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CHARACTER
Name: Lalli Hotakainen
Canon: Stand Still Stay Silent
Canon point: post-epilogue
Age: 20
Summary: Lalli was born into a dying world 70 years after a zombie virus wiped out 99.9% of life on Earth. His entire life has been based around two things: his immunity to the zombie virus (known as The Rash) and the fact that he was born a mage. Coming from the backwaters of Finland, Lalli has been trained up as a mage and a scout, meaning his job is to detect Trolls and Beasts (his world's name for zombies) and take them out before they can get to anyone who is not immune. After a horrific incident claimed the lives of everyone in his hometown except himself and his two cousins, Lalli and said cousins moved to a military base to finish his mage training and start working as a part of the Finnish military operations to clear more safe land to build settlements. Later, Lalli's cousin Tuuri convinces Lalli to join an expedition into the Silent World, the land overrun by the dead, in order to regain knowledge lost to time.
Lalli's life is defined by loss, hardships, and pain: the loss of most of his family and his childhood home, the hardship of having to grow up far too young, the pain of having to cleanse the souls of the dead and feel their suffering over and over again. Lalli's work- and whole life really- have left him scarred and closed off to the rest of the world. He prefers to work alone, and he carries a sense of distrust in others, like he doesn't think anyone can live up to his rather particular expectations. It doesn't help that he is absolutely terrible at expressing himself, nor that he has a lot of trouble understanding others, because it leaves him looking like a cranky old man who just doesn't get along with people. But for the few that get through all of those barriers, Lalli is a loyal friend who will follow them to the end of the world itself.
Powers/abilities: Lalli is a Finnish mage! General information on how the magic system works in Stand Still Stay Silent can be found here, so I'm going to focus primarily on the magic Lalli regularly uses. But basically, Finnish mages primarily draw their power from within themselves, using their Luonto (basically a part of their soul that is animal-shaped and gives them magical protection from the magic stuff in the world that would hurt them) as a focus. The form of the Luonto does affect the magic someone can do (for example, Lalli's cousin Onni has an owl for a Luonto, and he can use his magic to fly), so I'll say now that Lalli's Luonto is a lynx and he has very cat-themed magic. When I describe stuff below, imagine that it's all cat-shaped, because it often is.
Lalli's most-used magic is related to self-defense. He can throw up magical barriers and force pretty much anything with a soul away from him. This is especially effective on ghosts and Trolls, though it can have work on just about anything that has a spirit of some sort. It's not effective against inanimate objects without a soul though, and it's less effective against beings that aren't dead/undead. He can make these barriers big enough to protect others too, but that expends a lot of energy and can knock him out if he's not careful.
Lalli can also use his magic to sense the presence of others. If it's someone he knows very well (family, close friends, etc.) he will be able to tell it's them just by feeling their presence. For everyone else though, it's just a sense of 'oh there's a person over there'. He has to actively use this too, it's not 'on' by default. This power can also tell him if someone is alive or dead (the dead feel different), and he can tell if the presences he feels nearby are Trolls or not too. It's not so sensitive that he can tell if someone is infected before they turn though, he can only sense the Troll-ness if they have already turned. He can also sense ghosts with this ability too.
Another thing Lalli can do is use his magic to send the souls of the dead to the afterlife. He does this by preparing elaborate rituals and saying prayers to encourage the ghost or spirit to pass on. This is one of his primary jobs actually: to cleanse the souls of those left behind by the Rash (since they still live within their Troll bodies) and allow them to pass on to the afterlife. He's also been shown to purify objects that are being possessed by ghosts with this power too.
When sleeping, Lalli can also go Dreamwalking. He needs permission to enter someone else's dreams, but he is capable of walking the spaces between dream bubbles and visiting others. This is something he uses for communication over long distances, as he can meet other mages out in the dream world and pass on information that way.
Also, it's not clear if this is related to his Luonto or if it's just a physical skill Lalli picked up over the years, but his movements are very graceful and catlike. He can run quite fast for a human, and he's very adept at moving silently and hiding up in tall places to get a lay of the land. Climbing on top of structures is very easy for him. Basically, he moves in very catlike ways and can get into a lot of places a typical human cannot, and he has rather sensitive eyesight and hearing for a human. It might be magic (because of his lynx Luonto, it's been shown that mages can do magic related to whatever animal soul they have), or it might be mundane.
Finally, Lalli can say prayers to the old Finnish gods to hopefully get their blessings and do other magic beyond what he can do by himself. This is hit-or-miss though, as the gods might not give their blessing for whatever he's praying for. They can be quite fickle sometimes. But as an example, Lalli once prayed for a cloudy sky to clear up, and the gods answered his prayers and blessed him with a cloudless night for safer travels. (I am okay with this one being completely nerfed too, since I imagine Lalli will be cut off from his gods by coming into the game.)
