Ludmilla

Ludmilla is a recurring character who appears in “The Whimsical World of Leopold”; she happens to be Mitya’s female form.

Appearance
Ludmilla is a very beautiful girl who resembles Mitya, except for her feminine features. She has waist-length blonde hair and happens to wear a green dress with a knee-length tulle skirt portion and matching flats, even after Selena eventually separates her from Mitya.

In Leopold’s dream, she wears a beautiful white and silver ballgown (reminiscent of Princess Serenity) with an off-the-shoulder neckline, an empire waist and a flowing skirt portion; she also has white angel wings in addition to a gold halo floating above her head.

In wintertime, she wears a Sweet Lolita-inspired baby blue winter coat and matching winter hat and capelet with white fur trims on the collar, hat, capelet, cuffs and hemline, respectively, in addition to a pair of navy mittens, a pink sweater dress underneath said coat, a pair of black sweater tights and a pair of navy-colored lace-up boots with a kitten heel, respectively.

For sleepwear, she wears a lilac ankle-length nightgown with an empire waist, short puffy sleeves and an extremely flowing (and extremely billowy) skirt portion, respectively.

In “Gettin’ Lulled Into La-La-Land”, she eventually changes into a Lirika Matoshi strawberry dress, which she then spends the rest of the fanfic wearing, after Nessa accidentally gets the former’s green dress dirty in the latter’s process of playing in the mud..

When visiting the Night Kingdom and Princess Luna ends up soothing her into being the latter’s pet, Ludmilla dons a lapis lazuli-colored ballgown with a bardot neckline, off-the shoulder long balloon sleeves, and gold moon-inspired accents (which allows her to levitate at will) in addition to a pair of deep blue evening shoes and gold moon circlet and gold and lapis lazuli jewelry, respectively.

Personality
Unlike Mitya, Ludmilla is a sweet-natured, polite, demure, angelic, graceful and elegant girl who will do whatever she can to befriend anyone, starting with Leopold, who takes a liking to her. Unlike Nessa (who happens to be a tomboy), Ludmilla is a very ladylike girl who doesn’t like getting dirty. After getting separated from Mitya, her loving personality even allows Mitya to adopt her as his “twin sister”, which his parents are quick to accept.

She loves Leopold very much due to his equally kind and caring personality; she also loves Mitya dearly after he welcomes her as his new “twin sister”.

In addition to her peaceful nature, she’s also very mature and doesn’t take kindly to Mitya and Motya pranking Leopold; she also doesn’t tolerate Vanya and Venya bullying Mitya and Motya, respectively.

In “The Legend of the Crystal Spider”, it’s revealed that she’s extremely scared of spiders, especially after Kelas tries to kill her as well as the other mice.

Her footsteps are so light and so graceful that she almost appears to be floating.

In the fanfic
In “Mitya 1/2”, Mitya assumes this form after falling into an enchanted lake; after emerging from said water as the shivering Ludmilla, she aimlessly wanders around the village looking for a place to stay and bumps into Leopold, who promptly takes her in and is able to dry her by giving her a towel in addition to take her out to a shopping mall in Downtown Moscow, where she picks out a green dress and matching pair of flats. At this point, Leopold grows to love her, due to her angelic beauty and her loving personality. After taking her home, Leopold cooks a warm meal for her, after which they cuddle with each other while listening to classical music until Ludmilla falls asleep; afterwards, Leopold carries her to his workshop-like room and tucks her into bed on a futon. The next day, they end up dating each other until later that day, where Ludmilla decides to take a hot shower without knowing that it would restore her into Mitya, much to Leopold’s surprise.

She appears again in “Ludmilla Returns”, Mitya agrees to jump into the same enchanted lake (after losing a bet to Motya), once again emerging as Ludmilla. While Motya becomes surprised at Mitya’s female form, Leopold is happy to see her again. Everything goes well until Ludmilla sees Motya again and begins to cry; after Leopold and Motya ask what’s wrong, Ludmilla tells them that she wishes to be her own separate person. Understanding her laments, Motya agrees to take her to Selena, who manages to separate her from Mitya with her magic spell. Afterwards, Mitya becomes shocked to meet his female form at first, but Ludmilla’s kind, loving personality manages to move him into tears, which allows him to adopt her as his new “twin sister”, which his parents quickly accept. Later that night, Mitya joins his parents in lovingly tucking Ludmilla into bed and hugging (and in Olga’s case, kissing her on the cheek) her into sleep; after that, Mitya softly bids her a good night prior to tenderly smooching her on the forehead prior to retreating to his bedroom and going to bed.

In “Gettin’ Lulled Into La-La-Land, she joins the mice in their first camping trip, where they all fall victim to a group of fairies sending them to sleep in addition to draining their life force (even to the point where they had to eat in order to regain energy); in the end, when the fairies use enough of the life force that they stole from the mice earlier to transform from their butterfly forms into beautiful women, they send all of the mice into a deep sleep after the lead fairy named Azalea befriended them (especially Mitya). The next day, they were discovered (and woken up) by Leopold, who had just arrived for his fishing trip.

In “The Legend of the Crystal Spider”, she joins them again in their second camping trip, where Misha tells them an urban legend about Kelas; later that night, Kelas captures them in addition to imprisoning them with his cocoons in their sleep. When they wake up afterwards, Kelas tries to kill (and then eat) them until Selena arrives to save the day, even freeing Mitya in addition to helping him extinguish Kelas. However, when Selena and Mitya free the rest of the mice, Ludmilla ends up being severely traumatized to the point that Selena has to hypnotize her into a deep, peaceful sleep. The mice then try to find their way back to their campsite until Leopold arrives and offers to take them home, even helping them take down their respective tents. Afterwards, Leopold allows all of the mice (including Ludmilla, who’s still asleep) to spend the night at his dacha, even tucking them into bed on his futon in his process.

In “The Sweetest Dream”, she visits the Night Kingdom with Mitya and Motya in tow, where they all end up falling victim to Princess Luna, who proceeds to soothe the trio into a blissful trance (and then into a deep, peaceful sleep afterwards); however, Leopold, Skipper and Selena remain immune (as does Wolf, who gets kicked out for trying to smoke a cigarette inside) and, thus, manage to free them in addition to bringing them back to Russia.

In “Invisible Ludmilla”, she dons a special pendant that Mitya had found for her, which turns her invisible afterwards; however, this results in her getting captured by the government and, with the help of Leopold, Mitya and Motya set out on their quest to find a cure and rescue her, even having to deal with the trio of bumbling government ninjas along the way. They eventually find the cure and are able to restore Ludmilla to normal in addition to rescuing her from the government and bringing her back home.

Trivia
Ludmilla’s favorite fashion designers are Lirika Matoshi and Free People.

One of Ludmilla’s nicknames, Mila, is a wordplay on a Russian word “милая (sweet, pretty, sweetheart, etc.)”, which explains her sweet and peaceful nature; it’s also actually a Czech word for “love and grace”, which also explains her loving personality as well as her graceful, elegant beauty.