Lilin character

**Lilin** is the main protagonist in *Lilin.* She is a demon (succubus) who targets men as her prey, specifically those willing to completely lose themselves and commit heinous acts in order to "claim" her romantically and/or sexually. Throughout the series, she begins to question her morality as well as her identity, as she meets new friends and foes alike.

## Appearances

### Debut

Episode 0: “When Your High School Crush Confesses to You”

## Appearance

Lilin's human alias "Lillie" appears to be a young human woman of average height and weight, with short blue hair that reaches just above the shoulders, and violet eyes. Her outfits vary from city casual, such as skinny jeans with a red shirt and black crop jacket, to date night attire, such as a red and black plaid sleeveless dress with black thigh-high socks and long, opera-length arm covers. Her footwear varies from heels to sneakers depending on the outfit.

   In her true form, her skin is a light pinkish red with black curled ram-like horns on the top of her head, and she also has a long red and black ridged tail with a spaded tip. Her eyes' sclera turns black with a red iris, and her clothes also change to black shorts, black and pink cross-strap crop top, short red crop jacket, two belts around her thighs, and black strappy heels. Her nails also turn white, which can become long, silver daggerlike claws with fingers that dip into black.

Regardless of form and attire, Lilin always wears her signature red diamond-jeweled choker, a Christmas gift from her parents from her previous life.

## Personality

Lilin overall displays a heavily independent, headstrong personality, and considers showing her true emotions as a sign of weakness. She keeps herself heavily guarded and gets upset when forced to confront her true feelings to others, and is incredibly afraid of losing control in a situation and her existence as a whole.

When she's on the pursuit for a meal and is luring a male human to Corrupt, she will often play the innocent damsel in her human form and may even submerse herself into a relationship with another male in order to prey upon her desired target and sow jealousy. She also strongly dislikes finding female demons feeding within her territory, and particularly feels threatened by Lamia and her close proximity to potential love interest Rio.

For the most part, Lilin doesn't think kindly of male humans, and sees them as animals who treat women as pieces of meat. It's later revealed a past trauma of sexual assault is the likeliest cause for her tendencies and current world outlook. As a result, Lilin seldom has friends, with the exception of Yaz, Yumi, and Rio, in which she's more likely to be free-spirited and some of her true quirks and traits tend to show - her love of arcades and fighting games, for example.

## Biography

Lilin's date and place of birth are currently unknown, but has joked to Yumi that she has *"800 years of experience".* In a memory flashback when talking to Yaz, it's revealed that her birth name was "Lynn", and she originally had short dark brown hair and brown eyes. In the past, an incident occurred where she was sexually assaulted by a group of people, and while trying to fight back she gained her succubus powers and destroyed the assailants. From that point forward, she dropped her birth name and went by her new moniker and human alias, and began her pursuit to Corrupt and feed on male humans, vowing *"...never to fall that low again."* She also begins to refer to herself and other female succubi as Sisters.

In *Episodes 1 & 2*, Lilin is introduced as a third-year high school student. Before meeting Genji, she had been dating his friend Sho for 2 months. Onward after *Episode 3,* she appears again as a first-year student at Ima University, pursuing fellow first-year Rio until she decides to cut off the relationship in *Episode 9.* However, she's alarmed when he found that she was flirting around behind his back and retaliates by severing ties with her before she could declare it first, spiraling him into the first steps of Corruption to her disadvantage.

This setback devastates them both more than they realize, as even Lilin begins to ponder if being a Sister can still make her happy, and reluctantly agrees to work with Lamia to gain back Rio's trust. Upon seeing Lilin's trigger reaction to her trauma and her true feelings about him, Lamia reconsiders and eventually succeeds in bridging the gap between the two for the sake of their happiness.

## Powers & Abilities

Lilin can transform at will into her true demon form, and is able to use certain powers and abilities in this stage such as supernatural strength to tear her opponents literally apart. In this state, she can also teleport to another location, but how far she can travel is unclear.

