Name: Millicent Margaret Amanda Carter Howard (Milly Molly Mandy)<br/>Nature: Caregiver<br/>Demeanor: Caregiver<br/>Clan: Malkavian<br/>Generation: 8th<br/>Concept: fae/hallucinogen touched young woman<br/>DoB: 1948<br/>DoE: 1969<br/>Birthplace: North Yorkshire<br/>Languages: English<br/><br/><strong> Appearance</strong><br/>Millicent Margaret Amanda Carter Howard, or rather as she is known Milly Molly Mandy was embraced at twenty one though she looks perhaps a little younger; she is exceptionally pretty and carries with her a certain air of innocence that is very rare amongst vampires.  She too has been lucky enough to retain a look of life on her soft skin and can even appear as if she is alive.<br/><br/>The malkavian has a ready yet soft smile and heavy lidded eyes, seeming distant, maybe it is just her mind is elsewhere, it is that look upon delicate features that perhaps makes her seem yet more fae in appearance. Often Milly is distracted by things that do not even seem to be there, whether real or imaginary she is never usually distressed by them.<br/><br/>She is on the slender side one might say slight, she relatively short too, rarely is Milly seen in formal attire, and she almost always wears bright clothes and usually those that are more likely to fit in with festivals and more alternative clubs.<br/><br/>Her voice is calm and soft like the rest of her there is an innocent gentleness about it.<br/><br/>http://www.nndb.com/people/756/000025681/tori-amos.jpg (http://www.nndb.com/people/756/000025681/tori-amos.jpg)<br/>(I am rubbish with PC things and activities so no pic only a link sorry)<br/>Strength 2<br/>Dex 3<br/>Stam 3<br/><br/>Cha 4<br/>Man 3<br/>App 5<br/><br/>Per 4<br/>Int 3<br/>Wits 3<br/><br/>Alertness 3<br/>Athletics 2<br/>Brawl<br/>Dodge 2<br/>Empathy 4<br/>Expression 2<br/>Intimidation<br/>Leadership<br/>Streetwise 3<br/>Subterfuge1<br/><br/>Animal Ken 2<br/>Crafts 1<br/>Drive 1<br/>Etiquette 1<br/>Firearms<br/>Melee<br/>Performance 4<br/>Security 1<br/>Stealth 2<br/>Survival 1<br/><br/>Academics 1<br/>Computer 1<br/>Finance<br/>Investigation<br/>Law<br/>Linguistics<br/>Medicine 2<br/>Occult 2<br/>Politics<br/>Science 3<br/><br/>Malkavian Time 1 (1)<br/><br/><br/>Disciplines Auspex 4, Obferscate 2, (Dementation  1)<br/><br/>Generation 5<br/>Resources 3<br/>Allies 2<br/>Herd  3 Blood banker.<br/><br/>Conscience 5<br/>Self Control 4 (2)<br/>Courage 3 (2)<br/><br/>Willpower 6<br/>Humanity 9<br/><br/>Merits and Flaws<br/>Prey exclusion 1<br/>Soft hearted 1<br/>Deep Sleeper 1<br/><br/>Calm hearted 3<br/>Inoffensive to animals 1<br/>Baby face 1<br/>Guardian Angel 6<br/>Fairy Affinity 2<br/><br/>Milly’s insanity is tied to her embrace, she is still tripping, she has never come down from her high.<br/><br/><strong>Background</strong><br/><br/>Rock a bye baby,<br/>Thy cradle is green<br/>Father's a nobleman<br/>Mothers a queen…<br/><br/>Millicent was conceived during the last night of passion between her parents when her father returned from the war in the Pacific. They said he was never the same when he returned from the POW camps both physically and mentally, yet she would never know any different so it never really affected her. Her father was a distant figure that spent much time away from his family never quite managing to adjust to his return to his family in England.<br/><br/>She was brought up as one of the privileged though even those people found it difficult in the years just after the war when rationing was still a major part of life. Her mother did her best with the girl but she had never been a particularly maternal woman and was never quite sure of the strange little girl that often played on her own in the large gardens of their North Yorkshire home. So Milly's first years were spent in the company of various women, nanny's and housekeepers and other members of staff but it appeared to bother her little as that was the way things were. She did often watch her rather beautiful mother from a distance believing her some fairytale princess like the ones she saw in her books.<br/><br/>My mother told me I never should,<br/>Play with the fairies in the wood.<br/>If I did, she would say,<br/>Naughty girl to disobey.<br/><br/><br/><br/>As she grew Milly's father became yet more distant for she reminded him too much of his magical sister that had left for school one day and then never returned, she had never been spoken of again and only returned to him in dreams and quiet moments and then had finally drifted into nothing more than a remote memory, and he believed this child too would be taken from him if he grew to close. So he spent most of his time in London on the premise that he was working and of course her mother had to be at his side, for there she was able to return to her pre war life as the socialite. Yet Milly appeared unperturbed by any of this finding solace in her solitary games and own magical world that filled her childish head.