#tonttu

24. Hyviä juhlapyhiä kaikille peikoille ja kaikenkarvaisille otuksille !

20 years later... (2025 vs 2005)

So. Umm. You may have heard about the mysterious fire that broke out in one of the third floor rooms in the eastern dorm, and somehow stayed contained to that one room only. I will admit, it was kinda my fault. Or not really, it was my roommate's fault, but I could probably have done more to stop it.

To be fair to me, I didn't ask for the tonttu to move in and appoint themself as the caretaker of that particular dorm room. I also did not ask to have an asshole roommate who refuses - well, refused - to keep the place clean and had no respect for the various supernatural caretakers of places around the campus. She would have gotten himself on the wrong side of someone else sooner or later anyway, and that wouldn't have ended any better for her than this did. And it's not like I didn't warn her! I told her so many times to clean her shit and to respect the tonttu and leave out some offerings for them, or at the very least not spoil or steal or throw away the offerings I left. I did also try to tell the tonttu to be chill about it, but you know what they get like when they really get angry.

To be unfair to me, my ancestors came from rural northern Europe, so I'm pretty sure that that ancestry and all the strangeness around the campus interacting is why the tonttu came. And honestly I was pretty fed up with my roommate too, even if I think death in a fire was slightly more gruesome way to end the problem than what she deserved, and I was trying to solve the problem through the usual and less lethal means.

So if you were wondering how it is that a fire breaks out in a dorm but stays contained to one room, and one roommate wakes up in time to escape unscathed but not in time to warn the other roommate or get her to safety, but the other roommate is burned to death (if she didn't die of smoke inhalation first), and yet somehow all the surviving roommate's belongings are miraculously undamaged, yeah. It's because even though a tonttu can be very helpful in protecting your dwelling and keeping things nice and neat if you show proper respect, they can be real vicious and vengeful if you treat them wrong.