#skipcanon

From a young age, Skip had desired to have a family of his own, and when he married Walda, he was eager to start trying. However, his wife was found to be barren (truthfully, ironically enough), and both of them grieved for their lost chance of parenthood. Now Skip (embittered still by his wife's infertility and her untimely death) openly scorns children in the street, especially those that bear any kind of resemblance to his late wife.

“Wulfson? All whimper and no bite, most o’ the time – he prefers to sit back and let other people, usually that Hallam of his, find work for him, seeing as he just don’t wanna be here. Can’t be too bitter though – he’s saved my bacon more’n a few times with that healing know-how of his. More fool him.”

“I’m not good with words like Skip, so I just—Skip saved me, in Dale. I was up for murder, in the highest court, and he argued black was white to save me from a death in the salt mines. I owe him everything.”

As an only child, Skip was spoiled a lot both by his parents and by his paternal grandparents as a child. However, Skip seems to have inherited his maternal grandmother's intelligence and lack of regard for the lives of others. Seeing as his youthful dream of being a lawyer was never attained, those who had once lavished him with attention abandoned him, meaning that he soon developed more of an understanding of the realities of the world, due to his increased reliance on his maternal grandmother. As he had no siblings, Skip often had difficulty in forming friendships with others in his age group.

In the case of Skip, son of Knut, love wasn't only blind...it was thick as pig shit.

Skip's wife, Walda, is a touchy subject for the ageing sellsword, even though her fatal bout of pneumonia took her to the grave a full nine years before his default age of 35. The erstwhile daughter of a wealthy trader, Walda married Skip when his father's business was still successful (when he was 17 and she was 16), and she grew used to a level of luxury that her father had never been able to provide her with...a level that her husband was (even then) having difficulty financing.

Skip had wanted to be a lawyer in his youth – now, in his prime, his detailed understanding of the law allows him to circumvent it. Due to the amount of time he spent in Dale when he was young, Skip was able to develop a conversational level of Khuzdul.