Lily Iglehart/History

This page chronicles the **history of Lily Iglehart**, a major character in *Sex Education*.

## Background

Lillian Iglehart is probably the only child of Carol and her husband. With her family, she lives in the house on Westbury in Moordale.

When Lily was a child, she started making up stories about aliens and the galaxies they live in. With time, writing stories became her passion, as she was doing it everyday for hours. In primary school, Lily started to share her stories with her classmates, who over time couldn't bear listening to them, due to their sexual content, and started reporting Lily's stories to the teachers, who told everything to her parents. Carol explained to Lily that it wasn't appropriate for young girls to talk about sex, but Lily insisted writing stories was important to her, so Carol advised her not to share them with anyone and to keep them to herself.

By the time, Lily started attending Moordale Secondary School, she was kind of outsider who didn't have many friends. Even though she may have seemed lonely, she didn't mind it at all. During breaks, she was busy with writing her stories. At some point, she joined the algebra club and the Swing Band, where she was a clarinetist.

## Season One

### Episode 3

Lily's present at the Swing Band's rehearsal, during which they're supposed to decide if Eric Effiong will be part of the team. Despite the fact that most of the members aren't willing to have Eric in the band, Lily's voting to let Eric on the team, which makes Eric an official Swing Band member. Later, Lily offers him help with practising, which he accepts. They're arranging a meeting at Eric's house.

After school Lily comes to Eric's house under pretense of practising; in reality, she wants to have sex with him, beacuse she desperately wants to lose her virginity. After Eric reveals that he's gay, Lily seems upset and puts her shirt back on. Later, Lily explores Eric's room and finds feminine clothes in his wardrobe, asking him if he dressed up like a lady; Eric replies that he liked dressing up but he wasn't a ladyboy. After a while, Lily suggests Eric doing a makeover. They're putting on make-up on each other and some unusual clothes. Later, the two are watching gay porn, but are interrupted by Abeo, Eric's father. Lily apologizes and leaves Eric's room.

In the end of the episode, Lily writes another story, based on earlier her experience with Eric.

### Episode 4

Lily's sitting in Moordale Secondary common room, listening to Otis and Eric talking, during which she gets to know that Otis is a virgin, just like her. Later, she approaches him on a corridor, asking him if he wants to have sex with her. Otis, being a little bit confused, politely declines her. Lily says that if he changes his mind, he'll be able to find her in music room B or algebra club.

### Episode 5

She's present at the assembly, during which Olivia claims that the displayed vulva is hers, prompting a wave of support as nearly all the girls join her, including Lily.

### Episode 6

Lily keeps on searching for a guy who'll be willing to have sex with her. After other guys are declining her, Otis changes his mind about it and approaches Lily asking if she's still interested. She desperately is and arranges to meet with Otis at his' after classes.

Lily comes to Otis' house. Unfortunately for her, it is not what she wanted it to be. The two end up sitting on Otis' bed looking at the walls. When Lily's trying to make a move on Otis, he distractedly pushes her away.

After some time, they're finally getting to the thing. The two start taking off their clothes, and Lily starts kissing Otis passionately. After a while, Otis starts to scream and falls to the floor, asking Lily to call his mum. After what confused Lily does it.

After an unsuccessful sexual encounter, Lily, Otis, Jean and Jakob are all sitting on a balcony, where Lily tells Jakob and Jean about her stories. Then, Lily decides to go home, and Otis aplogizes Lily for the whole situation; she responds that her expectations had been extremely low.

### Episode 7

She comes to the school dance, where she meets a guy called OctoBoy. She asks him if he wants to have sex with her. He agrees, after what they're dancing together.

### Episode 8

After she finally found someone who's up to have sex with her, Lily and OctoBoy are in Lily's room trying to have sex. The whole thing is preceded by foreplay related to Lily's stories, and more specifically, with Glenoxi (who's Lily) and Lord Zortac (who's OctoBoy). When they finally get to the sex part, Lily experiences pain, which doesn't let her to continue the intercourse. Depressed Lily goes to Otis for an advice the following day. At first, Otis declines to give her out a sex advice, but then, after Lily says she hadn't said anything about the situation she experienced with him, he agrees.

At the beginning, Otis doesn't really know what caused Lily's problem, but then, he finds out that Lily's problem can be something called vaginismus and comes up with an idea of cycling down the hill, due to Lily's fear of letting go. After hearing that, Lily suggests that Otis should do the sime, referring to the panic attack he got after she touched his penis. Then, Otis changes his mind and tells Lily to forget it and it was silly idea. Lily isn't listening to him and rides down the hill, saying she cannot wait for the moment her vagina opens up. Eventually, Otis decides to ride down after her.

During riding down the hill, Otis falls off his bike. Lily approaches him, checking if he's okay. After Otis gets up, he asks Lily why she wanted to have sex so bad. She confides in him that she doesn't want to be the one's who's left behind. Later, Otis lets her know that having sex is not a race and they still have some time for this, which cheers Lily up.

