Lilith Anwen

The Story

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• Sweet, genuinely kind, and good-natured Lilith is the stereotypical girl next door. Except if most mothers knew she spent half her nights half naked, being ogled through a pane of glass, they might think twice about having her over for family dinners. That particular reason is why she rarely gets close to people who work and live outside the world of The DollHouse. It ends badly... a lesson she only needed to learn once. So, it isn’t hard to see why a young woman who is as personable as Lilith, comes across as so incredibly private..
  
  The story she gives to people who ask is fairly vanilla. After graduating from high school she followed her talent and went to college for music. An exceptionally gifted pianist, she applied and was accepted to Julliard. In a decision that cost her more than cares to admit, she moved her entire life from the Midwest to the Northeast. On a scholarship, private loans, and very little else Lilith found herself in a small, rundown, single bedroom apartment in New York. At the time, compared to what she had left behind, she thought it had been an improvement.
  
  She worked harder than she ever had in her life. She would go to class, work her job, and sleep like the dead at night. Everything seemed to work in her favor. She flew through school building her talent, perfecting her skill. Even to the gifted though, the world can be cruel. Like so many before her, she learned that talent isn’t everything, and it can’t protect you from the harshness of reality. When she finally graduated she had a degree that couldn’t get her hired, an empty fridge, an apartment she could no longer afford, and she was walking around with her last $20 tucked inside her pocket. She was at the end of her rope, with no safety net to catch her. It got worse, then it got better. The end.
  
  That is a grossly abbreviated version of the real story. A lot happened between ‘it got worse’ and ‘then it got better’.
  
  On a not so very special night, Lilith sat at her kitchen table. Her cat, Barlow, purring away in her lap. She was looking through wanted ads, highlighting prospects, when her pen ran under a headlining for a pianist close by. She immediately cut it out and practically ran the few miles to the listed address. With that slip of paper clutched in her hand, she walked into The DollHouse. Little did she know when stepping through those doors, the rocky start of a new life was waiting for her on the other side. Speaking to a hostess, she’d barely been able to get the words, “Is the position for a pianist still open?” out of her mouth before the most beautiful woman she had ever seen came right up to her.
  
  Sabine was larger than life, absolutely dazzling, and Lilith found herself completely enthralled. For reason she would have never understood at the time, this woman took an immediate shine to her. She was set up to perform twice a week and she immediately fell in love with The DollHouse. After only the first couple days she found it impossible not to warm up to all the people that worked there. The girls that worked in the actual rooms were always sweet to her, the cooks often fed her, and the bouncers treated her with respect. It kind of felt like home.
  
  Even though her living conditions left something to be desired, things seemed to be looking up. Especially when she found a second job waiting tables at another restaurant. Lilith was happy for the first time in a long time. She had food in her cupboards, a little cash in her account, and even a nice boy who she had met at her second job. She had been so head over heels for the guy. Everything was balanced, she felt like her life was finally becoming stable.
  
  Then he found out where her first job was.
  
  It hadn’t mattered that she had never stepped foot behind the glass in the private rooms of The DollHouse. She had been guilty by association; anything she said in her own defense fell on deaf ears. The fight had escalated out of control in front of the restaurant, a shouting match that was awful as it was embarrassing. It had resulted in both of them being fired from much needed employment. Funny, how life can just suddenly spiral out of your control in a matter of moments.
  
  Fired, heart broken, and getting rained on... Lilith began walking back to her apartment. She had never been judged so harshly in her life, certainly had never been refused the right to defend herself. The thought that the people and the place that had she had come to love were the cause of such hurt, and might cost her even more in the future made it all so much worse. She was soaked to the skin and not even half way home when a car rolled up along side her. Not a total idiot, she regarded the car warily. Her apartment was in a rundown neighborhood in a rather shitty part of town, she knew what might be on the other side of the glass. So she was a little surprised when the tinted window slid down to reveal Sabine.
  
  Somehow she hadn’t seemed as surprised to see Lilith as Lilith was to see her. Grateful, she accepted a ride home. A ride she had hoped would be a quiet one, if only to keep from crying in front of a woman like Sabine. Unfortunately for her, Sabine was the kind of woman who seemed to possess a sixth sense for weak points in a person's armor. It also did not help that Lilith looked like a miserable mess. It was only a matter of time before Sabine knew more than Lilith wished anyone to know about her. Honestly, she just had no one else to confide in, and sitting outside of her apartment in the darkness of Sabine’s car… all the things that weighed down her heart seemed to just fall right off her tongue.
  
  When it was all said and done, Lilith sat in silence, being observed in a way that made her feel as if her heart was an open book, and Sabine had the answer key. She waited for advice; desperate for anything that would help her take back what little control she’d had. What she got was an offer and a promise. Sabine would take her in, give her a permanent home, and she would work full time at The DollHouse… for as long as she wanted it.
  
  Her answer had been a decisive ‘yes’ and what happened after that was a blur. All her things were moved from her tiny apartment to The DollHouse’s dorms. She got her own room with a bed that was too soft to turn down, and when she awoke the next morning she had a bank account with her name on it, an annual salary from Sabine, and a full time job playing piano and waitress. From that moment on she was more than just a part time entertainer, but a full-fledged employee of The DollHouse.
  
  The first time it was suggested she give the actual House a try, she turned it down. Just the accusation of that having that position had been what had cost her a relationship. However, as she saw how comfortable her roommates were with their jobs… and the money that came with it… she reconsidered. After a few awkward times, Lilith got used to sitting around naked (well, almost naked) behind a pane of glass. It was the oddest thing she had ever done in her life. Like the other girls, she soon had a list of patrons that adored her and the insecurities just vanished.
  
  Every promise that Sabine had made to her had come true. She had taken Lilith from the ghetto, saved her from starving, and given her a new family. She had given her a new truly stable life, and it only seemed to be getting better. When her 23rd birthday rolled around, Sabine paid off her student loans. The hundreds of thousands that Julliard had cost… gone in an instant. In that moment, Sabine had secured Lilith’s loyalty. She would do almost anything for the woman, without question, because she knows so long as she followed the rules of The DollHouse. There is nothing she could ever want for. Well, almost.
• Some General OOC Info:

  
  The DollHouse isn't really a 'brothel' so much as a high class burlesque/entertainment establishment. It is more along the lines of the way Geisha work than prostitutes. They are there to entertain... although scantily clad. What?! Sex sells, I didn't write the rules! I just play by them.

• Connections

  Friends

  Sabine Reine (played anonymously)

  Dr Evelyn Via-Cabrera (played anonymously)

  Cael Donnelly (played by Loki)

  Dahlia Leighton (played anonymously)

  Esme Darling (played anonymously)

  Ayami (played anonymously)

  Lavinia Lynn (played by Loki)

  Daneil Raske (played anonymously)

  Milla Darling (played anonymously)

  The DollHouse (played anonymously)

  Odelia Floros (played anonymously)

  Acquaintance

  Braeden Donnelly (played by f0x1nth3b0x)

  Namas (played by Loki)

  Izabet (played anonymously)

  Maalik-Majid (played anonymously)