Editing The Milkmaid (section)

== Personality==
She's nocturnal, but enjoys watching sunrises before going to sleep.<ref name=":0">Other Bogeymen resemble living people, but fall more into the realm of heavy carnivores, dining on fear.  Like heavy carnivores, they don't need to eat often.  Finding other things to eat helps fill the space between, so they'll do that a lot, and beyond that they tend to patrol or wander.  If the Milkmaid locates herself in the abandoned farmhouse and the surrounding fields, then she might get to know the ins and outs of the property, where the fence is reliable, where the holes in the ground are, and she'd find the things to alter the property.  A whole day can be spent on one window, so it's ajar but closes when someone slips through.  A week can be spent on the floor, so that the window closes when someone comes running along the shaky floorboards of the house, directly toward the opening.  Two weeks to a month to have the window close just as someone puts their hands or head through the opening.<br><br>This might be stretched out over long periods, the Milkmaid going through her routine of sleeping until evening, waking up, kicking at a floorboard here, adjusting a window there, getting her things and then going out to check the traps in the nearby woods for any caught foxes, deer, or coyotes.  If any are caught, then a few hours are spent stripping the animal, the meat eaten with some glasses of milk (a little bit more strength, a bit more time before she needs to eat real human fear instead of trapped animal fear), the offal strewn in strategic locations, the bones added to the collection in a key location of the home (like in the cellar one will fall into if they run too hard along that one stretch of breakable floorboards).  While passing through the home at the later half of the night, she'll adjust a door, move some curtains so that one hook isn't on the rod but is at a level to catch on some clothes, stomp at a floorboard.  She fixes up her milking machine for a few hours, feeds and milks the cows, then goes for a walk, touring the outer edges of her territory, familiarizing herself with that ground, expanding her territory out a fraction, maybe moving a rock so a tire might pop on the road or breaking a branch or three so the farmhouse is more clearly visible for anyone passing down the dirt road.  She watches the sunrise, then returns home and dozes off. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/8r4hha/_/e0qz9pn What Do Most Others Do All Day?] ([[Wildbow]], Reddit.com, 2018-06-14)</ref><ref name=":1">When she does get a victim, it becomes about milking them for fear, literally.  They get snagged, caught, the exits turn out not to be exits, the fields have holes in them that don't seem to trip up this one-hundred-and-twenty pound woman with the cow-skin hood and wrapping, but do twist the ankles of the unwary.  One victim is chosen, the rest killed off, and she drags her victim off to the barn, where they're summarily chained up.  A cow is skinned and the skin is sewn onto and around the trapped man or woman.  Then she starts up the rusty old milking machine, places the first three glass tubes with the suction going, holds up the fourth with its shattered edge, and then places it- the suction rhythmically pulls the glass edges in deeper, releasing, over and over, the blood flowing in with inexplicable milk and other bodily fluids the machine is pulling in, to join her collection of regular cow's milk.  She'll have something to drink with her next meal of fox or deer, she has her supply of fear and pain for the next few days or weeks until her victim passes or slips into the Abyss, she gains some power, and she buys her continued existence in a world where she has quiet days and can watch sunrises. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/8r4hha/_/e0qz9pn What Do Most Others Do All Day?] ([[Wildbow]], Reddit.com, 2018-06-14)</ref>

She enjoys a quiet life.<ref name=":1" />

She's capable of a degree of inhuman focus which helps her in preparing her lair (see Abilities, below).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":5" />

