I’m skipping questions that aren’t applicable
1. What’s their full name? Why was that chosen? Does it mean anything?
Embla Blomqvist. Embla means elm tree, and it’s also the name of the first woman in Norse mythology. It might not have an apparent meaning at the surface, but who knows? Maybe it’ll be significant at some point?
Blomqvist means flower-twig, continuing the plant theme. And with such a strong plant theme in her name, her personality and the fact that she’s a changeling, you’d think she’d be a log changeling, but she is in fact a troll changeling with a somewhat ironic name. Part of why I chose it was because rhytmically, it flows pretty well because of the two ‘bl’-sounds, at least if u ask me
3. Did they have a good childhood? What are fond memories they have of it? What’s a bad memory?
Her childhood was… decent. She grew up somewhat detached from people, and not always by choice, but she also didn’t have anything to compare with, so she didn’t actively suffer either. Things got better when she met Berri, tho
4. What is their relationship with their parents? What’s a good and bad memory with them? Did they know both parents?
This is where things get… complicated. Berri kind of acts like a parental figure, but aside from him, the closest thing Embla has to a parent is her adoptive mother who is not ideal. The mother is married to her job and constantly overachieves even though money is not an issue at all, so she usually leaves Embla to her own devices and has done so on a regular basis from a very young age.
Embla never met her biological parents and they are kind of an enigma. It’s hard for even me to pin them down, so let’s just say they’re kind of all over the place morally speaking
6. What were they like at school? Did they enjoy it? Did they finish? What level of higher education did they reach? What subjects did they enjoy? Which did they hate?
During the events of TFTF, Embla has just graduated 8th grade. Again, she’s not super good unfortunately. She does pick up a lot of facts and trivia, but she’s bad at contextualizing it in a lot of situations, meaning her school performance suffers. Her grades hover around Es and Ds depending on the subject, maybe a few Cs sometimes. Not sure what her fave subject is but she dislikes math and science in particular
7. Did they have lots of friends as a child? Did they keep any of their childhood friends into adulthood?
She doesn’t have a lot of friends but she likes it that way. She’s kind of a loner and people around her respect that without ignoring her (god I wish that were me). But at the beginning of TFTF, she has two close friends in Aminah and Berri, and she befriends more in the Faelands.
8. Did they have pets as a child? Do they have pets as an adult? Do they like animals?
It probably doesn’t count but with some good will, you can consider Berri to be a pet. She does like animals, dogs in particular.
9. Do animals like them? Do they get on well with animals?
It’s a 50/50 thing. Some animals like her, but some are frightened by her.
10. Do they like children? Do children like them? Do they have or want any children? What would they be like as a parent? Or as a godparent/babysitter/ect?
She’s not super fond of infants, but she definitely likes older kids and she’d probably like to have kids in the future!
12. What is their favourite food?
Okay so under normal circumstances, Embla usually eats very simple foods that somebody her age can easily cook, she is fond of anything fancy since those foods are kinda rare in her life
14. Do they have any specific memories of food/a restaurant/meal?
When Embla first met Tristan, one of the first things he did was offer her a freshly killed rabbit bc well, Tristan’s quirky like that. Embla initially declined but then reluctantly accepted the rabbit
15. Are they good at cooking? Do they enjoy it? What do others think of their cooking?
She’s decent, as I said she cooks on a regular basis. She doesn’t really cook for others, tho
18. What’s their favourite genre of: books, music, tv shows, films, video games and anything else
She likes anything that’s engaging honestly, no matter the genre
20. Do they like musicals? Music in general? What do they do when they’re favourite song comes?
If she’s in the mood, yeah? But since she’s rather stoic, she doesn’t do much more than just bob her head to a song she likes
21. Do they have a temper? Are they patient? What are they like when they do lose their temper?
She’s p patient, but if she’s pushed enough, her usual reaction involves rambling and yelling
22. What are their favourite insults to use? What do they insult people for? Or do they prefer to bitch behind someone’s back?
Embla is p feisty actually! If you annoy her or do something she doesn’t think makes sense, she will make jokes at your expense and snark at u
23. Do they have a good memory? Short term or long term? Are they good with names? Or faces?
Her memory is okay in most ways except faces, she can be awful at faces.
24. What is their sleeping pattern like? Do they snore? What do they like to sleep on? A soft or hard mattress?
She’s average I guess, she doesn’t usually remember her dreams, she doesn’t snore and she prefers soft mattresses
25. What do they find funny? Do they have a good sense of humour? Are they funny themselves?
She thinks it’s fun to make fun of ppl, not in a malicious way, but when she thinks they need to be taken down a notch. So some think her humor is a lil mean spirited
26. How do they act when they’re happy? Do they sing? Dance? Hum? Or do they hide their emotions?
She might hum sometimes, but as I said before, she’s p stoic. Not that she hides emotion, but she just doesn’t show clear signs of emotion all the time
