Leelathae (Lilyth)/Jack

## Description

The romantic relationship page between Crown Prince (thus currently a King) Jack of Pastel Kingdom and the late Leelathae (passed away as the Pastel Queen Lilyth) which originally came from the Braided Island. Their love story is mostly contained at The Diary of Lilyth, with several situations resembling so much with relationship of their youngest daughter Gwendolyn and the youngest Plaid prince Frederick. The similar situations are fate meeting regarding the male part got injured while the female part tended him, the scared part of first time meeting (Lilyth scared at Jack as outsider, Frederick scared at Gwendolyn which he thoughts her as a witch), also Leelathae and Gwendolyn relied their self-worth to the loves of their love interest - Jack and Frederick. This relationship has 2 years age gap because Jack meets Lilyth who is 20 years old at the time in the Braided Island. This relationship gives progeny of Pastel siblings which are: Maria, Lorena, Jamie and Gwendolyn.

## History

Crown Prince Jack, in an accident, ended up stranded and injured on the Braided Island during one of his expositions. He was discovered by a native girl named Leelathae, who was enchanted by his gorgeous looks, and he was stunned by her as well, despite looking vastly different from the people he was familiar with back home. She took him to her home and nursed him back to health, much to the displeasure of her family and friends. She told him her nane was Leelathae, but he misprounced it as Lilyth, the name which he would always call her from then on.
Leelathae was warned not to get attached to Jack by her father, but when it finally came time to bid him farewell, escorting him back to his ship crew, Lilyth found herself unable to part with him forever and jumped onto the boat with him to come with him. Jack happily obliged her, much to the anger of her friends. Even though he and Lilyth could not understand the language of the other, they understood they loved each other through body language and connection.

Jack’s family was dismayed at the announcement of his engagement to Lilyth. When Jack threatened to abdicate if anyone tried to interfere with his engagement to Lilyth, his parents resorted to undermining his betrothal in secret. They insisted that Lilyth must complete education to know English and Pastel Kingdom culture before marrying Jack, to which both hopeful newlyweds agreed. Lilyth proved to be a fast learner, and any attempts by Jack’s parents to introduce him to other girls failed. They tried to get a portrait done of her that would cast her in the same spooky light as most saw her in, but Jack loved how she looked in the portrait. As Lilyth finally finished her studies, her prospective parents-in-law resorted to one last option, telling her of the treatise that the Pastel Kingdom had had for centuries, where every member of the royal family would intentionally marry and recreate with the most physically attractive partner available, so that the child that resulted from their union would be the sum of their parent’s collective beauty, ensuring each generation would be more beautiful than the last. All this was towards the goal that they would reach a generation that possessed beauty described in fairytales, where the holders attracted birds, made flowers bloom, and radiated a glowing light, in the hopes that would lead to unlocking the spell for everlasting beauty. Because of this, they asked that Lilyth leave Jack and allow him to seek a more physically attrative partner, promising her a reward, but all Lilyth wanted was to be with Jack. However, Helena saw that Lilyth had brought a book, The Story of Melusine, with her, and questioned her about it, to which Lilyth explained that it was a story from her homeland and she hoped to read it. Helena then told her the story herself.

*Melusine was the daughter of a human King and a water fairy, whose mother had cursed her to grow three slimy fishtails from her waist whenever she bathed so that no one could love her. One day, a traveler fell in love with her and proposed, to which she agreed only on the condition that he never look at her while she bathed. Years later, however, his curiosity won out, and he snuck a peek at her in the bathtub, saw her fishtails, and screamed in horror, calling her an "ugly, hideous serpent". The heartbroken Melusine fled her husband and his homeland, never to be seen again.*

Lilyth was shocked by the story, although she insisted that that would nothappen to her, as Jack truly loved her. But Hekena told her she was not just Melusine in the story, but the mother as well, as she declared that if she chose to bear Jack’s children, she would be passing a cursed fate of ugliness and prejudice onto them, similar to what Melusine’s mother had done to her. This devastated Lilyth, as she couldn’t bear the thought of subjecting any of her children to the disgust and hatred that she had experienced while in the kingdom. While she decided she could bear the mistreatment of others herself as long as she was with Jack, she would never forgive herself if she bore a child that would share the same fate. So, she chose to break up with Jack, to avoid "cursing" his children with her ugliness.

