Ingrid

Name: Ingrid Olafsdottir
Gender: Female
Age: Eighteen
Occupation: Cook of the IAS Windrunner
Sexual Preference: Straight
Status: Single
Hair: Long, coppery red
Eyes: Green
Skin: Fair with freckles
Height & Weight: 5'5", 110lbs.
Clothing: Whatever is comfortable
Traits: Bubbly, chipper, happy, naive, sweet, generous
Likes: Cooking, pets, taking care of the people she loves, the crew of the IAS Windrunner
Dislikes: Mean people, animal abuse

Ingrid was born on Nyr Midgard, a planet far on the edges of the border planets. It was a small and cold planet in which the Horde sometimes attacked, and so not many people wanted to settle there. However there is a large Scandinavian population there who have gone back to their ancestral ways of farming and fighting. Ingrid grew up as most women did... learning how to clean and cook and garden and sew and tend livestock and many other household chores. Her brothers learned to fight, tend the fields, tend the livestock, chop wood, hunt, fish, build houses and pens, and so on.

Ancient myths from the homeland in Earth-that-was were passed down from generation to generation, until it became a widely believed religion all over again. Ingrid particularly worshipped Freyja, Thor, and Freyr.

One day when a group of mercenaries were visiting their planet and doing trades, the Horde attacked. Before she knew it she was being rushed onto a spaceship by a man with short, curly blonde hair. They got as many people as they could onto the ship and took off just before they were about to get swarmed by the Horde. They were given sleeping bags and slept in the cargo bay of the ship for several days, in which Ingrid cheerfully cooked up great large meals for everyone one board.

Finally when they were able to return back to Nyr Midgard everyone was let off. Some people reunited with family and loved ones in a teary embrace. Others were not so lucky. The Horde killed a great many of their village... including Ingrid's family. With no family left, Ingrid felt alone.

She wasn't sure what caused her to do it, but she snuck onto the IAS Windrunner and hid, just before they took off. She waited for as long as she could before coming out of hiding. The Captain seemed rather upset that they had taken on a straggler, but Alexandria hushed him and wanted to hear what Ingrid had to say. She told them the Horde killed her whole family and now she has nowhere to go. She promised to make herself useful, she could patch up their clothing(which looked like many of them needed it), and she could clean and cook...

Finally the Captain, Ronin, relented but told her they would do a trial run with her to see how she would do, it weren't no promise that she could stay. Ingrid jumped at the chance to prove her value to the crew. She fixed up their clothing, cleaned all around the common areas, and cooked all the meals while rationing the food in store. Not only did everyone love her cooking, but Ronin appreciated how she could make food stretch when they needed it to, and how she could always get the best deals on food whenever they stopped someplace to replenish.

She's been a valuable member of the crew ever since.

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