Lilin can also influence and lure her quarry to do her bidding, often with the victim feeling overwhelmed with auditory hallucinations of her voice in their heads until compelled to action. This can range from paranoia to violent, rage-induced acts such as murder. However, this ability only seems to work on humans; demons are unphased.

As her abilities emerge throughout the series' progression, this page will be updated.

## Media Appearances

Lilin first appeared in a tech demo Youtube video on Daggertail100's channel, published on February 8, 2021. As it was made prior to the start of the actual series, this video is now known as *Episode 0: “When Your High School Crush Confesses to You”.*

Her initial appearance for the most part is similar to her current, but in her human form, her hair was a darker blue and styled in an inverted bob. Her eyes were also magenta and more rounded with less-pronounced pupils. Her schoolgirl uniform is similar for the most part, except her socks were powder-blue knee-highs. Her persona is also meeker and more studious than *Episodes 1 & 2,* in which she appears to struggle more with math.

## Trivia

* According to ancient Mesopotamian mythology and Jewish folklore, Lilin were hostile night spirits that attacked men. Lilin's name also bears strong resemblance to Lilith, supposedly the first wife of Adam also considered to be a female spirit/demon.
* In the tech demo *Episode 0*, Lilin's full name was originally "Lilin Lust", with the voice credit going to Crosslachantu, a former user handle for Maganda Marie. In *Episode 1* onward, this credit was changed to her real name.
	+ Her old model's track suit has the Yasogami High emblem from *Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4.*
	+ Viewers can also find this initial version of Lilin as a background character in the beach scenes in *Episode 8: "Yumi"* and the cafe in *Episode 9: "Shattered".*
* In *Episode 1: "Lillie",* Lilin becomes tired from studying math after school with Genji and says *"The numbers, Genji! What do they mean?!"* This is a variation of the meme that came from *Call of Duty: Black Ops.*
* In *Episode 3: "Temptation",* Lilin reuses a line to Rio that she also said to Genji in *Episode 1,* about girls playing video games not being all that rare.
	+ Lilin also comes across a stuffed bear in a crane game at the arcade with Rio and tries to recall where she saw it before. The bear is the same kind Genji won for her in *Episode 1* and was to gift to her before she killed him.
	+ In all 3 episodes it appeared, the stuffed bear is also in the default reference/T-pose.
* Lilin often cites common phrases or jokes popular within the fighting game community (FGC), such as being salty or pretzel motions.
	+ In *Episode 1,* when talking to Genji about fighting games, she mentions pulling off a Raging Storm, which is one of Geese Howard's most famous moves from SNK's *Fatal Fury* and *The King of Fighters* video game series. For the show's social media posts for National Pretzel Day on April 26, 2021, she even cosplayed Geese.
	+ In other social media posts and briefly in *Episode 6: "Clash"* and *Episode 10: "Change",* the viewer can see her arcade fight stick, which closely resembles Hori's 8-button layout and colors for their XBox360 editions.
	+ At the arcade in *Episode 3* while playing a round against Rio in a fighting game, Lilin shouts *"WOLF BUSTER!"* This is a nod to Buster Wolf, a trademark move of Terry Bogard's from *Fatal Fury* and *The King of Fighters.* In *Episode 5: "Enemy"* and *Episode 10: "Change",* Lilin can be seen wearing a red and white baseball cap similar to his.
* When Lilin double fists her drinks in the nightclub in *Episode 3,* this is coincidentally repeated again in *Episode 10,* this time by Tai.
* In *Episode 8: "Yumi",* Lilin is humming *Careless Whisper* by George Michael, while Yumi is changing into her bathing suit.
* According to *Minisode #1: "Yes to the Dress",* pink is Lilin's least favorite color.
* Sometimes Lilin's laughs are recycled tracks, such as the holiday minisode *One Happy Thought* reusing from *Episode 3.*
* The ending scene in the minisode *"I've Been A Fool"* is the same bar used in stills for the Commentaries, as well as A/B scene eye catches in earlier mainline episodes where Lilin is singing at a lounge.