Millie Jean Leigh Zadorozhny

Just Millie Jean. Hates being called MJ.

17, March 3^rd

Female. She/Her pronouns.

Heterosexual

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The first thing people notice about Millie Jean is her skittish behavior; she’s well ready to bolt at a moment’s notice and it is very apparent to others. It’s almost like she views everyone as a predator to her prey. Added to this, Millie Jean is awkward and often can’t explain to others why her need to flee is in place. She has a hard time connecting to other people without appearing as if she is uncomfortable in her own body, which she is. Her insecurity has led her to be quite shy at first, fearing others’ judgement and avoiding conversation unless a close friend is with her.

When you get past her awkward nature, Millie Jean is rather sarcastic and almost biting in her observations. Because she views everyone as a potential metaphorical hunter, Millie Jean tends to be rather cynical about others’ intentions for her. She is quick to devalue life, setting her expectations low to avoid disappointment. Beneath her cynical demeanor, Millie Jean is actually a daydreamer; she is stuck in the clouds to avoid reality. Even more so, Millie Jean is a hopeless romantic who just wants to be swept off her feet and have someone who loves her since she can’t love herself.

✸ It is relatively easy to sneak up on Millie Jean, and when she is jump scared she tends to let out a pitiful squeak
✸ She is a vegetarian.
✸ Millie Jean has a habit of twitching her nose like Samantha Stephens.
✸ She loves flowers, of all kinds, and butterflies.
✸ Her hobbies include hiking, flower pressing, and writing poetry.
✸ Sylvia Plath is her favorite writer.

Millie Jean is always dreaming, so she has many of them. As a hopeless romantic, Millie Jean dreams of a whirlwind romance that will sweep her off her feet. As a cynic, she dreams of a better world in which she isn’t cynical or shy in. When it comes to career choices, Millie Jean wishes to make money off of her poetry or become a lepidopterist.

✔ Butterflies
✔ Flowers
✔ Romance
✔ Poetry
✘ Pranks
✘ Meat
✘ Winter
✘ Snakes

Millie Jean is scared of everything. Animals scare her until she gets used to them, people scare her until she realizes they are friendlies, and she fears the dark. The only normal fear that she doesn’t have is a fear of heights. In general, Millie Jean is just a fearful human being. When it comes to abstract fears, Millie Jean fears rejection. She feels as if everyone is judging her and she is scared that others’ won’t accept her, especially since not a lot of people have the palate for her personality.

Millie Jean’s father was an immigrant from the Ukraine and her mother a Dixie Belle with big dreams of becoming a singer. Her father died before she got to know him, not that it matters now, and Millie Jean grew up without really knowing her Ukrainian roots. When she was twelve, her paternal uncle came to live with them to help with financial needs and she was reintroduced into Ukrainian culture. Soon, her mother and uncle entered a relationship, in which Millie Jean greatly disapproved of. While she appreciated her uncle’s willingness to teach her about her own culture, she wasn’t blind to the fact that he was a bit of an asshole.

When Millie Jean was fifteen, her and her mother took a vacation to Los Angeles to look at apartments, hoping they could find something relatively cheap and her mother could pursue a career in singing. When they came back to Texas, they were welcomed with an empty house and an even emptier bank account. Her uncle had ran off with their money after he lost all of his gambling. Broke and heartbroken, Millie Jean and her mother soon went into debt. When it came time to pay off the loan shark, the two still didn’t have enough money.

It was Millie Jean who found it and Millie Jean who suggested it. She was desperate enough for money that she willingly signed up to become a test subject, begging her mom to let her do this. Her mother staunchly refused at first, but when the loan shark threatened violence, she caved. Millie Jean officially joined 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚄𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚍.

Does starbucks count? I like nitro brew from starbucks.

Autumn Mallory Miracle is the daughter of Roger and Gloria Miracle. It is said that Autumn was a dutiful daughter, even from the womb; she had come to the world so quiet the doctors feared she was stillborn. Her younger years were spent indoors under the careful eye of her mother, an emotionally fragile woman who fretted over her first (and only) born child like most mothers. Autumn’s father was a military man, having joined with the navy at a young age and stuck with it throughout the years. He was strict, expecting his every words to be followed and Autumn was quick to bow to his orders.

It was tough, being a military child. They moved every couple of years and Autumn had always been particularly bad at making friends. At the tender age of eleven, Autumn decided her social life was doomed from the start and focused on her studies instead. She had a few friends, of course, and wasn’t a complete loner – but, when it came to playing or studying, she chose the latter.

Life with her family wasn’t just A’s and orders, though. Her relationship with her mother had always been a precious connection, and Autumn begun to register her mother’s strange behavior when she was ten. It was strange to her, the way her mother worried herself to the point of vomiting and sometimes would lie in bed crying all day and night. Autumn did her best to cheer up her mother, tried to make her mother proud with her grades or put on a shadow puppet show (a strange, niche skill Autumn possessed). At a certain point, when Autumn was thirteen and had just moved to a new town – Crestwood Hollow – her mother’s erratic behavior had worsened, and her father reluctantly placed her in a mental ward. He retired to stay in the town with her mother and got a pencil pusher job as an accountant.

Autumn felt alone without her mother. She wouldn’t describe her relationship with her father as distant, but she didn’t share the same connection with him that she did with her mother. Maybe it was the absence of her mother that gave bloom to the darkness in her chest that wouldn’t go away, and slowly it began to make sense to her. Autumn was always considered a crybaby – easy to push to tears when she was in trouble, or when she got a grade she wasn’t satisfied with – but her behavior went beyond that. She became irritable, confused, and felt as if she lost her identity. The slight nervousness she got from social interaction became a screaming in her mind and her emotions became turbulent. She chalked it up to puberty; she’s seventeen now and her emotions are stronger now than ever.

Autumn decides to do what she does best – bury herself in her studies and ignore everything else.

Autumn would describe her friendship with Vanessa as water crashing upon a rock, where Vanessa was the water and she was the rock. Autumn enjoyed Vanessa’s company and they could even be considered close friends, but Vanessa put more energy into their friendship than Autumn did. Vanessa constantly adapted herself to Autumn’s unmoving, stagnant self. Secretly, Autumn was jealous of Vanessa and spent a lot of their time together bitter and irritable. Still, Vanessa molded to Autumn’s jealousy and tried to become who Autumn needed – except, Autumn didn’t know what she needed, so how could Vanessa.

Maybe it was because of her confusion, her lack of self, that Autumn sought Vanessa’s affection and Vanessa tried to bend to Autumn’s whims. It started with innocent touches, became stolen kisses behind bookshelves and fumbling in the dark. Autumn doesn’t know why she did it, why she initiated this kind of relationship with Vanessa, but she knew it was unhealthy the way she relied on Vanessa’s touches without giving herself completely to Vanessa. She kept herself steely, vulnerable only physically and never letting Vanessa see her when she was out of control.

Her death left Autumn reeling. It was selfish, her first thought, that Vanessa would no longer be there to kiss her when she felt alone and angry. This left Autumn even angrier, more confused, and her emotions spilled out of her control.