#s/i: bryn eriksdottir

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so tell me you’ll come home, i don’t care if it’s a lie // bryn eriksdottir rosenquist lokkasen, ghost story, burning clary, prodigal son of ket.terdam, The Unsaint.

#paper_heart.jpg #i drew this when i should be sleeping aha #unsaint #origamis #death ment tw #(in the lyrics & the linked song) #im proud of this. ok anyway #s/i: bryn eriksdottir

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But you came over me like some holy rite, And although I was burning, you're the only light Only if for a night.

Bryn Eriksdottir // Innkeeper, healer, herbalist // A cat amongst crows, or poison in a pretty dress

x, x, x x, ♥, x x, x, x

#paper_heart.jpg #origamis #paper moodboards #s/i: bryn eriksdottir #EXHALES #ive been meaning to post this for days. thansk

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in a modern au jes.per ABSOLUTELY uses the fucking 🤨 emoji every day of his life.

(kaz uses 0 emojis and texts like an english major you KNOW what i’m talking about. in.ej types in all lowercase but has perfect punctuation and also uses 0 emojis)

#bryn overuses the 🧍 emoji jus like me. #nooo aha don’t make another chatfic aha…….. #s: a cat amongst crows #s/i: bryn eriksdottir #paperheart.txt

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i tried bryns description again but with simpler language bc i thought maybe it confused the ai and NOT AGAIN

#cmon dude!!!!!!!! whats with the assumption that gingers have light eyes!!! fuck!!!!!!! #s/i: bryn eriksdottir #paperheart.txt

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hi (i am laying facedown on the ground rn)

#i drew. all the links on the chain individually. like an idiot #paper_heart.jpg #origamis #i need a wip tag tbh #s/i: bryn eriksdottir

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sometimes i feel a little bit guilty abt what kind of character bryn has become, like despite them sharing my exact trauma and upbringing and almost everything that’s unrealistic about them serving as a metaphor for very real things i’ve been through, i’ve still given them these cool powers and skills and they’ve become this very outspoken take-no-shit person who survives very well even in a place like ke.tter.dam that breaks down even strong people, it’s very clear that’s a far cry from who i am irl

but also, i feel like it’s kind of my god given right to write myself as a sickle-wielding fire-starting vigilante criminal who poisons men who take advantage of women and is quite literally etched into the history of the city as a ghost story that kids whisper about to each other on the streets. and also be soft on a gunslinger. so like ??

#paper_heart.txt #s/i: bryn eriksdottir

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#origamis #paper_heart.jpg #SCREMAS #s/i: bryn eriksdottir

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Red I sincerely love how detailed and organized your S/I page is— they all seem like such cool and intriguing characters! (੭ु｡>﹏<｡)੭ु⁾⁾💖💖 If you do not mind (and only if you feel like it, of course!), could you perhaps please share more info about your new S/I Bryn? Anything would be fine! As long as you want to talk about it. ^^

this is so SWEET AHHHH i absolutely will share more abt them!! attempting a mobile readmore for this lmao

thank you so much for sending this in!!! i hope you have a lovely rest of your day!!!

so!! as you can see in their bio they’re one quarter fj.erdan. their paternal grandmother was a fjer.dan immigrant to ke.rch who their father always described as a very fiery and passionate woman who refused to be held down or defined by others, allegedly (she never explained quite why she left fj.erda) the cause of her moving to ker.ch, as she felt she was limited by her home culture and refused many roles placed on her.

bryn themself (at least in the first story of the series) is very quiet around most people, doesn’t cause a lot of trouble, doesn’t speak up much… you wouldn’t expect it but they actually take a lot after their grandmother. for example: they refuse to define themself by typical gender roles or identities, and wear men’s and women’s clothing equally. they have very strong beliefs on what’s right and what’s wrong, and while they remain open minded, they have certain core beliefs that you’re not likely to ever change and if they feel something goes against those beliefs, they will pursue it until they’re ragged. mainly, they care about justice, but also freedom and the right of others to care and comfort. they definitely disagree with gr.isha enlistment but they often don’t feel they’re in a safe position to fight it (perhaps because they are gri.sha themself…?)

