History VideoGame / LilysGarden

* FreudianExcuse: Holly's actions are often driven by her past, especially when those actions are questionable. For instance, the reason she threw herself into husband hunting was because of a bad experience where [[spoiler: her legal husband dumped her Aunt Marie's house when she was nearly due with Lily.]] From that day forward, she went through husband after husband in hopes of giving Lily someone better than her birth father. And on "Isla Bonita", when Lily confronts her insistence on making [[spoiler: Alma and Santiago's wedding as ostentatious and grandiose as possible, Holly admits it was because she never had the wedding of her dreams and wants to give them such a wedding]].

* DoesNotLikeMen: Regina is not fond of men, although she is [[spoiler: initially]] married to one. In the least, it took a little coaxing from Lily just to make friends with Lucas when she first met him.

* EvilIsPetty: In Isla Bonita, [[spoiler: Brigette Ricci goes through the trouble of retaliating Lily for [[NeverMyFault ruining her life]] by abducting Lucas. She doesn't even still him because she wants him. She just kidnapped him for the sole purpose of taking something Lily holds dear.]]

* ShutUpHannibal: In the climax of "Isla Bonita", [[spoiler: Brigette tries to justify that the reason she stole Lucas was to get back at Lily by taking what she held dear. Regina rightly shoots down her excuse by snarking "Poor little rich girl. Doesn't get her way and everybody has to suffer? I don't think so!"

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: In Isla Bonita, [[spoiler: while Lily is genuinely satisfied Mr. Rich didn't get his hands on the island, she also feels [[SympathyForTheDevil bad]] knowing the island was a symbol of his love for his daughters. Regina, on the other hand, also has a point when she says she has no sympathy for the man, as he was still behind their problems to begin with.]]

* DoesNotLikeMen: Regina is not fond of men, although she is [[spoiler: initially]] married to one.

** [[spoiler: Tina also goes from being a FalseFriend after Lily, Lucas and Holly save her life. Before, she was willing to mooch off Lily's hospitality and humiliate Holly behind her back. But cut off her from 'Influencer career', she not only shows [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe gratitude]] towards Lily for saving her, she realizes she needs to be her own person without an audience and take better care of herself.]]
* HeelRealization: In the "Visitor Center arc", [[spoiler: Lily learns Evilyn plans to run the Visitor Center into the ground and let it fall into the hands of Chemix so she can frame the governor for corruption and rise to power. Lily's the first to make Evilyn realize that by going through with this convuluted plan, [[NotSoDifferent she's no different from the corrupt politicians she claims destroyed her home]].]]

* NotActuallyHisChild: [[spoiler:This comes into play when Larry tries to pull a LoopholdAbuse claiming he gets the house for being Arthur's son. After Lily and Regina do a paternity test on him, they discover Larry isn't related to either Arthur nor Lily, making him anything ''but'' an heir to the [=LaRosa=] estate.]]

* HeelRealization: In the "Visitor Center arc", [[spoiler: Lily learns Evilyn plans to fail the Visitor Center and let it fall into the hands of Chemix so she can frame the governor of corruption, and rise to power. Lily's the first to make Evilyn realize that by going through with this convuluted plan, [[NotSoDifferent she's no different from the corrupt politicians she claims destroyed her home]].]]

* BeeAfraid: When Larry is ousted as [[spoiler: not being Arthur's son]], he tries to lock himself inside the house so he won't have to leave. Thankfully, Lily uses this trope to her advantage by smoking the inside of the house with lavender. Not minutes later, Larry is chased out and stung by the bees.

* HeelRealization: In the "Visitor Center arc", [[spoiler: Lily learns Evilyn plans to fail the Visitor Center and let it fall into the hands of Chemix so she can frame the governor of corruption. Lily's the first to make Evilyn realize that by going through with this convuluted plan, [[NotSoDifferent she's no different from the corrupt politicians she claims destroyed her home]].]]

* ThatManIsDead: In the "Visitor Center arc", [[spoiler: on Day 90, this is Evilyn Frost's response when Lily asks what Evilyn ''Summers'' would say [[FutureMeScaresMe if she could see her future self now]]. Evilyn says that her former self would be too naiive to understand her motives. [[HeelFaceTurn It doesn't stick]].]]

