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May the lilies bloom for me 🎵

I LOVE ENDER LILIES I LOVE EMDER LILIES AAAAAA this is actually a redraw lmao this is the original:

Lilac from Ender Magnolia is an interesting character for a variety of reasons. Their exact origins are never really hard-confirmed, but there's enough in the game for players to piece together one or two possibilities. This is all quite interesting in-and-of-itself, but ever since Ender Magnolia came out, I've seen some debate as to what Lilac's gender is actually supposed to be.

Right from the get-go, this character design is EXTREMELY androgynous. I remember as far back as the very first reveal trailer of the game that I was a little confused as whether Lilac was supposed to be a guy, girl, or neither.

Now, it should be addressed that the wiki refers to Lilac as female, and uses she/her pronouns for the character. This does make a degree of sense, as Lilac is, functionally, a White Priestess, and there's nothing necessarily contradicting that.

However, it should be noted that the game itself seemingly goes out of its way to avoid using ANY gendered pronouns for Lilac at any point. Other characters only ever refer to Lilac as "Attuner," "Child," or by name. Even Lilac's own character bio ONLY ever refers to them by name, not using "he," "she" or even "they."

There have, allegedly, been interviews with developers that refer to Lilac as female, but I've also seen a fair bit of debate about the legitimacy of these interviews and whether or not they were translated accurately. Admittedly, I don't speak Japanese myself, so I can't really say anything on that front, nor could I do any sort of comparison to the in-game Japanese text. I can only base my thoughts on what is presented to be in the English version of the game.

Ultimately, Lilac's gender is left kind of ambiguous, and until or unless we get any sort of direct confirmation from the devs of Binary Haze themselves, I don't think there's any way to conclusively say one way or the other if the character is meant to be nonbinary/agender.

So, it's been a couple days since I beat Ender Magnolia, and I have some thoughts. Right off the bat, though, I wanna say: absolutely amazing game, definitely worth playing. About as close as I feel like one can get to a 10/10 Metroidvania.

That said, I've been conflicted on whether or not I think this game beats out Ender Lilies, and I have come to a conclusion: mechanically yes, narratively no. The gameplay does feel like a pretty solid evolution of Ender Lilies.

While I did initially miss having two sets of spirits you can rotate between, having four homunculi at my disposal at a time, all with unlimited uses, was definitely a worthy trade-off. The system as a whole was also streamlined significantly. Not counting traversal abilities, you only really get eight combatants this time around... But since each of them has three abilities you can swap between at respites, the number is functionally more like twenty-four.

I am slightly saddened the lack of primary spirits this time around, but I suppose Nola's three forms really do cover most of what you'd want for your default attack. Just a little weird to me that the ranged equivalent doesn't come in until quite a bit later, but that's really more a nitpick.

Now, as for the story... Spoilers below, but I'll just say here and now that I don't think it was bad by any means, just a little confused.

OCR04562: Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights: The Glass Tower - Michael Hudak

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