Lily Carnation

Lily Carnation
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Japanese Name:	リリー・カーネーション
Romanized Name:	Rirī Kānēshon
Official English Name:	Lily Carnation
Debut:	Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
Affiliations:	Red Arrows Pirates
Status:	Deceased
Portrayal
Japanese Voice:	Misa Watanabe

For other characters with the same name, see Lily (Disambiguation).

Lily Carnation was a monstrous, sapient plant and the main antagonist of Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island.

Appearance

Lily's true form, while parasitizing Omatsuri.

Lily Carnation consisted of two main parts. The first part was a large, tubular object that acted as its root stationed on top of a volcano. Tendrils extended off from the plant to drag prey into it. This was not its real body, but only its root.

The real body was a seemingly harmless small flower attached to Omatsuri's left shoulder. It had five yellow petals with red at the joints and two red dots on each petal, black butterfly antennae with yellow circles at the end, an innocently looking smiling face, and a green stem. It also seemed to be wearing a white neckerchief. When it consumed prey, it bit down like it was biting and moved its mouth like it was chewing, and when it was feeling particularly sadistic, its eyes flashed and it had a wide, ominous smile on its face. Its true form was a gruesome tentacle-like creature seemingly made of effigies of the people it absorbed with a sharp-toothed mouth sprouting from an off-side tentacle.

Personality

At first glance, Lily appeared to be playful and seemingly lacking sapience, since it barely spoke and the little actual dialogue from it cheered on the Straw Hat Pirates and congratulated them repetitively when they won trials. In actuality, it was a diabolical creature who took pleasure at other's suffering, as seen when it manifested the bodies of its victims from its real body to torment Luffy and reduce his will to fight, and when it laughed maniacally when Robin was about to be incapacitated by Omatsuri and fed to it.

Abilities and Powers

Forms

Lily's giant root, extending its tendrils to grab at prey.

In addition to its true form, the flower on Omatsuri's shoulder, Lily had a large, spiral root, situated at the top of a volcano. It and Omatsuri acted as if this was its true body, and the root was particularly durable, withstanding many blows from Luffy and Chopper. The root had the ability to create tendrils to drag prey, which it would then absorb into itself. When necessary, Lily could also transform this root into a rain of arrows, representing Omatsuri's many regrets. While unclear, it is implied this root is a construct of Lily's, as it disappeared in the same way as the town upon its death.

Lily's true form, however, was not particularly powerful, though it possessed the ability to manifest the likeness of anybody its root had absorbed. Unlike the durability of its root, Lily's true form died to a single arrow.

Those absorbed by Lily are not immediately killed, as the Straw Hat Pirates minds were still somehow able to call out to Daisy and later Luffy's while they were being digested during the final showdown, and there seems to be a window where they can be freed by destroying the plant; if Lily is killed fast enough, they will remain unharmed.

Reanimation

Muchigoro withers when Nami forces him to recall his passing and reanimation.

Lily Carnation is a symbiotic creature who had the ability to control life itself and reanimate the dead. Those reanimated by Lily grow a sprout on their head and remain in a state from shortly before their death, even in their memories, as Muchigoro remembered recently meeting Roger, who had died decades prior. Due to this, they are unaware that they ever died, and cannot even see Lily, as Muchigoro did not react even when in front of its giant stem.

The bodies of the reanimated are tied to the amount of sustenance Lily Carnation is given, which takes the form of living humans; when it is well-fed, the reanimated are extremely durable, with Zoro unable to cut DJ Gappa, self-admittedly the weakest member of his crew. If Lily is not given enough sustenance, however, they will shrivel and wither, only being restored when it is fed a human. This shriveling will also occur if the reanimated are forced to confront the reality of their death, but appear to be reversible if Lily is fed, as Omatsuri prepared to restart the Trials of Hell when Muchigoro was prompted into withering by Nami.

When Lily died, all those it had reanimated were converted into saplings.

Manipulation

Lily appears to possess multiple different manipulative abilities, both physical and mental. It was able to easily create buildings to transform the barren Omatsuri Island into a lively resort, and change the island's environment to facilitate Omatsuri's "Trials of Hell"; it is implied it also granted him the ability to generate and shoot explosive homing arrows, though the details of this ability are unclear.

Through unknown means, Lily can seemingly influence the minds of those who step foot on Omatsuri Island, poisoning the minds of its targets and causing them to grow irritated and combative more easily. Combined with his host, Omatsuri's, standard manipulation, the victims of Omatsuri Island are led to fight amongst themselves over what should have been petty squabbles. Over time, this is powerful enough to cause those affected to renege on their own long-held beliefs, as such Sanji refusing to feed Zoro because of an argument despite his immense respect for food and refusal to withhold it.

Notably, this ability seems to not work on Devil Fruits users, as Luffy, Chopper, and Robin were the only members of the Straw Hat Pirates to not grow intensely frustrated with their crewmates, and Robin was the only member who seemed to notice their odd behavior.

When Lily died, all of its constructs disappeared, restoring Omatsuri Island to the barren island it originally was, and the Straw Hat Pirates were fine with each other, carrying on their usual friendly interactions as if their arguments hadn't even happened.

History

Past

At some point, the Red Arrows Pirates became shipwrecked near Omatsuri Island, leaving their captain, Omatsuri, the crew's sole survivor. After an extended period of time alone on the island, Omatsuri encountered Lily. He would discover its powers which allowed him to revive his entire crew in exchange for food, which would be people. The grief-stricken Omatsuri then decided to attract pirate crews to the island to feed to Lily in order to retain the replicas of his crew, causing the deaths of no less than dozens of pirate crews whose ships are lined around the island and formed at least two ship graveyards.

Water 7 Saga

Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island

Upon the arrival of the Straw Hat Pirates on the island, Lily is initially shown to have an innocent and cute personality. It was seen on Omatsuri's shoulder and cheered on the Straw Hat Pirates during the goldfish catching contest.

Later, Lily's true nature was revealed and consumes all of the Straw Hat Pirates bar Luffy, seemingly killing them and plunging Luffy to despair. After a battle, in which its roots were destroyed, it transformed into a monstrous, demon plant that harnessed the bodies of its recent victims, the Straw Hat Pirates' as psychological warfare as the roots split into dozens of arrows scattering around Luffy. The seeming death of his friends eradicated whatever remaining willpower Luffy had in the fight and it came extremely close to killing him, only for it to be killed by being shot through the head by Baron Omatsuri's bow and arrow used by Papa of the Tearoom Pirates, to which it dissolved into a gory mess. This turned all the revived members of the Red Arrows Pirates into plants and all of the Straw Hats it devoured were released from it with no memories of the incident.

Major Battles

• Lily Carnation and Omatsuri vs. Tony Tony Chopper and the Tearoom Pirates
• Lily Carnation and Omatsuri vs. Monkey D. Luffy, Brief, and Papa

Trivia

• Its name has two flowers in it, "lily" and "carnation"; it somewhat resembles the former, but not the latter.
• Its name is also possibly a play on the word reincarnation, which is its ability, to reincarnate other people as plants.
• The concept of Lily Carnation is similar to Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors, as they are both carnivorous plants that manipulate humans into murder.