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IN CHARACTER Lily was born into a fairly average suburban home outside of St. Louis. Her father worked in insurance and her mother was a homemaker, caring for her and her younger brother Eddie during the day while their father was at work. Lily lived ten years in that wonderful life, until it all changed. Three months after she turned ten, her parents went out a party, something for her father's office. They left her and Eddie with a babysitter, who didn't know what to say when the cops showed up at the door. Four-year-old Eddie was adopted quickly. Everyone wanted to take care of the little orphan boy who lost his parents in a botched mugging. The same couldn't be said for Lily. There were interviews. But they were few and far between and no one ever really clicked. Around thirteen is when the rebellion began. The group of kids at school was nice to her, and they let her into their little group without any qualms, teaching her the ropes of just what it took to be one of them. What that entailed was nights spent immersed in drugs and alcohol, and days spent skipping school to rob the convenience stores around town. Lily took to the lifestyle immediately and quickly worked her way up through the "ranks." Soon, she was calling the shots and deciding where they needed to hit next. She was fifteen and could have anything she wanted. Even at the orphanage, she told everyone what to do and no one could refuse her. She was usually accompanied by two or three older boys, all with very menacing glares, so the orphanage officials always looked the other way when she would come in at four in the morning and sleep until two in the afternoon. She was only there to take up a bed, then she was gone, that's all they thought. Shortly before her sixteenth birthday, she noticed one of the girls in her group. . . Casey Delgado. She was a pretty girl, and Lily thought she'd make a good second. So the two became fast friends, doing nearly everything together. . . until Lily turned seventeen. That's when one of her boys decided to take it a little too far as he beat up a younger student at school. . . one of the few days Lily was actually there. She came around the back of the bleachers and heard a middle school student whimpering and one of her boys laughing. She recognized the whimper and immediately froze. It was Eddie. She hadn't seen her brother in years, and the sight of him now should have filled her with immense joy, except for the fact that he was being beaten to a bloody pulp. "Eddie!" she cried, wanting to go to him. But she couldn't move. The familiar pain of losing her parents was coursing through her and she was terrified of losing Eddie. Then the unexpected happen. She felt a tingle over her whole body, and the next thing she knew, her arms were out and blue streaks of electricity were coursing through her body, shooting out at the pair standing in the shadow of the bleachers. Even as she ran, the last scream of her now dead little brother as he was fried ran through her head, never ending. She had to get away. Her first stop was the old abandoned warehouse where she hung out. She had a box of cash stashed in the wall of the bathroom, and after that was shoved into her pack, she took off, but Greyhound could only carry her so far. New York was the destination she picked, wanting to get lost among all the people. So that's where she's been for the past two years, a tiny little Brooklyn apartment. It didn't take her long to get control of her power, and she hasn't killed anyone since that terrible day in St. Louis. She makes her living at a Manhattan hotel, cleaning rooms day in and day out, always keeping calm to avoid her power coming out. The rebel has become a good girl, for fear of herself, but that darkness still lies inside of her. Waiting to emerge.
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