Milanese
Legacy Name: Milanese

Milanese- the central variety of the Western Lombard language spoken in the city and province of Milan. In Italian-language contexts, Milanese is often (like most non-Italian languages spoken in Italy) called a "dialect" and is, as a consequence, mistaken for a dialect of Italian. In fact, Milanese and Italian are distinct Romance languages and are not mutually intelligible. -Wikipedia

Beauty is more than a commodity they say. To live and sell an image, an ideal, an illusion is the entire world to some. Anything to be beautiful, to remain beautiful. Anything at all, there is no limit. You just have to be strong.

Milanese had a good childhood. His gender when he was born was ambiguous but his happy parents were the progressive sort, such a thing did not bother them. They did not force their child to fit into one stereotypical slot, instead letting him choose who he was. They were loving and giving, for they were as rich as they were open minded. As he grew up, Milanese started to prefer to be addressed as a male even if he did not see the need to live as a stereotypical male. To him, who you where did not mean you had to behave a certain way.

One thing Milanese loved growing up was to see the shops in the fashion district of the city. It was not uncommon for him to get a peak at a fashion model going to a shoot or heading to a fitting. It was a glamorous life he saw, and he wanted it for himself.

It was not surprising to anyone that Milanese wanted to be a fashion model, a female one at that. But what was surprising was how much the photographers and designers started to fall all over him. He was tall and slim with fine features and not prone to weight gain. "The perfect body" was often whispered behind his back. Indeed, where other models would have to starve themselves and yet still need an outfit altered, Milanese could put in any outfit without fuss and still be healthy. Even makeup was something he did not necessarily need, even his photo shoots did not need much in the way of touch ups or airbrushing. "A perfect beauty, just perfect."

However, the life of a fashion model is nothing if not competitive. What gained Milanese's favor with the designers was what gained him enemies with the other girls. At first it was just biting comments behind his back then he was not invited to go out to the clubs with them. But it escalated quickly into sabotage or even physical altercations. He had to cancel one photo shoot due to a black eye. The fashion world was vicious and unrelenting, you had to be strong to survive. And strong he became.

What was once a nice sweet person became vicious and vindictive. Milanese was always on guard, always on defense, paranoid to a point. He would make "friends" with the younger up and coming models to bolster his self-esteem only to drop them once they became too famous. He started do his own sabotage, trying to ruin his competition. He gained a reputation of being cold and cruel, but it was nothing that wasn't being done to him.

And then came the breaking point. The designers insisted that they still loved him, but they wanted someone younger. Younger. He was barely in his twenties and he was already starting to fade. No. That would not happen! He was still beautiful! Suddenly there were...accidents plaguing young models. An allergic reaction here, a car crash there. They were just unlucky accidents right? Nothing could tie Milanese to these deaths. The older more experienced models seemed spared, or was it that they were too wise to be set up?

But it wasn't enough. There were always going to be younger models, an unending mass like the waves of the sea, there were always more. He needed to ensure his own longevity. He needed to retain the youth he already had, dieting would not help in that regard. So he turned to strange alternatives. Potions and pills, easy enough for even him to make, that would keep his features fresh and fine and his pelt soft and glossy. He started to regain the eyes of the designers, they noticed him in a fresh light. He was still the favorite and would always be so.

And yet, once in awhile. He will discover a memory from childhood and wonder what happened to that child, so sweet and full of promise.

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Milanese is a very tall and slim anthro glacier popoko. His appearance is very feminine though he'll get very angry is referred to as a girl. He works as a female fashion model and is often surrounded by an entourage of the social elite, assistants, and hanger-ons that he calls friends. He always wears the latest fashions and lives in a penthouse suite when not jet setting around the world. His personality is cold and abrasive as he is always on guard for those that wish to ruin him. As such he is untrusting, stressed, somewhat paranoid, and sometimes worried about his sanity. The only people he truly trusts are his parents.