#LSAW Day 5: Friendships

[lizzybeth1986]

Friendship: Lily & Kamilah

Tagging @lilyspencerappreciationweek and @sazanes

While all four LIs grow to have an amazing vibe as a group, I have a real soft spot for Lily and Kamilah's friendship in particular! Kamilah takes Lily under her wing after she is accepted as a vampire, and seems to grow fond of her despite herself.

And I can kinda see why they're so good together as friends! One has been a vampire for millennia - jaded, world-weary, a bit cynical and afraid to soften. The other is a young twenty-something woman who was Turned at the very cusp of her life and who is overwhelmed by the newness of the experience...but also excited by the endless possibilities!

You couldn't find a pair of people less similar to each other - and that's perhaps what makes their interactions so interesting, and even hilarious! Kamilah's humour is deadpan and understated, Lily's is goofy, entertaining and peppered with pop culture references! A perfect example of this is their exchange about present-day junk food while at Lily and the MC's flat:

Your Honour I love them 🤭🤭🤭🤭

[lilyspencerappreciationweek]

We're now down to our final official day! But fret not if you have something you couldn't finish now - the week is open until Nov 10th for our bonus week!

Our final theme for the week is about Lily's relationships. Where it is friendship, romance, or familial. Lily as a warm, loving, protective person with a desire to do right by people, fits in everywhere - a small apartment with the best friend she secretly loves, or a Den of outcasts that she wants to help and considers her family. Can't wait to see what you all have in store for us!

Any and all content is welcome during this week - fanfic, fanart, headcanons, meta, edits, moodboards, interactive media, even screenshots of your favourite Lily scenes!! Our only requirement is that the pieces should focus on Lily and present a positive depiction of her. WIPs and Throwback pieces are also more than welcome!

You can send pieces during any day of the week (not necessarily just the day of the theme) but do specify which day you meant the piece for!! We will keep a bonus week open for any pending entries too. Our rough deadline for entries will be Nov 10th. You can still send entries after the date and it will still be put up in the masterlist - this date is mostly for us to make the thank you video! Otherwise we will be open for entries until the next event.

Do keep these things in mind while making your posts:

1. Use the tags #lilyspencerappreciationweek and #LSAW in your posts (as well as the day the post is meant for: #LSAW Day 4, #LSAW Day 5 etc)

2. Tag @lilyspencerappreciationweek, as well as hosts @sazanes and @lizzybeth1986 in your posts.

FAN-COMMUNITY BLOGS keep the creative parts of our fandom alive! If you would like to participate in other events alongside this one, here are a couple great blogs you can check out!

@choicesficwriterscreations - Accepts both fic and art! Check here for their rules, policies and roster of events!

@choicesmonthlychallenge - Any and all content welcome! Here are the prompts for @choicesnovchallenge2021.

@choicespride - Any and all content, as long as it is centered around LGBTQ characters and/or themes! Currently there are no themes so far, but you could definitely check out and enjoy their past events!

@choicesprompts - Primarily fanfic! They just finished Flufftober, but here are some of the events they've run that you can enjoy!

Thank you so much for all the love you have given Lily so far!!

Happy Lily Spencer Appreciation Week, everyone!!!

[sazanes]

☹️ this is beautiful, Lori ☹️ I loved Lily planting the Violets and thinking they could have talked more about normal stuff 😭 and Jax and Lily with Sam body 💔

What Loss Feels Like

Book: Bloodbound Characters: Lily Spencer, Jax Matsuo, Kamillah Sayeed, Adrian Raines, MC - Samantha (mentioned) Rating: E Word count: 867 Reading time: ~3min Summary: After Samantha's passing, Lily pays a visit to her friend. Based on the prompts: @lilyspencerappreciationweek day 5 - Lily's Friendships/Relationships/Family / @choicesnovchallenge: Dia de Los Muertos

Author’s notes:

Samantha is a creation of this author. The other characters are owned by Pixelberry Studios;

This piece is set between the end of book two and beginning of book three;

I apologize in advance if Lily's characterization seems off. It's been a while since I played Bloodbound.

Warning: This piece contains descriptions of blood and death. Reader discretion is advised.

