Hello!! I just found your account and I’ve gotta say I love all of your writings!!! You’re like TWST Jesus over here! 😂 And what’s this I hear about you being a super L*ona stan hater? 🤨 Fellow hardcore L*ona lover hater here too!! 🙋🏻♀️
I’m not sure how much you can do with this since I don’t think we’ve been given much info about Lilia’s dorm uniform, if anything at all, but I was wondering if you might know, or at least theorize on WHY is his dorm uniform different? Usually it’s just the dorm leaders whose uniforms differ the most with the vice wearing the same uniform as everyone else. But it appears that Lilia is the only vice, or just student in general, who’s is also different, even more so than Malleus’ uniform.
Errrr… I’M SORRY, I don’t know how to react to being called TWST Jesus 😭 other than with silent astonishment?? BUT I’M DEFINITELY NOT TWST JESUS, just another fan 💦 I’m glad that you like my stuff though, that’s enough for me!
We don’t talk about Bruno Leona-san here… The less he’s mentioned, the better 😌
Now, to your question! The dorm leaders often have the most “different” and distinctive dorm uniforms because it is stated they are allowed the privilege of making alterations to their dress. Other students have to wear the normal dorm uniform of a slight variation of it. For example (looking at the vice dorm leaders), Jade and Jamil wear the same uniforms as mobs.
Trey and Rook both have hats. Trey additionally has gloves and has an open vest. (Savanaclaw and Ignihyde technically don’t have vice dorm leaders, so I’ll leave those out of this discussion.) This implies to me that: 1) a little variation is allowed for all students (as Floyd wears his dorm uniform in a non-standard way and so does Ruggie; Epel loses the Pomefiore gloves), but dorm leaders are granted freedom for larger alterations, and/or 2) accessorizing is allowed (since gloves/hats can be counted in this category; we also see this as the case for non-vice dorm leaders like Jack, who wears a unique necklace).
Lilia is obviously an outlier no matter how you look at the situation. Of all the vice dorm leaders, he easily has the most individualized variant of his dorm’s uniform. However, if you look closely you’ll see that it still largely retains many elements of the Diasomnia uniform. Let’s deconstruct it! He’s got the hat, the high boots, the waist straps, and even the jacket, albeit oversized.
This is the same jacket Diasomnia mobs wear, it just appears different because Lilia purposefully chose an oversized one. How do I know that? Because he purposefully goes with an oversized jacket for his Labwear too. Lilia has a voice line that goes, “You ask if my loose sleeves ever impede me? Of course they do. I just deal with it because it's cuter this way.” This implies he made a conscious decision to wear a big jacket simply for the aesthetic of it. If you compare the heights of the shortest NRC students (excluding Ortho since his “clothes” are custom-made gears and not fabric), this becomes even clearer. Epel (156 cm) and Riddle (160 cm) stand on either side of Lilia (158 cm) and would wear roughly the same size clothing. However, you’ll notice that both Epel and Riddle wear lab coats perfectly suitable to their size, meaning that the uniform does come in Lilia’s size… He just actively chooses to not wear the correct one.
Lilia has unique stockings, but I don’t think this actually factors into the look being different than the standard Diasomnia uniform. Were he wearing the normal pants, the stockings would be covered anyway so whatever socks you wear down there aren’t violating any rules about altering your clothes. That leaves his shirt, pants, and ruffled skirt thing as the only elements of the outfit that are different. The shirt I don’t believe is an issue, as many boarding schools have will allow slight variations. I think Lilia’s shirt falls into this category; the only real different is slight ribbing. Given the color and flare of the pants, it gives me the impression that Lilia took his Diasomnia riding pants and literally chopped them to make shorts, which… might be a concern, seeing as he destroyed a school uniform 😂 This is honestly the biggest alteration he made. As for the skirt thing, it seems to be tucked in under Lilia’s waist straps so it could be counted as an “added” accessory similar to Trey and Rook’s hats and gloves. Thinking about it like this, Lilia’s outfit is still very similar to the variants other students wear.
Let’s say (for the sake of argument) that staff took issue with how Lilia wears his Diasomnia uniform. What would the reason be for the headmaster dismissing it? My best guess is… because it’s Lilia. He values looking cute (and could definitely put up a good fight if he wanted to), but more importantly, he isn’t exactly your average NRC student. Maybe Lilia easily granted special privileges because Crowley is aware of how old and wise he actually is, as indicated in book 7.
Lilia’s just special like that 💕