Lily

This article is about the Earth Kingdom nomad. For the Nuktuk fan, see Macao and Lily.

"You've gotta focus less on the 'where' and more on the 'going'."

— Lily to Sokka.^[1]

Lily was an Earth Kingdom nomad and musician who shared many similarities with her husband, Chong.

History

Before meeting her future husband, Lily became a musician and learned to play the flute; her musical talents were the first attribute to which Chong, who used to serenade her with his dramyin, felt attracted.^[2] After the couple formed a nomadic group, they traveled around the world while playing songs and telling stories with their friends.

Lily and her friends ran into Team Avatar when Aang needed to get to Omashu in order to find an earthbending teacher. While both groups were spending their free time together, Lily braided Katara's hair with flowers. Sokka pointed out that he and his friends were in a hurry, but Lily did not see the urgency, saying that Sokka needed to focus less on the "where" and more on the "going", as apparently Sokka had a case of "destination fever". Since Fire Nation troops prevented them from flying over the mountains, Team Avatar and the nomads decided they would take the secret pass through the Cave of Two Lovers of which the nomads had been singing. Lily mentioned casually that the only way to get through the caves safely was to "trust in love", according to a curse that supposedly plagued the labyrinth.

After becoming trapped in the cave, Lily showed her naive side by lighting all the torches at once, each of which could burn for up to two hours, with the logic of, "... we have five torches, so that's ten hours!" Sokka quickly put them out again, saving the team's only light source. When one of the torches startled Appa during the attack of a wolfbat, the flying bison caused a cave in, cutting off Lily from Aang, Katara, and Appa.

Lily ventured further through the caves with Sokka and the rest of the nomads. After about an hour of aimlessly walking through the ever shifting tunnels, they had another run in with wolfbats, but this time, the vicious animals were trying to get away from two badgermoles. Sokka discovered by accident that these giant earthbending creatures were music lovers, so Lily and the others started a song that enabled them to ride the beasts out of the tunnels to safety, where they reunited with Aang, Katara, and Appa. After saying their goodbyes, Lily and the other nomads parted ways with Team Avatar.^[1]

Later, Lily, Chong, and Moku formed a band called Trustfully in Love, which became extremely popular. The band toured in large cities such as Yu Dao, where they performed in a concert hall for three hours in front of many fans, including Suki, who had encouraged Sokka and Toph to join her. After their stay in Yu Dao, Chong decided that they would no longer perform as Trustfully in Love would go back to performing out of love of music rather than money. Despite their decision, they decided to use their earnings to create a comfortable lifestyle for themselves and purchased a luxury wagon to travel around with. The performers waved off Suki, Sokka, and Toph, as they prepared to play music across the world.^[3]

Personality

Lily was airheaded but always optimistic.^[2] She was a laid back, free-spirited person who preferred to enjoy life rather than obsess over the details. Mild-mannered and at times almost lethargic, she did not always pay attention to the most obvious things. Lily was never nonplussed like the rest of her nomadic friends. She had gentle disposition: mild, friendly, warm with a kindly gentleness.