Orchis Lilakuno

* Real
* Transformed

## Description

Lilac (full name: Orchis Lilakuno) is a member of the Orchis, a warrior clan originating from Mastema. She has deserted the Orchis to serve Nero, or rather Bazrel.

## In Game Description

"A member of the Orchis clan that now watches over Mira.

She has defected from the Orchis, who are now hunting me down."

## Appearance

Lilac is a degmiato woman with a slim and athletic body. She has pale blue skin, and hair of a darker blue tone. She wears her hair in a short bobcut. Her eyes are golden and her pupils are slitted. Lilac is one of the few degmiato without pointy ears

In her more human-like appearance, she has pale skin and red-brown hair. Being 188cm tall, she is taller than the average characters in the game, and one of the tallest female characters. Elly notes that she wouldn't want to fight her due to her stature.

She favors red tones in her attire, assorted to her human-form hair color.

## Personality

Lilac is a gentle and compassionate woman, her good nature being interpreted as a weakness by other members of the Orchis. Despite her peaceful character, she is capable of violence and is willing to spill blood for her liege. Her most defining trait is her undying loyalty towards Bazrel that she projects onto Nero.

This loyalty is painted as bordering on fanaticism, as noted by Finley . She diligently carries out Nero's demands to the best of her abilites, taking on several tasks at the same time: protecting Nero, protecting Mira, keeping an eye on Izya, fulfilling her duties as a nurse in the Hearth.

Aside her duties, she enjoys meditation, botany and floriography, again hinting at her gentle nature. She watches over Mira and formed a friendship with Varsha, running with her and starting to teach her shapeshifting.

## Powers

Being a degmiato and Orchis, Lilac's physical prowess is superhuman, even among the degmiato Lilac is considered a formidable opponent. Elly notes she wouldn't want to square off against her.

On top of her physical abilities, Lilac is a very competent mage, among other things she is proficient with shapeshifting, which is considered to be a hard skill to learn. She is also able to teleport by means of magic. She displays an ability to learn quickly previously unknown sigils only from a description provided by Nero.

## Affiliation

#### Orchis

Defected, Lilac has been raised alongside other orphans to be an Orchis, an elite corps of Masteman military. While having a reputation as bodyguards abroad, the Orchis are in reality trained in all kinds of fields, including but not limited to spying, sabotaging, and assassination

#### Sanctus Hearth

As a cover, Lilac took up a nurse position in the Hearth. Despite it being a cover, she still tries her best to tend to her patients.

#### Mastema

While being a deserter, Lilac's contempt for Mastema's Government doesn't reach to the country and it's people. As she sees Bazrel as the legitimate leader and saviour of Mastema, she remains loyal to her homeland in her own way.

## Relationship with Other Characters

#### Nero

Lilac is Nero's right hand and arguably his most loyal lieutenant. Lilac doesn't seem to make a hard distinction between Nero and Bazrel, as she addresses him with both names interchangeably. Since she projects her admiration of Bazrel onto Nero, Nero takes the mantle of being a symbol of for the degmiato as well as herself. In spite of her undying loyalty, she wasn't entirely truthful with him, as she hid the matter of the Orchis from him. Her obvious infatuation with Nero has led her to pursue a romantic relationship with him. She displays some measure of jealousy when seeing Nero with other women.

#### Bazrel

Being admirative of the seventh since her childhood, Lilac holds the memory of meeting him as a child close to her heart. She sees Bazrel as the hope of a better future for Mastema and all the degmiato. She declares Bazrel to be "our saviour".

#### Mira

Instructed by Nero to watch over Mira, Lilac evolves into behaving like a mother hen with Mira, protecting her, training her rigorously at Mira's request as well as running her errands.

#### Finley

Finley is aware early on of Nero's true identity, and by extension Lilac's mission. The both of them are on friendly terms, even though Finley makes a little fun of Lilac for her fanaticism towards Nero, she helps her when Lilac is in difficulty because of Astrid's invasive questionning.

#### Varsha

Varsha and Lilac have a friendly rapport. The both of them train together and Lilac has started to teach Varsha the art of shapeshifting.

#### Izya

The relationship between Lilac and Izya is quite rocky. Lilac holds Izya in contempt and despises her, but is willing to get along for Nero's sake. Izya on the other hand, seems to be fond of Lilac in her own weird way. She notes that hate and love are two sides of the same coin, and both sides are endearing to her. Nevertheless, the both of them spend a lot of time together and, while still bickering, they seem to grow more civil with each other as time goes.

#### Shemlu

Lilac and Shemlu were friends in the past. Being enemies weighs on Lilac's conscience while Shemlu seems to have less qualms about fighting her.

#### Duazul

Duazul seems to be happy with Lilac's performance, and she grows to care about her enough to be concerned for her safety before the Mistle Meeting events.

## Trivia

* Lilac is the name of a plant, *Syringa vulgaris ,*that gave the name to the corresponding color

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Demons of the Hearth Introduction
2. ↑ Demons of the Hearth In Game Codex
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lilac Character Event 3
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lilac Character Event 6
5. ↑ Main Quest Event 9
6. ↑ Lilac Character Chat
7. ↑ Lilac Character Event 9
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Nyla Character Event 12
9. ↑ Lilac Character Event 2
10. ↑ Mira Character Event 11
11. ↑ Lilac Character Event 5
12. ↑ Mira Character Event 6