__________________QUICK STATS Name Melissa "Mad Millie" Hauser; usually goes by Millie Age 20 Gender cis woman Species human Ethnicity Connlaothian Height 5'6" Occupation florist/herbalist Residence Ardal (art credit: WonderfulMelody8 @ TH)

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Physical Description

Fair skin. Long brown hair, bangs. Brown eyes, sometimes turn green and glow when her powers are in use. Medium build.

A crown of vines winds around her head. It's not just a decoration: it's actually attached to her forehead in the center. Flowers often bloom at that attachment point when she uses her powers.

Personality

As a street urchin, Millie earned the nickname "Mad Millie" with her temerity and determination. However, her time in the Hauser household smoothed out some of those rough edges. Millie has retained her acerbic tongue and tendency to go her own way regardless of others' opinions, but she learned to express her strong temper with words instead of fists or teeth, and can act poised and well-bred when she wants to. Sharp in every sense of the word, Millie knows she can survive whatever's pointed at her next -- she always does.

Magic/Abilities

Working in horticulture, Millie one day happened across a strange plant packed in with one of her deliveries. When she touched it, it attacked her, burrowing into her flesh. Now it's indelibly part of her -- while it usually hides under her skin, not even Millie knows exactly how much of her body the plant has replaced. It responds to Millie's direction, both consciously and unconsciously; she can make its vines, thorns, and flowers sprout out of her skin at will, and sometimes against her will, during episodes of strong emotion.

Relationships

Thalia Hauser: Millie has been in love with Thalia since she first laid eyes on each other. It didn't work out. They've had no contact for the last two years.

The Hauser Family: Millie's foster-parents, who gave her the money to start a new life on the condition that she never speak to them or their daughter again.

History

An orphan from early childhood, Millie lived on the streets of Reajh for a time, where she earned a reputation as "Mad Millie" for her daring and temper. At the age of twelve, she was taken in by a well-off family, who intended to raise the orphan as a companion for their own daughter -- a scheme that would have been doomed to failure, given Millie's obstinate nature, had Millie not fallen in love with her new "sister," Thalia, at first sight.

Millie and Thalia quickly became thick as thieves, and as they emerged into adolescence, their friendship blossomed into something more romantic. Thalia's parents, the Hausers, did not acknowledge this romance in the slightest, even as both girls put off their expected marriages -- easy enough for Millie, an orphan with no inheritance and no real prospects, but Thalia's parents wanted her to marry well. When, at age 18, Thalia finally declared that she would never marry a man and wanted to be with Millie instead, her parents reacted as any good Connlaothian family would: they railed against Millie for "seducing" their daughter, after all they'd done for her.

Claiming that they didn't want to be "cruel," the Hausers offered Millie a choice: if she left willingly and kept quiet about Thalia's proclivities, they'd give her enough money to make her way to another city and start a new life. If she protested, they'd kick her to the curb, even frame her for theft and have her arrested if she "made things difficult." And Thalia? Shocked by the intensity of her parents' response -- she'd taken their silence as tacit acceptance of her relationship -- she initially claimed that she would stick with Millie, even if it left her disowned and penniless. But her resolve wavered, and Millie knew their relationship -- and perhaps Thalia herself -- would not survive actual penury and starvation. So Millie took the money and left, telling herself that it would be better for Thalia this way; her heart might be broken, but she'd get over it and live a comfortable life with a wealthy husband.

Millie, meanwhile, used the Hausers' money to head south to Ardal -- where she hoped to never see Thalia again -- and start her own small shop as a florist and herbalist. It was in this capacity that she encountered the plant that cursed her ...

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Hello! I'm Egg. (I usually go by Bees, actually, but that's taken.)


What are your favorite kinds of plots and relationships to play?
On the fuzzy-feelings side, I love platonic intimacy, familial relationships, enemies-to-friends, hurt/comfort ... I'm also big on angst, though.

What are your least favorite kinds of plots and relationships to play?
I'm aro ace; I have little interest in romantic relationships, and absolutely none in writing sex. This isn't to say that my characters are totally off-limits for romantic or sexual relationships, but it's definitely not my priority; they'd have to have pretty fantastic chemistry.