She watched the ''Goblin Game'' (a horrific reality show featuring low-karma prisoners) with some goblins.<ref name=":2">A gaggle of goblins stood at the fence, peering down.  An Other was looking down as well, a woman with a calf’s hide draped over her head like a hood, horns resting near her brow, with a stained dress that reached her bare feet.  The gaggle gave her a wide berth.  Bogeyman, Ben was pretty sure.  There was a way of telling, sometimes: the stains on the woman’s dress and skin had a way of moving like dark clouds against the sky might.  Blooming, widening, taking different shapes. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPsZs1iPqHAcsJr4N7UgW-W7Ne4OCTtUjfvcxIoBmdI/edit#heading=h.7onrtmkk8mas Excerpt] from [[Poke 3]]</ref><ref>“What’s going on?” he asked.<br><br>“Daily recording of Goblin Game.  Used to be a game show, now it’s reality TV.  Because of course goblins have their own reality TV show.  Your, uh, friend there can probably find the channel to watch it, but you shouldn’t.  Give it a pass and trust people who know more to handle it.”<br><br>“That’s a person down there?  A human?”<br><br>“Three.  Mom and two kids,” Buttsack said.  He smiled, and it was an especially mean smile.  “You can hear the brats crying if you listen close enough.”<br><br>“Ben,” Mags said, to get his attention.  “It’s a karmic trap.  These are- they’re the preliminaries?”<br><br>“Quite fucking so,” Turdswallow said.  “Northeast.”<br><br>“They’re the northeast preliminaries, meaning the goblins from this area scoured the northeastern corner of North America, found some of the absolute worst people, people who deserve whatever happens to them as part of the competition, and today they introduce them.  If they make it through they go on to be part of the show’s next season.  Thousands of practitioners out there are probably going to hear about this or come across it, and there’s a chance one well-intentioned person tries to save ‘em and suffers for it.” - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPsZs1iPqHAcsJr4N7UgW-W7Ne4OCTtUjfvcxIoBmdI/edit#heading=h.7onrtmkk8mas Excerpt] from [[Poke 3]]</ref>

When trapping a victim, she's liable to kill off anyone they're with to focus on just one person.<ref name=":1" />

From available evidence her diet seems to consist entirely of [[Milk]].<ref name=":3">Even the Milkmaid sat at a corner table alone, glass of milk in front of her, staring at him with empty, dark eyes. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPsZs1iPqHAcsJr4N7UgW-W7Ne4OCTtUjfvcxIoBmdI/edit#heading=h.7onrtmkk8mas Excerpt] from [[Poke 3]]</ref><ref name=":0" />

===Relationships===
Friends with [[Deedee]] and [[Sir Toadswallow]].<ref name=":4">Deedee twisted her head around until she started squealing, her leg involuntarily kicking in a way that suggested spinal damage.  “And that gal over there with the cow hat, that’s the Milkmaid.  She’s a pal too-”<br><br>Ben looked at the bogeyman with the calf skin draping her head, who looked back at him with dead eyes.<br><br>“-Got the idea for the milk for Stray Baby from her.”<br><br>“Uhhh, sure,” Ben said.<br><br>Dee managed to get an arm free to wave.  The Milkmaid waved back, then turned back to watching whatever was going on beyond the fence. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPsZs1iPqHAcsJr4N7UgW-W7Ne4OCTtUjfvcxIoBmdI/edit#heading=h.7onrtmkk8mas Excerpt] from [[Poke 3]]</ref> Unlike most goblins, they're OK with Deedee's aberrant attraction to a [[Benjamin Trover|certain human male.]]<ref>“Boyfriend and girlfriend,” Ben said, at the same time Deedee said, “Fuck-buddies.”<br><br>Ben glanced at Deedee, who conceded to add, “With some girlfriend shit too.  I still think fuck-buddy sounds way cooler.”<br><br>Ben looked back at Mags, and saw her expression had twisted, even as she tried to hide it.  Suppressed disgust.<br><br>Buttsack’s too.  And some bystanders.  It was actually easier to count the people who hadn’t reacted in some way.  The calfskin bogeyman and Deedee’s two friends, Turdswallow and the nameless goblin.  - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPsZs1iPqHAcsJr4N7UgW-W7Ne4OCTtUjfvcxIoBmdI/edit#heading=h.7onrtmkk8mas Excerpt] from [[Poke 3]]</ref>