Mila Scrimpaw was a female stoat resident of Mossflower Woods. She was the daughter of Valo Scrimpaw and Lyra and the sister of Bolo Scrimpaw. When she was young, she was kidnapped by Captain Tarjaw.
Affected by the death of her mother from a heart illness, Mila hoped to become an expert healer like her father, and enjoyed studying anatomy.
She believed that Redwall Abbey residents would fear her as she was a stoat.
Official Description[]
Mila Scrimpaw is a precocious preteen stoat whose deepest desire in life is to be a healer at Redwall. She's heard that the healers there are the best in the world, and she wants to be the best! She is incredibly intelligent and logical, always ready with a sharp remark, but not always take seriously by her brother and father due to her youth. Why can't they just see she isn't a child anymore!?
Most of all, her family doesn't quite support her obsession with learning how the animal body works. She studies anatomy with insatiable curiosity, which, in the Redwall world, is considered a strange and morbid interest, as healing in this day and age relies on mostly herbal techniques - and anatomy requires the study of bodies.
After giving up on convincing Mila she needn't be cutting up and examining corpses, Valo now pretends not to notice her pursuit of these studies. He and Mila are very close, and he doesn't want to risk losing her.
Despite their differences, she is extremely loyal to her family and their voew to be good beasts, and deeply loves her big brother and father. When she's not studing the healing arts with her beloved Papa or examining bodies in secret, she's baking, twirling in frilled skirts to her own music, and forcing Bolo to wear flower crowns.