Mill

Mill
Characteristics
Species	Raposa
Gender	Male Female (Formerly)
Age	Unknown
Fur Color	Orange Fur, Brown Hair (As Flash) Unknown (As Mill)
Information
Home	The Void
Story Role	Leader of the Four Guardians
Occupation	N/A
Status	Alive
Game(s)

“Alright you guys, let’s get ready to whoop some ass.”

–Mill

Mill, formerly known as as Flash, is a Raposa created by GuyThatExists that appears in the short stories Blank Slates and Blank Slates 2 as a major character, and in Salem Rose Pt. 1 as a minor character.

She is the leader of the Four Guardians and fought against both Shadow Mari and Drakon. Later, she was killed by Salem Rose during his attack on The Void, and she was revived as Mill by possessing the body of Doug. She would then go on to fight against the Tree King and the Jungle Creature.

Appearance

Flash has long brown hair and orange fur. She wears a dark red jacket and a black bowler hat with a white tag on it. She also carries a black camera with a flash attachment.

Mill's only known defining characteristic is his lack of color and shirt. He also has long ears.

Story

Pre-Blank Slates

Flash, along with the rest of the Four Guardians, was commissioned by Joe to make decisions in The Void alongside the screeners Willham and Mayo. She was also tasked with lowering beings into the Void after they were cut or deemed unused. After the development cycle of each game, she would be deleted until the next game started development.

Blank Slates

During the development cycle for Drawn to Life: Two Realms, Joe called the Guardians to the Discussion Grounds to pick a character to revive for the upcoming game. Flash is the first to comment, asking if they could cull the list of every character without a personality. Mayo tries to sway her against it, fearing that Shadow Mari would attack them. Eventually, the group learns about Mildew and decides to send him up to the game, angering Shadow Mari. She attacks the group and threatens to bring life to the void if they didn't bring Mildew back down. Because the decision was irreversible, Shadow Mari ends up attacking the void, killing Willham and covering Ore in Shadow in the process.

After Shadow Mari's attack subsides, Flash, along with Paint and Hose, take Ore to the color vat in Lavasteam and revert him to his Raposa form. They return to the Discussion Grounds and find Joe, Franco, and Mildew. After looking around at the landscape, the devs ask about the Shadow Hole and ask how it came to be. After learning about Shadow Mari, Joe asks why she was in the void without the dev's knowing. Flash comments that only one other person they know could create life - Mayo.

Shortly after, Drakon and Dinofrog attack the Discussion Grounds. Drakon kidnaps Joe, Franco, and Mildew, leaving the Guardians to fight Dinofrog. During their fight, the Discussion Grounds are destroyed, and the Guardians are in a stalemate with Dinofrog. Eventually, Flash sees Willham, Mayo, Rocko, and Crawler flying by and asks them to help fight. Mayo rejects their offer, but Willham easily deletes Dinofrog. Willham, Rocko, and Crawler continue on their journey to the Shadow Hole, and Mayo asks the Guardians if they want a ride. Flash tries to ignore her, suspicious of her involvement with Shadow Mari, but reluctantly agrees to a ride to the Shadow Hole.

When they arrive, Shadow Mari summons an army of Shadow and Ink creatures from the hole, forcing Flash to fight the horde of enemies, alongside the other three Guardians, Rocko, Crawler, Fiora, Nolan. After Drakon and the Droogle Killer jump into the Hole, Shadow Mari calls off her army, and Mayo urges Shadow Mari to kill Willham, which she does. This causes Flash, along with the rest of the void, to chastise Mayo's alliances and morality. Eventually, Mayo breaks down and begins to yell at the Guardians for seemingly hating her. After her outburst, she collapses to the ground and begins to cry.

As Mayo cries on the ground, Flash, Hose, and Alana help Franco to his feet after failing to ascend back into the Developer's Grove. Hose, with Flash's permission, asks Franco to let them keep living in the void. He says that he'd pass the request onto Joe. After their conversation, they join Paint and Ore, who were keeping other beings away from Mayo. Flash tells Mayo to get up since Willham and Shadow Mari had left using the Shadow Hole.

Just then, Joe makes two announcements into the void. He grants Hose's request, and then says that he has to delete Mayo from the void due to her actions. Mayo begins to disappear, begging for help. When she is completely deleted, Flash walks up to her earrings, which had fallen off her body, and puts them in her pocket. Flash then joins the rest of the beings of the void as they wish Alana, now known as Aly, luck in the next game. She is also part of the group that laughs when Fiora names Sandal, her new pet.

Salem Rose Pt. 1

Some time later, Miles sneaks into The Void and is met by Flash, Hose, Rocko, Jinxy, and Willham. Flash helps him adjust to the void after Miles stabbed himself with the Droogle Leader's Sword. Hose makes a snide remark, so Flash temporarily blinds him as Miles comes to his feet. An annoyed Willham agrees to show Miles the Color Vat in the The Next Chapter Village, bringing Rocko and Flash with him.

