Press Space or Click The Stage ------------------------------------------------------------ Full Name is Annika Brynn Eklund ------------------------------------------------------------- 26 Years Old. ------------------------------------------------------------- 5'9 Feet Tall. ------------------------------------------------------------- AFAB, She/Her although will use He/Him to stay more anonymous at times. ------------------------------------------------------------- Annika is emotionally reserved, never one to open up about herself. She stays quiet, watching & listening. Truthfully though she's always in something for herself. She could care less for others, its not anything she's gained overtime. She's always just felt a natural lack of empathy & understanding for other people that aren't her. She will work with others but only for her benefit. She also uses people to get things for herself, again, she doesn't see the issue in it. She doesn't care, they have something she needs or wants, why not get it? She only cares if she's kept alive in a situation. She honestly believes that she is truly very intelligent, which she is to some extent but taken to far. She would let anyone else die but herself. Even if called out for her actions she may take responsibility but not have remorse or guilt. There was only ever one person she seemed to have some care in besides herself & even then she treated them horribly, even as they slowly were dying she still didn't care. She can be petty over things as well. ------------------------------------------------------------- She is agile, moving quick & quietly when she's in good health. She can come on with plans on whim if in danger, even if they may be not the best. She is fairly strong as well, cable of moving of lot of heavy things if needed. She is quite stealthy but at times can't get her breathing under control & could have to take a moment if she absolutely needed to stay quiet. She is adaptable to a lot of situations but still may not be the best in said situation. If provoked or aggravated she can be quite stubborn, not thinking clearly & making decisions more on impulse than thought. She can become easy to talk to or even collaborate with when she is frustrated. She is a bit lousy at defending herself but still does a good enough job to stay alive. She can sew & make a fairly good stew out of a lot of things. ------------------------------------------------------------- Sometimes she suffers from paranoia, feeling as if someone or something may try to jump her, as a result she doesn't sleep much. ------------------------------------------------------------- Annika wasn't apart of a party at a time, She had a quaint little shelter & good supplies. One day though, she found Jakob. He was sweet, not seeming to care about the fact that he could've been in danger around her. But, Jakob had much more supplies on him than she did. He was in need some shelter. A beneficial exchange for both. It started with one cold night of him but he continued to stay. Annika was bugged by him at first but, but he was very knowledgeable on how to find reliable food, good at mapping the stars & time so she got over it. Jakob came to deeply trust her, residing in her for many of his own issues & ideas. Annika envied him in a way, he who has been through so much is still so hopeful, yet she who hadn't even been through that much is struggling. How was that even real. Eventually Annika knew that Jakob deeply cared for her, loved her even. You could say she did too, in some sick way. She didn't love Jakob himself really but his qualities, his usefulness, his overtrust in her. "I truly love the persistence that lay inside you Jakob". She'd frequently take out her emotions on him, verbally and sometimes physically. Thing is Jakob did want to leave but where would he go, he didn't exactly like the factions really. Annika would double down by saying how much he means to her, how useful he is & that she'd never mean to actually harm him, sometimes its just hard to deal with everything. Jakob would fall for it everytime. On an unfortunate night though they'd gone at least a week & half without eating. Jakob had already been attacked by some creature, although his injuries weren't to bad he'd also been starved of most of any crumbs of food they had left. He was mentally & physically very weak, cold, numb. And Annika? She was starving. She had tried getting more food but she was also tired & hungry. She let her mind wander in hunger induced desperation & looked over at Jakob. He couldn't provide anymore, He could barely move, what we he to her now? Just a sack of freezing flesh, slowly dying. (Continued Down.)
An Eater - Matt Martians ------------------------------------------------------------- He could serve one last use to her though even in his current state. She had found an old battered machete at one time & had it ever in case of emergency. This is an emergency, she couldn't die to something to tribal as starvation. Using the strength she could muster she got up, picking up the machete and going over to where Jakob sat. When the blade came down Jakob moved, slowly & not quick enough for it not to hit his arm but not enough for fatality. He got up, weak & wobbly, getting out a small knife her had, pushing Annika back, wincing & sobbing at the pain in his arm but continued to push her away. He punctured the shoulder slightly with the blade but it was all for not as Annika shoved the blade into his neck. Jakob was dead. She was relived a little, after all, she wouldn't go hungry. Eating someone was never something she'd ever thought about but how could you blame her, she was desperate. She felt odd after that though. Was it guilt possibly? Perhaps, even if it may be a sliver. But still, it was necessary for her survival. She still thinks of Jakob but never in a healthy way, like she wants him back just so she can go back to using him. Not many months after that she joined the Stormline Party on the account that she wanted a better chance at surviving. -------------------------------------------------------------
