it's amazing how much this shit falls apart when you actually apply the power dynamic stuff to it.
also we wanna talk about the real power dynamic elephant in the room, by lily's own writing, technically the person with the real power over Gardevoir is Lily's Mom.
First sentence in Comic!lily's wiki entry
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and first trivia fact on gardevoir's wiki entry
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so you know, make of that however you will that lily would try to make power dynamics the focus of the story but then also have this little thing just sitting around.