#about lily.

Born to two retired weapon designers, Lilian’s parents expected great things from their only daughter. They wanted her to follow in their footsteps, continue their legacy and even improve on their designs. Their hopes and desires came true, to a degree. From a young age, Lily was an eccentric child. She loved to fiddle around with things, she loved to draw, she loved to create. Her parents thought this meant they would have someone to keep their legacy alive. Unfortunately for them, Lily never created in the way her parents were expecting. Lily was attracted to design, putting fabrics and textures together in different ways. By the time she was five and allowed to dress herself, she did. Of course, as a young child none of them were perfect but Lily was proud of every ‘outfit’ she put together. 

As she started to grow up and hit her preteens to teen years, Lily became more adventurous. You could often find her outside with a scratchbook- typically high up in the trees or roaming through the gardens taking note of every single colour blend that the sky and Earth had made. More often than not Lily came home with bruised knees and dirty clothes, in her eyes it was the sign of a good day. Her parents tried to reign her in, trying to get her to focus on things instead of fashion and designing. They wanted her to live a good life, unburdened by things such as money like they had done themselves during their prime. 

It wasn’t until Lily was about to hit primary school when her powers came into play. At the start, it was mostly for little things, and usually it was an accident. ‘Can I go outside?” quickly turned into Lily attempting to charm her way out of detention, classwork, assignment. In her eyes it was for good; she had a dream and school was simply getting in the way of it. Reality never hit Lilian until graduation was on her doorstep. Lily had used her charmspeak easily to get out of doing in classwork, but she forgot about her teachers still marking her work as missing. Lily was flunking and there was nothing she could do about it. 

There was no way she could repeat her final year of high school without her parents knowledge so she decided to drop out and then when graduation time came she would hand her parents some photos with her cap, gown, fake graduation certificate and then it would be done. It wasn’t apart of Lily’s plan to use any charmspeak on her own parents however as untrained as she was- Lilian couldn’t help herself. They instantly believed her.

Feeling guilty with herself, Lily was determined to make her parents proud of their own volition. When the time came for her family to move from New York to Grove Harbour, BC and enrol into Grove Academy she swiftly decided on being a techie like her parents before her, focusing on design and programming classes. It felt like Lily had a second chance and she wasn’t about to mess it up. Lily handed in every assignment, every build; she didn’t want to graduate from Grove Academy on top. She just wanted to graduate. It seemed like forever before graduation came around, but soon enough she graduated and her lie didn’t feel like such a big deal anymore. 

lily as a child. 

quiet, mostly an out-of-sight-out-of-mind kid. she learned to fend for herself early. as a child, she was often left alone---her parents were big into drugs. lily can remember several nights of having to cook herself dinner. there was a lot of neglect, and generally an unhealthy living environment. the authorities then stepped in. after a brief stay in the system, she moved in with her grandparents.

lily as a teenager.

extremely quiet and socially anxious. it took her grandparents a long time to get her to socialize with even them, mostly due to trauma but also being a genuinely shy person. spent a lot of her time on the farm tending to the plants and various animals they had.

was introduced to music by her grandfather early. he taught her how to play the ukulele, and lily was quick and eager to learn. from there, her grandmother enrolled her in piano classes while her grandfather graduated to teaching her acoustic guitar. often went to the theatre with her grandmother.

straight a, honor roll student, placed in advanced classes. often tutored other kids in nearly every subject. although her strengths were in music and math, lily was good at anything she put her mind to.

lily currently.

her true, wild dream was to be part of the music program at lakewood. however, she convinced herself out of it at the last second. she viewed herself as ‘not good enough’ to be in an actual music program and wanted something more ‘practical’ so she’d be able to give money back to her grandparents.

settled on the political science program due to her want to ‘change the world’ in some form. genuinely enjoys it, and it satisfies her feminist self, but she still secretly side-eyes lakewood’s music program. plays and writes her own music regularly, but rarely ever shares it with anyone.

lily’s hopes for the future.

O R I G I N S & F A M I L Y ↓

♦ Name: Lily Rose Stafford ♦ Nicknames: Lil, Lilypad, more tba. ♦ Reason for name: Lily’s parents thought it sounded good (and like flowers). ♦ Birthday: July 9th. ♦ Age: 19 ♦ Gender: Cisgender Female ♦ Place of birth: Hillsboro, Oregon ♦ Places lived since: Near Los Angeles. ♦ Number of siblings: 0. She briefly had foster siblings but doesn’t keep in touch.

