Shadow Millie

"Why did I... did I become a shadow of who I was...? Heh, I guess I'm like a... Shadow Millie." - Shadow Millie during the fifth part of their backstory.Shadow Millie is a corrupted form of Millie that has been parasitically altered by a dangerous skeletal being that is known by the name NaN, a shortening of Not a Number, who forced two very deadly viruses into Millie's system to hopefully alter them into a much stronger being. This corruption has led to them being a much sadder, cynical and upset character that has been searching for a way to undo the effects of her corruption for most of their life. However, after meeting with another corrupted being, they are slowly learning to be willing to accept themselves in their corrupted state.
Unlike most corrupted characters that NaN alters, Shadow Millie remained intelligent and had free will, which is due to their determination and unflinching persistence (Not as soul traits) being able to override the goals and aspirations of the viruses and NaN's corruption. This was actually the best case scenario for NaN and what they wished for, since they find puppets that have free will to surpass the usefulness and skill sets of the puppets that do not have free will. However, Shadow Millie's hate of him is still a little annoying for NaN stable to have to work around.
== Description ==
Shadow Millie is a corrupted Skeleton who is far stronger then their non corrupted version, that being Canon Millie, due to the fact that their body is being boosted by two independent viruses. That being Stuxnet and CIH, which are both being fed a constant stream of code by the conduit that NaN uses to ensure they don't feast on Shadow Millie's code, and also this conduit allows for instant internal messages to be sent between each other. All of this power comes at the cost of a heavy load of self doubt and anxiety as to who they are and how, or if, they can go back to their non-corrupted state. And Shadow Millie knows that unless they can remove the two viruses within them, they really should not anger or try to cut the conduit with NaN, as Shadow Millie doesn't know how to gather code in the ways that NaN does.
Shadow Millie stands at a much taller then Millie due to the corruption's strange alterations. They currently wear a long sleeve desaturated purple shirt with lighter stripes and a simple graphic of a pink heart on the front, similar to Millie, but with a red cross over the graphic. Which is believed but not confirmed to be how NaN is able to observe Shadow Millie from afar. This long sleeved shirt has the right sleeve torn and ripped, which is also their scaly purple arm, which they also have a left scaly purple leg. They also wear a long dark purple skirt that has been severely ripped and torn. Unlike Millie, Shadow Millie has two dark purple horns and a similarly coloured heart tipped tail, both giving them a demonic or draconic look. It is added to by the bright purple or navy bat-like wings on their back that are mostly used for gliding as they are too small to allow them to fly unless boosted with magic.
Their personality, as described by the few that meet them, is reclusive, cynical, anxious, jumpy and aggressive. Basically, most of all the traits that Millie had, Shadow Millie has the opposite. Though this is mostly due to the traumatic experience they went through leading them to become far more introverted and reclusive, as well as having a much worse view of life due to the experience they had to endure. And the experience already helped separate Shadow Millie from all their friends so that they wouldn't have anyone to help with them and this experience. All of this has left them all alone for multiple years and always overshadowed by their more upbeat version. However, recently they have been softening and becoming somewhat nicer due to them warming up to Levous, another being that was corrupted, and is willing to interact with askers or other characters again.
== AU ==
The universe that Shadow Millie comes from is completely unknown, because their AU would be Millie's AU, which has never been discovered due to the fact that Millie has never talked about it and has always existed in their Void for all their life. It might be considered that Shadow Millie's universe might be the AU ART since that was the location where they changed from Millie to Shadow Millie, but when asked about this concept, Shadow Millie disagrees with that idea. And because they have no AU, they mostly hang out in their own personal white void, similar to how Millie does.
However, no characters other then Shadow Millie and recently Levous are ever found in this white void, unlike how Millie often has dozens of askers as well as multiple other characters that hang around for the ask blog. Shadow Millie's white void is also a lot different then the normal void that Millie exists in because Shadow Millie has decorated it to look like a huge and imposing forest for a circle that is hundred metres in diameter, with a house in the centre. This is mostly because of how their backstory was impacted by them going into the forest of the ART world, thus impacting their views on forests and how key they are to their life.
