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| 【 Name 】 Valkyrie | 【 Called 】 Val, Lucky, Valkyrie |
| 【 Gender 】 Female | 【 Tail 】 Valkyrie Tail (Seasonal) |
| 【 Title 】 Valkyrie | 【 Ears 】 Valkyrie Cropped (Seasonal) |
| 【 Size 】 Average height, lithe build | 【 Coat 】 Imperial: Valkyrie (VR) |
| 【 Artist 】 Benathorn | 【 Eyes 】 Gold Glow (VR) |
| 【 Imperial Blood 】 Gold (VR) | 【 Special Traits 】 N/A |
| 【 Home 】 Norland | 【 Occupation 】 Drake Hunter |
| 【 Created / Grown 】 December 18th / March 3rd, 2017 | 【 Roleplay Status 】 Open to Requests |
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Charisma
Empathy
Integrity
Courage
Confidence
Knowledge
Patience
Humour
With a spirit forged in drake fire and molded by a harsh and unforgiving environment, Valkyrie is a survivor. She believes that if you allow it, the world will take all that is good and destroy it. To her, the Ancients are not benevolent beings watching over the land and its inhabitants, they are vindictive creatures to be wary of. Due to this view of the world, she is always on alert, watching out for herself and, more importantly, watching out for those nearest and dearest to her. Anyone or anything could pose a danger, so she is slow to trust and form relationships. However, once that bond is established, she will have your back to the bitter end.
Despite her pessimistic world view, Valkyrie is not unhappy. Rather, she savours every moment and does not allow fear to hold her back. To her, every moment is worth living, and if you allow fear of the bad to keep you down you will miss out on all that is good in life. She has worked hard for what she has, facing down some of her darkest fears - including rune drakes and fire - to achieve her goals and protect those she cares for.
When it comes to socializing, Valkyrie is average at best. She holds next-to-nothing back and can come off as abrasive or uncaring. It's not that she doesn't mean well, though. She simply doesn't understand the feelings of others, and expects everyone to be as thick-skinned as she is. This, combined with a rather dismal sense of humour and near-constant serious demeanor, makes it hard to imagine her making many friends. Actions, rather than words, are where she wins points with others. When needed, she is always there and willing to do what is necessary, even if it means putting herself in harm's way. Around those few she is closest to, she is relaxed and content, the kind of happy where all is comfortable and good in the world and you don't ever want it to end.
Ever alert, Valkyrie's mind is always busy. She has a calculating sort of intellect, able to analyze situations and play out possible scenarios in her mind. She hopes for the best and prepares for the worst. When hunting, this is an asset, but she struggles to shut it off and often approaches other situations from this view.
Likes
- Svala
- Running
- Hunting drakes
- Cuddling
- Sweet treats
Dislikes & Fears
- Fire
- Drakes
- Feeling helpless
- Doing nothing
- Being alone
Quirks
- Her tail is always moving, sometimes even when she's asleep, and the type of movement is often a good mood indicator
- Can't and won't sleep if she's alone, someone has to be nearby, typically Svala
- Always wants to be doing something, has a very hard time sitting still
- Frequently checks on those she cares about, incessantly worries if she doesn't hear from them
- Always keeps an eye on the sky when she's outside or can see outside
Attack
Defense
Stamina
Dexterity
Magic
Luck
Tracking
Strength:
To make up for being smaller and weaker than dire wolves, Valkyrie has perfected her tracking skills. Even the smallest mark on the ground or the slightest scent can set her on a trail. While her skills are primarily used for finding rune drakes, she could easily apply them to searching for just about any creature.
Survival
Strength:
Valkyrie has learned to assess every situation and plan accordingly, at least as much as one can plan when they spend their days hunting dangerous creatures. Her desire to never be caught unprepared or defenceless again has driven her to try to learn any survival tehnique made available to her.
Navigation
Strength:
Perhaps it is that little bit of magic left in her imperial blood or perhaps it is simply strong instinct, but Valkyrie never gets lost or turned around. Even in unfamiliar terrain she at least knows which direction she's going and can choose the best route based on that and the terrain.
Trapping
Strength:
While it is nearly impossible to really predict what a dangerous creature will do, Valkyrie has studied her elders methods and the behaviours of the beasts they hunt to be able to make her best prediction. She uses this knowledge when planning how the team will confront each beast they chase.
Won in a Christmas raffle.
First 1st generation Imperial.
The first two drakes she tracked without help got away. The third was her first success.
The first time she was an active part of the hunting party and they went up against a drake she froze like a deer in headlights. It was also the last time that fear would freeze her.
Still has the blanket Svala wrapped her in when she saved her as a pup. It helps to comfort her when she's alone or has had a long, hard day.
While she can not form a magical bond like her distant relative, the dire wolf, her and Svala's bond is as close as it gets.
Does not see eye-to-eye with the dire wolves in her hunting party. Due to their undiluted magical blood, most of them seem to believe they are better than her. Valkyrie disagrees, but says nothing.
Spent most of her first year hunting drakes trying to prove herself to the more experienced dire wolves in their hunting party. Now she just ignores them and they ignore her.
