Comments | lilah_month: Day 26: Backstory Day

jennyo in lilah_month

Day 26: Backstory Day

Jun 26, 2004 00:30

So this one's fun and maybe easy, maybe hard.

What's your backstory for Lilah? Where on earth does the woman come from?

(Also, this is: what gen Lilah makes you happy?)

Comments 5

paratti June 26 2004, 03:37:22 UTC

Small town girl who got out by her own efforts and only ever has to look back when her senile mom calls. Never had enough of the nice things when she was growing up, as her parents weren't rich, and swore never ever to have to wear hand me down clothes from the slightier better off cousins who always looked down on the Morgans ( ... )

nolivingman June 26 2004, 16:45:17 UTC

See above from Paratti for most of what I considered her backstory. Small town (probably California, she doesn't seem MidWestern or East Coast to me. Maybe Colorado?), modest upbringing, wanting to get out and make something of herself. In my view, the father's dead, maybe in her teen years, but I don't want him to be evil cause Joss bores me with that shit and truthfully she just doesn't seem that fucked up about men. She was the smartest girl in all her classes and learned early that she always had to do better than the boys in order to succeed. Wanted to succeed, and at the highest levels possible. Discovered the world of magic and demons as an undergrad (which is probably the last time she had much in the way of friends), then signed with W&H before entering law school, leaving all her friends, mom and past behind.

And never looked back; isn't sorry she made the deal that she made.

palmaceae June 26 2004, 21:37:17 UTC

I'm very detailed:

I definitely agree on the small town girl part. Probably East Coast. Father was some rich bastard who had her mother as a mistress and dumped her when she got pregnant; never sent child support. Mother pined away for him, and neglected her and Lilah ended up taking care of her half the time. Went through school trying to appear successful and with a normal family life, no close friends. She got good grades, accepted to a great college in Los Angeles, went there. At college she was sort of a loner, and not really interested in the boys, so the dumb jocks decided to go after her to brag that they had gotten to bed her, the unapproachable. She kneed one of them in public, in the groin to prove that no one should mess with her, and everyone got the point.

jennyo June 26 2004, 22:05:49 UTC

I have two, so here's #1, which is the Non-Sekrit-Cosmic-Player one ( ... )

Sekrit Cosmic Player Backstory jennyo June 26 2004, 22:10:35 UTC

In this one, she had a destiny. W&H's seers (or even the Powers) saw it like this: you knock one middling Slayer, or one Champion-bait sidekick into the law office, and what happens ( ... )