27. What makes them sad? Do they cry regularly? Do they cry openly or hide it? What are they like they are sad?
She’ll usually just stay quiet when she’s particularily sad
28. What is their biggest fear? What in general scares them? How do they act when they’re scared?
She was initially pretty scared of the idea of going to the Faelands because yeah, her life may not be perfect, but she didn’t know what’d await her in the Faelands and she didn’t like the idea of giving up everything she’d known and stuff
She doesn’t really fear a lot after coming over it though
She gets kinda shaky and talks fast if she’s scared
29. What do they do when they find out someone else’s fear? Do they tease them? Or get very over protective?
Tristan is scared of corvids because valravn are a thing in the Faelands. Embla understands why somebody would be wary of murder ravens, but when Tristan’s fear gets the best of him and he jumps at the slightest sign of corvid activity with no way to prove it’s caused by valravn, Embla will tease him
30. Do they exercise? Regularly? Or only when forced? What do they act like pre-work out and post-work out?
She might take a stroll sometimes, and that’s so light of an exercise that she doesn’t have any special preparations or aftercare for it
31. Do they drink? What are they like drunk? What are they like hungover? How do they act when other people are drunk or hungover? Kind or teasing?
32. What do they dress like? What sorta shops do they buy clothes from? Do they wear the fashion that they like? What do they wear to sleep? Do they wear makeup? What’s their hair like?
She wears p casual, plain clothing, usually in muted dull colors since bright colors tend to hurt her eyes.
She usually just wears her underwear to bed, she doesn’t wear makeup except on special occasions. Her hair is elbow-length and she usually doesn’t do anything special with it
33. What underwear do they wear? Boxers or briefs? Lacey? Comfy granny panties?
Lacey, most of the time. Also sport bras
34. What is their body type? How tall are they? Do they like their body?
She’s 173cm/5′8′’ and kind of average body type wise. She does have a soft tum though! Her self image fluctuates but it’s not bad, she might be a little insecure over her tum from time to time but she usually recovers quickly
36. What are they good at? What hobbies do they like? Can they sing?
She’s like. Real good physically speaking. Not that she’s athletic or anything, but in the Faelands she has to take some punches and she takes them alright, and learns to dish some out as well
Her hobbies involve the kinda stuff you’d see a contemporary teen enjoy, stuff like movies and video games, sometimes she likes casually enjoying nature.
She can sing, she’s average, she doesn’t really enjoy singing a lot.
37. Do they like to read? Are they a fast or slow reader? Do they like poetry? Fictional or non fiction?
She’s a p slow reader, and she is inclined to fictional stuff.
38. What do they admire in others? What talents do they wish they had?
She absolutely admires Aminah’s intelligence and she wishes she were closer to her level.
39. Do they like letters? Or prefer emails/messaging?
She prefers emails and IMs
40. Do they like energy drinks? Coffee? Sugary food? Or can they naturally stay awake and alert?
She’ll usually just go for a soda for her caffeine fix.
41. What’s their sexuality? What do they find attractive? Physically and mentally? What do they like/need in a relationship?
Embla is bi. She doesn’t have any real preferences physically, but she does like people with soft fluffy hair. Mentally, she’s attracted to kind, brave people, and she 100% needs a partner who makes her feel loved and cared for that poor baby girl
42. What are their goals? What would they sacrifice anything for? What is their secret ambition?
Her main goal is to find Aminah, since she’s gotten lost in the Faelands. She does get involved with helping others reach their goals too. She’s super loyal and her devotion to her friends can reach shonen protagonist levels sometimes
43. Are they religious? What do they think of religion? What do they think of religious people? What do they think of non religious people?
She’s not religious per se, and her opinions on religion boil down to “one of my best friends is a talking winged cat-dragon, this world can be so fucking weird that I can see why somebody would want to contextualize it with faith, you do you”
44. What is their favourite season? Type of weather? Are they good in the cold or the heat? What weather do they complain in the most?
She doesn’t have any strong preferences, as long as it’s not sunny she’s happy. Sunlight doesn’t hurt her per se, but she gets sunburns p easily and it can make her somewhat sluggish.
45. How do other people see them? Is it similar to how they see themselves?
People will usually see Embla as a loner, sometimes they think of her as hostile due to her wit, but she believes herself to just be an average joe
46. Do they make a good first impression? Does their first impression reflect them accurately? How do they introduce themselves?
Again, her wit might leave a bad taste in some people’s mouths, that or they might think of her as a stick in the mud. Yeah, those impressions aren’t too accurate
47. How do they act in a formal occasion? What do they think of black tie wear? Do they enjoy fancy parties and love to chit chat or loathe the whole event?
God she avoids formal stuff like the plague
48. Do they enjoy any parties? If so what kind? Do they organise the party or just turn up? How do they act? What if they didn’t want to go but were dragged along by a friend?
If she’s in the mood, yeah she might, but she’s still an introvert at heart and might just hang out on the sides with friends she already knows, and that still applies if she was forced to tag along.
50. If they could only take one bag of stuff somewhere with them: what would they pack? What do they consider their essentials?
She did this in canon! She packed clothes, basic hygiene equipment, a water bottle and a knife
