Nora Walker 🌼💫

created 4/21/2020 + 4/25/2020

* female (she/her)
* 22 years old
* 5'10"
* neutral good
* wildhunt shifter ranger (modified human)
* outlander background -- lived in her family's village until she traveled to the aave-kirous keep at the age of 13 and is very much a creature of the forest
* third tabletop character!
* the entire party is her adoptive family at this point but most especially argent vendell, reeya regor and lucy eskildsen
   * check her links for more general info on her dynamics w the party!
* playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7G8qazHVurd2uXfhflkZV8?si=d129260a9028455e

* she's autistic! good on me for taking 8 months to realize that after making her HDKLSHDGHSD

* has a very subtle, calm outward nature, like a panther or a wolf. she can come off as weird to people at a first glance, but she is actually very curious and analytic of the people around her at first
* primarily nonspeaking, preferring to communicate through hunters' cant (read: sign language), physical gestures/contact and noises (hums, grunts, animal sounds such as growls or purrs). she also will mouth or whisper words to people if she feels the need to specify but doesn't have it in her to speak. she can and will speak if she has to, she's pissed, she wants to make a point or it comes out naturally. she's... not the best at social situations because of this, and if you don't know how to navigate it, conversations can get awkward quickly, especially given that if she has to talk for a longer period of time she'll start to stumble over her words.
     * has a tendency to use forehead touches as a gesture of affection/sympathy; the length of the touch depends on the person/context.
* VERY strong ties to family, birth and found. sees the party as her "pack," and would kill a man if someone got hurt.
* has a very large birth family; has a soft spot for children because of it, as they remind her of her siblings/relatives
* she does her job well because its what she was trained to do since childhood. she is not to be underestimated.
* very much believes in the natural cycle of things, from life to death to wraithhood: she sees wraithhood as something of an epilogue to a person's life, if a person becomes one when they die.
* when overwhelmed in some degree (typically emotionally), she will revert into a more animalistic state and hide away to regulate herself (if they're nearby any woods, that's where she'll go first). she will only communicate through nonverbal means in this state, and it can be a bit tough to calm her down when she's like this. if you do manage to get through to her and snap her out of trying to hide, she will cling to you like her life depends on it.
     * of note, she's not always stressed when she's in an animalistic mindset; she could be on the hunt or she could literally just be kibby mode. it really depends on context/her behavior.