<br/><br/><br/>The girl's life took a change about the age of seven when her father's rather odd old maiden aunt came to live in the house. Aunt Maud, she was rather a skeleton in the family cupboard, though not a dangerous one. It was she that took Milly under her wing and brought yet more magic into her life. For Aunt Maud knew the fairies and the fairies knew Maud. The old woman and the small child searched the gardens and then further a field in search of these elusive creatures, for Maud explained that this was Milly's Birthright from generations past.<br/>Though Milly's parents worried a little about this close relationship they were too wrapped up in their own lives to pay much heed to it for a few years, but as their daughter retreated into this fantasy world that they did not understand even they felt that something had to be done and so the child was sent away to school. Of course it would be a good girl's school and after a few conversations with acquaintances off she was sent to one that their friends advised on.<br/><br/>A was an archer who shot at a frog;<br/>B was a blind man, and led by a dog:<br/>C was a cutpurse, and lived in disgrace;<br/>D was a drunkard, and had a red face…<br/><br/>Milly was a bright child and though for the first few months she was somewhat introverted soon her vivid stories and friendly if somewhat peculiar personality won her a number of friends but the enmity of a few of the teachers. Though the girl did not find school a chore she lived for the holidays when she would be able to return home to her dear aunt and there she might find all her dreams and stories replenished. Still her relationship with her parents was distant at best receiving little more than the occasional letter or brief visit from them; though they always made appearances at the school when it was appropriate as they both knew how to do things properly and did not really want their daughters strange and sometimes wayward behavior attributed to them. Occasionally they would invite her to the City to join them in either of their separate lives hoping to steer her away from her Maud's influences. Yet always Milly declined politely and they really did not want her to disrupt their stable lives. There were times through pressure and persuasion Milly would spend a weekend or perhaps even a week at some school friends home, or perhaps have a brief holiday in Europe with one, yet even there she only wished to be in the company of Aunt Maud and her special friends.<br/><br/>Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross<br/>To see an fine lady upon a white horse;<br/>With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,<br/>She shall have music where ever she goes.<br/><br/>However Maud was an old woman, and one year, part way through the autumn term she passed on to wherever it was eccentric old ladies went when their bodies finally gave up. Apparently it was a peaceful passing but Milly for sometime would not be consoled wishing only to join her Great Aunt wherever she might be. It was not Milly's parents who were able to console neither them, nor her school friends or teachers it was the friends that she had made when running wild with her aunt. They explained to her how important she was to keep them alive her dreams made them whole, her stories and songs fed them better than any sweet pasties that she used to bring them from the kitchens. So as they inspired her to great things and yet more wonderful tales. So Milly kept a little magic in the world and they sustained them selves gently from her, feeding upon the glamour the child created.<br/><br/>Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,<br/>Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.<br/>All the kings horses and all the kings men,<br/>Couldn't put Humpty together again.<br/><br/>No longer having her aunt to return to made things a little more difficult for Milly's parents but they were able to avoid too much contact with their daughter sending her away on holidays and making sure that she would be able to travel or stay with friends during her times away from school and as ever the child complied but was still able to make sure that some of her time was spent at the family home even if it was under the care of an appointed housekeeper or other member of staff.