PERSONALITY TRAITS

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

• Lily Ayame currently lives in a small apartment in Tokyo with her best friend, Kaya. The two met within The World and have been stuck together since then. Deciding to put off studies to focus more on whatever her role is in The World, she can usually be found online under the PC of Mouse.
• Lily has recently taken an interest in cooking while living together with Kaya and likes to help her in the kitchen as much as possible.
• She used to work as an exotic dancer, but has a difficult time talking about it due to a traumatic incident that happened. This is also the reason Kaya came to live with her in the first place.
• Lily loves flowers, incense, sweets, and food in general.
• While Lily seems very shy and nervous, she's actually quite silly once she warms up to people.
• Since her encounter with Cernunnos in The World, Lily has had issues with night terrors and has trouble sleeping. She also suffers from frequent headaches and subtle personality changes, though she has made a lot of progress compared to when the incident first happened.
• Has a big, gross crush™ on Gorre and gets red faced anytime she mentions him around Kaya during their time together IRL.

PAST EVENTS

Lily's parents moved from American to Japan for her father's work in the middle of her mother's pregnancy. However, shortly after having Lily, her mother abandoned both her and her father to go back to America. Lily's father brought her up as a single parent, with a lot of her childhood spent at his place of work. Because of this, she built a very strong relationship with her dad and cherished him dearly. Though he spent a lot of time at work, any free time he had he spent with her. Because of her appearance, Lily didn't have many actual friends growing up.

During her high school years, Lily's father grew gravely ill and was unable to work. Lily had tried to take on many odd jobs to try and make money for his hospital bills, but in the end, the highest paying job ended up being an exotic dancer at a night club. She did her schooling during the day and worked at night without telling her father. Due to Lily's personality, she despised her job and was uncomfortable through its entirety, but it paid the bills.

Unfortunately, her father's illness had progressed too far and he passed away shortly after Lily finished high school. This left her in a very poor mental state and she grew more reclusive than she had ever been before. It was difficult for her to even speak to others for a long period of her life. One day while walking home from work, she noticed an ad for The World in the window of a local game shop. Even in her numb state, recalling her father talking about earlier versions of the game pushed her to try it out.

Since playing The World, Lily started to open up more and more. She grew stronger and more confident in herself each time she logged on. However, playing games didn't take away from outside world responsibilities. She still had to go to work to be able to afford her apartment. One night after logging out of The World, she was attacked by a disgruntled regular at her job. After spending some time in the hospital, she was heavily compensated by the company she worked for and sent home to deal with her own injuries and trauma. Ultimately, she came clean about it to her best friend, Burgundy- who she came to know as Kaya in the real world when she dropped everything to come and help her out.

Sometime shortly after this, the two women were involved in an incident in The World where they came to meet a NPC named Cernunnos. It was supposed to be an event that only the two of them had been invited to. It ended up going completely wrong. This would be the first time Lily experienced real pain from what was supposed to be a game, and the closest her PC had ever came to- what could have very likely been- permadeath. While Lily was confronting Cernunnos, Burgundy was protecting Mouse's PC and ultimately able to save her life. However, since that day, Mouse had formed an unstable bond with The God of Death.

Now, Lily spends all of her free time within The World as Mouse. She seeks to mend the bond between her and Cernunnos in an attempt to better understand him as well as fill her role within The World itself, whatever it may be. Due to the circumstances in which her and Burgundy have come to know of the Gods, the duo are always seeking more information on the topic. Along the way she has formed many bonds with others. One especially strong with Gorre under the PC name of Caduceus, who holds a very special place in her heart. She values her friends above all else, but fears what the future holds.

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