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Millicent is somewhat narcissistic. She realises the world strictly by how it impacts her directly. This does not mean that she does not see things from a larger perspective, but unless they impact her personally she may not care anything about them. It does mean that she is quite selfish and can be demanding. If she considers someone important to her, they can expect somewhat better treatment. She is not sublimating her needs, rather, she is meeting her needs by meeting some of theirs. In fact, it would be most unlikely that someone could become important to Millicent if most of the relationship did not meet her needs, and very specifically. While she is very social, she has no problem spending large amounts of time alone and is quite capable of amusing herself with intellectual and other pursuits, including shopping and redecorating her Knightsbrigde property and Morsus Mansion. Sexually, she and her husband seem to have some degree of difficulty separating lust and pain. As they explore the boundaries of both, their experimentation may be alternately classified as somewhat sadistic or masochistic. For Millicent, the enjoyment lies not in one or the other, but both.

The Basics

Character Name: Millicent Alberta Bulstrode Morsus PB: Asia Argento Age: 20 Birthday: january 31, 1980 Wand: Rowan with the single feather of a Fwooper with 2 Occamy feathers, bound with the hair of a banshee, 12 inches, pliant. House in School: Slytherin Bloodline: PUREBLOOD Political View: Death Eater, Pureblood supremist.

Appearance

Height: 5' 7" Weight: 125 Eyes: Dark Brown Hair: Very Dark Brown, almost black Build: toned avid flyer, curvy Dress Style: A true ugly duckling as a child, Millicent grew into her build as a young woman and rewarded herself by flaunting her improved appearance. A power shopper and fashionista with a taste for Italian designers and spike heels, Millicent ordinarily dresses with taste and style, but she also has a flair for the outrageous, including avant garde fashion on occasion. She dresses to suit her quixotic moods, and often her choice of what to wear may be the only indication of her mood. Basic Physical Description: Defining Marks: Millicent has several tattoos that are only usually visible to her husband, some of which are infused with magic. One, an eye on her left back shoulder, she had done just after she became a death eater. The prominence of her ungainly stature and build as a child faded as she grew into womanhood. She had gained all of her height at an earlier age than most of her classmates, making her look large, awkward and unattractive. This unattractiveness faded as the rest of her musculature and particularly her feminine features developed in her later teens. Millicent was a late bloomer physically, developing into an attractive woman. Her most discerning mark before March 1, 2000 would have been the dark mark of Lord Voldemort. This mark disappeared with Voldemort, and has not been replaced.

