At last I bring you dear Aunt Lucrecia finished. Who appears in the episode "Family Reunion", with other vampires.
It's a shame none of these relatives showed up again, it would have been fun to see what other things they could do with Duckula.
I don't know if Lucrecia, Lucretia or Lucrezia is written in the original. At least the first works for Latin America.
A/N: I know. It’s been awhile. The struggle to find time AND to actually have something worthwhile to write has been ridiculous. But I’m pretty proud of this chapter. 🙊
“Must you be so loud!?,” Olivia’s aggravated voice frightens the staff member who quickly mumbled an apology before turning off the vacuum.
Despite the hangover she woke up to, Olivia looked every part of the Duchess of Lythikos that morning. Her fire-red hair was immaculately pulled back into a slick bun with a white button up blouse, black slacks and a pair of red stilettos completed her look.
“Will you let her know I’m here...please,” she forcefully added the last word. She eyed the staff member scurrying away from her to fetch the woman responsible for her presence in another Nevrakis home.
Olivia’s patience is non-existent when waiting on others but today is different, even with a hangover. After ending whatever it was she and Drake had, her life felt like hers again. Not one of the inane woman she was a few weeks ago lurking in undisclosed locations around Cordonia.
It worked out well since she was summoned by her Aunt today. The only human being in the world who had the power to reduce her to the weak, abandoned young girl she once was.
Olivia couldn’t--wouldn’t show Lucretia how much these visits affected her.
“Honestly Olivia do you bathe in that stuff?,” a condescending voice from behind her echoed into the vast foyer of the home. Olivia’s back stiffened at the sound of her Aunt’s grating voice.
Standing at the bottom of the staircase was her Aunt Lucretia, glaring in her direction.
Olivia sighed, already feeling her energy being drained at a simple conversation with her only relative.
“Bathe in what?”
“In that musty bottle you call perfume. My nose feels like it might fall off soon!,” Lucretia held a hand over her nose as she waved in a frenzy with the other, attempting to clear the air around her.
“Change my perfume. Thank you Aunt Lucretia for bringing me all the way here to tell me that,” Olivia moves toward the front door more than ready to take her leave. “Let me know when you’re in the country again. We’ll have to do this again what, next year?”
“You foolish girl. Despite your overwhelming scent, I didn’t invite you here today to discuss your hygiene practices.”
Olivia can’t help the annoyance that comes to her as she reluctantly turned to face her Aunt. So close, she tells herself. A few more steps and she could have been outside, away from her.
“Well?,” Olivia asked flatly. “Get on with it already.”
“I forget how ill-mannered you have become,” Lucretia said with a hint of disgust. “It’s bad enough you’ve begun to associate yourself with that commoner from New York…”.
Olivia began to walk towards the sitting room, letting the words of her Aunt’s rant stay behind her. A skill she developed early on as a child when she would lecture for hours.
“...and the fact that you are on the Council with them,” she continued. No doubt, Olivia thought with an eye-roll, she was now referring to the Beaumont brother and Hana Lee.
She bit her tongue and attempted to humor her Aunt.
“It’s a tragedy isn’t it?,” Olivia sat on the edge of the leather chaise placed by the window. At least she had the option of jumping out of it, she thought desperately.
“Your sarcasm has certainly reared its ugly head frequently nowadays,” Lucretia said. The coy smile playing on her lips set Olivia on edge, causing her to become silent.
“I thought so,” Lucretia told her. “Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, there is a matter at hand I need to discuss with you.”
Olivia scoffed but still remained quiet.
“Since your previous engagement was,” Lucretia paused for a moment, “...unfortunate.”
“He conspired to take the throne away from Liam and then kidnapped me.”
“Yes as I mentioned, unfortunate.”
“Unbelievable,” Olivia muttered.
She despised how little her Aunt cared for her but was more disgusted by her own actions. Olivia shouldn’t care to keep up with this toxic relationship but here she was, enduring yet another visit from her only living relative.
“Be that as it may,” Lucretia continued, “I’ve acquired someone else in place for your fiancé.”
Olivia’s mouth dropped as her Aunt looked pleased with herself at the announcement.
