Sash Lilac

Overview

History

Quotes

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Lilac the Dragon Girl
Name and Aliases
Name	Sash Lilac
Chinese	塞西.里拉克 (Sāi xī. Lǐ lākè)
Aliases	Lilac the Dragon Girl Little Miss Heropants The Sparkling Comet of Avalice Dragonblood Sparkly Twit Squidhead
Biographical Information
Race	Half-Water Dragon Half-Unknown Avalician
Homeworld	Avalice
Residence	Lilac's Treehouse
Gender	♀ Female
Age	15 (Freedom Planet) 17 (Freedom Planet 2)
Height	4'7"; 140cm
Element	Water
Associations
Allies	Carol Tea (best friend) Milla Basset (friend) Torque (friend) Neera Li General Gong Royal Magister Pangu
Enemies	Spade (rival) Lord Brevon Serpentine Syntax
Affiliations	Team Lilac Shang Tu Red Scarves (formerly)
Occupation	Team Lilac Leader Thief (formerly) Red Scarves Member (formerly)
Skills and Abilities
Type	Speed
Weapon	Hair Tendrils
Skills	Super Speed Martial Arts
Moveset	Dragon Boost Dragon Cyclone Hair Whip Blink Dash (FP2)
Real World Details
Appears in	Freedom Planet (2014) (debut) Freedom Planet 2 (upcoming)
Designer	Ziyo Ling (original) Stephen DiDuro (FP) Tyson Tan (FP2)
Music
Voice Actor	Dawn M. Bennett

"I don't care how dangerous it is! It's gonna take a lot more than robots and aliens to slow a dragon down!"

- — Lilac, taking the mission of defeating Brevon.

Sash Lilac, the main protagonist, who is more commonly known as Lilac, is a half-water dragon of unknown origins, and believed to be the last of her kind. At a young age, she was raised and trained by the Red Scarves, an underground guild of thieves and assassins. There she met Carol, who, after a brief rivalry, became her best friend. With Spade, another member of the Red Scarves, they participated in martial arts tournaments to earn the prize money. However, in order to find her place in life, Lilac and Carol both left the Red Scarves to live independently. Since then, they've been living in a treehouse hidden deep in the forests of Dragon Valley.

Conception and Redesign

Ziyo Ling's original design for Lilac.

Lilac was originally designed by Ziyo Ling in 2001 as a hedgehog and a Sonic the Hedgehog fan character. In the early 2010's, Ziyo Ling was approached by Strife, who after failure to create a protagonist for the Sonic fan game he was working on, requested and was permitted the use of Ziyo's characters. This game would go on to become Freedom Planet.

At some point in the game's development, Strife decided to convert Freedom Planet from a fan game to a commercial property. This meant that Lilac could not remain a hedgehog due to her similarities to Sonic. With this in mind, Strife reinvented her as a dragon.

Lilac would be redesigned again for Freedom Planet 2. Strife reached out to Tyson Tan to help rework all of the character designs from the previous installment. The goal for this new design of Lilac was to make her appear more mature and stand out as the protagonist of her own property and not just as a Sonic fan character, hence the removal of her two-toned forehead.

Appearance

Lilac is a purple colored, teenage mixed breed water dragon of slightly over average height with purple colored twin ponytails. She at first wears a blue outfit with a dark blue waist belt, blue gloves with yellow trim, and blue shoes with bolts of lightning at the heels. Two years later she wears a white tai chi uniform over her old outfit.

Personality

Lilac is a good-spirited dragon and is more than willing to help those in trouble or in need. She is very motivated and refuses to give up under any circumstances, even when the rest of the team doubts the success of their mission. Lilac can get very angry, but only when pushed to the extreme.

History

Main article: Sash Lilac/History

Freedom Planet

Let's show this green maniac how to save a planet!

- Lilac, riding the Holodragon through the snowfields.

One day, on one of Lilac and Carol's planned raids, a mysterious spaceship attacked by some of Shuigang's choppers, crashes into the Valley. Lilac's heroism gets the best of her, so she decides to investigate the crash site. Upon arriving, she meets and saves Torque from one of Serpentine's rockets. Torque, disguised as a "shellduck", informs the two girls about Zao's intentions of stealing the Kingdom Stone and both are making their way to the ancient temple. After witnessing the theft of the relic by their old friend, Spade, the cave inside the temple collapses and the girls escape, separated from each other.

They unite again and Carol notices that someone's following them. It is revealed that Milla, an orphan Hound living alone the woods, pulled Carol out of the cave. It doesn't take long for Lilac to befriend her and invite her to live with them in their Treehouse. Later that night, Torque reveals himself as a Chaser and tells the girls about Lord Brevon and his plans to ignite a civil war between the Three Kingdoms to steal the Kingdom Stone to repair his warship, the Dreadnought, so that he and his army can leave Avalice and continue his galactic conquest. Learning of this, Lilac, Carol, and Milla volunteer in helping Torque stop Brevon and his army and to save Avalice from the brink of civil war.

Powers & Abilities

Lilac was trained in martial arts by the Red Scarves and is very athletic. At some point, she developed her own fighting style of using her twin ponytails to whip and cut through opponents and obstacles, also often attacking with kicks, but she lacks an attack with a bigger range.

• Dragon Boost: Lilac's signature move. She charges all her energy and launches herself like a comet, clashing into enemies or to run at high-speed. Gains brief invincibility when in use.
• Boost Breaker: In the middle of using the Dragon Boost, Lilac can cancel it and create an aerial shockwave, damaging any enemy within range.
• Dragon Cyclone: Lilac spins herself horizontally to hit enemies with her hair and to stay a bit longer mir-air. Also, she'll sometimes says "Cyclone", when using this move.
• Dive Kick: From mid-air, Lilac kicks multiple times diagonally downwards towards an enemy.
• Rising Slash: Lilac can use her hair to perform an uppercut.
• Blink Dash: After Guarding, Lilac can dash a short distance at light speed, damaging enemies on contact or to pick up speed.