## Season Two

### Episode 1

Lily is chosen to be Ola's (a new student at Moordale) chaperone. She waits for her in the secretariat, reading *Tank Girl* comic book. When Ola finally arrives, she tells Lily that she loves *Tank Girl.* After a while, Lily takes Ola on a school trip, showing her the whole school and introducing some students to her. Suddenly, the two notice Rahim Harrak, another new student on a corridor; Lily says that she'd thought she'd had a very small orgasm after seeing him.

### Episode 2

Lily's part of Aptitude Scheme. During the class, the students were asked to read their 10-years time essays. Lily's essay says that she's planning to publish her stories as *The Chronicles of Glenoxi*, an epic alien love comic book series, which will be made into a global franchise and eventually be screened in space.

After the classes, she and Ola go to the fun fair that's taking place at Senneley Park in Moordale. There, Ola tells her about how bad at fingering Otis is. Lily suggests her to tell this to Otis, what she decides to do, but she's still hesitating, not wanting to hurt him. Eventually, Ola doesn't tell anything to Otis, what Lily does. She approaches Otis and tells him that he's bad at fingering, asking him not to tell Ola that she told him it.

In the end of the episode, Lily's giving out flyers about the autition to a school play she'll be directing. She approaches Jackson giving him one of the flyers. He responds that acting isn't for him, after what Lily tells him that he act all the time, referring to his unwill to swim, which he hides in front of his parents.

### Episode 3

Lily accidentaly enters Jean's office, thinking it's the history classroom. Realizing that she confused the classrooms, she leaves. Otis, who saw Lily leaving his mother's office is afraid that Lily told Jean about his sex therapy business, so he approaches her and asks about it.

Later, Lily, beside Colin, is auditioning students who want to get a part in a school play. After Jackson's performance on stage, she and Colin decided about giving him a Romeo part right away.

### Episode 4

Lily's present at the first ever rehearsal of the play. She's deeply disappointed by Jackson and Florence's acting skills, as she describes Jackson as a terrible actor and Florence as unbelievable actress.

Later, after Otis and Ola's unsuccessful attempt to have sex, Lily tries to comfort Ola, giving her a drawing she's drawn by herself and then hugging her.

### Episode 5

Lily appears in her friend, Ola's sex dream. Throughout the episode, Ola is discovering that she's pansexual and likes Lily.

Later, Ola goes to Lily's house and starts kissing her passionately. However, Lily freaks out and shuts the door in front of her, leaving Ola confused.

### Episode 6

Lily starts avoiding Ola, as she is confused about their relationship after Ola kissed her.

Later, she comes to Otis' party, during which she meets Ola, but she runs away again, not letting Ola explain anything.

### Episode 7

After Kyle writes "Miss Sands is a dirty talking slut!" in the girls' locker room with lipstick, incriminating the girls spotted in the area (Lily, Ola, Olivia, Maeve, Aimee and Viv), the girls are all detentioned after classes and are given some exercises to do by Emily Sands.

One of the exercises was to make up with something that binds them all together. After long time of thinking, they still can't make something up, and what's worse, Maeve and Ola start arguing about Otis, but are interrupted by Aimee, who tells them not to fight over a stupid boy, as she's still traumatized after she got assualted on the bus. Later, girls share stories about their sad experiences with men, it turns out that something binds them together.

Suddenly, Miss Sands enters the library, telling the girls their found out who's responsible of the offensive words towards her, apologizing them for whole situation. Later, all the girls leave the school and Ola's taking them to smash some things. Girls have fun and what's important they let their pain out. While going home, Lily asks Ola if she wants to walk her home. Ola agrees.

When they were going to to Lily's place, Lily says that she still wants to be friends with Ola. When they said goodbye to each other, and Ola started to turning around, Lily suddenly said that she didn't want to be just friends, because Ola smelled so much better than a boy. This was the moment when girls shared their another kiss, which showed that Lily fully accepted herself as lesbian.

In the end of the episode, Lily and other girls she had detention with the day before, decided to get the bus to show their support to Aimee.

### Episode 8

Lily and Ola are in Lily's room, kissing and trying to wank. Unfortunately for Lily, her vagina still did not open up, so it still hurts when Ola try to put her fingers into Lily's vagina. Strangely, when Lily's wanking on her own, it doesn't hurt. That's why girls decide to wank apartly, which turns out to be great idea for both of them.

Later in the episode, Lily's stressed about how her musical will go, as she's walking on the backstage angrily.

During the play, she seems to be proud of what she made up, but later she's annoyed when the show was interrupted first by Adam Groff, who confessed his feelings for Eric on stage, and then again, this time by Mr. Groff, who couldn't bear it and found the musical inappropriate and weird. She's disappointed and says that the show is completely ruined and it was meant to be perfect. Whereas her new girlfriend, Ola, cheers her up by saying that in her opinion the show was perfect.