* EccentricMentor: Phillip has shades of this. Though he's prone to being vague and cryptic at times, he guides Lily to keep renovating the [=LaRosa=] estate. [[spoiler: In fact, the fake stipulation in the will that she must restore its former glory was meant to help test Lily's dedication to the estate. ]]
* FairytaleMotifs: [[spoiler: According to Phillip, Frank and Anita [=LaRosa's=] love life was something like "The Little Mermaid". Anita (the mermaid) grew up beside the ocean and loved the sea, while her future husband Frank (the land-locked prince) lived in the mountains. Their love was threatened by the conundrum that Anita missed the ocean very much. Their fairy tale ended with the twist that [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Frank let Anita go]]. ...[[SweetAndSourGrapes Only for Anita to return]].]]
* FireForgedFriendship: [[spoiler: Regina and Whitney truly begin to bond as friends when they're both trapped in the secret entrance to the Ascending Eye's hideout.]]
* FloralThemeNaming: It's a game about a garden estate owned by the [=LaRosa=] family, where the inheritor is a woman named Lily.
* FriendsRentControl: While the game lampshades how Lily is able to afford her estate (it's all inherited), it doesn't really explain how she's able to afford the repairs. Even with Regina and Luke agreeing to work for free, there would still be a lot of expenses that Lily would have to pay for, and she is supposedly between jobs, to say nothing of the expenses involved in moving her stuff across the country.

* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: Leonard takes it surprisingly well when the case against Mary [=LaRosa=] is dropped in the third and final trial. He even [[KarmicNod agrees]] that he and Lily will never bother each other again, knowing full well they may never quite go back to being friends.]]
* HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: After the first trial, poor Lily is worried that the tax evasion charges will not only lose the estate, but also put Marie's name through the mud. Although Marie allegedly did some less honorable things in her past, Lily knows she was a generally good person who cared about her friends and family.]]

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: While working on the cactus garden, Lily and Lucas discover a bunker that can only be opened by a code. They remark on how normally a code would show itself in a video game scenario. Lucas wonders if they're in a video game. ...Before Lily goes "nah!"

* MeaningfulEcho: While telling Lily how she and Lucas got together, Rachel shares a piece of wisdom about how one doesn't need a "counterbalance" to be whole, but rather it falls to one to complete themselves. [[spoiler: Later, when he's ousted for being in cahoots with Larry, Blaine tries to reason with Lily that he should remain with her because she "completes" him. Lily uses Rachel's earlier words as a counterargument so he leaves for good.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler: While "villian" is a stretch, Lily would've fallen for Blaine's lies about turning over a new leaf had she not overhead Larry get drunk and discuss their plans.]]
* NotActuallyHisChild: [[spoiler: This comes into play when Larry tries to pull a LoopholdAbuse claiming he gets the house for being Arthur's son. After Lily and Regina do a paternity test on him, they discover Larry isn't related to either Arthur nor Lily, making him anything ''but'' an heir to the [=LaRosa=] estate.]]

* ParentsAsPeople: Holly isn't the most ideal of mothers, Lily can tell you that. She's been estranged from Lily for quite a while, tries to convince her to sell the estate on Mr. Rich's behalf, and often criticizes Lily's taste in men as "losers". However, she does have her daughter's best interest at times, even if she has a funny way of showing it.

* PoorCommunicationKills: In light of Mr. Rich, Lily hasn't told Lucas about [[spoiler: how Leonard is going to take her to court in order to get the estate]]. So when she runs herself ragged over the stress and insists he go to Will Donald's party instead of being with her, she does so expecting him to stay by her side over something ''she hasn't even told him''. This leads to Lily believing Lucas is insensitive and couldn't care less about her problems, causing her to hold a grudge against him. It's only later when Regina asks Lily if she ''bothered'' to tell Lucas about any of her issues that she [[HeelRealization realizes]] she's been keeping him in the dark and getting angry at him for not reading her mind.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler: The reason Phillip had Lily fix up everything except the [=LaRosa=] estate for the past 30 days was because he wanted Lily to know her family history first before she could own it. He wanted to test her loyalty to her family's estate, in the event that Mr. Rich tried to buy it from her.]]

** Lucas is a less malicious example. He really does love Karen with all his heart and wants to be the best dad he can be. But he's so out of touch with her that he neglects to realize she's a 9 year old. Core examples of this are how he gifts her with a play fort and a girly toddler bicycle for her birthday.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Lily and Lucas often walk into saying innuendos whenever they talk about working with the garden. Often, it's in the form of unwitting metaphors that they both [[ActuallyPrettyFunny laugh at]].