“You can’t be serious right now.”
“I can’t recall a time where I wasn’t,” said Lucretia. She summoned the butler and ordered tea, ignoring her niece fiercely shaking her head in disagreement.
“No. No.” Olivia felt the intensity behind her words, almost screaming them in rage. “I am not doing this again.”
“There is no need to make a scene,” Lucretia said as she sipped her tea.
“Don’t you dare tell me what to do. Not after what you put me through with Anton!”
Lucretia put her cup of tea down before addressing her niece.
“I,” she emphasized, “did nothing. I simply followed through on the wishes of your parents. They are the ones who signed your life away to a demented man drunk with power.”
Olivia could feel her breaths begin to come in quick and short.
Not here. Not in front of her, she silently pleaded. Olivia closed her eyes in an attempt to immobilize the weakness within her.
“I see those...ahem, debilitating moments you had as a child has carried into adulthood. I’d have hoped you would outgrow those eventually.”
Olivia’s mind was elsewhere but Lucretia’s words were crushing as the image of her beloved Lythikos, the snow covered grounds of her duchy that brought her some sort of solace during a panic attack, began to fade away.
Her mind seemed to race with random images flashing through her mind in an attempt to focus on something...anything.
“I can’t...No,” Olivia bit the words out.
“Don’t worry, dear. I took extra precaution and vetted this gentleman myself. I do believe he’ll make an excellent addition to the Nevrakis name.”
“That’s what you assured me about Anton,” Olivia’s voice was just above a whisper.
“If you clean the wax out of your ears I have already addressed that being your parents doing. You can trust me Livy.”
Olivia’s head dropped at Lucretia’s use of her childhood nickname that signaled the end of the discussion. She took in a deep breath allowing herself to slowly exhale, grateful that it was bringing some sort of serenity to this hell of a conversation.
“Would you like to meet him?,” Lucretia’s question causes Olivia to jerk her head up to attention.
“No I would not like to meet him!,” she stood and began to make her way out of the room. “I can’t be here right now. I need to leave. I just--,” Olivia didn’t care to finish her sentence as she approached the closed doors.
Before she has the chance to make her escape from Lucretia, the double doors suddenly open up stopping Olivia in her tracks.
A tall man dressed in a crisp old navy colored suit stood before her. With a hand in one pocket and a roguish grin playing on his lips, she watches as his eyes swept over her body.
aka: Lilliana spends a year rolling the best goddamn deception checks she can muster
This got...long
Here There Be Gerblins
So through some magical shenanigans while she’s adventuring, Lilliana gets sent back in time to the htbg-era
She’s in a tavern and sees Magnus, Taako, and Merle talking to another dwarf (Gundren)
Gundren catches her staring and is like “the fuck are you looking at?”
Lilliana panics and is like “I uh... wanted to inquire about the job?”
Gundren buys it, asks her what she can do, she tells him she’s a ranger, he puts her with the boys
The boys are like hey what the fuck
But Gundren is like ...you three look like the type to need a competent woman on your side
The boys are like ok fair.
Taako, looking closely at Lilliana: do i know you?
Lilliana: ahaha....no...
The next day comes and the four of them set out
They don’t talk much, and Lilliana’s super weirded out by this whole thing, because this isn’t them, this isn’t how they interact with each other.
This isn’t how they interact with her
They come across Barry and Gundren’s horses, beat the gerblins lurking there, go to the cave, blah blah blah this is all pretty much the same with the addition of Lilli just hanging in the background losing her mind.
Taako: *asks the three of them if they know who Barry Bluejeans is, or care*
Lilliana: *dying*
Anyway they save Barry, go back to phandolyn, leave Barry there, and the four of them go to Wave Echo Cave
Lilliana wants to tell Barry to come with them, but she also doesn’t want to fuck up the timeline super bad, and she doesn’t know how to tell him that it doesn’t matter if he dies because he’s a lich, so she goes with thb and doesn’t say anything about it
Blah blah blah everything with wave echo cave and killian and magic brian is the same
Killian asks them if they’re there for the Phoenix Fire Gauntlet and Lilliana pretends very good that she hears static
They find the umbrella and Lilliana 1) laughs at her mom fucking launching merle across the room and 2) resists the urge to snatch it from taako and break it open then and there because, again, timeline
Gundren takes the gauntlet, they race back to Phandolyn, everything happens the same
They’re sitting at the bottom of the well, the boys are joking and laughing, but Lilliana is... shaking. Her eyes are teary, and she looks like she’s going to cry
Sure, she knows her dad is a lich and he’ll be fine, but seeing him get obliterated into nothingness is still shocking and upsetting
Taako notices first.
