#aarne

3. what are your favorite things to play?

get ready for a wild ride 'cause I audio recording'd this one and it'll waste 6 minutes of your life

6. who are your “guitar heroes” if you have any?

Kirk Hammett is the reason I play guitar. I wouldn't have one rn if it weren't for the One solo (which I watched OVER and OVER again religiously)

Daron Malakian is another one. I admire his playing greatly, like... a Lot.

James Hetfield too!! His rhythm game is UNMATCHED. I aspire to be like him in more ways than just playing guitar to tell you the truth.

Sadly you have to settle for him being a good guy/mentor. A bit too much of a power imbalance/age gap for me to write comfortably. 😅

Aarne Pilsner Glass designed by Göran Hongell for Iittala 1948

hehe

Aarne has been with the Order since he was a little more than a toddler. His parents were merchants but after a few horrible business deals and unbelievably bad luck, perished during winter. He refuses to talk about the time between the actual initiation into the Order and after his parent's deaths. So a few decades at the time you meet him in Prologue.

He has friends, Aarne and Nina grew close after he started dropping in to check how the MC is doing. Few others his age who are part of the Order.

No lover, yet. He has his eyes on somebody and I'm maybe putting some of it in the timeskip I'll put up before next chapter.

He's one of the better ones. But most of the Order are better than average because of the unfair advantage of shadow hopping (and some other tricks). Aarne prefers long knives, one straight and one curving so he has options. Can shoot a crossbow but not a bow, he was too impatient to learn it.

Aarne has no big toe on his right foot. Will tell anyone who asks/notices that a monster from under his bed ate it when he tried to sneak out as a child.

Hope your curiosity has been somewhat satisfied! Thank you for the ask, these are fun to answer and flesh out character :D

☺️ Hope it’s a satisfying replay.

And glad you like Aarne, tried to keep his character a bit under the wraps in the prologue so it could a bit of a surprise later.

I did not intend for him to be hot af but glad someone appreciates :) as for facts/queries etc. ask away! Always happy to answer but I'll reserve the right to be vague for plot reasons.