Lila

**Lila** is one of forty-three children born to a mother with no previous signs of pregnancy on October 1, 1989. After her biological parents were murdered by Cinco during her time working at the Commission, Lila was welcomed and trained by the Manager, being raised as his adopted daughter and eventually became one of the Commission's strongest agents.

After discovering that her parents were killed by order of the Manager herself, Lila rebelled against her and gave up on killing Five and the other members of the Umbralla Academy. After these events, she spent a few years without contact with Diego, returning after the umbrellas traveled back in time to the twenty-first century. On her return, she lied to Diego claiming to have had a son with him, Stan. However, it was revealed that Stan is actually the son of Lila's friend, but Lila actually ended up pregnant with Diego. It is unknown if she is still pregnant after Allison resets the universe.

## Biography

### **Childhood:**

Lila was born in London, United Kingdom on October 1, 1989 to parents Ronnie and Anita Gill. At the age of four, The Handler hires Five to kill her parents in a staged home invasion to turn her into her personal weapon.

From a young age, The Handler begins brainwashing Lila into becoming a personal weapon. And throughout season 2 The Handler is shown to have a very manipulative relationship with Lila, often telling her she saved her from her alcoholic parents and that she's the only reason she's alive. When Lila reaches adulthood, The Handler sends her to keep an eye on Five with the plan to eventually kill him.

### **The Commission**

Lila is first introduced to the audience in season 2 Episode 1, Right Back Where We Started, where she is a fellow mental patient with Diego. Later on in the episode, while Diego is trying to escape, she knocks out a guard and both escape, stealing clothing and a car before fleeing.

Later on, after attempting to confront his father, Diego is attacked and stabbed. The next day he wakes up on Elliot's couch to Lila cauterizing his stab wound. When asked how he got there, she reveals that she followed him. During this, he becomes agitated and in retaliation, Lila presses the hot tool into his wound until he passes out from the pain. When he wakes up later and attempts to go find Nigel, she pokes at his wound with a stick before convincing him not to leave. Defeated, Diego complies. As both are laid on the bed together, Diego asks again why she followed him. She reveals the reason she had followed him was because she thought he was going to abandon her. It's during this she tells him about how she believed he had been killed and it brought back the memories of her parents murder.

Later, Five is seen following Lila to an abandoned factory and when he confronts her, they break into a fight. Throughout the fight Lila can be seen suddenly appearing on opposite sides of the room from where she was before, hinting for the first time at Lila's powers. After knocking Lila down and rendering her powerless, The Handler walks in revealing that Lila is her daughter. They then make a deal that if Five kills the board of the commission, she will help The Umbrella Academy return to 2019 and stop the apocalypse. After Five leaves, Lila asks The Handler why they need Five, telling her she could've killed the commission herself, The Handler remains cryptic only telling her it's because she has bigger plans for Lila. When Lila asks what will happen to Diego, The Handler asks if she has a thing with him, pointing out Diego's bracelet which she wears daily. Lila gets defensive and doubles down until The Handler asks what she'd do if she ordered her to kill Diego, to which she hesitates and doesn't answer.

After The Handler is made Head of The Commission, she appoints Lila as Head of Security. When she realizes this, she goes to Diego only to find him digging a shallow grave for Elliot. She attempts to talk to Diego but he shuts her down, revealing he knows the truth about her being in the commission. Eventually, she offer's a toast to Elliot, offering her flask to Diego. He drinks some of the drink but its revealed the drink was drugged and after he passes out Lila brings him to the Commission. When he wakes up, he and Lila are sat in The Handler's office as Lila tries to convince her to allow Diego to join. Diego attempts to leave, but is stopped by both women. Eventually The Handler agrees to let him stay at which point she takes Diego to orientation. Before she leaves, she tells him how important it is for her that he not screw up. Before she leaves she kisses Diego goodbye, taking him off guard before quickly leaving. When she returns after to get him, she realizes he's left. After threatening Herb, he reveals he helped Diego escape to help The Umbrella Academy. When asked if she plans to kill him, she reveals that she's in love with him.

Later while searching through The Handlers office, she finds the kill order for her parents, realizing it was Five who was hired to kill her parents. Not realizing it was made by The Handler, she assumes it was The Commission who hired Five to kill her parents. The Handler, knowing Lila is distraught at the news, convinces her they need to kill Five. Fast forward to Harlan and Missy's farm, Lila and The Handler show up and confront Five and Diego. At which point The Handler reveals Five was the one who killed the board. A fight soon occurs between The Commission and The Academy where it's discovered that Lila can mimic the powers of someone in close proximity to her. Mimicking all of the academy's powers and using them against them. When they're all cornered in the barn, Lila fights Five, revealing he killed her parents.

