Lili

**Lili Stephens**, also known as **Lili** (pronounced LIE-LIE), is a character in the *Peppermint* series and the secondary antagonist of *Peppermint: Journey of Fantasies*.

She is voiced by Lili Garcia-Stevens in her original, human form and Grey Delisle in her evil, superhuman form.

## Physical Appearance

Lili has fair peach skin with brown-orange-ish eyes and brown hair with fading dark orange. She wears a black sailor cap with green details, a black sleeveless coat, a green shirt, green arm warmers with black outlines, black tights with green outlines and green boots with a white feetlace.

Lili was chosen to have the color green and black due to color resembling "disgracefulness" and "disgusted" towards the "fun", "freedom" and "wonder" colors of blue, silver and red from Peppermint's outfit.

## Personality

Before Lili was evil, she started out as a teenage 16-year-old girl who is 2 years older than Peppermint and was very imaginative, lovely, silly and shy. That was until she was humiliated by many people in her age due to arrogant folks calling her useless, weak, unimaginative, mediocre and annoying. Even her father was abusive to her. Because of this, she ran away and was sent to the dimension Bellville (Peppermint's home) to meet Dr. Mystery because of her insecurities, which makes her turn to the dark side of the dimension and was granted with the superpower Aura (with the color red). As a evil supervillain, Lili is very unfair, mean-spirited, greedy, cruel and completely impolite, all thanks to the people who doubted and humiliated her.

## Biography

Lili was a ordinary 16-year-old girl who is very imaginative, lovely, silly and shy, much like Peppermint. She likes to be funny, creative and hyper towards people which would then get them upset of her juvenile behavior. Lili has a mother and a father. However, her father is very hellbent on her due to being a girl and wanted a strong-headed boy whose mindset isn't about imagination or love but being brave and headfirst.

Lili does everything to impress her father with her creativity but he was very abusive and does not love nor cares about her, which saddens and damages Lili and her mother. When she's around people in public (particularly school), people view Lili like she does not belong to the school she attends and wants her unwanted. They would even go as far as to kicking her butt, trip over her and her lunch, call her useless and annoying, and slap her in the face, which drove Lili to do the unthinkable: runaway from home.

Lili grabbed her belongings and ran away to never return with no change of mind of ever coming back at anytime. When she enters a closed building, she wish she want to leave the real world to the stars far away, with dimension about fun and play. That wasn't until she was abducted to the dimension Darcside by Dr. Mystery, who overheard her wish. Mystery convinces her to join with him as his assistant but Lili refuses. The former kept reaffirming to the latter's insecurities and bad luck, which would finally get Lili into Mystery's forces.

Accepting his request to join and become a supervillain, Lili's personality, voice and appearance begins to change to where she became deadly, vengeful and sadistic.

### **During The Events of *Peppermint: Journey of Fantasies***

Peppermint first encounters Lili as Dr. Mystery's right-hand woman in the first dimension Bellville. Mystery orders Lili to defeat Peppermint and take over Bellville but Peppermint wins with Lili going away to tell the bad news to Mystery.

In the middle of the game, Peppermint then encounters Dr. Mystery. The latter calmly tells the former about Lili's past and how she became evil and distorted, which shocks Peppermint. The main hero tries to fight Mystery but was interrupted by a jester-like alien with multiple arms.

Peppermint finally made Noah and Sophie into Dreamy Lieutenants by collecting all 25 Aura Bells to fill up their Wonder Meter. With all of them collected and 5 more to go, they must enter Dr. Mystery's home dimension, Darcside, by defeating him and disband the dimension. However, they were interrupted by both Mystery and Lili. Lili begins to fire up the Space Sanctuary in the dimension Galactx with Mystery kidnapping the teens, which also causes Peppermint to pass out on the hellfire.

### **Final Showdown between Lili and Peppermint**

Lili encounters Peppermint for the last time and is ready to kill her. Peppermint convinces her to join the light side and live in Bellville but Lili declines her request and does the first attack by shooting a aura projectile to the main hero, which then forces Peppermint to fight her. Lili gave it her all and made her body large, going overkill and trying to annihilate the silver-haired girl.

### **Final Words and Permanent Death**

Peppermint remains victorious with Lili glitching and almost meeting her demise. Lili, for once, did something grateful and gives Peppermint's friends and inhabitants back into their homelands in their home dimensions, ending with the words "I'm sorry for what I've done. I hope... your happy." sadly and softly. She begins flying into the sky and explodes into fireworks, in a shape of herself. Peppermint has pity over Lili's death and feels bad for her loss and distorted history. With Lili gone, Peppermint continues to confront Dr. Mystery in a final battle and saving Noah and Sophie once and for all.

What happens to Lili is unknown but it is presumed that she might have died permanently.

## Powers & Abilities

Lili was granted with the superpower of Dr. Mystery's version of Peppermint's superpower Aura with the color red, to match her superpower's level but with wicked and crazy abilities. This gives Lili the ability to fly, attack, super defend, make illusions known as "aura replicas" (Lili only), max size by turning into a giant (Lili only), laser vision, aura spheres, aura beam, aura spikes (Lili only) and aura blast (Lili only).

## Trivia

* The only redeeming quality Lili has ever done is bringing out Peppermint's allies (Oasis and Amelia) and inhabitants back to their original homelands in their original dimensions, which would indicate that she still has good in her but was possibly too late to join the light side and Peppermint.
* Lili was originally going to be a hero character who would often appear to help Peppermint and would sacrifice her life to save her from being burned into a crisp. However, Cappy finds her original concept uninteresting and decided to make her a antagonist-turned-redeeming hero in *Peppermint: Journey of Fantasies*.
	+ She was also originally going to be lustful when as a villain. But Cappy felt like that sounded "too sexual and not kid-friendly". So she made her more normal.
* Lili and Peppermint shares some similarities but lacks some:
	+ They both share the same superpower: Aura. However, Lili has more variety of her power's arsenal (thanks to Dr. Mystery) than Peppermint's basic variety.
	+ They are teenagers.
	+ They both suffered from a dire loss but Peppermint became more happy-go-lucky and adventurous while Lili became more evil and hellbent.
* Lili is considered as one of the best antagonists of the *Peppermint* franchise alongside Dr. Mystery.