Lillian Lime

Lillian Lime, born Lillian Lofty Limousine, is the a supporting antagonist in the first part of LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow - Harvest Saga - Helene Hawthorn Arc but later in its second part, Lillian  became one of its secondary villain alongside Albert Apple after they became hosts to the avatars of Dark Arzonia, gaining deadly power and turned insane as a result of Dark Arzonia's psychotic breakdown. However, like Albert and Gladius Grapefruit, Lillian's role in the 2nd part of Helene Arc was none other than one of the puppets manipulated by Dark Arzonia, and subsquently the mastermind, Phyllis Peach.

Being a counterpart to the half-orphaned and disfigured Helene Hawthorn, whom she considered as a love rival and dangerous foe, Lillian is the childhood sweetheart of the future Rookie Mage, Baccarat Blueberry. She is an heir to a wealthy art collection family affiliated to the Order of Flourish, and it is claimed by art students in Sleepy Hollow Art Museum that she has close friendships with a lot of male students.

Originally, Lillian is kind and loving, being a personal friend to the former Art Museum and she admires Baccarat's art skills after meeting him in Sleepy Hollow a long time after they seperated. However, she was disgusted by the boastful attitude of the new manager's wife, Dora Dorian, and was alerted with the so-called Miracle of Art (who is revealed to be Helene Hawthorn). They soon became rivals after Helene madly fell in love with Baccarat and later took him away twice. Her feelings towards Baccarat was soon manipulated by Phyllis Peach as a tool against Helene and get the Stone of Wisdom from her. Phyllis attacked Lillian via sending Gladius Grapefruit and Dark Arzonia (who also possessed ) after her before capturing her to Planet Sorensen-444.

Under Gladius' advice, Dark Arzonia possessed Lillian with another avatar of hers with her new ability absorbed from a lesser Jiu Ying, which seperated her souls into nine pieces. The possession of Dark Arzonia had manipulated Lillian's dark side and her desire towards Bacarrat, driving Lillian insane and turning her into a mad monster who hated Helene so much that she tried to destroy her in any cost so that she could rescue Baccarat and became his heroine.

Lillian was later killed in the battle by Dark Arzonia with Helene's weapon when Lillian was trying to get the Stone of Wisdom from her, and that murder was an act that almost drove Baccarat insane and became a Zodiac Demon. Thankfully, Baccarat overcame the feelings of despair by himself under the memories he had together with Lillian and Hestia, also gaining abilities to become a Rookie Mage, though he rejected Kristen Kiwifruit's request to be a mage.

However, Lillian's death had fatal consequences. Not only Bacarrat was later forced to be a Rookie Mage by Lord Helio (dressed as the White Wizard) as a result of Lillian's death, he was also brainwashed and became a sacrificial subject for the second Feast of Apollo after capturing Kristen. In addition, the death of Lillian Lime was later used as one of the main crimes that Phyllis Peach pinned on Ichabod Crane so that the entire Order of Flourish (including Selina Strawberry) had turned against him and the entire Team Witness.

After the death of Lord Helio. Lillian's redeemed soul was summoned by Maria Arzonia in the final battle against Phyllis alongside Dark Arzonia who fused with her. After the demise of Phyllis along with Dark Arzonia, Lillian and many other victims could finally rest in peace.

Jiu Ying (Being an Avatar of Dark Arzonia)
It should be noted that Lillian, just like Albert Apple in Helene Hawthorn Arc and later Albert Apple Arc, was possessed by one of the nine avatars of Dark Arzonia after she absorbed the power from a Zodiac Demon named Jiu Ying (九婴, literally meant "Nine Infants"), named after an ancient demonic beast in Chinese mythology. In Chinese myth recorded on Huai Nan Zi (《淮南子》) written by Liu An, an author as well as the Lord Huai Nan region in Western Han Dynasty, Jiu Ying was described as a ferocious beast with nine heads that make eeries like infants crying to lure humans and hunt them down, and that's how it gets its name.

It lived underneath a river that is very deep, but when 10 Suns rose from Earth and scorched the fields, turning the world into a wasteland, the beast started to get out of boiling river and started an rampage by eating people along with 9 other things. Later, the god of archery, Hou Yi, shot down nine of ten suns and killed the beasts that jeopadized humanity, including Jiu Ying, which he killed with arrows.

Original Personality
Originally, Lillian was a kind and passionate girl who was devoted to art, but she had a trauma due to the death of her parents that was killed and corrupted by rampaging Zodiac Demons formed after the very first Feast of Apollo, and those demons were believed to be the cause of the first Feast's downfall.

The loss in her family made her feel hatred towards Zodiac Demons. Therefore, she devoted herself into the Order of Flourish with the utmost loyalty and tried to start the second Feast of Apollo as well, following the will of Lord Helio without any cost. However, the saddest thing was that Lillian never found out that the Feast itself was destinied to be disastrous as it costed many human's humanity to form magic mana for reviving Hestia Hawthorn, and the first Feast itself was the cause of Zodiac Demon forming on Earth.

Lillian's rivalry towards Helene Hawthorn was pretty intense, even before they started to become love rivals around Baccarat, as she saw Helene as a murderer who killed people from the darkness and subsquetly accursed the entire Art Museum as nothing but a bloodshedding slaughterhouse. She believed that her own sense of justice shall not tolerate people like Helene to get away from her crimes.

