Lily Nam

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## Webtoon Debut

Chapter 5

**Lily Nam** (*남정아; Nam Jeong-ah; "Jeong-ah Nam*") is a minor character in *Weak Hero*. She attends Hero Cram School and shares a class with Gray Yeon, who she took interest in due to his appearance. She is also close friends with Julia Chae and an ex-friend of Lala Lee.

## Appearance

She's currently 5'4.5". She has pale skin and light hazel eyes that slightly change to green depending on the lighting. She has somewhat wavy, back-length brownish-blonde hair with bangs swept in a side part. In the past, she frequently wore her hair in two pigtails, but has only been seen in a high ponytail in recent chapters. Similarly, in earlier chapters, she had a spattering of freckles on her cheeks, but not in her more recent appearances. She wears big circular glasses that are tinted pale blue when hiding her eyes.

During middle school, her uniform consisted of a gray blazer with a matching gray skirt. The collar of the blazer was lined white and a red flower is sown into the lapel. There's a single golden button at its break point. Underneath is a white collared shirt with a red tie and a V-neck vest. The vest is colored a darker gray and the neckline has a bold black border edging an inch away from it.

At the Hero Cram School, she sports a yellow V-neck vest worn over white button-down uniform and a black bow-shaped tie. She also wears a knee-length plaid straight skirt, and blue or red converse sneakers with white ankle socks.

Outside of academic settings, she's seen wearing long-sleeved shirts and sweaters, long coats, jeans, and black sneakers. Her night-wear so far consists of an orange-hued garment with a white inner shirt.

## Personality

In her first appearance, she seems imaginative and somewhat naïve, although having ultimately pure intentions. In episode 5, when she first sees Gray Yeon, she takes note of his pretty looks and starts daydreaming about him being a K-pop idol, even sketching him in her notes. But in episode 6, she notices him being picked on and swears to protect him as a big sister, completely unaware of Gray's status as Eunjang's White Mamba. Later in the series, when she realizes she lent him her notes without erasing her sketches of him, she's distraught and criticizes herself for not remembering. However, all is remedied when Gray actually compliments her drawings, re-fueling her interest in him.

She's also very much a straight shooter, even disliking it when Hugo Yoon and his friend discuss Union activities in the cram school class. However, she's non confrontational for the most part. Instead of verbally calling them out, she internally complains about them and physically trembles in anger and frustration when Hugo steals Gray's notes. She also tends to cry when nervous or worried.

Aside from her natural curiosity, Lily shows exceptional empathy and a caring nature. She has a crush on Gray, but in the first few chapters, she seems more interested in pursing a friendship with him rather than a romantic relationship. She correctly assumes that his looks make him a target for bullying and expresses a deep concern for his well-being. The same is also true in regards to her close friends: worry drives her to the point of recklessness when she learns her best friend, Julia Chae, is in trouble. Julia regards her as a strong and naturally warm person. Lily also appears not to have a problem with tough love, smacking Julia on the back for walking away from her when she just wanted them to talk and work things out.

She's notably one of the only characters who doesn't curse in the official English translation.

## History

She attended an unspecified girls' middle school with Julia Chae and Lala Lee. Although Lily was the nicest of the three, Julia stated that Lala was more careful around Lily. Lily indulged Lala's claims of depression and constant mood swings, but was never talked into doing things she didn't want to, like following Lala on a double date.

Lily was unaware of the deteriorating relationship between Julia and Lala until Julia personally spoke to her, and at that point, it was too late to fix their friendship. The three grew apart, with Julia and Lily attending different high schools and Lala becoming a drop-out.

## Plot

The year after graduating middle school, Lily pursues Julia in an attempt to work things out, but Julia is unresponsive. Later, one of Lily's cram school classmates informs her that Lala and her Drop-Out Gang were targeting Julia. Lily is distressed by this and comes to the conclusion that she's the only one who can stop the situation from devolving further. She skips cram school and goes looking for where the Drop Out Gang could've taken Julia. She comes across Gray, Eugene, and Teddy, who help her locate and handle the members of the Drop Out Gang at the karaoke rooms.