“Hey kid, you good?”
But it’s not Taako. Not her Taako. The way he asks, there’s this degree of separation that shouldn’t be there, and it’s almost worse than if he never asked her at all.
Moonlighting
So they climb out of the well, taako grabs the gauntlet, Killian wakes up, tells them what she can (though, again, Lilliana can hear the parts that are static to the boys, but she pretends very good that she can’t)
Killian offers them jobs, and now Lilliana has a decision to make
Does she go up to the moon, to Lucretia?
Does she stay planetside and find her dad?
Does she stay planetside and just hide out until she figures out a way home?
Well. This wouldn’t be much of a reclaimer!au if she didn’t go to the moon.
Lilliana’s reasoning: she can’t find her dad. He’s going to be a lich, and already kind of a mess, she can’t just roll up like hey i’m your daughter from the future, that wouldn’t be good. Also, if all else fails, if she’s on the Starblaster when the boys and Lucretia fly up to cut off the Hunger, she can talk to Jeffandrew after and get him to send her back. He’s the god of gods, he’s gotta be able to fix this.
So she goes up to the moon with them.
Killian, to Lucretia: so I have four new recruits. They were able to resist the thrall
Lucretia: ah, yes, wonder- wait did you say four?
Killian: yeah. A human fighter named Magnus, an elf wizard named Taako, a dwarf cleric named Merle-
Lucretia: okay...
Killian: and a half-elf ranger named Lilliana.
Lucretia: ...........and all four of them could resist the thrall?
Killian: yeah
Lucretia: are you absolutely sure
Killian: yes
Lucretia:
Lucretia: OKAY SEND THEM IN I GUESS
Lucretia is... very confused, to say the least. This is the beginning of a very long year for her
As Lucretia is giving them the spiel about the red robes, Lilliana has to fight the urge to roll her eyes
Lucretia only had the three beds open with Pringles for the boys (because she was only EXPECTING the THREE of THEM, who the FUCK is this girl??????) so Lilliana bunks with carey, killian, and boyland
They’re reclaimers now!
Murder on The Rockport Limited
So here’s the thing about Lilli being in this situation.
She knows the order they find the relics in, she knows generally what happened on the mission to find them, and she knows the general timeframe, but she doesn’t know the teeny tiny details
So she is rudely awoken at fuck-all hours of the morning when they get summoned to talk with Lucretia
But she realizes like oh. this is Relic Time
and she shows up last, but she’s actually dressed (unlike thb, who showed up in their pjs)
So they get to Rockport and get on the train, and it’s as Lilliana is looking around the passenger car that she remembers a very crucial detail about this mission
That detail is Angus Mcdonald
Who, for Lilli, is like... 30-something.
He’s like 13 years older than her.
But here............
He’s TEN
“I need to leave right now immediately,” Lilliana says.
“?????” the boys say
Lilliana does not leave, but she hangs at the back of any conversations with Angus as much as she can, because this whole situation was weird before, but now it’s weird-weird
They solve the mystery, which Lilliana already knew the answer for, and Taako figures out the port wand
Taako also throws Angus off the train.
............
Lilliana didn’t think he’d actually done that all these years, despite how many times it came up in stories and such. But he sure did throw Angus off the train.
Oculus: Acquired
Lunar Interlude I
Lilliana doesn’t wear a costume so much as she just dresses up real pretty
She wrestles with her hair for ages, wanting to do some nice elven braids her mom would always do for her, but she’s garbage at doing them herself, and she’s too nervous to go ask Taako to do it for her
She caves, eventually, and goes to the boys’s room, clutching the ribbons she wants braided into her hair, and nervously asks Taako if he’ll please do her hair for her.
