Lily BenelliDOB: September 19, 1986
Age: 20
Sex: Female
Ethnicity: American Italian
Weight: 93 pounds
Height: 4'11
Hair: Reddish Brown, mid back, usually in a ponytail
Eyes: Green/gray/blue mixture
Build: Slim and slight
Hometown: Her RV
Profession: Hunter, college student
Portrayed by: Alyson Hannigan- Season 1 or 2 of Buffy
Theme song: BlackbirdAppearance:She's far more at home in jeans and a teeshirt or sweatshirt than a dress and heels. She can
wear the dress and heels, and even manage to not fall. They're just not her preference. She's prone to sticking pencils through her ponytail to keep track of them, making her look even more like a student. Her facial expression tends to stick to "cynical" or "focused".
She's tiny, and looks like a strong wind can blow her over, which is why she does her level best to
not have to fight. She knows how, but if she's ever against anyone who
also knows how, she's screwed.
She looks younger than she is, which causes people to underestimate her- a surefire way to annoy the crap out of her and cause her to either use as many big words as she can, or show that she knows her way around Hunting, whichever would work best in the context of the situation.
Personality:Lily is, above all else, calm, focused, and determined. She works hard to be this way. She's smart, and her first reaction to something- or at least, somewhere along the first five- will invariably be to hit th books and look it up. She's a bookworm to the enth degree, and she's okay with that. She's secure in who she is and what she is, and while she's not insanely confident, she's also not not-confident.
It's really hard to get a rise out of her. She reacts the same way to "Call 911!" as she does to "Do you have a nickel I could borrow?"- which is not to say that she doesn't care, just that she takes everything in stride. She prides herself in being fairly unflappable. Since being "an adult", she's only fallen apart once, and she refuses to lose her cool exterior for anything short of that ever again.
She's reserved, and holds herself back. She refuses to care about other people on an intimate level, because she refuses to allow herself to get hurt again.
Quote:"I've come to the conclusion that what is obvious to me is not always obvious to other people. I then followed that to it's logical culmination, and realized that the rest of the world is made up of idiots."
Strengths:-- She's clairvoyant, and worked hard to train that ability. So she has control with it.
-- Simply put, she's brilliant.
-- Determined and focused.
-- Very hard working- drives herself hard.
-- Perfectionistic tendencies, which means that the quality of anything she does is top notch.
-- Can play just about any stringed instrument, and her favorite is her old beat up guitar.
Weaknesses:-- She's clairvoyant, and while she has control, she isn't very strong with it.
-- Because of her intelligence, it doesn't always occur to her that someone else might have an answer worth listening to.
-- Is uncomfortable around people she doesn't know, and doesn't care to get to know them, so 9 times out of 10, she comes across as snobbish.
-- Determination and focus leads to tunnel vision. When she's focused on a problem, she will not stop working on it until she's dealt with it- which means that other things like "food" and "sleep" goes by the wayside.
-- Very hard working- usually drives herself
too hard.
-- Perfectionistic tendencies that borderline on OCD. If you hand her a piece of paper, a pencil and a ruler, and tell her to draw two lines, she'll spend hours trying to get it "just right".
HistoryLily was part of a family of Hunters. It was the only life she'd ever known, really. She and her older brother, Keith, had grown up in the RV, being homeschooled while her mom, Mariah, researched and her dad, William, went out and fought the things that her mom found. As soon as she and Keith were old enough, they started helping their parents. First in the researching of things, and then later, Lily stuck with research and Keith joined their father in the fighting. That wasn't to say that Mariah and Lily couldn't fight- they could, and could even outshoot the boys- or that William and Keith couldn't research- they could, and never let the girls live it down if they found crucial information first. It was just where there natural inclinations lay. Because they had more practice at it, Mariah and Lily were better at First Aid, but the guys were no slouches in that department, either.
When she was seven or so, she started to realize that she sometimes knew things she shouldn't know- mostly where things were or if someone was telling the truth. It didn't take her long to realize that she was showing flashes of clairvoyance. Lily being Lily, she read up on it. After a disastrous two weeks of trying to suppress it and making it worse, she decided to embrace it and focus on control. She's gotten good at the control, and can do it whenever she needs to. Unfortunately, she's not very powerful, so getting anything clearly is an issue. In the act of gaining control, she also lost her "gut feelings" that talk to her.
Lily and Keith thought about going to college, but in the end, they decided to stick with their family. The Benelli's were a happy family, and Lily joked that they put the "fun" in "dysfunctional". For all of the fact that they weren't "normal"- which, in Lily's opinion, was only a setting on a dryer- they were one of the healthiest families Lily knew. Most of the friends that Lily made came from divorced families, or if the parents weren't divorced, they might as well be, considering how they treated each other. This was not so for the Benelli family. Sure, Mariah and William had some doozy of some fights. But they always patched them up, and tried to find the best answer.
After a few months of doing online college, though, Mariah and William managed to convince Lily to stay in one spot and really go to college when the next semester started up. They told her that she could always come back to Hunting with them if she wanted to, but they would prefer her to have a real college experience. So Keith stayed with their parents, and she went to Dartmouth. She was getting used to being in one place for longer than two weeks, and starting to enjoy having friends that she wouldn't have to leave right after meeting them, when she received a phone call from a friend of the family. She was able to make it back for the funerals, and she didn't return to Dartmouth.