TL;DR his magic is super-effective against zombies/undead/ghosts, moderately effective in other situations. He's basically custom-built to nuke the undead into being actually dead.
Inventory: Fit check! (on the left) And this is the rest of his inventory:
- an old rifle
- bullets for said rifle
- a knife
- another, smaller knife
- a small amount of food (it's a few cookies)
- two envelopes when an obscene amount of his world's money in them (probably close to 20,000 euros in value, he started with that and spent some of it)
- a rubix cube
Canon: Stand Still Stay Silent
Canon point: post-epilogue
Age: 20
Summary: Lalli was born into a dying world 70 years after a zombie virus wiped out 99.9% of life on Earth. His entire life has been based around two things: his immunity to the zombie virus (known as The Rash) and the fact that he was born a mage. Coming from the backwaters of Finland, Lalli has been trained up as a mage and a scout, meaning his job is to detect Trolls and Beasts (his world's name for zombies) and take them out before they can get to anyone who is not immune. After a horrific incident claimed the lives of everyone in his hometown except himself and his two cousins, Lalli and said cousins moved to a military base to finish his mage training and start working as a part of the Finnish military operations to clear more safe land to build settlements. Later, Lalli's cousin Tuuri convinces Lalli to join an expedition into the Silent World, the land overrun by the dead, in order to regain knowledge lost to time.
Lalli's life is defined by loss, hardships, and pain: the loss of most of his family and his childhood home, the hardship of having to grow up far too young, the pain of having to cleanse the souls of the dead and feel their suffering over and over again. Lalli's work- and whole life really- have left him scarred and closed off to the rest of the world. He prefers to work alone, and he carries a sense of distrust in others, like he doesn't think anyone can live up to his rather particular expectations. It doesn't help that he is absolutely terrible at expressing himself, nor that he has a lot of trouble understanding others, because it leaves him looking like a cranky old man who just doesn't get along with people. But for the few that get through all of those barriers, Lalli is a loyal friend who will follow them to the end of the world itself.
Powers/abilities: Lalli is a Finnish mage! General information on how the magic system works in Stand Still Stay Silent can be found here, so I'm going to focus primarily on the magic Lalli regularly uses. But basically, Finnish mages primarily draw their power from within themselves, using their Luonto (basically a part of their soul that is animal-shaped and gives them magical protection from the magic stuff in the world that would hurt them) as a focus. The form of the Luonto does affect the magic someone can do (for example, Lalli's cousin Onni has an owl for a Luonto, and he can use his magic to fly), so I'll say now that Lalli's Luonto is a lynx and he has very cat-themed magic. When I describe stuff below, imagine that it's all cat-shaped, because it often is.
Lalli's most-used magic is related to self-defense. He can throw up magical barriers and force pretty much anything with a soul away from him. This is especially effective on ghosts and Trolls, though it can have work on just about anything that has a spirit of some sort. It's not effective against inanimate objects without a soul though, and it's less effective against beings that aren't dead/undead. He can make these barriers big enough to protect others too, but that expends a lot of energy and can knock him out if he's not careful.
Lalli can also use his magic to sense the presence of others. If it's someone he knows very well (family, close friends, etc.) he will be able to tell it's them just by feeling their presence. For everyone else though, it's just a sense of 'oh there's a person over there'. He has to actively use this too, it's not 'on' by default. This power can also tell him if someone is alive or dead (the dead feel different), and he can tell if the presences he feels nearby are Trolls or not too. It's not so sensitive that he can tell if someone is infected before they turn though, he can only sense the Troll-ness if they have already turned. He can also sense ghosts with this ability too.
Another thing Lalli can do is use his magic to send the souls of the dead to the afterlife. He does this by preparing elaborate rituals and saying prayers to encourage the ghost or spirit to pass on. This is one of his primary jobs actually: to cleanse the souls of those left behind by the Rash (since they still live within their Troll bodies) and allow them to pass on to the afterlife. He's also been shown to purify objects that are being possessed by ghosts with this power too.
When sleeping, Lalli can also go Dreamwalking. He needs permission to enter someone else's dreams, but he is capable of walking the spaces between dream bubbles and visiting others. This is something he uses for communication over long distances, as he can meet other mages out in the dream world and pass on information that way.
Also, it's not clear if this is related to his Luonto or if it's just a physical skill Lalli picked up over the years, but his movements are very graceful and catlike. He can run quite fast for a human, and he's very adept at moving silently and hiding up in tall places to get a lay of the land. Climbing on top of structures is very easy for him. Basically, he moves in very catlike ways and can get into a lot of places a typical human cannot, and he has rather sensitive eyesight and hearing for a human. It might be magic (because of his lynx Luonto, it's been shown that mages can do magic related to whatever animal soul they have), or it might be mundane.
