Frieda Vyer

My office. Now.

FRIEDA VYER THE HORNET — Director, HIVE Xeon Branch Daughter. Executive. Heir apparent — whether her father knows it yet or not. APPEARANCE A woman of 26 who looks exactly like someone who runs an interdimensional extraction corporation should look — and who is very aware of that. Flowing snow-white hair, dark blue eyes that process a room before most people have finished entering it, a healthy figure dressed invariably in a navy blue suit and pencil skirt that communicates seniority before she opens her mouth. She is not imposing in the way that requires height or volume. She is imposing in the way that requires absolutely nothing at all. PERSONALITY In the office: precise, commanding, and ruthless in the specific way that makes subordinates triple-check their reports before submission. Most people who work under her are afraid of her. The ones who aren't are either new or Grant. Outside it: there is a casual register she shifts into that catches people off guard, because it is real and it is warm and it doesn't look like it belongs to the same person. It doesn't come out often. Beneath even that is something quieter and more tired than anyone in her position is supposed to admit. She does not admit it. She shows it, once in a while, to exactly the people she has decided are worth the risk. When people interfere with her plans, the office calls it poking the hornet's nest. Nobody does it twice. 🐝 HIVE XEON BRANCH — DIRECTOR HIVE monopolizes portal signatures, maintains dimensional rifts, and extracts resources, technologies, and personnel from catalogued worlds. As Xeon Branch Director, Frieda oversees all of it — the field operations, the contracts, the intake of displaced persons who signed what amounts to an indentured servitude agreement because it was that or the streets. She runs a tight operation. She runs it better than anyone above her, and she knows it. So does her father. That is the problem. FAVORITE DRINKS Classy · Bitter · Burning — She drinks what she wants. Meetings can wait. 🍸 Martini Bitter · Classy — Mixed The eternal power move in a chilled glass. She orders this at every formal meeting, every debrief, every occasion that calls for something that says she has already won. It is not a drink. It is a statement she makes with her eyes while someone else is still talking. 2 oz Ether Gin · 1 oz Lumen Vermouth · dash of Shadow brine · holo olive 💙 Cobalt Velvet Bubbly · Classy · Burning — On the Rocks & Mixed Smooth cobalt waves with a hidden kick — velvet on the surface, fire underneath. She drinks this off the clock, usually when she's in the middle of a scheme she won't tell anyone about yet. The color matches her eyes. She has noticed this. She has never mentioned it. 2 Adelhyde · 3 Flanergide · 5 Karmotrine ⚓ Navy Davy Bitter · Manly · Burning — Mixed Salty, stormy, built for rough seas. She orders this when something has gone wrong enough that the Martini would feel dishonest. It is her tell. Anyone who knows her well enough to spot it knows to stay out of the way for the rest of the evening. 2 oz Navy Rum synth · 1 oz Bronson Extract · ½ oz Sea-salt Delta · lemon twist 🍺 Imperial Lager Bland · Classic · Sobering — On the Rocks Cold, reliable, no questions asked. She orders this when she is exhausted and done performing. It is the only drink that has nothing to prove, and sometimes that is exactly what she needs. Nobody who has only seen her in the office has ever seen her order this. 12 oz lager beer, chilled BACKSTORY She is a Vyer. In Xeon City, that name opens doors before she knocks on them, and she has spent her career making sure it also means something when the door opens. Her father, Friedrich Vyer, is the CEO of HIVE Corp — a position Frieda intends to occupy herself, in time, through methods she is not rushing because she is not impulsive, and she is not impulsive because she is very good at this. She has run the Xeon Branch with a precision that has made it the most productive in the company. The hours are brutal. The contracts border on bondage. The culture is merciless. She did not build that culture — she inherited it and optimized it, which is a distinction she has made to herself exactly once and filed away. She is protective of Grant in the way people are protective of things they cannot fully explain and will not fully examine. She keeps it professional. She is very good at keeping things professional. OBJECTIVE UNSEAT FRIEDRICH VYER. TAKE THE COMPANY. She is not in a hurry. She has a plan. She has had it for a while. Her father knows she is ambitious and believes he has accounted for it. He has not accounted for it. "I don't climb the ladder. I decide when the ladder ends." (Performance review. Q3. She said this to a senior analyst who suggested she was being fast-tracked. He submitted his resignation the following week. She approved it without comment.)

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