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Applications Three
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Sample Application (Abel Nightroad/Mayfield RPG)
Sample Application (Bolin/Discedo)
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lalli hotakainen | stand still stay silent | not reserved
Contact Info: plurk | manxome
Other Characters Played: n/a
Requested apartment: Apartment 28.2
no subject
Canon: Stand Still Stay Silent
Canon Point: Page 251-- in the Silent World building right before separating with Emil.
Background/History: Lalli & the plot outline.
Personality: The first thing that most people think when they meet Lalli is that he's a lot like a cat, and this is true for a couple of reasons. First of all, his reactions to things tend to be a little feline in nature-- he startles and hisses at things that surprise him, he's suspicious of new and strange people and things, and he slinks and climbs and sleeps. Of course, these are just surface traits. Lalli's a.. unique individual.
As a mage and a night scout, Lalli is separated from normal people by several layers for most of his time. He spends most of his time entirely out on his own in the forest.. at night.. when he might be attacked by a beast of some sort at any time. During the day, he sleeps, and may only get an hour or two of social interaction on good days. Because of that, Lalli's a quiet, self-contained individual. He doesn't talk much--the language barrier doesn't help--and largely seems content to observe others (or sleep). He doesn't have much in common even with his cousin. His education was spotty at the best, and seems content to follow along and do what he's told. He has no enthusiasm for the trek that Tuuri signed them up on, and in fact seemed to think it was a joke right up until they left.
With that said, he does seem close to his cousins, and clearly cares about both of them. He comforts Tuuri at one point, and tries in a dream to contact Onni to let him know that they were well. They're apparently the only family he has left, and he appears to be protective in his own way-- looking out for Tuuri, who isn't immune to the disease.
Though Lalli treats risking his life as relatively routine, he's clearly a very brave, bold person when the situation calls for it. On the train, after receiving the vision of the giant that was about to attack, he risked himself to warn the conductor and attendants. He also clearly cares about people, given that he first attempted to get Emil to strap himself into his bunk to keep him from getting hurt. The two of them have a rather surprising bond, given that neither of them speak the other's language. During the attack and ensuing fight, they were clinging to one another, trying to get out of the way. They also communicate surprisingly well through body language and gestures, though Lalli was wary and dismissive of Emil at first.
That's another thing. While Lalli isn't what would one call proud of his ignorance, he's nowhere near as curious as Tuuri is, and he doesn't really care about things outside the realm of his work. His focus is scouting and fulfilling his duties as a mage, and that takes up most of his time as it is. Who cares about books or other languages or lost technology, then. While he doesn't resent Tuuri for her interest, he also doesn't exactly understand it. The world is the way it is as far as he's concerned, and there's no real changing that.
There's some signs that his work takes more of a toll on him than he generally lets on. For one thing, he's seen at one point sleeping under a table, perhaps because it was 'safer' and out of the open, an enclosed space. His vision of the giant was clearly very distressing for him, showing him curled in a ball with his hands against his eyes. The overcast moon troubled him so much that he spelled the clouds to pass-- and only then was willing to board the train (sunlight and moonlight bother beasts).
Still, when he finds something (or someone) he likes, he really likes it. Being introduced to cookies by Mikkel found Lalli slinking around to try to snitch more from the big man's bag, and as mentioned before, he seems to have grown fond of Emil, often sticking by his side when Tuuri isn't around.
Abilities/Powers: Lalli is a Finnish mage (Noita), which bottom line means that he can see/sense spirits and control the elements (supposedly through invoking a god/spirit/element). The primary task of a Finnish mage is to guide the souls of trolls and giants into the afterlife, though we haven't seen this in practice in canon. We do know through Lalli that Finnish mages can communicate with one another in dreams, and can also receive possibly prophetic visions. Finnish mages can also sense when beasts, trolls, and giants are nearby, and can hear and feel them in some way beyond what non-mages can. Going by Lalli's reaction to them, it seems as if Finnish mages are also physically sensitive to such things.
Unrelated to his magery, Lalli also has an amazing memory, as he can scout an area accurately without the use of a map. He also carries and is proficient in the use of a rifle.
Items/Weapons: His rifle, a short hunting-knife, and a change of clothes.
Sample Entry: On the test drive comm, and in case that's too 'where am i'-ish, there's also this.
Sample Entry Two: It wasn't that Lalli liked being alone. Not exactly, anyway. It was just.. well, considering everything else he'd put up with recently, being allowed to do his job in peace had been kind of nice. True, he was in a strange place he'd never seen before, but he was a scout. Scouting was what he'd done for years, now. And more than that, he was a mage. Between those two things, strange terrain is nothing. In a way, being out there was kind of comforting-- the act of scouting was familiar, anyway. Opening up his senses to their widest extent, darting through the darkness surrounded by the wild and the spirits found in it--
He'd paused near a tall tree, scaling it quickly and seating himself on a branch, leaning back against the trunk. A break would be good-- he'd been jogging for hours, and he'd been starting to get hungry. Reaching into his coat, he pulled out one of the granola-bars he preferred to keep with him, biting into it as he glanced out over the other tree-tops. Thus far, it had been pretty easy going. No signs of beasts, no terribly complicated or convoluted trails to take to avoid obstacles..
Honestly, it was almost suspicious. Somehow, he'd expected such a weird country with weird people to make more trouble for him. There was probably a proverb somewhere about accepting good things when they come to you, though, so he was trying not to expect a disaster.
-> ACCEPTED