Lily

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Lily Honda** (Japanese: **本 リリィ** *Honda Riri*), born as **Lily Akaashi** (Japanese: **赤葦 リリィ** *Akaashi Riri*) was the libero of Shiratorizawa`s Girls` Volleyball Team, later transferring to Karasuno and becoming a manager of the Boys` Volleyball Team after being sucked back into time. As of November 2018, she is currently working as a piano teacher and a professional ice-skater, and has since settled down with Kenma Kozume in the Nagasaki Prefecture.

## Appearance

Lily has long auburn hair and golden-yellow eyes with thin pupils and very thin eyebrows; in some official art, her eyes appear to be cat`s eye-yellow, but in others, they are more sunny yellow-colored. She tends to wear an apathetic, slightly exasperated, or even emotionless expression a great majority of the time but is shown to smile occasionally given the circumstance. She makes her debut at the beginning of the school year wearing her old private high school uniform, which still fits her. During the practice match, at the end of the camp; she donned her old Shiratorizawa`s Volleyball Uniform consisting of a white jersey with the sleeves, the bold vertical stripe on her shorts and the number 3 on her jersey top in a maroon color. During a match, where she was forced to sub in as a libero; she wore a spare Heiwa High Uniform consisting of a basil-green jersey with scarlet-red details, white shorts with basil-green & scarlet-red details, and white tennis shoes with teal designs.

## Personality

Lily has a composed and analytical personality. Despite being a former Libero, she was considered by her teammates to be the "unofficial captain" of their team and that was her official title among her upperclassmen and underclassmen, especially people from other schools. Her skills as Shiratorizawa`s libero even caused her to be admired, as she refused to give up even when everything seemed very hard. After transferring to Karasuno, Lily became withdrawn and very abrasive to keep people from questioning her adoptive siblings and to keep from drawing attention to herself. Off the court, she was shown to be supportive of her team and often took on a parental role when speaking toward, or of them, similar to Sugawara and Morisuke. Because of this, Lily, Yaku, and Sugawara get along well. She can easily keep a level head in any kind of situation and is very mature. Despite her biological gender, Lily behaves like a tomboy and wears the boy`s school uniform for Karasuno. She can also be incredibly short-tempered, especially concerning Tsukishima, who seems to find Lily`s angry outbursts "amusing" (although these outbursts are typically in response to Tsukishima tactlessly commenting on Lily's height and/or attempting to skip practicing receives with her). Even her own underclassmen are scared of her at times, referring to her as a "demon senpai". Overall, however, Lily is a rather honest, straightforward person who looks out for her team all of the time. She frequently engages scuffles to keep the second-years in line, as during the Aobajohsai Match when Tanaka, and Tsukishima were intimidating Yūtarō Kindaichi and Akira Kunimi; Daichi told her to retrieve them. Noticing them intimidating members of the other team, she kicked Tanaka in the back and told him to apologize before dragging him off and leveling dark glares down at him when he refused to listen.

## Plot

### **Karasuno High Formation Arc**

Lily is introduced as one of Karasuno High`s managers, helping to bring in supplies for the Boys` Volleyball Team before pulling out her gaming station making her adoptive siblings sigh. Later on in the match, Arya pulls out her computer and starts doing her homework, while watching the match at the same time. When a stray volleyball nails Arya in the face, Lily serves the ball into the back of Lev Haiba`s head in retaliation for hitting Arya in the face with the ball.

#### **Tokyo Expedition Arc**

Lily is briefly mentioned by her adoptive siblings, as having once attended Shiratorizawa High before transferring due to the heavy injuries she sustained during one game leading to her eventual hospitalization. Akaashi happens to overhear the sound of an ongoing game, and peeps into the gym where Lily is serving as a libero for a game between the managers of Karasuno High. Not noticing that other people are watching, Lily does a libero back-row attack successfully and making her team win the second and final set of the game. Bokuto is impressed by her skills, and comments that she would have made a fine libero for their school.

#### **Spring High Preliminary Arc**

Upon entering the stadium, Hinata asks Lily to serve as a libero for their spiking practice and she agrees changing into a spare Karasuno High Volleyball Uniform. Unaware that she is being watched by Shiratorizawa`s players, she dives for the ball over and over again perfectly sending it back to Kageyama without fail. Tendō asks Ushijima if Lily is their starting libero only for him to shrug his shoulders and say that he doesn`t know. During a time-out, Lily demonstrates a receiving position for Nishinoya and practices a little with him. After they win the last set, Lily is relieved and openly congratulates by offering to let them stay at her and her adoptive siblings` house for dinner much to their agreement.

## Statistics

 Stamina
 Game Sense
 Technique
 Speed

Lily`s skills as a libero rival those of Nishinoya. She has a keen sense for receiving and is known to be able to instinctively receive a ball despite only seeing how it works once. Her defensive prowess puts on par with the likes of Nekoma`s Morisuke Yaku and Karasuno`s Yuu Nishinoya. Her solid receives, which perfectly send the ball back to the setter without fail makes her a dangerous enemy and thus people aimed for her in official matches.

**Jumping Reach:** 301 cm

## Relationships

#### **Arya Jackal**

The two of them have an inherently complex nature; as due to coming from two opposing volleyball teams, specifically two teams that have gone against each other at some point, there is clear tension between the two of them.