#li lian

Summary:

A conversation that didn't happen, but should've in the BaiShui Garden of Episode 28. Spoiler warning for chapter 28 and other info. Read at your own risk: this is your warning.

Idol Producer Season 2 爱奇艺青春有你 取向狙击 - 3/11

Auri wear these fuzzy-magitek “socks” on their horns as headphones. Miqo have two main varieties, one is a headband that holds ear inserts or little wizard hats over each ear. Viera and Hrothgar have their own versions of the Miqo styles. Hyur, Elezen, Roegadyn and Lalafel have more-or-less earth-normal headphones that everyone else think are ridiculous and boring.

Lian’s streamer set have a lot of little dangly moogle charms.

Her stream ID is MogliMaxli and she’s a partner member of the MogFriend network. Her avatar is a moogle head with her horns. (though not visible in the avatar, in the full work, her pom is yellow despite most fanart giving her a red pom to match her hair)

Chat calls her, in order of decreasing popularity: Mogli, Lily, Mogmax (only used immediately after someone else calls her Lily), Mogmum, and Pomsis.

While moderately popular for her games, Lian didn’t get big enough to quit her day job until a video of her at Mogcon went viral. (Mogfriend partners are required to dance several moogle dances. Her pom headband fell off and one of her moogle friends grabbed onto the back of her head so his pom was in its place for the rest of the dance.)

Once per moon, she does a charity stream where a Tier 3 donation results in her doing a moogle dance. If total donations reach a certain threshold, she and her team produce a fanvid for a popular song with moogle-inspired choreography.

Since no fans have any confirmed sightings outside of Mogcon, chat often jokes that she is, in fact, a moogle in disguise like pop singer Hyd8lyn who was later revealed to be a sylph in disguise.

Since MogMotion is the biggest streaming service (colloquially called “MoMo”), some iconic chat memes are “mog” “moggers” “down pom” “spicy pom” “w” and “w in chat” 

(down pom: bad, don’t like, disagree spicy pom: nsfw/nsfm w(often spammed as wwwww): symbolic of an upside-down moogle, meaning the streamer/comment/action is silly/inebriated/stupid  w in chat: a call for silly actions/responses)

These phrases are popular on the competing site Nyagitek, while Nyagitek memes rarely leave the platform. (With the exception of “cheese is a [RACE] rite” coined by goblin streamer Spliceracket)

Lian's having a bit of a weird time, since the betrayal of the Crystal Braves. She wasn't really keen on how differential they were to her as one of the Scions so the betrayal of was an odd mix of 'How could they?' but also 'Thank Hydaelyn that's over.'

Now she's in Ishgard and it's like, "Oh, I thought Hauchrfant was in a kind of exile, but no, all of Coerthas is like this and his family is mostly cool with him."

And

"All of these boys are so tall and yet require such big hugs and I'm very small, so you can imagine the stress I'm under."

And

"I forgot my boy! I just left him behind to sleep in a crystal tower for eternity. I need my boy."

Not prone to introspection, it’s rare for anyone to see Lian as anything less than pleased. She doesn’t share anecdotes about her family and most forget she was orphaned as an adult with many siblings she helped raised and saw grow up only to die horribly before achieving any of their dreams.

She tries to live the life she couldn’t give them, but she carries the burdens of her past alone.