She expects him to say no
He says yes
Well, he moreso just shrugs and says “sure, why not. C’mere.”
Anyway they go to the midsummer thing. Magnus eats some unicorn dick. Lilliana laughs along with them.
(She pretends not to notice Lucretia’s eyes following her carefully)
The eclipse happens, as does the Hunger’s scouts showing up
I don’t think Lilliana gets fully knocked out by it like everyone else, but she definitely falls to her knees, at least.
So that’s fun
Magnus, to Lucretia: Has that happened before?
Lucretia: No-
Lilliana, internally: sure, luce
Petals to The Metal
Sure, it sucked for Taako and Magnus to have to hear Merle dirty talk the vines, but think about Lilliana having to witness this
That’s her grandpa
HER GRANDFATHER
SHE DOESN’T WANT TO EXPERIENCE THIS
IF NOTHING ELSE, THIS IS WHAT’S GOING TO TRAUMATIZE HER
Anyway they get in and through the bank, fight Sloane, almost fucking die, etc etc etc.
It’s odd, seeing Hurley and Sloane not as dryads
The race is kinda fun, Lilli’s definitely done a few with them, but she’s used to the uh.....less deadly version
Also she didn’t know that Taako getting taken over by the cricket dude and jumping off the wagon without his safety harness happened in the normal timeline too, so when it happens, she screams
Then Klaarg is there and catches him and it’s all good, but Lilli was really freaked for a minute there
uhhhhhhhh yeah so they win the race, go and fight Sloane, when the umbrella does a BIG fire spell, Lilli is like hell YEAH that’s my fucking MOM
(She doesn’t actually say that. but she thinks it)
then Hurley and Sloane turn into a tree
Lilliana just kinda smiles
She knows they’ll be back
Then they go talk to Bane, and Lilliana remembers, as he’s pouring them drinks, what comes next
Lilliana is just staring at him as he does his scary speech.
Once he’s done, he looks at her, stares at her for a moment, then disappears
Lunar Interlude II
Lucretia questions them about the interaction in Bane’s office, Lilliana still stays quiet
Lucretia is maybe a little too concerned about “The Red Robe” to notice how quiet Lilli’s being about all of this, how she’s just letting the boys talk
Then once that is out of the way, Lucretia takes their stones of farspeech, does a Thing to them, then Angus’s voice comes through and he walks into the office
Lilliana, interally: fuck my life fuck my life fuck my LIFE I should’ve known this was coming
Also the four of them get moved into their fancy new Reclaimer’s dorm
Oh they also meet Lucas as they bring Bane’s info down to the voidfish
Lilli is just rolling her eyes because god, they weren’t kidding when they said he was super irritating
Crystal Kingdom
Now this one Lilliana knows is coming, because she knows it’s on the day of the Candlenights party
This is also the first mission Lilli really has fun with
Gerblins was stressful, because she was just trying to figure out wtf was going on, the train was weird because tiny Angus, petals was also stressful, even if she knew it’d be fine in the end
But this one.... the “crystal golums” that attack them... she knows they’re Kravitz. She also knows that when Leigon happens, they just need to break the mirror.
This is the mission that the boys talk about the most in her proper time, she knows what’s coming
(It’s also just like... SUPER entertaining to stand back and watch crystal golum Kravitz play his games)
She also knows her dad is going to show up and give them a powerpoint on the planes and allude vaguely to the Hunger
(RIP Boyland tho, he was chill as hell in the few months she knew him)
At the end of everything, she’s ready to step in to bargain away the boys’s bounties, as the only one of them without a bounty, and also as someone who knows all of Kravitz’s tricks, but Magnus does his own card game thing and it works out
Afterwards, Lucretia pulls the four of them into her office and calls them out for talking to the red robe again, and she gives them her own dramatic speech
The boys assure her that they’re just dummies and they forgot. Lucretia looks to Lilli.
“Lilliana,” she says, “do I have your trust?”
