Gumi

Gumi in Camp Lily.

**Gumi** is a major character in *silylily - The Story*.

Gumi is Lily's best friend, but their relationship suffers on account of Gumi's fame. She tries to make time for Lily, but her schedule often comes between them. Even though she is described as being silly, she is a caring friend that loves Lily and wants what is best for her.

## Summary

### History

Gumi grew up alongside her childhood friend, Kamui Gakupo. At school, she befriends Lily and the two agree to become "rockstars" together. However, animosity forms between her two friends who constantly vie for her attention. Upon growing up, Gumi and Gakupo form a company for the vocaloid genre of music called Internet. After learning about Lily's plan to join a rival company, Gumi kidnaps the blonde and brings her into Internet instead. Gumi quickly becomes the most popular singer in the troupe, even after Ryuto, CUL, galaco, kokone, Chika, and Otomachi Una join, galaco not staying for long. Becoming a megastar alongside Gakupo and Una, Gumi's relationship with the much less popular Lily begins to suffer.

### Mending Her Bond

Gumi joins Lily and many others on a camping trip in the Execrated Forest, where she proves to be a productive member of the team by being able to make a campfire. However, her group is later pursued by a wild cat-girl named Nekomura Iroha, a ghost girl named Suzune Ring, and demons known as Indefinable Shadow Beasts. Almost every camper is captured by the creatures, leaving Gumi and Lily alone. The two come across a roomba named Cocorobo, who claims to be a girl trapped inside by a curse. Before they take her to the Fountain of Diolacov to turn her human again, Gumi tearfully sacrifices herself to a swarm of Indefinable Shadow Beasts so Lily can escape.

Gumi is captured and imprisoned alongside the other campers, but they are soon joined by Lily and the humanized Cocorobo. After an intense battle, Iroha is cured of her possession and the campers are able to escape in a helicopter flown by Una. Life returns to normal for Gumi, but her fame and regular performances keep her from spending time with Lily. After Lily befriends Sonika, who looks identical to Gumi, Gumi decides to swap places with the lookalike in order to hang out with Lily more. The two grow as friends and Lily develops a crush on Gumi.

Gumi's fame continues with her being invited to perform in the selective Vocal Synth Christmas Concert and other major performances, most of which Lily is denied entry from. The two are eventually tasked with babysitting Iroha's many cats, but a particularly naughty one named Scourge makes the job difficult. Gumi and Lily receive assistance from "supervillains" Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn to watch the evil cat, but this only makes Scourge more evil. Before Gumi and Lily can be subjected to torture, they are saved when Iroha returns and Scourge turns good for her. The two vocaloids retain their friendships with Harley and Ivy, even going on a double date with them.

### A Guest of Honor

For a special occasion, Gumi overtakes Lily's Twitter account, but cannot figure out how anything works. She struggles to type coherently, she shows a comic where she blows up a store after failing to pay for chocolate, and she unknowingly leaks a screenshot of Lily admitting her love for her, among other posts and edits. By the end of the day, Lily "escapes" and regains access to her account. Life returns to normal and eventually, all members of Internet are invited to perform at a concert. Shortly after the concert, Gumi is invited to attend a major dance celebration as a guest of honor, which prevents Lily from taking her as a date. Gakupo, who is also a guest of honor, demands that Gumi uphold her status and prevents her from seeing Lily at the event.

When Gumi goes outside for a carrot break, she catches Lily after the blonde falls from the upper balcony. After a tender moment, Gumi confesses to despising her guest of honor title, so she decides to tell Gakupo off and dance with Lily anyway. Weeks later, Gumi goes on to save Lily's life again when the latter tries to walk on water while intoxicated by honeydew. Gumi is able to give her friend serious advice that furthers her career and confidence, allowing Lily to manage her band Enlightenment with Cocorobo and kokone. The band is invited to perform at Gumi's birthday party, which is hosted by Gakupo. At the party, Gakupo announces that he will be taking Gumi on "the Great Vocaloid Tour," the biggest vocaloid concert in the world. Following the announcement, the party is crashed and Gumi is knocked unconscious.

Upon awakening, Gumi discovers that Lily was blamed for the attack out of jealousy, but the real attackers were apprehended. She apologizes to Lily on behalf of Gakupo and the two share a bittersweet moment when Lily acknowledges she will not be going on the tour with Gumi. However, Enlightenment has a booking of its own at a mystery venue in the Execrated Forest. When Lily, kokone, and Cocorobo leave, Gakupo forces every member of Internet besides Chika to leave for the tour early. Due to this, Gumi is unable to say goodbye to Lily and misses her birthday.

### Deep Sea Lily

Gumi and Ryuto are abruptly taken from their tour by Prima and brought aboard a vessel bound for the abyssal plain. They reunite with Lily and learn that they are on a quest to find the sacred artifact VY1 before Aoki Lapis, Suzune Ring, Namine Ritsu, and Violet can. They are quickly attacked by an anglerfish, but before Gumi can find Lily, Uni grabs her hand and runs off with her. The two end up lost at the bottom of the ocean along with SF-A2 miki and Tako Luka. Gumi and miki bond when Gumi expresses sincere regret for leaving Lily behind to go on tour. miki is captured by Ring soon after, but Ring is later killed by Solaria. Eventually, Gumi's group is surrounded by killer fish. Uni and Tako Luka are captured, leaving Gumi by herself.

Gumi soon finds VY1, which has fallen adrift, but she is quickly captured by Ritsu. Solaria is able to teleport VY1 away, but Gumi is imprisoned inside Lapis' undersea castle along with her captured teammates. They are later rescued by Lily with help from Ritsu, but Ritsu is soon killed by Lapis for betraying her. The heroes destroy the castle from the inside before escaping, leaving Lapis dead in the wreckage. Violet takes over the ocean as an act of revenge, forcing the heroes to use VY1 to imprison her. Hearing from Prima that a sacrifice is needed to make it work, Gumi volunteers herself with intent to save Lily. Even after Lily pleads with her not to, Gumi attempts to give her life, but it does not work. It only works when Merli makes the sacrifice instead. They are then able to imprison Violet and return to the surface.

### Vocaloid 6

After life returns to normal at the Internet mansion, Gumi is invited to join the new "Vocaloid 6" program as its first member.

## Characterization

Originally, Gumi's personality was heavily derived from a parody account on Twitter in her image. It depicted her as a silly but well-intentioned individual who occasionally had a rocky relationship with Lily, despite being her best friend. Through conversations with the account, silylilyanimove's admin wrote the initial concept for Gumi and Lily's friendship. They were never intended to be anything more than best friends, Lily's love interest at the time being CUL. Over time, the Gumi parody account became inactive, but several others came along. When *Silylily - The Story* started up, many aspects of Gumi's personality were drawn from popular memes and opinions on her. As silylilyanimove grew a wider audience, many of its followers expressed an interest in a potential romance between Gumi and Lily. The admin toyed with the idea for a short while before deciding to write a romantic story arc between them. Many parts of their relationship were written with the intention of being somewhat intense for simple friends, such as them sharing a bed or kissing each other platonically. The admin went back and forth between having them be a couple vs. having Lily crush on Gumi, but for the sake of the storyline and a potential love triangle with kokone, they decided to keep the relationship at a crush level.

## Trivia

* According to Lily is Forgotten, Gumi is the only member of Internet shown to remember Lily's birthday.
* As it is inferred that Utatane Piko died in the store explosion initiated by Gumi, Gumi could be considered one of the few "good" characters to have killed someone.
* In A Vocaloid Halloween, Gumi builds Roko's Basilisk from the infamous thought experiment.