Died Alone 2014-08-29

[Dave]

I think Lily has been alone much more than was good for her.

[Aed]

I tend to agree.

[lake_wrangler]

I third the motion. And I'll add, without proof, since I didn't speak up on it before now, that I kind of expected a hug to come next.

But then, what do I know... I'm still in the confusion corner, following that fanart thread incident...

[Opus the Poet]

But Lily, you have one daughter that survived, and you have a family now...

[TazManiac]

yeah, Lily needs some sort of regen, emotionally or otherwise.

Paging Medusa's Sister...(U-rail-ee?) Euryale

PS, Ninjas be expected...

[Atomic]

Do Jaguar Girls do grief counseling?

Betcha they do!

[GlytchMeister]

yeah, Lily needs some sort of regen, emotionally or otherwise.

Paging Medusa's Sister...(U-rail-ee?) Euryale

PS, Ninjas be expected...

Euryale popping in at this point would give a lot of us some serious mood whiplash.

5000 year old vampire who lost her kids, her civilization, and has been living as a subservient being now coping with the sudden reappearance of a person who is 1/6th her daughter and social upheaval centered around her, M, and Phix
...
Combined with the endlessly comedic, cheerful, huggy, busty southern belle gorgon.

Ow. My neck.

[Mark N]

yeah, Lily needs some sort of regen, emotionally or otherwise.

Paging Medusa's Sister...(U-rail-ee?) Euryale

PS, Ninjas be expected...

I agree with you but your pronunciation of her name is not how she pronounces it. She told Monica that it is pronounced Ariel (Just not spelled funny)
If you look at the name carefully you can see how she sees the pronunciation from her southern drawl Eur (your) Y (ee) Ale (ale) (Your-Ee-Ale)

[Timotheus]

I don't think it is the loss in the past right now. Lily has had millennia to adjust to the loss of her children, family, and civil environment. She died alone and became a vampire, developing the mental armor to protect herself and help others in the same position.
What's happened is that all her armor has been shattered by the knowledge that one of her children has survived. Katherine is NOT just 1/6 her child, she is all her child. One of four it is true (the other three having been allegedly drowned in the ocean), but the fourth was combined with the other 6 quadruplets into one baby, held in stasis, and eventually rescued and allowed to grow up and live as an individual. That Katherine is equally the daughter of five other women is immaterial right now, they are not here and are by all accounts dead. Lily is alive and has the same claim as they would, Katherine is 100% her daughter.
So now faced with a living daughter, a descendent, a blood connection to life and the living world (and one who has already adopted children of her own), all of the defenses Lily's erected against her emotions concerning the way she perished and her continued existence as a vampire are out the window. Basically, the clinch pins of her self identity are at stake.

She needs to establish some sort of more stable relationship with Katherine, although I don't know what sort it could be at this stage of things.

[Aed]

You may be on to something.

[oldmanmickey]

I think its coming to. That drawing of a teenage pickle showed signs at lest in my eyes of granny's influence.

[Akasha]

yeah, Lily needs some sort of regen, emotionally or otherwise.

Paging Medusa's Sister...(U-rail-ee?) Euryale

PS, Ninjas be expected...

I agree with you but your pronunciation of her name is not how she pronounces it. She told Monica that it is pronounced Ariel (Just not spelled funny)
If you look at the name carefully you can see how she sees the pronunciation from her southern drawl Eur (your) Y (ee) Ale (ale) (Your-Ee-Ale)

actually, since it is a greek name, the correct pronounciation would be Evryali, but artistic license is always granted when a comic is so good

[Mark N]

yeah, Lily needs some sort of regen, emotionally or otherwise.

Paging Medusa's Sister...(U-rail-ee?) Euryale

PS, Ninjas be expected...

I agree with you but your pronunciation of her name is not how she pronounces it. She told Monica that it is pronounced Ariel (Just not spelled funny)
If you look at the name carefully you can see how she sees the pronunciation from her southern drawl Eur (your) Y (ee) Ale (ale) (Your-Ee-Ale)

actually, since it is a greek name, the correct pronounciation would be Evryali, but artistic license is always granted when a comic is so good

I know that Taz is correct in the pronunciation from the Greek but this is her personal pronunciation and a person can legitimately say that their name is pronounced "Smith" when it is spelled "Ghoti" so artistic license is not needed here.

[Elvis]

First thought: "I'm not sure I'm a hugging person now."

[shadowinthelight]

Only way to top this hug is for Katherine to take over.

[Drakkenmensch]

Never underestimate the healing power of hugs!

[zachariah]

I don't think it is the loss in the past right now. Lily has had millennia to adjust to the loss of her children, family, and civil environment. She died alone and became a vampire, developing the mental armor to protect herself and help others in the same position.
What's happened is that all her armor has been shattered by the knowledge that one of her children has survived. Katherine is NOT just 1/6 her child, she is all her child. One of four it is true (the other three having been allegedly drowned in the ocean), but the fourth was combined with the other 6 quadruplets into one baby, held in stasis, and eventually rescued and allowed to grow up and live as an individual. That Katherine is equally the daughter of five other women is immaterial right now, they are not here and are by all accounts dead. Lily is alive and has the same claim as they would, Katherine is 100% her daughter.
So now faced with a living daughter, a descendent, a blood connection to life and the living world (and one who has already adopted children of her own), all of the defenses Lily's erected against her emotions concerning the way she perished and her continued existence as a vampire are out the window. Basically, the clinch pins of her self identity are at stake.

She needs to establish some sort of more stable relationship with Katherine, although I don't know what sort it could be at this stage of things.

No matter how long you have you never recover completely from the loss. Trying to say one survived only makes you more aware of the ones you lost. You can blame others, know it is not your fault, but it still hurts and will always hurt.
Lily may have covered it with scar tissue but recent events opened it again.

I did point this complication out yesterday. It is the total loss and the anger and pain from 5000 years ago coming to the surface. Maybe finally to be faced, dealt with,m and come to some sort of terms she can live with it. Or this may be too much for Lily and she just gives up and fades away. I hope not.

[scantrontb]

Never underestimate the healing power of hugs!

yeah, but Busty "Great-great-great-great-umpty-squat-times-removed-daughter-in-the-figurative*-sense" Hugs just doesn't roll off the tongue the same way as Busty Mom Hugs does...

*if you call Lily the "mother" of all vampires, therefore Suzie is her "daughter"...

[lake_wrangler]

Only way to top this hug is for Katherine to take over.

That's what I was thinking, myself. I can picture Pratt and McBride at Katherine's doorstep, with Suzie starting to rattle off some explanation for being there, while Lily just breaks down and hugs Katherine in the biggest, strongest hug she's ever had. The hug may or may not be reciprocated right away.

In fact, I don't think it would be good for either one to willfully and actively ignore each other for long.

[kingklash]

Bikini Hugs are always good.