** Earlier, when learning that [[spoiler: ]], Regina yells at her without letting her tell her side of the story. While it was harsh of her to jump at Lily's throat like that, she's not wrong: [[spoiler:she shouldn't have welcomed Blaine back into her life, especially when he's guilty of something as serious as cheating.]]

Following a string of bad luck (including losing her job and finding out that her rich boyfriend was [[YourCheatingHeart cheating on her]]), Lily finds out that her great-aunt Mary [=LaRosa=] has died and left her a large estate in the country. There's just one catch; the property turns out to be in bad shape, and the will stipulates that Lily must restore the entire estate to its "former glory" (to be determined by Mary's lawyer) within thirty days, or else Lily must forfeit the property.

** Earlier, when learning that [[spoiler: ]], Regina yells at her without letting her tell her side of the story. While it was harsh of her to jump at Lily's throat like that, she's not wrong: [[spoiler: she shouldn't have welcomed Blaine back into her life, especially when he's guilty of something as serious as [[YourCheatingHeart cheating]].]]

* RebuiltPedestal: Regina and Lily mistakenly believe that Mary and Phillip were having [[YourCheatingHeart an affair]] behind their spouses' backs. Lily, whose ex-boyfriend cheated on her, finds this unsavory. And Regina [[BrokenPedestal doesn't take it any better]]. When they confront Phillip with the truth, he admits that he and Mary ''were'' a couple. ''However'', they only started going out when each of their spouses were dead (essentially in Arthur's case). The only reason they didn't make it official was because they didn't want to make it an unnecessary fanfare. Needless to say, both Lily and Regina apologize for the misunderstanding.

* TurnOutLikeHisFather: [[spoiler: Despite being raised by his kindly father figure Frank [=LaRosa=], Leonard is bitter about how he ended up becoming more like his biological father. It becomes harsher when it's revealed Leonard's father was not only a mafia boss, but also shot Giovanni [=LaRosa=] in cold blood, a sobering testament that Leonard couldn't overcome the Ricci's tendency to cause suffering to the [=LaRosas=].]]
* TheUnapologetic: [[spoiler: When Lily learns Blaine only came back so he could convince her to sell the estate to Mr. Rich, she soon confronts him on his deception. She then tells him the one reason she hasn't entirely trusted him: because ''he never said he was sorry'' for cheating on her. She sums up that he's only "sorry" that the affair costed him his relationship with Lily.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler: Regina does '''not''' take it well when she learns that Lily has been letting Blaine stay on her property behind Regina's back. If anything, it certainly rubs Regina the wrong way that her best friend would allegedly welcome her [[YourCheatingHeart cheating]] ex-boyfriend back into her life.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Blaine and Lily were previously in a relationship, until the latter caught the former in an affair with his secretary. It's what drives Lily to go to her late aunt's estate and start over.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler: Barely two days before the 30 day deadline, Lily learns the entire west part of the property isn't the [=LaRosa=] Estate like Phillip lead her to believe: ''it's the untouched east part of the property''. This is reconstructed when not only does Lily get to keep the estate, but it opens a whole new chapter where Lily has to restore the other half to its former glory.]]

* BlatantLies: Cousin Larry claims that his father (Lily's Uncle Arthur) would've wanted the first floor of the house renovated with lots of wet bars. Lily is skeptical. And it doesn't help that Aunt Marie's drawing of the house simply being built with a balcony disproves Larry's notion of what his father would've "wanted".

* WhatTheHellHero:

* RebuiltPedestal: Regina and Lily mistakenly believe that Mary and Phillip were having [[YourCheatingHeart an affair]] behind their spouses' backs. Lily, whose ex-boyfriend cheated on her, finds this unsavory. And Regina [[BrokenPedestal doesn't take it any better]]. When they confront Phillip with the truth, he admits that he and Mary ''were'' a couple. ''However'', they only started going out when each of their spouses were dead (essentially in Arthur's case). The only reason they didn't make it official was because they didn't want to make it a unnecessary fanfare. Needless to say, both Lily and Regina apologize for the misunderstanding.

Following a string of bad luck (including losing her job and finding out that her rich boyfriend was cheating on her), Lily finds out that her great-aunt Mary [=LaRosa=] has died and left her a large estate in the country. There's just one catch; the property turns out to be in bad shape, and the will stipulates that Lily must restore the entire estate to its "former glory" (to be determined by Mary's lawyer) within thirty days, or else Lily must forfeit the property.