== Backstory ==
Shadow Millie has quite a tragic backstory which reveals how they were converted from Millie to who they are now, which has been developed in its own post since it is quite a long story that has many parts and sections. This story is a recreation of an older, not well made, story called Millie's curse that is split into two parts, part 1 and part 2. Shadow Millie's full backstory is here: Millie's Corruption
But here is a summarised version of this story:
Millie was over in ART because of the ask blog that was occurring there, and was spooked by Ewan Dreamur telling stories of how he was having to deal with a mysterious parasitic being while they were over to Ewan Dreamur's house because the weather was too hot for Millie to handle. Soon though, the weather cleared up and Millie decided to get back home. But in the rain and thunder that developed very quickly, Millie spotted a tall and strange figure that was very scary. Millie connected the dots and started running when they realised it was the same being in Ewan Dreamur's stories, causing her to run straight into Sharp Sans. Who was very upset at Millie before Millie told them what happened. Sharp, not believing it, told Millie to show who this "Mysterious being" that Millie isn't a pushover. Millie then got back home and while snuggling up under her covers, reflected on that statement, deciding that they will go back to where they saw that figure.
The tree the figure was standing behind was destroyed in the storm overnight, although no other trees were. On the stump, there was a message that urged Millie to explore the forest. Which Millie did, and after a long and uneventful search where they nearly lost their map, found a new message carved onto a tree which they thought gave a pretty contradictory list of instructions. But the far more gamer-orientated characters, such as Austin Ness (EpicnessAwesomised), hearing of this list of instructions have realised that this list is similar to a worded version of the konami code, a famous code in almost all of gaming, that only includes directions and not the two buttons "B" and "A". Either way, whilst following these instructions, the day quickly progressed, too quickly, and their phone glitched out. And after finishing the instructions, they heard NaN say something before they fell through the ground for the equivalent of multiple kilometres.
Millie fell into a dark room with a mysterious being who introduced themselves as NaN, and this being revealed that they know many aspects about Millie that Millie didn't think anyone except her best friends or even facts that no one should have known. This led to Millie feeling a sudden and immense amount of dread and fear, as this being is far stronger and far more prepared then Millie expected. This fear was hundreds of times the amount they could ever experience in any ask blog. This being let Millie swing an attack at NaN, which was used to show that NaN was even stronger then Millie thought as NaN nullified every single attack instantly. NaN changed the scenery to a more serene location to attempt to chill the nerves of Millie before revealing that they wish to corrupt Millie and turn them into their right hand gal. Millie begs to have a chance at being free, at being able to not get corrupted. Which NaN agrees to, if Millie survives for an hour while NaN throws what they want to Millie, Millie is free. Otherwise... Bad Luck...
Millie starts this challenge by having to fight a puppet, a corrupted form of a Classic Sans, which reveals what might happen to her if she is corrupted, even if it wasn't what occurred when she did get corrupted. After beating the puppet, they had to start running away from a giant shadowy being that isn't corrupted and is instead a friend of NaN, called Vacío, specifically the 676-2 version of Vacío. Escaping then led to Millie getting spun around and around, before they spotted a light and grabbed a shimmering sword. Being transported into the past, they are forced to fight a being that, through all reason, NaN should not have power over, that being Caltor mark 10. After slicing the spike off the past being, Millie is transported to their memories and is forced to battle the Sans that had broken their arm and their eye. Which they are able to fend off before backing away from a recreation of a Sharp Sans, falling through the group to then be forced to battle NaN. During the battle, Millie is hit by NaN's blaster and gets knocked to the ground. It is notable that NaN really seemed to be holding back a bunch during the battle to give Millie a false sense that they could win, and to not heavily damage their body beyond repair.
Millie watches NaN come over and use a glob of their body to patch the hole where Millie got blasted to heal them up. And as this occurs, Millie couldn't help but laugh about the fact that she was so incredibly close to being free but was, in the end, unable to beat this parasitic entity. The glob makes her feel incredibly sick as the viral matter begins to circulate through her body, causing her to get knocked out. She then wakes up and is terrified as they realise that; first, this whole experience was not a dream, and second is that their body has been physically altered and corrupted. She quickly rushes home, noticing it has been abandoned for a long time, allowing her to confirm a suspicion they got when they looked at their phone. Which is that she's been gone, not for a few hours, but for a whole year. She rushes to her friend, Ewan Dreamur's house, as she is sure that they are the only person who might be able to help them, and because they were a really great friend of theirs. But when Ewan didn't recognise who Millie was, she burst into tears and ran away, back into the forest. Attempting to contact the last glimmer of hope, to phone the last person who would know what to do, Oreo, their boyfriend. But after being left unanswered three times, Millie tore and ripped at their scales, blaming themselves for what they undertook. And said with a mock smile.
