Millennium
| Millennium | |
| Stellar character | |
 picrew | |
| race | unknown (possibly Asterian?) |
| pronouns | "above such earthly concepts" (typically she/her/hers in practice) |
| age | "requires scientific notation" (appears about 12 years old) |
| first appearance | "A Peculiar Child" Season 2, Episode 1 |
| created by | C. Madison Ravenswood (we think) |
For other uses, see Millennium.
- Millennium: I don't think you quite understand. This universe is my dollhouse. Causality is my plaything. If I decide that 2 + 2 equals 4, then 2 + 2 equals 4!
- Xandra: But 2 + 2 does equal 4.
- Millennium: You're welcome.
Millennium is a character in the Centralian supernatural teen drama series Stellar. She is a supernatural being of unknown origin who possesses expansive reality-warping powers, which she mostly uses to torment Stella Winterborn and her friends. While she claims to view mortal beings as "toys" who exist only to satisfy her eternal boredom, her actions reveal a deep fascination with humanity and curiosity about humanity's potential.
Nature and abilities
Millennium seems to possess the power to bend reality to her will, in a manner similar to the Asterians. She self-identifies as omnipotent, eternal, and impossibly cute, though Stella would argue that all three of these claims are debatable.
Unlike witches, who can do almost anything with their magic but remain fundamentally anchored to the human experience and linear time, Millennium claims to be able to see the entirety of time and space simultaneously. This experience has left her with a nihilistic outlook, as she finds it difficult to find fulfillment when she has already seen everything there is to be seen.
One of Millennium's few weaknesses is her crippling fear of dogs, as demonstrated when Xandra introduced her to her pet, Bucky.
- Millennium: WHAT IS THAT THING?
- Xandra: ...You've never seen a dog before?
- Millennium: THAT'S WHAT A "DOG" IS?
- Xandra: His name's Bucky. Here, do you want to pet him?
- Millennium: KEEP THAT TERRIFYING BEAST AWAY FROM ME, WOMAN!
- Stella: This is what does it, eh? I'm going to have to keep that in mind from now on.
- Millennium: SHUT UP!
Millennium encounters Bucky again in her first appearance in Stellar: The Animated Series, in which Bucky speaks to her in coherent human language while she growls at him like an angry dog.
Personality
Millennium's manner of speaking tends to flip between eloquent and composed, albeit extremely condescending in tone, and shrill, indignant shouting, like a spoiled child who's just been told "no".
Relationship with humanity
Millennium outwardly regards humans with contempt, proclaiming humanity to be "beneath" her and referring to Stella and her friends as mere "toys" with which to relieve her existential boredom. Her actions, however, belie a deep fascination with humanity, human nature, and the ability of humans to "carry on day after day, despite knowing it all means nothing." Stella has described Millennium as "tsundere, but for the entire human race."
- Xandra: If you're supposedly omnipotent, why are we doing any of this? Why not just snap your fingers and fix every problem in the world?
- Millennium: The sheer entitlement! I won't solve all of humanity's problems because humanity doesn't deserve it.
- Stella: That's not the real reason, is it?
- Millennium: Shut up!
- Stella: You won't solve humanity's problems because you think we can solve them on our own. And you want to see us do it. You want us to prove our worth to you and to ourselves.
- Millennium: I said, shut up!
C. Madison Ravenswood describes Millennium as "recklessly curious", toying with Stella and her friends not out of malice or sadism but simply the impulsive desire to see how they will react, with little regard for potential consequences. She often contrives bizarre situations to force Stella and friends into, often confining them in constructs she refers to as her "labyrinths". Her labyrinths have included a 1970s-style game show, an "escape room" created from a shopping mall, and a 1980s-style television sitcom. In one of her more innocently cruel experiments, she trapped Stella, Xandra, and Rudolf in a featureless white void for 10,000 years. (They arrived back in the present day upon being released from the labyrinth.)
The other Millennium
In season 5 episode "The New Millennium", Stella encounters an entity with the appearance of teenage boy also calling himself Millennium. Despite his claim that he is the same individual as the usual femme-presenting Millennium, he distinctly differs in personality, temperament, and mannerisms. When the female Millennium next appears, she refers to Stella's interaction with the femme-presenting Millennium as if his actions were her own. Whether the two portrayals represent two distinct individuals, a single individual altering its appearance, or some kind of hive mind remains a point of debate within the Stellar fandom.
The male Millennium has become a popular character among Stellar's Tamblr fandom, where he is typically referred to as "Millen-he/him" to distinguish him from "girl Millennium". There have been hours of arguments over whether or not posts relating "Millen-he/him" belong in the #millennium stellar tag. Let's not even get into the Millennium/Millennium shipping fics.
Production
According to showrunner C. Madison Ravenswood, nobody on the production staff can recall who cast Millennium or when the character was introduced. "She just showed up on set one day, and when everybody looked at the script again, her parts were in it." Ravenswood is all too happy to take the credit, though, especially when fans praise Millennium's characterization.
Millennium appeared in 3 episodes of Stellar: The Animated Series, voiced by the same actor who portrayed her in the main series.