Lily is a character that I made to help me with my own intrusive thoughts and history of sexual assault, as well as issues with intimacy, my own personality, and boundaries. I've a very low threshold for empathy, and I'm incredibly bad with identifying my own emotions past generally "good" or "bad", I'm generally very irritable, have issues with my ego, and my own views on how people should function which is NOT how the world works. People have felt VERY entitled to her and the way she interacts with their own ocs in the past, and I've been accused of stealing her multiple times despite her earliest design being about 16 years old (I made her when I was 14). People also love to focus VERY hard on the fact that she was raped by her parent regularly, which isn't something I myself like to linger on with her in specific. Forcing myself to write a character that doesn't make sense to me in her actions or how she functions has been very very important to my skills as an artist and as a writer. I know she's a goonslop character, but she's a character that means a lot to me and I really dislike how people think they can write her better then I can. I've also had ppl tell me she's one of their kintypes in the past which pisses me off to this day. Like she's mine. She's mine! I've accidentally overstepped creatively in the past and its embarrassing, but it's the continuous ignoring of boundaries after I've personally said that something is upsetting. So she goes in the box!!!