Miel Fitzpatrick
Name: Miel Seraphina Fitzpatrick
Age: 19
Birthday: August 12
Occupation: University student, café owner
Likes:
Making people smile, making teddy bears, baking fancy pastries and reading
Dislikes: Being lonely, being scolded, bugs
About Miel: [Note: Miel's life is ongoing. This is her story up till now.]
Miel is a simple, naïve girl from a very tiny town in eastern West Virginia called Marlinton. There she lived with her parents in a low income home, struggling every day between her schoolwork and her dominating parents. Miel hated school. She wasn’t the brightest of students but she wasn’t the stupidest either. She hated school because it was a place of so many disappointments for her. Ever since she was a child, she had a stuttering impediment that many students, mostly boys, made fun of her for. In 5th grade, Miel was an early bloomer and grew taller than the 46 other children in her grade; gaining her the nickname of “Stutters the Giant”. In middle school, even after the other girls in her class hit puberty, Miel remained the one of the shapeliest and cutest girls but her bust was far more larger than all the girls. Rumors were rampant about her in her class, started by angry boys whose advances were rejected by her or the too often jealous girls in her class. As a result, Miel was sent to the principal’s office for disrupting class or being so upset she couldn’t continue learning.
In the 9th grade Miel found, what she thought to be, a haven in one of her teachers. Mr. Clark was a younger English teacher who had moved that year to Marlinton from the big city (Pittsburgh). A few days after the school year had started he openly took an interest in Miel. He offered to tutor her in English and a few other subjects after school. At first Miel refused but after some coaxing she agreed, happy that for once someone was trying to help her. After tutoring he told her stories about city life and all it encompassed. She was enchanted by his stories and ultimately by him, and she developed a strong attachment and adoration of him. About one-third into the semester, she began to visit him on the weekend where they spent the evening reading a book of her choice together at his house (unbeknownst to her parents). At a point they became romantically involved though he threatened her that she mustn’t show any feelings at school and their relationship absolutely couldn’t be disclosed to anyone.
Two-thirds into the semester, Mr. Clark and Miel were called into the principal’s office along with Miel’s parents when a student reported that he saw Miel intimately involved with the teacher at his home. Both Mr. Clark and Miel vehemently denied what the student saw but Miel could tell by the look in her father’s eyes that he knew she was lying. She prepared for the worst that was to come when she got home.
Mr. Clark had been transferred to another school, confessing that he had indeed had some relations with Miel but that she was a jezebel and had seduced him and he had no control. Her parents believed this was true also, given the long time problems she’d always had at school and were not so light on her. Not only did she get a three hour-long lecture on the origins of sin and lust from her mother but also she got the beating of a lifetime from her father. Completely enraged and not satisfied that her punishment was enough, her father locked her out of the house telling her that the backyard shed was her new home until they felt she had fully repented from her sin. For a month Miel stayed in the shed receiving lectures every morning about the importance of righteousness and religious piety. She got a plate of cold food for dinner in the evenings. As for bathing, she’d have to shower at the school because her parents didn’t allow her access to the house. At school, the word had spread like wildfire and she was ridiculed and avoided at her school like never before. Finally after a month, Miel broke down and confessed to her parents and was allowed back into the house, but after that, her parents never treated her the same. Her father was cold and condescending to her and her mother simply didn’t want to talk to her any more. Absolutely miserable and to the point of breaking, Miel vowed to leave her parents and her horrible hometown as soon as she could. Unfortunately, that opportunity wouldn’t come for three more years.
After that event, Miel’s mother made her dress from head to toe in oversized and ugly clothes to hide her figure thus avoiding any future “seductions”. Miel also avoided the school and her classmates as much as possible, standing in the corner during P.E., hiding in the bathroom during lunchtime and hurrying home after school to shut herself in her room. There, Miel would often spent her days alone, reading romance novels, knitting or making cloth teddy bears.
To make extra money, Miel took up a part time job as a junior office assistant in the city hall and also sold her handmade teddy bears to the local toyshop. She spent only a small part of her money to continue her hobbies and the rest she saved up in an old jam jar behind her bed. Although the next three years of her life were grueling with what seemed like never ending ridicule at school and the abuse from her parents, the day after she graduated from high school she packed her old suitcase, emptied her jar and left her parents home during the day when they were working. She was scared beyond her wits to leave town and be on her own, but she couldn’t stand it any more and mustered up all her guts for it. She hopped on an Amtrak train with no particular destination in mind-- she just wanted to get as far away as she could from West Virginia.
