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'''Becca Nightshade''' ('''Gran-Gran''') was a member of the crew of the ''[[Defiant]]'' and is now a resident of [[Igneous Cavern]].{{book ref|Skyward|1}} She has [[cytonics|cytonic]] abilities and does not consider them to be dangerous.{{book ref|Skyward|45}}

Becca is mostly blind and has milky white eyes, having lost her vision a few years ago. She has sticklike arms.{{book ref|Skyward|1}} Based on the amount of time since the crash of the ''Defiant'', she is at least eighty years old.{{book ref|Skyward|17}}

She has always wanted to return to the stars, but is not strong enough to use her cytonic abilities to travel through the [[nowhere]]. She also believes her mother brought the ''Defiant'' to Detritus because she felt something that the crew needed on that planet.{{book ref|Starsight|i|2}}

As a child, Becca lived on the the battle cruiser ''Defiant'', where she worker in the engine room alongside [[Spensa's great-grandmother|her mother]]. When doing so, she practiced "listening to the stars."{{book ref|Skyward|1}} During this time, she learned many ancient legends of [[Earth (Skyward)|Old Earth]] from [[Spensa's great-grandfather|her father]].{{book ref|Skyward|45}}

Not much is known about what she did in the years following the crash of the ''Defiant'', though she claims that those who worked in the engine room, Clan Motorskaps, stuck together.{{book ref|Skyward|1}} Since at least the time of her son's death, she has been living with her granddaughter, [[Spensa Nightshade]], and [[Spensa's mother]]. Since Spensa's mother is forbidden a job, she assists in keeping the family financially stable by helping prepare algae wraps and the rats Spensa kills to be sold. While living with Spensa, she frequently tells her granddaughter the stories of Old Earth heroes that she heard from her father and says that all of Old Earth's great warriors are Spensa's ancestors.{{book ref|Skyward|1}}

After the [[Battle of Alta Second]], she begins to develop a relationship with the new DDF Admiral of the Fleet, [[Matthew Cobb|Cobb]].{{book ref|Starsight|4}} When [[Jorgen Weight]] reveals to Cobb that he has cytonic abilities, he sends Jorgen to train with Becca.{{book ref|Starsight|i|1}} She insists the Jorgen call her "Gran-Gran" and trains him by teaching him to bake bread with his eyes closed and by trying to get him to reach out and sense the world cytonically. She also tells him the story of [[#Knowledge of Old Earth|Stanislav]] and tells him that her mother's decision to bring the ''Defiant'' to Detritus taught her that a hero has to know "''when'' to disobey orders."{{book ref|Starsight|i|2}} While she is training Jorgen, Spensa is able to contact her with her cytonic abilities and she encourages Spensa to face her trials, no matter how ill-suited to them she feels.{{book ref|Starsight|i|2}}{{book ref|Starsight|25}}

|Becca Nightshade on how easily the crew of the ''Defiant forgot about Old Earth{{book ref|sky1|45}}

Even when the people of [[Detritus]] were still on the Defiant'', most had little knowledge of Old Earth, and that knowledge has only diminished in the years since the ''Defiant'' crashed.{{book ref|sky1|45}} Among them, Becca stands out as one of the few who still remember the stories humans used to tell. The following is a list of all the people from Old Earth that Becca has mentioned or who others have recalled her mentioning:

Spensa is very close to her grandmother. She enjoys all of Becca's stories about the warriors of Old Earth and frequently looks to them for inspiration and courage;{{book ref|Skyward|1}} Becca specifically told her those stories because she felt Spensa needed to hear them.{{book ref|Starsight|i|2}} After Spensa began to find out the truth of her father's cytonic abilities and his actions during the Battle of Alta, she sought out Becca for answers, though they are not entirely to her liking.{{book ref|Skyward|45}} Ultimately, however, Spensa choose her grandmother's tales of heroism over the DDF's fears of the "defect" and both flies{{book ref|Skyward|49}} and travels to space{{book ref|Skyward|55}} during the Battle of Alta Second. When Spensa is feeling overwhelmed by her mission to [[Starsight (space station)|Starsight]], Becca is able to contact her cytonically and reassure her.{{book ref|Starsight|25}}