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The Twelve are primals, incarnate summoned—like Shiva—by the leaders of twelve Eorzean tribes at a point after the Sundering, but before the first rejoining.
The ritual to create primals was uncovered by these tribes through exploring the ruins of Elpis, rather than given by the Ascians.
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For Galbana Lily, Fray/Esteem is her guardian angel and dark passenger—the living embodiment of her most misanthropic habits, coupled inseparably with the desire to protect herself from the suffering she was made to endure.
In essence, Fray is what Lily believed it meant to be "strong".
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When Galbana Lily was Ktjn, a child of ten summers, she and her mother crossed the desert between Golmore and Rabanastre on foot. The journey took several days, with the pair taking shelter in the day and traveling by night.
Ktjn became fascinated with stars on account of that journey.
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The moment Galbana Lily realized just how badly she'd fallen for Minfilia was the night of the Castrum Meridianum raid. The sight of the Antecedent, her light at the end of the tunnel, as Lily narrowly escaped the Praetorium's destruction... it made her heart skip a beat.
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Galbana Lily is canonically a Culinarian and a Botanist, having moonlit at the Bismarck in Limsa Lominsa during the events of A Realm Reborn.
She prefers to gather her own ingredients, from hunting beasts to rooting around the wilds for plants and spices.
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In Lily's timeline, Hatching Tide would be about eight months away. But I imagine Ascilia and Lily would tell Eutrope about the holiday, which would lead her to call up her family for a get together in Gridania.
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The card I associate most with Galbana Lily is the Chariot. Aside from it's usual meanings, she is often a powerful supporting cast member who acts to propel her fellow protagonists to success.
Case in point is her unwavering supports of the likes of Ryne and Yaana.
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Galbana Lily typically makes use of local amenities—brooks, rivers, and so on. She also tends to dry her clothes in the sun, or with fire conjury in a controlled environment.
She doesn't bother much with folding, though, aside from choice outfits. So her pack can be a bit of a mess.
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Galbana Lily was raised in the village of Camoa, deep within Golmore Jungle, until her mother Ruuj/Seventh Heaven took her to Rabanastre when she was ten. She spent the rest of her childhood and her first years of adulthood there, living in a small alleyway apartment.
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Galbana Lily is married to Ascilia Warde. Both count Eutrope as their girlfriend, as well, though she's not interested in marriage.
Lily and Carnelia (Vamp Fatale) are also girlfriends, though I'm unsure of how I want that relationship to play out.
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Galbana Lily?
In the past, preferably from a distance. Physical or emotional. Actually letting people into her personal space is a difficult necessity for her.
In the present, that want is only really expressed through her fashion.
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Galbana Lily rarely swears, even when she's angry. She can still be quite crass, however, even without swears.
Aria, her AU reincarnation, would fill up a swear jar in a single ten hour shift.
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Galbana Lily owns a Regalia Type-G, but she rarely makes use of it due to how expensive the ceruleum fuel is. And to be frank, it's not really her kind of vehicle. She is more into motorcycles and scooters—her "Modern AU" counterpart would almost certainly own a Vespa.
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Atlas had a partner—Pleione, a student from the Words of Mitron. Though not every Atlas and Pleione shard become a couple, many find themselves gravitating towards one another.
Two examples:
- Galbana Lily and Ascilia Warde
- The sky pirate Barbariccia and her lover, Theodora Farrell
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It can be difficult for a Viera to disguise themselves. Lily is adept at obscuring her identity, but disguising herself as anyone other than another Viera is out of the question without glamours.
But he has no problem with it. Not being recognized can make her feel better about herself.
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Though versed in the Summoner's arts, Lily rarely employs them. But she's taken a liking to summoning while employing pictomancy—her familiars come out in all shapes and sizes, but most often take the form of chibified versions of the primals themselves.
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Echo visions often come at Lily too quickly for her to react, but when she can she'll try and find a place to sit down first.
Nowadays she has some degree of control over it, however, and can even willfully trigger it and remain conscious at the same time.
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It was snowing the night Galbana Lily brought Ascilia's soul back from the aetherial sea. They spent that first night together resting, Lily recounting the tale that led her to bringing her back, while Ascilia convalesced until her soul and body were properly bound to one another.
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To her knowledge, Lily has only one sibling—Rubedo, her older sister. They spent most of their lives apart, the trajectories of which put them on opposing sides of the Dalmascan revolution, though they only encountered each other once, briefly, and without knowing each other's identity.
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As a Viera, Lily has rather massive hands. She tends to hold hands palm-to-palm, and it's not uncommon for whomever's hand she's holding to look like a child's by comparison, even when the actual size difference between the two is minimal.
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Some time after the destruction of the Ultima Weapon, Galbana Lily bought a pair of silver earrings from the Goldsmiths' Guild in Ul'dah.
Though she was trying to get engagement rings instead, a misunderstanding and her own bashfulness led to, well.
She has never been seen without them.
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There was a point in Lily's life where she considered everything about herself to be "hard to love", and so took measures to mask her personality behind an affable facade.
Overcoming that insecurity took a considerable amount of time, and the aid of someone she felt she could confide in.
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Galbana Lily has known a few mentors over the years, though none have as deep a relationship with her as "Fray". Which is to say that the truest mentor Lily has ever had was herself.
That said, she has fond memories of the woman who mentored her in the art of hannish dance.
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Though she bore no outward signs of Light poisoning, owing to Ryne's intervention, Galbana Lily's soul was nevertheless heavily distorted by the experience.
After purging the Light, her soul rebounded in a peculiar way, tilting strongly towards Astral/Darkness.
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It's a small thing for Ascilia, as Lily is almost always open to her thoughts and decisions, but she has a strong dislike of Lily's cynical streak.
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Anyone can use the Azem crystal, not just Lily.
When used with specific people in mind, and while on the same plane of existence as them, it will pull them body and soul to the summoner's location. This is also opt-in—a summoned guest can outright refuse the request.
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Obviously weapon + job stone requirements are a mechanical thing.
But in the Lilyverse, neither are needed, strictly speaking, to perform the techniques associated with jobs.
Galbana Lily in particualr is known to use DRK techniques with all kinds of weapons, including her bare fists.
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Galbana Lily is a lesbian, which of course is a major factor. But so long as she feels she has a good reason to fight someone, the most any woman can hope for is a mutually romantic subtext to the ensuing battle.
No, the best time to seduce Lily is when she's already off guard.
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There's this chapter in Ascilia, Scion of Light, where Lily is forced to rely on Ascilia and Nidhana for protection. The reason being that she's still wearing her wedding attire—a gorgeous red sari—from the last chapter, and is worried she'll ruin it.
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Galbana Lily's pain tolerance is very high under normal circumstances, and when pushed to her limits—such as under the effects of Living Dead—it often seems like she doesn't feel pain at all.
Once she's in a state of rest, however, the pain her abilities deferred tends to wash over her.
