Millia Rage

**Millia Rage** (ミリア レイジ; *Miria Reiji*) is a character in the *Guilty Gear* fighting game series. She fights with the skills of an assassin, using her magical hair as a weapon.

## Character Design

Millia has long flowing blonde hair and blue eyes with dark eyelashes. Millia's typical outfit consists of a white blouse with light blue hemlines and a collar that covers the whole of her neck; there are also two straps that run across her collar bone right above her breasts. She also wears a leotard under her blouse, padded arms, whole length gloves, and a light blue headband across her forehead and her legs are also bare.

In *Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-*, Millia's design has drastically changed, as she now wears a yellow blouse with black hemlines, complete with a matching pillbox hat that has a sign saying "zl-28" and "13", black leggings, and peach colored ballet shoes.

Millia's hair in the in game stance is seen tied in a ponytail, but given its properties, it changes shape frequently, from cut short to very lengthy, and can make decorative flowers.

## Personality

Millia is a complex character, who was molded by her past as an assassin and her relationship with Zato-1. She's elegant, feminine and very lady-like in manner, but does not hesitate to fight when necessary. Despite this, she is a kind person under her cold exterior, especially to children, since she was an orphan. Even when she was an assassin, Millia shows this by refusing to kill a 2 year old king of Calronia, which led her to leave the Assassin's Guild and betray her lover Zato-1.

Because of Zato's manipulation of her feelings, she is now very untrusting, particularly to men, as shown by her battle quotes. She appears as a lonely and detached individual, living alone and refusing help from anybody. At one point, she was even obsessed in killing Zato-1 to settle her past. Even so, she has a positive outlook in life and is emotionally strong, wanting to move forward despite her past. She is also a deep thinker contemplating about her life in many instances. Despite isolating herself from people, her interaction with heradmirer implies that she secretly wishes for affection, but is just afraid to form new relationships.

After leaving the Assassin's Guild and living among ordinary people, Millia became more kind to others and more compassionate. Nevertheless, years of assassin conditioning can't disappear overnight, so some of the coldness in her demeanor remains. In the situations she doesn't know how to handle, she would act like a young girl than the woman she has become.

## Gameplay

Millia's gameplay focuses completely on melee and speed. Millia has the most simple attack controls, allowing the player the advantage of using multiple special moves. Due to her low defense, the player must make up for it with continuous attacks. When it comes to Millia, defense is secondary.

Millia is also one of the characters that can easily build tension with her move **Lust Shaker**. Although the attack is fairly easy to block, if it gets a successful hit it can go as high as a 15 hit combo. The player can also maneuver across the screen with moves such as **Forward Roll** and **High-Speed Drop**. Her overdrives are also simple to pull off, the easiest being **Emerald Rain** which fires three discs, though it causes no real damage unless all three discs hit, and her best moves are **Winger and Aerial Winger** though this move would require the player to have some experience playing Millia as it has a limited range. Millia allows much versatility in the game by combining speed with rush attacks, which leads to devastating combos.

In her EX mode, Millia gains more aerial moves: **Pretty Maze** and **Secret Garden** can now also be used in the air, and as an added bonus, the large cast delay of the latter is reduced greatly. As such, Millia makes one of the best choices for any one who wants to focus on aerial attacks.

## Powers & Abilities

Millia uses her hair, infused with the Forbidden Beast Angra, that is amorphous in nature and can transform to help in both melee combat and ranged combat. It is capable of assuming a myriad of odd shapes such as a sword, a harp, a unicorn, etc. Her hair can also allow her to fly transforming into wings. Her training as an assassin has added to her combat abilities and her in-game speed reflects this. In Vastedge, she is also shown to carry a pair of magic particle guns on her outfit, suggesting that she is also proficient with firearms.

## Musical Themes

* **Writhe in Pain** - *Guilty Gear*
* **Writhe in Pain II** - *Guilty Gear X* and - *Guilty Gear XX*
* **The Great Empress** - *Guilty Gear XX: #Reload Korean OST*
* **The Irony of Chaste** - *Guilty Gear Isuka*
* **The Lily of Steel** - *Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-*

### Rivalry Themes

* **Still in the Dark** (vs Zato-1) - *Guilty Gear X*
* **Existence** (vs Eddie/Slayer/Venom) - *Guilty Gear XX*
* **The Spider's Thread (Do You Know?)** (vs. Zato-1) - *Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-*
* **When Life Comes** (vs. Slayer/Venom) - *Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-*

## References & Allusions

* Millia got her name from Meliah Rage, which was an USA thrash-metal band from the middle of the 80s. This band was named after indians from Meliah tribe, who used opium before battles to fall in battle rage.
* Rage is also a German metal band, which had a solid success in Japan.
* Millia's Instant Kill is named Iron Maiden, an English metal band.
* Winger, one of Millia's Overdrives, is an USA hard-rock band from the beginning of the 80s.
* Her other Overdrive, Emerald Rain, is a Canadian melodic-rock band.
* Millia's Sixth Hi-Deigokutsuipou, "Angra," is a reference to a Brazillian Power metal band of the same name.

## TMNT X Pokemon

As an assassin, she takes her job very seriously. Millia decided to join Night Raid in their quest to take out all corrupted criminals.

## Trivia

* Millia appears as a guest character in **Square Enix'**s up-coming game ***Lord of Vermilion III***.
* Millia is hinted to be the most beautiful character, as many opponents compliment her. In Slayer's story in *Accent Core*, one of the things he wanted to remember before leaving the world is Millia's beauty.
* It is known that Zato lost his eyesight in exchange for Eddie. Currently, it is unknown what Millia lost to obtainAngra.
* Since the first '*Guilty Gear* game, Millia has a fanboy who is infatuated with her. He appears in all other subsequent main games in her endings. He is nicknamed as "Stalker-kun" by fans, as he kills Millia out of obsession in one ending.
* In the anime *Letter Bee*, Niche's Sister shares many striking similarities with Millia, as both are considered beautiful, both are blue-eyed and have blonde hair. Also, both use their hair as their primary mode of attack. Like Millia, Niche's Sister can also shape her hair into different weapons.
* Millia appears to be the inspiration for the character Filia from Skullgirls, both in name and in the use of hair for combat.
* Millia appears to be the inspiration for the character Akane Satomura from Eternal Fighter Zero by Twilight-Frontier, in the use of hair for combat.