Lilia may be intentionally styling himself to appear as cute and unimposing as possible. In a voice line he says that, while the long sleeves of his oversized lab wear coat do get in his way...
...he deals with it because "It's cuter this way", and Silver says that “Lilia prides himself on his cuteness”.
Lilia describes himself as “one seriously mysterious and attractive boy” (using the word “bishounen” in the original Japanese), and as one of the top--
--three low-key guys at the school, with Kalim and Cater. He explains that he actively tries to “act like Diaomnia’s adorable mascot”, though he “was once a feared captain in Briar Valley”.
During the Phantom Bride event, Lilia is rejected by Eliza for being “too cute by half”.
According to the game guide,
“His natural hair color is black. One part of his bangs has been dyed pink and not the underside, but the rest of his hair from the sides to the back of his bob is all dyed pink underneath."
"He changes the color depending on his mood, so sometimes it is different.
He has fangs like a vampire.
He generally doesn’t get very angry. Even when he is angry, it’s never overly so. He gets angry about trivial things. Like if someone ate the ice cream he’d been saving…”
Lilia has several cryptic lines referring to the passage of time, saying “What we live through today will be a fond memory all too soon”, “Bonds between people never truly fade. They continue on throughout our lives"—
--"And, in time, new ties are forged, even without any intention on your part. That’s how life is. But the more previous a bond, the more pain it can inflict. Why do you think that is? As long as I’ve lived, I still haven’t found the answer.”
He tells Cater that Cater’s decision to not get too close to any one person may make him the wiser one.
He also tells Vil that “one night for me passes like a few seconds might pass for the rest of you”.
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Silver explains that in his younger days, “it never occurred to me just how much he did to keep me safe”, and shares an anecdote from when he was a child and he tried to cook on his own:
After falling asleep with the stove burning, Lilia came home to a burnt mess of a soup and a panicking Silver. Riddle asks if Silver was scolded, and Silver responds that no, his father was just glad he was unharmed, that failure was the mother of all success--
--it was okay as long as he learned something—and then ate the ruined mess of a meal. Silver says he is “proud to be his son”.
Most of the information we have about pre-NRC Lilia has come from Silver: he explains that Lilia is “one of the royal guards who serve the rulers of Briar Valley” in the present tense and
“I have heard that his martial prowess is widely recognized and that the queen trusts him greatly”.
Silver also tells us that “he has stepped down from the front lines now, but he once earned medals for his myriad feats in battle”.
During Halloween Silver explains that Lilia’s “work” once “led him to the border between life and death. He glimpsed the Spectral Realm, said ‘Oh, crumbs!’ And came right back”.
Short translation from the Twst novel: Culture Shock
Some NRC information and emphasis on how foreign everything is to the protagonist through comparisons of how very different school systems overseas (and in other dimensions?) are when compared to those in Japan.