#I LOVE TO REREAD DIASOMNIA'S PERSONAL STORIES BUT NOW I CAN'T LOOK AT THEM THE SAME

[jangmi-latte]

all translation credits go to @mysteryshoptls. major chapter 7.6 spoilers below‼️

re-reading lilia's dorm uniform card, he explicitly told this to malleus while looking after a baby bat:

"It's not always the case that there would be someone by your side to extend a kind, helping hand. If you go out into the world, there may be days that you must go to sleep hungry, without a satisfying meal. There may also be days in which you will experience failure, or encounter setbacks, which could cause you to lose heart. And yet, for as long as we're alive, there will be moments in which one must stand and face their troubles on their own."

now that we got his past in the main story, after seeing the pain he went through of losing people he loved and cherished, after being discriminated, stoned, mistreated, and exiled, and after being betrayed by his own kind — look what he chose to do. pure evidence that lilia prefers to fight rather than to give up. he experienced those things no doubt. he did all of that for his boys. especially malleus. he trained his boys to have the same mindset, not wanting to have them face what he went through. if no one was kind to him, he was the one that was kind.

200 years of working to bring malleus to life, taking in silver and raising him for 17 years and counting, having sebek join the other two so they would form a familial bond he has formed with baul... this is what i meant when i say the most golden of hearts come from the most butchered souls. we may laugh for now on how lilia looks after his boys, but it's the effort and enthusiasm that makes him a father figure. after all, look how caring and intelligent silver, sebek, and malleus came to be. and you can just feel and see how much they love and value lilia when lilia's past was all abandonment and torture.