No! No! No!" Jax cries out. Hot tears stream down his face torn between anger and pain as he holds Samantha in his arms. 

He isn't alone though. The same pain that begins to spread from her chest to her entire body. And it's also on Kamillah's and Adrian's faces as Samantha's blood pools down the floor. A pain so intense, worse than any physical pain she ever had.

"It can't be..." Lily tells herself as she sinks on the floor next to her best friend's body. But reality hits her hard as her pants get soaked by Samantha's blood. The pain somehow grows stronger. 

Her hand touches Samantha's. "She's still warm," she murmurs. But for how long? Who knows... Does it even matter at this point?

While Adrian goes feral trying to punch Gaius's tree and Kamillah holds him back, Lily hears something strange. Using his sword, Jax cuts his arm and holds Samantha’s head towards the gash on his wrist

"Dude, what the hell?!" Lily says as she slaps Jax’s arm.

"She needs my blood. It’s the only way…" Jax mumbles.

"Stop it right now!" Kamillah shouts.

"Jax, stop it! You can't do that!" 

Lily tries to shake him away to no avail.  

Jax ignores everyone else and presses his wounded wrist against Samantha’s parted lips. 

"You don't know if that's what she wants," Kamillah tried to reason.

"I'm not gonna lose her! I can't lose her!" Jax croaks. 

"Let him do it," Adrian says.

Kamillah and Lily look back at Adrian, who somehow seems as calm as usual, despite the bloodshot eyes. One can't even imagine he was furiously kicking a tree a minute ago.

"But we don't know if—"

"She asked me to turn Lily. Maybe she thought about being Turned at some point," Adrian affirms.

Lily looks at Samantha's body as Jax attempts to feed her with his blood. Samantha wanted her to live so badly she got Adrian into a messy fight with the Council. Sam fought tooth and nail for her to be part of a clan. Maybe she would've considered. She just didn't have time to talk about it.

"Keep feeding it," Lily says.

"Not you too..." Kamillah grumbles.

"Maybe she wanted this! She wanted it for me. Why wouldn't she want it for herself?"

"She asked Adrian out of desperation!" Kamillah snaps.

"And so are we!" Lily wails.

Kamillah turns away as she discreetly wipes a tear from her cheek with one finger then says. "Fine."

Two days later

A crescent moon lights up the graveyard as Lily walks calmly towards Samantha's grave carrying a vase of flowers and a large bag. She doesn't know anything about how Samantha wanted to be buried. It never crossed their minds to talk about such things, but Samantha certainly would appreciate having her favorite flowers on her grave.

"Hey, bestie..." Lily smiles ruefully as she puts down the vase and sits. "I brought you some violets."

Taking a trowel out of the bag, she starts digging a small hole on the floor and takes the flowers off the vase.

"I know what you're thinking, but I did my research on gardening. I know what I'm doing." 

Taking a small box of fertilizer from the bag, she opens the box, mixes it with the sand then places the flower roots on the small hole.

"I don't know if this is what you wanted, but you like violets. It's gonna look nice, right?" She says, covering the flower roots with her hands and using a small watering can to water the soil.

"We never talked about this stuff. We barely had time to talk about normal stuff lately..." Lily looks down as she washes her hands. "But we should have, you know? We should have talked about death, bucket lists, final wishes, memorials... We should have!"

Her eyes well up as she looks at Samantha's picture. "Maybe then I would know if you wanted to be Turned."

A gentle breeze brushes her skin as she collects herself. "Jax tried, but we don't know if it worked. That's killing him. He's a mess, by the way. Adrian and him are emptying Raines Corp drink supply. You'd hate it to see them like this." 

"Kamillah said Turning takes time, that we have to wait a while... But the waiting is just..." Lily shakes her head as she cries once again.

"It shouldn't have been you... I don't know how much it'd hurt to lose anyone else, but... Would it be this painful?" Lily croaks. "It hurts so much, bestie..."

As she cries out, the wind blows stronger, rustling the leaves. A sweet yet spicy smell seeps through the hair, as though it rustled some flowers nearby or somebody sprayed perfume in the air. The scent kind of reminds her of Samantha.

A few minutes pass by until she finally calms down, finding some comfort in the silence of the night and in the smell. 

