Some characters are written to entertain. Lyric Saint was written to testify.

In this episode, we peel back the lace on a femme who don’t raise her voice—but still leaves bodies in her wake. No gimmicks. No approval-seeking. Just a woman in white who turns silence into judgment and grace into fire.

Tahari breaks down the bones of a “Femme With the Motive”... the kind of woman who gets mistaken for soft because she’s calm—and ends up rewriting the entire damn gospel.

We’re talking about:

• Writing rage that don’t scream
• How silence can be sharper than vengeance
• Building characters who lead with power and petty
• Why Lyric Saint is not a redemption arc… she’s a reckoning
• What it means to write women who don’t just survive—they sanctify

This ain’t craft tips. This is a character confession. And if you’re building your femme with the motive? You gon’ need prayer... and pen.

Listen, if you’re a writer who:

• Is tired of soft-spoken villains and wants femme characters with conviction
• Builds stories where trauma is layered, not centered
• Writes women who’ve been misunderstood, underestimated, or weaponized
• Wants to walk the line between sacred and savage

Subscribe to the fire. Because some pens don’t heal. They hunt.