"Why did I... did I become a shadow of who I was...?"
"Heh, I guess I'm like a... Shadow Millie."
I hope you liked this short tragic story that reveals the origin of the mysterious Shadow Millie, as well as their first interactions with NaN. Their life and history is a quite terrible experience that they have had to push through all the way to now. Very recently, they have chilled and have accepted that they've been corrupted in such a way that is unlikely to be undo-able, and are much more friendly now.
== Strengths/Powers ==
Shadow Millie has numerous abilities and skills that they have either gotten from their much higher strength, or from their corruption into a being that has two viruses. These have allowed her to be far stronger then all other versions of Millie and even most other characters they find themselves around.
Stuxnet: They can release the Stuxnet virus towards others to damage them heavily. This requires them to be within a few metres and has to be in contact with Shadow Millie, so it is a close range attack. But if Shadow Millie can make physical contact with a character or object, they can afflict them with a copy of a Stuxnet that works on whatever their target is. What this virus does is rapidly destroy and deteriorate a character whilst also presenting outwards that the character is unaffected, even replicating the personality of the character, making it hard to get outside help once afflicted. This will quickly kill any character that either doesn't have extremely high health or defence.
CIH (Spacefiller and Chernobal are both other names): Shadow Millie can release a CIH virus towards what they want to do heavy damage. It functions similarly to Stuxnet in that it needs the target to be within a few metres and has to be in contact with Shadow Millie. But after inflicting the target with a copy of CIH, the virus will begin to internally destroy the character whilst keeping the external appearance fine, however this virus is unable to stop the personality of the character telling others that they are getting damaged. However, the key as to why this is very strong is that, if succeeding in destroying a character, the virus will then jump to a random timeline of a root AU version of the same character. (In practice, they might infect Shattered Dream Dust Sans, and upon succeeding the virus might jump to either Shattered Dream, or Dust Sans. After succeeding in the Shattered Dream case, it will jump to Dream. Which then will then jump to Classic Sans along with the Dust Sans root.) Again this virus will quickly kill any character that either doesn't have extremely high health or defence.
Acidic globs: Like NaN Stable, Shadow Mille can summon small globs made from a strange dark purple tar that can either take the forms of things like characters, or be flung towards characters to burn the skin or bones of a target. The one catch is that, instead of being made from viruses and can help in parasitically altering a being, which is what NaN Stable's globs can do, Shadow Millie's globs are just very acidic and can chemically burn things. What is notable is that characters made from dark goops like Nightmares are unaffected by these globs. Also, by taking the forms of characters, this allows Shadow Millie to shapeshift them and mimic real world characters, though the colour of dark purple can't be removed.
Dark Blasters: These are blasters made from the same dark acidic goop that the globs that Shadow Millie chucks around. The blasters are extremely strong and can fire really acidic beams of hot air quite quickly, but the key difference is that they make no sounds from being summoned or when fired, which makes them incredibly useful for sneak attacks or surprise ambushes.
Flight: Shadow Millie, in almost all situations, has wings that are far too small for flight. But they are able to increase the size of their wings using magic for temporary amounts of time to allow for very quick dashes through the air or sustained flights for multiple hours. It is notable that regular Millie can summon bird wings as well, but it seems to be less controlled and more when they are in extreme emotional situations, whilst Shadow Millie's wings can be made larger when Shadow Millie wants to no matter the situation.
Twisted Candy: Instead of the regular candy magic, Shadow Millie has candy magic over all of the darkest forms of candy. From Licorice candy, to burningly sour candies, too sweet caramel, to even strange kinds of spicy or otherwise abnormal kinds of candy that seem twisted and evil to all but those who acquire the taste. They can also summon liquid sugar like Millie too, causing second or third degree burns to targets easily.
