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Hallgerd Sigviddottir
Hallgerd Sigviddottir #fantasy #epicfantasy #darkfantasy #dndminis #heroforge #heroforgeminis #Pathfinder2E #dnd5e #wow #worldofwarcraft #tapletop #pathfinder #dnd
Meet Hallgerd Sigviddottir, the older sister of Jofrid, Griotgard, Solmund, Hosvir, and Vigdis, all children of Sigvid Varinsson and Hedinfrid Jomarsdottir. Their grandfather Varin Hialtisson still lives with them. Along with her close friend Tofa Odinkardottir, they share a marriage with Svafar Kollson and have a son named Gudrik Svafarson. Svafar Kollson Tofa Odinkardottir Read about these…
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Shaw & Skadi for the kid meme!
Name: Sigvid Skadisson Shaw. I know it should be Shawson BUT FUCK THE RULES. “Sig” is a pretty standard prefix for a lot of Norse names from the word “sigr” meaning “victory” and “vid” from the Old Germanic “widu” for forest. Gender: Masc and male-presenting but beyond that I’m not sure? Trans man? AMAB non-binary? Look, he uses he/him (maybe they too) and people THINK ‘man’ when they look at him, that’s all I know General Appearance: Tall and beefy, he couldn’t NOT be. Medium pale skin that gets even paler in winter but tans easily in summer. Black hair, or so dark brown it might as well be black, and very dark eyes. His hair, unlike both parents and most of his Asgardian brethren, is actually kept short, and while he has a beard, it’s not the big one. The reason for this is functional; short hair is better if you’re spending a lot of time in the wild. Stuff gets stuck in long hair, it can get tangled in branches at the worst times, it’s hot in the summer, and it can literally freeze in the winter if it gets wet. His attire is very much out of a Viking fantasy, but less on the “heavy armor” end of things and more on the “wearing lots of furs and skins” side. He doesn’t look like someone you want to fuck with, but he also doesn’t look like he’s going to war. He carefully avoids any kind of dangling amulets, charms, or other jewelry that could get caught on anything, but he’s got a sort of leather toolbelt containing various survival tools made from wood, bone, etc. Personality: Sigvid, as you might guess from his attire and the reasons for it, is an outdoorsman. Not as a hobby, not as a lifestyle, but an EXISTENCE. He thrives in the natural world as Sebastian does in the business world, finding ways to survive in even the most adverse of situation. Whatever Mother Nature is doing around him, he can not only make it through it, he can work it to his advantage. His closeness to the natural world, his close observation of it, means that he sees both the facts and errors in his father’s mentality. He sees that the strongest predators will pick off the weakest prey, that the winter will take those who do not prepare, that mother animals will neglect and even devour their young if they’re sick or runty. He also sees that prey are more aggressive than predators, how some creatures will adopt and nourish infants that are not their own or even their own species, how some will share their kill with no benefit to themselves, and how even the smallest and most humble animals can make it through things that the larger, so-called stronger ones did not. Sigvid is very pragmatic, like his father, very practical, very self-preservationist. He has to be. But he’s also very spiritual, not in a way that connects to some distant god, but the world around him, to earth and nature. Not some idealized hippie-dippie conception of nature as a loving mother that is always in balance, but an acceptance that it is a greater power that he cannot control, he can only hope to survive at best. It keeps him humble. It also gives him a much wider, more relative perspective on things that is not human-centric, or Asgardian-centric for that matter. My Shaw often says that he admires human accomplishments above all else, that no other animal has built cities, computers, cars, and so on. And he is correct in this. But Sigvid always points out, how many termite mounds has man built? How many times do humans migrate thousands of miles using an innate sense of the Earth’s magnetic fields? How many fish have we hunted by literally sensing the electricity in their bodies? Yes, humans are “the best” if we judge them by standards HUMANS MADE. Judge us by the base standard of any other species, and we flop. Same for judging any species by the standards of any other. Nothing is “more” or “less” evolved than anything else, more complex does not mean better, and nor does being bigger, stronger, meaner, or even smarter mean a species is “better” or “more evolved” either. Survival of the fittest is not about that, nor about individuals; it’s about how well a species fits its environment and niche. A slime mold is just as evolved as a person. Sigvid is very passionate about this, though he’s not the type to speak up most of the time; he’s stoic and saturnine, used to keeping his mouth closed and his thoughts to himself, because most of the time there’s no one to talk to. And that also means he’s learned to exist without the validation and approval of others---ironically, something that is much like his father, learned in a completely different environment.