“Of course,” Lilliana says, knowing all of Lucretia’s secrets, “you’ve given me no reason not to trust you.”
Lunar Interlude III
This is the one where Magnus does his rogue training, Merle goes to the spa with Luce, Taako teaches Angus magic, and we get the LUP incident
I think Lilli’s “activity” is just... scouring the B.O.B. library for information on time/planar travel
Because, at this point, this is definitely a different timeline and probably a different universe, so getting home is definitely more complicated than just getting brought back to the future
Seeing her mom’s name burned into the cafeteria wall definitely hurts. She doesn’t want her mom to be stuck, but still. She wants to keep things as much the same as possible.
It’s rough for this baby blup :((
Eleventh Hour
So, like I said, Lilliana doesn’t know every single tiny detail about the missions. She knows this one is a big purple worm, and they gotta get down to the mines, and they need Istus’s help, and also they’re going to die a bunch on this one.
Lilliana, waking up from her first ever death: Wow! That Sucked!
Lilliana, who has a deep respect for death and the natural progression of life: I Sure Hate This! Would Love To Not Be Doing This Right Now!
They eventually figure it all out
Don’t ask me what her gift from Istus is, I have no idea and am welcome to suggestions
The chalice sees her predicament, but can’t actually fix that, so it offers her the chance to not take the Gundren job. She wouldn’t have to see Phandolyn burn, she wouldn’t have to be around the family that doesn’t know her, she could just hang out until she’s able to get home
Lilliana refuses. At this point, she’s pretty damn sure Jeffandrew is her ticket home, and she needs to be part of the Bureau to get to him.
They then beat the worm and get out of the bubble
Whoops! Here’s Barry Again!
Barry: Do you trust me?
Thb: No!
Lilliana, internally: Yes. Always.
Barry: Lup... I can’t do it anymore, Lup, I’m sorry
Lilliana: hnnnnnnnnnnngngngggggggggggggngngngngnggn
It’s a sad time for baby blue :((((
Lunar Interlude IV
ohohohoho this is the chug n’ squeeze date :3c
Taako: *gets back to the dorm*
Lilli: So? How was it?
Taako, defensive: How was what?
Lilli: Your date :3c
Taako:
Taako: How did you know-
Lilli: I know a lot of things.
Taako: It was fine. Until my umbrella tried to blast him
Lilli, faking surprise: oh?
Taako: yeah it just did it on it’s own. It was weird.
Lilli: oh, most definitely. Very peculiar.
Taako:
Taako, walking away: you’re weird, kid.
Suffering Game
So Eleventh hour kinda sucked for everyone, but Suffering game sucked
Lucretia ups their training, and Lilliana knows what’s coming. She’s scared, but she thinks she’s ready.
They get down there and through the forest, to the tent.
It’s as they’re standing in front of it that Lilli is like nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnNOPE
“No thank you. No way. I thought I was ready, but... I can’t do it.”
Magnus grabs Taako and Lilli, and pulls both of them inside, Merle following behind.
Lilliana feels sick as Taako applauds Edward and Lydia’s entrance
I don’t have specific sacrifices in mind for her, I’m open to suggestions
She knows Barry’s with them, and that offers her some comfort. And she knows she could snap the umbrella if they got really stuck, have both her parents on their side
She freaks when Taako gets crushed with the machinery, when they find out they can’t heal in here and Taako’s almost dead.
They don’t talk about this adventure much, so she doesn’t know what did or didn’t happen when this happened without her.
When they’re doing the Boss Rush, and Barry’s trying to make the door at the other end of the room, Lilliana can’t help but grin. Because he’s here, and there’s the proof.
When Taako turns into Dupree, Lilliana laughs
This is a scary as hell situation, but god damn, Taako just turned into a T-Rex. Of course he did.
They fight the wonder twins, and the umbrella swallows edward, spits him out, and he turns to dust, and Lilliana feels a rush of satisfaction
Don’t fuck with my mom if you can’t handle the consequences, she thinks.
