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Brynhildr

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...which of my idiots let you in?

Rabbit

Marbled Jester

Energy: 50/50

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Scene

Physical Attributes

Battle Stats

Measurements

Length

4.96 m

Wingspan

9.16 m

Weight

445.24 kg

Genetics

Jungle
Savannah

Obsidian
Saturn

Silver
Runes

Hatchday

Dec 24, 2014
(9 years)

Breed

Adult
Wildclaw

Eye Type

Lightning
Common

Level 25 Wildclaw

Max Level

STR

100

AGI

DEF

QCK

INT

VIT

MND

Lineage

Parents

none

Offspring

Biography

Brynhildr
~Guard Captain~

Brynhildr's position in the Clan is a curious one. She's the Guard Captain, the Leader of the Guard Division, and thus reports directly to Frigga. She's works in tandem with Mundur, the Warrior Captain, Regin, the Chief Mage, Ithunn, the Matron of the Healers and Barthur, the Spymaster, to ensure that the Clan stays safe. She's a member of the Clan Council.

All of these things are honours she has earned fairly - honours which give her a fair amount of power and responsibility, but she carries the burden well.

And yet...

And yet she is not entirely trusted. She is not the Chief Wildclaw in the Clan - that honour falls to Vigdis. She is not always the one whom her subordinates look to first - many times, that honour falls to her Lieutenant, Skylar.

It is not due to any fault of her own. She is a hard, stern dragoness, demanding respect and obedience, but that is not why. She is kind and has a heart of gold underneath the steel, and the Clan knows that she would happily die to protect any one of them, if that was the only way.

(She despaired when the Leaders' love almost broke, just about breaking herself along with them and their daughter, because for all her strength there was no enemy for her fight then, and she was helpless. There was nothing she could do when those she had sworn to protect above all others were tearing themselves apart. If they had not come to their senses when they did, Brynhildr would likely have wasted away.)

Brynhildr herself is trusted.

The lack of trust stems from Fenris, and from what he turns her into.

The eerie Arcane dragon is obsessed with her. No-one knows why, or why her, or how it started, but he is.

...or the Clan thinks he is. As with all things surrounding Fenris, it is impossible to be certain, seeing as it is all but impossible to communicate with him (except for through Brynhildr), but the Clan can think of no other reason as to why he would hypnotise Brynhildr into having eggs with him.

It is despicable, and if that was all there was to the situation, the Clan would have had him thrown out after the first occurrence.

Unfortunately, it's a bit more complicated than that. To break it down:

Brynhildr genuinely likes him, and as far as anyone can tell (and the Clan has consulted every expert there is that could possibly have an opinion about it), it does not stem from a hypnotic suggestion.
Fenris is not in any way malicious, and as far as anyone can tell, it is not an active choice he makes, to hypnotise her. He simply cannot help it and Brynhildr does not begrudge him for it.
He helps her in raising the hatchlings as well as he can.
He communicates to her in long letters that she never lets anyone see and which she destroys after reading, so clearly they actually have some kind of actual conversation and relationship going.
This makes Brynhildr the only reliable method of communication with the broken Arcane Wildclaw, even if the Clan does not like it. And last but not least...
Brynhildr needs Fenris for some reason. She won't say why (though the Veterans can certainly guess), but remove her from Fenris for any length of time and her mind starts slowly breaking down.

So despite the sheer wrongness inherent in Fenris hypnotising her and having complete control over her as they mate, and the difficulty in asserting if he genuinely loves her or is just using her, there's not much the Clan can actively do about it without disregarding Brynhildr's right to decide over her own life, something which the Clan in general and the Leaders in particular refuse to do.

(Especially since the Clan has the Founding Principle that "All are welcome as long as they are not causing harm to the Clan or the Lightweaver and Her interests.")

That does not mean that the Clan - and especially her Guards - does not have coping strategies for how to figure out and handle it when Brynhildr is not entirely herself.

(Not to mention the Guards' numerous strategies of how to remove Fenris from Brynhildr's life, should she ever ask them to. Which she won't. But, you know, just in case.)

The handling part is easy - if Brynhildr is not herself, all her responsibilities temporarily fall to Skylar. No, the problem is figuring out when that is, so the Guards have developed several ways of telling.

The most visible of those ways is The Rabbit.

If you ask Brynhildr, the Marbled Jester isn't actually her familiar - she never saw a need for them, citing that her adoptive sister Sigfrithr and her Guards were enough work on their own; she did not need another thing to be responsible for, thank you very much.

No, the story behind The Rabbit is this: it just showed up one day and refused to leave, no matter how many times she almost mauled it. It always slunk out of her reach just in time until she learnt to live with it, if not tolerate it.

She blames her Lieutenant, because no matter how vehemently he denies it being his idea, she knows him, and The Rabbit Situation has "SKYLAR" written all over it.

On the Guard side of things, The Rabbit Strategy is twofold - it is both a therapy animal (in the hopes of giving Brynhildr's sanity more crutches than just Fenris and her duty) and a warning system. The only time the Jester isn't bothering her is when Fenris has her under his thrall, because it really doesn't like the feel of his magic.

So much to her annoyance, the rest of the Clan has adopted The Rabbit as the safest indicator that Brynhildr is herself at the moment.

As time passed by, however, observant Clanmembers noticed that her attacks on the creature become more symbolic than anything, the start of which oddly coincided with the addition of a black feather-and-bone collar around The Rabbit's neck...

Trivia

Brynhildr is: Calm, Decisive, Perceptive, Charismatic, Pragmatic, Stubborn, Caring.
She is one of Frigga's subordinates in the Internal Affairs branch, holding the Headship of the Guards as the Guard Captain. She works with: Negotiation, Diplomacy, Containment, Light Combat, Combat, Heavy Combat, Training, Leadership.
Brynhildr's name means "armour battle"; it is the name of a Valkyrie in Norse mythology who in some tales is a queen. History remembers her as "The Marionette Captain of the Guard".
Brynhildr is mated to Fenris. Sigfrithr is her adopted sister.
To put it in plain words: yes, Brynhildr and Fenris are terribly codependent, and no, it is not a good thing in any way, shape or form, but the Leaders really have no room in which to start throwing rocks.
Disregarding the issue of the codependency, though, they actually have a real, loving relationship despite what the Clan fears.
Fenris finds the Guards' protectiveness over Brynhildr cute and is indirectly encouraging them, much to her ire.
Yes, Fenris has secretly made friends with The Rabbit by hypnotising Varvithr into making it a collar that severely mutes the feeling of his magical presence (and why he doesn't do the same for all the Clan is a secret only he and Brynhildr knows). He convinced it to keep up the disappearing act when he's hypnotising Brynhildr, though, seeing as it calms the Guards down when they know if she's herself or not.
Brynhildr is one of the few who knows how to handle Sigfrithr and dissuade her from things, much to the envy and annoyance of 98% of the Warriors.

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