Lilac can also hold her breath underwater longer than the others, being at least a minute.

Relationships

Carol

Lilac once playfully described Carol as "like her tail always right behind her". Although they started out as rivals when they first joined the Red Scarves, the two became the best of friends and usually get along famously. However, Carol has been shown to be more reluctant to go along with Lilac's heroics, often calling her "Little Miss Heropants". During the course of their adventure, this contradiction creates tension, but they eventually make up when they need to. When Carol saw Lilac severely injured from Brevon's shock torture, she broke down in tears and blamed herself for running off on her own.

Milla

At first, Lilac was a bit weirded out by Milla's mannerisms, like when she asked if she could touch her hair, but she quickly accepted the young hound as a friend. Lilac eventually becomes a big-sister figure to her, also acting as a protector, like when she told her to stay with Carol while she went off to rescue Torque alone. What's more, when Lord Brevon brainwashed and mutated Milla, Lilac went berserk. As she delivered the final blow to the defeated Warlord, she shouted out "Nobody....Hurts....Milla!!!" This shows how much Lilac cares about her young friend and how personal she took it. When everything was said and done, Lilac tried to comfort Milla in her distress.

Torque

After Torque's ship crash landed, Lilac found and saved him from Serpentine. Later, he tells them that Mayor Zao is about to steal the Kingdom Stone and they make their way to the Ancient Temple, just to realize he was right. They agree to help him out after he told him who Brevon was and why he wants the Kingdom Stone. Lilac went to various measures to protect and rescue Torque on multiple occasions. She claimed responsibility for manipulating Torque, painting him as a victim, just to convince the Magister to release him from quarantine and when Brevon abducted him, she rushed off to rescue him on her own, due to doubts from Carol.

Spade

Years ago, Lilac used to be part of the Red Scarves alongside Spade. She feels guilty for something she did to him when she and Carol left the Scarves, stating she was scared and didn't know what she was doing. Any other part of Lilac's history with Spade is currently unknown.

Other Appearances

Sonic After the Sequel

Lilac makes a cameo appearance in the Sonic the Hedgehog fan game Sonic After the Sequel developed by LakeFeperd. She appears in her original design as a hedgehog. She can be found after successfully completing an Easter Egg on the Parhelion Peak stage and when approached will say the following:

"Woah, so this is what that parallel dimension looks like...

Hey, who are you? and... why do you kinda look... like...

Whatever, i'm outta here"

-

She then jumps off screen, leaving behind a spring that the player may use to progress.

Runbow

On April 14, 2016, Lilac was added as a free DLC guest character to the platform racing game Runbow, developed by 13AM Games. She shouts "Cyclone!" when she jumps.

Indie Pogo

Lilac in Indie Pogo alongside Shovel Knight and the protagonist of Teslagrad.

Lilac makes a playable appearance in the auto-jumping fighting game Indie Pogo developed by Lowe Bros. Studios, which features characters from various indie titles. Her inclusion was announced on April 5th, 2017. She was originally intended to be unlockable, but was made a part of the initial roster following a poll on the Indie Pogo Discord Server.

Lilac's moveset in Indie Pogo is ripped almost directly from Freedom Planet, with a few additions, mainly her Blink Dash from Freedom Planet 2. She can also summon a Time Gate from Pangu Lagoon and gain a Dragon Star, which powers up her moves and enables her Boost Breaker. Her super move summons the Holodragon to fire a laser beam across the screen.

Her entry animation features her flying in on Torque's airplane alongside Carol, Milla, and Torque and jumping down from it. When she's defeated, she explodes into purple petals just as she does in Freedom Planet. Her various costumes are based on Freedom Planet's scrapped color palettes, with the exception of a costume based on her Freedom Planet 2 design that was added in the 1.0.16.0 patch on July 23, 2018.

While Indie Pogo does not currently have any stages representing Freedom Planet, it has been confirmed that a stage based on Dragon Valley is now in development.

Super Indie Karts

Lilac on the Character Select screen of Super Indie Karts.

Lilac makes a playable appearance in the kart racing game Super Indie Karts developed by OneLeggedSeagull Games, which features characters from various indie titles. She was added in the v0.64a update made on November 1, 2017. Dragon Valley was added as a course alongside her. She drives a pink and purple go-kart and shouts "Cyclone!" when pressing the button to use an item without having one equipped.

She was added to the roster only after Carol, who was added in the v0.42 update made December 21, 2015.

Trivia

• Lilac's first name, Sash, is a variant of the Russian name Sasha and means "Defender of the people" or "Protector of men".
• The Lilac is a purple flower that is often a symbol for love.
• Ziyo Ling's version of Lilac likes ghost movies and hip hop, but hates onions.
• Lilac's earpieces are hearing aids. She has fish fins underneath them (like seen on Merga), but a genetic defect renders them useless and she's extremely hard-of-hearing, if not deaf without her earpieces. It is currently unknown what the earpieces are made out of.
• Strife was inspired to incorporate white into Lilac's design in Freedom Planet 2 by the trope of characters gaining white in their outfit when they grow stronger or more mature. He cited Mega Man X as an example of this.
• It was once planned that Lilac would have a living father. He was going to be an NPC and he looked similar to Lilac in design. His existence was eventually scrapped with the hub worlds all together. With Freedom Planet 2 rewriting Lilac to be the "only water dragon in existence" besides Merga it's clear he never existed in the new canon. Strife has confirmed the character to be non-canon.
• A Lilac Sanshee Plush was once made available for purchase. However, it was quickly sold out due to popular demand.