• historical fantasy & sci-fi
• bingeing TV series
• cinema
• video games
• crochet and weaving
• art & crafts
• languages & linguistics
• creating characters
• fantasizing and ignoring the real world
• metal music (death, prog, trad, folk)
• folk and old-school rock music
• eating
• sleeping
• learning about serial killers and cults
• psychology
• growing plants badly
• vulture culture
• medieval castles
• historical architecture
• historical crafting methods (weaving, spinning yarn, etc.)

• Heilung (always)
• Opeth
• Sepultura
• Garmarna
• Septicflesh
• Finntroll
• Jinjer
• Rammstein
• Björk
• Jefferson Airplane
• Led Zeppelin
• Simon & Garfunkel
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Bob Dylan
• Joan Baez
• Tautumeitas
• Sundae May Club
• INNER JOURNEY
• Kaneko Ayano
• traditional Celtic folk

Currently working through:

• Schindler's Ark , Thomas Keneally
• The Lord of the Rings , Tolkien
• Nausea , Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , Oliver Sacks

Planning to read:

• The Catcher in the Rye , J. D. Salinger
• Dogra Magra , Yumeno Kyusaku
• The Celts , Alice Roberts
• The Simarillion , Tolkien
• Necropolis , Boris Pahor
• Moby Dick , Herman Melville
• The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England , Ian Mortimer
• Whoever Fights Monsters , Robert K. Ressler & Tom Schachtman
• The Night Stalker: The Disturbing Life and Chilling Crimes of Richard Ramirez , Philip Carlo

Favourites finished so far:

• Frankenstein , Mary Shelley

• tribal Stone Age hunter vibes
• furs, leather, bones, teeth
• whatever the hell Heilung wear on stage
• grungy post-apocalyptic long-coat and chunky platform boots
• Spike's outfits (from Buffy )
• Aragorn's ranger outfit
• creepy pagan swamp witch
• The Seer from Vikings
• Klingon warrior
• trad. goth
• death-rock
• metalhead fashion
• 60s/70s hippie

from Star Trek :

• Spock ( TOS )
• Julian Bashir
• Elim Garak
• Geordi La Forge
• Data
• Grilka

Others:

• Dale Cooper ( Twin Peaks )
• Fox Mulder ( The X-Files )
• Garrus Vakarian ( Mass Effect )
• Wrex ( Mass Effect )
• Lilihierax ( Mass Effect )
• Hancock ( Fallout 4 )
• Bernard Black ( Black Books )
• Oz ( Buffy )
• Floki ( Vikings )
• Michael Ginsberg ( Mad Men )

I have...

• tattoos: 2 on left arm, 1 on right arm, 3 on right leg
• piercings: 4mm septum, 25mm/1 inch earlobes

I used to have...

• piercings: bridge, second lobes in both ears, double helix in right ear, conch in left ear, center lip ring, both nostrils

• waist-length, full head
• shoulder length, full head
• pixie cut
• 1920s bob
• buzzcut
• mohawk cut
• pixie mohawk
• dreadlock mohawk
• Chelsea cut

Name: Orcrist

• Age: 24
• Species: Orc
• Face claim: ?
• Gender/Sex: Girl/AFAB
• Orientations: Asexual, Aromantic
• Height: 5'3" / 161cm
• Hair colour: Black, but has a fully shaved head
• Eye colour: Grey
• Skin tone: Dark Emerald Green
• Class: Rogue (daggers)
• Occupation: Scavenger, Hunter
• Partner: none

• born 1997
• half-Australian, half-Scottish
• Aromantic Asexual, Bi-Oriented
• sex-averse, romance-averse
• extreme introvert
• shy, reserved, withdrawn, solitary
• misophonic
• irreligious atheist
• skeptic
• existential nihilist
• misanthrope: people are dumb and stinky and can be blamed for pretty much everything bad
• NEET
• INTP-T
• perfectionist
• neurotic
• overthinker
• android

• a hurdy-gurdy
• ✔ a weaving loom
• ✔ my own cute little place in a quiet peaceful city suburb
• actual close friends
• a job (that I would enjoy)
• a future
• confidence
• motivation
• self-esteem
• goals & ambitions
• more tattoos
• my old Nintendo 64 :(
• a different surname
• ice skates (and a place to use them)
• a traditional English longbow

• Norwegian (A2-B1 level already)
• Yiddish
• German
• Dutch
• Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig)
• Welsh
• Inuktitut
• Māori
• Old English
• Latin

Places I've visited:

• England, Scotland
• USA (MA, RI, ME, NY, CA)
• Poland
• Russia
• Japan
• Fiji

Places I want to visit:

• Finland
• Norway
• Germany
• Austria
• Netherlands
• Bruges, Belgium
• Czechia
• Ukraine & the Carpathians
• Estonia
• Lithuania
• Israel (the historical sites)
• Mongolia

• snoring
• repetitive noises
• slow walkers taking up the entire pathway
• techno music outside my abode
• people being loud
• people leaving the TV on when they aren't watching it
• people poorly loading the dishwasher
• people not updating me on our plans together
• people not paying attention to where they are walking in a crowded place
• people talking over each other in conversation
• people asking "how are you?" just to be polite and without actually wanting the answer
• people
• being interrupted when speaking
• dust

If I were in a queer-platonic relationship, would I want the following things?

