• General Description:

• Build, Size, and Forms:

• Other Features:
  • General calluses and scratches on her hands from hard work with livestock
  • Small abrasion scar on her left shoulder
  • Old bite marks on her inner thighs (always hidden by her garments)

Optime Hair

Eyes

Nose/Pawpads, Claws, Scars

• Speech: Mature and soft-spoken, controlled tone, with faint traces of a Swedish accent.
• Scent: Winterberry, silverweed, peat, cattle and sheep, buttermilk; Khael, Salsola (evergreen, salt and marsh, female-dominant hybrids)
  • Note: Tink disguises her Salsolan scent (masking it with sweetgrass and pennyroyal) when outside its borders.
• Physical Expression and Quirks:
  • Katinka has proper, neutral expression and carriage, showing proper dominance or submission according to rank. She is closed-off but polite, offering small smiles to acknowledge others. Among the livestock, she is relaxed, warm, and gentle.
  • Once afflicted with a habit of toying with her hair or braids, she makes an effort to keep her hands still or folded in her lap. When nervous or bashful, she still sometimes tucks loose pieces of hair back from her face.
  • She smooths her dresses down over her thighs as a nervous tic.

Highly humanized and part of a wealthy kingdom, Tink never goes without clothing. Her day-to-day garments consist of plain, often-mended dresses that she doesn't mind getting dirty at the stables. For Suppers and other outings, Tink showcases her wealth -- favoring dresses with rich dyes (often shades of blue) but little other flair. She is more ornamental with her hair, accentuating it with bows, pins, and combs. All her garments modestly cover her thighs.

2.1  Summary

Dependable and down-to-earth, Tink is a hard worker with strong personal values. She takes her responsibilities seriously and measures her worth in the work that she does; she disdains people who are lazy or complacent. While politely modest, Tink has pride in her work, and desires the security that wealth and success bring. However, Tink refuses to let her ambitions compromise her moral values; she would never stoop to cruel or underhanded means of climbing the social ladder, and she harshly judges those that do.

She is introverted but sociable, a warm and kindhearted individual whose compassionate nature is apparent in the way she deals with lesser animals. Patient and proper, she never complains about helping others and enjoys doing so, though she expects them to return the favor.

Though in-tune with her emotions and judgments, Tink rarely expresses these feelings. Her desire to keep things running smoothly also makes her averse to confrontation, which leads to her tolerating bad situations long after they've turned bad. While self-assured in her work, in more personal matters, she has a tendency to place blame on herself.

2.2  Traits

• Outlook: Realistic, sometimes cynical
• Sociability: Introverted but socialible, kind
• Expression: Contingent on rank, naturally submissive and polite
• Alignment: Lawful Neutral
  • "Respects the laws and authority figures of the community and nation."
  • "Seeks secure employment, believing hard work will pay off in the end."
  • "Believes people deserve the treatment they are willing to endure."
  • "Will not harm others for profit."
• Motivations: Her family, security, wealth, success, improvement
• Values: Work ethic, law and tradition, compassion, politeness, healthy pride and ambition
• Fears: Destitution, disability, loneliness

2.3  Details

• Likes: Cattle, singing, hard work, sweet foods and drinks, cheese, cats, baby animals, finery, shades of blue
• Dislikes: Laziness, complacency, cruelty to animals, backstabbing, politics, zealots

Tink is strictly attracted to women and generally happy to take on a more submissive (but not subservient) role. Though disinclined to make the first move, she can be playful and flirty when comfortable with that person. She is a kindhearted, selfless mate who shows her love through service (e.g. housework, sex, thoughtful favors) and is unerringly loyal to her partner; she appreciates affection and affirmation in return.

Her need for harmony, disinclination to express feelings, and tendency to self-blame for relationship problems have made her especially vulnerable to emotional abuse -- a flaw that she has come to recognize and strives to improve upon.

• Biases: Tink has largely adopted Salsola's cultural biases. As a result, she tends to regard other packs as inferior, loners as untrustworthy, and feral life as backwards. She carries a mild disdain for the more fanatical and political witches.
• Substances: A fan of sweet-flavored meads and berry wines, Tink is a social drinker -- who more and more appreciates the pleasant numbness alcohol brings as much as its taste. She is disinclined to try other substances.

