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last updated → 14/07/2025
All Those Withering Lilies is an interactive fiction story inspired by puella magi madoka magica, neon genesis evangelion and 2000s magical girl anime like tokyo mew mew and shugo chara. It follows lilies, children and young adult raised in artificial dream machines, granted powers through a desperate wish, and tasked with suturing invisible wounds across the world. Sent alone to different cities, they fight magic no one remembers and live lives no one sees.
This is a story about manufactured purpose, buried memory, and the quiet rebellion of those who were never meant to survive. It explores intimacy, identity, and the slow cost of obedience.
Lilies work alone. They always do.
It has been eleven years since you bloomed. Eleven years of service to humanity. You have closed wounds no one else could see, stitched the world back together in silence. No one has ever thanked you, except maybe your handler, the woman who has given you missions since you were a child.
You are a soldier, a spy, a witch. Something unknown that blends all three.
For eleven years, you have lived in the same city. You move through life with a cover story, a fake family who took you in without knowing what you were. You have colleagues who smile too wide, who try too hard to include you. They do not know why you’re really on this earth.
Lilies work alone. Teams are only created when a single lily is no longer enough.
Yet now, three lilies have been sent to the same small town.
Liseron is quiet, distant, and forgettable. The wounds should not be frequent enough to justify a team. Something is wrong.
You are one of these lilies, and all three of you have entered your eleventh year.
Lilies always wither after twelve.
You have one year left to live. What will you do with it?
FEATURES
- choose the name you use as a cover, your gender, the type of wish you made, your appearance from the color of your hair to whether you have freckles or piercings!
- rebel or obey. be a good lily and die quietly or learn the truth behind it all.
- choose between four romance options, as the famous song goes: “kiss kiss fall in love”!
⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ROMANCE OPTIONS
RHEA/RAPHAEL (f/m) ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ if they were a trope, they’d be rivals to lovers.
You weren’t supposed to get along, and you don’t. R is volatile, proud, and impossibly skilled. Every interaction is a contest, every glance a challenge. But when it matters, they’re always by your side, teeth bared and ready to burn the world down. Maybe it’s loyalty. Maybe it’s something messier. Whatever it is, neither of you can stop.
LUNE/LYSANDRE (f/m) ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ if they were a trope, they’d be tragic devotion.
They are always there. Quiet, steady, careful not to take up space. You have lost count of how many times they stepped in without being asked, how many times they chose your safety over their own. They never ask for anything in return. But sometimes, you catch it. A glance that lingers too long. A silence that stretches into longing.
SERAPHINE/SAMAEL (f/m) ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ if they were a trope, they’d be forbidden love.
They are not supposed to exist. You were never meant to meet them. And yet you do, again and again. In places no one should be, in dreams that do not belong to you. They speak in riddles, vanish without warning, and pull you closer every time. You know you shouldn’t trust them. You do anyway.
XIAOFAN (f/m) ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ if they were a trope, they’d be single parent romance.
They have something you were never meant to touch. A home. A child. A reason to live beyond the work. They should keep their distance, and at first they do. But you feel it, the way they soften around you, the way hope creeps back into their voice. They know how dangerous this is. They let you in anyway
⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ CHANGELOG
14/07/2025 — the first version of the demo, with the first chapter, is released! I’ve commissioned an artist to draw rhea, lune, samael and male xiaofan, can’t wait for the result hehe
bookmarked and if favourited. I’m looking forward to more 
Specially if romance is tied to that bar.