In the following weeks, Lilyth struggled to gather the courage to break it off with Jack, a difficult task with his excitement over their wedding. At the engagement party, Jack was oblivious to her discomfort, as well as his parents’ unhappiness, as he spoke of the upcoming union and his eagerness to start a family with her. After the party, Lilyth, pushed to the brink by Jack’s obliviousness and her own frustration, finally managed to shout to him that she didn’t want to marry him, inevitably breaking his heart. While Helena insincerely thanked Lilyth for finally going through with her goal, she bluntly told the girl that she could no longer stay in the Pastel Kingdom. Since the law of her island forbid her from returning home after setting foot offshore, Lilyth stowed away in the trunk that was destined for one of Jack’s journies to return artifacts to their rightful homeland.

As fate would have it, the very relic that Jack had stored for the next journey was the Omniscient Clam, a magical oyster that held all the secrets of the universe, and the future, and, in even further good luck, the very evening that it was able to answer question was the evening Lilyth snuck into the trunk where it was stored away. Lilyth had only one question that she really wished to know the answer to, and, with encouragement from the clam, bravely asked what her children with Jack would look like if they were to stay together. The clam answered:

*"Thrice shall thou enter into labor, and grip your husband’s hand; And each child born will be the most beautiful in all the land."*

Upon hearing this, Lilyth popped out of the trunk to see Jack, who had been preparing to leave for his latest journey with a broken heart. She happily jumped into his arms and retracted everything she had said, declaring that she wanted to be with him forever. Jack was overjoyed, instantly forgiving Lilyth for her earlier words, and they began officially planning their wedding, which greatly upset Jack’s parents.

The night before the wedding, despite Lilyth’s promises that she would bear beautiful children for Jack, Helena and Jesse found they could no longer tolerate the situation and ended up declaring to Jack how they thought of Lilyth as ugly and berating him for choosing someone that they deemed so unsuitable. Jack was greatly upset by this, retorting that it was his parents who were truly ugly, quoting that they had "never looked so hideous". This comment, however small, sent his parents into a mental breakdown, causing them to hallucinate their faces becoming ugly in the mirror, and both they and the rest of Jack’s family fled into hiding in the Camouflage Kingdom.

At their wedding ceremony the next day, as Jack and Lilyth, now formally King and Queen of the Pastel, were being married, she apologized for driving his family away, however inadvertently, but Jack simply replied that he wouod not tolerate anyone with a low opinion of who he loved, and that Lilyth was the only family he truly needed. Nevertheless, Lilyth felt anxious to become pregnant as quickly as possible to provide Jack woth a new family to make up for the loss of his old one, even though she prayed that none of the children would take after her, wishing for them to have a better life by being everything she wasn’t.

At first, her prayers were answered, as she gave birth to three children who all took after their father physically: Maria, who attracted bluebirds to the room within minutes of her birth; Lorena, who made flower petals suddenly appear around her; and James, who almost blinded his parents with the shining light that emitted from him. But Lilyth was surprised when, after giving birth to Jamie, she was actually giving birth to twins. After her final child was born, Lilyth saw the child resembled her. Hiwever, instead of the dread and guilt she had expected to feel, Lilyth found her last baby to be "the most beautiful in all the land." Seeing her baby, Gwendolyn, reminded Lilyth the true meaning of beauty, and she realized that as a mother, the best thing she could do was ensure not that everyone saw her children as beautiful, but that they themselves knew themselves to be.

## Gallery

smiling togetherLeelathae decides to join Jack to his kingdomAt the Braided IslandThe fateful encounterLeelathae mistaken Jack to a horseLeelathae tends Jack to healsJack picking foods that Leelathae scattered outJack and Lilyth started the tradition of broad game nightLeelathae bringing Jack to the flower site of the IslandAnnouncement of being engagedJack worried over LilythJack lifting up LilythLilyth trying to explains to JackLilyth mistaken Jack to a horseJack stunned to hears that Lilyth didn't want to marry himLilyth telling that she wants to spends her life with Jack