Characters

The look of the strip has changed markedly in just the past three months (as of July 4), so I find the old character primer graphic already looks kind of out of date.  Until I get a new one made, here's some introductory information that might help....

Aaron

He lives in a suburb of a great city, in a residential block designed around a patch of native woods.  About those woods, there seems to be something strange about them.... 

He just moved into the neighborhood last year.  It's probable he has some sort of soul-crushing day job which he doesn't like to talk about.  It could be said that his soul came "pre-crushed," but there are also other ways of looking at it.  It's possible the situation is very complex, but that can be said of anything.

Aaron advised: 1-6: Conflict, 1-10: Sympathy, 1-17: Saturday

Stella

She lives next door to Aaron, and shares with him, and a fair number of other people on the street, the same patch of woods as a kind of extended back yard.  Her personality seems to be the very opposite of Aaron's.  What he avoids, she embraces, even obsesses over.  Again, there is probably more to it than just this.

Stella is warm, kind, and tends to be enthusiastic about many things, even at times when this may, perhaps, be considered unwise.

Stella essential: 1-9: Tricks, 1-11: Fiction, 1-14: Bribery

Milen

Here we come to the center of the thing.  Milen doesn't live next to the woods, she lives in them.  She isn't human at all, but what she calls a "woodsprite."  Where she got that word, or even if it should be spelled with or without a space between "wood" and "sprite," is a mystery, and far from the only one.

Milen's existence is definitely supernatural, though this is more or less apparent depending on the moment.  Of this, Stella is enthusiastic (she probably has at least one stuffed unicorn on a shelf somewhere), and Aaron is nervous.  A few interesting facts: Milen sleeps through the winter, is friends with the local wildlife, and adores acorns, partly as food, but maybe for other things as well.

Milen mandatory: 1-5: Dreams, 1-12: Downpour, 1-13: Decision, 1-20: Peril

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