🌱 Lia ☁️

Lia grew up alongside her brother, Nate. Their parents were often absent, leaving them alone as they went off for work for months at a time, leaving the pair completely on their own. Because they were often on their own, Nate felt obligated to take care of Lia as they grew up, and the two promised to stick together through everything, no matter what. When her parents were around though, they often imposed impossible standards on her, treating her more like a trophy than a child. Lia was always treated like their legacy, and if she failed to pull through on providing them that, she would be punished.

Lia’s neglect from her parents lead to her developing a habit of focusing on others more than herself as a way to respond to bad circumstances. She rarely looked at her own feelings or emotions and preferred to focus on the emotions of others instead. Lia has a deep desire to help people, and blames herself when she is unable to help someone. Despite this though, her relationships with others are often quite shallow. She often acts more as a general leader than a one-on-one type of helper, which stems from often having to quell her parent’s disputes with her and Nate and being forced to play peacemaker. Her attempts to help others can also become self-sacrificing, because her identity is shaped around others, she often does impulsive things in order to help even if it’s hurting her.

Lia's feelings on her parents are, well, complicated. She does look up to them and want to help people like they do, but that doesn't stop the creeping feeling of blame that persisted throughout her life that made her feel like it was her fault for them leaving in the first place. Whether it be from not living up to their expectations or something else entirely, Lia finds herself wanting to be like them, even after all they’ve done to her. She does eventually see that the way they’ve treated her and Nate is wrong, though, and becomes a good person in spite of what her parents are.

She fell into the rift on Earth with her brother Nate after adventuring in the woods after their parents had left for yet another business trip. Lia and Nate ended up on Quescillia and met other teens like them who were now tasked with stopping a man called The Spy from setting off an event that could end the universe as they know it. Lia was shoved into the role of “leader” right away by Peace, and this impacted how she would view herself moving forward with the mission, because unsurprisingly, the pressure of saving the whole universe is quite grand and terrifying. She also develops a deep want to understand and help Spy, rather than take him down. Lia sees himself in him (something she doesn’t experience often) and actually wants to help him avoid the same fate she believes she has succumbed to. Even if he says he hates her, she still wants to be his friend, or at least make him a better person and see how cruel Omne really is.