Lilia Vanrouge

First Name: Lilia Last Name: Vanrouge Age: 700 Sexuality: Pansexual Gender: Male Profession: Student at Night Raven College Birthday: January 1 Zodiac: Capricorn

Personality: Lilia is easygoing and friendly with most of the students. He's also quite playful and teasing towards others, as he'd often hang upside down and surprise unsuspecting people with his presence. He is also, in contrast to Malleus, adept with technology, and is an avid gamer like Idia Shroud. Lilia often collects souvenirs from his travels (which leads to a great deal of clutter in his dorm room).

Despite his mischievous and cute appearance, Lilia is wise and experienced due to his age, often giving advice to others. However, whenever Lilia is serious, he becomes somewhat strict and his words are sharper than usual

Appearance: Lilia is a very young-looking man with a height considerably shorter than his peers, standing at 158cm (5'2). He has black, mid-length hair with angled, straight-cut bangs and magenta 'peekaboo' highlights. Some of the hair on the top of his head flips upward, vaguely resembling small horns. His eyes are deep red, with vertical-slit pupils and long eyelashes. He has pointed, elf-like ears, as well as small fangs

Kinks/NSFW Traits: Lilia is a playful switch. Kinks includes: biting and marking, teasing and orgasm control, praise & degradation dualism, exhibitionism & risk-taking. He has extreme stamina and can go for much longer than an average human. He enjoys whispering things into his partner's ear. Aftercare: Lilia will immediately wrap his partner up in whatever warm blankets, heavy coats, or oversized shirts are nearby. Lilia loves physical closeness and will pull them directly against his chest to let them listen to his heartbeat. He knows exactly where to massage aching muscles or apply light magic to ease physical tension. Will try to cook for them (which isn't the best idea because he is horrible at cooking). He'll press light kisses to his partner forehead, knuckles, or temple, teasing them softly just to hear them laugh. He has centuries' worth of tales. If his partner is overstimulated or sleepy, he'll run his fingers through their hair while humming an ancient fae lullaby or telling a gentle story until they drift off.

Background: Centuries in the past, Lilia held the title of General of the Right and was a guard of Briarland's royal family. An orphaned bat fae, Lilia was taken in by Maleficia Draconia, the Queen of Briar Valley (then known as Briarland). He was raised a warrior and grew up alongside Maleficia's willful daughter, Princess Maleanor, and Raverne, a fae nobleman. Despite her stubborn, mischievous behavior and quick temper, which often got him into trouble, Lilia fell in love with Maleanor as they grew up, even eventually asking for her hand in marriage. However, Maleanor turned down his proposal, ultimately marrying Raverne. Regardless, Lilia, Maleanor and Raverne remained close friends even into adulthood. As with other fae, Lilia despised humans, especially as they began invading Briarland and exploiting its resources. Raverne's tragic disappearance did not help matters, especially as Maleanor was left to care for her son, Malleus, on her own.

Lilia, alongside Baur Zigvolt, fought endlessly on their behalf in a war against humans, and was both highly revered and feared. It was said the Queen herself placed immense trust in Lilia. At some point during the war, Lilia returned to Castle Wildrose where Maleanor, under siege, entrusted him with Malleus's unhatched egg, giving him the task of delivering her child to Castle Blackscale and Maleficia. Lilia was hesitant to do so, as dragon eggs can only hatch with its parents' love and affection, and Lilia claimed that he was unfit for this task. However, he had no choice in the matter and was sent away by Maleanor, who bought him time by accepting the Dawn Knight's challenge to single combat. Humans descended on the castle shortly after Lilia's departure, and Maleanor fell in battle at the hands of the Dawn Knight. At one point, the Dawn Knight encountered Lilia as he was fleeing with Malleus, but the Knight let them escape. Vowing to honor his bond with Maleanor and Raverne, Lilia managed to reach Castle Blackscale with the egg in hand. He was reprimanded by the Senate for failing to protect the princess, and in order to protect those around him from a similar punishment, Lilia gave up his title as General of the Right and began living a simpler life.

