Another swordbearer oc
-Helhe is pronounced “Hel-heh”
-She is about the same height as your average middler and while Helhe is half mountaineer, the only mountaineer traits she displays are her short tail, her longer coat length overall, and her grey coat color.
-Helhe has XY sex reversal syndrome, ie, she outwardly appears as a mare but has the chromosome combination of a stallion. Helhe and everyone else have no idea because Helhe is saphic, has never tried to conceive a foal and for the most part she looks like a standard female swordbearer. These characters have no access to medical care or testing thus have no way of finding this information out, so to Helhe she’s just atypical from most mares and she has no idea why. She can understand stallions when they speak to her but they cannot understand her, and like Chiro she sounds muffled but understandable to mares. Helhe and Chiro initially bonded over being able to understand each other clearly in a world full of swordbearers who do not.
-Helhe was born in a small herd of mountaineers, with her mother being a full mountaineer and her father being a wandering middler rogue. Until she left, she was the tallest member of the herd and thus stuck out like a sore thumb, and Helhe was not treated particularly well by the others in her herd who held less than savory views of outsiders, which is why she left with Chiro.
-Unlike Chiro, Helhe is more involved in social life in the Matriarch’s herd. She still lives on the fringes of the group, but is more present and involved with their affairs and she gently encourages Chiro to take part every once in a while. She acts a lot like the bridge between Chiro, who is much more used to being solitary, and the other mares of the herd who aren’t sure themselves how to close the gap between them.
-Helhe hates conflict and violence, strongly preferring to run rather than to fight, and she’s not good at fighting as a result. If she’s forced to fight, her kicks are clumsily aimed, she’s more likely to beat you over the head with her sword than she is to stab or cut you and she’ll only fight as much as needed to escape the initial altercation. Helhe struggles to summon the willpower needed to actually land a blow on an enemy that actually hurts, mainly because growing up she took a lot of hard knocks from her herd and the memory of how it felt sticks with her and makes her hesitant to hurt others. The one thing that can motivate her to fight is if she is fighting in defense of someone else, but when it comes to her, she’ll hang her head and take the hits because she genuinely has an easier time taking the mistreatment than she does fighting back. She’s become more confident with Chiro’s support, but she has a long way to go.
-Growing up an outcast and not well liked, Helhe’s already present during foal-hood speech impediment was exacerbated by being isolated and only rarely speaking, and even then only in single word sentences. Helhe feels very self conscious about it, which causes her to be hesitant to speak to others which in turn feeds into the impediment because it worsens when she’s anxious or stressed. While it has improved since she first met Chiro, Helhe still stutters, hangs onto syllables in words too long, repeats words and generally experiences cluttered speech. The only ones Helhe barely stutters around are her younger half brother and Chiro.
-Helhe’s favorite foods are lichen and lingonberries, both of which were common where she was from., especially reindeer lichen. They’re less common outside of the mountains and craggy woodlands her herd claimed as their territory, and she is very giddy when she actually finds some.
-Helhe tends to have very animated facial expressions, baring her teeth to the gums when she smiles or laughs for instance. She also tends to express emotion through her whole body, for example jumping, rearing and kicking to show excitement. Chiro finds it to be very endearing and not off putting like many others do.