• Kissing (forehead, cheek, etc): No.
• Kissing (mouth): No.
• Hand holding: No.
• Cuddling: Yes, if I'm feeling okay with it (I have confidence issues; self-conscious of my body). Let's just keep the clothes on.
• Hugging: Yes
• Other affectionate touching: A little bit, depends what it is.
• Hugging in public: i guess?
• Cuddling in public: when and where would this happen..???
• Kissing (forehead, cheek, etc) in public: No.
• Kissing (mouth) in public: No.
• Hand holding in public: No.
• Other affectionate touch in public: Nah..
• Eye gazing: No...
• Crying on: I mean.. if I really need it then yeah?
• Being cried on: See above.
• Massage (giving): No.

Name: Helvetia (Hel)

• Age: 26
• Species: Wood Elf
• Face claim: Björk
• Gender/Sex: Girl, AFAB
• Orientations: Asexual, Homoromantic/Gay
• Height: 5'2" / 157cm
• Hair colour: Black
• Eye colour: Blue
• Skin tone: Tan/bronze
• Class: Rogue (Archer)
• Occupation: Treasure hunter, Thief
• Partner: Malin

Name: Malin

• Age: 30
• Species: Human, Nord
• Face claim: Greta Garbo, Beverly Crusher
• Gender/Sex: Woman, AFAB
• Orientations: Gay/Lesbian
• Height: 6'0" / 183cm
• Hair colour: Orange
• Eye colour: Green
• Skin tone: Pale/Ivory
• Class: Tank (two-handed weapons)
• Occupation: Warrior
• Partner: Helvetia

• I love fluffy dogs (probably my favourite thing in the world)
• I love ducks and ducklings
• Suffering from depression (MDD & PDD)
• Despite being Australian, I hate our accent
• I prefer the cold to heat
• I would rather live in the Northern Hemisphere
• I stand just under 5'3'' (about 161cm)
• My mother's family likely descend from the Picts of Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• I value privacy, integrity, and honesty above all else
• My favourite colours are black, green and pale blue
• I have a collection of bones and dead animals
• I'd rather be a wood elf (or a Vulcan)
• I was a vegetarian for 8 years
• I love dark, misty, spooky, old forests

• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• A Serious Man (2009)
• Amadeus (1984)
• The Seventh Seal (1957)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• Casablanca (1942)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• Paths of Glory (1957)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Nosferatu (1922)
• The Other Side of Hope (2017)
• Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)

• Mass Effect trilogy
• Dragon Age trilogy
• Bioshock
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
• Super Mario 64
• Halo: Combat Evolved
• Halo 3

• Star Trek TOS & Deep Space Nine
• The X-Files
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Mad Men
• Vikings
• Spartacus
• I loved Game of Thrones years ago when it was airing, around seasons 1-4, but lost interest after then.
• The Wire
• The Sopranos
• Twin Peaks
• Black Books
• Peep Show
• Firefly

IMO.

• Leonard Nimoy as Spock ( TOS )
• Nichelle Nichols
• Alexander Siddig as Dr. Julian Bashir
• Seth Green
• Braden Holtby
• Patrice Bergeron
• Taika Waititi
• Jeff Goldblum
• Greta Garbo
• Carice Van Houten
• Lisa Kudrow
• David Schwimmer (the Friends years)
• Orlando Bloom as Legolas
• Slick Woods
• Maria Franz
• Lori Petty as Tank Girl

• being sexually assaulted
• being watched and/or spied on
• moths
• the ocean, and being in it
• losing my parents
• being left completely alone in life
• the future

• been assaulted (so far. who knows what the future holds)
• smoked anything
• taken illicit drugs
• been in a coma
• been to Disneyland/Disney World
• had a hallucination
• been arrested
• been on a date
• had a significant other
• kissed someone of the opposite sex
• used or downloaded a dating app
• used or downloaded TikTok
• owned a cat
• been stung by a bee or wasp
• watched porn
• been to a funeral
• seen any suggestion of the existence or power of a god
• broken any bone

• been hospitalised
• had surgery
• taken too many pills at once, then...
• ...passed out
• been bitten by a weevil
• been to Auschwitz
• seen Vladimir Lenin's corpse
• stayed awake for 26 hours
• been pierced 11 times
• been verbally harassed on the street
• held a Huntsman spider
• touched the Stanley Cup
• owned 3 dogs
• shaved my entire head
• climbed the Sydney Harbour Bridge
• been kicked by a horse
• been bucked off a horse