Lyra has a father.

He's just not around very often, leaving her raising (or lack of) to the staff and professors of Jordan College, Oxford. She lives her life as if she didn't have any parents at all, running wild across the streets. She doesn't care - it's better to not have parents anyway.

(But she actually does, and everytime he comes home she hopes he won't have to leave again.)

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AU where Lyra grows up in Will's world.

It was as if a floodgate had been opened to let everything burst free. It crashed through her mind and ran down her face as tears slipped free.

And it was just Lyra and Pan, Pan and Lyra, as it had always been.