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'''Becca Nightshade''' ('''Gran-Gran''') was a member of the crew of the [[Defiant]] and is now a resident of [[Igneous Cavern]].{{book ref|Skyward|1}}
 
== Appearance and Personality ==
Becca is mostly blind and has milky white eyes, having lost her vision a few years ago. She has sticklike arms.{{book ref|Skyward|1}} Based on the amount of time since the crash of the [[Defiant]], she is at least eighty years old.{{book ref|Skyward|17}}
 
She is a fierce defender of [[Cytonics]] and believes the [[DDF]] falsified the account of [[Zeen Nightshade|her son's]] betrayal during the [[Battle of Alta]] because they were afraid of his Cytonic abilities.{{book ref|Skyward|45}}
 
== History ==
As a child, Becca lived on the the battle cruiser [[Defiant]], where she worker in the engine room alongside [[Spensa's great-grandmother|her mother]]. When doing so, she practiced "listening to the stars."{{book ref|Skyward|1}} During this time, she learned many ancient legends of [[Earth (Skyward)|Old Earth]] from [[Spensa's great-grandfather|her father]].{{book ref|Skyward|45}}
 
Not much is known about what she did in the years following the crash of the Defiant, though she claims that those who worked in the engine room, Clan Motorskaps, stuck together.{{book ref|Skyward|1}} Since at least the time of her son's death, she has been living with her granddaughter, [[Spensa Nightshade]], and [[Spensa's mother]]. Since Spensa's mother is forbidden a job, she assists in keeping the family financially stable by helping prepare algae wraps and the rats Spensa kills to be sold. While living with Spensa, she frequently tells her granddaughter the stories of Old Earth heroes that she heard from her father and says that all of Old Earth's great warriors are Spensa's ancestors. {{book ref|Skyward|1}}
 
== Relationships ==
=== Spensa ===
 
=== Spensa's Mother ===
 
== Abilities ==
{{theory}}
As her mother, her son, and her granddaughter all have Cytonic abilities, it is likely that Becca does as well. The fact that her mother had her perform exercises to "listen to the stars" suggests that, at minimum, her mother though it likely that Becca would develop Cytonic abilities{{book ref|Skyward|1}} and the DDF seems to believe that Cytonic abilities are inherited.{{cite}} Furthermore, despite her blindness, Becca is able to unerringly focus her eyes on Spensa during a conversation,{{book ref|Skyward|45}} which seems similar to how [[Jason Write]] overcame his blindness by using his Cytonic abilities to senseSense the world around him.{{book ref|elysium}}
 
== Notes ==