Lara

Lara is a side character in the Elsaverse that is first introduced in the fifth game in the saga, Darkness Falls (2018-2019). Officially, Lara works as an investigator for the Internal Affairs department of Sangrive's Police Department; however, she also acts as a liaison of the mysterious authorities that are trying to prevent the general public from knowing about the powers' existence. Lara is one of Nathaniel Blake's casual sexual partners, although their relationship must remain secret due to their roles in the force.

Character Overview
Lara is a classy and intelligent middle-aged woman who has always been in charge of the investigations regarding Detective Nathaniel Blake, who claims she's extremely good at her job. After the death of Blake's former wife, Samantha, their strictly professional relationship evolved into a more intimate one, becoming a casual sex couple. Investigations since then have been a bit different, like the one she conducted after Blake was accused of covering up his old partner's drug problems; however, they must keep their affair hidden, as their roles in the force forbid this kind of interaction. For this same reason, they can not afford to be anything else than furtive lovers, even though both of them seem to wish they could be something more.

Things get more complicated when Blake learns that some people in Sangrive have unnatural abilities, as it turns out that Lara is also kind of a secret agent who is working under some authorities that must remain anonymous but are perfectly aware of these powers' existence and are trying to hide them from the general public. After Blake resulted injured by Brandon Henderson, both Blake and his partner, Detective Michelle Won, wrote in their reports that Brandon was able to vanish himself in thin air for a brief instant to dodge bullets and also to make knives vanish and retrieve them from a distance. During his medical leave, Lara came to visit Blake at his apartment: officially, she was there to assess whether Blake was fit for duty; however, her actual mission was to ensure that he would rewrite his first report to not mention those strange events. Lara had already convinced Won to do so by making her understand that her career would be seriously compromised otherwise. To convince Blake, she told him that Brandon Henderson was safely locked in a special prison that would contain his powers, and promised to tell him some more about the whole thing. As a goodwill sign, Lara mentioned a waitress who can detect lies better than a lie detector, Theresa. Blake agreed to change his report and, from that moment on, detectives Blake and Won are tasked with every possible case that might involve powers, reporting to Lara and their Captain, who wants to be in the know and read the official, classified reports before they write the alternative ones that will be made public with no mention to powers.

To make Blake trust her, Lara brings him to the Delfinos restaurant, where she introduces him to the waitress who can detect lies. She assures him she has Theresa's best interests at heart and Theresa says Lara is saying the truth. Then, Lara tries to use Theresa's power to know whether Blake has met more people with powers besides Brandon Henderson, but Blake says he hasn't and Theresa assures her he's saying the truth; however, Lara seems to suspect that Theresa may be lying to her. When a new case involving powers shows up, Blake and Won comply with their duty and hand Sarah Murray to Lara, but she has to try her best to convince her superiors to not lock Sarah in immediately, as the young woman is not a real threat despite being able to kill people just by yelling at them. This puts an enormous amount of pressure on Lara's shoulders, and she struggles to cope with it when someone with an apparently unnatural fighting skill starts to act as a vigilante. Lara's superiors want them to be ahead of this case to avoid people learning about the powers' existence, and she thinks that the best approach to achieve that would be to use the media to spread false info about the vigilante. But Detective Won is not happy with the idea, and Lara harshly deflects Won's comment using her knowledge about the detective's troublesome past; then, after admitting to Blake that she's under great pressure, Lara says that her superiors will react very badly if they can't prevent the truth from reaching the streets.