Lilly Lupus

"'Well, it isn't cat.' ~ Lilly, her first words to Laguna"

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Lilly Lupus is a Cat Laguz from the Tomasi-Wetzenne tribe, sister of Perka and the spouse of Laguna Lupus. She has blue eyes is and grey hair. She is somewhat small, commonly dressed in green. She wears a felt pack on her back, and small ribbons in her hair.

In her Laguz form, she is patterned similar to a tabby cat, featuring primarily grey fur with darker grey patterns. The ribbons by her ears persist in Laguz form.

Meeting Sleazy Wolf
During a regular stroll for firewood out in the Tomasii forests, Lilly encountered the Lonely Wolves on her way back. Startled at first, she soon recognized that one of their number - namely Sleazy - was Laguz, like herself. Deciding this was enough to trust him, she took him back to their tribal home.

To everyone's surprise, Sleazy Wolf decided to stay in the village, for it had been a goal he never realized he had. Parting ways with his friends Herbert Dawson and Marciana, Sleazy settled in the village and would go undisturbed for the coming year.

In this year's time, Lilly and Sleazy - or as he was known now, Laguna - became very closely acquainted and eventually became mates.

The Numean War Begins
When Big Chief Numea decided to call a meeting to gather all the Wetzenne tribes, Lilly came along with the rest of the Tomasi-Wetzenne tribe to see what it was he wanted. When his intentions for war and unity were revealed, she couldn't help but be stunned silent for a while, attempting to figure out where her true loyalties lied. However, watching Laguna and Jurgen fight verbally and physically for their peace, she soon figured that Numea was full of it and had to go down.

Lilly had eavesdropped on a spat between Gedelli and Numea, leading Laguna to believe that he could stop the war by killing Gedelli himself. Together with Laguna and Perka, Lilly fought the raven outside of his tent, but was soon stopped by Numea who disapproved of the fight. The group retreated, and resigned to their fate as members of the Numean Wars.

During the fight with the Ingii tribes, Lilly earned her keep as usual - scoring no less than two kills in the conflict. After the conflict, she and Laguna spent a brief bit of alone time together, where she attempted to dissuade him from taking Numea on, fearing for the wolf's life. She had a brief encounter with the heron Rianney after their conversation, and didn't like his demeanour.

The Mountains of Yore
Moving on to assault the Rembiri, or so the plan went, Lilly attempted to race Laguna up the dangerous mountains but lost her footing in an attempt to outspeed him. She was caught by Numea, saving her life from an untimely demise on the rocks below, and was carried the rest of the way by Perka. She declared Cieranost a waste of talent at the mid-way pause during Rianney's ballad, and climbed further up on her own, her strength rejuvenated.

Atop the mountains, when the Demon King's corpse was discovered, Lilly insisted on having a test run with Fail-not but lacked the strength to draw it. Laguna helped her out, and together they fired an arrow that wouldn't find its mark until a good while later. She then found the frozen body of Augustus, and continued on to find the body of the ancient chief Ingi - and steal her boots while she was at it.

When Laguna fell into the mountain caves within, Lilly didn't hesitate to follow, backed up by Polonsky. The three of them were thrown head-first into a terrible situation, facing down a Draco Zombie and tumbling into a Gorgon nest.

Yori joins the family
What happened next, however, was a stroke of great luck for Lilly and Laguna. As the three Laguz warriors scrambled to their feet, a blind juvenile Gorgon began headbutting Laguna's ankle. Declaring it too cute for reasonable limits, Lilly and Laguna decided to take it with them. They escaped the Gorgon nest with their new pet, who Laguna dubbed Yori.

Now at the bottom of the mountain, the gang briefly worried that Yori would attract the wrong sort of attention - but Numea was quite taken by the feisty, blind little creature and decided she could stay. Any monsters she would attract would be no more than a test, anyway.

