Lilly Clarke (Reboot Timeline)

== Lilly Clarke ==
"I still love you, you f**king wise***. If I had known, I would not stay, but I chose you because you meant something to me and I don't want you to die, hun." - Lilly's concern to Jay
Lilly Gabriela Clarke (known as Lilly Clarke) is a main character and supporting character in the Reboot timeline. Lilly is a surgeon in Georgia that managed to form a new life by encountering Jay Roberts and later succeeded with her goals with his help.
== Background ==
Born on February 19, 2013, Lilly grew up in Louisiana to Paul Clarke (A former Marine combat medic) and Juliette Clarke (A nurse) and while it's never known about her childhood, it's hinted that Lilly went to private schools and graduated with high honors. After graduating, Lilly went to the educational field and became a substitute teacher for a class (which would be Human Anatomy). Upon teaching it, it gave Lilly a purpose and encouraged her to go into her dream of becoming a surgeon.
== Biography (The Canon Series) ==
Lilly was first introduced in the "Roberts x Clarke" series when Jay helped her with her groceries and having got interested in the man, Lilly and Jay got to know each other before she got him her number and drove back to her parents' home in a '67 Mustang (which is later revealed to be her father's car that she borrowed). After texting him about getting picked up to go to work, Lilly tells Jay that she's going to a party and wants him to come, which strongly implied that Lilly is slightly interested of seeing him again and wants to know him better. After he agreed, Lilly squeals and thanked him before Jay dropped her off. As Jay and two of his friends went to the party, Lilly is shown to be drinking in some parts while gazing at Jay, which caused her to grow aroused and interested in the soldier, even after he showed off his dance moves. After the party, a drunken Lilly reveals to Jay that she always wanted to be a surgeon and after Jay encouraged her to follow her dream, she smiles and said that she will think about it. After being dropped off to her personal home, she asked Jay to stay with her and knowing that he is slightly drunk, she smiles when Jay agreed to stay. Here, their friendship slowly blossomed into a mutual attraction as Lilly made subtle hints to make Jay woo her. After scaring off Samuel Harrison (her psycho ex-boyfriend), Lilly's love for Jay grew as she felt safe and confident around him and after going to her family's Christmas party, their love grew into a romantic relationship as the drunken pair reveals their true feelings to one another. In the end of the story, Jay was forced to do a contract and leaves, but not before kissing Lilly to confess his eternal love.
Lilly is seen again in "Jay's Origins" when a heavily injured Jay is found by her father and after being nursed back to health, Jay and Lilly talk and she slaps him for his absence, which made Jay regret leaving her and focusing on his mission than staying, which made the couple reconnect again. Jay's love for Lilly became the main factor in why Jay wanted to leave his violent lifestyle and became so defensive of her if his enemies were to hurt her, as shown as he wiped out Randall's army to rescue her. After leaving the lifestyle and managing to save her husband from a street gang, Jay and Lilly got married and had two kids (one later became like his father). It's revealed later that Lilly died as her and Jay was mourning the loss of their children and that Jay solely went after the people who killed her and died accomplishing the mission.
== Biography (The Raider Series) ==
Lilly is first seen in the Raider series, eating with Jay as she's revealed to be pregnant. She is killed by Talbot and his men in order to torture and kill Jay. As revealed later on, "Lilly" was nothing than a body double and the real Lilly left and went to France with her family because she was scared of the fact that she was pregnant with Jay's children and didn't want him to be worried. Unlike her canon counterpart, Lilly played a huge role in Jay's goal of wiping out the Underworld and had a short role because she's hardly seen. Like in the Canon series, Lilly died at the hands of corrupt WTO operatives along with her children as Jay overhears the carnage before he was killed. Their deaths are later avenged by Dell Hunter, whom wiped out the rival WTO unit.
== Personality ==
In her first appearance, Lilly is shown to be a slightly naive, compassionate, and open-minded woman that is very confident in her ability to accomplish her goals of becoming a doctor. As she spends her time with Jay, Lilly became more and more interested and attracted to him to a point where they later became a couple. Her love of Jay is so strong that she was more than willing to do anything to stay with him, even killing Samuel to save his life, highlighting her self-confident and independent attitude. Her love for him is further shown as she slapped him out of anger for leaving her for his mercenary lifestyle and wanted him to leave it before things get worse for them, showing that she cares for him and for their future.
