yay, thank you! I’m always up for bigging up Lily. <3
Why I like them - Lily’s a fundamentally good person with a heart of gold, but she’s not a plaster saint and I love that. She’s bold, sometimes argumentative, and cheeky as well as being talented and kind.
Why I don’t - There’s nothing about Lily I don’t like, except for her fondness for cutesy nicknames. (Wormy? Really now?) I’m not a fan of how she’s treated by canon a lot of the time, and often fandom doesn’t do any better tbh.
Favourite scene - Lily explaining to Snape why they can’t be friends after he called her a “mudblood”. She’s very clear that it’s not a one-off, more the straw that broke the camel’s back and that she’s tired of making excuses for him. There’s an unfortunate trope in romance stories sometimes were a girls friends and family hate her boyfriend but that narrative says they’re all wrong. Sometimes it does work that way but sometimes - as Lily’s come to realise - when the people who care about you dislike the boy hanging around you there’s a very good reason for it.
Favourite line - ‘I wouldn’t go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid’ -I know it’s quoted to death, but I love how ridiculous it is, like Lily can’t even deal with all this bullshit.
Favourite outfit - Idk, what does she even wear? I tend to picture Lily in A-Line skirts and nice but sensible shoes. Just a touch of hot librarian vibe but subtle.
OTP - Lily/James really, although I’m fond of Sirius/Lily for wrongbadness, and a spot of Sirius/Lily/James. I wish there was better femslash options for Lily but it’s sadly slim pickings.
Brotp BFF for life - it’s annoying that we don’t know about Lily’s female friends, even though she must’ve had them as she was hanging out with a bunch of girls at the lake. For her canon friendships, it’s Sirius & Lily all the way - I’m glad she has one relationship that’s mostly about someone supporting her, rather than how much emotional labour she does for other people - men, actually. The glimpses we get into Lily’s friendship with Sirius are all about her trusting him with her only child and relying on him for practical and emotional support. He never disses her or puts her down, even when he might be expected to, like when she tears one off James. Male-female friendships where the dude respects the woman are A+.
Head Canon - Lily was a very active, outdoorsy sort of child. She was in the Brownies, did gymnastics, played hockey and liked going for long walks in the countryside. She loved being a witch, and found the existence and possibilities of magic a constant delight.
Unpopular opinion - The Remus & Lily bff-ness so beloved in R/S circles is largely for his benefit and does Lily few favours. It’s significantly less prevalent in Jily and other Lily-focused works, in which Lily is generally friendly with Remus, but not at the expense of her other relationships.
A wish - More Lily content in general, please. Especially more about Lily being her own person and having stories that belong to her, beyond her being kind and supportive to dudes.
An oh-god-please-don’t-ever-happen - She started the series dead, so I guess it’s all uphill from there, right?
5 words to best describe them - Brilliant Northern sass mistress owns all.
My nickname for them - I don’t think I have one? I don’t generally give characters nicknames.