Then Lydia screams and disintegrates Magnus’s body and Magnus is stuck as a mannequin now
oh yeah, lilliana thinks, i forgot about that part
The tent disappears, and Magnus is assaulting Barry with his own detached mannequin arm and demanding answers
Lilliana doesn’t hesitate at all when Barry asks for their stones of farspeech
Homestretch, she thinks to herself.
They make their way to Barry’s lich cave hideout, Lilliana’s kind of tuning out whatever he’s say because she already knows all of this.
As he lowers into the body cloning thing, Lilli is looking at the maps and notes he’s got on the desk thing he’s got, because she knows he’ll be stark naked when he comes out of the pod and, as his daughter, she does not need to be a witness to that
(She hears Merle start laughing as he pulls the jeans out of the chest. She smiles to herself.)
As Barry’s getting dressed, the four of them convene, and they’re debating over if they should trust him or not.
“I trust him,” Lilliana says. “He could’ve killed us at any point, and he hasn’t. I think we should trust him.”
They decide to trust him.
Reunion Tour
They get up to the moon with Barry in the bag
“Magnus is dead y’all :((((”
Shit goes the same, they find the Magnus body in Fantasy Costco, they start debating over whether or not Magnus should take the body or not.
Lilliana walks up to Magnus as she, Taako, and Merle go to leave. She takes his wooden hands in her own. “It’s going to be okay, Magnus,” she says. “This is all going to work out.”
She gives his hands a squeeze, though he can’t feel it, and smiles. As Magnus looks at her smile, he feels a sense of familiarity, a face that isn’t Lilli’s flashes in his mind, too quickly for him to be able to hold on to it.
Taako, Merle, and Lilli leave to go see the director and leave Magnus behind
So the three of them get into Lucretia’s office, go into the hall to her private quarters, get caught by her trap, but Angus stops them from getting caught, he Zone of Truths them, Barry climbs out of the bag, they get into Lucretia’s private area
They all drink from Junior’s tank (though it doesn’t do anything to Lilli, who already knows all of this)
She kind of sticks by Angus because she can see him starting to get Freaked by the shit happening (still weird that he’s 11 though!!!!!)
As the five of them get brought out in front of Lucretia, Lilli fades into the background of the interaction along with Angus, just watching this confrontation happen
Lucretia: I can build a barrier to keep the Hunger at bay. I can build a home that all of us can be safe in, together. Save for Lup. I'm so sorry, Taako, Barry, there was nothing I could do
Lilliana, internally: seriously, Luce? How on EARTH can you still not know? Like... come on now.
Lucretia does her speech, and then it’s the end of the world... again.
Stolen Century
That’s a whole different au that we’ll get to at another time
Story & Song
Taako’s doing his whole thing being mad at Lucretia and not caring that the world is ending, and Lilli is off to the side, kind of whispering to herself, “come on, Taako. Come on, just think about it. You can figure it out. Just think.”
They’re bickering about whether they should stay or go, then the Hunger bursts into the room, the fight happens, and Taako finally, finally sets his sister free.
Lilliana is grinning as the familiar warmth of her mother’s magic weaves around her expertly and the monsters in the room are consumed. She cackles at “You’re dating the Grim Reaper?!”. Rolls her eyes at her father says he’s going to blow himself up to hold her.
Davenport gives them all orders, sends Lilli to go with Carey, Killian, and Noelle to secure the base.
But she sees Lup, Barry, and Taako totally disregard their order to find the ship and instead jump off the moon down to Phandolyn, so Lilli runs off to do that instead
Things happen like they do in canon
The story and song go out, and they all regroup (sans Lilli, not that they notice), Lucas says he knows where the ship is, and as he’s about to do the Thing to bring it up, the quad splits and opens up on its own, and up rises the Starblaster
Lilliana stands on the deck, leaning on the railing.
“Found your ship,” she says casually, grinning.
Davenport says they gotta go, Lucretia reappears and begs them not to, they all start bickering again about what they should do, and Taako gives his “There’s a third option” speech
So they decide to try and cut the Hunger off, and as they’re boarding, one of the birds (I’m thinking Davenport) looks at Lilliana, still hanging out on the deck of the ship, and is like “hey, kid, you should stay down here.”
