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About Astrid
Name: Astrid Rolfsdottir
Nicknames: That Spinster, loon, old biddy, Cat-herder, "Touched"
Age: 97
birth date: 8/17/1910
Sun Sign: Leo
Chinese sign: Dog (metal)
Ethnic Background: Comes from a nordic tribe that had escaped to this world back in medival times. Mostly Norwegian.
Eye Color: Hazel Grey. Pupils are slightly hazy. (Going blind, but not there yet!)
Skin: pale
Height: 5'3"
Hair Color: a shocking white
Build: Short and skrawny. Slight hunch to back. Loose skin
Scars/birthmarks/etc: Lots of wrinkles. Blotchy birthmark on forehead (left side), Age spots.
Home: East of Loghedge, a little south from the road to Oxaxe.
Likes: Cats, people who are kind to her, wandering town, getting new cats, helping out people, more cats, flowers, making cakes, her brother, God, playing with cats, feeding people, being useful.
Dislikes: Being alone, loud noises, dogs, getting lost (which is often), getting yelled at, flies, the buzzing in her head.
Irrational Fears: Astrid has a fear of Flies... And sometimes hears buzzing in her head and thinks they are flies and tries to get them out.
Father: Rolf Odson (dead)
Mother: Harda Ericsdottir (dead)
Older brother: Thor Rolfson (dead)
Strengths: Big heart (loving), innocent, making deserts, tending to cats, taking care of people
Weaknesses: Old, frail, forgetful, rambles nonsense, gets lost easily, senile, was never "All there", brain damage, poor hearing, gets sezures, almost blind, drools a lot and is missing teeth.
Personality: She's a sweet old women that was never really "there" to begin with, not since she suffered some brain damage when she was little. Her way of seeing things as everything is "God will" and doesn't question what she see's around her, even if it confuses her (which is often).
She rambles and talks loudly, and tends to take everyones word and can be easily swayed -- if someone says "so and so is a devil" she will think they really ARE a Devil... Until someone else says otherwise or she simply forgets who it was.
Occupation: She really doesn't have one, but she provides some of the best mousing cats for Pest control.
Hobbies: making the walk to Loghedge everyday to be around people.
Skills: Making traditionalNorwegian foods, including deserts. Raising cats.
Quotes: "Sunrise is home. Remember remember." -- a phrase taught to her by her brother for when she's in town and can't remember how to get home. Its also how she gives instructions to her home to others.
Background: Astrid was relatively normal when she was born, but at the young age of Two she fell ill with some mysterious illness. While she eventually recovered, it left parts of her brain damaged, causing her to have sezures occationally, become "touched" (Somewhat demented or mentally unbalanced), and she spent the rest of her life living with her family, helping out as best as she could around the house, and listening to their stories.
At the age of Twenty, her parents died and came to be under the care of her older brother, Thor. During this time, she seemed almost normal, if more childlike then her age and dim, and he would bring her to town and teach her how to survive should anything ever happen to him. At this point she started adopting cats, pretending to be their mother. Her brother encouraged this behavior because it kept her alert and happy, as well as helped her practice skills needed to survive for herself and get along with normal society.
Decades passed, and Thor died while helping out at a mill, leaving Astrid lost to why her brother wasn't coming back home. To fill the void left by the loss of her brother, her gathering of cats increased and she slowly spiralled downwards, becoming detached from reality, to the point where she see one of her cats, a Strawberry blond colored and scruffy kitten, as her brother Thor coming back to protect her.
Having a great faith in God, she feels everything has a reason, like why she is how she is, and accepts everything as his work, and that he and her Brother will watch over her and those she loves.
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