Millicent
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune
For the last 10 years, Millicent Kane has reigned as the dragon queen of the City of LA's permits and bylaws office. She's made co workers cry, she's made supervisors cry, she's said no to crying grandmothers and newly weds alike. She had a reputation for finding legit reasons to shut down the businesses or projects of anyone who got on her bad side, and finding legit reasons to expedite the projects of those who were in favor. There was never anything done wrong per say - no she could always support this with pages and pages and pages of documentation.
And then, sometime in the fall of 2020, someone in the City's HR department finally found the means to force Millicent to attend a 'Respectful Workplace and Anger Management' program after she cut down the wrong person and something odd happened after that - it didn't happen all at once, but very slowly after the next 6 months tears became less and less of a thing in the department and slowly instead of saying 'no' and making people re-book to come back in a few months, it became 'Oh I see a mistake if we can fix this quickly we'll do it now'. Then projects with no financial gain for the city started getting assistance with getting their projects. Don't be mistaken, it's not Disney Land there now - rules are rules, process is process, and procedure needs to be followed but the department spends a lot less money on tissues and mental health days now.
- I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.”
― Isaac Asimov, FoundationCity Hall: Millicent works in the city planning department and is a Sr. Permit Official. Currently Millicent is on a 1 year sabbatical to focus on her efforts with Bad Wolf Media.
Notorious RBF: Oh it's still there, just now you're more likely to be on the receiving end if you're bothering her staff.
Ruthlessly Efficient: Millicent is ridiculously adept at navigating the bureaucracy of local government and as a result if she is motivated to ensure something gets done she is able to pull together the resources to cut through almost all of the red tape quickly and efficiently and bring it into being with surprising speed.
Extremely well connected: Millicent's position brings her into contact with a vast array of do'ers in Los Angeles; film studios, contractors, businesses big and small, law enforcement, emergency services etc... as a result she knows 'a guy' in many areas and that guy probably wants her to sign off on his next project so....
Contradicting Values: Pro Big Government, Pro-Regulation of everything, Pro Laws of all kinds, Pro Gun but also pro registry. Millicent is the anti-Libertarian.
Not all work: Millicent isn't only at work, like everyone else she can be found out on the world at social events, or eating out most nights (who has time to cook?!).
Closet SciFi Fan: Mostly the books and especially the classics. And if you ask her Star Wars isn't Science Fiction it's fantasy in space, and Star Trek doesn't really pose enough of a coherent question to be more than speculative fiction.
Bad Wolfe Media & Limitless Community: Millicent's the CFO for Bad Wolfe Media and the chairperson for the Limitless non profit Limitless Community. Want to do some sort of education or STEM work? Reach out.
- Neil Gaiman + Terry Prachett, Good Omens
Mercury:
- Frank - "Ever have that feeling where you're not sure if you're awake or dreaming?" - The Matrix
- Minerva - “There was a time we tormented one another with excessive honesty in the naive belief it would save us.” ― Stanisław Lem, Solaris
Venus:
- Spencer - “There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.” - Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
- Vala - “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” - Jurassic Park
Earth:
- Damon - “It was a large room, heavily outfitted with the usual badly ventilated furnaces, rows of bubbling crucibles, and one stuffed alligator. Things floated in jars. The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.”― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
- Gwendolyn - “Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.” ― Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
- Ku - “Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.” ― Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf
- Skylar - “The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it.”― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
- Sophia - “The set of her chin suggested she might have slain a dragon before breakfast. The look in her eyes suggested she might, in fact, have eaten it.” ― Katherine Rundell, The Wolf Wilder
Mars:
Pluto:
- Donovan - "Survival is the ability to swim in strange water." - Frank Herbert, Dune
- Billi - "Do not just slay your demons, dissect them and find out what they've been feeding on." - The Man Frozen in Time
- Haruka - “We were neither what we had been nor what we would become once we reached our destination.” - Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation
- Ned - “I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral,' Smiley went on, more lightly. 'Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the centre of things.”― John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- Preston - "Ordinary is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary." - Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
- Rachel - "Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind." - N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
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The Woman
Cthulhu (the dog) & Control (the rat) & Max Smith (the wonder PA)
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| Nickname | Penny / Moneypenny |
| Demeanor | Pragmatist |
| Nature | ?? |
| Height | 5'7" |
| Eye Color | Amber |
| Hair Color | Dark brown |
| Birthdate | August 4, 1987 |
| Rank 3 (City Hall) |
| Contacts 3 |
| Resource 4 |
| Favorite movie(s): Clueless, Atomic Blonde |
| Favorite color: Black |
| Go to lipstick: MAC: Matte Ruby Woo & Nars: Bad Reputation |
All Comes Crashing, Metric
Starting over won't be easy, broken divided
Split tomorrow from today
Knowing what you know
Just makes it harder to think straight
Starting over after it breaks
Starting over when the story's got an astounding twist
You better turn that page
When push it comes to shove
We do not fall out of love
We double down we do not fade
For all I know
This might be my last night
If that's how it goes, there's no one
I would rather be lying beside
When it all comes crashing
When it all comes crashing
Starting over won't be easy
Damage be damned
Please say you love me just as I am
Starting over won't be easy
Misunderstand that pattern
Fear is forcing your hand
Knowing what you know
Just makes it harder to think straight
Starting over after it all breaks
When push it comes to shove
We do not fall out of love
We double down we do not fade
For all I know
This might be my last night
If that's how it goes, there's no one
I would rather be lying beside
If all we knew
Came crashing down tonight
I'd be with you, and there's no one
I would rather be dying beside
When it all comes crashing
All comes crashing down
When it all comes crashing
All comes crashing down
We'll come crashing down together
Don't expect to live forever
We'll come crashing down together
If it all comes crashing down tonight
We'll come crashing down together
Don't expect to live forever
We'll come crashing down together
When it all comes crashing crashing crashing
For all I know
This might be my last night
If that's how it goes, there's no one
I would rather be lying beside
If all we knew
Came crashing down tonight
I'd be with you, and there's no one
I would rather be dying beside
When it all comes crashing