Personality

Millicent’s solitary upbringing taught her to be self reliant above all. She has a strong intellectual streak and a drive to accomplish whatever she sets out to do that borders on fatalistic. The dichotomy of her thoughts versus her actions is only clear from her viewpoint. She is ruled by her passions, but uses her dispassionate intellect to determine her methods and resources. She fiercely goes after anything that becomes important to her, and can be single-minded to the point to fanaticism. However, because of her drive and ambition, her actions are usually well thought out and successful. She is resourceful and creative in trying alternate routes or indirect pathways to achieve her ultimate desires. This can make her calculating, devious, and manipulative. However, if you happen to share goals with Millicent, this can make her a useful friend, a trusted confidant or, as with Montague, a trusted partner. As long as she is moving towards her desires, she is satisfied, even if long term actions and patience are necessary. If, however, she feels thwarted or worse, betrayed, she becomes infuriated, temperamental, demanding, unyielding and accusatory. This side of Millicent rarely asserts itself, but when it does, she is capable of doing anything, particularly something destructive. Millicent can be very manipulative. She is perfectly willing to subjugate her own immediate needs or desires in order to achieve longer term or alternate goals. She sees life as a series of trade-offs. She has willingly traded a significant portion of her autonomy in order to marry Montague Morsus. She is still waiting to decide if what she gets in return has made that a prudent investment. Her primary interest in most relationships is power and that is what motivates her. She has no understanding of or use for love. She came to Hogwarts without any familial basis for forming lasting relationships and learned what she believed to be the norms for relationships between friends in the Slytherin common room and her shared quarters with her other female Slytherin roommates. A consummate observer, she considers the friction she witnessed between the Houses at Hogwarts a microcosm of the wizarding world at large, and she tends to understand conflicts by reducing them to the lowest common denominator: what basic need is being served or deprived? This makes her interpersonal skills rather interesting. Capable and insightful, she maneuvers through the complexity of human relationships with an adroit ability to exploit or garner entertainment from them. She tends to oversimplify on occasion, but then, she is rarely wrong in her assessment of what another person stands to gain in any relationship. She is equally ruthless in assessing her own motivations and entirely self aware and self serving in order to achieve her desired results. While it took her several morose years at Hogwarts to learn some basic conversational skills, she became quite adept at getting along with her Slytherin housemates due to her tendency to understand, appreciate and embrace the Pureblood pecking order. She was raised to it, lived it at home, and found it a useful guideline in the common room, where Malfoy and Parkinson held court and she was quite content to be their friend. This carried over into the adult world as reflected by her admiration for the Malfoys. She considers them the pinnacle of wizarding society, along with Bellatrix LeStrange, now that she has been released from St. Mungos. While she has strong reservations about Draco Malfoy due to his defection during the war, she knows all is not necessarily as it seems. She and her husband are proof of that. As for Draco’s current living arrangements, she cannot understand why a Malfoy would chose to live with Harry Potter. Either he has extremely admirable nefarious reasons or he is a complete blood traitor, and she does not have the information necessary at this time to know which it is. She has only the highest regard for Lucius and Narcissa. She has her suspicions about how Lucius obtained his pardon, but that only affirms her high opinion of his ability to use his considerable resources. She has the same ambivalence about Severus Snape, a man she held in high regard at Hogwarts and during the war. She is hoping the predictions that he is the next Dark Lord are true, but again, does not have the information necessary to decide which side these Slytherins are truly on. It is her experience and belief that the only true side a Slytherin takes is his or her own. For now she has quelled her ambition and violent tendencies to fit the state of the wizarding world at present. What little she expends of her considerable energy on hate is reserved for Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived to Piss Her Off. She blames him totally for the Dark Lord’s death. The death of her father and brother added Neville Longbottom and the Order of the Phoenix to her list. Every time the restrictions of the Registry grate on her nerves, she derives new hexes and curses for all of them. Her relationship with her husband is very complex, mirroring their combative and intricately danced sexual relationship. Millicent remains independent, although she lives with him in his house and seems to lead the life he chooses – yet it is clear that this is by her choice. They were effective and co-operative partners as Death Eaters, and their marriage has the potential to operate just as effectively, if they can keep their destructive urges in check. They have every reason to want their marriage to succeed for purely economic and dynastic reasons, in addition to the fact that they are hardly suitable partners for anyone else. Their indulgence in games of all sorts, the darker the better, has not yet destroyed the trust they developed during their partnership, where their effectiveness and abilities contributed to keep them both alive and undiscovered. Perhaps it is this trust that allows them the freedom for such open experimentation.

Psychology

Extrovert/Introvert: Millicent can be either. Socially, she likes to be an extrovert, but often allows others to take center stage in exchange for the information about them that yields. She can be charming, attentive and entertaining – when it pleases her or might bring her closer to one of her goals. What she does not willingly share are her emotions. She considers tender emotional displays an extreme weakness and sentimental to the point of ridicule. She has buried her feelings about her family so deeply and for so long, that she no longer seems to even desire to unearth them. This would most definitely include any feelings she harbours towards her husband. These are perhaps the most guarded of all. If there is anything that she truly fears (now that Voldemort is dead) it would be discovery of the feelings she works hard not to express. In addition, she can be quite secretive. She and her husband survived the war without being incarcerated as Death Eaters, largely due to their abundance of caution and care against discovery. When they were partners under Voldemort they learned how to protect each other and they still do. Boggart Would Be: Millicent’s Boggart would be a large Kelpie. She has an aversion to swimming, largely due to the fact that as a child she looked quite hideous in any kind of bathing costume, and upon reading about Kelpie’s as a child she developed an irrational conviction that if she were to go into water, a large Kelpie would drown her. Patronus Would Be: Millicent has never needed a Patronus, but being very curious about what hers would look like, she learned to do so and found it to be a Raven. The Raven can be an oracular bird and also represents the upsets and crises of life that are necessary for anything new to be created.