A lot of this, obviously, comes from Skadi. He was at side her since infancy learning to hunt and track, learning the difference between wood sorrel and white clover, how to tell when a moose is about to charge, and what it means when the woods go quiet. This connects deeply to Skadi’s Jotunn side in particular, which in Norse lore are thought to have symbolized the inherently chaotic and uncontrollable nature of, well, nature! Though Sigvid would not, nature it’s chaotic, it’s actually very ordered, people just don’t bother to understand what’s inconvenient to them. But where he differs from Skadi is that he’s not a Disney princess. Animals don’t hang out with him. He doesn’t nurse injured creatures back to health. He doesn’t keep pets. He does not see them as friends. They are not less than him, but they are not allies, they are beings he co-exists with, avoids, or eats. At least, until a thylacine started hanging out with him. Yeah, a thylacine. The extinct Tasmanian tiger. Who knows where it came from or why he’s attached itself to him, but he’s very adamant she’s not a pet and he hasn’t named her, but she is THERE. Sometimes. She isn't at his side like a dog, it's more she's following him from a distance and she pokes her head out from the trees somewhere. She's not a pet. She's more a parasite. But unlike Shaw, Sigvid doesn't use that term in a bad way, and he's fine with her presence. He's just curious where the hell an extinct Australian animal came from? Obviously, Sigvid is not interacting with people a lot, but when he does, he’s far less awkward or boisterous than people expect. He doesn’t have the overt weirdness people expect from a hermit, nor the bombastic warrior cliché of an Asgardian, or the vicious stereotype of a Jotunn. He has a quiet but overwhelming elegance, not like an aristocrat but like a great stag emerging from the forest. He chooses his words carefully, and can say much with just a few. He walks the middle ground between judging by individuals and judging by species; he does a little of both. He has preconceptions and generalities that he believes in about each group, but also believes in room for exception. After all, he’s not what a lot of people expect, is he? Despite this, he’s frequently misread as disliking people, but he doesn’t. He is utterly neutral on them, he just prefers his own way of life. Likewise, he tends to be very neutral towards individuals, and this also is often misread as dislike. One thing he does dislike though, is when people try to endear themselves to him by talking about how they agree animals are better than people, or say stuff like you know only man kills for pleasure. . . .this actually just annoys him. Firstly, a lot of animals do kill for pleasure. Secondly, when people say animals/nature is better than people. . . .they’re forgetting that people---humans, Asgardians, Jotunn---are animals too. This is just another way people, of any sort, try to insist they’re something special and different, whether in a negative or positive way. It doesn’t impress him. What impresses him tends to be how well people work within their niche, whatever niche that is. Like Shaw, he doesn’t really judge in terms of conventional morality, but a person’s success----Sigvid’s definition of success is just much wider. Like, maybe you dive for a living---are you a good diver? A great cafeteria worker? The best toilet cleaner in the tri-state area? He admires that and he commends you. When he is angered, he stays quiet, and his response is swift and physical; he either leaves or strikes physically and then leaves. When he feels sufficiently bonded with someone. . . he is still quiet. He appreciates a person who doesn't need to be filling the silences between them to feel comfortable and kinship. And kinship for him is rare, but he's not lonely----just also not adverse to it, as many assume he is. People assume a lot about Sigvid, and most of it is wrong, but he's also very chill with it. Sigvid is a very chill guy.