Lilli’s like fuck no. I’ve gotten this far in this whole thing, I’m going with you.
Thb back her up like. yeah cap’nport, she’s actually super rad, she’s gone through all the relic missions with us. She can handle herself.
So Lilli gets to stay on the Starblaster as they shoot up into the Hunger. She’s scared shitless, but this is her shot at getting home.
They fight the Hunger, shit’s wild, Lucretia puts up her barrier and they end up in the Nothingness as they’re talking to Jeffandrew.
Jeffandrew gives them his little speech and then lilli’s like
Lilli: Hey uhh... jeffandrew? If you’re the god of gods, then you must know that I’m like... very not supposed to be here? Can you send me home?
Jeffandrew: oh, shit. Oh, geez. I don’t know how this went unchecked for so long. For sure I can send you home.
Lucretia, who’s been tearing her hair out over Lilli for the last year: for fuck’s sake, who ARE you?!
Lilliana:
Baby gets home!!
She gets home and for her family, it’s been a year since she’s been gone and they’ve all been very sad about it, doing anything they can to try and get her back, so when she reappears in the blupjeans-taakitz conjoined backyard, and Lup and Taako see her through the kitchen window, they barrel outside towards her and she gets wrapped up in their arms.
Barry and Kravitz are also home and see the twins just bolt outside, and so they naturally follow after them, and they join the hug because BABY’S HOME!!!!!!!
They’re all like what happened?!!?!? Where were you?!?!?!? We’ve been trying everything!!!!!
So she tells them the short version, pulling her sleeve back to show her bracer and saying “I got sent back in time and ended up a reclaimer!!! Shit was wild!!!”
Then they go inside and she gives them the more detailed version.
They call everyone else and it’s a wonderful family reunion for all of them (everyone cries. They were so worried about the baby.)
Lilliana gets her bracer taken off. She’s had ENOUGH of that thing.
The Raven Queen pardons her death count (everyone is Very Distressed about her having a death count in the first place)
I probably should’ve started with a post like this when I made the blog, but I’m doing it now, so here’s some general information on The Baby. This is kind of long and mostly about her relationship with her family because I have Thoughts
Appearance
Imagine Lup
Now imagine Barry
Now imagine their physical features combined into one Precious Girl
That’s Lilliana.
She’s one of those kids where the answer to “which parent does she look like?” is “whichever one she’s standing next to at the time.”
From the way that I personally imagine Lup and Barry, Lilliana’s got sort of light brown hair and golden eyes.
She’s shorter than both Lup and Barry because I need her to be small in Mom Hugs and Dad Hugs just because of where I am, personally, as a human being right now.
Class, adventuring skills, whatever you wanna call it.
Keep in mind that I don’t know Anything about how dnd works really so if she’s way too OP don’t @ me. Her whole family is overpowered so she can be too.
She’s a ranger, mainly
She’s also got a raven that she got from the Raven Queen’s flock of cool sorta-dead magic Astral Plane ravens that she named Queenie.
She also knows wizard magic, considering there are five different wizards in her family, two of which are her parents
She also knows some bard magic because Kravitz is/was a bard and taught it to her
Magnus taught her melee fighting
Carey taught her to be sneaky and pick a lock and the like
Family
Lup:
I first came up with Lilli because I was soft for mom Lup. I’ve got this one lup lives au where she and Barry run into each other early on into the 10-year redaction and fall in love, then Barry dies in phandolyn during podcast time and Lup becomes a reclaimer with thb
Then I was like. Lup should have a kid.
So I gave her one.
She’s Mama. She loves her baby girl so much. She would do anything for her
I’ve got this one headcanon that Lup loves kids. She adores them and has always kind of wanted one. It was a thing like, “one day when I’m older and Taako and I are rich and successful and we don’t have to worry about anything anymore, I’m going to have me some kids and they’re going to be the most loved kids on the planet and they’ll never have to worry about anything like Taako and I did.”
Basically all I’ve got is that she loves and adores her baby so much and would do anything to protect her and make sure she’s happy and loved and comfortable.
