Reynir Árnason -- Character Development

[Sunflower]

Lovely -- thanks!
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[Haiz]

ahhhh I'm super bad at braiding (*points at super short hair*) but I think this is a Necessary Thread indeed!
(also that link doesn't work btw)

First off, I can imagine Reynir spending a loooot of time just practising braiding his braid. like. how busy can he beerding sheep all day

SECOND, his braid varies length in about every panel? One thing may be that the braid is braided pretty loosely, and can be stretched. Another thing may be MAGIC. the second one is probably more probable because. how long is his hair. how does it look unbraided. i need to know
(third option: off-model. as if)

[kahli]

Lovely -- thanks!
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ahhhh I'm super bad at braiding (*points at super short hair*) but I think this is a Necessary Thread indeed!
(also that link doesn't work btw)

I too fail at braiding my own hair. I can braid other people's because I can actually see what I'm doing. The video link should work now! Thanks for catching that!   
(everybody go watch! It's hilarious!)

[Laufey]

This is a very necessary thread and these are very important questions to ponder upon. But most importantly we need to see Reynir having a bad hair day!

[Solovei]

I feel like I can provide some assistance!

My hair is quite short now, but it was about waist-length up until I was ~13 and I wore braids a lot. My mom used to do them for me, but eventually I figured out how to do it myself (though not as neatly). Like like someone up there said, it's really just muscle-memory - I've tried explaining to other people how to do it and I get confused in the process. I can do my own and other people's pretty easily... A basic braid like the one Reynir's sporting is not that difficult, either - it's only 3 strands after all. I think as long as you divine the hair into an odd number of sections, you can make it as wide as you like (provided you have enough hair to work with, that is)

[ChristopherMcCauley]

I've never had hair longer than my just-before-my-neck, but now I'm seriously considering growing my hair out for a braid...

[Lalligaattori]

has anyone noticed how reynir's plait is the same front and back?

because in real life a plait points down on one side and up from the other, like:

\/     and    /\
\/              /\
\/              /\
\/              /\

but in reynir's case it points down on both sides, like:



does that make sense? i think it makes sense.

anyway reynir's hair is clearly therefore magic

[Rha]

I just can't stop being reminded of this guy




Who was my first (and only) anime crush, heh .-.

Well at least personality-wise they seem quite different tho Reynir hasn't said that much yet.

[starfallz]

When I have longer hair (been waist length at the longest) a braid was very useful for keeping it out of the way. Even if I wore it loose through the day, I'd braid it at night to keep from hurting myself. That said, I find it really heavy now a days so I don't keep it that long.

Although this leads me to think of what I used to do with it... winding it around the head and pinning it. Coiling it in a bun and sticking a stick through it.... What else could we imagine Reynir doing with his lovely braid?

[Solovei]

Although this leads me to think of what I used to do with it... winding it around the head and pinning it. Coiling it in a bun and sticking a stick through it.... What else could we imagine Reynir doing with his lovely braid?

He could do lots and lots of tiny braids! and then... BRAID THOSE BRAIDS.
It's ~braidception~

[Fimbulvarg]

What else could we imagine Reynir doing with his lovely braid?

One thing led to another, and now I'm trying very hard to unimagine a dreadlocks-sporting rasta-Reynir.

[Vafhudr]

Soooo... I stumble upon a rather interesting piece of information while doing research today.

There is evidence that the rowan tree was held sacred to Ukko.[9] Rauni, a vaguely defined being has been hypothesised to be cognate to Germanic words for the rowan tree through Old Norse *raunir.[10]

From this wiki page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukko

Perhaps a coincidence, or perhaps foreshadowing that Reynir's will be getting thunderbolts later on.

[SeaAngel]

Soooo... I stumble upon a rather interesting piece of information while doing research today.

From this wiki page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukko

Perhaps a coincidence, or perhaps foreshadowing that Reynir's will be getting thunderbolts later on.

You think his parents suspected something?

[FinnishViking]

Hmm a tad odd to see a icelander mage have powers related to a finnish god  ???, but maybe this will tie to what exactly is magic and how does it wörk.

[Vafhudr]

Well his only guides in matters of magic are two Finnish mages, so I doubt he's going to be learning any runes from Lalli or Onni.