In "The Lover Gone", Lilly is more determined to get Jay out of the lifestyle and after hearing that Jay was kidnapped, Lilly quickly grew more confident and ruthless during her hunt for Jay, having killed almost of the Calloway Gang to rescue him, despite her anxious and timid nature. Her self-confidence and ruthlessness was a result of her training from her father and Jay, who taught her how to fight.
In short, Lilly is shown to be the female version of Jay Roberts, having the same charm, ruthlessness, and intelligence as him and got the same sense of humor and serious attitude towards their enemies. Unlike Jay, Lilly was more anxious, compassionate, optimistic, and stricter, having pushed Jay forward to getting out of his violent lifestyle to make a future.
== Appearance ==
Lilly is an American woman, standing at 5'9. She has emerald green eyes, pale (later tanned) skin, dark brown (long-length) hair, full lips, and a mole. She's described as a very attractive woman, having a curvaceous and toned build that Jay himself described as "curvy and fit in the right places".
In the "Roberts x Clarke" series, Lilly's street clothes consists of a black tank top, jean shorts, sandals, and a Pride month bracelet. She wore a ponytail and is shown to have well-toned arms and legs, showing that she is slightly muscular. At the party, she wore a black dress and smoky makeup. For colder weather at the Christmas party, Lilly wore a sweater and sweat pants.
In "Jay's Origins" and "The Lover Gone", Lilly is shown to be more curvaceous and wore blue jeans, a gray shirt, and glasses. During her fight with the Calloway Gang, Lilly wore combat fatigues (BDUs) and a bulletproof vest.
== Skills ==
* High Intelligence: Lilly was shown to be a highly intelligent, sharp-witted, and methodical woman and was highly adaptable to any situation given to her. She is extremely level-headed and can handle extreme stress to get out of dangerous situations by using incredible street smarts. She was capable of using charm and polite side to gain trust with enemies in order to survive, as shown as she feigned weakness while in Randall's captivity.
* Skilled Physician: Lilly appears to have extensive knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, as well as advanced first aid and medicine, as shown during her healing scenes where she puts slight pressure and operated on Jay's severe wounds to save his life. She is shown to be extremely knowledgeable in pressure points, as shown during her sparring match with Jay Roberts.
* Master Tactician: As revealed by Lilly, she was trained by a former USMC combat medic, Lilly is highly capable of casing out, planning, and executing plans with ease. She is a keen judge of character, often correctly assessing the correct intentions, flaws, and capabilities of the enemies she encountered just by watching them. She is a skilled negotiator and interrogator, capable of presenting facts and getting answers without inducing intense emotion. She's also capable of spotting certain flaws within the environment and using any methods deemed necessary to accomplish his goals, such as using explosives and strategy to take out the Calloway family and picking out the stragglers with ease.
* Expert Spy: Having learned from Jay, Lilly is extremely skilled in stealth, espionage, infiltration, disguises, thievery, and eavesdropping. She's well adept in blending in with her surroundings as well as sneaking around heavily guarded buildings with ease.
* Stealth Mastery: Lilly is slightly shown to be decent in stealth tactics, such as understanding the use of disguises to enter authorized locations and using the environment around her to blend in, even in plain sight, to avoid detection. She's also capable of luring enemies into certain scenarios where she can easily eliminate them or pass by them in order to move to the objective.
* Forensics Specialist: Lilly is very capable of making out a "clean job" by using her observation skills and understanding how the situation went by pre-constructing a scene in her head. This is shown in "The Lover Gone" when she managed to track down the Calloway family by observing the scene and finding a keycard.
* Expert Driver: In the spinoffs, Lilly has shown exceptional driving skills to a point where she is even capable of driving manual cars, mechanicalized vehicles (APCs, boats, and helicopters) and motorcycles with ease, despite not having training.
* Master Marksman: As shown in various fights against the Calloway family, Lilly is extremely proficient with firearms, including pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, as well as being frighteningly precise with eliminating targets in both close-range and long-range distances (as shown during her fights). She's also skilled with using and firing heavier weaponry, such as grenade launchers, light machine guns, and flamethrowers as well as using mounted weaponry. Due to being taught by Jay with his extensive knowledge of guerrilla tactics, Lilly has shown to be extremely skilled with bows as well as scavenging and using whatever firearm that the enemy has to survive. Lilly is able to blend her marksmanship with hand-to-hand skills, being able to grapple, disarm, and even use her enemies' own weaponry against them with precision. 
