Luna

Luna revealing herself to Lily.

**Luna** is a major character and former antagonist in *Silylily - The Story*.

Being one of Lily from anim.o.v.e's former bandmates, Luna is abandoned following the former's decision to become a vocaloid singer. The two are continually haunted by regret for their own personal actions until Luna pursues Lily in an act of vengeance. After Luna kidnaps and nearly kills many of Lily's friends, the two acknowledge where they both went wrong and make up. Luna remains an important person in Lily's life as they seek to mend the broken bond they created together.

## Summary

### History

As an amateur musician, Luna attends many shows to watch the performers. Upon seeing the band anim.o.v.e perform, she approaches lead singer Lily to commend her. This kicks off a friendship that later leads to a romantic relationship, Lily having fallen for Luna at first sight. The couple's feelings continue to grow and Lily eventually asks Luna to join the band. When she does so, animosity forms between her and another member named Mosh. Luna vies for Lily's attention, trying to keep her interactions with Mosh to a minimum. Eventually, Lily decides to become a vocaloid singer by joining a household of other singers in the genre. This creates tension in the band and complicates her relationship. When the tide turns against them, Lily and Luna are forced to break up.

Throughout her days as a vocaloid singer, Lily is constantly haunted by visions of Mosh and Luna, regretting her decision to abandon them. Luna, never growing past Lily, seeks to rebuild their bond by using illicit means. Upon obtaining a vacant mansion, Luna holds a fake *Hello Kitty* fan contest in order to award Lily's friend Nekomura Iroha the mansion as a prize. Pretending the manor is haunted, Luna instructs Iroha to give it to Lily. The monster haunting it turns out to be Luna in a skull mask and trench coat. She secretly lives in the house with Lily and the maid Cocorobo, but she mostly keeps to the basement and is occasionally spotted on the upper floors.

### Lily's Mansion

Lily invites thirteen guests to spend the night in her supposedly haunted mansion, offering a cash prize to anyone who can go the entire night without leaving. During dinner, Luna kills the power in the house, forcing IA, Yuzuki Yukari, Uni, and Tako Luka to find the generator in the basement. It is there that Luna first attacks them. Luna stalks the guests throughout the night, kidnapping them one by one and trapping them in a secret room. She first attacks Kagamine Rin, Otomachi Una, and Hatsune Miku when they investigate the haunting, but her first "victims" are IA and Yukari when the two try to escape in their car. Luna hides in the backseat and catches them both when they attempt to drive away. Luna stays outside and kidnaps kokone when she tries to flee, as well.

When Iroha is called over to the mansion to contribute her knowledge to the investigation, Luna stalks the guests and becomes more aggressive. She captures Gumi, Cocorobo, CUL, Maika, Tako Luka, Uni, Miku, Una, Sachiko, Iroha, and Rin, leaving Lily and Merli as the only uncaptured inhabitants. Once Merli uncovers Luna's identity, she and Lily are caught and brought to a room where Luna plants a bomb to blow everything up. She reveals herself to Lily and offers the vocaloid to either abandon vocaloid and join her again or lose everything. When Lily refuses to join her, Luna activates a timer until the explosive detonates. During the countdown, Lily is able to get through to Luna, claiming she does not need to abandon vocaloid to reconcile with Luna. The two share a heartfelt moment as Luna's mind is changed about the situation, but the timer is irreversible. Luna and Lily are able to rescue the captives and escape the mansion before it explodes. On a cliffside, the two agree to fix their relationship and remain friends.

### Fixing a Bond

While Lily and Luna remain in contact, it is not until Christmas that Lily visits her ex in order to fully apologize for her actions. Finding themselves under a mistletoe, they share a kiss. The two begin to regularly hang out, Lily and Cocorobo even joining Luna for a New Years celebration. Eventually, Luna is approached by Lily's long-time adversary Namine Ritsu, who claims to know an incriminating secret about Lily that would ruin her reputation. Ritsu threatens to leak the secret to the world, so for the sake of Lily's safety, Luna agrees to go to a major dance celebration with Ritsu. Due to this, she declines when Lily asks her to the dance.

At the dance, Lily is distraught upon seeing Luna dating Ritsu. On behalf of her friend, kokone wrestles Luna into the bathroom and interrogates her. Luna slips the truth about Ritsu to kokone, who then brings the information to Lily. Ritsu takes Luna out to a balcony, but they are pursued by an angry Lily, who then battles Ritsu on the rooftop. When Ritsu falls over the edge and hits her head, she develops amnesia. Lily and Luna then make up and spend the rest of the night together.

Luna starts to take a drug-like substance called honeydew, which she introduces Lily to. When Lily, Cocorobo, and kokone decide to start a band, they go to Luna to have her teach them to play instruments. Under her instruction, the three form the popular vocagrunge band Enlightenment. When her career later reaches a point of turmoil, Lily comes to Luna to do honeydew with her. This leads her into an addiction. Lily later resolves her issues and Enlightenment continues on. When their roadie, Sonika, mysteriously disappears, Luna is tasked with driving the band to a show in the Execrated Forest. Upon arrival, Luna is captured by the possessed Suzune Ring and brought to Aoki Lapis as a prisoner alongside kokone, Cocorobo, and Sonika. Eventually, Lily invades Lapis' kingdom with Merli and Iroha. Luna and the other prisoners are rescued and join the fight, which forces Lapis and her minions to flee.

## Conceptualization

Inspired by Luna's appearance in an official anim.o.v.e manga as an antagonist, silylilyanimove's admin had the idea to introduce Luna into their continuity as a rival to Lily similar to Shadow the Hedgehog. Following the release of Camp Lily, a sequel made in RPG Maker began production that would involve Lily being haunted by visions of Mosh and Luna. Throughout the game, the events would be orchestrated by a mystery antagonist that would turn out to be Luna in the end. With multiple endings, choices of the player would determine her fate. However, the game ceased production due to a lack of interest.

Following the cancellation of the RPG, the admin of silylilyanimove thought of new ideas to introduce Luna into the story. Appreciating the relationship between Luna and Lily, they were hesitant about having her be a complete antagonist. Nevertheless, the twist planned for the RPG came to light in Lily's Mansion, which allowed its readers to vote on whether Luna remained evil or not. When the votes were split down the middle, silylilyanimove's admin combined the possible outcomes and the story ended with Luna changing her ways. The rest of Luna's lore revolved around fully mending her relationship with Lily, the two of them making progress over time.

## Trivia

* It is currently unknown what became of Luna's relationship with Mosh.