Strengthen: Shadow Millie is able to use their magic to enhance their physical strength with however much magic that they input into this, giving them extremely high amounts of defence and attack for all physical methods of attacking. As well as the ability to lift or move objects that are sometimes ten times the weight of themselves. This comes at the cost of weakening their magical attack and magical defence for the duration of the strengthening, making it sometimes not that worth using when going up agaisnt a strong magical attacker.
== Weaknesses ==
Shadow Millie can be easily subdued when incorporating their weaknesses into any situation. The main weakness they have is the fact that they have no magical dodges of any kind or very fast acting teleportation. Which means that, aside from physical dodging which they are pretty good at, they can be slowly whittled down as they have no easy way to avoid getting hit by attacks that have wide arcs or target wide areas. The next weakness is that they can be spooked by others quite easily and quickly, when surprised or scared during a battle, they tend to lock up and have difficulty acting with any form of reason other then through instinct.
Another weakness is that they have quite brittle bones from the numerous times they have hit their head or body back when they were Millie and the times they have entered fights when Shadow Millie. And they have quite minimal defence for their skeletal arm, leg and skull as compared to the rest of their body. The other parts of their body have really good amounts of defence though, especially their draconic arm and leg, so their weakness is somewhat balanced out by the rest of their body being quite strong.
== Relations ==
Shadow Millie is very reclusive and doesn't like making friends if they feel like they will somehow lose them due to her corruption or reclusiveness. But they have made a few connections with a couple characters that they have met, or used to know from their days as Millie who they were able to connect with. Most of these characters are timelines where they interacted with Shadow Millie in their stories and might not be the canonical timeline of the respective characters.
Levous (Canon, though it is the same as Shadow Millie Timeline) - Best Friends: Levous and Shadow Millie have both connected with each other really well recently. This is because they are both corrupted versions of Ewan Dreamur and Millie respectively, and that they have made sure that they are always there to lean on whenever things get rough.
Oreo (Shadow Millie Timeline) - Ex Boyfriend that they couldn't rely on: They used to be boyfriend and girlfriends with each other but during a very stressful situation, Shadow Millie ended up never talking with Oreo again because Oreo was unable to be there right after her corruption. The reason why Oreo didn't respond is believed to be because of the fact that it was a year and many people considered Millie to be dead.
Ask Ewan Dreamur (Shadow Millie Timeline) - Ex Friend that they couldn't rely on: Ironically, even though Levous is Shadow Millie's Ask Ewan Dreamur after getting corrupted. Shadow Millie doesn't really like their Ask Ewan Dreamur, mostly because of the five words that have rung in her head from when Shadow Millie came back and wanted a friend for support: "Uhh, do I know you?"
Ask Sharp Sans (Shadow Millie Timeline) - Somewhat mean distant friend: Back when they were Millie, Ask Sharp was only slightly different and somewhat nicer then Canon Sharp, but that doesn't mean that Millie and Sharp gelled well. And because Millie became Shadow Millie before they could interact with and help Ask Sharp Sans from becoming nicer, that means that Shadow Millie still has the idea that Ask Sharp is a rude and somewhat mean friend they haven't talked to in years.
NaN Stable (Canon, though it is the same as Shadow Millie Timeline) - Terrible Parasite: Shadow Millie really really really hates NaN Stable due to them infecting her with their parasite. But she hates the fact that she doesn't hate NaN that much when they both interact, as they often have banter and she still feels compelled to do whatever NaN stable asks of them. Most likely due to the viruses and corruption tainting her views.
Canon Millie - Jealous: Shadow Millie is very jealous of the life that Millie has. Going out of their way to learn all of the darkest secrets of Millie to try and prove that Millie is just as bad as her. They also have considered and even attempted to abduct Millie to try and cure themselves from the corruption that Shadow Millie has. That was actually where Levous and Shadow Millie first met, where Levous helped de-escalate the situation.
Canon Oreo - Jealous of what could have been: Shadow Millie is also jealous of the fact that Millie and Oreo have a nice and lovely relationship, but she didn't get that treatment. And as a result, she is jealous of Canon Oreo as well. There are likely joky timelines where Shadow Millie dresses up like Millie to try and see if they can experience what it is like to be with Oreo, only for Oreo to notice instantly, though it is unconfirmed if those timelines exist.
