Lilith (Character)

Lilith (莉莉斯), also known as Huihuicao (灰灰草), is a character that appears in Shining Nikki. She is the queen of Ninier in the year 0.

Appearance
Both Huihuicao and Lilith have long dark grey hair and pale skin. Huihuicao had a large birthmark on her face and was considered extremely ugly. Lilith, on the other hand, is described as the most beautiful girl in the nation of Ninier.

Personality
Huihuicao was a very kind girl with a heart of gold even though she had suffered so much hardship in life. When she later became Lilith, on the surface she was a sweet, kind and tolerant woman. However, deep inside, she was calculating and scheming. All she wanted was everybody's love, attention and worship.

History

 * Due to Lilith living under two names and identities, she will be referred to by the name she went by at the time of the events occurring.

Creation
In order to please the Goddess of Desire, Yehai decided to collect all the viciousness and desire in the world and wanted to use them to create an ultimate puppet of evilness. However, the end product was actually an extremely pure, innocent and kind doll. Yehai was so angry of the result that he broke it and threw it into Xingyu Town, where superficial physical beauty ranks above everything. Hence, Huihuicao was born.

Life as Huihuicao
Huihuicao (meaning "grey grey grass" in Chinese) was adopted when she was young and was raised by her adoptive parents and with her adoptive sister Peipeiwu in the town of Xingyu. She had a large birthmark on her face and was considered ugly by everyone. Xingyu Town valued beauty very much and because of her appearance, Huihuicao suffered a lot of prejudices and unkindness. She was extremely talented in design and music. An Old Musician, Handel Brandico Hayden, was the only one who valued her despite her appearance. Growing up, she yearned to participate in the Xingyu Swan Tournament.

Two years before Nikki arrived in Xingyu Town, her sister Peipeiwu and Huihuicao together competed in the Xingyu Swan Tournament which occurred every two years. Huihuicao designed the suit Wings of Shooting Stars for the tournament, but Peipeiwu stole it from her and wore it herself. This finally broke Huihuicao, and she set a fire on the stage of the tournament in despair. Though Peipeiwu won the tournament, she was severely burnt and deformed. As she walked through the flames towards Peipeiwu, she said to her, "If evil is beautiful, why don't I become evil?"

Becoming Lilith
The crime was reported under a pseudonym, and it was said that Huihuicao died in the fire. However, Huihuicao actually survived with the help to Yehai, the devil, who suddenly appeared when Huihuicao was ready to die in peace in the fire. Yehai was attracted by Huihuicao's evilness at that moment, and offered to grant her every wish in exchange of her soul, her life, and she would never be satisfied. In the end, Huihuicao was transferred into a beautiful girl. She changed her name to Lilith to compete in the next Xingyu Swan Tournament and won. But her ambition grew and decided to run for the Queen of Ninier. In order to make a perfect background for herself, she stole the identity of an innocent girl, Liz. Under Yehai's spell, Liz's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Grey, and her brother Luke completely forgot about Liz and thought that Lilith was a member of their family all along. With the help of Mercury, she was eventually elected the Queen of Ninier.

Peipeiwu
Huihuicao seemed to resent her sister Peipeiwu, who was viewed as the much more beautiful of the two. This prompted her to start the fire that ended up seriously hurting her.

Yehai
Yehai the devil is the creator of Huihuicao and it was also he who transformed Huihuicao to Lilith. He appeared to be very loyal to Lilith, but he was actually doing so to serve the Goddess of Desire all the time.

Nolan
Nolan was an extremely gifted violinist. When he was 14 and played his violin in the countryside, he met Lilith. Lilith liked his music a lot and Nolan also fell for Lilith's beauty. Lilith then took him back to the Royal Palace of Ninier and gave him the finest violin in the country as a gift. Lilith often asked him to play the piece by the Old Musician. Nolan loved and worshipped Lilith dearly, and swore that he would be Lilith's forever. However, as the Queen, Lilith was busy with the affairs of the Kingdom and Nolan could seldom see her. He was tormented by his love. He then decided to be more active and serenaded under her window no matter she was in the palace or not. When Lilith finally had the time and went to see him, Nolan was overjoyed, but also exhausted his last breath and died. Lilith then discovered that what she wanted was not love from everyone, but everlasting love.

The Poet and the Nightingale
The Poet was a very talented gift poet. He was poor and travelling all around Miraland with his friend, a Nightingale. When Lilith came across him one day in Pigeon Kingdom, she was attracted by his poetry and invited him to the court of Ninier to write an epic for the kingdom. The Poet was stunned by Lilith's beauty and agreed to it. When he finally finished the poetry, Lilith was very happy about it and asked if this is the best piece he had ever written. The Poet answered no, and said that the best work of his was actually a piece that was not finished. He wrote it after heard a girl singing by Yinyue Lake, Xingyu Town. He said that it was most beautiful scene he had ever behold, even though he did not saw the girl's face. The Nightingale also loved that girl and refused to sing again unless it saw the girl again. Lilith realised that the girl he mentioned was Huihuicao and was so shocked. She asked if he would still the girl beautiful if she had an extremely ugly face. The Poet answered that no matter how she looked, it won't changed his mind.

When the Poet was ready to leave the court, Lilith stopped him and offered him a position in the court and specially wrote poems for her. He was tempted by all the luxuries promised to him, and also Lilith's beauty. Hence, he agreed. Lilith prepared the Nightingale a beautiful cage and also a mechanic bird as its companion. She kept the cage in her bedroom, and every night she begged the Nightingale to sing for her, but the Nightingale never did.

After he became the official court poet, the Poet never could write a single line. He was so sad and troubled but Lilith comforted him that his talent was just hibernating like the winter, when spring arrived everything would be fine. However, the Poet grew desperate and finally decided to escape. One night, he climbed up to the balcony where Lilith kept the Nightingale and wanted to run away with it. However, the guard noticed the intruder and start to chase after him. Out of despair, he abandoned the Nightingale to escape and promised the Nightingale that he would come back for it when the spring came.

Lilith was so sad that the Poet left her and the Nightingale still won't sing for her. As days went by, the Nightingale grew weaker and weaker. Lilith tried to warm it as much as she could but the Nightingale still felt cold and weak. Before the Nightingale lost conscious, it seemed to hear the girl by the Yinyue Lake sang again, it was so happy and exhausted its last strength to sing with her.

Shining/SSR

 * 1) 欲望之音 (The Sound of Desire)
 * 2) 羽落星渊 (Feathers Falling into Starry Abyss)
 * 3) 加冕之路 (The Road of Coronation)

Extraordinary/SR

 * 1) 夜来香之吻 (The Kiss of Tuberose)
 * 2) 绒兔星球 (The Rabbit Planet)
 * 3) 恶魔的私语 (The Words of Devil)
 * 4) 圣诞糖霜 (Christmas Frosting)
 * 5) 夜莺与晨雾 (The Nightingale and the Morning Mist)

Rare/R

 * 1) 流星之羽 (The Wings of Shooting Stars)

Lilith
Lilith is a female demon from Jewish mythology.

Huihuicao
The characters of Huihuicao's name in Chinese literally mean "grey grass", with 灰 (huī) meaning "grey" and 草 (cǎo) meaning "grass".