Milo (Classic)

## Milo

  – **Milo'**s view on his place in the world.

**Milo** is a central character in the **Repeat Offenders Universe**. After graduating college, Milo became a semi-successful science fiction author but learned that many of the things he wrote about would become real and that many of his favorite cartoons had suddenly begun to exist. Due to his immaturity with his powers initially, he garnered the attention of people like the Forever Knights, HIM, Mojo Jojo, and others. In response, Milo and his friends form the **Necro Crew** to stop these threats. However, Milo would meet his arch-enemy, **Necro Milo**, a version of himself from the future who became evil after suffering one last heartbreak.

## **Personality**

  – **Milo'**s mantra about his abilities.

A little neurotic and having ADHD, Milo is historically focused on the task due to his meds. However, people have commented on Milo's process, which is extreme. Milo's mind works as a series of "case files," each file has all the information needed on whatever subject he is looking into or needs to recall. Due to this, Milo has a litany of files, notebooks, journals, and legal pads filled with different topics organized in his library. As stated by people who know him, they routinely go to Milo's created library if they need knowledge on a subject.

Milo is a relatively normal guy, which betrays his outlandish knowledge, extraordinary abilities, and his unorthodox world. Whereas his eventual peers are willing to fight, boast their power, and even dive head-first into danger, Milo isn't. Ironically enough, Milo is the most grounded of his eventual peers as he doesn't get excited at the prospect of fighting, he doesn't wish to amass more power, nor does he do any of this to survive. Milo does what he does because he wants it to stop.

A decent enough writer, Milo is hesitant to publish any of his current works as he is fearful that tomorrow, he will wake up and find that Megacorps are confirmed, along with the idea that Megacorps are integrating cyberware into the mass populace. Since getting his abilities, Milo has become a tortured writer. He is fearful of writing anything at any point and for any reason. Thankfully, his powers don't work on notes, but he is scared for everything else. This led to Milo only writing things into creation in the most extreme cases. His grounded nature comes from his ideology that he can't be a hero because he is a researcher and writer. He believes that his "superpower" is his writing and researching capabilities, along with articulating what is happening to people.

Furthering this point, Milo doesn't hold the highest opinion of himself. A primary weakness of his, Milo often makes self-deprecating jokes or comments on how he will kill himself, which comes off to people as jokes. His failings with girlfriends have led to him essentially giving up. Not in a "no woman wants me" way but in seeking love. His childhood as a single child has led to him being anti-social and keeping more secrets than a secret agent. He routinely goes out of his way to avoid social interaction unless it is with his close friends, who are few and far between.

His lack of confidence has led to Milo creating a comic called "*Disco Elysium.*" Milo utilizes the story as a metatext for his social failings and emotional trappings. Using the comic of two time-traveled Samurai in the 21st century, Milo talks about his self-confidence issues, his relationship with his family, his problematic inability to connect with anyone, and more as significant plot points in the story. The comic has won awards and received critical acclaim, but this did nothing for Milo as he still struggles with confidence. He has some measure of it, as he isn't crippled by it, but deep down, there are traces of self-hatred and a lingering feeling of wanting to belong.

Milo's views on his romantic relationships and entanglements are based mainly on his upbringing. He is a hopeless romantic. Whenever he gets into a relationship, he becomes possessive but not overbearing and jealous but won't ever talk about it. When Milo loves, he loves heavily, even if he doesn't show it often and makes mistakes along the way. And when these relationships end, and Milo is single again, he feels this deeply. He feels so profoundly after a relationship ends because he sees it as unwilling isolation, much like he was as a child due to him being an only.

Milo feels he failed his partners in some way. Either he didn't love enough; he wasn't there enough, anything. However, it is Milo's self-loathing talking as Milo is talking himself down to have some semblance of closure. This and his self-confidence issues are why Milo has had only two **meaningful** **relationships**. He fears that his ways, and now, his powers, will lead him to the possible future of Necro Milo, who turned evil because his heart got broken again.

## **History**

*Click on the images above to see the respective histories.*

## **Attributes**

### **The Lane**

When Milo, like many other individuals, awoke in the new universe, Milo learned of his connection to something called "The Lane." This awards him to manipulate it in a style known as "Swerving The Lanes." Milo can use The Lane to allow him to perform video game-esque moves but only from fighting games he plays, specifically only moves from Fatal Fury. The Lane enables him to achieve the energy abilities characters in that franchises use. They are limited as Milo can't use their more outlandish attacks and thus has roughly five moves he can perform due to The Lane.

In addition to manipulating The Lane for video game combat moves, there was an interesting side effect. He can summon specific weapons from his favorite media franchises, but it is imperative to note that it is only weapons. He cannot invoke vehicles or people, specifically only weapons. The downside is that Milo has to write a story for this to occur since he is a writer.

