Lian Tian-e/Relationships

mostly TBA - needs to be expanded a little

Mother: Liu “Willow” Tian-e
Lian's mother, Liu "Willow" Tian-e, was the previous Odette's Swan Maiden, and the role has been passed down to Lian. Lian's mother is super fussy about appearances, and finds her daughter a little bit too scary for the role as a Swan Maiden.

Willow lives vicariously through her daughter, which leads to high expectations. The two's relationship is highly strained due to this: Lian finds her mother far too overbearing, and Willow thinks that her daughter is hurling herself into reckless abandon.

Father
Lian’s father is an irrelevant Chinese prince, the son of one of the ex-Emperor’s concubine, to be exact. She’s not particularly close to him, as her father is quite closed off and distant.

Extended Family
Being the granddaughter of one of the Emperor’s concubines (and therefore, of the Emperor), Lian’s family is part of the Imperial Court of China, and she dislikes every moment of it. Frequent backstabbings, you’re never quite sure who is on who’s side, and it’s so hard to keep up with politics when Emperors keep dropping like flies.

This said, Lian tends to deny her imperial roots, and often tries to pass her father off as some other sort of noble.

Friends
open!!

The Swan Squad
Goals upon goals upon goals.

The Nightingales: Daulis Song and Tereus Dentori
Dentori Industries is most well known for its gift from the Emperor of Japan to the Emperor of China, and Lian, being related to the latter, is more than delighted by their magnus opus.

“Lian beatboxing while Tereus provides instrumentals” - Hiddenfolk. Also this has definitely happened at least once.

They get on decently, and by decently, I mean civily, because they're certainly not friends, as Lian treats Tereus as more of an ornamental object than an AI with a personality.

In contrast, Lian thinks Daulis is a weak nerd who holds familial piety in too high of a regard. She also thinks he’s too Westernised and criticises him for that (ignoring the fact that she too, is from a Western tale). His girlfriend’s really pretty though, so she often attempts to rile him up by flirting with her, in front of him. (He’s generally unperturbed by this, apparently it happens a lot.)

Pet
During Animal Calling, a small pond frog hopped over to Lian. The frog currently resides in Lian's bedroom and attempts to mimic her dancing. Lian has named the frog "Bendan", meaning "silly egg". Everyone else thinks that was pretty rude of Lian to name the froggy that. Lian disagrees.

Enemies
open!

Romance
Although she doesn’t regard herself as a heartbreaker or a player by any means, Lian is a fickle flirt.

I suppose she’s open to any and all ships?