HogoShi_Kitsune
Legend
Please don't metagame from this, but you're free to read over it.
Secondly, I doubt anyone will read this line, but if you're an artist and you wish to draw Elfa, I hereby grant full permissions. Just tell me you're doing it. Unless it's a surprise. Then don't tell me.
Character Chart
Character’s full name: Elfa Hansdotter
Reason or meaning of name: Her father was named Hans, and she is his daughter. First name is insignificant.
Character’s nickname: None at this time
Reason for nickname: N/A
Birth date: 18th day of Ghostmoon, 2238 -- Year of Hurricanes
Physical appearance
Gender: Female
Race: Halfling
Age: Initially: 26 || Now: 45
How old does he/she appear: Initially: 23-25 || Now: 42
Weight: 95 lbs
Height: 3'4"
Body build: Medium
Shape of face: Teardrop
Eye color: Deep Sea Blue
Glasses or type of aid for the eyes: Goggles when she's working
Skin tone: Caucasian
Distinguishing marks: Rough hands from working
Predominant features: Small nose and mouth, pointed chin
Hair color: Auburn
Type of hair: Straight
Hairstyle: Short, top of the neck
Voice: Authoritative, cheerful, and medium-high pitched -- In the video, purple long-haired girl (Kagami).
Overall attractiveness: Cute
Physical disabilities: None
Usual fashion of dress: Anything practical
Favorite outfit: Shirt and leather jacket with loose-fitting pants
Jewelry or accessories: halved-gear shaped necklace on leather string
Personality
Good personality traits: Enthusiastic, energetic, kind || Now, she's still kind, but her age is showing and she's less playful.
Bad personality traits: Over-enthusiastic, over-trusting, over-compassionate || Now, she is definitely not over-enthusiastic, though she is still easy to get the trust of and she can be very compassionate.
Mood character is most often in: bubbling-over happiness || Now, she seems tired, weighed down, but still manages to smile.
Sense of humor: Strong
Character’s greatest joy in life: Her inventions
Character’s greatest fear: Being called a failure when submitting her inventions
Why?: She wants to live up to her father's expectations
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil?: Losing a limb; she'd not be able to tinker anymore, and her life would basically be shut down.
Character is most at ease when: Relaxing in her heated pool at home
Most ill at ease when: Submitting an invention
Enraged when: Someone tries to harm her friends
Depressed or sad when: Someone dismisses or bashes her invention
Priorities: Improve the world with whatever she can make
Life philosophy:
Why?: She has a dream of retiring comfortably -- she would've lived up to her father's expectations || She feels she has lived her life to the fullest, yet now it's just a matter of maintenance.
Character’s soft spot: Praise and interest in her projects
Is this soft spot obvious to others?: Only if they were to do so
Greatest strength: Creativity
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: Not very experienced in self-defense
Biggest regret: None yet
Minor regret: Leaving her father to see the world
Biggest accomplishment: Nothing major yet
Minor accomplishment: Perfection of the mug cup-holder
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: None at this point
Why?: N/A
Character’s darkest secret: Nothing at this point
Does anyone else know?: N/A
Goals
Drives and motivations: Her father's expectations, her customer's orders
Immediate goals: Finish any project expeditiously
Long term goals: Please her father, improve the world
How the character plans to accomplish these goals:
Past
Hometown: None, just a small shop in the middle of nowhere
Type of childhood: Tedious -- training in her father's profession, farming, gathering materials
Pets: A small kitten; taken by a large bird
First memory: Seeing said kitten on the side of the road and taking it home to her father
Most important childhood memory: Being given her necklace by her father
Why?: It gave her an identity -- wearing it would remind her who she is, where she came from, and of her mission to improve the world around her.
Childhood hero: Father -- she didn't know anyone else
Dream job: Tinkerer
Education: Smithing, wood carving, smelting, resource gathering, minor medicinal plants, basic first aid for minor cuts and burns
Religion: None
Finances: None
Present
Current location: Falandraal, can often be found at the Crossroads, or Zima'Maloj
Currently living with: Therry
Pets: Chocolate Chip (horse)
Religion: Vermella
Occupation: Tinkerer, Countess
Finances: Selling surplus and inventions
Languages: Common, Fae
Family
Mother: Deceased: Died at childbirth
Relationship with her: None
Father: Alive: Living in Elfa's childhood home
Relationship with him: Idolized -- she thinks he could do no wrong
Siblings: None
Relationship with them: N/A
Spouse: Therry
Relationship with him/her: Elfa loves and cherishes her with her entire heart; nothing could separate them.