♦ Happiest memory: When her grandparents came and picked her up from the foster home. She was overjoyed to see familiar faces. It’s one of the only times Lily can remember crying. ♦ Childhood trauma: Lily’s parents were in and out of prison because of drugs. Lily was young, so she doesn’t remember too much of it, but she’ll get random flashes of memories occasionally. She remembers clearly being taken from the home and spending a brief period in foster care. ♦ Children of his/her own?: n/a ♦ If so, relationship with his/her child?: n/a ♦ Age he/she gave birth/became a parent: n/a

P H Y S I C A L ↓

♦ Height: 5'5" ♦ Build: Average. ♦ Nationality: American ♦ Disabilities: n/a ♦ Hair color: Light brown. ♦ Usual hair style: Down, in wild curls. Lily hates having to really do anything with her mess of hair. If her hair ever looks tame, it’s because she likes you and took hours to make it look like that. ♦ Eye color: Green. ♦ Glasses? Contacts?: Glasses pretty frequently. ♦ Style of dress/typical outfit(s): Jeans and hoodies. She loves dresses but saves them for special occasions. ♦ Typical style of shoes: Boots. ♦ Health: Above average. Lily’s always been careful of germs. ♦ Jewelry? Tattoos? Piercings?: None. She’d like to but is scared of needles and looking bad. ♦ Unique mannerisms/physical habits: Constantly playing with her hair or chewing on her lip. ♦ Athletic?: Not necessarily.

I N T E L L E C T ↓

♦ Level of education: High school graduate; currently in college. ♦ Level of self esteem: Somewhere on the lower side, probably. ♦ Gifts/talents: As an attempt to get her to open up more as a child, her grandpa taught her ukulele. It’s something she keeps private. ♦ Shortcomings: Has a hard time saying no to people. ♦ Style of speech: Slow and quiet. If she feels comfortable with you, she’ll start to get a little faster. ♦ Artistic?: No. ♦ Mathematical?: Yes. ♦ Makes decisions based mostly on emotions or on logic?: Logic. She listens to her emotions but doesn’t put too much stock into them. ♦ Life philosophy: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” ♦ Religious stance: Her grandparents took her to church a lot when she was younger. Growing up in a small town, religion was hard to avoid. She doesn’t necessarily believe in it but believes there’s More to life. ♦ Cautious or daring?: Cautious. ♦ Most sensitive about/vulnerable to: Probably talk of prison. ♦ Optimist or pessimist?: Inbetween. ♦ Extrovert or introvert?: Introvert. ♦ Level of comfort with technology: Fairly comfortable.

R E L A T I O N S H I P S ↓

♦ Current marital/relationship status: Single. ♦ Sexual orientation: 'Gay’ is what she normally identifies with. But if she met a guy and really liked him, she wouldn’t reject it. ♦ Past relationships: None. ♦ Primary reason for being broken up with: n/a ♦ Primary reasons for breaking up with people: n/a ♦ Level of sexual experience: Inexperienced. She’s never even been kissed before. ♦ A social person? (popular, loner, some close friends, makes friends and then quickly drops them): She’s more of a loner than anything else. She wants close relationships, but has always been hesitant of trusting people enough to let them in. ♦ Most comfortable around (person): Her grandparents. ♦ Oldest friend: n/a. She had a few acquaintances throughout school but no one she could really relate to. ♦ How does he/she think others perceive him/her?: Extremely quiet, nerd.

V O C A T I O N ↓

♦ Profession: Student. ♦ Past occupations: Lots of volunteer work and summer jobs. ♦ Passions: Helping people; flowers. ♦ Attitude towards current job: n/a. ♦ Attitude towards current coworkers, bosses, employees: n/a.

S E C R E T S ↓

♦ Life goals: Make the world better for people, preferably children. She wants to make the world kinder.  ♦ Dreams: n/a. She’s still not really sure what she wants to do with her life. ♦ Greatest fears: Needles; failure.

D E T A I L S / Q U I R K S ↓