Howard and Tilly-Willy

There are many dollmages in the world who have brought life to otherwise inanimate dolls for various reasons. Though there are times where said reason is to help themselves or others, the vast majority of the time, it boils down to just being something to do on a boring day after years of study in the dollmagic arts.

Howard fits the latter category. As a child, he studied hard on his own in the hopes that he'd be able to animate a doll someday. However, poor selection of a location to animate his doll put a cruel twist in his fate, and thus Tilly-Willy was born. Tilly-Willy, Howard's doll, is a drunken, arrogant, chauvinistic bastard, traits he got from the virtue of being animated in the cellar of a bar.

While Howard can still control Tilly by means of spells common to any dollmage to its respective dolls, Tilly's normal attitude makes Howard's life a living nightmare. Exiled from most towns he visits due to Tilly's obnoxious behaviour, Howard roams the continent, hoping to find some place he can study the spell to unanimate his doll entirely and return to a normal life. With Tilly breaking his concentration all the time, this is not as easy a feat as it sounds...

Howard ran across Alexandria and Matthew in the Breznial Kingdom after they were sent there by Quertia. His knowledge of Breznial was their only real hope of leaving alive.

First appearance: October 8, 2002 (Storyline: "Welcome to Breznial", within "Magic Mushrooms")

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