Contents 1 basics 2 history 3 personality 4 abilities 5 relationships 5.1 Canon 5.2 Paradisa 6 miscellaneous

basicsEdit

Name: Lily Aldrin
Age: 31
Birthday: March 22^nd (EVEN THOUGH THAT MAKES... NO SENSE. lol canon)
Height: 5'4"
Hair Color: BROWN. She has a habit of changing her hair every season, which is why her icons tend to be all over the place, but yeah. Dark brown.

Series: How I Met Your Mother
Initial Loss: Her passion for art.
Room Number: 1305
Journal: mrsawesome
Player: Pi

historyEdit

"You can't design your life like a building, it doesn't work that way. You just... have to live it, and it'll design itself."

Lily grew up in Brooklyn and attended Wesleyan University in Connecticut. On her first day, she was having trouble setting up her stereo, so she went wandering into the boys' halls to find some help. She felt drawn to room 110, so she knocked on the door, culminating into her fateful meeting with one Marshall Ericksen.

She and Marshall started dating within the first few weeks of college, and in that time Lily met Marshall's roommate, Ted. The three became extremely close throughout college, and eventually moved back to New York together after graduating. Lily got her own apartment (mostly on principle, since she was hardly ever there in the next few years), and the boys got one of their own, over a bar called MacLaren's. It became their quintessential hangout spot; happenstance introduced them to Barney Stinson and, later, Robin Scherbatsky, and by 2005 it was the five of them in the same booth, every night.

At the start of the series, Marshall and Lily had been dating for nine years. Marshall proposed in the pilot (which prompted Ted to start his epic search for True Love in the first place), and the two were engaged until the end of the first season, when Lily started to have some second thoughts.

Devoted to Marshall though she was, Lily still felt smothered and unfulfilled from being with one man for such a long time, like she'd never had the chance to figure out who she was on her own, without Marshall. So what starte out as just a test of her abilities, to see if she was good enough to get into an art program in San Francisco, ended up being a messy and painful breakup, with Lily flying out to California to try and find herself.

But San Francisco wasn't the dream Lily expected it to be, and by the end of the summer she had flown back to New York, looking for Marshall's (and her friends') forgiveness. She and Marshall danced around each other for a little while before finally getting back together and marrying at the end of the second season. And the world was righted again.

WILL ADD MORE LATER ffffffffff

personalityEdit

"Awww, Ted, that is so sweet! So you chickened out like a little bitch."

Lily is a kindergarten teacher and, in general, she fits the profile well. She is sweet and slightly childlike, but still responsible and emotionally mature (except when money and designer clothing are involved). She is excellent with children, and is very maternal even outside her classroom, especially towards her close friends. She acts as a sort of moral compass, with a set of guidelines that she clearly lifts from her kindergartners and applies to the rest of her life (i.e., the importance of sharing and being nice, talking problems out instead of fighting about them or bottling them up, having fun instead of focusing on winning, taking away toys as a means of punishment, etc.)

There's more to Lily than just sunshine and butterflies, though; she is a born and bred New Yorker, and has a tendency to, in her own words, "take her feelings, and shove 'em in somebody else's face." It's easy to take her sweet and affectionate personality at the surface and assume she's also innocent, naïve, or fragile, but Lily is, quite simply, anything but. She is confident and tough as nails, and can be pretty damn vulgar when she wants to be (despite having a low threshold for other people's vulgarity).

She also has a bad habit of being emotionally invasive and manipulative. She tends to try and coach her friends' relationships (happily married as she is, she considers herself a sort of guru on the subject), and she spends a lot of time psychoanalyzing and poking at them. Most of the time, her advice is reasonable and valid (if sometimes unasked for), but she has been known to take her coaching too far. She is considered a sort of Queen of Breakups, because she has sabotaged many of her friends' relationships that were, in her opinion, flawed in some basic way. She's getting better, but she still pokes and prods more than is absolutely necessary.

But that's more or less where her subversiveness ends, because Lily, while stubborn, most of all just wants her friends to grow and be happy. That, and the fact that she cannot, for the life of her, keep a secret or tell a convincing lie. Especially around Christmas.

Related Tropes: Team Mom, The Chessmaster, Type B Tsundere, Leaving You to Find Myself, Happily Married, Shipper on Deck

abilitiesEdit

"Yes! I'm lovable, pretty, and wise. But is it enough?"

Lily is, for all intents and purposes, just a normal human. She's not above smacking someone if she thinks it'll get through to them, but there are no fancy fighting skills on this end. THAT SAID, her specialty is emotional manipulation. Which sounds worse than it really is; she'd never do it to intentionally hurt someone. She just reads people well, and more or less sets traps for them to get to a goal. The "goal" is usually breaking up a relationship she thinks will end badly if she doesn't intervene, but she's also done it to get herself out of trouble. She has been trying to pull away from breakups and move towards match making, but she doesn't have nearly as much practice in that field.

She's also a gourmet cook, and makes really, really fantastic pancakes.

The "Special Skills and Interests" section of her resume reads like this:

• Competitive Speed Eater (can eat 33 hot dogs in 8 minutes)
• Painting (Oil, Acrylics)
• Fluent in Italian
• Certified in Teaching English as a Second Language
• Proficient in Photoshop, Quark, Java

relationshipsEdit

"Thirty years from now, we're going to look at the photos and say, Awww, there's the four people I love most in the world! And Bob."

