#;millie

[theodosiani]

Two of my muses have gotten into lavender marriages and it’s not a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

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Millie barely passed her harrowing and honestly probably would have been killed if her sister hadn’t bribed the Templars overseeing her.

Sive would actually pass a harrowing but she’s Not A Mage just a blacksmith so it’s irrelevant.

Liora passed her harrowing so easily but probably not in the way that would be Most Approved because she did listen to the communist mouse and also got Pissed that he was a Pride Demon and what that says about Her.

Frauke passed her harrowing but she had a Nevarran Harrowing so she was more worried about her dissertation than The Demons.

[theodosiani]

Millie has a near encyclopedic knowledge of not just The Chant of Light itself, but many Dissonant Verses as well. Her extensive knowledge of not just the Canticle and of Silence but of several versions was what first drew her to the attention of Leliana who believed such information may have some unknown lore gleaned from it about Corypheus. In addition to this, she can also cite to the letter the dates and reasonings for their expulsion from the canon as well as modifications. This is to say nothing of her knowledge of chantry law specifically.

[theodosiani]

Something something Millie being regarded as a ‘Templar’s pet’ by the other mages at Ostwick because her sister is bribing them to go easy on them and the social consequences of that—

[theodosiani]

Thinking so much about the sheer damage that the southern circles do to the mages within them. Like not just emotional and physical, the fact that they are run by the chantry means there is potentially this irrevocably cruel way to be raised in a place sanctioned by the Most Holy. It’s not very surprising that while Millie remains devout to the Concept of The Maker and Andraste she has no faith in the Truth of their words coming from the Chantry.

She studies apocryphal texts, she learns as much history as she can, she sees again and again that the Hubris of Man that the Maker hates so much is very much alive in the actions of its Most Faithful. Acknowledges this but with the way she was raised, the words she was inundated with she still hates herself because she is cursed but never hates The Maker for making her that way. She must be cursed, she did something wrong—or perhaps when she is not filled with self-loathing it was her family that sinned and she is their punishment.

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Millie being a heretical lesbian because she ended up in the circle instead of the chantry so no one was overseeing her studies of the chant and how she transitioned from seeing it as a literal holy text to an interpretation based upon the beliefs of those who assembled it and then started getting Really Into Dissonant Chants in order to be able to piece together all of these separate interpretations to form a more complete picture of the Maker and Andraste’s influence on the world and history as a whole.

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Millie and Prudence being sisters who care deeply for each other but also have incredibly conflicting wants. Millie does believe that she needs the circle because she fears becoming a monster without it. Her first experience with her own magic was nearly being burned alive in her own bed and her eldest brother injuring himself in order to save her from the flames. This will always frame her view of her own magic, even if she thaws to the idea of other mages not being so dangerous she will always be a danger to those around her.

Prudence joins the Templars in spite of mostly viewing them as pointless unless directly fighting Maleficars and otherwise merely a military power base for the chantry. Prudence, truly drinking the kool-aid over Trevelyan Exceptionalism, thinks that there is no way that her sweet, gentle sister could be a danger and on the far, far chance that something did happen she would be there to protect her.