Lilly

Lilly is the team leader and the player’s default gymnast. Her full name is Lilly Preston.

Story

Everything below comes from Lilly’s own dialogue. Quoted lines are hers, word for word.

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.

Background

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

Move pool

Lilly’s 130 moves span Floor, Beam, and Bars, the largest pool of any gymnast. She is the only one who can compete in three events.

Lilly holds a third of each discipline she competes in: 54 Floor, 40 Beam, and 36 Bars. Vault has no moves in the game, for any character.

Animations

Idle

She shares the rest of the emotes with every other character: Wave, Clapping, Hug, High Five, Listen, Arms Crossed, and Chalk clapping.

Dialogue presence

Lilly speaks 121 of 241 dialogue lines, exactly half. Every scene pairs her with one other character; the game never puts three characters on stage at once.

See also

• Lilly’s moves
• Characters overview
• Moves catalog
• Outfits catalog
• Dialogue catalog