Lilyana

"'...don't go doing this again. I get you're following orders, but if all you do is follow rules you'll become a dog to society. A cur, as it were.' - Lilyana to Melaine after their final combat with each other in Season 2."Lilyana Lovegard is one of the main protagonists of Season 2 of Vallia. She was last seen going back to Guardina with Arzu after the events of Season 2.

Appearance
Lilyana is a young adult female, standing at a shorter than average height for a 25 year old with twirly, cherry red hair that is almost hip-length, with a small flower pinned in it. She wears a small, black, tattered leather cloak and kept her hood off for most of the season. About her shoulders are small iron pauldrons and about her forearms are small iron vambraces. Her right hand is completely naked, but her left hand wears a hard leather, orange resin infused studded gauntlet which is constantly gripping the wrist of her spasming right hand, Eugene. About her waist is a belt with various different items that she had gathered before and during the journey, including a sheath for her rapier, a grappling hook and a small jar containing her transparent resin. She wears skintight scarlet-black leggings. She began with iron boots, but switched to Stealth Shoes during the season.

Haughty
Lilyana is introduced as an obnoxious, arrogant, bratty noble who, on the surface, seems to not care about self-awareness or her companions. However, underneath her thorny exterior, she genuinely enjoys her companions and her time spent with them, further amplified by the fact that she falls in love with Arzu. She has trouble expressing this enjoyment and love because she mistakes that expression for weakness. By spending more time with the group, she gradually opens up to them becoming more friendly, while still retaining her narcissistic, assertive personality. She is most akin to a tsundere, which is a Japanese term for a character development process that depicts a person who is initially cold before gradually showing a warmer, friendlier side over time. She is also very quick-tempered.

Competitive
As a result of being born with many siblings, she has an overbearing will to fight and duel with anyone and everyone, complimented by her overly competitive nature. She is constantly seen issuing challenges to anyone she can by slapping them with a spare glove to satiate her competitiveness. She labels many characters as her rivals, though Melaine is her only true rival. She is disgusted by the thought of losing.

She is so competitive that, combined with her unchivalry, makes it so she will do anything, including underhanded, filthy tactics, to win in battle.

Unchivalrous
Lilyana despises many forms of righteousness, justice and knighthood (as shown by her interactions with Grimhilt) because of how she lost many of her siblings because of the civil war that broke out. She thinks that the act of fighting and dying for one's nation is a foolish and immature way of living and dying in life.

Alien Hand Syndrome
All Lovegard's, including Lilyana, who are born into the family have Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS). AHS is a category of conditions in which a person experiences their limbs acting seemingly on their own, without conscious control over the actions. The Lovegard's have practised their combat ability by embracing the unique qualities of their spasming hand, and Lilyana is no different. She has given her alien hand the name "Eugene", who appears to act impulsively and disobediently, much like Lilyana. Eugene is constantly trying to push Lilyana's relationship with Arzu forward, which is inferred when it forces Lilyana to hold hands with Arzu. unbeknownst to Lilyana.

Greatest Strength, Cruelest Weakness and Special Rules
Lilyana's Greatest Strength is Unchivalry.


 * Unchivalry: "Able to make opponents miscontrue the honourability of her duelist fighting style and demeanor and be able strike unpredictably afterwards. Essentially, people will think she fights honourably (such as left hand behind her back while she duels or bowing before a fight) and punish them for thinking such (e.g. slugging them with her hard-studded leather hand). Due to this, she is instinctively good at things such as feints in combat, jabbing at people's eyes, pickpocketing/stealing in general - just anything shady."

Lilyana's Cruelest Weakness is CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.


 * CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: "Lilyana will ensure every fight she engages in has a definitive end. Desperate to prove her strength above those who provoke (which she is incredibly susceptible to) her, she refuses to back down from any challenge put in front of her. When she issues a challenge or when she is challenged, she will do everything in her power, almost instinctively, to complete the challenge and refuses to back down."

Lilyana has one Special Rule which is Alien Hand Syndrome.


 * Alien Hand Syndrome: "Lilyana is affected by Alien Hand Syndrome in her right hand. Her rapier hand has a mind of it's own - think of it as a Pokemon that is too high a level for the amount of badges I have. It's possible that it obeys Lilyana, but the majority of the time it takes no man's orders."

Backstory

 * "Born into the Lovegard family/house (a family of battle-trained knights that continue to pass on their knight lineage to serve the kingdom Vallia that also continue to impress despite their obvious handicap in the form of Alien Hand Syndrome (though it was even more impressive that the family with the syndrome fought better than most of the knights of the kingdom)), she was raised as any other Lovegard would - pattened up and readied for her knighthood through her entire life in the form of training dummies, lessons, revision and more training dummies.