that said, it’s not like the parts of them that want to stand up for their beliefs truly conflict with their quietude - they have a unique way of using it to their advantage and almost weaponizing it. they’ve found that when one is quiet around others, they have a tendency to act like you’re not there - that people often mistake quietness for not paying attention, and they say things when they think you’re not listening that they wouldn’t say around others. through this, they’re very good at gaining information, simply by being someone who is often ignored or forgotten, by just being quiet and paying attention. this is a pretty invaluable skill when they join the crows

here’s some assorted random trivia about them:

because kaz and bryn are both quiet (in different ways, for different reasons), even though they don’t quite trust each other at first, they have a way of communicating through facial expressions that to outsiders almost appears telepathic. they just sort of understand each other inherently. from this was born what jes.per likes to call “the neutral face of fuck you” (ok it’s what i like to call it but shh). it’s an expression that they share with each other that just kind of looks much like 😐🤨, that only they really understand to mean “i’m judging the decision you’re making heavily right now, and i’m actually quite mad but my personality won’t let me yell at you”. jes.per swears that you can tell when kaz is doing it bc he clenches his jaw just slightly, and when bryn does it their right eyebrow raises just a little. in.ej doesn’t see it.

their closest relationship among the crows is jes.per, obviously, but oddly he’s not the person they tell everything to. it sounds weird but, because they have such strong feelings toward him and they seek a form of approval from him, they sometimes feel too ashamed to come to him for some darker things in their past. at times like that, they often seek ine.j’s advice (leading to them growing a close friendship), and later nina (who also becomes a close friend to bryn)

fear not though! as trust grows between them, they do end up confiding in kaz. it’s slow, but because of some similarities, as different as they might be, they understand each other well

freyja, the first cat they rescued, is very protective of them and not readily accepting of most strangers - he doesn’t like to be touched by most new people, and he follows them like a shadow, often hissing at people he doesn’t trust if they come too close to bryn

speaking of freyja, they’re often asked why they gave a male cat a feminine name. bryn insists he chose his own name and refuses to rename him

aside from their skill in horticulture and toxicology, they’re an extremely skilled painter. they have an odd hobby of painting visitors to the inn (which at one point drew kaz’s suspicion after they painted ine.j’s portrait). they’re skilled enough that they were asked to work painting the portraits of wanted criminals, but declined immediately because they felt it went against their beliefs

they worship “old gods” but have never really elaborated on what this means. they simply say they worship the old gods.

#paper_heart.txt #religion ment tw #bonyato #s/i: bryn eriksdottir

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i started this like 3 days ago and i finally finished it. not even on account of complexity i just got lazy with it. anyway this is my sh.adow and bon.e s/i bryn eriksdottir (they/them)

#paper_heart.jpg #s/i: bryn eriksdottir #origamis

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it made their eyes blue :/

#the braid missing is excusable bc its described as a mane but like. #blue?? cmon. theres an overrepresentation of light-eyed redheads. just let me have my dark eyed redhead rep #otherwise its pretty accurate. like it doesnt look much like me irl but like. yeah i could see this as a casting choice for them #aside from the eye color #s/i: bryn eriksdottir #paperheart.txt

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im finishin this tomorrow but for now... here is the lineart + rough shading for that wip. drawn using this trace&draw 

#paper_heart.jpg #origamis #s/i: bryn eriksdottir

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pov ur a gr.isha who just watched a flamboyantly gay “ghost” beat the absolute shit out of some d.ime l.ions r something for trying to shake u down

#s/i: bryn eriksdottir #blood tw #injury tw #ask 2 tag #akos spoilers #origamis #paperheart.txt

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the plot of Keeper of Strays is just like several chapters of jesp.er going “ok this guys not getting it, i’m just gonna keep hanging around them and forcing them to talk to me till they realize i’m trying to be friends with them”

#paper_heart.txt #bryn… is dense. that’s their single personality trait #they are kind but they are dense as fuck they don’t get when people like them. #not even romantically. like. platonically. u could go out of ur way to hang around them and they’ll be like #‘nah he does it out of obligation i think i like him more than he likes me.’ DENSE #s/i: bryn eriksdottir #s: a cat amongst crows

