Lilac

Lilac (ライラ) is a wandering dream arts user. She, alongside Shion, later joined the Omega Party.

Appearance

Lilac has purple and pink eyes with purple pupils, and as the phantom of an elf, she has pointed ears. She has long purple hair with two black Mariposa lily on her hair. Her clothes are almost similar to Shion's; however, unlike Shion, her attire is more revealing as it consists of a short black sleeveless dress. She adorns herself a crimson red rose on her left arm, a dagger wrapped around on her hips, and a small gold locket around her neck with a purple bow as a choker.

Since Lilac shares the same physical vessel as Shion, whenever her personality manifests in their vessel, its appearance instantly shifts to match hers.

Personality

Unlike her counterpart, Lilac is slightly more aggressive and stubborn, as well as very protective of Shion, to the point that, despite accidentally taking a whole town hostage, she is willing to keep people asleep to keep them away from her. That said, she does not seem to like dragging unrelated parties into her own mess if she can help it, as shown when she wanted to prevent anyone from coming to harm while in her dream world. Due to being a Dream Arts User, however, her sense of self is somewhat fuzzy, and because she is so synchronized with others, she can find herself becoming influenced by other people's memories, including taking on their speech quirks. It is because of this that she can often be heard speaking with numerous loan words, having picked them up from passing memories of a person who uses them. She is somewhat driven by her goal to find the person who uses these words, even being willing to follow Omega as part of her party for the chance to learn of the person who uses them.

History

At an unknown point in time, Shion and Lilac skimmed across the memories of a certain person, from which the two learned numerous loan words which have become incorporated into their speech. The two now search for that person, connected to an unknown goal.

Omega in Wonderland

At some point, she and Lilac appeared in Gusteko. However, they were deemed heretics by the Gustekan Church, causing them to send a Temple Knight after them. At some point after entering the town of Sylphoa, they confronted Mikli, and Lilac, having had no time to aim, used her Dream Arts to put her, and accidentally, the entire town, to sleep. Because of this, however, Shion lost contact with Lilac.

Sometime later, after Omega and Colette appeared in her dream space, she stopped the former from destroying it with Al Shario, and she sealed her magic while within the dream. After getting into a small dispute with Omega, Colette spoke with her about letting all of the townspeople go, and though she was hesitant to do so and seemed standoffish, Omega stated that Colette's words got through to her. However, upon hearing Omega's use of a loan word, Lilac wanted to know where she heard it, leading to negotiations. Despite becoming frustrated with her and even slapping her, she decided to give Omega a chance to take care of the Temple Knight who had come after her, breaking the seal that she'd placed. The fight that followed was short lived as the Witches of Sin quickly dispatched her, much to Lilac's shock. Shortly after, Palmyra entered the dream space with a message from Shion.

Following this, after Omega spoke to the other Temple Knight who had come for Mikli and had him leave with her and report the death of the heretic, Lilac released the people of Sylphoa from her dream world, and Omega offered Shion and Lilac to join her party. Since she couldn't quite trust the two, having just met them, she would give them a chance to look into her memories with their Dream Arts, giving them a chance to find the person from which the loan words they speak come from. The two accepted her offer and joined the party.

Abilities

Magic (魔法, Mahō): Lilac is skilled at using dream arts.

• Dream Arts: An unusual form of magic that is all but lost from the world in the present and is trained by using people as test subjects. After the person falls asleep, the practitioner must learn to sense and attune themselves to the person's Od before they die. Her proficiency with Dream Arts is considered impressive by Omega, who herself can use Dream Arts, and even surpasses her, being able to put an entire town to sleep for long periods of time and create a dream space larger than the Castle of Dreams.
  • Hypnosis Magic: A form of magic that temporarily stops mana from flowing into the target's Od, severing their consciousness from reality. Hypnosis Magic is considered the specialty of Dream Arts Users.
  • Musa (ムーサ): Lilac possesses a type of dream arts called Musa. She uses it to break barriers that were protecting opponents. This spell is exclusive to non-canon media and should not be considered canon.
    • El Musa (エル・ムーサ): A stronger version of Musa. She discharges a giant grey ball from her hands and fires them. This spell is exclusive to non-canon media and should not be considered canon.
  • Phantom User: In Re:Zero Lost in Memories, Lilac has an ability to create and manipulate phantoms. It was an ancient ability that was lost a long time ago. It allows the user to steal a person's memories and manipulate their consciousness. Because Dream Arts' usage requires that the user be asleep, having a phantom allows her to bypass this rule, with her phantom being able to manipulate the dream world while Lilac can remain awake. In the game, she was able to create the phantom Alcor this way by using Natsuki Subaru as the basis. However, as she was only shown to use this in non-canon media, it is unknown if Lilac retains this ability in the main canon.
  • Thought Implantation: Using Dream Arts, it is possible to place a thought into another person's head and leave them to act on it, such as making a person think of the user as an ally and making them stop any pursuers chasing after them.
  • Memory Scouring: As a Dream Arts user, Lilac is attuned to other people and is influenced by their memories. Likewise, if she chooses to, she can look into another person's memories to extract specific information. However, their target may show resistance, preventing her from reaching the memory she is looking for.

Possession: As Shion's phantom, Lilac is able to take over her body in the real world, appearing as she does in the dream world. It is likely that her possession is limited only to Shion.

Equipment: Shion carries a dagger around on her hip. However proficient she is with it is unknown.

Trivia

• Both Lilac and Shion initially debuted in the non-canon video game Re:Zero Lost in Memories. However, they were later written to be canon characters in The Witch's After Tea Party / Omega in Wonderland.
• According to the author, Lilac's birthday is September 9, the same day as Shion.
• Like Shion, whose name shares a similar origin, Lilac's name comes from a flower called Syringa Vulgaris, also known as Lilac.