The Milson Family

**The Milson Family**, or simply called **the Milsons**, were a family of highly revered homo magi in the *Blackbird* universe. The family became infamous for raising the demon Lemar Wolfblood after he was born, turning him into their kind, and teaching him everything about magic. The Milsons were originally three people: Klaus, Maria, and their their preternaturally fair daughter Kelly. Later, Lemar Wolfblood was adopted and became the most powerful sorcerer in the family. Despite the death of Klaus and Maria Milson in 1890, Lemar and Kelly have kept The Milson Family’s legacy intact.

## History

### **Before *Blackbird***

#### Origins

Sorcerer Klaus Milson (b. 900 A.D. in Bamburgh, Northumberland, England) married a Sorceress Maria (b. 902 A.D. in London, England) in A.D. 1196, following the birth of their Kelly in A.D. 1200 in a beautiful orchard. The preternaturally beautiful daughter was discovered by her parents to be a homo magus with the same raw power and potential as them. Over the next century, Klaus and Maria would teach their daughter everything about magic and about hunting demons along with the culture and sacred customs within the homo magus community. The family sailed across the English Channel and into mainland Europe where Kelly began hunting vampires and werewolves alongside her parents without detaching from her humanity, becoming much like her parents except younger and more naïve. Around A.D. 1250, Klaus and his family, representing the small but existing homo magus race, eventually settled for several long periods of peaceful coexistence between King Jürgen Wolfblood of the Lycans and the primordial Valerie Nosferatu of the vampires. Another problem, however, would surface, changing the supernatural realm forever.

#### Adopting Lemar Wolfblood and History

On January 1, 1300 A.D., there was an unnatural romance between Nosferatu and Wolfblood, resulting in a hybrid named Lemar between their two species. To hide this scandal and prevent yet another war between their races, the two forbidden lovers consulted with Klaus. After some negotiations, the natal parents were forced to give up their newborn son to the Milson Family who perform several complex spells in one long ritual to suppress Lemar’s traits and powers, rendering him mortal and becoming a homo magus whose raw magical power and potential eclipsed that of his entire foster family combined. The Milsons adopted Lemar Wolfblood and renamed him ‘**Ralph Milson**’, teaching him everything about magic and he learned to become a great demon hunter.

On the night of Ralph’s twenty-sixth birthday, Ralph turned back into a demon under a super blood moon that augmented his long suppressed primordial demonic heritage to overcome the Milsons’ spells, and without proper self-control he went feral like a wild beast. Coupled by magic he learned from the Milsons, he almost killed them before his love for his foster family gave him the willpower to control his killing instincts. After giving him some blood to drink to satisfy his bloodlust, the Milsons were now forced to tell Ralph the truth about his heritage and what he actually is. After listening and digesting the truth, Ralph decided to sought out his natal parents while still hunting demons for the next couple centuries. He still retained his foster name as a suitable public persona, but embraced his true identity ‘**Lemar Wolfblood**’ in the supernatural realm to inspire fear, reverence, hatred, and intrigue by the demonic and demon hunting community worldwide. After the Bubonic Plague hit in A.D. 1348, Lemar learned how to use his vampiric, lycanthropic, and sorcerer abilities to become the best demon hunter ever.

Throughout most of Late Medieval history, the Milsons were forced to keep their magic and demon-hunting activities secret as the general European society and religious institutions considered magic to be taboo and satanic, resulting in persecutions and widespread death of innocents. The family traveled throughout the known world, investigating paranormal activity and eliminating various supernatural threats. Their travels went as far as China and Feudal Japan where Lemar met and allied with Kenshi and Hatsumi and learned about yōkai and expanded his experience to these interdimensional beings found only in mainland Japan. Upon returning to England in 1547, King Henry VIII is excommunicated by the Pope and the Vatican and gave the rise to Protestantism which made life even harder for the Milsons, forcing them to seek refuge in France where Klaus and Lemar fought together in the Hundred Years’ War which contributed to England’s defeat in 1453.

#### 1492-1890

In 1492 and throughout the 16th century, Lemar was one of the few explorers to survive every voyage to the New World from Christopher Columbus to Juan Ponce de León, to Hernán Cortés and the Conquistadors, to Sir Francis Drake. Around 1600, the Milsons returned and remained in England for a while. In 1720, Lemar and the Milsons moved to the New World to escape English persecution, and eventually settled in Philadelphia in 1752 with the Milsons working with future Founding Father Benjamin Franklin before serving the military of Britain against France during the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). Afterwards, Lemar and Klaus fought for the Continentals during the American Revolutionary War (1763-1789) and Lemar joined the U.S. Navy and engaged in the War of 1812 while the rest of the family sailed back to France. Afterwards, Lemar sailed over to France where he lived and experienced the full brunt of the French Revolution and the dictatorial reign of Napoleon Bonaparte until his defeat at the hands of Russia in 1812. He defected back to the United States and joined the War of 1812 against Great Britain.