Sexuality

Millicent is heterosexual. She has never been attracted to other women and has no understanding of or interest in homosexual behavior. She is borderline homophobic, seeing homosexuality amoungst purebloods as a threat to the continuation and propagation of the highest order of wizards and witches. However, she cares little about the sexuality of others as long as it has no direct impact on her. Understanding the importance of sex, she pays close attention to the sexual tastes and mores of those who interest her. She believes knowledge definitely equates to power where sex is concerned. Her unattractiveness at Hogwarts and lack of access left her with little opportunity for sexual experience there. Her curiosity and unhappiness in her final year of school abroad drove her to some torrid experimentation during her year at Salem. None of her early partners meant anything to her, however she did discover the diverse and useful connections between sex and power. She used them ruthlessly to obtain favours large and small from potential partners. She considers sex as a weapon the norm in a relationship. Once she returned to England and joined the ranks of the Death Eaters, she became very much aware of the possible worth of a sexual alliance, particularly when she was partnered with Montague Morsus. Millicent is not promiscuous; at least not yet. On August 13, 1999 she married her Death Eater partner, an acquaintance from Hogwarts, Montague Morsus. Millicent had absolutely no expectation that Montague was capable of or interested in being faithful to her. However, she realises that she, as his wife, is held to a different pureblood standard, particularly until she has produced the required heir. She would be loath to risk having an outside relationship as long as her husband is attentive to her needs. Fortunately, they seem to be uniquely suited to each other on a number of levels. Their interpersonal relationship seems more about games than working together, more about lust than love. They lust after sex, but they also lust after pain. These shared appetites make them uniquely suited to each other, but also threaten to destroy the delicate balance between them.

Lifestyle

Occupation: Millicent does not work. Residence: She lives with her husband at Morsus Mansion in Carlisle, Cumbria county. She also owns a house in Knightsbridge. Financial Status: Very well fixed.

