— basics.
Full Name: Milo Elliot Wray
Nicknames: n/a
Pronouns and Gender: He/Him, Cis Male
Age and Birthday: 41 years old, July 2nd
Zodiac: Sun in Cancer, Moon in Capricorn, Rising in Sagittarius
Birth place: Aurora Bay, California
Sexuality: (Gray) Biromantic Bisexual
Status: Separated (@efficiiency)
Occupation: CFO of Wray Shipping Co.
Education: B.F.A. in Business Administration
Residence: Aurora Bay Drive
Time in Aurora Bay: His entire life
Family: @elliotwray (older sister), Richard & Joyce Wray (father & mother), Penelope Wray (daughter)
Face claim: Robert Pattinson
tw infidelity, marital separation, child custody mention, parental/emotional neglect (for elliot sry babes), parental loss
— history.
After being told another pregnancy might not be viable, Milo’s conception following years after Elliot’s was a complete surprise. And when they learned it was the son they always wanted, it was a dream answered.
It’s clear he was born into comfort, not just financial, but emotional ease, parental pride, and the warm, suffocating cloud of favoritism.
Milo has only known adoration. Attention shifted to him in many ways, and he was often shielded. Sometimes it was subtle, sometime it wasn’t.
He got the shrug off the chores, avoid the rigid routines Elliot had been put through, and never had to want for a thing. If Milo asked for something, the answer was almost always ‘yes’, and if there was any challenge in getting whatever it was, it was made to happen.
The thing is, he may have reveled in that, he may have sometimes remained silent in moments where his parents were unfair with Elliot, but he never held any ill feeling toward her. It took until his was in his teens, and Elliot was heading out to college for him to continue leaning into the way his parents pit them against each other.
This doesn’t mean Milo fought for Elliot, he just didn’t seek any praise that involved critiquing her. He wouldn’t shut them down when they played the comparison game, but rather cleverly redirect the conversation. Milo may have come to acknowledge the faults in their ways, but he still didn’t want to stop being on their good side.
How else would he keep being handed the world?
College was easy, but not without the monetary influence of his parents. He made friends no problem, started networking, but sometimes if he needed something smoothed over - i.e. curving his grade - he would still rely on them.
He met Bernie freshman year. Well, he saw her at first in one of his electives, but he finally talked to her during a party at her fraternity.
Milo did everything he could to keep her attention, and he stood by her even when writer's block hit hard. It was an easy choice to make when he asked her to marry him his senior year.
They moved back to Aurora Bay post graduation to be closer to his parents.
Milo had a checklist for his life, and after marriage he had every intention of building a family with Bernie. When she expressed reluctance, the counter offer was investing in the Hot Spot. It wasn't necessarily what Milo had in mind, but he also realized... he didn't have anything in mind when it came to career and opportunity, so he harbored pride in this business venture.
It might not have been anything special, but he thought it was.
The Hot Spot still never made him as happy as that positive pregnancy test that came a little more than a decade later. Really. He felt like he was going to have it all. College degree, a wife he adored, a business, a family of his own...
Until he found out that Bernie ended up in Elliot's bed, on and off for three years. It wasn't just the betrayal of his wife, but also of his sister, and Milo saw red.
He threatened to take full custody at the start, but in the end he handed over Hot Spot (now present day Sea Foam) and agreed on partial custody, with him as the primary caregiver. To this day, as much as he does not want to be cordial in any way, he doesn't let that resentment bleed out for Penelope to see. He refuses to vilify Bernie to their daughter, nor does he want to take her away from Elliot.
He hates it, but he puts on a... well, it's not a smile, but he gets through it.
Did try to get a startup off the ground. It was called CryptoNestEgg - a retirement focused crypto investing app that promised safe and long-term growth, but it misrepresented risks to uses. Crypto volatility caused panic selling, high churn, and threat of lawsuits for misleading claims.
This was the first time he really felt failure. His whole life he was handed things, and he had his parents make things work or smooth them over if they didn't go in his favor, so this hit his ego hard.
He wasn't left to flounder for long, though, even if he spent some time licking his wounds. His father found him a spot in the Wray Shipping Co. where he is now their C.F.O. not because he really had that sort of experience under his belt. That's all from good ol' nepotism, babbyyyyy.
He did know enough of the ropes to be more confident with it now, just an fyi. He just definitely did NOT earn the spot.
The deaths of his mother and father hit him harder than he could have ever been ready for. He loved them, and it's just felt like another domino down in the constant fall of them. It's made him resent Elliot more because he couldn't, wouldn't, even dare to try to seek support from her.
He doubted she would care anyway, and he didn't want to show her any bit of vulnerability after what she'd taken from him.
Milo took over his parents house after both passed. He had been living in the secondary unit on the property, the guest house. He intends to keep it so Penelope can enjoy the security of not having to move again.
— personality.
Milo is equal parts warm-hearted, clever, and quietly intense. He loves conversation that can make people stop and think, even if he doesn’t do so well if he isn’t the one telling it. He can struggle when the spotlight shifts from him. There might be a spark in his eyes that shows he knows more than he lets on, but he has a self-assuredness that can sometimes blind him to things. It was something fostered in the way his parents favored him, and it’s also prevalent in how that self-assuredness can shift into stubbornness.
