Milo Cross

Name: Eleanor “Nell” Alma Cross

Gender: Female

General Appearance:  Dark hair she keeps cut short. Always a bit of a smirk. 

Personality: Eternally happy and excited about everything. Always up for an adventure BUT also needs her alone time now and again. Able to be friends with nearly anyone. A bit of a tomboy. 

Special Talents: A speed reader. Taught herself French )and  Pig Latin, thanks to Aunt Imogen.)  Can pick locks with a hairpin (but her mother doesn’t know!) 

Who they like better: Both, of course! (Though I imagine Alice is the one she confides in more often than Milo BUT Milo is definitely the “fun” parent.)

Who they take after more: Milo

Personal Head canon: Nell always wears the same pair of dirty canvas sneakers until they’re literally falling apart and her mother throws them away after Nell is in bed and replaces them with a new pair. She then spends the next day dragging her feet around to dirty up the new pair. 

Face Claim: Millie Bobby Brown. (I think. I’m not good at this FC thing.

It had taken quite a lot of convincing, but after a few weeks of persistent pestering, Milo Cross has agreed to leave Bingley and accompany Alice Lark to Boston for the day. 

“You’ve really never been to Boston?” Alice asked as they walked out of the library. Alice had been working on a rather extensive project and needed information from a book the library in downtown Boston possessed but was unable to lend out.

“Nope,” Milo replied, grinning ear to ear at Alice. It was clear he was pleased to be out of the library, where he’d had been forced to maintain relative silence for the few hours she’d been there. Alice had tried to convince him to go out on his own, but he’d insisted on staying with her.

“Not even on school trips or anything?” Alice persisted. Milo shook his head.

“Aunt Alma wasn’t keen on road trips. Besides, there’s no reason to leave Bingley. I’ve got everything I need right there,” Milo explained. Alice paused to think of something Bingley might not have she could impress Milo with that.

“Have you ever been to an aquarium?” Alice asked. Milo frowned, shaking his head. “Then for once, Milo Cross, let me take you on the adventure!”

Within the hour, the pair were standing surrounded by gallons of water and hundreds of fish. Alice was observing Milo, however, as he stared up as a school of sunfish swam above them.

“How does it keep it all in there?” he asked, looking back to Alice. “The water and all?”

“Magic,” Alice replied with a wink. “…Or perhaps engineering. I’m a literature student– I really couldn’t say.”

“It is sort of magical, the whole thing,” Milo admitted, looking up again. He reached out his hand, managing to find Alice’s. She looked over at him and smiled. 

“And to think, you’d never have seen any of it if you hadn’t left Bingley,” Alice commented. It seemed as if the moment he heard the name of his beloved town, something clicked in the young man’s head.

“Speaking of, we should probably head back, yeah?” he pulled Alice in the direction of the exit, though she protested.

“But we’ve barely seen any of it!”

“Its getting so late and is such a drive back home.”

“Its barely even dark, Milo!”

“Yes, but its that time of year when the roads might freeze and think how tragic it would be if we ended up dead in a ditch somewhere?”

“Milo, you’ve being ridic-”

“Alice,” he cut her off, his face a bit more serious than she’d ever seen it. “Can’t we just please go home?”

15. A flirty text

milo: where are you, tonight? 

milo: the stars are so beautiful, i can’t stop thinking about you

alice: are those two things connected?

milo: everything beautiful is connected

alice: are you flirting with me?

milo: always

milo: come out w me again, tonight?

alice: i can’t i have school

milo: i’ll help you w that, then

alice: i don’t think that’s a good idea…

milo: then come on, come out, we’ll have fun!  i’m fun right?

haha omg I feel like lia would just wanna look him over and check for cuts and bruises and be wayyyyy more concerned about him than the tulle and probably made him some tea and gave him and a cookie and just been like “omg please be more careful next time i don’t want you to get hurt!!!!” and from now on is a little more careful about how she works in case milo comes running through again haha #facepalm

KATE LET THE IDIOTS BE FRIENDS PLEASE!!!!!!!

like especially since they work together???? kind of???? Jimmy is constantly bored at work tbh and I feel like he def just wanders into the gift shop whenever milo is there and tries to recruit him like “ok i know how absolutely thrilling counting inventory is but …. what if we replace all the writing utensils with white crayons or change the box office voicemail to sound like chipmunks … i think that’ll be a better use of ur time don’t u????”

LIZZY!!!!  CAN YOU IMAGINE!!!!  Inventory esp is noT something Milo is cut out for hahahaha  Hhonestly Milo was probs whining ‘literally kill me it would be a mercy killing i’d only haunt you as a friendly ghost...we could get on some killer pranks...get it! oh, god, im resorting to puns help me’ etc before Jimmy rolled up and was like ‘...orrrrrrr we could prank everyone we knoWWWWW’ and milo was like “YOU HAD ME AT ‘OR’” FKLDJSKLFJKLD also replacing all writing utensils w white crayons and changing the voicemail to sound like chipmunks are EXACTLY Milo’s idea of a good time tbqh he’s like ‘youre a true genius’ tbh and also likes to assure him, when ppl don’t react favorably, that no true prophet is ever appreciated in their own time hahaha also “It would not only be a better use of our time, but a boon to all our co-workers who need laughter more than ever in this troubling time (i.e. inventory) count me iN” basically smdh can you imagINE some of the shenanigans these two much get up to smdh

Haha! I feel like Eloise realizes he’s basically harmless but she’s also in the camp of “why won’t this guy grow up, like seriously?” I also have this vision of Eloise like, chasing he and Gin out of the theatre or some random building like little hoodlums, hahah!

YES!! I love it! Lydia is always game for weird adventures. And I think Milo loves Bingley as much as Lyd does. I can see them like texting each other weird things and like do stuff around Bingley.