This is part two of the soundtrack listings for the characters in my novels.

Liliana is Meliantha’s love, lover, and complement. She also serves, for a bit, as an absent antagonist, due to a decision she makes that hurts Meliantha terribly and influences what Meliantha considers one of the stupidest ideas she ever had, so her actions resonate through a great deal of what happens in Fiendblood.

So let’s go.

1. Powerwolf, Armata Strigoi (covered by Anahata)
   Liliana is a graveborn, a child of a blasphemous ritual by her necromancer mother as an experiment to see what would happen. (Her mother is really horrible.) She can feed off blood (but doesn’t like to) and isn’t really comfortable in direct sunlight, preferring to work at night. This song is about a group of warriors who, in our world, are, well, vampires, fighting for their land. It has a resonance with Liliana’s beliefs and work for her order.
2. Jochen Flach, Tide High
   We don’t see much of her by herself in Fiendblood (It’s not her book, after all), but if we saw Liliana in her full crusading slayer of the scapati (the walking dead that her patron is dedicated to the destruction of), this is something that would be playing in the movie/animated version. Liliana would be striding forwards in her plate armor, her warscythe Gravereaver shining with purifying light, no hatred in her eyes but just the knowledge that this is what must be done.
3. Lyric Noel, Cry Little Sister
   Let’s be honest: Liliana is vampiric. (She’s not called that, mostly because I wanted to build my own ideas into the book.) And if you have vampires, you have this song. This is her at her thirstiest – not for blood, but for pleasures of the flesh. She doesn’t have any kind of oath of chastity or abstinence, and something about the touch of death in her makes her thirst for the feel of life in others. She doesn’t drink their blood, but the sense of their pleasure empowers her. This particular version feels more like that sensation.
4. New Order – Confusion (Pump Panel Remix 1995)
   A powerful vampirically-descended hunter of the walking dead, prepared and trained for the job, going up against a horde of them, confident in their ability to destroy them all? Yeah, sounds about the right music to use. I kind of feel sorry for them.
5. Sixpence None The Richer, There She Goes
   That first moment, when their eyes meet… this is the song for it.
6. Georgiou Music, That’s Her
   This is something that informs so many of her decisions. She had a worse childhood than Meliantha – Meliantha had some support, but in the monastery of Velith the Exorcist was remote, and had almost nothing in the area, whereas Grymdol’s Stand had the town surrounding it. Liliana was an example of everything they felt they should destroy, and only the fact that she was an infant kept them from destroying her. Finally, most of the Order is dedicated to either destroying the scapati or researching them to know how to destroy them, and they’re not really in touch with most other emotions. Liliana was raised to be completely and utterly giving. The only reason they let her go to the Academy was because she needed its training to be a proper crusader for Velith the Exorcist. 

   These two have emotional cracks and damage, but they care about each other so deeply, it might just be what’s needed for them to heal each other and themselves.

Liliana’s life was much grimmer than Meliantha’s, until she came to the Academy. And by the end of Fiendblood, hopefully, she’s gotten the idea she might just deserve some happiness.