 * At the time (around her time as a matured teenager) she had thoroughly enjoyed her way of life; being and growing up around those who are righteous and passionate about knighthood had made her, like any other Lovegard, also righteous and passionate about knighthood.


 * One certain practice the Lovegard's are especially passionate about is the ethics of fighting fair. Lovegard's refuse to play dirty just as a duelist would.


 * Lilyana grew up around many other siblings which made her competitive, nay, overly competitive, to the point where she is unable to back down from a challenge and developed a tsundere-like attitude to boot due to her not wanting to express her love to her siblings as much with such rivalry between them all.


 * One sibling she had grown up alongside was named Chase Lovegard, Lilyana's most beloved and precious sibling. This sibling had stood out from the rest of his bretheren due to his especially uncontrollable and savage Alien Hand Syndrome. Literally unable to be controlled, with situations such as attacking other Lovegard's, attacking other people and even attacking (in the form of strangling, scratching, etc) Chase himself, he fears going to sleep knowing his hand is plotting to kill him.


 * Because of this, the Lovegard's have installed safety mechanisms in the form of chains and gauntlets to prevent his hand from wreaking havoc. This pained Chase, both physically and emotionally, which had pained Lilyana even more. Despite this though, she stuck to her roots and continued her training of knighthood.


 * Until the war on Vallia came along.


 * Most of her siblings had been knighted and she was insatiably close to joining them. But as the war broke out, the attentions of the monarchy and knights had turned to the matter at hand and Lilyana's knighthood was put on hold. Her knighted siblings had been called to arms to defend Vallia.


 * After the 6-8 months of hell as the Lovegard's waited for their heroes to come back.


 * Most didn't, and the rare few that did had the Vallia equivilant of PTSD from the horrific events of the war. Despite that, however, the Lovegard's had fought valiantly and fairly in the war, staying true to the Lovegard way.


 * The parents, non-knighted siblings had mixed reactions - some were proud that they fought as a Lovegard would, some were just joyed to see some of their faces, and others, like Lilyana, were angry.


 * Angry that Chase was still chained, angry that the monarchy had simply shipped off a good portion of her siblings to death, angry that some of her siblings were happy during such a stressful time, she was up next for knighthood.


 * Just mere seconds before she would be officially knighted, she had fled from the throne room, bawling her eyes out, tossing away everything she had actually worked for up to that point. Her emotions welled up inside of her as she sat alone that one night. Could she help her little brother? What was the point in this righteousness?


 * She knew it was it was time to play dirty.


 * Ripping out the tailored Lovegard family crest from her outfit, she purchased a ragged old cloak to keep herself from being recognised and began to barrel down her dirty path.


 * Using money earned from the hardworking Lovegard's, she had paid for what were essentially street fighting lessons. Lessons that glorify playing dirty, lessons that glorify victory over honour. Despite her syndrome, she was able to keep up with these back-alley midnight lessons. (At this point she had fled from her home).


 * Having no where to stay, she had taken up a job as a mercenary/contract killer, hopping around from job to job, inn to inn, tavern to tavern, completing these jobs.


 * Along the way she had essentially forced herself to live in denial about her syndrome and refers to it as an "uncontrollable demon" living inside of her. She developed a much edgier character.


 * She knows that her brother, Chase, was still suffering because of his condition and Lilyana had vowed to come back with the money to fund pysicians to research and treat the syndrome (or in her words, vanquish the demon) or die trying." - Matt's original backstory for Lilyana.

Plot
ill do it later

Trivia

 * Lilyana's character design, including weapon of choice, clothing and status, is based off of Fiora from League of Legends. Her personality and looks are loosely based off of Severa from Fire Emblem: Awakening.
 * Lilyana's character, as stated before, is heavily implied to be a tsundere character. This is because of Matt's undying love for tsunderes, including that of Severa.
 * Lilyana was chosen out of one of two ideas Matt put forward for a character to play.
 * She was chosen over another character idea of a young, shy mage with explosive magical power that would have to flip a coin on every top of the round turn to check to see if she was even able to act.
 * "Lovegard", Lilyana's family surname, was derived from Matt wanting to subtly foreshadow the fact that it was planned by him and Tristan that she was going to fall in love.
 * Lilyana's Greatest Strength, Unchivalry, was originally called "Crafty/sneaky", but was changed later in the roleplay. The effect remained the same, however.
 * Lilyana is fluent in Vallian Japanese.