The Tales of Milikan
by Angel the Wizard is a spin-off of Ginny Weasley: Double Life, a collection of one-shots or two to three-parters looking at the titular character of Milikan, a talking hypnotic snake, and similar snakes, meeting and hypnotising various characters to offer them love and comfort. Some of these one-shots even include crossovers with other fandoms, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
The Tales of Milikan contains examples of:
- Ascended Extra: A few one-shots feature the snake that Harry saved from the zoo before he even went to Hogwarts, now named Juno and another example of a hypnotic, talking snake, Juno either returning for Harry or entrancing his family as ‘thanks’ for saving him.
- Boldly Coming: In "Starstruck", Ginny's snake lover, Zellarom, is an alien.
- Drunk on the Dark Side: In '"Songs of an Egyptian Goddess", flashbacks show how Femi was initially corrupted by her hypnotic powers, but after spending centuries in isolation she has become a kinder version of herself.
- Fantastic Honorifics: In "Starstruck" (a crossover with Independence Day), Ginny’s alien master Zellarom refers to her as his ezan corbaiz, which essentially translates to ‘treasured possession’, although Ginny’s telepathic-induced language download gives her insight to recognise that the term means more than just a valued personal object. There is a reciprocal term in Zellarom’s language, but since Ginny can’t pronounce some of the syllables in that word, she simply calls him ‘master’ in turn.
- Happiness in Mind Control: Particularly relevant in “Ginny’s Wish Come True” where Ginny encounters a real Kaa after becoming obsessed with the character in a variation of The Jungle Book (1967) and explicitly asks him to hypnotise her (fortunately, this Kaa is a good character who prefers to love and treasure humans rather than eat them).
- Hypnotic Eyes: A trademark of the hypnotic snakes depicted in these one-shots.
- Interspecies Romance: Snake/human relationships abound throughout this series.
- Let's You and Him Fight: The titular conflict in “The Fight for Ginny” consists of four snakes fighting each other for the right to make Ginny their slave or servant.
- Lighter and Softer: In "Ginny's Wish Come True", she becomes obsessed with Kaa after watching a version of The Jungle Book (1967) that featured a kinder Kaa who was trying to actively take care of Mowgli rather than eat him.
- Mind-Control Eyes: In cases where the snake has hypnotic eyes, their partners develop these after succumbing to their influence.
- Parental Substitute: In “Entranced Boy-Who-Lived”, while Harry and Milikan have a sexual relationship, there is a maternal element to Milikan’s affection for Harry, as her hypnosis inspires vague memories of how his parents cared for him before their deaths.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!:
- “Treasured Servants” sees Harry and Ginny accept Milikan’s offer to become her servants primarily so that they can get away from the wizarding world after so many people have basically rejected Harry for trying to tell the truth about Voldemort.
- “Ginny’s Wish Come True” sees an eight-year-old Ginny, teased and rejected by others for her obsession with Kaa, begging Kaa to make her his servant so that she can get away from the people who don’t understand her interests.
- Semi-Divine: In '"Songs of an Egyptian Goddess", Ginny's mistress is Femi, a mortal who was transformed into a goddess to save her from dying of a fatal disease.
- Snakes Are Sexy: Applies to all such relationships.
- Subordinate Excuse: Most of the time, characters are hypnotised to remember making a ‘choice’ to become servants to the accompanying snake, and are always depicted as happy with their decision.
