Chris Miles (Skins)

Template:Infobox Skins character Christopher "Chris" Miles is a fictional character in the television series Skins portrayed by Joe Dempsie.

Characterisation

Chris's character is initially portrayed as being very into pills and as being something of a hedonist, but at the same time has other layers to his personality. According to the official Skins website, he will "smoke/screw/rob/snort anything". He is very keen on going to his psychology lessons as he has feelings for his teacher, Angie, who is described as being "out of this world" in Chris's eyes. He is also shown as having possessed a great admiration of his late older brother and feels like he cannot compare to him. He also enjoys giving pills to his fish.

Character history

Chris is currently searching for Samantha Louise Buss so he may search touch her up and impregnate her with lots of raving babies that will probally come out multi-coloured because of the amount of drugs he takes, but thats ok because they will love them anyway. In "Tony" he is convinced by best friend Maxxie, to go to a "big gay night out" along with Anwar, but being bored they eventually go to Abigail Stock's party instead, where he and an overweight Polish girl have wild sex. His flirtatious relationship with his Welsh psychology teacher, Angie, is also made apparent. In "Cassie" he accidentally sees Angie naked in the teachers' showers, and later apologises.

The episode "Chris" develops his character the most. He wakes up one morning having taken viagra which he did not need the night before, and comes downstairs to find his mum has run away and given him £1000 pounds to live off. After wasting the money on a huge party, and embarrassing himself with his hard on in front of Angie who came to the party, he finds himself homeless after he is kicked out by a squatter who is living in his stripped-down house, of which he had to sell the contents.

Chris is homeless and naked. He walks to school naked and goes to Angie for help and advice. His friends arrive and give him clothes, which Cassie and Maxxie charmed from boys in Unseen Skins' accompanying episode "A Friend in Need". Jal takes him to see his dad who doesn't want anything to do with him or his mother, who is implied to be mentally unstable. Chris accidentally drops his baby half-brother, and runs as fast as he can to the graveyard, where he explains to Jal about his big brother, Peter, who is dead. In the episode's conclusion, he is put up to live in a dorm room by a sympathetic Angie.

Eventually, in "Maxxie and Anwar", Chris and Angie admit their feelings for each other. After fellow teacher Tom talks badly to Angie - who he could not seduce, Chris tries to cheer her up and they end up kissing, which leads to sex. They are caught by Maxxie, who is visibly shocked and hurriedly closes the door.

Chris and Angie's relationship progresses throughout the series, until the series finale, where the return of Angie's fiancée Merve completely destroys their relationship, Chris realising he may lose Angie for good. He concludes that Merve is "obviously gay", after watching a video tape of Angie's showing Merve as a campy weatherman on Australian television. Eventually Chris takes Angie's engagement ring, and is confronted by Merve and two of his friends, and told to give it back. Chris denies he has it, and it is only when Angie eventually bursts in, and asks Chris to return it, does he comply. However, when he gives the ring back, Chris drops it, probably accidentally, and kneels down to pick it up, causing Anwar's uncle to think that Chris is proposing. Angie takes the ring, and runs off, leaving both Chris and Merve opposite one another. After she runs away, Chris comes to the conclusion that she loves him, and thus earns a punch from Merve, starting a minor brawl. In the closing montage, he and Angie are seen staring at each other with sad expressions through a window.

In Chris's lost week webisode, he is recording a message to Angie. In the first episode of the second season, Chris is seen with Maxxie and Jal trying to comfort and look after Tony following his accident. That night, they go to a party which they have tried to keep Tony from finding out about.

In the next episode we learn that Angie has decided not to return to teach her class. She leaves a private message to Chris in code, but does not say goodbye to him expicitly. Chris is upset and confused about this, as he had been looking forward to Angie coming back, partly so that they could have sex again. After this, he goes on the camping trip for Michelle's birthday, and is attracted to her step-sister, Scarlet and spends the weekend complimenting her and looking at her boobs. Chris being Chris, also manages to lose all their camping gear and goes skinny-dipping with the rest of his friends.

In episode five of the second season, we see Jal and Chris make a deal that Chris will give his life a go and stop saying 'fuck it' and Jal will stop saying no to everything. After a number of unsuccessful jobs, Chris then gets a job as a sales person and squats in one of the houses he is supposed to be selling, where Cassie moves in temporarily. Inevitably him and Jal end up getting together, and Chris' life is really beginning to straighten up. He is performing the best at work, and with the support and affection from Jal, is genuinely happy for a change. However things lead to much chaos when Cassie decides to have a house-warming party there and Angie turns up. The two have sex in the bathroom, however Chris abruptly stops in the middle of things when he thinks of Jal. When coming out of the bathroom, Jal is there and puts two and two together. Chris then attempts to get Jal back and invites her round to the flat that Angie has left him before leaving. They get back together, however he doesnt yet know that Jal is pregnant, presumably with his baby.

In episode eight Jal returns from her audition to find he has been taken to hospital because he has a blood clot in his brain, which is what his brother died of a few years before as it is hereditory. Jal tells him she is pregnant and gives him her lucky coin to take into the operation.