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The playwright behind BAD END THEATER. She's obsessed with creating tragedies.

lilium is the witch version of TRAGEDY, the main antagonist of BAD END THEATER. the maiden is her self-insert character, so she looks just like her.

BET's lore is separate from the rest of my games, but i thought it would be fun to make TRAGEDY's true end self into a witch so that i could continue using the character in future projects. she was first designed on 4/5/2022 to be used in the alternate endings for Lonely Wolf Treat. she has appeared mostly in comics since then, and especially in comics related to timber!

personality

loves crafting heartbreaking scenarios as a form of catharsis. she gets a thrill out of others' suffering (and her OWN suffering tbh), and happily invites others to share in her misery.

she seems to have questionable morals though, toying around with people's lives and hurting them for her own selfish reasons. being so far removed from humanity, she regards everyone other than orchid as a plaything, effectively fictional characters she can torture to her heart's content. because her dark timelines will always be erased by the end, she thinks it's fine to do whatever she wants because the damage isn't really permanent...

relationships

FRIENDLY

Orchid (partner)

reunited at the end of BET, these two have stayed together writing stories ever since. they're a powerful duo, although lilium's obsession with tragedies makes her inclined to either kill orchid or die by her hand.

Timber

she has somewhat of a working relationship with him since his circumstances are so ripe for tragedy. has been known to bribe him with cookware. considers him an entertaining puppet.

Mason

she's been making deals with him in order to create more tragedies... mason, run...! you're being manipulated!!!

NEUTRAL

Nil

lilium is a big fan of nil as the original tragic heroine. they haven't interacted in canon yet so i can't say much more than this.

Thyme and Spice

by creating her alternate timelines, lilium is actually breaking the rules, even if they're erased afterward... so thyme and spice, who are responsible for keeping the main timeline under control, are not fans of her. lilium would prefer if they stayed out of her way, but she doesn't really feel threatened by them either.

story

BAD END THEATER

i guess i already warned for spoilers at the top, so... yeah, lilium is TRAGEDY!

her backstory is that she fell in love with orchid, the only person she had ever met who actually encouraged her passion for dark fiction. their families wouldn't accept their relationship, so they were separated and lost touch for a long time...

lilium always kept orchid in her heart though, deciding to open a theater to showcase the tragedies she wrote in hopes that it would one day become famous enough that orchid would find her way back, knowing that lilium must be behind it.

if you collect every bad ending in the game, the player is revealed to have been orchid all along. she had always been inclined to give lilium's stories happy endings, and now they have their own happily ever after together... until you reset your game data to let them find eachother all over again.

SINCE IT'S LEFT VERY VAGUE as to where these two really came from, i imagine it as them having originally been humans (or a pair of ordinary witches), but their love for each other was so strong that they became sort of immortal beings continuing the cycle of tragedies and happily-ever-afters. the point where they become the witches of eternity and demise is when they're so far beyond humanity that they've essentially become gods... but tbc none of this is written into BET itself, it's just how i imagine these characters connect to the mainline canon!

Lonely Wolf Treat

instructions for meeting lilium and orchid in this game can be found on the BAD END THEATER website.

if you enable lilium's bad endings, you can see alternate paths through the story and meet new characters like timber!! lilium and orchid will chime in at the end of each of these to reset the timeline so that nothing bad ever happened and the main plot can proceed as normal.

Syrup 2: Candy Alchemy RPG

after you unlock the insterail, lilium will appear in a dream to ask the player if they'd like to enable bad endings. if you do, there will be new cutscenes when you lose to story bosses. you can retry these boss battles as a dream sequence to see the endings again, and lilium resets the timeline at the end of them so you can continue the story normally.

The Foxy Catch

she appears in the postscript of the comic with orchid to answer questions from the audience. the plot of the comic was orchestrated by none other than orchid, and lilium is highly impressed with her talents... enough to want to strangle her to death.

Timber's Community Service

appears at the end of chapter 1 as one of the masterminds behind the project... basically, her and orchid are getting timber to talk to a bunch of other characters for their entertainment, with some sort of mysterious goal in mind... they reward timber with kitchen supplies for following the instructions in their letters.

Mason AU

(i'll write this later)

Slate AU

(i'll write this later too)

trivia

• her hairstyle is drawn similarly to how i draw my own hair BUT I PROMISE YOU SHE IS NOT BASED ON ME i just drew maiden like that originally... i relate to her a lot though, so... i guess art imitates reality, even unintentionally...

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