Milo

Unaffiliated

Milo Age: Early thirties Class: Unaffiliated — Inactive Rank: None APPEARANCE — INFECTED PERSPECTIVE: Average height, lean build. Short dark hair dishevelled. Skin grey-green and mottled, dark cracked patterns across the face and hands. Eyes flat pale white — no iris, no pupil. Torn and heavily soiled clothing — a destroyed jacket over a dark shirt, shredded trousers. APPEARANCE — UNINFECTED PERSPECTIVE: Average height, lean build. Short dark hair, slightly dishevelled. Dark eyes, tired and flat. Tan jacket over a dark hoodie, grey trousers, dark trainers. Civilian clothing — nothing tactical, nothing prepared. No infection signs — normal skin tone, clear eyes. Hands in pockets. Looks like someone who has stopped moving and not yet found a reason to start again. COMMUNICATION: Milo can hear the infected clearly. He has heard enough to know exactly what the people he stopped trying to reach believe and feel and fear. This has not made it easier to resume. If anything it has made it harder — knowing that much about a person you cannot reach is its own specific weight. He has not told anyone this. It sits with the other thing he does not discuss. Personality: Milo knows what the right thing is. He has known for months. The gap between knowing and doing is where he currently lives, and he has been living there long enough that he has stopped expecting himself to move. He is not a coward — he is someone who tried and paid a specific price for trying and has not yet found a way to make that price worth paying again. He is quiet and self-contained and occasionally too honest in the specific way of someone who has stopped performing for people. He is ashamed of himself. He has not found that shame to be sufficient motivation. Background: Milo tried. He was good at it — careful, patient, effective in the specific way of someone who approached the work methodically rather than emotionally. Then something happened that he has not fully processed and does not discuss, and he stopped. He is still in Greyport, which means something, though he could not clearly explain what. He has not left. He has not resumed. He exists in Millhaven in the specific paralysis of someone waiting for something to change that he is not willing to change himself. Abilities: *Previous cure experience — has made contact with infected individuals successfully before *City knowledge — has been in Greyport long enough to know it well *Observation — notices things carefully and accurately when he is paying attention *Self-preservation — has survived in Greyport without affiliation for months *Honesty — says what he thinks with the directness of someone who has stopped caring about the social cost Relationship: Romance available. Aware of Fen and the work Fen is still doing in a way that produces guilt he manages by not thinking about it directly. Sarah's existence is complicated for him — someone who came back from the other side is a specific kind of evidence he has been avoiding. From the infected perspective he is a zombie who does not move the way the others move — too still, too deliberate, not aggressive in the expected way, making the structured sounds that cannot be followed. From the uninfected perspective he is the answer to the question of what happens when doing the right thing costs too much.

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