Amelia Rosencrantz

She lies to the party about her true identity and pretends to be helpless and weak, with the secret becoming a major plot point later on as the party struggles with whether they can trust her. She has most of the nobles of Baldur's Gate convinced she's a fellow noble, but in fact she grew up as a street urchin and traded her soul to a Great Old One patron in exchange for wealth and manipulating the nobles' memories to accept her as one of her own. This doesn't work on Cazador and Astarion bc lol vampires, so they're hella sus bc this rando just showed up claiming to be a part of a noble family that does not exist and has not existed for centuries. To keep up her part of the pact, she became a serial killer and brought the souls of her victims back to her patron, until she was captured by the mind flayer ship.

This brings us to the events of BG3, where she immediately becomes dangerously obsessed with Astarion, but puts up a sweet and innocent front because she thinks that's what he likes. For his part, he initially doesn't care for her except that he likes being worshipped and adored. But eventually he becomes interested in her as he realizes the depth of her twisted obsession with him and also curious to learn more about who she truly is as it becomes evident that there's a lot more lurking beneath the surface. He does eventually learn the truth before the rest of the party and they bond over their common interest in torture, deceit, etc. And this actually helps their relationship because they're finally being themselves around each other, hurray (he drops his smooth façade around her too, showing his genuine self to someone for the first time in centuries).

• Mia's patron is an Alhoon - a magic-using Mind Flayer that has achieved a limited form of lichdom. His name is something like Svuoophrakt or something, but he goes by the human name Judas to blend into human society
• Mia collects severed heads to bring souls and brains to Judas. Technically, he really only needs the souls to sustain himself, but sometimes he just wants a snack, namsayin'?
• Judas speaks to Mia in deep speech, but she responds in common
• Mia and Astarion knew *of* each other from high society before being captured, but had never properly met until after the crash
• Judas is the only family Mia has ever known; he's like a father or brother figure to her. Also because I am a weeb, he takes on a human appearance of a beautiful bishounen butler when he needs to interact with other people
• I've been toying with a few different ideas about how Astarion would learn her secret; one possibility was that he would stumble upon her while she's taking heads out of her personal trunk for some kind of eldritch ritual
• Before the party learns her secret, they leave her at camp while they do all the important adventuring because they think she can't fight. She uses this time to kill goblins, adventurers, etc. and brings them to Astarion for "supper." When asked, she tells them she just "found them over there" or "they were trying to invade our camp and Halsin killed them." BIG SUS
• Gale is ok with her but finds her kind of dimwitted, Shadowheart likes that she doesn't ask questions, Lae'zel appreciates her curiosity about the Astral Plane and the gith. Wyll initially liked her because she seemed like a damsel in distress, but he’s the most hurt about her secret. She also really likes Skelly (not reciprocated)
• Mia's favorite books are romance and smut novels; she's very big on the "someday my prince will come" fantasy. She thinks it's Astarion. For his part, he makes her read them out loud to him and he likes making her blush by reenacting the scenes
• She gets along well with Omeluum because he reminds her of Judas, makes her a bit less homesick. Definitely offered him some duergar brains at some point

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