He reveals that it was The Handler who ordered them be killed, pointing out that she was there when they were murdered and that she wanted her because she was one of the 43 children born with powers the same day as the rest of the academy. When Five tries to attack her, Diego steps in, telling her that The Handler is using her the same way Nigel used them and that The Academy can be her family. Before she can respond, The Handler shoots everyone dead except for Lila. Realizing what happened, she goes to Diego only to realize he's dead. When she asks The Handler if what Five said was true, she attempts to attack The Handler before she's shot dead.

### **Relationship with Diego**

Lila's relationship with Diego is first introduced in the first episode of Season 2, Right Back Where We Started, when they both meet as patients in a Mental Asylum. Diego was placed there after he attempted to kill Lee Harvey Oswald in an attempt to stop the future assassination of President John F. Kennedy. During group therapy, Lila tells him his speech about wanting to get better was bullshit, betting the therapist didn't believe him either. Later on, while making bracelets together, Lila begins hinting that she's aware of his escape plan and that she can help. He declines her offer, telling her he's a lone wolf and he doesn't need anybody's help. When Diego leaves, Lila steals his half-finished bracelet.

After leaving Lila, he's drugged and locked up alone after Five tells the guards of Diego's plans to escape. Once he's awake, but groggy, he uses a pen he stole from the therapist and breaks out of the cell. On his way out he's found by a guard but before he could do anything, Lila knocks out the guard before both make their escape. Upon their escape, they steal clothes and a car before fleeing the premises. Throughout their time together, you can see the gradual building of their relationship from Acquaintances to Friends, before eventually turning romantic.

Later on when Diego is stabbed by Nigel, Lila finds him and brings him home, using a hot tool to suture his stab wound. The next day, when Diego attempts to find Nigel to get his revenge, Lila jabs his wound with a stick before convincing him to stay and rest. As they're talking on the bed, Diego asks why she followed him. She then reveals that the reason she followed him was because she was scared he was going to abandon her. Lila explains when she found him, she thought he was dead, reminding her of when she found her parents murdered when she was 4. It's around this time when the first hints of their feelings are revealed, Lila asking Diego if its okay that she doesn't hate him as much as she hates other people. Diego laughs and says it's okay with him. Moments later, he leans forward and kisses her. Almost immediately she pulls away and slaps him, asking what he thinks he's doing. Frustrated and confused, Diego asks what's wrong with her. At that point, Lila moves towards him and kisses him again, this time ending with them having sex.

Throughout the rest of season two, Diego would begin to show more obvious signs of his feelings to Lila. Meanwhile Lila would remain more reserved, often resulting in Diego getting frustrated on if she feels the same. Later on when The Handler appointed her Head of Security at The Commission, she kidnapped Diego and convinced The Handler to allow him to join. After dropping him off at orientation, Lila kissed Diego before leaving him. Later on when she finds out Herb had helped Diego escaped, Herb asks if she plans to kill him still, to which she wasn't, revealing she was actually in love with him. Later on at the barn after the fight between The Handler and The Academy, Diego stopped Five from killing her and helps her escape, revealing he did it because he loves her.

In season 3, Lila returns to the Hotel Oblivion searching for Diego, bringing along Stanley; revealing that they had a son together. Before he can question her further though, she leaves Stanley with Diego. When she comes back, Diego asks her about her feelings and their relationship. At which point she tells him it had been 12 years since they'd last seen each other, telling him that the only thing between them was Stanley. He accepts this and continues to care for Stanley while Five and Lila go on a mission together. While they're gone, Diego and Stanley begin building a father-son relationship. When Lila returns with Five, she hugs Diego. When he asks what's wrong, she tells him she realized life was too short to hold grudges and that she forgives him.

When she returns, she begins to see Diego and Stanleys relationship with each other. When they're left alone, Lila compliments him, telling him he's a good father to Stan. While he's talking about Stan, Lila grabs him and kisses him, telling him that him being a "sexy dad" is a turn on. He tells her that he needs to be wooed. When Lila tells him she can go find another daddy, he pulls her back and kisses her before they both go to bed. While searching for Stanley, Lila reveals that he's not actually their son. That she just "borrowed" him from her friend while she was out of town. Angry and upset, Diego rings the bell to try and get help to find Stan. After he rings the bell, The Guardian falls from the ceiling and in the fight, Diego's pinkie and ring fingers are severed. They quickly make their escape only to find out the Kugelblitz has taken Stan.

Its later revealed that after Lila had escaped the barn, she returned to The Commission. When she arrives she goes to the Infinite Switchboard and learned that The Handler had killed her before she was resurrected. Heartbroken, she time travels to West Berlin in 1989, just after the fall of The Soviet Union, where she smashes a part of the Berlin Wall to find a note for her from The Handler. Over the following months, she joins a band and becomes ingratiated with the Punk scene in Berlin, where she's introduced to Stanley. This leads to when she time travels back to the Hotel Oblivion.