He is engaging, knows a little bit about everything and everyone, but he also knows how to keep certain parts of him just out of reach. Save for those he has deemed trustworthy. He has a relaxed confidence, it’s not overbearing, but it’s there, and an easy-going nature that can feel near everything. He’s emotionally elusive with most, keeping the most honest parts of himself just out of reach — not out of malice, but out of a deep-seated need to protect his inner world. His quiet, relaxed confidence can give a sense of ease that draws people in, but border on emotional detachment.
He doesn’t do emotional chaos, he will try to avoid it, and if he is pulled into anything of the sort, he can never be sure his quick way of shutting it down is a lack of patience for it, a knack for problem-solving, or desperation to escape it. When things are overwhelming, he can hide for a bit, and he can harbor a grudge like it’s his one sole purpose. Milo isn’t nasty, he isn’t passive-aggressive, but it’s clear on his features when he’s upset with someone, and it isn’t easy for him to shake those feeling if you have slighted him. He craves meaningful conversation, and in the same breath, emotional security, and that makes him more sentimental and introverted than he might first appear.
— headcanons.
Milo never learned how to properly wrap gifts. He never cared to learn, he figured a gift bag is good enough. If the box was too big, his mother jumped in to help him.
He really likes honey. It goes in tea, on toast... even pizza.
He has a bad habit of abandoning t.v. shows halfway through watching them. 'I don't have time for this' is the excuse.
Milo has segmental vitiligo, on his left hand up a few inches of his wrist, and across his left hip and wrapped around to the dimple of his lower back.
He also has the weird ability to nap anywhere. Though, Milo will feel guilty about napping in the middle of the day, he can fall asleep any place that allows him to lounge comfortably - even park benches.
Chose Penny's middle name to be James after Elliot's middle name, because he truly was excited for them to have a relationship. Definitely regretting that now.
The gray-aromanticism and asexuality isn't something he's necessarily aware of, but it's not an identity crisis. Just a snippet for y'all.
Quit smoking for two decades about, after starting up his senior year in high school, and he only picked it up again after his and Bernie's separation. He likes Newport Menthols.
— connections.
I am open to any and all connections. Just as per usual, I don’t settle into end games with heavy plotting and plenty of on dash interaction first. I got to see the vibe. Mid game scenarios and past romantic connections (prior to his college years)? So down for, especially anything strained. Friends, neighbors, coworkers, etc. Give me his childhood bestie. Give me his current bestie.
♡ @elliotwray - older sister, once admired, now resented. milo knew his parents' favoritism for him presented issues, he just didn't know to what extent. maybe he preferred to be clueless, but he found out that it was apparently enough to warrant elliot sleeping with his wife. for three years. ♡ @efficiiency - wife, separated. met in college, milo was sure she was the one. and it seemed that way with how they got married at a college, invested in a business together, had a daughter, etc. he was blindsided by the infidelity. ♡ @laureljacobs - worked with bernie during custody arrangements, so ofc milo knows her. ( no longer in game still canon ) ♡ @delilahcarreno - he'll always know delilah as one of the cool older friends of elliot's that came over after school hours. he tried to be elliot's shadow in a way, so of course he tried to befriend delilah then too, even six years behind. he still holds a soft spot for her. ♡ @eternalconsxlationprize - the man milo should've listened to when he tried his startup, friend today.
— connection ideas.
♡ Single parenting pal - bonded over co-parenting struggles, this person just may have seen a few cracks in Milo’s armor regarding his situation. Or, if it’s newer, will eventually see it. ♡ Penny’s friend’s parent - self explanatory. Penny’s best friend’s parent leads or led to a forced acquaintanceship. Can be friends, can rub each other the wrong way. I don’t care. ♡ Someone who deserved his CFO job - unspoken (or spoken) tension exists, they want him to fail, or maybe they became more reluctantly impressed? They had seniority and experience, so when Milo was handed the position, that just didn’t sit well. ♡ Business competitor - runs back to ‘The Hot Spot’ era, before Bernie got full ownership and renovated it to Seafoam. ♡ Childhood best friend - self explanatory. ♡ High school relationships - Milo played lacrosse in high school, so if anyone in the 1998-2002 high school years played lacrosse. Or old high school girlfriend/almost girlfriend. Leaving that to one, his gray-aromanticism didn’t make him the sort to pursue this. Or that MxM friendship that bordered a smidge beyond queer-platonic, but never amounted to more than that. Anyone in high school that may have been jealous of his financial position because his parents had monneeeyyy. Scholarship rivals? Etc. ♡ Crisis comfort hookup buddy - one off? Happened a few times? Let’s just say after the separation and the ink settling on all the documents for his and Bernie’s split and custody agreements, sometimes a moment of weakness seeking some sort of comfort can be the route taken. Friend, stranger, acquaintance, etc. Maybe it was healing? Maybe it was confusing? Either way, tension may remain, and it is NOT a romantic end game idea. (will npc this if I need to)
— links.
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