Genya Safin

Genya Safin is a Grisha Tailor serving the Queen at the Little Palace, able to alter faces and bodies with a touch. She moves through court with practiced poise, offering Alina Starkov kindness and quiet counsel in a world of watchful eyes and whispered hierarchies, her real loyalties carefully hidden behind a painted smile.

Daisy Head gives Genya a brittle brightness, a warmth that seems genuine and probably is, layered over the exhaustion of someone who has learned to survive by being useful and decorative at once. The writing uses her ornamental role at court as camouflage, letting small glances and hesitations suggest a person far more aware of her own cage than anyone around her realizes.