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“I think that when I said I wanted to die, what I really wanted was to escape. I didn't want death. I just wanted my life to be different.” |
Millicent "Millie" Fitzsimmons is the main protagonist of Count the Ways, the third story from Fazbear Frights 1: Into the Pit. She's an ice-cold teenage Goth girl who romanticizes Death, using her obsession as an escape from her miserable life. Millie herself doesn't truly want to die, but on Christmas Eve she is trapped within an animatronic and given no choice.
Physical Appearance[]
Millie has a gothic appearance. She is pale and wears a sheer light powder to make her face look paler in contrast to her black eyeliner and black clothing. Millie also likes to wear jet Victorian mourning jewelry. On Christmas Eve, she's wearing head-to-toe black and purple clothing with small earrings, a necklace made of jet beads, and a silver cuff bracelet on her wrist. While the story says she goes outside without her jacket, the eleventh Stitchwraith Stinger claims that she's wearing a black sweater.
In the colorized image in The Ultimate Guide, Millie is shown having dark brown hair and brown eyes. She is wearing a purple hoodie, black leggings, and purple bracelets.
Personality[]
Millie is a rather unhappy and unfriendly person. She is said to have been a rather fussy baby and had legendary temper tantrums as a toddler. As Millie grew older she began languishing constantly, feeling dissatisfied, unmotivated, and apathetic. To match her serious and miserable mood, she has a gothic appearance and reads gothic literature. Millie also romanticizes Death, although would later come to understand that her obsession with Death stems from a desire to escape her boredom and misery, and she herself doesn’t truly wish to die. She is also hypocritical, judging others based on their looks despite being treated the same. While Millie tends to act bitter and mean towards her family, deep down she truly loves and cares about them. Prior to meeting Dylan, Millie’s only form of happiness came from her love of cookies. When she becomes happier for a brief period of time, she’s shown to enjoy telling jokes.
History[]
Backstory[]
Millie was named after her great-grandmother Millicent Fitzsimmons by her parents. In elementary school, kids noticed her name rhymed with silly and would tease her over it. Millie was also picked on by her fellow classmates for being the daughter of Jeff and Audrey Fitzsimmons, who were treated as a joke in town due to their tendency to enthusiastically start projects only to abandon them, as well as their inability to keep a steady job. Despite this, Millie got along with her parents, with her mother reading her a bed time story to sleep. She also became best friends with a girl named Hannah in kindergarten. The two were inseparable, playing on the swings or jumping rope together at every recess, as well as playing dolls or board games at each other's houses after school.
When Millie was ten, her parents bought a run-down colonial house that they attempted to refurbish, but after three months they ran out of time, money, and energy. As a result, the house had a weird patchwork quality and the exterior of the house was only repainted on the front, which everyone noticed. Sometime in middle school, after fifth grade, Hannah became more focused on popularity and drifted away from Millie, instead spending time with the popular crowd. Millie is made upset by this, believing that Hannah would never be accepted by this crowd. Eventually, Millie began to take on a gothic appearance to match her ice-cold personality and became a big fan of Edgar Allan Poe, with her favorites from the late author being "Annabel Lee" and "The Raven." She also romanticized and became obsessed with Death, imagining Death as a handsome, black-cloaked stranger similar to her favorite singer, Curt Carrion, that would one day choose her and take her away from the boredom and misery of everyday life.
Over the summer, Millie's dad was offered a one-year teaching job in Saudi Arabia and Millie was given the choice to either go with them or stay with her grandfather. After crying, raging, and sulking, Millie chose to stay with her kooky grandfather at his big, strange Victorian house. While she enjoyed the idea of living in an old, sprawling 150-year-old house she doesn't enjoy the assortment of random junk her grandfather collects, some of which have shown up in her nightmares. Millie's moved into her grandmother's old sewing room, with her grandfather adding a narrow bed and dresser to accommodate her and her belongings. Millie tried making the room her own by muting the glow of her lamp with a sheer black lacy scarf, covering the dresser with dripping candles, and adding posters of Curt Carrion on the walls, but the old sewing machine and cream-colored wallpaper with tiny pink rosebuds still made the room feel sweet and old ladyish.