CanonEdit

Marshall Eriksen » MAI LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUV. Marshall is her husband, and he is, without a doubt, Lily's entire world. They've been together 13 years, married for two, and they're both completely, utterly, sickeningly devoted to each other. Complete with teeth-rotting cuteness and endless adorable traditions. It gets to the point where, at home, they tend to be attached at the hip -- being in Paradisa without him can be a real strain on her.

Ted Mosby » Ted has been one of Lily's best friends since college; she, Marshall, and Ted have been the primary members of Team Awesome for years. He's on an eternal quest to get married and settle down in New York City, and Lily does her best to support him in all his over-the-top romantic endeavors. He has a bad habit of being douchey and pretentious, but Lily loves him anyway.

Barney Stinson » Barney is crude, gross, and all-around inappropriate all the time. That said, Lily knows better than anyone that Barney's basically suit with a cotton-candy center, and, honestly, she can be pretty gross when she wants to be, too. They get along better than one might think. She owes him for a lot, and she's very attached to him in a weirdly maternal sort of way.

Robin Scherbatsky » She's only known Robin for about four years (compared to the 13 years she's known Marshall and Ted, and the 8 or so years she's known Barney) but she's easily Lily's best female friend. They balance each other out well; Lily's all sweetness with a rebellious streak, and Robin's all rebel with a dash of sweetness. They don't get a whole lot of alone time in a group full of dudes, but Lily's glad to have her (even if Robin can be basically a dude too sometimes).

ParadisaEdit

FRIENDLY (♥♥♥♥)

6 » FUH-REAKING ADORABLE. Seriously, he's like the cutest thing she's ever seen. He pings every single maternal instinct in her body, and she treats him much like she does her kindergartners at home.

Buffy Summers » GUUUUURRRLLL. Lily's always been sort of lacking in real girlfriends (Robin counts, but just barely), and Buffy does an excellent job filling that hole in her heart. She's a lot younger than Lily, but they shop together, chill together, and talk about silly girl things together. It's nice.

Crowley » He's an interesting dude! Very mysterious, and a good outlet for some of her snarky tendencies. She can definitely see how he and Barney became such good friends.

Genis Sage » She helped him out when he first arrived, explained some things to him. He's a bright kid, way smarter than she was when she was his age.

Ianto Jones »

Jilly Coppercorn » Sweet girl. Very nice, very helpful, and a painter, just like her! Lily's loss keeps her from relating as much as she'd like, but still. She likes Jilly.

Sora » He's so peppy and excitable, it's hard not to just... be amused whenever she talks to him. He also seems like one of those "Do Then Think" types, so she's made it her mission to try and keep an eye on him when she can.

Sylvanas Windrunner » They have a weird sort of relationship -- they're two very different people from very different worlds and they clash sometimes, but they... keep talking to each other. To be honest, Sylvanas' linefacing did a lot to help Lily get over all the weird things in the castle. It also helps that Marshall would be totally thrilled to meet her.

NEUTRAL (♥♥♥♥)

Lorne »

Takamura Uru »

Vereesa Windrunner » Sylvanas' sister! She's only really spoken to her once, but she seems like a nice woman. It sounded like there was some kind of rift between the sisters, but Lily's opted to keep her nose out of it.

Willow Rosenberg » She's never actually met Willow, but she's heard a lot from Buffy and others in the month-and-change she's been here. She thinks having a witch doppelganger is incredibly cool, and she's looking forward to eventually running into her.

UNFRIENDLY (♥♥♥♥)

Faye Valentine » Lily had been willing to tolerate her initially, but the events of the Berserk Plot pretty much nuked any chance they had at someday becoming friends. Lily blames Faye for Barney's death during that week, and at this point wants absolutely nothing to do with her. She doesn't want to see her, speak to her, hear about her, nothing. She kind of wants to scoop her eyes out with a melon baller.

miscellaneousEdit

"Story of my life! My cuteness interferes with people hearing my message."

• Her room is set up like a larger version of her first apartment in New York, pre-Chineserestaurantifciation. Designing it like the Dowisetrepla apartment would remind her too much of Marshall, designing it like Ted's would be creepy, and she doesn't have the willpower to come up with some other design.
  • The front room has an extra chair in the back corner with a teddy bear sitting in it, based off a segment from her kindergarten class (Feelings Hour, every Tuesday morning). It's mainly for Barney (which is fairly obvious given that the bear has his own suit), but if you ask her she'll say something about having it just in case some kids she knows need to get problems off their chest.
    • There's another bear, but that one's for herself and herself only.
  • If you go into her bedroom, you'll find there's a large stack of extra pillows on the right side of the bed. It's the only way she can get a decent night's sleep without Marshall around.
• She has a scar under her right collar bone from where Marshall STABBED HER WITH A BROADSWORD. Yeah, that happened.
• People don't tend to notice until it's been pointed out, but she chews really loudly. Really, really loudly.
• She's allergic to dogs! Apparently.
• Lily Aldrin's One Weakness: TEQUILA
• It has yet to be disproven that her grandfather is, in fact, Buzz Aldrin