<br/><br/><br/>Milly's mother passed away in a far more violent and shocking manner than her Great Aunt had. There had been a car crash and aspersions that were spoken of in hushed tones, she was with another man, and she was driving under the influence of something. The girl cried and wore black at the funeral  and spent as much time with her father as he needed yet she felt much less sadness than she had at the passing of<br/>Maud. Yet how could, anything else be expected her Mother had been little more than a stranger to her. In less than a year her father was married again to much younger woman and more whispers passed behind hands and closed doors but Milly for the most ignored them. Her 'new,' mother had little time for her step daughter and though never cruel she was merely as distant as her own mother had been and she held no animosity to this new woman. Her father's new wife fell pregnant and gave birth to a son and there was some celebration in that, though Milly was not really a part of it she found some joy in the new addition to the family though she was scarcely in a position to be a part of its life. Both her step mother and father wishing to keep that strange teenager away from him.<br/><br/>Pussy cat Pussy Cat,<br/>Where have you been?<br/>I've been up to London,<br/>To visit the Queen.<br/><br/>Milly's awareness to the world outside grew she began to take notice of the new underground movement, the youth culture that began flowering in the heady days of the sixties. Much of her newly found and more open rebellion was put down to a belated effect of her mothers death and the appearance so soon after of her step mother.<br/>However this was not the case it was merely that it was a way of life that she could understand. When her schooling was finished her teachers were rather pleased to see the rather subversive and bizarre young woman leave. Of course like all the other young ladies of her class and age she was expected to be presented and reluctantly and with much pressure she went along with it.<br/><br/>Her father by now wished to have Milly as far from his new life as he could, and the fact that he had a new heir that was male made this something easier for him too. Though still she was his daughter and he did not want to see her without some sort of future. He spent some time trying to arrange a suitable marriage something which Milly really wanted no part of, for she wished to travel and to go to University to carry on her education and take continue in her creative pursuits as a writer. For all that her school disliked her strange and sometimes subversive ways they could not deny that she was a bright young woman with a talent and flair for writing. Her father eventually relinquished a part and suggested that if he allowed her to travel and continue her education and then that she in her part must consider marriage when she finished. He hoped that perhaps this was just a phase that she was going through though deep inside, he knew already that it was not.<br/><br/>So Milly went to University, one of the better Red Brick ones as she was not quite the caliber or of the mind set of Oxbridge or Cambridge but that suited her just fine. She not only excelled in her literary studies but found herself enjoying extra curricular activities with some of the science students and those studying botany. It was not long before she was a dab hand at creating and growing a number of interesting hallucinogens and mind altering substances. However throughout all these rather illegal activities Milly maintained a kind of magical innocence about her. After her second year at University<br/>Milly deferred for a year and traveled with friends that’s she had made to the mystic east all of them hoping to find some answers to life and reality and to perhaps find themselves. The young woman loved the temples of Du Lac and India and she spent much time in contemplation struggling for some sort of identity. Yet a part of her heart always remained in the gardens of her youth and with the friends she had made there and still she continued to meet in the most surprising of places. She returned then and completed her degree in English and Literary Studies even managing to have some of her work published. By now Milly was also an active member of the peace movement and even had some consideration to go to the States to continue her protesting there.<br/>She had forgotten or perhaps had just wanted to forget what her father had planned for her.<br/><br/>The Hart he loves the wild wood,<br/>The Hare he loves the hill.<br/>The Knight he loves his bright sword.<br/>But the Lady loves her will.<br/><br/><br/>It was not that Milly hated the man her father had chosen rather she felt nothing for the rather grey figure who it was obviously marrying for her money and family name. Apparently he had, had some officers training to get the tie and then was now something in the City, he looked upon the brightly dressed young woman with messy hair, a ready smile and an eager laugh with some distain. Milly told her father that she could not marry him in fact she didn't feel now that she could marry anyone…at least for sometime. It was the first time that her father had ever shown any emotion towards his daughter though this was no positive thing, it was terrible he lost his temper and told her that if she would not follow his wishes then he would disown and disinherit her. After all how could he even be sure that she was his? Of course there really was no question but this cut Milly and hurt her desperately and she passed from his life that early summer evening and never returned.