Lily Pascal

Born in the forests near Sleria to a fairy and a demon she didn’t have a lot of friends because she didn’t fit in with any half-demons or with the fairies. She spent a lot of time with the animals of the forest and when her mom passed away she left the Slerian forests and got a job working in one of the noble houses as a maid. She slowly rose in the station till she was of enough skill to apply for a job at the royal castle with her boss’s permission. She was 18 when she started her job at the castle and while she was there she also started polishing her combat skills that she had learned from her father. She got a lot of shit from some of the staff at the castle due to her demon blood which always made her angry but she worked to hide it because she didn’t want to prove them right that demons were always bad.

When she was 21 she met Idiaia, a cherry tree dryad, who worked as the castle’s groundskeeper. The two dated for three years before they got married and they used magical means to have a child between the two of them, Koko. Koko was born the same year as the eldest royal child was born, Arsenio. As Arsenio’s parents weren’t able to spend constant time with him they looked through the royal staff to find a suitable nurse and companion for him. She had recently had a child of her own and was selected to be his wetnurse. Arsenio and Koko grew up together and she treated Arsenio like he was her own.

The next few years were rather calm and she spent time getting better at being a guard, companion, and caretaker of the kids. She had her second kid with Idiaia when she was 36, Kesiray. Kesiray was a very happy kid who stuck close to her brother’s side who was 11 when she was born. Two years after Kesiray was born Idiaia was killed when the tree she came from was felled. This caused Lily to go into a rage and stay in demon form for 7 months. When she calmed down she spent a few months with her kids healing and making sure they knew that their family unit wouldn’t change too much if she could help it. She took her job back once she felt ready.

During this time she focused on being good at being a mom and doing her job within the castle which became more difficult as Arsenio got older. She took an interest in gardening and assisting in managing the royal garden as doing this reminded her of Idiaia. She spent the next few decades in a pretty good state healing and growing. She spoke to her dad a lot when she left the capital city because she wanted to know how he got through his grief after her mom died. He said he never stopped loving her or missing her but he learned to grow around the grief and love things about living again.

When she was in her 50s she got to see Arsenio meet and marry Lutana who became the Queen of Yecca. She treated Lutana like her daughter because of how good of a person she could see that she was. When Arsenio started seeking physical affection outside of their marriage Lily tried to talk to him about being more considerate of his wife’s feelings but he wouldn’t listen to her. When Kiara was born she helped Kiara’s mother take care of her and she noticed a brief shift in Arsenio’s behavior as he did seem to show some affection towards Kiara but that all changed when Elios was born.

With the birth of the crown prince Arsenio didn’t want to threaten the survival of the royal legacy and didn’t want the nobles to rise against them so to create a stronger front he distanced himself and the rest of his family from the products of dalliances. She disliked this approach as it wasn’t creating a healthy environment for any of his kids, current or future, and it was making the nobles think they had more power than they should actually have. She knew it wouldn’t end well if the enforced imbalance was continued to be brought down. She felt that there were probably ways to make it evident that his out of wedlock kids were not a threat to the royal family that didn’t include hurting the psyche of his children.

During all of this she met a demon who she found herself falling in love with. The woman who she fell in love with is someone she met when she was looking for Arsenio. He had left the castle to meet up with someone he was hooking up with and had taken up a room at a discreet brothel downtown. She found him and met Fyrira who was a beautiful demoness. She started to go out to the brothel to talk to her and spend time with her. They went on dates around town and by the river. She wasn’t ashamed to be seen with a demon as she was one herself or at least...part one. They dated for a few years and got married. They had a child together who was named Scorpia. She was born shortly after Kiara was born and the two spent time together. This allowed her to be a wetnurse to Elios when he was born and yet again she watched another child grow up to become a king.

She started to feel a deep hatred for Arsenio, a person she had considered to be like a son to her, because of the way he treated Elios. She tried to protect him but she could only do so much without getting into trouble. She felt a lot of sadness over the pain that had to endure to become a ruler. She tried to make time for him to have some happiness though which often just met spending some time in the garden after tutoring and training. Swimming lessons in the pool or teaching him how to bake certain things. When his mother committed suicide she yet again was hit with a lot of grief but she pushed it aside to take care of the young princess and the crown prince who now had an added weight to his shoulders.

When Elios fell in love with Svena she was so happy for him because she felt that he really deserved to have some happiness in his life. She spent the weekends with her kids and Rira. They would go out and explore into the woods or practice magic. They’d just spend the day at home hanging out with each other. She would sometimes bring some of the younger royal children with her so they could spend some time out of the castle just hanging out. Now fast forwarding a few years things have changed again.

Her and Fyrira have had another child, Miley who later changed his name to Miles. They welcome their new addition to their family with a lot of love and care but something unexpected happened a few months after Miles came into the picture. Feyrira was summoned back to the deadlands by a powerful being, it appears that a few other demons were too. Due to some issues with demon rebellions King Arsenio had ordered that any full blood demons within the capital city and Akelda be put back into the dead lands if possible. Unable to contact or get to her wife she felt an immense level of anger and sadness but she kept it under control because she needed to for Miles and for the royal children who she considered to be one of her own.

She disliked still having to be cordial to the King at this point but she couldn’t risk getting fired because then who would take care of the royal children. A year or two after this Elios’s fiance Svena becomes pregnant a few months after news that the King has had another child with a woman he had casual relations with. She took care of Alena and helped Svena take care of Yeccalia when she wanted help but Svena had good instincts for this so she didn’t need a lot of help. Three years past with little note except that Elios was finally happy despite all the pressure he was under and there were three happy children in the royal castle.

It came to head at the end of these three years when Svena was found dead in her bedchambers. She had committed suicide and as far as the courts could see there was no reason for her to have done this. They didn’t want to look into how the pressures they had put on the young woman had affected her or how her natural mental health state was already. They wanted someone to blame and they found it in the eldest child of Arsenio, Kiara. She was accused of many things by the nobles including treason, failure to do her job, and conspiracy.

Even Arsenio blamed her for Svena’s death and this only made it harder for her sentencing to be reduced. She saw how Elios was fighting through his grief to do his best to advocate for her and get her free of these charges but there was only so much you could do when everyone had already decided they were going to blame someone. She was sentenced to 1 year in Halesworth and this seemed to further break Elios’s already hurting spirit. He spent all of his time inside of his room after this. She took on the job of raising his daughter hoping that knowing Yeccalia was in good hands would bring him some ease.

She would visit him at night if the night terrors were especially bad and sit with him. She used to do this when he was very young but back then she would also hold him and sing him to sleep. Now he didn’t seem to want any comfort but she wasn’t willing to give up on him. She didn’t pester him but every once and a while she would go in there and force him to get out of bed and do something even if that thing was just sharpening his weapons or sitting upright and reading a book.

When he finally did emerge from his period of grief he was a different person and that broke Lily’s heart because she could see too much of his father in him. She saw the pain in his eyes but he hid his pain behind a wall of apathy that seemed to block out all light. She made sure to shower Yeccalia in love so she knew that there was nothing wrong with her and tried to explain to her why her father acted the way he did. She would invite the princess out to her house to have dinner or hang out with her family on the weekends still and she hoped this brought some light to their lives in such a dark time. Now she continues to do her job of taking care of the royal children and taking care of her own children. She is also trying to find a way to contact Fyrira.