On the way to the Color Vat, Flash asks how Miles knew about the void. Miles explains that Deadwood told him about it, but he doesn't know where Deadwood got his source. Flash hypothesizes that GenericChallenge is behind the information leak, and she asks Miles what year he's from. He tells the group about his time travel, angering Willham. Willham points out the Color Vat in the distance and then tells Miles to go find a Shadow Stone to use to return home. Flash apologizes for Willham and points Miles in the direction of the Drawn to Life Village where the Shadow Stones could be found.

Flash is later seen when Salem Rose, a corrupted version of Miles, comes to The Void. When Salem Rose jumps into the Color Vat and absorbs its power, Flash, along with the other Guardians, surround the vat, preparing to fight Salem Rose. Suddenly, the color erupts from the vat, knocking the Guardians down and covering them. She, along with the rest of the Guardians, were killed in this attack.

Blank Slates 2

After being killed, a cloud of blue smoke was released from Flash's body, and it shot off towards the Guardians' HQ, possessing the body of Doug and waking up. After gathering his surroundings, he began arguing with Doug's friends, Hans, Zak, and Mac, asking for Doug's mantra to escape The Void. After some time, Rocko finds the group and listens to Mill's story, and Mill leads him, along with the Eastern Winds Raposa, Fiora, Lambert, and Sandal inside the HQ.

While inside, Mill uses a tracking system to locate the other three Guardians, finding Ore in the Drawn to Life Village, Hose in the Two Realms Plains, and Paint in the Wii Village. He then splits the other characters into groups to go find them, sending Rocko and Nolan after Ore, sending Hans, Zak, and Mac after Hose, and sending Fiora, Lambert, Sandal, and himself after Paint.

Eventually, Mill, Fiora, Lambert, and Sandal track Paint down to the Color Vat in The Next Chapter Village, arriving just in time to help Paint, now in the body of Robot and calling itself Sparky, fight the Tree King, Squid, and Jungle Creature. Mill sends Fiora and Lambert inside a house, and he, Sparky, and Sandal fight the bosses.

During the fight, they are joined by the rest of the Guardians, now known as Hoopz and Violet, and they easily defeat Squid, releasing Mizu's Trident. Lambert picks up the trident and helps them defeat the Tree King and the Jungle Creature, but Mill has a feeling that they'll both reappear, so the Guardians and Lambert leave for the Two Realms Plains.

In the plains, they watch as Shadow Squid is formed, and Mill, along with many others, try to take it down unsuccessfully. However, with help from Lambert and Violet, the Shadow Squid is defeated, so the Guardians leave for the Wii Village to stop the new Tree King. In the Wii Village, Mill tries to use the same strategy, but is once again unsuccessful. Eventually, he, Lambert, and Willham put out the Tree King's flames, killing it once again and finally quelling the Tree King's revolution.

One week later, Mill organizes the screeners and Guardians to go check on the villages after the attack, and Mill goes to The Next Chapter Village. He checks in on Lambert, Fiora, Sandal, and Nolan, who tell him about Rocko and his identity crisis, so Mill goes to check on him. In Rocko's house, Mill helps him realize his true identity as Repair Guy. Mill then returns to the HQ, where he finds the Droogle Leader lost in the building.

Quotes

“Looks like we lost another one. Poor guy.” –Flash “Is it possible to skip the ones without a personality this time?” –Flash “Alright, Guardians, do we have an agreement on Fiora? Alright then. Next please!” –Flash “If voting for Mildew will get the game done faster, I vote yea.” –Flash “This is the void. I assume you’re a dev? One of the voices?” –Flash “Why not? You run this place, so you can fix it, no?” –Flash “Last I heard, Mayo was headed towards The Next Chapter Village and Willham was going to the Wii Area.” –Flash “Ever since the Shadow did whatever it did, we’ve known. It’s like we all have bonds with everyone else now. Feels like we unlocked a whole barrage of memories.” –Flash “The shadow has always been here, but the hole is new, only cropping up about a week ago. It seems to be run by Shadow Mari and is the home for all the scrapped Shadow and Ink monsters you cut.” –Flash “There’s only one other person that can give anyone life as far as I know.” –Flash “Maybe not alone, but if we can lure it into the Drawn to Life village, we might be able to summon someone who can.” –Flash “You don’t have a choice! Help us or we’re all gonna die!” –Flash “Actually Mayo, I think we’ll walk.” –Flash “How did you know Drakon’s name before we even got here? What aren’t you telling us?” –Flash “Well, we have a meeting area and a voting ability, but that all got destroyed with Dinofrog attacked us. As far as I know, there’s no way to ascend up there anymore.” –Flash “It would be nice to have some more company other than just Willham and Mayo.” –Flash “Mayo, you need to get up. Willham and Shadow Mari left through the shadow hole, and now they’re gone.” –Flash “We’ll miss you down here Alana, we won’t forget your help during that war. You saved all of us from the wrath of the Droogles.” –Flash