What are your favorite character types to play?
I tend to write characters shaped by trauma and anxiety, especially those who mask that trauma and anxiety by acting distant or pushing people away. I love villains with soft spots and assholes with hearts of gold.

Are you a planner or a pantser? Do you prefer to pre-plan and stick to a script when posting, or do you prefer to surprise and be surprised?
In the middle. I like to have a general idea of where we intend the thread to go, but to leave specific interactions up to the characters in the moment, and to stay in communication so that we can switch things up if we have different ideas.

How do you feel about group threads?
I love them! I used to do RP's with 10+ people in a single thread. Now my limit's more like 5.

How often can you reply to any given thread? How long should a partner wait before nudging you for a post?
Usually I can reply every 1-2 days, but I'd prefer not to be poked before a week has passed.

What is the longest you're willing to wait for a reply to a thread?
It depends on the thread and its stakes -- if it's an important thread that will determine my character's future, I'd rather not wait longer than a week for a reply. If it's a more casual thread with no real bearing on anything else, I'm fine waiting up to a month.

How do you feel about instant messenger RP?
I do not know what that means.

How do you feel about post volleying/rapidfire RP?
If I'm into the thread, I'm 100% for it.

What's your preferred posting style? Long posts? Short posts? Anything and everything?
I generally match length with my partner, unless there's a compelling reason for me to write something longer (e.g. change of scenery). It depends somewhat on the character I'm writing, but I don't typically do posts under 100 words or over 500. That said, I don't mind shorter posts from my partners as long as there's enough for me to respond to, and I'm OK with longer posts if you have a lot to say.

Any RP styles/habits that you love?
I'm actually weirdly fond of characters just chatting, explaining things to each other, teaching each other how to do something ... getting to know each other.

Any RP styles/habits that you avoid?
While I love writing antagonistic encounters, I don't really enjoy other characters antagonizing my own for no reason, especially when my character's logical reaction would be to just leave the encounter -- that puts me in the bad position of having to tell someone "this thread is over because my character's not going to put up with that."



What are you limits regarding powerplay/godmoding?
I would prefer that instances of physical contact be left open or discussed with me in case my character chooses not to accept them. You don't have to shoot me a message over every pat on the back, but please write your post in a way that won't be ruined if my character responds by flinching or pulling away.

What are your limits in regards to romantic situations?
As mentioned above, I'm aromantic, but I'm not romance-repulsed -- I just don't have much interest in it. My characters often (but not always) share these traits. I am more interested in organic relationships than pre-plotted ones; if we're writing characters and there's chemistry, I'm OK going there, but I rarely have it as a goal. I am 100% fine with IC flirting and rejection, though, and your character is welcome to have unrequited attraction to mine.

What are your limits with regards to graphic content such as sex, violence, drug use, sexual assault, etc? What is your comfort level?
I'm fine with innuendo and implied sex, but I'm not interested in writing the actual act -- if that comes up, I'll be going fade-to-black. I'm fine with violence unless it's really heavy gore, but if our characters are in violent conflict, I'd like to be in OOC communication to avoid godmodding. Drug use is fine. I don't enjoy reading or roleplaying about sexual assault or pedophilia.

What are your limits in regards to pregnancy within plots?
I'm not really interested in writing pregnant characters, but I'm fine writing with characters who are pregnant, and I'm fine with discussions of miscarriage or loss. I do not want to RP childbirth scenes, though.

What about healing?
Healing of the type that allows characters to bounce back after fights as if they're in a video game is fine by me, but if I'm writing a disabled character, I'm not interested in having them "cured."

What about characters being transformed against their will?
I don't want my characters transformed without my OOC permission, but I don't mind if it's against their will IC, and I'm fine with the topic in general.

Anything else?
While I'm an experienced RPer, I've done a lot of solo writing, and I've also been abandoned (and often straight-up ghosted) by a lot of RP partners in the past. As a result, I can be quite hesitant to get my characters into very close relationships with others' characters -- my characters tend to have a lot of acquaintances or friends but no one they're really close to. This is not me saying "I don't want to RP close relationships," though; rather, it's a heads-up that it's difficult for me. I am trying to do better with this, but if I seem a little standoffish, it's not you, it's me.