I have a few more quick (like seriously sloppy) drawings of my SSSSona, and also some reworking of her bio:
Name: Helmi Astrid Laitinen
Age: 21
Nationality: Finn/Dane (Finnish father, Danish mother), grew up in Finland and doesn't speak Danish
Gender: Female
Immunity: Yes (but is a hypochondriac despite this)
Profession: Skald, military
Languages: Finnish, Icelandic (but is very bad at speaking Icelandic -- pretty much just reads it)
Helmi was born in Finland to a Danish mother and Finnish father. Her parents divorced when she was a toddler, and she only met her mother a few more times before she died in the Danish land reclamation attempt. She knows her mother was a respected academic, and Helmi shares her thirst for knowledge, poring over any old-world tomes she can get her hands on. Her father works in the Finnish "navy" and comes and goes from Keuruu, helping the ferries to run.
Helmi is primarily a skald working at Keuruu, but also has some combat training and helps out with missions outside the walls of Keuruu when greater manpower is needed, like when a scout finds a particularly nasty troll. Hence her sword. She is not a mage, since she has very little spirituality for a Finn. Friends who are mages are constantly trying to get her to at least show a layman's sensitivity to magic, but so far it hasn't worked.
The half-Finn/half-Danish aspect comes from my own half-Finn half-Dutch ethnicity. I got the idea from the fact that when my friend recommended SSSS to me, she got Danish and Dutch mixed up and told me there were Dutch characters. I was ecstatic at the idea of a webcomic so specifically tailored to my interests, but it turned out that she had just made a (very common in America) mix-up. (But if the Dutch were in SSSS, I feel like they'd play a pretty similar role to the Danish. I mean, land reclamation? That's got the Dutch written all over it! ..Anyway, I digress.)
Helmi is the name of my great-grandmother, and then the rest of this character's name I made up.
Also, Helmi was saved by Lalli once, two years ago:
This was before she had much experience with missions outside the walls of Keuruu, and she got distracted while reading an ancient plaque she found. Soon enough, a beast snuck up on her. She fumbled with her sword, dropping it, and sprinted away as fast as she could. Luckily for her, Lalli happened to be scouting nearby and was able to kill the beast. She's gotten significantly better at not freaking out outside the walls since then.
Please enjoy!