She stepped off the train in Austin, Texas of all places because it looked completely different. There were no lush mountains and fresh spruce trees-- Texas was completely flat and the heat was horrible. However, Austin was a fairly big city (she thought Dallas was too big) and far enough away from West Virginia and that would do for her.
In Austin, Miel stayed at a youth hostel and began immediately looking for a job as her jam-jar savings were beginning to run dry. She was placed, through a temp agency, at a law office in downtown Austin. The simple secretarial job turned out disastrous, but the owner of the law firm, Mrs. Inessa Klein took an odd personal interest in Miel. At the end of the day, discussing her not-so-stellar job performance of the day, Mrs. Klein probed into Miel’s background. Miel explained her situation to a fascinated Mrs. Klein and she told Miel she had an unusual offer that would help her out tremendously. Mrs. Klein told her she liked Miel’s sweet naïveté, girlish charm and angelic face. Not one to beat around the bush, Mrs. Klein simply laid out the strange proposal to Miel: She wanted Miel as her personal “pet” and would provide anything and everything for her if she would agree.
Miel was at first stunned and taken aback by the offer, but Mrs. Klein explained that she just wanted Miel’s company and friendship. In return, Mrs. Klein would give her a place to stay and a job at her law firm. As her “Mistress”, she would provide for every want Miel had. Mrs. Klein even offered to pay for Miel’s university education.
Miel’s head spun. All of this would save her from finding a place to stay and a job. Her jam-jar savings was empty and it ultimately sounded like a good deal. She had always wanted to go to university but the cost of tuition stopped her. Now she had an offer to do so that was scarily too good to be true. When Miel tried to ask questions about the offer, Mrs. Klein swept them aside, telling her not to worry about the details. Miel hesitantly accepted the offer and the delighted Mrs. Klein finalized it with a verbal contract.
Despite as scary as it had sounded, the deal Miel made suited her. Over the next two months, Miel developed her own role at the house. Every morning she would dutifully wake up early to make Inessa’s coffee and toast and prepare her a healthy lunch. Once Inessa left for work, Miel would clean up the house, do any laundry and run household errands. When the errands were finished, Miel would diligently look into and apply to different universities. After Inessa came home, Miel would happily spend her time catering to Inessa’s whims. Inessa was rather pleased with Miel and her domesticated ways and would give her a treat often-- bringing gifts of new clothes, accessories and other things. In turn, it thrilled Miel to no end that she could finally make someone happy with what she did and strived painfully to please Inessa in any way she could. She yearned for a simple “good girl” or petting from Inessa and found herself waiting and begging for Inessa’s attention every time she could.
There were things that did bother Miel, though. Inessa often had odd clients who would come by the house. They seemed odd in that they were strange looking or sometimes freakish. Others were unbelievably charming and highly unlike normal people. There were strange items about the house that Miel did not know what they were for, and in the study, there were many books in a language she had never seen before. Inessa also claimed to be married but not once did Miel see Inessa’s husband in the house in the two months she was there.
After two months, Inessa moved Miel into her own small apartment-- much to Miel’s disappointment. Along with having her part time job, Miel began school at a local university. There she met her now best friend Tangie, a fiery-spirited and down to earth girl. Living alone Miel began spending more times with her past hobbies of reading and baking. Soon among her friends at school, she became well known for her pastries and cakes which she would often bring as study-session energy boosters.
When Miel’s life and happiness seemed to be finally coming together, Inessa pulled Miel’s reins again. Inessa had come into the care of a special magical bakery from the passing of her best friend. Inessa, not wanting to deal with the business or the baking, passed it off to Miel. Miel found that Inessa was a witch defense lawyer for demons and netherworld beings. When Miel put everything together from the odd clients that would visit and the strange books and materials in Inessa’s house, it finally all clicked. A shocked Miel was pulled from her university and enrolled into a new university—Inessa’s alma mater, the Interdimensional Institute for the Education of Arcane Arts, or simply the IIEAA. Here, Miel will have to try her hardest to become a qualified witch, become adjusted to the new lifestyle of magic (which she did not believe in before now), and manage to run a magical bakery at the same time. Unfortunately from everyone’s report including Inessa’s, Miel has little-to-no latent magical abilities like most normal people. It will be a serious uphill climb for her.
Creator's comments: Originally, a day or two after I made Inessa, I made Miel. Miel was some C head that I was going to turn into a elf but decided otherwise because the elf was not turning out so hot. I always wanted to make a sweet girl doll to use as a model for my goods so that's how she originally came about. I enjoyed her so much I employed her in several photostories and my love for her grew from there. This Miel is version 6 and uses a new C head instead of the old one mentioned above. Because she is my favorite doll, I strive to keep updating and perfecting her.
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