Lila Stranova

**Lila Stranova** was a female Human-Mageian mercenary from the planet Cassiopeia Prime. She was a member of a powerful crime syndicate called the Sixteen Brothers. She was the daughter of Selen Stranova and Johach Sondi.

## Biography

### Early Life

In 5938 ASA, Lila Stranova was born on the planet Cassiopeia Prime, the shining, urban, galactic capital of the United Cassiopeian Republic. Lila was born to a Mageian mother and a Human father, both of which who were born on the city planet just as she was.

The family lived in the lower, less wealthier levels of the city planet. Her parents taught her basic survival skills, given the dangers of the streets that surrounded their small family home. While Stranova's father taught her physical skills, like basic self-defense and weapon safety, her mother taught her the life lessons she needed to keep herself alive in a harsh world—at least life lessons Selen herself deemed necessary for her daughter.

When Lila was only several years old, her mother passed away from illness. Lila was left only with the lessons that her mother taught her. Beyond her mother's lessons, some of which she only vaguely remembered, Lila could not remember much of her mother outside of photographs.

### Meeting the Sixteen Brothers

Lila's father Johach was entangled with the dealings of Cassiopeia's crime syndicates, but one organization that he couldn't outrun was the Sixteen Brothers. The Sixteen Brothers was a powerful syndicate led by a Scaphian man named Ozgrum. Johach owed money to the syndicate, and they demanded that he paid off his debts.

When Lila was ten years old, the Sixteen Brothers broke into her and her father's apartment on Cassiopeia Prime. Johach, thinking that they were there to kill him and his daughter, begged them not to go through with it. To his surprise, the Sixteen Brothers did not come with the intention of killing the family of two, but rather to induct them into their organization. A representative of the crime syndicate explained that the only way Johach could repay his debts alive was to work directly for them.

From that day forward, Lila and her father Johach were forced into working under the control of the Sixteen Brothers, sparking Lila's life of crime.

### A Young Mercenary

Lila's father didn't manage to last very long within the ranks of the Sixteen Brothers. Within just a few years of being part of the crime syndicate, Johach Sondi's recklessness eventually caught up to him, costing him his life. Later on in her life, Lila would fondly remember her father, but understood that his mistakes and his actions ultimately led to his demise.

Since the death of her father, Lila strived to work even harder to survive in a harsh universe. She rigorously trained to perfect her skills in combat, even at the cost of getting bruised up on multiple occasions. She took the lessons from her father and mother learned from a young age and tried her best to hone these skills. As a teenaged Lila continued to grow up as a member of the Sixteen Brothers, her worldview became more pessimistic and weary. Nevertheless, Lila managed to keep herself afloat for years. Throughout her time within the syndicate, she made a good number of friends and allies, such as Baslyn Akyva and Mozette Minár.

## Personality and Traits

Lila Stranova was a Human-Mageian woman with orange eyes, tanned rosy skin, and black hair. She inherited her black hair and tanned skin from her father Johach. The stripes that patterned her skin, the orange eyes, and the streak of blonde hair were all traits that Lila inherited from her mother Selen.

Growing up within a criminal organization made Lila jaded and cynical to the world around her. She often made sarcastic remarks and had an overall pessimistic view on life. Her skills as a mercenary were formed out of necessity and survival in the harsh criminal underworld. Despite this world-weariness and pragmatism, there was a part of her that wanted to trust and form valuable connections with others. As a child, she always wanted to explore the bigger galaxy, and so she had a particularly soft spot for exploring new places, even while she performed criminal activities.

## Skills and Abilities

As a mercenary, Lila forced herself to be adept at things like hand-to-hand combat and firearm usage in order to give herself a chance at surviving in the criminal underworld of the Cassiopeia Galaxy.

## Trivia

* Lila was originally named Lilith Vokstranova as a former *Star Wars* fan character.
	+ Originally, Lila's full name was going to be Lilandua Vomnenda as a *Conjuring Cosmos* character.