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[b]Name:[/b]
Tynni Ahonen

[b]Age:[/b] 20

[b]Race:[/b]
Varuk

[b]Appearance[/b]
Tiny Tynni's nickname is well earned. Standing at a little over five foot, she's won't be anyone's first pick for a basketball team. Look past her dwarven height, however, and you will see her lithe frame, her hardened abs and a fire burning fiercely in her emerald eyes. Her skin is as dark as the night, a colour her hair shares, to the point where if she stood outside on a starless night and shut her eyes, you would think she disappeared. Her nose is button-shaped and peppered with freckles, and her lips plump and cherubic, two humiliatingly adorable features on someone who wants to exude a ferocious persona.

In terms of clothing, Tynni prefers lighter leather armours like her mentor. Unlike Siiga, however, she doesn't wear them to distract, but to manoeuvre more easily and to prevent herself getting tired over long treks. When in her armour, she goes her hair back in either a ponytail or pigtails, but wears it long in civilian clothing. Either way, she has a ring of white war paint around her eyes, symbolic of her status as an apprentice in the Followers of Akko.

[b]Personality:[/b]
Tynni is an energetic, good natured young woman. No matter the weather, Tynni can be seen with a big smile on her face and a song in her heart. She can always see the light at the end of the tunnel, and she's got the willpower to push herself until she reaches it. Her relentless optimism can be a bit overbearing at times, but hey, someone has to stay optimistic when you're surrounded by cynical, defeatist bastards. Might as well be her, eh?

A tomboy at heart, Tynni sees nothing wrong having fun in the mud, and loves going for long runs and hikes up great hills. If she really likes you, she might even have a wrestle with you - she steadfastly refuses to duel people she sees as beneath her and is always seeking out the next big challenge. She respects strength, although she hates those that abuse their strength over others.
 

Tynni has a bad habit of overthinking things, interpreting even the most minor of things as evidence that someone utterly hates her, and if someone does hate her, she's willing to go to extreme lengths to patch that relationship up. She isn't easily embarrassed, but when she is, it stays with her for a very long time. Guilt over what happened to her mother and her abandoning of her father plagues her. 

[b]Bio:[/b]
To fully understand how Tynni got to where she is today, one must consider who her father is. Soini Ahonen is the man. A mere peasant by birth, Soini established himself quickly as an individual of exceptional strength, working in his town's mill. He was said to be so strong, he could carry a full sack of grain as though it were full of feathers when he was only 14, and he only got stronger. At 18, he challenged a foreign knight to a fist fight and beat them without taking a single hit. At twenty three, he killed a bear with nothing more than his own two hands.

His feats of strength became well known throughout the community, and over time, he became a kind of unofficial knight, protecting his village and any villages nearby from every and all threats. Some began to whisper that he had been blessed by a god, others that he was a demigod. Young men, eager for fame and glory, came to him for instruction on how to fight as well as he did, and he taught them as best he could. The more he taught, and the more he achieved, the more his legendary status grew, and the more people came to him for help and guidance. By the time he was thirty, Soini had founded the group that was to earn him his most fame - the Followers of Akko.

The Followers were an ascetic lot. Soini was a religious man, and his faith strongly informed how he lead the Followers. They went around from village to village, doing everything they could to improve the lives of those they met. Followers were expected to take vows of poverty, taking only enough wealth to keep themselves fed, clothed and armed, giving the rest to the poor. Whether it was as simple as lending a hand to a farm or a mill, or something as serious as hunting down bandits and wild animals that were raiding the villages, Soini and his Followers were willing to carry it out.

It was through the Followers that Soini met Toini. Toini was a beautiful, compassionate woman with a religious fervour that rivalled Soini's and naturally, the two hit it off. Friendship turned to love. Love turned to marriage. And with marriage, there came children. Toini had four boys and two girls by the time she got pregnant with Tynni. But Tynni's pregnancy was not like the others. You see, Toini was 48 by the time she got pregnant with Tynni, and most doctors believed that she was barren. This surprise late pregnancy quickly took a toll on Toini's already worn body; migraines so bad they left her bed-bound, constant tiredness excarcebated by sleepless nights from the pain, morning sickness tinged with blood. When Soini called for a doctor, he was told that his wife's body simply could not handle another baby. It was suggested that the baby was aborted to save Toini's life

Soini and Toini both immediately rejected the idea. It didn't matter how difficult the pregnancy was, no amount of cajoling could convince the two to give up the baby. They were told that the baby could end up deformed, or possibly even dying, and that it would be more merciful to kill it now and save it future pain, but Toini had faith that Akko would never allow that.