Svala BergströmHalfborn elvian. Svala's elvian blood was courtesy of her father, a young elvian whose interest in her human mother had been nothing more than a fleeting romance. Neither her father nor the elvian kingdom he hailed from had any idea of her existence until she was in her 20s and had made something of a name for herself. Instead, she was raised in Norland by her mother and stepfather, both of strong Nors blood. Trained by her stepfather, Eirik, at first to protect herself from those who wished harm upon halfbloods, she has become a skilled drake hunter. She is the first creature that Valkyrie truly remembers, after being rescued from a burning den and hungry drake by Svala. It was Svala who named Valkyrie and first started calling her 'Lucky' and Svala who trained her to track, fight and bait drakes. |
KörblImperial Jader & Valkyrie's firstborn. The son of Valkyrie and Lesker E. Delgado, the Diablo Jader. He is the grey in a black-and-white world - a fallen angel. Like his mother, Körbl is a hunter of drakes and other beasts. Though he is dedicated to his job, he is prone to flights of fancy and will often leave during downtime to pursue other interests. Oftentimes, those interests are romantic in nature. Valkyrie did not plan for any of her offspring to follow her on her dangerous path. However, she recognized that Körbl would become a hunter whether it was with her or with someone else, so she chose to train him to work alongside her and the rest of their human, dire wolf, and sleipnir companions so that she would be able to watch over him. They do not see eye-to-eye on many matters outside of hunting, but they still share a close bond. |
Open to requests / suggestions / family
Pups
[ Lesker E. Delgado ]
She had heard rumours that the devil had been spotted. What she hadn't expected to find when she went hunting for him was the Diablo Jader, Lesker E. Delgado.
The First Memory
Valkyrie was born in a small cave in the mountains of Norland to two imperial oriental jaders. While just a small pup, a hungry rune drake laid siege to their little home, leaving nothing but a burned out mess. A drake hunting party happened across the scene and were successful in taking down the beast, leaving Valkyrie as the only survivor in her little family. A halfborn of elvian and Nors heritage pulled her from her hiding place and took her in despite her human companion's hesitance at taking in a jader.
It was the halfborn, Svala, that dubbed her Valkyrie, seeing a future for her that Valkyrie never could have imagined as a pup. Though her memories of the day are fuzzy, the rune drake still haunts her in her sleep. Though she will never have her own revenge on the beast that changed her life it has given her the drive and desire to hunt alongside her new companions.
Learning to Hunt
Valkyrie took quickly to Svala, and the halfborn to her. Where Svala went, young Valkyrie followed. It didn't take long for others to start calling her Svala's guardian angel - though not all meant it seriously, viewing the jader as too delicate to provide any real protection. Svala's hunting companions were far less welcoming. Svala's human stepfather, Eirik, also the leader of their hunting party, viewed her as a lapdog at best and a liability that was going to get someone killed at worst. His team of dire wolves was of much the same mind, while their pair of Fjord sleipnir simply didn't care so long as she wasn't underhoof.
It didn't take long before Valkyrie was training with Svala, joining her on every run or sleipnir ride and even taking part in sparring matches, though she never proved much competition for the larger and more experienced dire wolves. It was when she started tracking that she really began to excel and prove her worth. Even the aging dire wolf whose job it had always been to do the tracking relented, recognizing her natural ability, and begrudgingly took her under his wing. Soon she was walking through old hunts, both recently finished and long past hunts, learning all there was to know about rune drakes and other beasts.
Over half a year of training passed before she was allowed anywhere near an active hunt. Even then, she was permitted to do no more than shadow her dire wolf mentor and was not allowed near the actual fighting. She would watch everything her mentor did with a sharp eye, learning all that she could and committing it to memory, including the ways that certain methods could be improved upon or could go wrong. And when they'd found their drake, she would observe the fights from a distance, watching the way the drakes would move or react and how the humans, dire wolves, and sleipnir moved as a team. No two hunts were the same, but she could start to pick out patterns, could predict what might happen based on how a beast reacted to its hunters.
When she was finally allowed to be an active part of the hunt she struggled. The fast pace of the team and the hunt made it hard to keep up while still remembering and applying everything she had learned through training. It took several hunts for her to really find her footing and keep up with the rest of the team, but her determination to succeed and prove those who doubted her wrong kept her going through each challenge she faced.
The Huntress
Valkyrie had hunted with the team for nearly two years when the primary tracker was retired due to age and Valkyrie took over as primary. They'd done countless hunts during that time, some more successful than others. She'd saved her team and been saved by her team, and everyone had grown to trust her abilities even if they didn't like her. While not the strongest creature on the team, she was the sharpest and most calculating, catching things others missed. Even her fighting skills improved. Using her speed and size she could outwit opponents and compete against creatures stronger than herself. She and Svala had even started hunting lesser beasts on their own and taking side jobs from humans that needed help when they weren't on the trail of a drake.
Life was not entirely work, though, and Valkyrie did form relationships with others of her kind, some more fleeting than others. However, Valkyrie lost little time for puppies. Rather, as an integral part of the hunting team, any pups left with her were raised by Eirik's dire wolves that had never been suited to hunting or that were retired. She had not planned for any of her offspring to follow in her path, but one does not always get what they wish for. There was no keeping her eldest, Körbl, from hunting, so Valkyrie took him under her wing when he was old enough. She was relentless and unforgiving with his training, pushing him harder than she or any of the others had been pushed. They started every day at dawn, and would go until near sunset with few breaks in between. His only reprieve would come when she had to leave on a hunt. Either his training would keep him alive in the future or it would turn him away from hunting altogether, and Valkyrie was happy with either of those options. Despite her misgivings, Valkyrie came to enjoy Körbl's presence on hunts and in her life. Though she still worried for his safety, having a second jader as part of their hunting team was refreshing, and he soon began joining her and Svala on their smaller hunts and jobs.
As time passed, both Valkyrie and Svala took on more roles within the team and in training. Leadership of the team fell to them as Eirik prepared to retire and many of his original dire wolves aged out or were lost to beasts over time. Valkyrie would train every new potential canine, assessing them for their skills and temperament while Svala would handle the sleipnir and any humans that wished to hunt. Any that had doubted the halfborn and the jader had been proven wrong.
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