Special Talents: Besides the obviously mentioned talents for hunting, tracking, foraging, survivalism, and nature knowledge? Many people think he’s some kind of seer because he’s good at predicting storms and such, but actually he’s just very good at reading the signs most people aren’t attuned to. He also presumably has the attributes of Asgardians and Jotuns (super strength, etc) but if he has a mutant power, it has yet to manifest. Also cannot assume a Frost Giant form. Who they like better: Skadi, though eventually he does respect his father for performing so well at what he does
Who they take after more: I think both equally in different ways Personal Head canon: -He really likes amethyst geodes. -He finds a lot of manufactured foods, like chips or snack cakes, to be WAAAAY too strongly salty or sweet for him to stomach, is allergic to Red Dye #40, and he finds the taste of domesticated animals to be weird. - Not much of a dairy person, but ghee is good -Dislikes when people stereotype hillbillies as stupid; as in like, people who are genuinely living in the hills and mountains of the American Southeast, they're an interesting people with their own unique culture like any other group that lives off the land in isolation---which he respects---and not interchangeable with typical rednecks. -He doesn't typically carry anything with him that's not a necessity, if he knows he's going to be seeing people soon, he will pick up knick-knacks he finds in abandoned places and distribute them like a weird Santa Claus. Who, he's met, by the way, and according to him, Father Christmas is something of a badass. - He will always buy your homemade soaps, and I have no idea what he's doing with them. Yes, maybe he's using them in the normal intended way but IM NOT SURE?? - Pops up in art museums. People never expect him to be here, in these cathedrals dedicated to human creation, but he is. I think he views art a bit differently than the average person, but he's there all the same. - He's an Aquarius but there is a LOT of Saturn in his chart - The first Midgard movie he saw was Forrest Gump. He was expecting it to be about something else because of the title, but he enjoyed it and LEARNED THIS DANCE Face Claim: n/a
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Why was I sitting in a pasture being accosted by horses?
As part of my class on rune stones this term, I had to write a term paper presenting a runic carving, preferably one I’d visited. So, I headed out to the horse pasture right by my place where there are no fewer than two rune carving (U897 and U898, links go to their Wikipedia pages) made into the rock slabs that poke up out of the pasture.
Of the two, U898 is definitely the “prestige” carving, made by Öpir himself no less (he’s famous locally, trust me) and commemorating a fellow who had actually gone a-viking, possibly even in the host of Ingvar.
U897 on the other hand is definitely edgier. It was made by a man named Sigvid who identifies himself as the son of his mother Gillög (i.e., NOT the son of his father, which most do), and the carving is done to honor his mother-in-law Ragnälv. A man naming two women on his rune stone?? (practically) Unheard of!
Here’s some moving(-ish) picture os the two made back in 2001 when they had been freshly cleared and painted.
Anyway, about the horses. The may be dumb herbivores but they’re freakin’ BIG dumb herbivores and when you are sitting on the ground and they sneak up on you, it’s a little startling. And hooves are scary, and they are wearing big iron shoes. And when the hooves’ owners start nosing around in your backpack, there’s not much you can do because they hardly even feel you trying to push their heads away. 
(And anyway they are far too cute for their own good. Who can say no to something with such big eyes and such long lashes! Well, I did, because I knew one of them has a tender tummy and is not allowed to eat apples.)
I feel rather silly about the whole thing – a little like a city slicker who goes to Yellowstone, sees the backside of a bear from a half mile away, and reports back that she was nearly killed – but the truth is I just don’t know how to handle horses. I pride myself on being a bit of a farm girl, but hey, we just grew fruit, not big gallumphing goofballs like these!
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The royal mounds in Gamla Uppsala. These grave mounds were constructed about 1 500 years ago!
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The runestone depicted has been built into the outer wall of the Gamla Uppsala church. It says (roughly translated) "Sigvid Englandfarer erected this stone after Vidjärv, his father..." the last part of the runes was lost, as the stone at some point was cut to be repurposed as a communion table. The inscription date back to roughly 1000 AD.
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Another runestone from Hargs skog, also made during the 1000s AD. The runes read "Gudlev and Sigvid, heirs of Adulf, had the stone cut after their father and after Sigborg, his mother."