Millie still keeps in touch with her parents via Skype every Sunday. On Saturday afternoons, she walks about twenty minutes downtown to the public library to read more books. When Millie starts attending the local high school, her parents threaten to cut off the allowance that her grandfather gives every week if she doesn't pass all her classes, and she's saving up to expand her small collection of jet mourning jewelry. The bullying and teasing Millie experiences only gets worse as well. One day, one of the jocky popular guys notices her carrying around a paperback copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula, giving her the nickname Dracula's Daughter. In Millie's U.S. government class, she notices a blonde girl named Brooke Harrison who doesn't talk much and assumes she's basic. As Christmas approaches, Millie becomes agitated by the jolly cheer and joyful celebrations around town.
Count the Ways[]
One day, Millie's grandfather cooks a bowl of instant mashed potatoes, mushy-looking meat loaf, and creamed spinach cooked in the microwave. Millie only eats the mashed potatoes and her grandfather encourages her to eat the rest, commenting on how pale she looks. She tells him that she likes being pale and she refuses to eat meat. Millie's grandfather puts some spinach on her plate and tells her he's willing to make vegetarian meals if she helped him, but Millie says that she's an unhappy person who can't be cheered up. Her grandfather tells her to do her homework, and in her room she opens her laptop and searches for "famous poems about death." Millie rereads her favorites before reading one by Emily Dickinson about Death picking up a girl for a date. She feels light-headed and is inspired her to write her own about being taken away by Death in her black leather journal. Millie then starts her algebra homework, and a few minutes later her grandfather offers her glass of milk and a plate of chocolate chip cookies. Millie claims she can't be made happy by cookies but still has them down on her bedside table. Once he's gone, she devours the cookies.
A week before winter break, Millie meets a new kid named Dylan. The two share similar interests and Millie starts falling in love with him, and begins having a sunnier, positive outlook to life. She even to starts to open up to her grandfather.
However, at a Christmas party, she finds Dylan kissing another girl, Brooke. Dylan reveals he never had feelings for Millie and only wanted to stay friends. Heartbroken, Millie decides to not celebrate Christmas and tries to hide from her family. She decides to hide in her grandfather's workshop, and eventually climbs inside Funtime Freddy. She then realizes she is trapped.
Gleefully, Funtime Freddy starts listing off ways he can kill her. He lists off starvation, dehydration, being boiled alive, being impaled, etc. As Funtime Freddy contemplates on how to kill Millie, she realizes how much she took her life for granted and that there was so much to live for. Millie chooses decapitation, but she ducks as low as possible to try to miss the blade. She promises to change her ways if she survives. But, it remains unclear whether or not she made it out alive.
Fazbear Frights #11 - Epilogue[]
After Jake (who is possessing the Stitchwraith) defeats Eleanor, he is drawn to the ball pit of Jeff's Pizza. He sinks under the balls of the ball pit and enters a strange dream-like scenario.
In the scene, Millie is in a forest, confused as to where she was. She felt like she was lost for a long time, even though it was only a few minutes for her. Suddenly, Millie saw something coming out of a nearby huckleberry bush. She was ready to run if she was in danger, but was surprised to see a seemingly harmless young boy.
The boy had green eyes, brown hair, and a big smile on a freckled face. He introduced himself as Jake, offering to help her find her way back. Millie took his hand without resistance and Jake led him through the woods. In an instant, Jake disappeared and Millie was back at her grandpa's house. She saw her family still there, and was happy to see them. She ran into the house and embraced her grandfather's hug. Meanwhile, Millie's happiness could be seen through a clear crystal ball lying inside of the ball pit, alongside many other happy scenes. Millie's soul is given peace.
Trivia[]
- Millie is a vegetarian, and finds meat to be gross and unethical.
- Despite this fact, she does own a leather-bound notebook.