Lily Akaashi

**"Insignificant being be gone!"**

**Lily Akaashi** (Japanese: **赤葦 リリー** *Akaashi Rirī*) was previously a second-year at Shiratorizawa Academy, and the captain and a wing spiker in the girls` volleyball club. As of 2018, she is currently part of the Household Guards who protect the Night Queen, with Lily serving as their captain.

## **Appearance**

Lily is is a rather young, petite teenage girl of a slender build who stands at a rather below-average height for her age. Her shoulder-length blue hair, which has eyebrow-length bangs, is normally tied up with a colorful bandana around her head. While initially portrayed as having rather straight hair, her hair has slowly gained a more wavy, wild look, with more locks hanging down the sides of her face. At times, she may have a smile on her face, though it quickly vanishes. During early-November 2018, when acting as the Captain of the Night Queen`s Household Guards, she wears a dark jacket, with light-colored edges and a pair of buttoned bands on each sleeve, worn over a lighter shirt bearing the dark ankh-like symbol typical of the Rune Knights, mildly loose, light pants held up by a simple belt, similarly colored gloves and shoes, and a light cape held in place by a rhomboidal buckle adorned by a gem. When dressing in her school uniform, she wears a white jacket, light blue dress shirt, purple bow tie, purple skirt, and grey sweater.

## **Personality**

She doesn't talk to her teammates very often, and appears mostly emotionless, only looking annoyed on occasion. Due to her medical disorder, known as Schizoid Personality Disorder; she can`t show emotions, or rather has difficulty with showing her emotions and usually writes down what she is telling. Despite, her disorder; Lily is proud of protecting the Night Queen and preventing any false Night Queens from getting the chance to sit on the Reverent Throne. Despite, her position as the captain of the girls` volleyball team, she listens more to Yuki and even more obeying him. In a way, Lily appears as the vice-captain more than as the actual captain, with people getting surprised when she is revealed to be the captain of the girls` volleyball team. Her tone when speaking to other people is so monotone that people are very unsettled by her and she is often called a "monster."

She is stated to have absolute loyalty to Yuki Kageyama, aka. the Night Queen and dislikes when other people, usually from other schools attempt to talk to Yuki, and only allows her teammates and members of the Kageyama Family, as well as her fellow household guards to speak with Yuki. When Daichi Sawamura attempted to call out to Yuki Kageyama, she called him a peasant and told him that there are certain procedures that one must go through, before speaking directly to her majesty.

In truth, she feels inferior to her other teammates and acts arrogant or emotionless to make up for it, with Yuki being able to tell it is an act. She has a hidden selfless side, as she willingly gave up all of her money to buy her mother expensive medicine that she needed so that she could survive. This side does not often manifest itself, as she shields her insecure self from the world and makes herself look arrogant and conceited just to hide her insecurities from the world. Lily works extremely hard and often endures vigorous practices after her normal practices with the team. This has led her to injuring herself in the past. In addition, Lily is ambitious, but it's shown that she also has feelings of inferiority towards those she deems as better than her, Ushijima and Yuki for examples. This is one of the main reasons she pushes herself so hard.

On several occasions, when Ushijima visited the girls` volleyball gym to give Yuki some papers that she forgot in their shared math class, he found Lily instead struggling to just stand but yet still practicing. It is said that many of her teammates know about her extra practices, except for Yuki. When Yuki and Lily decided to go to the Aobajohsai Practice Match, Lily commented on how she is so jealous of Ushijima while having a bitter look on her face, only to be smacked on the back of her head, with Yuki telling her that she was an amazing captain and wing spiker, and to be more proud of herself.

## **History**

While her brother, Keiji was able to do the sports he wanted, Lily endured vigorous practices with her mother to become the next captain of the Night Queen`s personal Household Guards.