From 1820-1865, the Milsons got accustomed to living in the United States, except for having to constantly hide their demon-hunting duties because of American fundamentalists being a thorn to their sides. They took to living in the countryside, perfectly defendeding themselves against hostile Native Americans in the Wild West, experiencing some peace and quiet for a time. The Milsons moved to California after the American-Mexican War. Lemar and Klaus went and found gold to provide for their family, resulting in the Milsons becoming rich and the former managed to travel better around the U.S. before he fought in the American Civil War in 1864, with Klaus under Gen. Sherman and Lemar under Gen. Grant.

Upon returning back to California in late 1865, Lemar traveled around Asia and Africa, writing to his family and communicating with them through his mind. Lemar then returned, but then traveled again to Britain in 1880 before coming back to the U.S. nine years later thanks to the poverty happening in Britain.

#### 1890-1945

In 1890, Klaus had died from heart failure on February 1, 1890 after returning home from a successful hunt on their ranch. Lemar had to make ends meet for both Maria and Kelly before the former died from a stroke on December 12, 1890 while Kelly and him were asleep in her arms. Afterwards, Kelly was the only family he had left, being his only emotional connection to humanity. Klaus’ and Maria’s deaths brought Lemar and Kelly closer together and they would express love and affection almost every day.

Since they were still wealthy and managed to stay afloat amid the expansion of the United States following the rapid industrialization and the decline in magic all around them; however, Kelly, him, and every demon hunter adapted and incorporated science with magic, and learned to live with the biggest change in mankind’s history.

Before World War 1, Kelly and Lemar visited the Russian Empire before being forced to leave when the First Great War began. Afterwards, Lemar was enlisted in the U.S. Army shortly and fought in Cantigny and Belleau Wood in 1918 before entering the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, resulting in the surrender by the Germans and Central Powers. In all his battles, there were werewolves and dragons on the German’s side, and he wrote to Kelly about it all.

During the Interwar Period, Lemar and Kelly visited Europe to hunt some more demons that were on the loose. They visited Russia, got involved with the Russian Civil War, and escaped after the Red Army won and established the industrialized Soviet Union. On September 1, 1939, World War 2 began with Poland being invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union, resulting in comeplete defeat. This was followed by the fall of France in 1940, the perseverence of Great Britain throughout the war, and an attack from Japan on December 7, 1941, brining North America into the war and resulted in complete victory. Lemar fought in North Africa and at Normandy where he was the lone survivor on the beaches of Omaha, slaying Nazis in his wake. After Germany was on the defensive in late 1945, Lemar and Kelly (as an undercover) fought and defeated armies of werewolves, ghouls, and vampires under Nazi control under a clandestine Nazi project known as Phoenix. The biggest horde of dragons resided in the Third Reich and Phoenix was nearly defeated after Lemar, Kelly, and their new allies that would later form their own organization of demon hunters called Blackbird. After the defeat of Phoenix during the fall of Nazi Germany, Lemar and Kelly returned to their home in the United States before the latter bought her own ranch and both she and her adoptive brother celebrated.

#### 1946-Present

In 1946, Johan Birch founded the Blackbird Organization and Lemar joined the bureau as their trump card, and Kelly Milson was the bureau’s greatest ally, boosting Blackbird’s reputation within the homo magi community. For decades, Kelly and Lemar kept in touch via telepathy and telephone, always embracing each other whenever they had the chance. In . In . In . In . In . In . In .

### *Blackbird*

In *Episode I*–*VII*, Lemar speaks with Kelly on the phone every day so as to know each other’s wellbeing. . . . . . . . .

## Trivia

* Upon discovering he is a demon, Lemar began to hate Klaus and his foster family. Maria and Kelly, however, try to reconcile with Lemar while Klaus uses a different approach to unite their family again. He used the Hundred Years’ War to battle alongside Lemar and in the end of the long war, father and son reconciled, and Lemar slowly began to reunite with Maria and Kelly.
* After a period of reconciliation, Klaus, Maria, and Kelly found a way to train Lemar to incorporate his unholy heritage and master complete self-control. After their travels to Asia, Lemar mastered his sorcery and was proud to be a Milson and accept that he was a vampiric-lycanthropic demon god. He also learned and held strong to the belief that family should be what matters and what one cares about and supports the most. Betrayal, in Lemar’s mind, should never be an option, and would follow this idea for the rest of his life.
* The Milsons were a family of sorcerers, meaning they could manipulate one specific natural element in creative and immeasurable ways, sporting the violet irises which glow under strong emotions or performing a spell. The demon Lemar, upon being turned into a homo magus at birth, also sported the violet eyes as the Milsons until he became a demon again at 26 years old.
* It is unknown how Lemar managed to learn and acquire a variety of hobbies and skills if he was constantly hunting demons or learning more magic outside of hunting the paranormal. According to Kelly, Lemar had a fondness for life outside of slaying demons and was quite a charmer.
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