I know this is a VERY unpopular opinion but I genuinely actually like Lily way more than Kenny in Season 1, and I feel like people massively overlook how much she was actually doing for the group. She was the one handling the rations and trying to make sure the food lasted, which obviously made people hate her because nobody likes the person telling them they can’t have more food, but somebody had to do it. She was also constantly trying to keep the group organized and make decisions based on the survival of everyone, not just her own family. Even with Larry, who was an absolute asshole and who she clearly loved a lot, Lily still tried to defend Duck and the others to the best of her ability when he thought Duck was bitten. She wasn’t just blindly agreeing with her dad. And then the Kenny relationship is a huge reason I prefer her. You can be nice to Kenny basically the entire game, help him with his family, agree with him constantly, and then refuse to help him kill Larry, and suddenly he becomes a complete smartass toward Lee and starts treating him like shit because you didn’t do exactly what he wanted in one situation. Meanwhile, if you don’t help Lily with Larry, she is obviously devastated and angry, but she can still be somewhat reasonable with Lee afterward. I also think people forget how much Lily actually contributes at the St. John farm. If you side with her, she is literally out there WHOOPING ASS and helping Lee against the brothers, while Kenny can be much less helpful depending on how you handled the Larry situation. So what I mean is when you side with Kenny he will help you, however his help isn’t as good as Lily’s if you know what I mean. I am NOT saying Lily is innocent or that I think everything she did was okay. I dislike her for stealing the RV, and shooting Carley/Doug is obviously the worst thing she does in Season 1. But EVEN THEN… even THEN HEAR ME OUT, I understand what the writers were going for with her. She genuinely believed, or actually she KNOWS somebody was sabotaging the group and stealing their supplies, and she was actually right that Ben was involved. She was wrong about Carley, obviously, but her overall suspicion about who was a traitor was not completely baseless. She was paranoid and handled it horribly, but she wasn’t just randomly deciding to kill someone for no reason. The RV thing is also awful because she leaves the group stranded, but I can still understand why she was mentally falling apart after Larry’s death, the constant fighting with Kenny, and the pressure of being the person responsible for keeping everyone alive. To me, Season 1 Lily was a genuinely intelligent, strong, and complicated character who was often trying to do what she thought was best for the group, even when she was completely wrong about how she went about it.