“don’t remember there being any hounds around here” + lilbea :0?
Need you to know this was probably my favorite One Of These I got in this game
After much consideration I think I would have this one be like. My total autopsy (+ perhaps revival?) of the entire Bea/Lilith relationship featuring my most self-indulgent HCs
I'd be inventing a lot. Much of the concept would be predicted on Bea and Lilith knowing each other before the OCS. Given their families backgrounds being implied to be similar and the way their values are aligned, I think this is an easy idea to sell.
They know each other vaguely via their families but they really connect in high school - Bea was inauspiciously transferred in the middle of the year from a different school. There's rumors that she was going to be expelled for breaking a morality clause. (Aka she got caught dyking it up). These rumors as far as Lilith is concerned - and she's intense and basically friendless anyway, so her mother's suggestion of taking Beatrice as a roommate as a favor to her family is mildly inconvenient at first but no great hardship.
It's through Lilith and her chosen path to the OCS that Beatrice decides to also pursue that role. Together they clique up hard, socializing mostly with each other and training intensely. What's key here is that Lilith becomes deeply enmeshed in a homoerotic friendship that she absolutely DOES NOT realize is homoerotic. It is an intense but perfectly normal straight friendship and honestly it's a relief because not only is Bea the first person to really not seem to resent Lilith's competitiveness and social rough edges and they challenge each other and they're accomplishing goals together!
They have probably one single conversation eventually about Bea being a lesbian but Lilith plays it all wrong. Not that she's a jerk on purpose but y'know - isn't a relief that that doesn't even matter? They both decided they're going to be nuns and join the OCS together so whatever Bea's sexual preferences are is irrelevant. Vow of chastity and all that. None of it will matter when Lilith is Warrior Nun and Bea is there at her side and they're fighting demons together.
(Lilith obviously has a devastating but unacknowledged crush on Bea, but the reverse is not necessarily true. Beatrice is so deep in the throes of shame and repression that she's strangled every tiny flicker of attraction to Lilith she's ever felt)
Smash cut to now they're in the OCS and there's already a strain on the relationship. Lilith is no longer literally the only person who is friends with Bea. She's well-liked and competent and not abrasive like Lilith is. Lilith is, of course, Not Normal about this.
Mary and Shannon in the mix dilute/balance out some of the tension for a time. And then Shannon gets the Halo and Lilith crashes out and alienates herself.
Canon fills in a little more from here. Lilith isolates, Shannon is eventually betrayed and killed, Lilith loses the Halo again because Ava shows up. Lilith dies. Lilith comes back. Bea fucks off to Switzerland. Lilith isolates and goes evil. Ava fucks off through the portal.
Definitely overlapping with my OT3 fic with @nataliving from this point on but I'm interested in what happens with Bea and Lilith after the end of s2. They saw each other through such significant moments, even when they were in opposition to each other. They both went through parallel journeys that ended with them leaving the OCS to pursue something else for themselves. I'd want some relationship study from that point. And also maybe to finally have them makeout in some capacity.
Anyway. Yeah, that's what I'd do lmao
