Family

Parents: Vinn and Blythe Bulstrode. (Vinn’s father was Brice Bulstrode, his grandfather was Albert Bulstrode, brother to Violetta Bulstrode.) Both Vinn and Blythe were active Death Eaters. Siblings: Tredway Bulstrode, older brother, born in 1965. Millicent's birth was very late, unexpected and largely undesired. Her brother, Tredway was the first born and favourite son, basking in his parent’s attentions and unwilling to share them with anyone. Blythe, a taciturn witch on her best days, turned Millicent’s care over to a series of governesses as soon as she was born. Millicent had little or no contact with the other members of her immediate family during her first few years of life. Her care givers did not stay long enough to form a lasting bond and her family did their best to ignore her. Her mother, when she had any contact with her at all, emphasised her responsibility to do extremely well at school and reflect positively on the family by marrying well. An unattractive child, she was often excluded from family activities. Her father paid her a bit more attention than her mother, but saw her as a reflection of his own late life virility. Her brother wasted little time on her, except to bully her when she was quite young. She was raised to believe that she, as a pureblood witch, was the highest form humanity could aspire to, and others of lesser lineage were simply inferiour. Her family duty was to marry well, and that was defined as marrying another pureblood, preferably one with more wealth than her family had amassed. They also made it clear that they had no thought that this unattractive sullen girl would be able to achieve these lofty goals. Millicent became a Death Eater as her family expected. They failed to notice that her adulthood brought with it a certain attractiveness she had heretofore lacked. When she married Montague Morsus, they were shocked but ecstatic. She had far exceeded their expectations. As a result, her family gifted Millicent with the family’s townhouse in Knightsbridge as a wedding present. This property had been in the family for at least several generations and Millicent practiced her interior decoration on this residence before turning her attention to Morsus Mansion. Her father and brother were both killed towards the end of the war. She does not know the specifics of their deaths, but due to the very coincidental timing, she believes it had something to do with the capture of Bellatrix LeStrange. She therefore holds Neville Longbottom, the Order of the Phoenix, and by inference, Harry Potter, responsible for their deaths. There exists the possibility, of course, that Vinn and Tredway failed in preventing the capture of LeStrange and that the Dark Lord had them killed in retribution. While Millicent knows this intellectually, it would hardly absolve Longbottom, Potter and the Order from her perspective, since they were the responsible parties, directly or indirectly, for LeStrange’s capture. Since the war, her mother has withdrawn into a prolonged depression over her grief at the loss of her husband and son. Millicent is a dutiful daughter who goes to check on her regularly, for the sake of appearances, especially for her husband, who was devastated by the loss of his family and would not understand Millicent’s lukewarm reactions to her own losses. She visits the Bulstrode estate once a week, and after a cursory visit with her mother, spends her time looting the family library of its extensive collection of books on the dark arts. She knows Montague would welcome these additions to their own library, so she has purposely hidden them. She may share them, eventually, if she finds her husband deserving of such a reward. She allows and encourages Montague to believe that she was devastated by the loss of her father and brother. With the shocking defeat of Voldemort so soon afterwards, it was not a hard fiction to maintain as she was genuinely devastated and shocked by that loss. Now that she is the surviving child, she will, of course, inherit everything. The melding of these two pureblood families will result in a much greater windfall than Montague ever expected, cementing the purported reasons for their union. While not on a level with the Malfoys, they are very wealthy indeed and will be even more so in the future.