(Canon Ask / Cannon) Ewan dreamur - Tainted from views of timeline, but friends: Shadow Millie has, interestingly, met both Cannon Ask Ewan Dreamur and Cannon Ewan Dreamur. And despite her tainted view from her own timeline of Ewan Dreamur. Shadow Millie has become somewhat lose friends due to Ewan Dreamur's attempts to help de-corrupt Shadow Millie, even if no attempts work.
Canon Ask Sharp Sans - Tainted from views of timeline, but interested: Shadow Millie, interestingly, hasn't met Cannon Ask Sharp Sans, despite meeting Canon Ask Ewan Dreamur. That doesn't mean Shadow Millie hasn't heard of the Canonical version of Ask Sharp Sans, and despite her views on Ask Sharps in general being kinda meh, she does want to meet them one day.
== AUs ==
Shadow Millie is more of an AU of an already existing character, less an already existing character that has AUs. But technically, the Cannon Millie is as much an AU of Shadow Millie as Shadow Millie is an AU of Cannon Millie. Which means that Shadow Millie has two AUs, that being: Canonical Shadow Millie and Canonical Millie. Otherwise, Shadow Millie has a few timelines of themselves that aren't full AUs but are interesting thought ideas. Such as timelines that change how Levous and Shadow Millie interact, (such as being love interests or rivals) or how Shadow Millie and Millie interact (being friends or having fights).
== Trivia ==
Trivia made by CupOfMapleSyrup if they want to add to this:
* Currently none.
This trivia is from me during the process of making this:
* Shadow Millie is one of the first major AUs I made of one of my friend's characters, and one of the first that is used by both me and them. There are a few times where I would make an AU of another person's character before I made Shadow Millie, but they often go unused by both me and the original Character.
* Another fact is that, from the release of Shadow Millie in 08/01/2021 to even now, if CupofMapleSyrup wishes to use this character, as they have done before (7 Days after I made Shadow Millie and released them to the world), they do not need to ask me for permission and can act as if they are one of their characters. Thus making Shadow Millie the only character I have (that I can think of) that is a two creator character, as they are, in a way, jointly owned by the both of us.
* Shadow Millie was created 153 days after Millie, and could be considered the first AU of Millie, unless retrospective AU creation is allowed, which would make the Family Millie first as they were created earlier, just wasn't an AU until 5 months after Shadow Millie came out.
* The Millie's Corruption story is 5,897 words long. Making it 7.6 times longer then the first part of the Millie's Curse Story, which is 772 words long. And 7.9 times longer then the second part of the Millie's Curse Story, which is 743 words long. Making it 3.9 times longer then both of the stories added together, which is 1515 words.
* Shadow Millie has had a screen time of the CupofMapleSyrup's Ask blog for 14 posts, which as a percent is 3.83%, which is not that much as compared to numerous other characters. Although it isn't their fault, and by they I mean Shadow Millie or CupofMapleSyrup, as not soon after Shadow Millie was created, the ask blog stopped getting posted as quickly as normal and quickly became stuck on an indefinite hiatus.
== Credits ==
Here are the creators of all the characters and concepts that were mentioned in the wiki, if any credits are wrong raise the issue with me please:
Millie as well as some images in the gallery belongs to Cup of Maple Syrup, here is their current profile, as well as their amino account, go give them some love!
Sharp Sans
Vacío
Shattered Dream Sans
Dream and Nightmare Sans
Dust Sans
== Gallery ==
File:Shadow Millie and their Quote.jpg|Shadow Millie, as drawn by CupofMapleSyrup
File:The original artwork of Shadow Millie.jpg|Shadow Millie's original artwork, by Ewan Dreamur (Me)
File:Shadow Millie kidnapping Millie.jpg|Shadow Millie in the process of kidnapping Millie
File:Sharp Sans in the Rain.png|Artwork in Part 1 of Millie's Corruption
File:Millie in the forest.png|Artwork in Part 2 of Millie's Corruption
File:NaN Stable showing off their viruses.png|Artwork in Part 3 of Millie's Corruption
File:Millie vs Mysterious Sans.png|Artwork in Part 4 of Millie's Corruption
File:Shadow Millie sitting on a log.png|Artwork in Part 5 of Millie's Corruption
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