* Master Martial Artist: Having been trained by a former Marine and Jay himself, Lilly is shown to be an incredibly skilled hand-to-hand fighter. Her fighting style is mostly improvised and is consisted of Kickboxing, Krav Maga, Eskrima, Kempo Jiu-Jitsu, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Sambo, and Hapkido. She can quickly outmaneuver, outmatch, and outlast her opponents, even capable of taking on multiple opponents at once, as shown as she took down Jackson and a Calloway soldier. Due to her quick wit, Lilly is able to adapt to her opponent's fighting styles, studying them during the fight and adapting to turn their strengths against them as seen in her fight with Heather Calloway (the latter is more skilled). She also sometimes makes use of both dirty tactics, such as eye gouges, biting, and striking the groin and the environment around her to gain an advantage.
* Knife Mastery: Lilly is highly skilled in wielding and throwing blades, such as knives and axes. Combined with her extensive knowledge of anatomy and intense training in Kali, Lilly is able to use blades to find a suitable angle to either wound or kill an opponent in a fight.
* Improvised Weapon Mastery: In addition to her skills with firearms and martial arts, Lilly is very good with using whatever tools that she sees during her fights to gain an advantage over her opponents, shown as she bludgeoned a Calloway gang member with a brick. 
* Peak Human Condition: As the wife of a former soldier of the United States Army and having been trained, Lilly has displayed peak human physicality for a woman of his age. She's extremely athletic, and her strength, stamina, speed, agility, reflexes, durability, and pain threshold are in top condition.
* Peak Human Strength: Despite her build, Lilly is very strong, capable of overpowering and restrain even larger opponents (managed to subdue Jay easily, despite his combat training and experience), knock out or outright kill an skilled operator with a single strike, and break their bones and necks with ease. 
* Peak Human Durability: Lilly is highly resilient and sturdy due to her time training. Lilly is able to survive blunt force trauma without feeling that much pain. Her greatest feats of her durability was a severe beating from Heather, as shown as she was capable of withstanding heavier punches from her.
* Peak Human Speed: Lilly is extremely fast, able to outrun her opponents and is able to run and sprint far distances uninterrupted. 
* Peak Human Agility: Lilly has extreme amounts of stamina. She is able to fight for considerate amounts of time and run great distances uninterrupted. She is able to flip and spin her way out of incoming gunfire with the impressive feats of an experienced gymnast (having studied gymnastics during college) and to vault, scale, and traverse through difficult terrains and obstacles with ease. Even with being extremely tired, Lilly required little time to recover before continuing the fight.
* Peak Human Reflexes: Lilly has incredible reflexes. Due to her time in the wilderness and having taught guerrilla tactics, Lilly has displayed a fast reaction time, as she is able to evade bullets and melee attacks during combat with ease. Due to being taught Jay's expertise in guerrilla warfare, Lilly is able to correctly assess the situation, to understand the purpose, and to react effectively, making it harder for the enemy to outwit her. Her senses are shown to be enhanced, having the capability to hear, smell, and sense her enemies from any direction and to avoid ambushes and sniper fire with ease.
* High Pain Tolerance: Despite her strong combat proficiency, Lilly has been frequently injured throughout the series, but demonstrates a near-inhuman tolerance to pain, being able to survive near fatal injuries, such as gunshot wounds, stabbing, blunt force trauma, and physical blows with ease. As shown in her fights with numerous opponents like Jay Roberts, Heather Calloway, and Jackson, Lilly has shown that she can outlast and outwit them by using her injuries against them, opening them up for a counter-attack.
== Equipment ==
* H&K USP: Lilly's main sidearm. She notably used it during her fight with the Calloway Gang. Her USP is the 9mm variant with a silver outer barrel, stainless steel slide, and chambered in jacketed hollow points.
== Deaths ==
Murders committed by Lilly:
* Samuel Harrison: Shot in the heart.
* Heather Calloway: Stabbed in the heart.
* 76 Calloway Gang Members: Shot, stabbed, blown up.
* 12 of Jack's Men: Shot to death.
* 22 of Jack's Men: Shot to death.
== Trivia ==
* Lilly is the overarching heroine throughout the Reboot timeline and always have been Jay's girlfriend and wife throughout the Canon timeline and the Raider timeline.
* Lilly has killed 112 people (2 antagonists included) throughout the Canon timeline, giving herself a higher kill count as a civilian with military training.
* Lilly is revealed to be a strong supporter of LGBT rights and was hinted to be a bisexual, due to the fact that she was attracted to females before dating Jay.
* Lilly sported a few tattoos:
** Floral Tattoo (on her left arm)
** Family Forever (on her left under forearm)
** My Love for You (on her right breast)
** Tribal Tattoo (on her right arm)
** Guns n Roses (on her left thigh)