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Miriya (Milia)

• How I feel about this character

Milia was one of my first “girl who can’t feel emotions and is a total badass” character crushes. Her character and storyline are great in the original Macross, but it’s in Macross 7 where I just absolutely adore her. She’s an adult, mayor of a huge populace, mother of eight daughters, still the very best pilot around. She’s an authority figure in both civilian and military life. She has all sorts of relationship drama (that I LOVE) but she is a character completely separate from her husband and family.  I adore her.

• All the people I ship romantically with this character

15 years ago I made a Tripod webpage dedicated to Max and Milia Jenius. My husband and I always say if we had the money we’d own matching sports cars in blue and red with the license plates “Max” and “Milia”. I wrote a song about them. I ship Milia with Max and NO ONE ELSE.

But when she flirts with Basara it’s adorable and secretly epic.

• My non-romantic OTP for this character

I really like Milia’s relationship with Gamlin. She’s a fine mentor, I like how she takes him under her wing.

• My unpopular opinion about this character

Once again, I can’t think of any unpopular opinions about her. Max and Milia are better than their Macross Frontier equivalents?

• One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I wish there was one shot of Max and Milia together in Dynamite 7. They don’t have to speak. I’d’ve been happy with Mylene saying something about her parents in passing. I don’t like Dynamite 7 necessarily but since it exists, I wish they had had one mention and that it indicated they were together.