#dr. lokken

Also me when someone asks: aaaaaaAAAAAAAA-

Anyways here’s the wedding rings I picked for Dr. Lokken and the wife I gave her in my most recent fic (plus some details/design of said wife)

First up, rings! I spend a *weird* amount of my time picking rings for fictional characters (idk man rings are kinda just my special interest thing), and these were no exception

The left ring belongs to Lokken’s wife, Selma (fic excerpt and link will be included!). Fun fact: I hadn’t actually settled on her being a marine biology enthusiast until I found and fell in love with that ring. I knew for sure I wanted her to be an environmental scientist of some sort (to contrast Lokken working at the ESA) but searching for nature-inspired rings took me there, and the detail built itself from there.

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Dr. Lokken herself (right) was trickier. I wanted the details of a carving to compliment her wife’s, hence the braided look. However, as she’s an engineer of some kind (maybe a physicist? I’m not 100% sure, just know she designed the centrifuge), any stones would need to have much more security in the setting- hence why I went with one that has small, pavé set diamonds with extra prongs. Less easy to snag/chip, and not as expensive to replace if they do. Even so, Lokken (in my head, her first name is Ingrid. Don’t ask me why, I couldn’t tell you) usually wears the ring(s, after Selma passed) on a necklace like this and underneath her shirt if she’s doing any hands on work.

As for design, I popped over to Picrew and fucked around a little until I had a look that I wanted! So here is (roughly) how I pictured Dr. Selma Lokken in my head, plus some fun facts about her.

How Lokken likes to remember her (before she got sick)

-✨happy ✨bc the wife came to visit her at work

-comfy sweater (it gets cold in Norway)

- waders with big ol’ pockets. Perfect for storing things like snacks, and scientific instruments, and conveniently small critters, and a pretty rock to apologize to Ingrid for the critters she found in her pockets

- don’t ask her what’s in the jar if you can’t handle the answer

When they met (college)

- pictured immediately after her future wife made a snarky comment about her nerdy glasses

-she tripped her into a pond, then gave her her jacket and asked her out

-love at first sight

After she got sick (not long before she died)

- :(

- Lokken talks to Lamai about her sometimes.

Here's the passage, and a link to the fic! and if you've made it this far, thanks for reading my yapping.