She would throw the entire rest of her family off a cliff if it meant saving Lilli (they’d all do the same ngl)
Barry:
PAPA BARRY
Love that denim boy
That bluejeans man
I’ve written some of Lilli and Barry’s relationship twice now and I love them
Barry gives the best hugs, he’s very good at comforting her when she’s sad or scared or upset (Lup is very good at this too, Barry just gives very very good hugs)
He loves his little girl
She’s everything to him and he’d destroy anyone who would dare harm her
Also in the context of the original au for which Lilli was made, just imagine Barry, post-phandolyn, a lich with all his memories, realizing he found Lup and they fell in love again (more like realized they were still in love) and now they’ve got a baby girl (she’s like 5 in podcast time)
Anyway
Papa Barry. Dad Barry. He loves his daughter more than anything and wants to do the best he can by her
Taako:
Taako is her favourite uncle despite what the things I’ve written so far might suggest
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Taako already has a soft spot for kids (see: Angus) and the fact that Lilli is Lup’s baby just amps that up
He loves his niece so goddamn much
Most of these are just going to be about how much Lilli’s family loves her
Taako wants to make sure she’s taken care of
He’ll cook pretty much anything for her
He teaches her how to cook and he teaches her magic
When she was real little, like still pretty much a baby, sometimes she’d think Taako was Lup and she would insist on calling him Mama no matter how many times he’d tell her that he’s not Mama.
Kravitz:
I’ve already covered Lilliana and Kravitz’s relationship twice now (and I’m working on a third *eyes emoji*)
Kravitz was a little apprehensive when Lup and Barry first made the Announcement and when Lilli was first born, but then Lilli’s first word was Kravitz and Kravitz was like Guess I’ll Do Anything For You Now
He’ll do LITERALLY anything for her
He can’t say no to her
At all
He’s tried
He’s a weak, weak man and he will give Lilliana anything she asks for.
Lup and Barry are aware of this weakness, they just don’t know the extent of Lilliana’s asking.
He loves Lilli so much
She’s his baby too, in a way (and Taako’s baby, but you get me)
He’s the fun uncle, as was established in one of the two Kravitz & Lilli fics
Basically I love them and Kravitz loves his niece so much
Lucretia:
Aunt Lucretia. Auntie Lucy.
She tells Lilliana so many stories, real and made up
uhhhhhhh
Most of my Family Content was for the first four, but Lucretia and Lilli are buds
When Lilli is young she gave Lucretia a drawing she (Lilli) made of the IPRE crew and herself, in that way little kids do, and Lucretia straight up frames is and puts it with the IPRE family portrait she made during the beach cycle
Magnus:
There’s been a small snippet of uncle Magnus already
Magnus is a disaster uncle and I love him
When she’s little he does that thing where he’ll toss her up in the air and catch her again
She gets some REAL airtime and it’s her favourite game
Merle:
Grandpa Merle is………..well. he’s Merle
She definitely does Extreme Teen Adventures when she’s the right age
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Merle loves her a whole bunch
For that lup lives au, Lilli is what prompts Merle to reconnect with Mavis and Mookie
Obviously in canon-universe, he already has, but he’s a little nervous when she’s first a little baby cause he didn’t get a ton of experience with his own kids as babies
But he’s great
He loves the baby
Yes
Grandpa Merle
Davenport:
Grandpa Dav is cool as hell
He travels all over the place and has so many cool stories
He collects little trinkets and things from the places he stops at and explores
He takes her out on his boat too sometimes and they have themselves a whole lot of fun
Angus:
Okay so Angus is a little complicated and here’s why
Their age difference fluctuates between what context I’m thinking about
Lup lives au? It’s like five years, and he’s kind of a brother/cousin type of figure
Canon taz universe, it’s like 12 years, and so I think that puts him in more of an uncle position, which I don’t think is worse or anything, I’m just saying
Then I have another au I’m working on it’s like 7 years and he’s her big brother and she literally grew up with him
But in any context, he’ll sit with her and read books to her
He reads her his Caleb Cleveland novels and she gets very good at guessing the who the bad guy is
Long story short, I love Lilli and her family and feel free to send in any questions you've got 👀👀