Therefore, Lillian believed Helene is a monster and often referred her as "that demon under the mask", and she also assisted the forces of police to hunt Helene down, especially after the first missing of Baccarat and the murder of Dora Dorian. Despite hating Dora, Lillian still went by the law and started a search for Helene, whom she believed to be nobody but a criminal.

Lillian showed care towards Baccarat, but one of the other male students in the Art Museum claimed that the relationship between Lillian and him was "far beyond acquaintances", and whether it was referring that they were close friends or even having some relationships was unknown. It was questionable whether Baccarat was Lillian's first and only love, although Helene claimed that Lillian had once loved someone else, but later was fond of Baccarat due to his talents.

Despite all of those questionable attitude, one thing was for sure; Lillian was well-intentioned on the problems around Helene in the first part of Helene Arc, since she only acted as an enforcer of law and the protector of the one she loved in her antagonistic role against Helene. Even so, she was sympathetic to Helene when she saw Helene's suicidal attempt (despite turned out it was a fake), and thus she attended her funeral and harbored Baccarat's feelings towards Helene. She also showed respect towards the late Hestia Hawthorn and Dragonia Dragonfruit, saying the foremost reason she wanted Helene to be captured alive was her talent inheritated from her mother, and believed Helene could be saved. Killing Helene would be a disgrace to Hestia's soul.

Corrupted Personality - Dark Arzonia's Avatar
However, in the second part, Lillian's original kind and understanding personality went corrupted became very paranoid, obesessive, twisted and stubborn after Dark Arzonia possessed Lillian with one of her avatar, releasing her inner darkness and making it more obvious and more offensive towards people around her.

Under Dark Arzonia's influence, Lillian began to lose control on her temper and spoke in an impolite attitude. Her rude way of speaking reminiscent that of Dark Arzonia, just like her psychopathic traits that went further out of control as the story progressed to the part when Ichabod went into Planet Sorensen-444, the lair of United Kingdom of America.

What was more, instead of keeping Helene alive in prison in order to keep her moral code (like she was trying to do before being possessed by Dark Arzonia), Lillian was more prone in killing Helene and got the Stone of Wisdom inside her in order to fulfill Gladius' experiment, believing Gladius' lies that such a magic experiment shall cure the world from Zodiac Demon and evil personality.

Lillian believed that the Stone of Wisdom would be used in the Second Feast of Apollo alongside the Dawn's Early Light created by Selina Strawberry, completely refused to believe the fact that it was human who turned into the first group of modern Zodiac Demons in Sleepy Hollow as a result of the Feast, not the acts of Moloch or his minions.

Lillian was also paranoid and offensive towards the members of Team Witness under Dark Arzonia's evil influence, particularly believing Ichabod Crane to be a threat as well, even a collaborator of Helene. She thought Ichabod was compromising her murder attempt against Helene and the retrieve of the Stone of Wisdom.

After her corruption, Lillian unknowingly betrayed her original vow when she joined the Order. Under her possessed state, Lillian never cared about the orders from her master Lord Helio, either, despite claiming all she did was in the sake of the Order of Flourish to cleanse some trashes in the society, believing Ichabod was nobody but a worthless piece of trash. That drove her hunting Ichabod down at any cost, since she believed killing him would be a perfect choice.

During her corrupted state, illian was obviously acted under the influence of Dark Arzonia, who tried to prevent the Second Feast of Apollo from happening in order to gain the Stone of Wisdom with ease so that Dark Arzonia could do the destruction on humanity herself, not for cleasing sins but for her pure excitement.

Ironically, the villainous acts of Lillian, despite believing by herself was act out of good will and for seeking revenge on Helen, she was slowly pushing herself towards the path of a traitor in the Order, becoming an agent serving the United Kingdom of America as a result.



Under Dark Arzonia's influence via possession and manipulation on her dark side, Lillian eventually slipped into a villain. She became consumed by her inner desire, just like the likes of Blaze Banana, Pedro Pineapple and Orlando Orange, also including Gladius Grapefruit and Phyllis Peach (true mastermind in secret) who used Lillian as a mere pawn, shown when the other fragment of Dark Arzonia inside Albert Apple betrayed and murdered Lillian, absorbing her avatar back to her original and left Lillian to die.

Later, Baccarat willingly professed his love to Helene in order to overcome his pain due to the loss of Lillian, and Lillian's rampage to win back Baccarat had ended up all for nothing but a evil game made by Phyllis Peach and Dark Arzonia. That was the greatest tragedy happened on her.

After Redemption
After her death, thankfully, due to the remorse she shown in her dying moment, Lillian's soul was purified instead of condemned. After summoned back by Maria Lillian's purified spirit became much friendlier to Team Witness, much like her original heroic self, but no longer had obsession towards the instigation of the second Feast of Apollo anymore.

Apparently, Lillian also let go of her rivalry of Helene and fully understood Helene's loss on her mother which drove her into a tragic person. Lillian even protected Helene from the attack of Fusion Phyllis several times with no ill will towards her former enemy, meaning she could finally let go of her obsession and moved on instead of letting it to consume her, thus nullified the corrupting influence of Dark Arzonia once and for all.