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Millyyyyyy

So first off, I thought she was a dude for as long as I've seen pics of her, something I'm sure I'm not alone in. I was delighted to find out it wasn't so! Usually with these designs, even for goddamn knights, the artists throw in something to make sure you KNOW they're female AND attractive (bc if she's not pretty why in game hurdur). But Armilly could just as easily be male without changing a thing about her design. Not that there's anything wrong with a female character appearing more "feminine", but y'all know what I mean. The Samus effect: just having a character who's femaleness and attractiveness isn't the focus is so nice. Little girls and women want to be cool action figures too!!! Knights without boob plates! Just let us slay dragons without heels on, y'know?

Now for her actual character. In that regard, Armilly is a breath of fresh air as well. Cheerfully obsessive about her main interest, dying to get into a guild of heroes, hyper focused to the point of obliviousness occasionally, her personality seems more common in male characters and she's just cute. So dang cute in her enthusiasm and optimism that the moments when it falters it's a huge bummer. TVTropes described her as "bifauxnen" and it's true, I would follow her into Hell, my wife.

And yeah yeah, people tend to project onto characters and I already have with Rusty, but... If the creators confirmed she was on the spectrum, I wouldn't be surprised. The single-minded focus, the hyper fixation, the black-and-white complete idolization of Gilgamesh... Have to wonder if it wasn't only her "lowly stature" that got her rejected from the Guild. I feel Copernica is attuned to this about her friend and keeps an eye on her.