Children: Dylan Dayter Hansdotter ((Named after @Deash12's Dayter))
Relationship with them: Caring, loving, and trusting
Other important family members: None
Favorites
Color: Blue
Least favorite color: Chartreuse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_(color)#Chartreuse_yellow)
Music: Stuff like this:
Food: Fish, steak, calamari
Literature: Science books
Form of entertainment: tinkering, exploring
Mode of transportation: Foot, sometimes by horse
Most prized possession: Her necklace
Habits
Hobbies: Tinkering
Plays a musical instrument?: Want to hear a dying cat?
How he/she would spend a rainy day: Hammering metal, carving wood, profiting
Spending habits: Conservative
Smokes: No
Drinks: Yes. She likes rum, sake, and wine
Other drugs: None
What does he/she do too much of?: Spending time alone
What does he/she do too little of?: Getting outside and talking to people
Extremely skilled at: problem solving
Extremely unskilled at: love (flirting, expression, etc), self defense
Nervous tics: Biting lip
Usual body posture: Upright, hands at her sides or in front of her
Mannerisms: Excessive enthusiasm in greetings
Peculiarities: Thinks quickly and efficiently
Traits
Optimist or pessimist?: Optimist
Introvert or extrovert?: More introverted than extroverted
Daredevil or cautious?: Fair mix of both, but she's smart. She'll take risks, but not excessive ones.
Logical or emotional?: Logical, though not as much as Spock
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat?: Very methodical and neat
Prefers working or relaxing?: She must keep her hands busy, even when relaxing.
Confident or unsure of himself/herself?: Confident
Animal lover?: Definitely
Self-perception
How he/she feels about himself/herself: Very self confident and sure of her actions
One word the character would use to describe self: Fire
One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: I'm Elfa, a tinkerer. I have been tinkering all my life and love what I do, and I love spending time around my friends.Both in Eresse and Lydel, I find myself lost in the beauty of the world around me, both the people and nature herself. I know I'm not perfect, but I'm always trying to learn and make myself better!
What does the character consider his/her best personality trait?: Adaptability
What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait?: Tends to be lost in her thoughts sometimes
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic?: Tempered skin -- both to fire and abrasion
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic?: Weaker muscles -- can't really fight back and can't run very fast.
How does the character think others perceive him/her: In a positive light, if not a potential friend
What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: To be less ignorant
Relationships with others
Opinion of other people in general: Everyone is good inside; their actions reflect what they /think/ to be good.
Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others?: No
Person character most hates:Robert Senatoor -- Lies dead
Best friend(s): ((Defunct. See relations tree below))
Love interest(s): Definitely Therry (Wife)
Person character goes to for advice: Therry, Ashna, Nireth
Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: None
Person character feels shy or awkward around: None
Person character openly admires: Therry
Person character secretly admires: Doesn't have to anymore
Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Her father
After story starts: Therry
Original backstory:
Elfa was raised in her father's workshop where he tinkered with an array of different materials, making whatever his mind could conjure up. Like him, he wanted his only daughter to be a tinkerer; knowing she'd be his only one after his wife died shortly after childbirth. As she grew older and her interest grew in his projects, he began letting her help. It was minor stuff at first; hammering in a nail (which resorted in many sore thumbs), handing him tools, throwing charcoal into the furnace. However, his Little Tinkerer was very happy doing even this calibre of work.
As she grew older, he taught her a bit of carpentry, and then smithing. Being specialized in neither, the quality of course was functional, but not any work of art. She was a quick learner, however, and was soon producing an array of functional devices with a practical purpose. Her first was a cup holder designed to fit a mug that would fold up flush against the table. The oversight, of course, is that people who are drinking are not going to be able to line up the mug with the cup holder, something that was soon pointed out by her father.
At her thirteenth birthday, she began drinking. It was only a little at first, and nothing too strong, but her father felt that he should temper her for life ahead. He began one evening by replacing her usual water with an alcoholic beverage, to her surprise. She swallowed the first sip, but looked to him in shock* "Father, I think you mixed up our drinks."
"No no, you're thirteen now. You should be able to drink like any other woman."
She accepted this answer, but drank slowly. However, she soon began tipsy, telling horrible jokes and laughing, her cheeks flushed. Over time, she would build up a tolerance and a taste for what she liked. She made many other inventions, and improved on the cup holder until even drunk, she could put her mug in it. She was not always drunk, but did not resist a drink when her father offered it to her. At sixteen, she began feeling a bit bored around the workshop. She still loved working with her father, making this and repairing that, but she also wanted to explore; talk to people, maybe open a workshop of her own. So, she packed up her things, and set out, telling her father goodbye. He let her go, seeing to it she was armed to his satisfaction, and saw her off. Over the next few years, she traveled from tavern to tavern, meeting people, making friends, having flings, and generally enjoying herself. However, she never found exactly what she was looking for in the small villages and random roadside taverns, so she decided to try big, headed toward the main cities.
Secondly, I doubt anyone will read this line, but if you're an artist and you wish to draw Elfa, I hereby grant full permissions. Just tell me you're doing it. Unless it's a surprise. Then don't tell me.