Although she is shocked by the reveal of Gray's fighting prowess, she mainly focuses on protecting Julia until the debacle is over and they're safely out of the karaoke room. She denounces Lala as a friend and cuts off contact with her. Outside in a nearby alleyway, she and Julia have a heart to heart where Lily encourages Julia to stop hiding her feelings and confide in her. They officially make up with each other and Julia breaks down in Lily's arms.

## Relationships

### Julia Chae

Julia is Lily's best friend. They, along with Lala Lee, were close in middle school, and Julia often did favors for Lily even if they inconvenienced her. However, due to the decay of Julia's relationship with Lala, Julia detached herself from Lily, not wanting to be around Lala even if it meant avoiding Lily, whom she genuinely liked. In high school, Lily made attempts to reconnect with Julia, all which failed. Still, when she learned Julia was being pursued by a vengeful Lala, she decided she couldn't avoid Julia anymore and ran to save her. After the rescue, Lily employed some tough love and candid criticism about how Julia had been acting and they finally patched up their friendship.

### Lala Lee

In middle school, Lily treated Lala delicately because of Lala's attention-seeking mood swings. She was unaware of how Lala mistreated Julia until Julia mentioned it, but Lily continued her increasingly strained friendship with Lala up until high school. Lily was at her wit's end with Lala's complaints and as soon as she learned of Lala targeting Julia, she didn't hesitate to cut off Lala, saying not chewing her out was the last favor she could afford Lala.

### Gray Yeon

She and Gray share the same class at cram school. Lily developed a crush on him but didn't have a way to talk to him until he asked to borrow her notes. She was worried he'd think she was creepy when she realized he'd see her sketches of him in her notes, but Gray ended up leaving a note complimenting the sketches and she grew even fonder of him. She assumed he was helpless in the beginning, but after witnessing Gray's brutal beat down of Jeongmu Choi, her opinion of him shifted.

Although they had no interactions in cram school aside from Gray borrowing her notes that one time, Gray didn't hesitate to help Lily rescue Julia from Jailbreak.

### Hugo Yoon

She and Hugo have the same cram school class. Lily is often irritated overhearing him talk about the Union and she considers him an evil douchebag, especially after he stole Gray's notes.

## Abilities

### Physical

She's shown slapping Julia Chae on the back, resulting in a smoking hand print left on Julia's shirt. However, it's unclear whether the depiction of the smoke was for comedic effect or to display Lily's actual physical strength, as other characters frequently leave smoke behind after punching someone.

### Mental

She attends Hero Cram school and takes well-organized notes despite her habit of sketching in her notebook. She also likely attends Byuksan High School, one of the top schools in the area.

## Trivia

* It's noted that she's "deceptively strong", hinting she might have above average strength.
* In a side by side comparison, she's currently the exact same height as Gray Yeon, who is 5' 4.5". However, he used to be 5'2, meaning Lily was taller than Gray at some point.
* Her favorite color is likely pink, since nearly everything in her bedroom is pink. She also has an affinity for cute furry animals, especially cats and bunnies, both which decorate her room and belongings.
* It is unconfirmed that Lily attends Byuksan High School, but her school uniform is very similar to what students at Byuksan High School wears as shown in Episode 25, so it can be assumed that Byuksan High is a co-ed school like its middle school counterpart and Lily is a student there.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 5
2. ↑ Chapter 195
3. ↑ Chapter 192
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chapter 191
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Chapter 6
6. ↑ Chapter 190
7. ↑ Chapter 191
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 129
9. ↑ Chapter 129
10. ↑ Chapter 131
11. ↑ Chapter 8
12. ↑ Chapter 189
13. ↑ Chapter 195
14. ↑ Chapter 188
15. ↑ Chapter 127
16. ↑ Chapter 193
17. ↑ Chapter 194
18. ↑ Chapter 195
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 [[ ]]
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