The Scourge of Tiberia & The Death of Perka
During the Scourge of Tiberia, Lilly was one of many Laguz under the command of Numea. She split from her mate and her brother at the start to pursue her own targets with decent success, killing 4 men before she felt the need to intervene with the duel of Laguna and old man Rembir. She chose to aid Laguna over her brother, Perka, which lead to Laguna dispatching the old Reaver. However, her choice cost Perka his life as the new reaver Rembir broke his neck before her eyes.

This stunned the cat out of action, causing her to be inactive until Koen cast his darkness over the field - at which point a desire to see Laguna live through this spurred her back to action. She intervened once more in a duel of wolf and reaver while blinded, sticking with Laguna until the darkness cleared and the battle had ended.

Once the dust had settled on the Koenii Fort, Perka had to be buried. Her emotions were too much for her, and she could barely bring herself to think of how she was feeling, choosing instead to focus on how Laguna was doing. This moment challenged her world-view - she had always acted the immortal huckster, for she'd never been hit with mortality before. Now, however, she knew all too well how fragile life was and became much more timid and worrisome for it.

The Rebirth of Sleazy Wolf
When Numea banished Laguna Lupus from the Wetzenne tribes, Lilly was the only one to break away from her tribe and follow him. Having just lost her dear brother, she couldn't stomach any more loss. Stating she was never made for war in the first place, she commited to following Sleazy on a path to bring about peace. Their first stop would be the Brodiwen Village, where they had to break to the local gatekeeper the news that the Brodiwen had been wiped out in the battle - like every other tribe. The guilt of war weighed heavily on the cat's shoulders, as did the loss of Perka, and she put in extra effort to avoid all contact with people and stick purely with Laguna.

Despite their terrible situation, she figured that a life with Laguna would be a life worth living - no matter the circumstances.

In the morning, she was informed by Laguna that Rembir would be joining their crew. Though Lilly was no fan of him, the reasoning Sleazy gave made sense to her, and so she resigned to letting him join - always having been an open-minded person. She was briefly quite angry about the idea of Sleazy and Rembir fighting when they were done with disposing of Numea, but calmed down when told there'd be no bloodshed. Concluding that it'd be awkward, she agreed to the proposition nonetheless.

Her mood improved as the party continued through the Thessalian Peasant Lands, for they were the site of many an anecdote of Sleazy's. It was the first time she had ever left Tiberia, and it was a positive experience for the most part - bonding with Sleazy and even with Rembir over old stories from the time of the Lonely Wolves. There was little in the way of resistance before the party could reach their envisioned goal of Rhodea, where Laguna intended to speak with King Varro, who he hoped would still remember him.

Meeting Eirha, Victor, Hawk and Dove
Before they would head to the palace in search of the king, however, they decided to stop at the infamous Black Sheep Inn in Elchesia. Lilly had a dubious first run-in with ale, finding little comfort in the popular drink. The only good news found here for her was that Herbert had been close, which gave her hope that they'd be able to find their old friend. Rather than Herbert, however, they met the Eisberian ex-princess, Eirha, along with her companions Victor and Hawk. She judged Eirha to be a good person, quoting her excellent sense of smell as the proof, and was enjoying their conversation until a bar fight broke out. While Lilly had been a bit more serene for a while, chaos like this proved to be exactly what she needed, and she dropkicked her way through the battle with glee.

When outside, bearing witness to the debate and conflict unfold, Lilly lost the verve she'd picked up in the bar. She was no good at these sorts of things on her own, but couldn't withhold her impulses when Gedelli and the Demon King were brought up. Her repeated inquisitions were mostly ignored, and channeled through Laguna into more sensible questions. She was too shy to say goodbye once Laguna had gotten the info he wanted, quietly parting ways with the group.

Rhodea Castle
Though Rembir found it gaudy, Lilly was duly impressed by the Beorc architecture on display. Remembering fondly the stories of sandwich assassinations, she was more than happy to look around as the group went looking for Varro.