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Lilian Maldive

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Those of you who design a lot of characters, have you ever come across that one design that makes you make an expression something like this--> :iconhancockgooeyfaceplz:?

For me, this is that design. :iconilavplz:

This is Lilian Maldive, Whitebeard Pirate and the First Division’s doctor. He will play quite a large part in Something In The Water a dozen or so chapters in the future, as Loki’s mentor. Her Devil Fruit means that in order to realise its full potential, she will need at least some medical knowledge- and as Lilian currently has no apprentice, he is only too happy to have the help. ^^

Lilian is a very natty dresser- his family are upper nobility on an island in the West Blue, so his tastes in clothes can be quite expensive. He loves his waistcoats- they’re all brown, but made of lots of different fabrics. And he will never ever leave his cabin without a bowtie. ‘Cause bowties are cool.

Incidentally, he has a cousin, whose son is currently an Ensign stationed at the island of Enies Lobby. Punctuality Maldive was injured quite badly when the Straw Hats rampaged through there. :D

On Lilian’s home island, there are certain professions considered ‘honorable’ by the nobility. And where your family cannot gain prestige amongst the scores of noble families by means of wealth or titles alone, it is possible to gain this prestige by sponsoring one of your sons or daughters into joining these professions. Medicine is one of the most exclusive of these professions. When Lilian passed his exams at the end of his training, it boosted the entire Maldive family’s Court rankings by seventeen.

However, Lilian wasn’t happy just staying on the island and treating the various sicknesses his family came down with. At the time, there were no jobs going for a doctor, so he left the island in search of employment. Gradually, by island-hopping, he came to Drum Island, and there he learnt quite a bit more about doctoring- specifically surgery. By that time, he was 34, and his family wanted him to come back to their island and settle down- they had a nice girl picked out for him to marry, even.

But things went horribly wrong, as they do sometimes. Lilian met a girl on the way home. A pirate girl.

This girl’s name was Kitri, and to Lilian, she was absolutely enchanting. He fell head-over-heels in love with her, and when she asked him to join her crew as their doctor, he almost literally jumped at the chance. :aww: They had a rather torrid love affair, which lasted for three years before the crew was completely destroyed by a Marine attack. (The Marines in question were two ships, one a frigate and one a prison ship, under the command of one Lykaios Wylie, who will be introduced soon.) Kitri died in the attack, and Lilian was captured. He spent three months wasting away in the bowels of the prison ship while Lykaios wandered around looking for more pirates.

Then, luck intervened on his behalf, as the Marines captured a pair of the Whitebeard Pirates while docked in Lokashiri. The Whitebeard Pirates’ First Division gave chase, and destroyed the prison ship, rescuing all the prisoners that survived, and adopting them into the Whitebeard Pirates. Lilian served for the first couple of years as assistant to First’s doctor at the time, but a couple of years later, when she died of malaria, he took over as the fleet’s premier doctor- a position he has held ever since.

Lilian is currently 65, making him the fourth-oldest member of the fleet after Malicia Grim (First’s navigator; 66 years old), Whetu (Fourth’s navigator; also 66), and Whitebeard himself.

By nature, he is quite kind and gentle, but over the years he has also developed quite a frightening system of fighting. As a doctor, he will not break the oath he took to preserve lives (the OP version of the Hippocratic Oath, I guess)- but he has no qualms with incapacitating or permanently crippling his enemies, and it can be quite disconcerting watching him systematically taking apart an opponent (because that’s really what it looks like…)

He holds quite a hatred of Marines, as you might have guessed. He never really got over Kitri’s death.

He is the owner of one of the four shards of the Supreme-Grade sword Akashio. This kodachi sword, made by a smith in the New World several hundred years ago, has one of the sharpest blades in the world, able to cut rock and steel with little problem. However, 150 years ago the sword was broken, and thieves made off with each of the four pieces. Currently, the hilt is in a Tenryuubito’s palace in Mariejois, the tip of the blade is in a wreck riding around on the deep ocean currents, the main part of the blade is part of Kaidou’s collection of weapons, and the tsuba, tang, and part of the blade is in Lilian’s possession. The sheath is not the original- it’s just one Lilian picked up from a battlefield a few years ago. Lilian generally uses his shard for medical procedures- cutting bone and amputations mainly.
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lilyoftheval5's avatar
OUt of all OC characters connected to the 'Something In The Water' (except Loki), I like Lilian the best. Awesome name.
I like his looks; in fact I find him quite attractive.
I'm delighted with his outfit; the best set of clothes anyone is wearing around here.
And with a story that poignant, how can I not go all :glomp:.