Character Chart
Character’s full name: Elfa Hansdotter
Reason or meaning of name: Her father was named Hans, and she is his daughter. First name is insignificant.
Character’s nickname: None at this time
Reason for nickname: N/A
Birth date: 18th day of Ghostmoon, 2238 -- Year of Hurricanes
Physical appearance
Gender: Female
Race: Halfling
Age: Initially: 26 || Now: 45
How old does he/she appear: Initially: 23-25 || Now: 42
Weight: 95 lbs
Height: 3'4"
Body build: Medium
Shape of face: Teardrop
Eye color: Deep Sea Blue
Glasses or type of aid for the eyes: Goggles when she's working
Skin tone: Caucasian
Distinguishing marks: Rough hands from working
Predominant features: Small nose and mouth, pointed chin
Hair color: Auburn
Type of hair: Straight
Hairstyle: Short, top of the neck
Voice: Authoritative, cheerful, and medium-high pitched -- In the video, purple long-haired girl (Kagami).
Physical disabilities: None
Usual fashion of dress: Anything practical
Favorite outfit: Shirt and leather jacket with loose-fitting pants
Jewelry or accessories: halved-gear shaped necklace on leather string
Personality
Good personality traits: Enthusiastic, energetic, kind || Now, she's still kind, but her age is showing and she's less playful.
Bad personality traits: Over-enthusiastic, over-trusting, over-compassionate || Now, she is definitely not over-enthusiastic, though she is still easy to get the trust of and she can be very compassionate.
Mood character is most often in: bubbling-over happiness || Now, she seems tired, weighed down, but still manages to smile.
Sense of humor: Strong
Character’s greatest joy in life: Her inventions
Character’s greatest fear: Being called a failure when submitting her inventions
Why?: She wants to live up to her father's expectations
What single event would most throw this character’s life into complete turmoil?: Losing a limb; she'd not be able to tinker anymore, and her life would basically be shut down.
Character is most at ease when: Relaxing in her heated pool at home
Most ill at ease when: Submitting an invention
Enraged when: Someone tries to harm her friends
Depressed or sad when: Someone dismisses or bashes her invention
Priorities: Improve the world with whatever she can make
Life philosophy:
If granted one wish, it would be: Have an invention gain the recognition of a high figure, such as the head of a house || Retirement with Therry, and letting her son take over.Albert Einstein said:Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.
Why?: She has a dream of retiring comfortably -- she would've lived up to her father's expectations || She feels she has lived her life to the fullest, yet now it's just a matter of maintenance.
Character’s soft spot: Praise and interest in her projects
Is this soft spot obvious to others?: Only if they were to do so
Greatest strength: Creativity
Greatest vulnerability or weakness: Not very experienced in self-defense
Biggest regret: None yet
Minor regret: Leaving her father to see the world
Biggest accomplishment: Nothing major yet
Minor accomplishment: Perfection of the mug cup-holder
Past failures he/she would be embarrassed to have people know about: None at this point
Why?: N/A
Character’s darkest secret: Nothing at this point
Does anyone else know?: N/A
Goals
Drives and motivations: Her father's expectations, her customer's orders
Immediate goals: Finish any project expeditiously
Long term goals: Please her father, improve the world
How the character plans to accomplish these goals:
How other characters will be affected: Hopefully by making their lives easierDory said:Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming swimming...
Past
Hometown: None, just a small shop in the middle of nowhere
Type of childhood: Tedious -- training in her father's profession, farming, gathering materials
Pets: A small kitten; taken by a large bird
First memory: Seeing said kitten on the side of the road and taking it home to her father
Most important childhood memory: Being given her necklace by her father
Why?: It gave her an identity -- wearing it would remind her who she is, where she came from, and of her mission to improve the world around her.
Childhood hero: Father -- she didn't know anyone else
Dream job: Tinkerer
Education: Smithing, wood carving, smelting, resource gathering, minor medicinal plants, basic first aid for minor cuts and burns
Religion: None
Finances: None
Present
Current location: Falandraal, can often be found at the Crossroads, or Zima'Maloj
Currently living with: Therry
Pets: Chocolate Chip (horse)
Religion: Vermella
Occupation: Tinkerer, Countess
Finances: Selling surplus and inventions
Languages: Common, Fae
Family
Mother: Deceased: Died at childbirth
Relationship with her: None
Father: Alive: Living in Elfa's childhood home
Relationship with him: Idolized -- she thinks he could do no wrong
Siblings: None
Relationship with them: N/A
Spouse: Therry
Relationship with him/her: Elfa loves and cherishes her with her entire heart; nothing could separate them.
