Tyrea

Tyrea Spoilers for Coven. Tyrea gets a second chance at life in Coven, and it goes badly enough that I think she deserves a little more attention than just being remembered as the shapeshifter who helped Baba Yaga get into a building. When we see her with Liza in the Salem flashback, they're both being held over the water with weights attached to them. Liza is struggling to hold on. Tyrea helps her, then demonstrates that she can change her appearance by taking Liza's face. Liza has the mark that identifies her as the Chosen One, but she can't even do what Tyrea just did. That matters because Tyrea isn't the one the hunters want to keep alive. She tells Liza to confess. Let them know she's the one they're looking for, survive this, and eventually become powerful enough to bring Tyrea back. Liza doesn't want to leave her behind, but Tyrea presents it as their only chance of both surviving. Liza confesses, and Tyrea gets shot and disappears into the water. Over three hundred years later, Liza finally brings her back. But there isn't much time to enjoy being alive. Liza needs someone who can get inside the Crusaders' headquarters, and Tyrea can become the man giving their orders. She agrees to help, with the promise of revenge against the man who killed her hanging over the whole thing. I like how practical her shapeshifting is here. She doesn't just change faces for a fight. She walks up as the Grand Wizard, gets a guard to open the way, and has him hand over his weapon. Once they're inside, she changes into a less conspicuous soldier. She's using the organization against itself. People see the person they're supposed to obey and do what they're told. Then the plan falls apart. Tyrea gets shot, Baba Yaga gets cornered, and Baba offers information about the coven in exchange for Avril. Tyrea is left on the floor accusing her of selling them out. She survives that, too. She changes her appearance in a hospital, gets back out, and makes her way toward the coven. A trucker who grabs her ends up mutilated. After that, she helps coordinate the witches' ambush. She's still an active participant in the conflict, with her own reasons to want revenge. Her last confrontation with Baba is another attempt to hide behind somebody else's face. Baba catches the deception, forces Avril's location out of her, and shoots her in the head. That's a rough little arc. Tyrea helped Liza survive with the hope that she would eventually get her own life back. She actually gets that resurrection, only to walk straight back into the same war, now with more people making deals behind each other's backs. Getting brought back doesn't undo what happened to her. It puts her right back among the people still using it.