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wepurge-rpg · 3 years
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¿TK?, ni me acuerdo de quién es. Pero de que hay gente de Chicago, hay mucha. Está Sigrid, su hermano Sigvid, Zeynep, Amelie, la loca de pjs chilenos parece que se fue, está Max/Dasha, y creo, creo, está Gala. Igual hay mucha otra gente allí que no vale la pena mencionar, sólo los tóxicos/Needy. || ¿QUIÉN ES ZEYNEP?
no sé
R. 
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puhpallurah · 5 years
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APH Anko Family’s human names, my headcanons
Denmark: Torvald - Mogens .. He goes usually by name Matthias in fanfictions. I have also seen first names Magnus and Mikkel for him. The name ‘Matthias’ is the Danish variant of Matthew (English form of Matthaios). This name refers to one of the twelve apostles. I don’t think a religious Christian name suits him or any of the Nordics really. I like the first names Magnus, Mogens and Torvald for him. Magnus means ‘great’ and is used in Norway, Denmark and Sweden, Mogens is a Danish variant of Magnus and Torvald is a Scandinavian name meaning ‘Thor’s ruler’.
Norway: Sigurd - Sigve - Sigvid - Einar.. The most usual name for Norway is Lukas, but Sigurd is also used. I don’t actually have a problem with these names, even though Lukas might be a bit too basic for Norway. However, I do like Sigurd a lot. Sigurd is the name of a hero in Norse mythology. The name Sigve is a variant of Sigvid. The element ‘sig’ in the name comes from the Old norse ‘sigr’ which means victory. I have also seen the name ‘Einar’ for Norway, which means lonely warrior, if I remember correctly.
Iceland: Eirikur - This is actually one of the commonly used names for him. The name is derived from Old Norse words ‘ei’ which means ‘always’ and ‘ríkr’ ruler. I am quite open for different names for Iceland, as I do also like the common name Emil.
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nightbringer24 · 6 years
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Dark elf questions
I couldn’t really work on these yesterday (work sucked!), but I did managed to think on them a bit, and then I did a bit more thinking on them, and so I’ve managed to work on the questions asked by @diseonfire (who I can’t tag which fucking sucks!) and @swedebeast. So they’ll be under a read more.
Word of warning: this is the single biggest bit of world-building I have ever done in fiction, so... it might not be 100%. But we’ll see.
@diseonfire’s questions:
>You mention raiding and elf lords. So how is the hierarchy structured? Are they vying for alliances with humans or just some means to get close enough to their technology out so they can use it against them?
Hierarchy is very much structed along traditional the Viking lines of the three classes: jarls (aristocracy) on top, karls (free peasants) in the middle, thralls (indentured workers) at the bottom. The dark elves clans that live in the south, and thus closest to the humans are vying for more interaction with humans mainly for economic growth while some are using it to help in old blood feuds against other clans (and since these are elves, these feuds are VERY old). Some of the more militaristic clans are, but some of them are knowledgeable enough not to strike at a united human society. Some of them.
>Who tends the sick, in these societies? who dictates policy and delivers justice? How is justice and punishment served?
The sick are tended to largely by the family, but the more serious life-and-death sicknesses/illnesses/injuries by the followers of the god of healing, which is made up of both male and female elves. Policy is dictated by clan jarls while their housecarls deliver carry out certain sentences such as death penalties for severe crimes. Criminals are brought before the jarl and his housecarls along with other important dark elves such as priests, where judgement is considered before a sentence is carried out. Minor crimes are normally settled between the offended parties under the supervision of the jarl or his most trusted housecarl, while major crimes that can be proven between parties are sorted by a ritual duel between two chosen fighters, which are normally non-lethal. If the offended party wins the duel, then the loser is outlawed from society for a certain period of time, normally decades or possibly even a century. If the criminal wins, then the matter is considered settled.
>Who raises the children? How are their families structured? What is allowed to do what in the society?