Tink is polytheistic but not pious or inclined to worship outside of the occasional private prayer. She believes in the existence of many unspecified gods and spirits, especially the ones her grandmother kept, and is generally accepting and tolerant of others' beliefs, too. However, Tink has a negative opinion of the zealous, "showy" witches of the Coven; she hates pointless, wasteful forms of animal sacrifice and distrusts the Coven's level of influence over the pack, seeing it as all to easy to pay lip-service to the gods for political gain.

3.1  Family

• Mother: Greta Holt (née Bergström)
• Father: Amalrick Holt
• Siblings: Vincent, Iris (older); Anton, Torkel (same litter); Gerda, Helga (younger)

• Children: (with Khael, sired by Vincent) Keturah Lykoi, Kineret Lykoi
• Extended: Her grandmother, Birgitta Bergström, began living with the family when Tink's mother became pregnant with her third litter and needed extra help around their household.

3.2  Other Relations

• Khael Lykoi is Tink's wife. She intrigued and attracted Tink from the start, initiating their courtship when Tink was uncertain about her feelings for the mysterious jackal. They make for an odd couple, but their roles complemented each other, and they shared values in regards to the pack and their ambitions. More recently, however, Tink has stopped overlooking the warning signs of Khael's abusive nature. While Tink thought she could handle herself (and handle Khael), enough lines were crossed that Tink realizes she needs to act on it.

• Katinka loves her daughters more than anything; she dotes on them affectionately, but sets expectations and boundaries, too. However, complications in their home life have led to complications in their relationships.
  • Kineret is uncannily quiet and aloof, but she lends her support to Tink in unexpected times, proving her resemblance to Khael is merely superficial.
  • Keturah is a sweetheart, more bubbly than her sister, but seems to favor and hero-worship Khael -- which makes Tink increasingly nervous.

• Elphaba Revlis may be the Boss, but Tink isn't a fan. Her opinions aren't traitorous, but Elphaba's senseless and theatrical sacrifice of a young animal left a bad taste in her mouth. Elphaba encourages the sort of theatrical political games that Tink despises.
• Tink often works alongside Grievous Eternity with the pack's livestock. She finds him easy to get along with and appreciates his care for the animals. He once helped save her life, too.

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• Galilee Haskel saved Tink from a blizzard, demonstrating a kindness and guileless charm she didn't expect from an Outsider. However, she is also too nosy and concerned for her own good; Tink worries her good intentions will get them both hurt.

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• Vincent Holt is Tink's older brother and the family member she was closest to. Serious-minded and protective like their father, he always wanted what was best for her -- but also acted as her confidant and shoulder to cry on. He later agreed to sire her children by Khael, delighting Tink.
• Tink befriended Blair Eternity and her wife Reykja Helsi in Portland, interested in and admiring of their lifestyle; Blair would later share stories about and invite her to join Salsola.
• Salvia Eternity was the Boss when Tink first joined the pack. Tink admired and respected her as a strong leader; she had faith that Salvia would appreciate her for her work ethic.

• Syringa D'Angelo seduced Katinka when she was new to the pack. Their dalliance didn't lead to anything more lasting, and they haven't kept in touch, but Tink is fond of the memory.
• Serene Eternity and Tink quickly became friends due to their similar, kindhearted natures.

Key: Dabbler --> Apprentice --> Journeyman --> Master

4.2  Residence

A three-roomed cabin close Marrgerd. The main room has a couch (cushions made of stuffed hide), a low table, and a "cat tree" made from a scavenged branch. It leads to the kitchen, which boasts stone counters and a woodstove. The bedroom has a single master bed and a closet for storage. Overall, the cabin is in good shape, but the roof has a tendency to leak, and some floorboards need replacing.

4.3  Trade

Tink is an honest but shrewd trader with an eye for quality goods, especially those concerning livestock. She is straightforward in her offers, which she'll quickly take off the table if she senses anything underhanded. She is fair, and while she wants to make deals work, she refuses to compromise her values.

• Offering: Dairy products (milk, cheese curds, whey), wool and fiber, eggs, Salsolan trade goods
• Accepting: Vinegar, rennet, salt or preservatives, clothes (finely dyed or practical), jewelry