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Full Name: Lina Ericksdaughter
Nicknames/Aliases: “Rune of Uruz”, “The Mighty Tinker”
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Rune/Location: Uruz; the rune is visible lower on her collarbone down towards her chest, and is a deep blue color.
Rune Powers: (While some Blessed do have magic, and World Eaters do have powers, you would remove the “Rune” bit for them if using them)
Enhanced physical attributes, including strength, speed, and senses. Her might is comparable to a jotun, allowing her to lift loaded mini-vans at most and tank serious hits. Likewise, she can ‘expand’ her senses to reach farther than normal, but this requires focus. Little focus is needed to enhance senses within the normal range, so in-battle use is practical. Yet the longer the range the more focus that is needed increases exponentially, to the point that long-range stuff it isn’t practical for in-battle use in those situations.
Her reaction time and movement speed are also boosted, the former more than the latter but both being distinct from normal human beings’ capabilities. The overall boost in physical attributes makes her like unto a street-level superhuman of some sort, from from unbeatable or unable to be harmed...but also very bad to get in a fist fight with.
Description: A lightly tanned Caucasian beauty, boasting a head full of soft, red hair that has been stylled into a ponytail. Her eyes are a soft blue, almost like an ocean, and usually one can find her in an upbeat kind of mood. She has a very shapely and well-endowed figure, though nothing inhuman in its quality. Her penchant for tinkering has left her wearing clothing she finds most comfortable for tinkering in, though when out in public she tends to wear comfortable jeans and a comfortable T-shirt or tank top normally. If its cold she tends to pull on a jean jacket she has, thick and durable and very warm to wear in her opinion. Tinkering has also left some wear on her hands that is visible on the palm, though she usually tends to wear gloves when fiddling about with things.
Personality: An upbeat and energetic kind of individual, who enjoys a good swim as much as she enjoys a session of tinkering with something or another. She can be rather laid-back when not busy, though when she is doing things she enjoys she gets very excited about it (and potentially a but hyper). She has a passion for building things on the side, however, crafting them with her own two hands and putting them to use. She takes pride in the super-custom gas-fueled grill she made for herself, as one example of this and her high intelligence.
She does hate if people dismiss her work as “trash”, however, and frankly her temper is a bit “fiery” in general if it is set off. Her excess of energy also seems to be offset by a certain level of anxiety about herself. Does anyone in this world want her for who she is? Is she worthy of the love she has received in life so far...but also desires to gain one day as well? Things such as this are questions that “side” of her is apt to fill her mind with, dragging her down mentally and emotionally. Such things in her are normally triggered by an existing negative state of mind on her end, usually spurred on by some kind of event or interaction.
Skills:
-She is very skilled with mechanical and computer-related forms of work, tinkering to make things like a super-customized gas grill and even put together and get her own computer working from salvaged and customized parts. She is a tinker who enjoys her craft, perhaps being comparable in this manner to the dwarves of Norse legend.
-She is an average kind of cook, with it being an area she wants to learn more about and has been improving in steadily over time.
-Helping about the house, she has a good grasp of general housework...especially in regards to cleaning due to her tinkering hobby. Home repair also isn’t a thing outside of her reach, being as she is with tinkering.
-Great at swimming, and able to hold her breath underwater for about 5 minutes.
Weaknesses:
-Her anger can be exploited.
-Her anxiety can be exploited as well.
-Despite being the Uruz rune bearer, she does not have any combat experience, capabilities, or training for that matter in that area.
-She is a killable mortal
Brief History: A girl with a middle-class upbringing in the Deep South, her father (a Scandinavian immigrant’s son) was a local mechanic who took to fixing cars and had married his high-school sweetheart after she got out of college with a Criminal Justice degree. Though his wife became a lawyer, they were always very close and kept in contact with each other despite the stress of their jobs. They eventually had four kids: Lina, Erik, Kristie, and Wade, and their home was filled with the scampering of the kids and much of the usual hijinks four children could viably get into. Yet for Lina herself, she caught her father’s “mechanic bug” and eventually started learning with him how to fiddle with things, make them, and put them together.
Eventually, by some unknown event, Lina’s father died when a gas explosion happened at his place of work. The result left Lina’s mother the only financial provider at home, and the then 16 year old Lina was in turn left virtually alone to help manage the house and care for her siblings in part. It was a...growing up moment, a struggle at first that she had to adjust to and master as best as she could. Her tinkering and such hobbies picked up along with this, however, to help her cope with the added stresses of being an older sibling having to pick up what slack her dad’s death had left behind.
When the Uruz rune appeared on her body, she was swimming at the time and found herself ramming head-first into the pool wall....and making an actual lengthy crack into the side of it with great force and speed. She was surprised like anyone else there, to say the least, and she walked off after the incident was theorized to be because of a structural fault in the pool by staff.
She'd barely been home a few hours, caring for her siblings, when a ring came at the door. Several people in suits were there, like some kind of secret service members in appearance, and it soon evolved into a conversation at the door about her being the "last Rune to be found" and "chosen by Odin" and something about preventing the apocalypse. However, this was quite a lot to throw at the tinkerer, enough that even after she thought about it she politely refuse and closed the door. She was no battler, she was a tinkerer, and frankly she had her own thoughts about the end of the world.
This...did not seem to sit well with the other party, who after a week of her pushing their approaches away made a public announcement in her town that "one of the saviors of mankind doesn’t want to prevent the apocalypse cause she doesn’t feel like it".
Safe to say, this went very badly for Lina as a result. It started with just angry emails, phone calls from strangers, and some people in public giving her dirty looks. Eventually, her usual tools and parts place eventually blocked her from coming on the premises, and her siblings began to see harassment and bullying at school. She couldn't get a job, even, after her mother was fired from her job for reasons of "her daughter" when the Blessed's announcement continued to go viral. Even the local grocery stores wouldn't let them buy groceries, or would otherwise drop eggs and spill products without giving refunds.
It culminated in one night, where several people threw rock at her home. Teenagers, with supporting adults watching on from their cars they had driven over in. All that pressure, all of that anger, it pushed Lina to finally snap after hiding her siblings and mother in a nearby closet. She stepped out, catching some stones and trying to plead for the people to stop. Then began the taunts and jeers were made at her by the attackers and their parents, a few whom began drinking and enjoy the sight like it was a picnic.
They acted like they were somehow just in this. Like any of those assholes were JUST in all of this. The rocks didn't even hurt her, they couldn't but as windows were smashed and she heard the laughing...and she snapped in that moment. Jeers at her ancestry, the hate thrown at her family members, the vile side of the people of this town tossed onto her...as a scapegoat for the world's suffering. Her family barely could get food as it was, their vehicles were broken, life had become literal hell all because she was chosen for something she didn't want to do.
She returned the stones, then, without thinking about it in her blinding pent-up rage that had finally erupted from within her. Then the police showed up after neighbors called them on her, and their bullets plunked off of her skin harmlessly. It became a sort of small rampage, resulting in the Blessed rapidly arriving on scene after being called about the incident. Lina was rapidly incapacitated, bound, and then carted off by the group to some facility or another.
Safe to say, Lina’s not exactly a happy person with what has happened, or the death, or being arrested and contained by the Blessed. She's not happy about all of the “hero” and “stopping Ragnarok” nonsense she was told to boot. Though its not like she’s made an escape attempt....yet, anyways.
Other: Cooks good burgers, and was voted “most likely to MacGyver her way out of a bad situation” in high school.
