Who Is Levana's Character In The Lunar Chronicles?

Isn’t it the worst when a series ends and you are left wishing you could learn more about the characters? Over the last two weeks, I have read Fairest by Marissa Meyer and Stars Above, also by Marissa Meyer. These books are extras of The Lunar Chronicles, and tell you the past and futures of the characters in the series. I have finished both books; Fairest is 220 pages, and Stars Above is 369 pages. Fairest is the backstory of Queen Levana, who is a character in The Lunar Chronicles. Levana has a painful backstory, filled with fear, hurt, longing, and a need to be loved. Her sister, Channary, forces her to burn her face and arm in a fire at the age of three and torments Levana, making her feel unloved and unimportant. When Levana is older,
Solstice believes that Levana is in need of a friend, so she tells her husband to befriend Princess Levana. As he tries to learn who Levana is and tries to become her friend, Levana convinces herself that Evret’s interest in her is love. After Levana forces Evret to marry her, he tries to find out who Levana really is, since he is married to her until death do they part. Levana refuses to show Evret what she looks like underneath her glamour for the first ten years of their marriage, believing he cannot love her after he sees her scars, and she believes her glamour is what she looks like, so it doesn’t matter what it is hiding. “’This is it,’ she said, as new tears started to leak from her good eye. ‘The truth that I didn’t want you to see. Are you happy now?’ His blinks were intense, and she could imaging how difficult it was for him to hold her gaze. To not look away, when he so clearly wanted to” (Meyer 192). When Levana finally shows Evret her scars and the truth beneath her glamour, she realizes that it is to late, that he has stopped searching and that he has never loved her and never will. This ends her search for love, turning her evil. The last search I found while reading was in the book Stars Above, also by Marissa
She doesn’t remember her past, so she is trying to find out whom she is while also trying to fit into a new life as a cyborg and with her new family. Cinder is trying to find her purpose and what he is good at. She wants to be normal and fit in with her family, but has to come to terms with the fact that she will never be normal and fit in. “’Your stupid awards aren’t going to keep food on this table, and now you’ve brought home one more mouth—and a cyborg at that!’ … ‘We have our own girls to think about. I can’t even afford new shoes for Pearl, and now there’s this creature in the house who’s going to need… what? A new foot every six months?’” (Meyer 63). In this passage, Adri is yelling at Garan, her husband because she doesn’t like Cinder and is upset that Garan has brought her home. This is one of the big reasons for Cinder’s search for