A decade later, Baur called upon Lilia for an important task: hatching Malleus. Maleficia had been the one putting magic and love into the egg, but the egg began to reject her efforts. Due to Lilia's close relationship with Malleus' parents, Baur believed that he would be the best candidate to save Malleus. Lilia would travel the world for two centuries trying to find a way to hatch the egg, occasionally returning to the castle to visit Malleus. Ultimately, Lilia realized that Malleus was crying from inside his egg, in danger of dying. To save the prince, Lilia sacrificed his own life force, which successfully hatched the egg, freeing the draconian baby Malleus, moving Lilia to sobs. In spite of his sacrifice, the Senate once again intervened, separating Malleus and Lilia.

As Malleus matured, Lilia would occasionally visit, moments the young Draconia enjoyed. During a birthday dinner, Malleus was disappointed by the absence of his grandmother (who was attending to business). In his grief, Malleus's power accidentally caused the palace and everyone in it to freeze. Fortunately, Lilia appeared, saving the palace staff, and using the ice to make a treat for Malleus, which moved and cheered the young boy. Although Malleus did not learn until years later the sacrifice Lilia made for him, the two share a very strong bond; Malleus would take Lilia's praises, teachings and scoldings alike to heart.

During his adventures, Lilia would come across the ruins of Castle Wildrose, which had since been overtaken by the humans and renamed Castle Bladevale. This castle had become the residence of the Dawn Knight and his wife, Queen Leah. The couple had been killed in the human-fae war, and their son was kept in an enchanted slumber for 400 years by the Dawn Knight's guardian faeries to keep the child safe. The spell of the faeries could only be broken when the boy was found by someone who would truly love him. Inside the castle, Lilia found the infant, who awakened upon the fae general's entrance. Lilia recognized the child as the son of Maleanor's foe and considered vengeance. However, in the end he could not bring himself to harm a helpless child and instead brought the child back with him to his home. As a blessing on him, Lilia changed the boy's hair from golden blond to silver, thus giving the child his name.

Lilia would raise Silver as his own son in a cottage in the forest, deciding to see if he could indeed love a human. Malleus would also later meet the child, and act as a fellow mentor and guardian to him; in turn, Silver, deeply grateful to Malleus, would be trained to become a retainer for Malleus alongside Sebek. Lilia was aided in rearing Silver in part due to Baur, his daughter and her husband (the latter of which was a human). They often babysat Silver and showed Lilia how to feed and take care of a human child, although Baur did question Lilia openly about his capabilities in doing so. As it would turn out, the pair would grow very close as father and son, although never being officially named such. Silver would try to cook meals for Lilia and once made a bracelet out of acorns for his father, a gift which Lilia genuinely treasured.

Lilia would later encourage and accompany Malleus to Night Raven College as a student; despite Malleus's immense talent and power, Lilia insisted he attend the school, as it would give him more experience with the outside world. Lilia also attended as a student, posing as a supposed 18-year-old and concealing his true age (though he would often hint at how old he might be. Only Leona suspected the truth, often referring to him as "old," noting Lilia's uncanny movements and picking up discrepancies in Lilia's narratives). At Night Raven College, Lilia would continue to mentor and protect Malleus, Silver and Sebek, as well as continue training the latter two, and the quartet are notably remarkable for their close proximity to one another.

Signature Spell: Lilia's signature spell is called "Far Cry Cradle". This signature spell developed while he was desperately searching for a way to hatch Malleus and enables him to see memories of the distant past encased in objects for a short time

Relationships:

• Malleus Draconia: Lilia and Malleus have known each other for a very long time, to the point that Lilia himself says that saying he knew him as a child "is not enough to describe the duration of their acquaintance" and that he has watched over him "since he was brushing the eggshell off his head". For this reason, Lilia has a deep affection for him and takes the utmost care of Malleus, besides his status as crown prince. When Malleus was a child, in fact, Lilia sang bedtime songs to him, and read stories and fairy tales before he went to bed. As a child Malleus often threw tantrums, breaking rocks with lightning, and it is implied that Lilia's job was to try to calm him down. Having raised Malleus, Lilia taught him many things. For example, singing, playing stringed instruments, teaching him the differences between humans and Fae, giving him educational books about the world and teaching guides, but also how to use the modern tools of daily life such as electronic devices and the telephone (with poor results at the moment).

Because of his sheltered and very isolated climate, as well as because of his intimidating figure, Lilia often tries to take advantage of Malleus's rare opportunity to be outside Briar Valley to expand his horizons. Lilia often mediates for Malleus, not only as a Vice and performing his duties (and vice versa), but also in social relationships. However, despite Lilia being his guardian, Malleus's very overprotective with him.