<br/><br/>I saw a Peacock, with a fiery tail,<br/>I saw a Blazing Comet, drop down hail,<br/>I saw a Cloud, with Ivy circled round,<br/>I saw a sturdy Oak, creep on the ground,<br/>I saw a Pismire, swallow up a Whale,<br/>I saw a raging Sea, brim full of Ale,<br/>I saw a Venice Glass, Sixteen foot deep,<br/>I saw a well, full of men's tears that weep,<br/>I saw their eyes, all in a flame of fire,<br/>I saw a House, as big as the Moon and higher,<br/>I saw the Sun, even in the midst of night,<br/>I saw the man, that saw this wondrous sight.<br/><br/>Milly returned to her friends both human and otherwise and slowly came to terms with the fact that she no longer had family.  The next year or so were little more than hazy flashes of colour and rainbows she survived well on the small inheritance left to her by Maud and the money that she had managed to squirrel away from her father before he disowned her.<br/><br/>It was at this time Milly was embraced, even she is unable to name the festival or the date but it was both the most exquisite and yet most terrible moment of her life. (And she was forever caught in the world of colour and pictures that she saw upon that night.) Her sire saw her and was drawn to her innocence and life she was for him moment in time, a quintessential part of the era and must therefore be preserved forever, for an eternity. It seemed that even after she became kindred Milly lost nothing of her character  even though he feared that the 'wee folk' might disown her like her father had it was not the case, they loved her as they had always done perhaps even a little more. For Milly, she missed the sun but was able to find beauty in the night and reveled in all that it brought. However a small part of her worried about that which she had wasted in her own self indulgent life and now realised that with her new found powers she could help people more, rather than use them as she had seen some of the others of her kind do and thus she vowed that her new unlife would be used to aid all about her for there was much wrong with the world even from her somewhat skewed perspective.<br/><br/>Her sire was more like a father than hers had ever been and she in her own way taught him to live again. Yet like all good things it had to end though, the parting was not so sad, for her sire began to understand more through Milly than he had in his latter and somewhat jaded years of his unlife he explained that he must head to the east in search of something, though he was not altogether sure what it was,. He would return to her when he had found it. She spent a little more time on her own traveling to various Cities and looking for somewhere to settle but few places seemed right to her finding that she preferred the company of the Shining ones than her own kind with their darkness and plotting all of which she found rather tedious and somewhat pointless. Most of them would not know a smile if it bit them on the backside!!!! And many of them were not impressed with any sort of prank.<br/><br/>It was during these years that she met Kate and Sykes and then finally Thad all of whom she grew to love if such was possible now in this undead state. They offered her a new family though they too could be rather serious but still they appeared less interested in the nonsense of kindred society. Milly began traveling with them as they all looked in earnest to find somewhere that they might settle a few places seemed reasonable but there was always something not quite right for one of them Milly thought it was to do with lay lines.<br/><br/>However certain things cannot last for ever and it was time for Milly to travel once more, this time alone again perhaps once more the lay lines would find a path to those that were not so obsessed with their darkness and look to the light. For there was a light and it had a name…her sire was searching and time she would.<br/><br/>Milly has not been very long in the City but she does her best to aid the mortal here rather than use them. She is not overly keen on the company of her own kind, finding their politics and backstabbing uncomfortable to her own way of life. Still if she can find those she trust Milly will of course do what ever she can to aid them. She is hoping that in this place she might find yet more clues to that which her Sire left to search for.<br/>