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i keep getting the urge to make bryn gr.isha. not because of plot or because it’s in any way likely that they’d have avoided the draft or drus.kelle. simply because it is fucking Cool. but then i’m like they’re already a healer and an herbalist and a general poison expert… if i add anything else i feel like they’d be overpowered as fuck and that makes it boring to try to write them bc they can just get out of every situation and they don’t get to really flex individual skills quite as much. but THEN im like they don’t even have a weapon proficiency if i don’t give them something they’re gonna get shanked day 1. but THEN im like but they’re a healer and, as far as rpg balance, it makes sense to balance out the group they’re in with a healer who has little personal protection and should be defended heavily since their group already has a ranged attacker, a melee/rogue dual class, and a rogue-type which is SUPER biased towards DPS and doesn’t even have a true tank so ?????

#paper_heart.txt #sigh. technically going off the rpg balance thing i was talking about #if they’re the squishy healer they really should be attached to the tank of the group… whoever that is #like truly they should be like. attached at the hip to them #it’s really actually very uhh difficult i guess? for them to shadow a ranged attacker instead #since a ranged isn’t likely going to draw much aggro away from them… i mean he still WOULD but a tank would be ideal. #s/i: bryn eriksdottir

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food for thought:

irl i have a small white line (scar? i never broke the skin so idk) across the top bridge of my nose, that came from me smacking my face into my laptop. you can’t usually see it but i like to draw it into s/i designs anyway bc it’s a distinguishing part of me just like my freckles but it often gets missed in stuff like picrews bc they don’t have the option

buuuut anyway i was just thinking about bryn having that same mark on their nose and when they leave w the crows people being like “oh my god they must have gotten it in a fight… what has this mysteriously silent person seen” meanwhile they got it from tripping over freyja and hitting their nose on the fence while trying to feed the kittens and they’re just silent cause they have social anxiety

#paper_heart.txt #they’re kind of the worst criminal when you think abt it? #everything they do is 100% bluffing #great at poker though #s/i: bryn eriksdottir

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some facts abt Bryn Eriksdottir because uhhh i’m bored and i can

nonbinary canonically

uses they/them pronouns, regularly dresses in both men’s and women’s clothes

two elder sisters, Gwendolyn and Cerys

Bryn is a welsh derived name and so i chose their sisters’ names to be of similar origin but originally i chose Bryn because it’s similar to my birth name + i actually used to go by brynn for a long time

Eriksdottir is scandinavian in origin of course - i chose it bc i am swedish. i originally was going to use eriksen but i decided on eriksdottir bc they’re meant to be an s/i that kind of embodies the way i experience gender and gender roles

they live on a small farm that was turned into an inn with their sisters

their property seems to attract lots of cats, and they have a habit of taking them in and nursing them to health, especially orphans. they’ve been described as a collector of strays, both cats and, less literally, humans.

they’re the shyest of their family and most reclusive, usually spending most of their time in the barn with their cats when there are guests at the inn

their favorite of their strays is a black cat named Freyja, who is actually a tomcat but has a habit of “mothering” the orphaned kittens Bryn finds- that is to say he performs acts that their mother would normally do, while the father would typically not be as involved. things like grooming, hunting for the kittens, protecting them, and laying with them for warmth

Bryn claims Freyja chose his own name but never explains this

Freyja isn’t good with strangers and is often unfriendly towards guests at the inn, and chooses more often to follow Bryn around closely like a shadow. usually if you see him Bryn is close nearby

aside from their cats, they spend most of their time painting, usually painting guests who have stayed at the inn

they’re a skilled nurse, especially so in treating disease more than physical injuries (though they’re good with both!), and have a particularly morbid expertise in poisons. they’re fascinated by deadly flowers and poisonous plants that they find beautiful, and they have a small fenced area where they cultivate foxglove and hemlock

most of their paintings that aren’t of people are of various poisonous plants they discover that they think are beautiful. they know the names of each one they’ve painted, and how they affect the body

they were approached once to make wanted portraits of suspected criminals but declined, partially due to a fear that if they made a flawed drawing that didn’t hold enough of a resemblance to the criminal, that they would be responsible if an innocent person was charged with the crime- but also partially because they are a bit grey morally and hold a belief that not all criminals are bad people, and some are actually right in what they’ve done. but of course some are just evil. still, they wanted no part of it, so they stay helping keep the inn

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