and an appropriate honorific, even referring to her best friend AJ as "Ms. Ravenswood". The one time Hybris addressed her as "AJ", AJ immediately knew it was a coded message that Hybris was in danger.

Despite her keen observational skills, Hybris is nearly faceblind, relying on clothes and hair to distinguish people from each other. On one occasion, she failed to recognize Dawn when she wore a frilly dress instead of her usual flannel shirt and jeans.

The Sweet Tooth Detective

Hybris is renowned for her preternatural deductive skills. When Hybris was 7, her mother and father died in what appeared to be a bizarre accident. Young Hybris, not satisfied with the sheriff's office's handling of the situation, took it upon herself to investigate. After piecing together various small observations, Hybris not only proved her parents had been murdered but identified the perpetrator--the first of dozens of cases the precocious young girl would go on to solve.

Inexplicably, murders and other crimes tend to happen near Hybris with alarming frequency. She is banned from at least 4 international hotel chains (including Most Western) because their staff got tired of murders occurring in their hotels any time Hybris stayed there on vacation.

Hybris has a rather tumultuous relationship with Sheriff Mercury, the sheriff of Union County, who is often exasperated by her tendency to insert herself into police investigations. On multiple occasions, Hybris has casually walked up to a crime scene and pushed the police tape out of the way to barge in, despite Mercury's repeated requests for her to ask permission first. Sergeant Plymouth, one of Mercury's deputies, is a little more patient with her, recognizing that Hybris's intervention has sometimes prevented her from acting hastily and making mistakes.

Today, Hybris is a sophomore at Fletcher High School in Sterling Township. Her best friends are AJ Ravenswood, an eccentric junior who often speaks nonsensically and sometimes seems disconnected from reality, and Dawn Serlylight, a snarky but idealistic senior. Hybris often brings AJ or Dawn along on her investigations, in part because they, unlike Hybris, are old enough to drive.

Despite her general animosity towards Fletcher High's principal, Mr. Crowley, Hybris has exonerated him in several investigations. Although Hybris claims she simply enjoys the intellectual exercise of deducing the true culprit, AJ insists Hybris's professed lack of morals does not extend to watching an innocent man be penalized for acts he provably did not commit.

Some weekends, Hybris travels to the Zeoria Institute of Technology in Bowling Green alongside Dawn and AJ to visit Dawn's older sister, Noel Serlylight. There always seems to be a murder or other violent crime on the ZIT campus during Hybris's visits, much to the exasperation of ZIT police chief Madeline Powers.

Residence

Since her parents' death, Hybris has continued living alone in her family's house at 221 West Baker Street in Sterling Township. Sheriff Mercury was initially hesitant to leave a child to live without adult supervision, but he reluctantly agreed to let the arrangement continue, knowing that without Hybris around, no crimes in Union County would ever be solved.