Children are raised normally by the mother until the age of 25 (early adolescent for humans), before they are given a choice: join the hird, the retinue, of one of their clans housecarls, or tend to the settlement. If the former, they are placed under the care of the housecarls house, the latter are kept in the family to learn whatever trade the family practices. Families are structured around the basic mother-father pairing, although single parent families aren’t uncommon, nor are same-sex pairings. Male and female roles are not strictly ordered, although it is heavily expected for the males to join the hird and fight in raiding parties or join the town/village guard, but there is nothing stopping females taking up arms. Sigrún Flamestrider of the Flamestrider clan, daughter of the deceased Jarl Sigvid Flamestrider leads her clan’s forces in to battle alongside her uncle Gunnhautr.
>What kinds of clothing do they wear? Are there any special details?
Cloths reflect the status of the elf. Higher class elves have expensive woollen or even silken garments, middle class have more basic but no less well-made clothes while the lowest have the most basic clothing. Wool, leather and fur are the main components, while jewellery in the form of necklaces, broches, amulets and bracelets are the most common. Rings and earrings are worn by both male and female but are more commonly associated with the sea-borne raiders. Details showing clan motifs or symbols associated with chosen deities are the most common.
>Why do the elves hate humans? Is it to do with social or species difference? Is it because of religious beliefs? General fear of the unknown? Do humans looks scary or ugly to them? Are humans intruding on sacred traditions or are they attributed blame for changes in the environment or new diseases? Do these elves get sick/can they get sick with human sicknesses?
The dark elves don’t have a hatred for humans. They simply hold themselves as being superior to humans and other races due to their belief that because of their position in the world closest to the northern poles, they hold themselves as being closer to their religious pantheon. Since dark elves can’t grow facial and body hair to the same extent as humans can, they hold humans as oddities, but not enough to stop any form of interaction (outside of the very idiotic elves). Only the elves that live in the north view the humans as intruding on a sacred tradition: again, these elves have been pretty isolationist and view themselves as being more important to their own deities than humans because of their location in the world, so to have elves interacting openly with humans and other races in trade is seen as an affront to them. Sicknesses can be transmitted, such as cholera and the plague to name some big ones, but elves can get through them quicker than humans can.
>How are they transitioning from one form of society to another? What is prompting them to do that? Is it environmental stresses, religious practice, social, technological or ideological, or maybe population? Do they require/want specific kinds of resources?
The transition is mainly through to open trade, but the main prompt was a battle between a large dark elf raiding party that attacked a large human settlement, which was unfortunately (for the elves) close to a city that held a religious military order. The raiding party was quickly trounced by a combined force of the city militia and military order, which then launched a punitive expedition against the clans the elves came from. That was a bit of a wakeup call for the southern dark elves. For resources, grain and cattle are the main resources they need for trade since they mainly get their sustenance from fishing, hunting and small-scale farming operations. They don’t live in a nice area of the world.
@swedebeast‘s question:
>What are their gods, and what is their afterlife like? What behaviour is required of them to get there, and what will make them less likely to attain favourable seats after death? What is taboo? How do they worship their gods, and is there a priest profession, caste, or is everyone responsible for their own salvation and spiritual guidance? Their gods are not named (as of yet. Again, I’m just bad at names), but some of their gods are as follows: • Goddess of time • God of knowledge • God of healing and life and death • Goddess of war, strife and honour • God of craft (smithing, forging, sewing, shipbuilding, etc) • Goddess of hunting and fishing • God of the wild (sea, mountains, forests, etc) The afterlife is… not really clear. Like, I haven’t decided yet on what it would be. But I know that each deity has their own sphere of the afterlife. To get to them, basically the dark elf that worships that deity just has to do right by that god (in as few a words). Those who follow the god of healing and life and death are rewarded for helping as many as they can through whatever ailments they have, the goddess of war (no surprise) rewards brave and honourable fighters, but she also punishes the dishonourable and cowardly (this extends to assassins as well as deserters).
Cannibalism is a big taboo, especially with such long lived creatures as elves. The body is seen as a vessel created by the gods and to break that vessel through such means as cannibalism is an affront to their power.
