Lilly
Lilly is the team leader and the player’s default gymnast. Her in-dialogue full name is Lilly Preston.
Story
Editorial note: The biographical content below is synthesized from this character’s dialogue lines. It is not official character lore or a shipped game description — it’s a reader-aid reconstruction. Direct quotes are verbatim from the dialogue script; framing around them is the wiki’s.
Snapshot
Lilly Preston is the team’s point-of-view gymnast and, from Chapter 3 onward, the Skylarks’ captain. She introduces herself in the opening chapter with “I’m Lilly Preston from Maple Falls” — a small-town newcomer chasing elite-level tryouts. Her voice carries the whole story: nervous and self-deprecating one moment, pep-talking herself the next, and quick with a joke (“I picture the judges as bored houseplants”). She writes diary entries at the end of every chapter, which makes her the reflective, emotional center of the team. Coach Jade notices her leadership first; the others come to rely on it.
What we learn about her past
Lilly grew up in Maple Falls and trained at Maple Falls High, a gym she describes as smaller than the Skylarks’ arena. She has been doing gymnastics practically her whole life (“I started gymnastics about the same time I learned to walk”) and credits her mother as an early hype-woman: “Mom says I was tumbling before I could even talk.” She practiced on a tree trunk in her backyard — “best free gym in Maple Falls” — and knows Remy from a summer camp two years before the game begins. She has a dog named Sir Barkington the Third, and she idolized Jade Whitmore as “the gymnast every kid wanted to be.”
Arc
Lilly starts the game asking “am I actually good enough?” and worrying she’ll read as a “small-town fangirl.” Tryouts force her to own her nerves, and bonding with Jasmine teaches her that “confidence grows faster when it’s shared.” Once named captain, she shifts from proving herself to carrying others — listening to Remy’s imposter-syndrome spiral, earning Nina’s grudging respect, and refusing to let Brielle’s hostility define the team. By Chapter 5 she’s trying to handle Brielle’s bullying herself, fails, and learns from Coach Jade that direct honesty is the only language Brielle understands. Her final diary entry lands on a grown-up note: “The Skylarks still have cracks, but today felt like progress.”
Relationships
- Coach Jade: Childhood hero turned mentor; Jade personally scouts her, promotes her to captain, and later coaches her through the Brielle conflict.
- Jasmine: Her first real teammate; they meet trembling in the dressing room and become each other’s steadying force (“I thought tryouts would break me, instead I found a teammate”).
- Remy: Reunited summer-camp best friend whom Lilly has to captain, pep-talk, and occasionally rein in (“Remy, you really need to start taking this a little more seriously”).
- Brielle: Antagonist who calls her “Captain Motivator” and accuses her of turning the team against her; Lilly ultimately tries radical kindness and honesty.
Profile
| Role | Team Leader |
| Training Title | All-rounder Training |
| Disciplines | Floor · Beam · Bars |
| Move pool | 130 (largest in the game) |
| Wardrobe | 60 outfits (50 competition + 10 training) |
| Dialogue lines | 121 (50% of all spoken content) |
Move pool
130 moves across three disciplines — the largest character pool in the game. She is the only gymnast who can compete in three events.
| Discipline | Moves | Share of discipline |
|---|---|---|
| Floor | 54 | one third of all Floor moves |
| Beam | 40 | one third of all Beam moves |
| Bars | 36 | one third of all Bars moves |
| Vault | — | no Vault moves exist in the game |
Animations
Idle
She shares the rest of the emote vocabulary — Wave, Clapping, Hug, High Five, Listen, Arms Crossed, Chalk clapping — with every other character.
Dialogue presence
Lilly speaks 121 of 241 dialogue lines — exactly half. Every scene in the game pairs her with one other character; the dialogue system never places three characters on stage at once.