## Season Three

### Episode 1

Lily's still dating Ola. They're so happy together, spending all the time with each other at school and even going home together holding hands.

### Episode 2

While riding to school, Lily notices a crop circle, which she's certain was left by the aliens. Later, already being at school, she tells Ola that she applied for a short fiction competition in *Moordale Gazette*, while Ola tells her that her father's going to have a baby with Otis' mother.

She also has a Swing Band and Acapella Group rehearsal, during which she's sitting beside Eric. The two listen to the *Fuck The Pain Away* sung by the Acapella Group.

After classes Lily's writing the story titled *The Trial of Glenoxi. Fucklord of the Universe*, for the competition she applied. She was writing it, when suddenly, a message about The Eight popped up, and shortly after, she started reading it.

When Hope's announcing introducing school uniforms, she's sitting in a classroom with Ola, Maeve and Aimee.

### Episode 3

She's riding to school with Ola, wanting to show her the crop circle she saw the day before. Unfortunately, it disappeared, which deeply disappoints Lily.

During assembly she doesn't seem to like the new school anthem, called "*Non Sibi, sed Toti*". After assembly, she, Ola and Maeve are all called to the Hope's office. After getting there, Hope gives them Iced VoVos and tells Lily that in her opinion her make-up and hairstyle are not appropriate for school and asks after a while if Lily had written the musical last term, and then what Lily's parents thought of it. Lily replies that they didn't really get it.

After school Ola comes to Lily's. She tells her that she misses her mum, but Lily seems to not care about it as she's more interested about things connected to The Eight.

### Episode 4

It's the first day of school when Lily doesn't wear her make-up and doesn't have her typical hairstyle. For some, she seems completely different, for example for Eric, who's surprised and said that she looked normal. Lily also got the attention from the Untouchables; Olivia said that Lily's hair looked nice, and Anwar said that she was almost pretty.

Later, Lily takes part in SRE class organized by Hope, during which the girls are listening to talking how bad sex is, or watching a video of the Sex Educator giving birth.

In the end of the episode, Lily and other students are going on a school trip to France.

### Episode 5

Already being in France, and more specifically at Beaumont-Hamel museum, Lily's exploring the area with Ola and Viv, who asks Ola and Lily what would they like her to bring up at the student forum. Later, it's revealed that Viv is sexting with her boyfriend, Eugene, whose fantasy is medieval maidens, what annoys Viv. Despite it, Lily advices her to try and get into it, saying that Ola didn't know about alien role-play and now she loves it. Affter a while, Lily helps Viv and texts a message to Eugene, styled on his fantasy.

While getting back on the coach, Ola decides to tell Lily that sometimes she wants to be in real world when she's having sex, saying that sometimes is a little bit weird, what makes Lily very upset and makes Lily unwilling to talk to Ola. When coming back to Moordale, the girls have their first fight; Ola says that she doesn't think alien stuff is silly but it's not real, and she wants to be in a moment with Lily. These words make Lily angry; she's shocked that Ola don't think aliens are real.

Upon reaching Moordale, Lily gets off the bus without saying a word.

### Episode 6

Lily's story has been published in the newspaper, causing Lily to be made fun of by other students. The story was read also by the headmistress Hope, who was angry with it, because the story shows that she did not accomplish her mission of getting Moordale Secondary back on track.

During assembly, Lily, Adam and Cal are all invited on a stage and are given shame signs by Hope. Lily's publicly humiliated by Hope.

After the whole situation from assembly, Ola comes to see Lily in the library, saying she's sorry what Hope did to her. Lily says that Ola made her feel like she wasn't so strange after all, but it turned out that it was just a lie. After that, Lily tells Ola that she shouldn't be speaking to her, after what Ola leaves.

### Episode 7

After the situation that took place recently, Lily doesn't want to go to school, so she's sitting in her room all day, still unwilling to talk to Ola. During sitting in her room, she decided to pack all the alien stuff to the box, being ready to throw it away.

Later, Lily's visited by Otis, who comes there out of Ola's ask. He's trying to cheer Lily up and to make her not dropping out her passion for aliens. Lily's feeling a little bit better, but she doesn't change her mind about throwing away all the alien stuff.

### Episode 8

Lily's finally deciding to go to school. She also asks her mother to throw the alien stuff away. Even though Carol doesn't understand Lily's passion for aliens, she's trying to make Lily not throwing the alien stuff out, she claimed that when she was at nursing college and once was coming back from the pub she saw this immensely bright, green light in the sky; thinking this was an alien. Lily still doesn't change her mind about the alien things.

At school, some girl approaches Lily and tells her that Glenoxi is her hero, what finally changes Lily's mind as she texts her mother not to throw the alien things out.

After classes, she comes back home and dresses up as Glenoxi, deciding to go to The Eight event tonight. There, she meets Ola, who's sitting there because this was her late mother's favorite place. The girls start to talk openly, after what they make up, sharing a kiss. Later the two are looking at the sky, looking for aliens there.