Children: Dylan Dayter Hansdotter ((Named after @Deash12's Dayter))
Relationship with them: Caring, loving, and trusting
Other important family members: None
Favorites
Color: Blue
Least favorite color: Chartreuse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreuse_(color)#Chartreuse_yellow)
Music: Stuff like this:
Literature: Science books
Form of entertainment: tinkering, exploring
Mode of transportation: Foot, sometimes by horse
Most prized possession: Her necklace
Habits
Hobbies: Tinkering
Plays a musical instrument?: Want to hear a dying cat?
How he/she would spend a rainy day: Hammering metal, carving wood, profiting
Spending habits: Conservative
Smokes: No
Drinks: Yes. She likes rum, sake, and wine
Other drugs: None
What does he/she do too much of?: Spending time alone
What does he/she do too little of?: Getting outside and talking to people
Extremely skilled at: problem solving
Extremely unskilled at: love (flirting, expression, etc), self defense
Nervous tics: Biting lip
Usual body posture: Upright, hands at her sides or in front of her
Mannerisms: Excessive enthusiasm in greetings
Peculiarities: Thinks quickly and efficiently
Traits
Optimist or pessimist?: Optimist
Introvert or extrovert?: More introverted than extroverted
Daredevil or cautious?: Fair mix of both, but she's smart. She'll take risks, but not excessive ones.
Logical or emotional?: Logical, though not as much as Spock
Disorderly and messy or methodical and neat?: Very methodical and neat
Prefers working or relaxing?: She must keep her hands busy, even when relaxing.
Confident or unsure of himself/herself?: Confident
Animal lover?: Definitely
Self-perception
How he/she feels about himself/herself: Very self confident and sure of her actions
One word the character would use to describe self: Fire
One paragraph description of how the character would describe self: I'm Elfa, a tinkerer. I have been tinkering all my life and love what I do, and I love spending time around my friends.
What does the character consider his/her best personality trait?: Adaptability
What does the character consider his/her worst personality trait?: Tends to be lost in her thoughts sometimes
What does the character consider his/her best physical characteristic?: Tempered skin -- both to fire and abrasion
What does the character consider his/her worst physical characteristic?: Weaker muscles -- can't really fight back and can't run very fast.
How does the character think others perceive him/her: In a positive light, if not a potential friend
What would the character most like to change about himself/herself: To be less ignorant
Relationships with others
Opinion of other people in general: Everyone is good inside; their actions reflect what they /think/ to be good.
Does the character hide his/her true opinions and emotions from others?: No
Person character most hates:
Best friend(s): ((Defunct. See relations tree below))
Love interest(s): Definitely Therry (Wife)
Person character goes to for advice: Therry, Ashna, Nireth
Person character feels responsible for or takes care of: None
Person character feels shy or awkward around: None
Person character openly admires: Therry
Person character secretly admires: Doesn't have to anymore
Most important person in character’s life before story starts: Her father
After story starts: Therry
Original backstory:
Elfa was raised in her father's workshop where he tinkered with an array of different materials, making whatever his mind could conjure up. Like him, he wanted his only daughter to be a tinkerer; knowing she'd be his only one after his wife died shortly after childbirth. As she grew older and her interest grew in his projects, he began letting her help. It was minor stuff at first; hammering in a nail (which resorted in many sore thumbs), handing him tools, throwing charcoal into the furnace. However, his Little Tinkerer was very happy doing even this calibre of work.
As she grew older, he taught her a bit of carpentry, and then smithing. Being specialized in neither, the quality of course was functional, but not any work of art. She was a quick learner, however, and was soon producing an array of functional devices with a practical purpose. Her first was a cup holder designed to fit a mug that would fold up flush against the table. The oversight, of course, is that people who are drinking are not going to be able to line up the mug with the cup holder, something that was soon pointed out by her father.
At her thirteenth birthday, she began drinking. It was only a little at first, and nothing too strong, but her father felt that he should temper her for life ahead. He began one evening by replacing her usual water with an alcoholic beverage, to her surprise. She swallowed the first sip, but looked to him in shock* "Father, I think you mixed up our drinks."
"No no, you're thirteen now. You should be able to drink like any other woman."
She accepted this answer, but drank slowly. However, she soon began tipsy, telling horrible jokes and laughing, her cheeks flushed. Over time, she would build up a tolerance and a taste for what she liked. She made many other inventions, and improved on the cup holder until even drunk, she could put her mug in it. She was not always drunk, but did not resist a drink when her father offered it to her. At sixteen, she began feeling a bit bored around the workshop. She still loved working with her father, making this and repairing that, but she also wanted to explore; talk to people, maybe open a workshop of her own. So, she packed up her things, and set out, telling her father goodbye. He let her go, seeing to it she was armed to his satisfaction, and saw her off. Over the next few years, she traveled from tavern to tavern, meeting people, making friends, having flings, and generally enjoying herself. However, she never found exactly what she was looking for in the small villages and random roadside taverns, so she decided to try big, headed toward the main cities.
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