“Hey, don’t push yourself too hard. The first stabbing is always rough for everyone.” –Flash “Ignore Hose, he doesn’t know how to be a good comforter in times like these.” –Flash “I’m Flash, the one holding your back. I’m the leader of the Four Guardians.” –Flash “Interesting, and how’d you find the void? This isn’t exactly the easiest place to get into.” –Flash “It must’ve been GenericChallenge. We’ve been trying to wrangle him in for a while now, but I guess he’s figured out how to get our secrets out.” –Flash “I guess we better leave too. Willhem made it clear that he doesn’t want you interacting with the void, so the most we can to is point you in the right direction.” –Flash “That village there is the one you want to go to. I’ve never been there myself, but I do know that there’s plenty of Shadow Stones you can use. Good luck in whatever it is you’re doing Miles.” –Flash “Come on out Salem Rose, we have you surrounded and there’s nowhere to hide!” –Flash

“I swear to god, I’m telling y’all the truth. Now please, just tell me what Doug’s mantra was so I can get out of here and beat Salem Rose’s ass!” –Warrior “Finally! Someone who’ll understand what I’m talking about. Remember those blue clouds that shot up from our bodies?” –Warrior “Rocko got it instantly and y’all still don’t understand.” –Warrior “Each one of us is made up of those clouds of smoke, just like Willham and Mayo. Before y’all were brought to life, the four of us decided to use the bodies of cut Raposa to carry out our tasks.” –Warrior “When I woke up, Hans, Zak, and Mac all started asking me a bunch of random questions, and they wouldn’t listen when I told them who I was!” –Warrior “I was Flash, but please, call me Mill now.” –Warrior “I’m gonna make sure of that once we regroup with the others.” –Warrior “This isn’t gonna be an easy thing to pull off.” –Warrior “That should work, assuming you don’t blow their cover. Now, we’ll split up into teams to go find these guys, sound good?” –Warrior “It’s a portable version of that map. With this, we’ll be able to track Paint wherever he ends up, since he was the only one on the move. Now let’s get going!” –Warrior “We’ll figure out what your new name can be once we take these two down.” –Warrior “Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t you the only one out of all of us who tried to get out of that fight?” –Warrior “I don’t know how much more I can take you two!” –Warrior “I’m Mill – used to be Flash. Got wind stuff.” –Warrior “It’s looking to be the only thing that’s gonna work. Let’s do it!” –Warrior “Squid popped, so he’s probably dead, but both the Tree King and the Jungle Creature are probably gonna come back somehow. This didn’t feel like a conclusion to anything.” –Warrior “Anyways, take good care of Sandal after that fight. It looks like it took a lot out of him.” –Warrior “If you want, you can head over to the HQ to watch us fight!” –Warrior “Lambert! Come back here! We need you!” –Warrior “There were four pieces of the Jungle Creature when we beat it. Shadow Squid, Shadow Tree King, and Sandal account for three of them, but one’s still missing.” –Warrior “Alright. Willham, you go to the Drawn to Life Village. Hoopz, go check on the Wii Village. I’ll go to The Next Chapter Village. Violet, go to the Two Realms Plains. Shadow Mari, you go check on the Shadow Village. Sparky, stay here and make sure everything is running smoothly. Everyone got it?” –Warrior “Not much, I’m just coming to make sure you guys are all recovering from the attacks, so you shouldn’t need that trident.” –Warrior “I’ll go see if he’s okay, thanks for letting me know. Anything else out-of-the-ordinary?” –Warrior “Well, I’ll be out then! If you need something, you know where the HQ is.” –Warrior “Actually, I think it adds up perfectly. There’s only one character I can think of that fits all those categories.” –Warrior “I can’t answer that, but I do know that you’re definitely Repair Guy with a reaction like that.” –Warrior “Well, anyways. I should be heading back to HQ now. I’ll talk to Joe and see if we can figure out what happened to you, okay?” –Warrior

Relationships

Allies

• Joe - Superior
• David Franco/Franco Key - Former Colleague
• Four Guardians - Colleagues
  • Paint/Sparky
  • Hose/Violet
  • Ore/Hoopz
  • Lambert
• Shadow Mari - Colleague and Former Enemy
• Repair Guy
• Fox
• Alana/Aly
• Nolan
• Fiora
• Hans
• Crawler's LARPing Group
  • Crawler - Former Enemy
  • Rocket Vulture - Former Enemy
  • Rata, Tat & Tat - Former Enemies
  • Beta King † - Former Enemy
  • Tomohawk † - Former Enemy
  • Jinxy
  • Pot - Former Enemy
• Droogle Killer †
• Sandal
• Doug † - Thrall
• Zak
• Mac
• Red Dragon - Former Enemy
• Gingerfre - Former Enemy

Enemies

• Mayo/Master of the Abyss - Former Colleague and Former Ally
• Droogle Leader - Former Colleague
• Drakon †
• Dinofrog †
• Miles/Salem Rose † - Killer
• Tree King - Victim
• Squid † - Victim
• Jungle Creature/Shadow Squid - Victim

Trivia

• Although not explicitly stated in Blank Slates, Flash is able to control light and use it to attack opponents.
  • This is how she fought Dinofrog and the cut Shadow and Ink monsters.
• The name Mill is a reference to the windmill farms that the cut Eastern Winds Raposa would have owned.

Media

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  The image on Chern Fai's website Flash was first seen in.