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120 lines
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# Millie Fairweather
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> DM-facing NPC writeup. Tactical brain of [[Avalon Factions#2. Student Factions & Cliques#2.1 Mageball Team & Jocks | Mageball Team]], social status: “fucking dork” (for now).
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## Role
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- **Age:** same year as PCs
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- **Heritage/Class:** Human / half-elf Wizard (Divination / War Magic vibes)
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- **Pronouns:** they/them (most students default to he/him until corrected)
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- **Primary Faction:** [[Avalon Factions#2. Student Factions & Cliques#2.1 Mageball Team & Jocks | Mageball Team]]
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- **Public Image (early):** quiet nerd, eats alone, easy target.
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## What Students Know
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- Freshman year:
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- Thin, glasses always sliding down their nose, tray clutched too tight.
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- Constantly carrying notebooks, always scribbling plays, patterns, random math.
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- Easy target for jocks who need to feel big.
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- First real moment:
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- Chaz heckles them in the cafeteria.
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- Millie fires back with a clean, razor-sharp breakdown of why the team keeps losing:
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- “I can *see* us losing to *rival school* because you leave left field wide open and they send a runner straight down it every play.”
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- They don’t raise their voice; they just *say it* and keep walking.
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- By late freshman / sophomore:
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- Seen hovering near Mageball practice.
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- Occasionally dragged in to “explain that thing again.”
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- Still mocked publicly, but the tone changes once wins line up with their advice.
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---
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## What They Want
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### Surface Wants
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- To be **taken seriously**: as a caster, as a strategist, as more than a punchline.
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- To prove that brains matter more than raw talent.
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- To stop eating alone every single day.
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### Deeper Wants
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- To control *something* in their life:
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- Home is chaotic / emotionally distant (tune to taste).
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- Mageball is the one place where patterns make sense.
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- To matter so much to the team that they *can’t* be discarded.
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## Methods & Tactics
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- Hyper-observant:
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- Watches people like they’re studying film.
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- Remembers mistakes, especially other people’s.
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- Conflict style:
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- Avoid, avoid, avoid… then drop one precise, devastating comment and retreat.
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- Uses:
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- Notes, diagrams, rituals of analysis (“if A, then B, unless C happens in quarter three”).
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## Relationship to [[Chaz Ironwick | Chaz]] & the Team
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- [[Chaz Ironwick | Chaz]] :
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- Bully → stunned mark → eventual biggest hype-man.
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- Their dynamic is the emotional spine of the Mageball subplot.
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- Team:
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- Initial resistance (“we’re not listening to some nerd”).
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- Gradual reliance (“what’s the call, Fairweather?”).
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- By junior year:
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- Millie calls plays from the sideline.
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- Coach/ Estrada treat them like assistant staff.
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## Relationship to the PCs
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- **Joe:**
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- Sees him as a potential ally:
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- A jock who might actually *listen*.
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- Will test him with small suggestions before trusting him fully.
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- **Ben:**
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- Mild contempt at first:
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- Ben is noise and chaos, which wrecks their precious patterns.
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- Later might rely on Ben for social manipulation (“you talk to people, I’ll tell you what they need to hear”).
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- **Soren:**
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- Equal parts fascinated and terrified:
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- They see how Root weirdness clusters around her.
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- May be the first student to connect her episodes to anomalies around the field.
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## Secrets & Pressure Points (DM Only)
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- Millie has been quietly tracking **Root fluctuations during games**:
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- Their notebooks are full of “coincidences” Oversight would kill to see.
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- They have a small shrine / corkboard in their room:
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- Korrin Gate diagrams,
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- Old Mageball match reports,
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- Maps of leyline flow under the valley.
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- If the Coherence starts touching the field more directly:
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- Millie is a prime candidate for “accidental prophet” or Root tactician.
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---
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## How to Play Millie
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- **Voice:** Soft but sharp; rarely raises volume, but words cut deep.
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- **Body language:** Hunched at first, opens up around people who respect them; always fidgeting with pen or playbook.
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- **Sample Lines:**
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- (to Chaz) “I can see us losing because you leave left field wide open and they send a runner straight down it every play.”
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- (to Joe) “If you line up here, he’ll bite. He always bites. Just… trust me.”
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- (later, about Root weirdness) “It’s not luck. Patterns don’t do that by accident.”
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- Let them be funny, but rooted in competence, not clowning.
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