After Lila and The Academy's attempt to end The Kugelblitz fails, Lila finds Diego and apologizes for lying about Stanley, telling him she wasn't actually gone for 12 years and that did it because she was a coward. It's then she reveals she's pregnant with Diego's baby, telling him he's a good father and she doesn't believe she'll be a good mom, but she wants to try and build this family with Diego. The next morning Diego and Lila get into an argument, Lila wants Diego to come with her to Luther and Sloan's wedding, meanwhile Diego wants to try and stop the Kugelblitz. Diego asks Lila why she's not fighting harder, Lila meanwhile insisting that its a losing battle and is no use, to which Diego tells her its worth it as long as he can spend time with her and their baby. Lila tells him in the end he can either fight the Kugelblitz, or be with her. In the end Diego gives her his bracelet, which she left behind in the barn, telling her he chooses her. During the final days of the universe, Lila and Diego go with the others to the Oblivion and while fleeing The Guardian, Diego locks Lila in a room to protect her from getting hurt. Before he goes he tells her if he dies to tell their baby about the man he was and the man he tried to be before going to try and find the guardian. Eventually Lila escaped the room, slapping Diego when she finds him. After the universe is saved and they're back in their universe, realizing they no longer have their powers, Diego asks what they'll do now. To which Lila takes his hand and says " Live our lives. "

## Powers and Habilities

Currently, Lila does not have any powers after the universe reset.

### Ancient Powers

* **Power Mimicry:** Lila has the ability to copy the powers of others who are close to her and apparently use them with greater mastery than her original users. However, she can only copy one power at a time.
	+ **Cinco's Powers:** In her first match against Cinco, Lila left her rival confused when she suddenly disappeared, this being explained later due to her ability to copy the power of others, in Cinco's case, her teleportation. In the second confrontation against Five, she was shown to teleport even faster than Five himself, coming close to killing him. When she needed to ally herself with Cinco in an attempt to go to the Commission to stop the paradox, Lila also demonstrated that she was able to imitate Cinco's time travel power.
	+ **Vanya/Viktor's Powers:** When Vanya unleashed a massive blast of energy to defeat the Commission's army, Lila copied her powers to generate a force field, defending herself and the Manager. After defending herself, she attacked the umbrellas with a blast of energy just like Vanya had produced. When Diego trapped Lila inside a closet at the Oblivion Hotel, she destroyed the door with a blast of energy when Viktor walked by and soon after, both teamed up to destroy one of the hotel's guardians.
	+ **Luther's powers:** When Luther tried to attack Lila with a punch, she was able to catch his fist with ease and throw him against the wall.
	+ **Allison's Powers:** In her confrontation with Allison, Lila can use Allison's mind control powers to order Allison to stop breathing. The curious thing is that Lila didn't have to say "I heard a rumor" to use Allison's powers, taking advantage of her rival's opening words to reverse the command against her.
	+ **Sloane's Powers:** To get to the Sparrow Academy's rooftop, Lila copied Sloane's gravitational powers, lifting herself into the air.
	+ **Fei's powers:** In order to be able to get the commission's briefcase without having to enter the Sparrow's Academy, Lila copied Fei's power to manifest a crow to enter the academy and get the briefcase.
	+ **Diego's powers:** Upon arriving at the Obsidian Hotel, Lila caught Diego's attention by throwing a knife at the leg of the chair where he was sitting, making the knife divert its path to reach the place where she wanted. When they were confronted by one of the guardians of the Oblivion Hotel, Lila and Diego used his powers to throw several knives at the guardian in an attempt to kill him, where Lila managed to hit him in one of her throws.

## Relationships

### Family

* Ronnie Gill † - Father
* Anita Gill † - Mother
* Handler † - Adoptive Mother and Killer

### Allies

* Sissy Cooper
* Harlan Cooper
* The Commission
	+ Herb
	+ Dot
* The Umbrella Academy
	+ Luther Hargreeves
	+ Diego Hargreeves - Boyfriend
	+ Allison Chestnut - Former Attempted Victim
	+ Klaus Hargreeves
	+ Five Hargreeves - Resurrector
	+ Vanya Hargreeves

## Appearances

	+ Right Back Where We Started
	+ The Frankel Footage
	+ The Swedish Job
	+ The Majestic 12
	+ Valhalla
	+ A Light Supper
	+ Öga for Öga
	+ The Seven Stages
	+ 743
	+ The End of Something
* Season Three
	+ Meet the Family
	+ World's Biggest Ball of Twine
	+ Pocket Full of Lightning
	+ Kugelblitz
	+ Kindest Cut
	+ Marigold
	+ Auf Wiedersein
	+ Wedding at the End of the World
	+ Seven Bells
	+ Oblivion