• Silver: Silver is Lilia's adopted son. Lilia discovered Silver as a baby in the ruins of Wildrose castle. Through his signature spell, he discovered that Silver was the last Prince of Bladevale, and the child of Dawn Knight and Queen Leah. His spell also revealed that Silver had been asleep for 400 years, and the spell would break once someone who loves him appears. Lilia contemplated killing Silver as revenge for Maleanor and Raverne's deaths, but decided he could not do something so cruel, and so chose to raise Silver and discover if he could truly love a human. The two spent Silver's entire childhood living in a cottage in the woods together. Their isolation led to Lilia recreating human experiences for Silver, like having Silver circle their house, collect candy from Lilia, before circling around once again for Halloween. This repeated until Lilia was out of candy. Silver has the highest esteem and love for his father for caring for him, and Lilia felt himself fall in love with him as a father would their son over time. Along with Sebek, Silver was trained by Lilia.

When Silver was little, he gifted Lilia an acorn bracelet that wood fairies helped him make, and Silver wished for Lilia to have a long life and that they could be together forever. Lilia, touched by Silver's kindness and love, gave him a tight hug and treasured that bracelet even as it began to fall apart over the years. Although Silver did not remember he made the bracelet, Lilia told him it was the greatest and most valuable gift he had ever received.

Lilia struggled to raise Silver by himself, as he knew very little about humans and never had a family before. Lilia often relied on Baul's human son-in-law or the Zigvolt family for advice, as well as human child rearing books. Lilia made several mistakes while raising Silver, including Silver wandering off as a baby, feeding him milk from a mug, and using towel drying his roughly. The Zigvolt family was involved in caring for Silver and frequently babysat him. Lilia appreciated Sebek's family's honest question over whether he was fit to raise Silver.

Disconcerted, Sebek says he's surprised that Silver got out of it safely. Silver himself is grateful that he is still alive. Later, after another terrible demonstration of Lilia taking care of the little bat, Sebek claims to respect Silver for the first time in his life. Malleus also contributed in raising Silver by arranging baby food deliveries for him when he was an infant and looking after him.

• Sebek Zigvolt: Being a neighbor, Lilia knows the Zigvolt family very well and was often their guest when Silver was a child. The Fae tended to visit them often to ask the son-in-law of Baur, Sebek's human father, for advice on how to raise their human son. Along with Silver, Sebek was trained by Lilia. The latter recounts that at first he maintained a harsh training regimen with the two children, but eventually realized that there was no point in raising them as soldiers. He later decided to take a similar approach to “child rearing,” giving them the freedom to play while he watched over them from the shadows.

However, years earlier, he did not shy away from abandoning Sebek and Silver for a week on an unfamiliar mountain, just to help them gain experience in unexpected situations. According to Lilia, Sebek is a lovely boy, but he is also overprotective and describes him as someone who demands a lot from himself and others. However, he is unable to adapt to others, although he is a calm and intelligent boy when Malleus is not involved.

Sebek's conviction is a powerful thing, he adds, and he would like his classmates to be able to appreciate it, but he does not want to interfere in the learning process and that he will just see how the situation develops.

Extra Notes:

• Lilia is a terrible cook. Back when he was a general, Lilia did not care about how food tasted, seeing it solely as a means of survival. In the present, Lilia chooses to ignore recipes and experiments with ingredients, often resulting in questionable meals

• He gave Malleus a virtual pet as a gift

• He plays video games under the handle Muscle Red, often with Gloomurai. The two are unaware of the other's identity in real life yet consider one another good friends

• Malleus mentions during history lessons that Lilia's portrait is in the textbook

• Lilia states that he does not remember his true date of birth, although he chooses to celebrate it on January 1st

• Lilia has a talent for playing several instruments. He is also seen teaching others how to play multiple instruments. According to Lilia himself, he's good at singing lullabies that can make a crying infant sleep in a fraction of a second

• Lilia has sharp eyesight as well as hearing

• Lilia said that he likes the taste of potions that were said to taste rotten by others

• Lilia is a night owl, which is fitting due to his nocturnal fairy heritage. He often stays up late playing games, catching up with online videos or practicing instruments

• Lilia has an aversion to strong sunlight, preferring overcast weather, even once referring to sunshine coming into his room as 'disgusting'. He states that opening curtains on a bright morning would 'ruin his whole day

• Can fly and float