History from student days at Hogwarts to the present time

Millicent was the first of her family to be schooled at Hogwarts. Both her brother and father had gone to Durmstrang, and her mother had attended the Salem Witches Institute, a purebloods only finishing school for witches in the United States. Sending her off to Hogwarts was the course of least resistance, and decided largely by the arrival of her letter. Millicent had been home schooled by a long succession of governesses who usually left for reasons often centering on the inappropriate attentions shown them by either Millicent’s father, her brother, or both. Millicent, whose rooms at home were adjoining those of the governess, was aware of these dalliances at a very young age. Her mother turned a blind eye to them and the adult members of the Bulstrode family appeared to consider sexual favours to be a part of the standard governess employment contract. When she arrived at Hogwarts and was sorted into Slytherin House, she had no understanding of who Slytherin had been or what that meant. Once she learned of the Houses and their history, she was pleased with her position and felt a sense of belonging for the first time in her young life. Living with girls her own age was far preferable to life at home, and the common room was a source of constant entertainment in the different styles of manipulation, jockeying for position and one-up-man ship. She preferred to learn these lessons from the sidelines, content to let Pansy Parkinson hold court with Daphne Greengrass. Being the unattractive handmaiden also taught her valuable lessons in creative listening and sycophantic behaviours of the lesser lights of the pureblood social set. She began to understand why her sole purpose in life, according to her family, was to do well at school and marry well. As a fifth year Millicent became a member of Umbridge’s Inquisitorial Squad. This was her first introduction to the value that power conferred by the reigning authority could bring. It also gave her a chance to learn how to bully other students with the active encouragement and stamp of approval of the adults in charge. She reveled in this experience, finding it exhilarating and eye-opening. She also developed a deep admiration for her Head of House, Professor Snape. She was a voracious reader and an intelligent student who saw the way he metered out his attentions, punishments and occasional praise as fair and scrupulous within the context of her ideas of pureblood supremacy. She did well at Potions, mostly to earn his favour, and generally followed the lead of the other Slytherins of her year in terms of mud-blood baiting, disdain of half bloods and blood traitors. This ordering of the world translates directly into how Millicent approaches people. If they are purebloods, she knows how they relate to her and her place within that scheme. This is her primary focus and these are the wizards and witches she wishes know and associate with. She considers everyone else to be decidedly beneath her notice. Once Dumbledore was killed, her parents pulled her out of Hogwarts and her mother decided she should finish school at the Salem Witches Institute. She considered the social life at the all girl’s school to be nonsensical, not understanding the pecking order she was thrown into. She also disliked the finishing school emphasis, missing the more rigorous academics of Hogwarts. This is not to say she did not learn anything in Salem. On the contrary, she acquired a formidable set of social skills and the ability to run a large complex household, host large and small parties and generally be the perfect society wife. She was also well equipped to manipulate the school’s more lax control over their students into her own freedom to find a life outside of the school, including her first sexual adventures. At first, she tended to choose her partners based on physical attributes, but then she experimented with different partners based on whim, opportunity, and her own estimation of perceived benefits. She used these dalliances to experiment physically with the boundaries of pain and pleasure, finding she had little or no limits to either when compared with her easily satisfied male partners. It was only when she expanded her horizons to include the uses of sex to obtain power that she became consistently amused and entertained. When she returned home after graduation she was expected to become a Death Eater like the rest of her family. She accepted this like she accepted being sent to Hogwarts and later to Salem. When she received the Dark Mark, she likened it in her mind to joining the Inquisitorial Squad. She soon found out that it was much, much better. Her bullying skills quickly expanded into a taste for inflicting pain on others that made her delight in picking up her wand in the morning. As she found her place with the Death Eaters, she became unusually adept at covering her tracks and hiding all traces of her connections with them. While her parents and brother had been circumspect, she quickly surpassed their efforts in this regard, deciding that they had been entirely too overt in their staunch beliefs and there was more power and flexibility to be had in carrying out the Dark Lord’s orders with relish rather than fanfare. Rightly or wrongly, she credits Severus Snape, the Dark Lord’s right hand, with pairing her with Montague Morsus. She wondered at his choice at the time, but quickly saw that her covert talents were a good match for his flamboyant ones. When she was first paired with Morsus, he barely recognised her from Hogwarts. She was rather put off by that and quite indifferent to him. She quietly admired his blunt and forceful methods of torture and death. She utilized them herself when the situation called for it, but also delighted in learning and employing slower and more insidious methods of torture on victims where information was required. She also delighted in choosing muggle families for future attention during their flying sessions between assignments. Her indifference seemed to catch Montague’s attention, a fact that was hardly lost on the intelligent and perceptive Millicent. If there is any hallmark of her overall treatment of her husband, it would be studied indifference. On August 13, 1999 Millicent married her partner Montague. Their marriage seems to both satisfy and mystify them and they consider it a marriage of convenience, although it appears to be much more than that on several different levels. During the final battle, when all Death Eaters were called to the battlefield, Millicent answered, but arrived at the later stage of the battle and stayed on the fringes, looking for her husband and partner. She loved being a Death Eater, but fighting a battle with opponents who might possess skills equal to her own was hardly her style. Torture and the delightful extracting of information had been her forte. Her loyalty to the Dark Lord was unwavering, but her will to stay alive kept her out of the fray, and she fled back to Morsus Mansion when she could not locate her husband on the battlefield. It was there she was struck down as the Dark Lord died. Her only regret is that she was not able to enjoy that excruciating pain with her husband by her side. She misses the Dark Mark and has refused to allow any other mark to replace it. In the Post War wizarding community, both were suspected of being Death Eaters, however without proof they escaped the imprisonment of Azkaban and were placed on the Ministry of Magic’s Registry. Millicent reads the Registry like a bed-time story, seeking the whereabouts of old friends and acquaintances. She would share this information with her husband if he asked, but asking is not what either Millicent or Montague are good at. In fact, the biggest challenge they face is to find the place their marriage holds in this new world order without the Dark Lord. Will they turn their considerable destructive talents on each other, or find a mutually satisfying redirection for their violent tendencies?

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