"Well... That's pretty much it. We're all a mess. Everything is a mess. I don't know what's going to happen next. But I'll keep fighting with the gang. We'll fix this. For you."

Lily then stands up, cleans up the dirt from her pants and gathers everything, placing it back in the plastic bag. 

"I hope you do wake up eventually. Luckily, not as a feral." She crosses her fingers. "Whenever you're ready, I'll be waiting." She then smiles at Samantha's picture on the grave. "Good night, bestie."

With that, Lily takes the plastic bag and walks away.

[lilyspencerappreciationweek]

LSAW 2023 - Masterlist

(this awesome poster was made by our wonderful host @sazanes!)

DAY 1 - HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Art

Happy Halloween, Humans! by @sazanes

Lily Spencer by @gaiuskamilah

Character Appreciation

Humour in the Face of Tragedy by @lover-also-fighter-also

Edit

Lily as a Witch by @masked-alien-lesbian

Quote Edit by @storyofmychoices

Moodboard

Lily Spencer: Halloween Moodboard by @lizzybeth1986

🦇 Lily Spencer 🦇 by @rosepetals1

DAY 2 - LILY THE GAMER

Art

The Super Mario Brothers' Earring! by @sazanes

Moodboard

Gamer Lily by @masked-alien-lesbian

Playlist

Character Playlist: Lily Spencer by @lizzybeth1986

DAY 3 - LILY FROM WISCONSIN/THROWBACK

Wisconsin

Moodboard

Lily from Wisconsin by @lizzybeth1986

Throwback

Art

Lily Spencer: Bloodbound Book Cover by @sazanes

Edit

Real-Life Sims Edit by @masked-alien-lesbian

DAY 5 - LILY THE BABY VAMPIRE

Art

Baby Vampire by @sazanes

DAY 5 - FRIENDSHIPS/RELATIONSHIPS/FAMILY

Friendships

Art

My City by @sazanes

Character Appreciation

Lily & Kamilah by @lizzybeth1986

Fanfic

What Loss Feels Like by @lorirwritesfanfic

[choicesprompts]

Signal boost

We're now down to our final official day! But fret not if you have something you couldn't finish now - the week is open until Nov 10th for our bonus week!

Our final theme for the week is about Lily's relationships. Where it is friendship, romance, or familial. Lily as a warm, loving, protective person with a desire to do right by people, fits in everywhere - a small apartment with the best friend she secretly loves, or a Den of outcasts that she wants to help and considers her family. Can't wait to see what you all have in store for us!

Any and all content is welcome during this week - fanfic, fanart, headcanons, meta, edits, moodboards, interactive media, even screenshots of your favourite Lily scenes!! Our only requirement is that the pieces should focus on Lily and present a positive depiction of her. WIPs and Throwback pieces are also more than welcome!

You can send pieces during any day of the week (not necessarily just the day of the theme) but do specify which day you meant the piece for!! We will keep a bonus week open for any pending entries too. Our rough deadline for entries will be Nov 10th. You can still send entries after the date and it will still be put up in the masterlist - this date is mostly for us to make the thank you video! Otherwise we will be open for entries until the next event.

Do keep these things in mind while making your posts:

1. Use the tags #lilyspencerappreciationweek and #LSAW in your posts (as well as the day the post is meant for: #LSAW Day 4, #LSAW Day 5 etc)

2. Tag @lilyspencerappreciationweek, as well as hosts @sazanes and @lizzybeth1986 in your posts.

FAN-COMMUNITY BLOGS keep the creative parts of our fandom alive! If you would like to participate in other events alongside this one, here are a couple great blogs you can check out!

@choicesficwriterscreations - Accepts both fic and art! Check here for their rules, policies and roster of events!

@choicesmonthlychallenge - Any and all content welcome! Here are the prompts for @choicesnovchallenge2021.

@choicespride - Any and all content, as long as it is centered around LGBTQ characters and/or themes! Currently there are no themes so far, but you could definitely check out and enjoy their past events!

@choicesprompts - Primarily fanfic! They just finished Flufftober, but here are some of the events they've run that you can enjoy!

Thank you so much for all the love you have given Lily so far!!

Happy Lily Spencer Appreciation Week, everyone!!!