Milun Astucieux

Milun Jourdain Astucieux is Ottoline's estranged father, son of Absolon and Donatienne Astucieux, and older brother of Solange Astucieux. His birthday is March 13th, and he is currently 42 years old.

## Personality

Milun is conceited, narcissistic, cowardly, and arrogant. He is also clever, charismatic, and a quick learner. He is a skilled businessman who knows his trade well, although he mainly uses his profession to increase his own funds. His social skills help him gain the enduring trust of his clients, who he is then able to extort and manipulate for personal gain. His ego can sometimes get in the way of his goals, leading him to his eventual downfall.

## Backstory

Milun is born to parents Absolon and Donatienne Astucieux. Although as an infant, he was calm and well-behaved, as he grew, he quickly became disobedient and petulant. He struggled to connect with his parents or other children his age, and thrived when left to his own devices, where he usually kept to himself and kept quiet.

When Milun is 6, his younger sister, Solange, is born. He experiences a massive personality shift, and becomes a caring and attentive older brother, protecting his little sister from nearly everything. He also begins to bond with his parents, who happily engage him.

4 years later, when he is 10, his sister Solange dies from a fever at age 4. He is unable to fully recover from her death, and reverts back to his old ways, fighting often with his parents and blaming his mother Donatienne for Solange's death. He isolates himself and rejects any attempts by his parents to reach out. The following year, when Milun is 11, his mother Donatienne dies as well. He turns his ire to his father, blaming him for not being able to prevent the deaths of his mother and sister. He lashes out frequently at Absolon, antagonizing him and only treating him with false politeness when he stands to gain from him. Milun finds other people beneath him, and chooses to remove himself from them unless he can benefit from them. Absolon decides to leave Milun be, as Milun typically doesn't cause much trouble when he is by himself.

Milun typically dislikes being around people, but quickly learns how to be charismatic and sociable for the sake of manipulating others in his life.

At some point, Absolon approaches Milun with the offer to train him to be his successor to Fidelitas. Milun accepts, under the condition that their relationship from that point on is strictly professional. Milun's ability to charm and beguile others helps him greatly advance his interpersonal skills, although he still only interacts with others when absolutely necessary and when he stands to gain.

When Milun is 24, Absolon sends him on a business trip to Mondstadt so that he may assess the potential for opening a new branch of Fidelitas there, with Milun potentially as its head. While there, he indulges himself in the local wine and meets the 19 year old Conradine Regensturm, who he flirts with and seduces. Although he treats her with kindness and attention, he only sees her as an object to satiate his own needs. Although Conradine is his main paramour, as she is naive and easily manipulated, he pursues several other women for the same purpose. He leaves without announcing his departure to Conradine to prevent her from following him back to Fontaine.

He informs his father that although business potential exists in Mondstadt, he does not wish to return to open the new branch, and instead wishes to remain permanently in Fontaine. Absolon agrees, and talk of the Mondstadt branch ends.

One month after his departure, he receives a letter from Conradine, which he intentionally does not open. More and more letters soon follow, and Milun, having surmised that she is pregnant, ignores the letters so he can claim plausible deniability and absolve himself of all responsibilities to her and the child.

A few months later, Absolon comes to him to tell him that he's decided to open the Mondstadt branch after all, but that he will be going to Mondstadt himself to open it, while Milun will stay in Fontaine as the new chief executive of Fidelitas to run the company's main operations. Milun agrees immediately, and Absolon departs shortly thereafter.

When Milun is 40, an unexpected visitor arrives to his doorstep in the middle of the night. She introduces herself as Ottoline Regensturm, claiming to be his daughter from Conradine many years ago. Due to her resemblance to his late mother, he believes her. She demands to know why he abandoned her mother, and he responds by telling her that Conradine was a distraction that didn't mean anything to him, that Absolon is a fool who will inevitably fail her, and that she was never supposed to exist. She threatens him with her bow, and he immediately backs down, not realizing her threat is more or less empty. She demands that he transfer ownership of Fidelitas Back to Absolon and that he relinquish his position as well as all ties he has to the company, and he does so without a fuss.

Once Ottoline becomes the new chief executive of Fidelitas the following year, she evicts Milun from the Astucieux manoir, as the deed is now in her name as the head of Fidelitas, but allows him to live in the small cottage on the property.

When Milun is 49, he finds out that Ottoline is getting married, so he shows up to her wedding, claiming he wants to "walk his only daughter down the aisle," planning to demean her and her authority. His plan is thwarted.

When Milun is 66, his father Absolon dies at age 92. At the funeral, he has a conversation with Ottoline where they reach some form of an understanding. This is the last time he speaks to her.

The following year, Milun dies at age 67 due to his lifelong smoking habit.