Some of the more esoteric deities (the goddess of time for example) are worshipped in a way that could be considered the most ritualistic: burnt offerings, prayers and such. The deities that are considered to be practical are worshipped through the acts of their followers: for every body healed and life saved, the god of healing is worshipped. For every animal hunted and catch of fish brought in, the goddess of the hunt is honoured. The goddess of war is… pretty self-explanatory. Priests do exist in a fashion for some deities. The god of knowledge is revered by the intellectual elves, so they are considered his priests, while a form of chaplain exists among the ranks of the dark elf fighting forces.
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jschalin · 6 years
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“Gudliv and Sigvid, Adulfs heirs had this stone cut after their father and after Sigborg, his mother.” #swedish #runestone #uppland #vikings - this stone is from the 10th century so Sweden had become christened, but the traditions of runes prevailed. (på/i Uppsala County)
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aratheon · 1 year
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Varin Hialtisson
Varin Hialtisson #fantasy #epicfantasy #darkfantasy #dndminis #heroforge #heroforgeminis #Pathfinder2E #dnd5e #wow #worldofwarcraft #tapletop #pathfinder #dnd
Varin is the Sea Navigator on Thorkel Beorcolsson’s ship. He’s the father of Sigvid and the grandfather of Hallgerd, Jofrid, Griotgard, Solmund, Hosvir, and Vigdis. Varin only had one son due to the fact that his beloved wife died shortly after Sigvid was born and he never could find it in himself to remarry. Varin is training Skardi, the ward his family has taken in and treated like a son to…
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aratheon · 1 year
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Jofrid Sigviddottir
Jofrid Sigviddottir #fantasy #epicfantasy #darkfantasy #dndminis #heroforge #heroforgeminis #Pathfinder2E #dnd5e #wow #worldofwarcraft #tapletop #pathfinder #dnd
Jofrid Sigviddottir is the second child of Sigvid Varinsson and Hedinfrid Jomarsdottir. Their mother died giving birth to the youngest child of Sigvid, Vigdis, her younger sister. Aside from her older sister Hallgerd, who just so happened to have married Svafar, her husband’s older brother, she has four younger siblings including Vigdis. Griotgard, Solmund, and Hosvir are her younger brothers.…
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aratheon · 2 years
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Broken Souls - Chapter 20
#brokensouls Chapter 20 - Bothvar makes last-minute preparations with his father #fantasy #epicfantasy #darkfantasy #fantasyromance #freebook #free #fantasynovel #fantasybook #vikings #viking #norse #norsemythology #elves #elf #freebook #freebie #freebies
Bothvar Beorcolsson We follow father to the docks where the crew prepares the ship to sail out once the All-Clan Meeting is finished. Shields are hung on the side of the ship; barrels of water and dried food are stored below along with crates of weapons. The sea navigator, Varin Hialtisson, father of Sigvid, father of Griotgard and Solmund and their siblings, checks the health of the ship with…
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aratheon · 2 years
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The Damaged Soul: Chapter 11
The Damaged Soul: Chapter 11 - Some last minute preparations before the raid #fantasy #epicfantasy #darkfantasy #fantasyromance #freebook #free #fantasynovel #fantasybook #vikings #viking #norse #norsemythology
We follow father to the docks where the crew prepares the ship to sail out once the All-Clan Meeting is finished. Shields are hung on the side of the ship; barrels of water and dried food are stored below along with crates of weapons. The sea navigator, Varin Hialtisson, father of Sigvid, father of Griotgard and Solmund and their siblings, checks the health of the ship with his apprentice,…
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wepurge-rpg · 3 years
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al parecer una de las admis de Deadsun fue usuaria de Chicago, TK, y fue administradora provisoria por un tiempo antes de bajarse, y además la echaron de Malibú por plagio.| ¿TK?, ni me acuerdo de quién es. Pero de que hay gente de Chicago, hay mucha. Está Sigrid, su hermano Sigvid, Zeynep, Amelie, la loca de pjs chilenos parece que se fue, está Max/Dasha, y creo, creo, está Gala. Igual hay mucha otra gente allí que no vale la pena mencionar, sólo los tóxicos/Needy.
Mira.
R. 
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