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Name: Astrid Brøndsted, AKA: "Nyx"
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: 14 March, 1920
Nationality: Danish
Appearance: Astrid has pale sandy blonde hair kept in a bun and sky blue eyes. She has sharp cheekbones, a swan neck, and a small nose. The freckles that dotted her face and shoulders in her youth are gone, replaced with fair, pale skin. Due to a birth defect, her right is gnarly, withered and frail. She covers this up with a pair of gloves (often white) that reach to her elbows with dresses and to her wrist with other clothes, and folds her left hand over it. She dresses fashionably, favoring reds, blues, purples, and blacks. She is known for wearing a cream colored cashmere scarf, with silvery ribbons through the fabric. The scarf, however, contains a deadly weapon; the silvery ribbons are aluminum, and the scarf was used to end a few collaborators' lives.
Curriculum Vitae: Speaks Danish, German, English and Greek. A self-taught actress, she is excellent at schooling her expressions, improvisational speaking, argumentation, lying and lie detection. She has acted in Danish, British, American, and German films, and propaganda movies, making her famous and able to move through many social circles. In essence, she has the skill set of a spy, only without the lethal edge of one and more of the intelligence gathering edge.
Personality: WIP
Personal History: Born in Kolding, in Schleswig, north of Germany, her biological mother died when she was very young. Her father married again when she was two, to a childhood friend of his from Greece, and she has always viewed her as her real mother. Her father was fairly wealthy and conducted business in Scandinavia and Germany, and so he and his first wife moved to Schleswig from Copenhagen when she was three months pregnant. Both her mother and father cherished their four children, and strived to give them a good education and happy childhood. Little Astrid was the eldest; an active child, social and bright, and was initially not as active in her studies as she should have been. After a trip to Greece when she was ten, however, she changed her mindset and set aside most of her toys in favor for books.
Astrid enjoyed make believe games when she was younger, and the plays and stories she read had interested her, and so began her passion with acting. She stared in front of a mirror for faces and posing, and practiced monologues on her parents and friends. She also participated in plays at her gymnasium, and got her break at age 15 to begin acting minor parts in films.
Given Schleswig's location, they were the first Danish region invaded by the Germans in 1940. Denmark quickly surrendered so that they would not be decimated and would be given leniency. The Danish people were treated very well at first, especially since the Germans viewed their northern neighbors as fellow Aryans. Astrid and her family were treated especially well given the family business' ties to Germany (which was selling items to England as well). Astrid viewed herself as Danish, proudly so, but initially hesitated to join the growing resistance due to her fear for her family. But in April of 1941, news arrived that her mother's beloved Greece had been invaded. Astrid will always remember the months of the Occupation, how her mother's face was as white as a sheet with news of famine, massacre and plunder. And so, she joined the Danish resistance for Greece and Denmark. She used the alias "Nyx." It was her job to enter social events hosted or attended by the high ranking members of the Schalburg Corps, the Folketing, and the puppet government. At these events, she gathered and reported names, information, and on a few occasions, killed. In 1943, she and her family used their money to help transport Danish Jews safely across the Øresund to Sweden, along with distracting German soldiers from the ships.
Since the end of the war, Astrid's life has become much less dramatic, but her acting career has soared. While she is not famous worldwide, she is well known in Europe and lives quietly in Copenhagen. The prospect of hunting down Nazi members hiding from justice and ending them is one that excites her greatly, especially after their recent atrocities have come to light.
Miscellaneous: She speaks German with a very northern accent, and her Danish accent leaks into her English. She can, however, speak Greek without hinting her true nationality. She speaks standard Danish, but also understands the dialect of Schleswig.