Finally, Lalli can say prayers to the old Finnish gods to hopefully get their blessings and do other magic beyond what he can do by himself. This is hit-or-miss though, as the gods might not give their blessing for whatever he's praying for. They can be quite fickle sometimes. But as an example, Lalli once prayed for a cloudy sky to clear up, and the gods answered his prayers and blessed him with a cloudless night for safer travels. (I am okay with this one being completely nerfed too, since I imagine Lalli will be cut off from his gods by coming into the game.)
TL;DR his magic is super-effective against zombies/undead/ghosts, moderately effective in other situations. He's basically custom-built to nuke the undead into being actually dead.
Inventory: Fit check! (on the left) And this is the rest of his inventory:
- an old rifle
- bullets for said rifle
- a knife
- another, smaller knife
- a small amount of food (it's a few cookies)
- two envelopes when an obscene amount of his world's money in them (probably close to 20,000 euros in value, he started with that and spent some of it)
- a rubix cube
OTHER
Sentimental item: The jacket in this picture
Gemstone: Icy blue with a tiny bit of sea green mixed in.
Lost memory #1: The attack on the group that led to Tuuri's infection. It was an all-night battle to drive off a wave of Trolls that had been following them, and it ended with Tuuri being attacked by one of the Trolls (which led to her infection, which led to her death). He will remember that they were being chased, and he will remember that Tuuri got infected and died, but the entire attack will be a big blank. This will affect him because he always blamed himself for failing to notice a Troll slipping past their perimeter and to where the non-immune were hiding. He'll feel a bit more anger towards the event (in a 'we were all right there, how did something bad happen?' kind of way) but less personal guilt over it.
Lost memory #2: At one point Lalli accidentally dreamshared his past traumas to two of his canonmates so his entire sad backstory was out there for them to see. He's going to forget this happened. This will have two effects. Firstly, he won't feel as close to either of those canonmates (should they show up), because as far as he remembers he didn't accidentally trauma-dump his past on them so they don't know all of that. Secondly, he'll feel more alone because as far as he remembers nobody knows his tragic backstory yet and that makes him feel kind of isolated because he thinks nobody can understand if they haven't gone through what he has.
Altered memory: At one point Lalli was nearly killed by a powerful Troll in the dreamworld. Onni had to show up at the last moment to save his life, literally when Lalli had given up hope and expected to die. Onni was the one who used his magic to save Lalli's life then. In the altered memory though, Lalli will break free of the Troll with his own magic, and Onni just fishes him out of the water and flies him to safety. This will serve to make Lalli more confident in his own abilities and less reliant on Onni, since as far as he remembers he's already fought tough battles like this on his own and came out mostly-okay. (Also not remembering having given up on life for a moment will make him a little less fatalistic.)
Sample: a TDM thread, and Lalli's TDM top-level
Gemstone: Icy blue with a tiny bit of sea green mixed in.
Lost memory #1: The attack on the group that led to Tuuri's infection. It was an all-night battle to drive off a wave of Trolls that had been following them, and it ended with Tuuri being attacked by one of the Trolls (which led to her infection, which led to her death). He will remember that they were being chased, and he will remember that Tuuri got infected and died, but the entire attack will be a big blank. This will affect him because he always blamed himself for failing to notice a Troll slipping past their perimeter and to where the non-immune were hiding. He'll feel a bit more anger towards the event (in a 'we were all right there, how did something bad happen?' kind of way) but less personal guilt over it.
Lost memory #2: At one point Lalli accidentally dreamshared his past traumas to two of his canonmates so his entire sad backstory was out there for them to see. He's going to forget this happened. This will have two effects. Firstly, he won't feel as close to either of those canonmates (should they show up), because as far as he remembers he didn't accidentally trauma-dump his past on them so they don't know all of that. Secondly, he'll feel more alone because as far as he remembers nobody knows his tragic backstory yet and that makes him feel kind of isolated because he thinks nobody can understand if they haven't gone through what he has.
Altered memory: At one point Lalli was nearly killed by a powerful Troll in the dreamworld. Onni had to show up at the last moment to save his life, literally when Lalli had given up hope and expected to die. Onni was the one who used his magic to save Lalli's life then. In the altered memory though, Lalli will break free of the Troll with his own magic, and Onni just fishes him out of the water and flies him to safety. This will serve to make Lalli more confident in his own abilities and less reliant on Onni, since as far as he remembers he's already fought tough battles like this on his own and came out mostly-okay. (Also not remembering having given up on life for a moment will make him a little less fatalistic.)
Sample: a TDM thread, and Lalli's TDM top-level