How much Milo has to write is based on the kind of weapon he is attempting to bring over. However, he doesn't get to use the magic or advanced technology that some weapons have. If Milo invokes The Omnitrix, it will just be a cool-looking watch and so on. This leads to Milo typically summoning swords and melee weapons of which, he can summon only a specific three. Milo has learned of a loophole to help him, though. Milo will write half of a fictional story and, when combat comes, will finish the other half of it for a "quickdraw" effect.

This move comes from *an attack of the same name.* from the *Fatal Fury* series.

### **Abilities**

As mentioned before, Milo is an extreme nerd. He makes quips and references to pop culture on a near-constant basis and has a great deal of knowledge about pop culture. He has seen most things in the cultural zeitgeist and has strong opinions about many franchises. Milo likened his experiences to Ben 10 and Spider-Man to better understand what was happening to him. This even led to him having a "With Great Power" moment after he nearly destroyed his life with his abilities. He was immature with his abilities, and Milo gained a mantra based on his pop culture knowledge, "Real world, real consequences." His pop culture knowledge is a conduit for his remarkable intelligence, but it isn't what makes him valuable.

What makes Milo valuable is his research capability. Milo will research anything that interests him. It stems from his childhood. As an only child until his parents revealed his half-brother, Milo spent most of his time reading and learning more about different subjects. His unwilling isolation led to a preferred solitude that begat his ability to mass absorb information quickly. This ability was due to untested ADHD, but after gaining medication for it, Milo has become even better at it. A section of his room in Raymond's house is filled with organized notebooks and journals on various topics—everything from detailed outlines of future novels to a 1-to-1 translated account of the Crucification of Jesus. His occult knowledge is his true "superpower" and his leg up against his more powerful peers. He has studied several translations of the Gigas Codex, the works of H.P. Lovecraft, tore through Dante's Inferno, and has even dabbled in Paradise Lost.

## **Paraphernalia**

### **Equipment**

On his twenty-first birthday, Milo was given a typewriter by his father. While it is not mystical or powerful, Milo uses it to write "*Disco Elysium*" and other stories. While it isn't conventionally portable, Milo takes it everywhere with him. He has a 2-in-1 tablet laptop to write quick notes and research, but when it comes to writing stories or hopefully creating/summoning something, he uses the typewriter.

Another item that he cherishes is a pair of Jordan 3s OG Fire Red. When he got his first residual check from a novel he published, he bought the shoes and put the rest away for college. There is nothing overtly special about the Jordans. Later, as a joke, Milo etched an angelic warding sigil on the right sole and a demonic warding sigil on the left.

## **Trivia**

* Milo is addicted to nicotine. Often calling himself a "Nicotine Soldier" or a "Nicotine Warrior."
* Milo is allergic to seafood.
* Milo has won to Jack Kirby Awards and an Esiner for "'*Disco Elysium*."
* Milo has published six books and his comic is ongoing.
* Milo cites Dwayne McDuffie, Jack Kirby, and Donny Cates as his inspirations.
* Milo owns several graphic tees.
* At San Diego Comic Con to promote his book on a panel, Milo was given a replica of Luke Skywalker's Ceremonial Yellow Jacket by a fan. It was in reference to the *Disco Elysium* storyline called,"*Many Men*" which had the one of the two samurai protagonists wearing a similar jacket. Milo wears it often.
* Rap music is Milo's favorite genre of music.
* Milo has an expansive CD collection.
* Milo is often seen wearing a blue parka with an X-Men logo on the right sleeve.
* Milo does own a Playstation 5.
* Milo graduated college with Creating Writing Degree.
* Milo has seen and watches more cartoons than he cares to admit. Same with comics as he is often seen reading them or playing video games.
* Milo is very surprised that he has a secret identity and that it is still a secret.
* Milo takes Adderall for his ADHD.
* Milo has often let his intrusive thoughts win when it comes to conversation. There have been a few instances in which he has said some of the most outlandish shit to people's faces.
	+ When encountering HIM for the first time, Milo stated blatantly, "My god, you're unattractive." Which garnered a confused look from everyone in the room, HIM included.
	+ When Ben transformed into an alien for the first time, Milo was the only one who commented on the fact that when Ben transforms, it is freaky looking.
	+ Another more funny time was whenever Milo saw Max Tennyson in real life. Milo stated, "Holy shit, you are older than I thought!" Which Milo got punched in the arm by Xiao, Talula, and Raymond at the same time over.

## **References**

1. ↑ The More Things Change
2. ↑ Welcome to Forever
3. ↑ 808s

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