One night, there was a fearsome thunderstorm. Despite her sickness, Toini, through sheer willpower, managed to clamber out of bed, put on her cloak and went out into the middle of the storm to pray. She stayed out there for hours in the rain and lightning, begging with Akko to show mercy on the child, to bless them and look after them no matter what happened to her.

Sadly, Soini's worse fears came to pass. The pregnancy was too hard, and the stress of actually giving birth proved too much; Toini died in childbirth. And yet, her child lived. In fact, she seemed perfectly normal. What everyone expected to be a deformed and crippled child was born perfectly healthy, of a good weight and size, breathing normally... Just normal. Soini named the baby Tynni, after his wife who gave up her life so the baby could live.

Soini vowed that Toini's sacrifice would not be in vain. He swore to look after that child and to make her someone that Toini could be proud of. He also swore to never tell the child of how her mother actually died, and invented a story that Toini actually died of sickness some time after the birth, lest the guilt cause Tynni undue pain. He knew it wasn't her fault. It was no one's fault but his own.

As a child, Tynni lived a blessed life. Despite his vow of poverty, Soini treated his young daughter as best he could. And Tynni grew up into a very precocious and pretty little girl. Those who knew about Toini's prayer to Akko truly believed that the Goddess had given Tynni her blessing. She had admirers in every village. Her tutors said she was one of the brightest little girls they'd ever had the pleasure of teaching. She even inherited some of her father's strength, sometimes fighting boys two or three years older than her and still winning.

Soini never his his intention for his daughter to join the Followers. He trained her personally in a variety of weapons, and taught her skills such as medicine and construction in preparation for her eventually membership. Perhaps, he hoped, she would be willing to lead them after he was gone.

But Tynni never wanted to join the Followers. She knew that her dad wanted her to lead them, and she couldn't stand the pressure of being seen as "blessed by Akko". She certainly didn't feel very blessed. The Followers would always treat her weird, never daring to look in her eye or say anything that might possibly be concieved as offensive, and that made it hard for her to have close friends. Even other kids her age seemed deferential and would walk on eggshells around her, for fear of bringing down the wrath of Akko, or, more pressingly, the wrath of Soini. A position as a leader seemed even more lonely, and she just wanted out.

On her 18th birthday, Akko was initiated into the Followers. She passed the entrance test with flying colours, though every instinct in her body told her just to throw it, just so she didn't have to put up with any more of those subservient, downcast looks, but she didn't have it in her to disappoint her father. This was when Soini made his biggest mistake.

Sensing his daughters apprehension, Soini took her aside to talk with her about how she felt. The talk swiftly devolved into a yelling match. Soini was adamant that Tynni would join, and lead, the Followers, but Tynni was just as adamant that she would never lead them. In his fury, Soini accidentally revealed the one thing he thought he would never tell his daughter: that her mother died giving birth to her. In his enraged mind, he hoped it would guilt Tynni into joining. He told her that if she didn't join, then her mother would have died for nothing.

Tynni felt guilty, alright. But not the way that Soini hoped. Her mother died giving birth to her? She was a killer! A cursed child! How could she show her face around the Followers again, knowing that the blood of her mother was on her hands!? Terror overtook her. She didn't deserve to be around her family, not after what she'd done, what she'd taken from them. Mid-argument, she fled the safety of her home and ran off into the night. In his youthful days, Soini would have chased after her. He may even have caught her. But the Bear was old and tired, and he could do no more than shout after his fleeing daughter, ultimately powerless to stop her.

Tynni didn't know where she was going. She didn't know what she was doing. She had never been without at least one Follower by her side, and the thought of going out on her own into the great wide world filled her with dread. But she knew, after that night, that she would never, ever be welcome among the Followers of Akko again. 

So she used her skills. For the next few months, Tynni wandered from village to village, fixing granaries and fighting bandits and generally doing whatever she could to make the lives of those around her more comfortable.

During these wanderings, she met Siiga, an outlaw turned mercenary. Her skill in combat and her sheer determination impressed the ex-bandit, and she took her under her wing as the newest member of her mercenary company. For the past year and a half, Tynni has been studying and training under Siiga's guidance. Maybe one day, she will return to face her father. But that day seems far away indeed.

[b]Equipment:[/b]
Tynni has no special or unique weapons. Her generally weapon of choice is a halberd, to make up for her short height, and she wears light armour for ease of movement.

[b]Abilities:[/b]
Tynni's background as a Follower of Akko gives her a wide variety of experience, however she doesn't truly excel at much. She's as quick as a rabbit and strong as a bull, has some basic medical experience and she can build a makeshift camp with very little.

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