Odin Finch

“Eh? The bandages? Don’t worry about those. Just a scar from a mission. It’s a good reminder to work even harder.”

Odin
Pronouns	She/her
Species	Featherfolk
Subspecies	Corvid
Division	Outerworld
Role	Squadron Captain
Height	5'2" / 158cm
Age	29
Birth Date	Nova 27, 1201
Zodiac	Arrogant Wyvern
Aspect	Dark (born) / Law (corrupted)
Family	Micaiah (adoptive aunt) Korin (adoptive brother)

Odin Finch is a Corvid Featherfolk native to Eversun City currently working in the Outerworld Division as a squadron captain. She utilizes this high income to host the Valhalla Project, an under-the-table orphanage in the northwestern slums of Eversun with her adoptive brother.

Appearance

Odin, in Featherfolk standards, is an average-height woman with fair skin and freckles all over her body. She has lime green eyes that seem distant and deep, barely ever reflecting light properly. After the incident which caused her Law corruption, she lost vision in her right eye, changing its color to an iridescent white. Her skin from her right eye to her right elbow is blackened with feather plumes growing from the surface, and she uses aether-enhanced bandages to stunt the corruption growth and cover what she deems as “ugly.” Odin’s natural hair color is a deep midnight blue, but she frequently dyes her hair a pink-red color. When she doesn’t bleach her hair to apply the dye, her natural hair color comes through past the dye occasionally.

Odin’s typical outfit she wears is a dark grey collared dress shirt tied at the collar with a blue ribbon. A dark ice-blue overcoat covers most of it, buttoned up specifically to hide her body shape. It has white fur lining, gold accents, and darker blue belts on the sleeve cuffs and waist. A brown leather weapon sling crosses her body from her right shoulder and holds her trusty greatsword, affectionately named “Guillotine.” She wears dark grey leggings underneath the coat and brown calf-length boots with a fur lining. She is also always seen wearing a ribbon in her hair that matches the color of her outfit.

Prominent Featherfolk features of hers include dark purple-black wings and a bird’s tail. While Odin doesn’t typically stretch her wings outside of exercise, her wingspan rests at 230cm (~7’7”).

Personality

Odin is a fairly carefree woman, often riding the current atmosphere and answering accordingly. She adapts well to shifting conditions both in mood and combat, and does attempt to act friendly towards most Sinners. She doesn't initiate conversation particularly herself, but will chime in when asked to or if she thinks her ideas are important to contribute. Many individuals who simply pass by her will comment on how difficult it is to pinpoint what type of person she truly is, and of course, rumors spread like wildfire within the Hearth walls.

To her squadron, Odin is determined, loyal, and commandeering. She is not afraid to intervene when a rookie or seasoned veteran is failing, and disciplines her squadron in various ways that are not demeaning. Other squadrons audibly recount their wishes to have Odin as their captain, to which she compliments the other squadrons' captains and assures their regimens are just as important. Staffing outside of the division, however, fear Odin and have only heard of how fearsome she is on the battlefield.

Biography

Odin is an orphaned Featherfolk who was born & raised in the northwestern sector of Eversun City, notorious for hosting the poorer and impoverished residents of the City. She was raised by a Human woman by the name of Micaiah Finch, who opted to take Odin into her home when the young Featherfolk lost her parents. Odin has been with her adoptive aunt Micaiah since she was five years old, and because of her, was able to attend public school to receive a proper education.

The Civil Affairs Division of Eversun City is supposed to be the pillar of protection and safety for the capital. Unfortunately, the guards particularly assigned to Odin's sector were cruel and punishing. They would ignore their given instructions and actively make the residents' lives worse, when they already barely generated enough income to keep a roof over their heads. Micaiah was slightly better off than most of the residents in this sector, but she devoted a lot of time, effort, and money to running a bookstore outside the slums. While her business was fairly successful, she still spent a lot of her income on donating to the local charities to keep the residents in her sector fed and educated.

During this time, Odin kept close by to a Lesser wolf Kindred by the name of Korin. While Korin was unable to attend public school, as he also was an orphan under care of another resident, Odin spent some of her free time teaching him the subjects she'd learn in her school classes. In exchange, Korin would teach Odin how to navigate the streets better, steal from the rich who don't need their pocketbooks, and show all the routes to take to avoid guards. Eventually, Odin turned into a little thief alongside her brother-figure, taking trinkets to sell on the market or outright wallets from people's pockets.

There came a day where a fire broke out in Odin's home sector, when she was about eleven years old. Due to the laziness of the Civil Affairs guards stationed to keep an eye on this sector, the fire quickly grew out of hand. There were no spellweavers versed in water aether close by to assist with the fire, and eventually, over 80% of the already-deteriorating houses in the sector burned to the ground. Many more children were left without parents, and worse for Odin, she had lost Micaiah in the blaze. Her final moments with Micaiah were spent kicking and screaming, being pulled away by Korin to safety by Micaiah's last request. Immediately, the young Odin turned to the Guild desperately to investigate the cause of the fire. The Guild claims an investigation was conducted, as Odin believes it was not an accident, yet the reports state it was not sabotage. With Odin's and Korin's home now burned to ashes, Odin is left with no choice but to join the Adventurers' Guild alone.

As much as Odin despised working for the governing entity who turned her life around for the worst, she vowed to upturn the poisoned side of the Guild and leak their secrets that the public deserves to know. She had originally intended to join the Civil Affairs Division in hopes of changing everything from the inside, but as she learned about the Adventurers' Guild within its curriculum, she realized how small she was in the grandeur of the Guild. Instead, she finalizes her education through the Guild and joins the Wayfarers' Division.

The idea for becoming a wayfarer stemmed from the enticing promise of hard work being rewarded with high rewards. This quickly caused her to overwork herself early into her career at the Guild. The monetary rewards were not nearly as high as she expected, and without properly budgeting for this, she quickly spent all of her money on caring for the orphaned children in her sector and alcohol. In one of her drunken bouts of depression at the Ginkgo Tree, she meets a woman by the name of Raelynn Aquamor--another wayfarer unsatisfied with her progress within the division. Somehow, and Odin is quite unsure how it happened still to this day, the two agreed to partner up and begin accepting quests together. While Rae scored the opportunity for assistance in searching for ancient weapons to add to her collection, Odin pocketed most of the money from their journeys. The two had a fairly amicable relationship as wayfarers, even gaining reputation as a formidable duo. Eventually higher-ups from the Hearth management approached them to offer promotions to different divisions, and including Guild-hosted lodgings in the package. They both accepted, calling off their wayfaring partnership of three years.

Odin's new position in the Outerworld Division proved the perfect fit for her adamant personality. She performed outstandingly on her first excursions, becoming a stable pillar of her Law bubble squadron even as a rookie. Eventually, her performance saw her fit to become the next Captain of her squadron at the untimely demise of her prior one. Without much room to decline, she equipped the provided mantle and became an inspiration for all excursion squadron members across the Outerworld Division.

Contributions

While Odin avoids contributing anything major to the Guild, it is difficult to argue that she isn’t one of the most renowned Outerworld captains. She isn’t the longest-running captain the Guild has ever had, but for her young age, her efforts are acknowledged very highly.

Her primary focus is extorting the Guild’s high pay to fund the Valhalla Project. It aims to rebuild a burned-down sector of Eversun City from the ground up without alerting the Civil Affairs officers or the Guild itself. While she has a few contributors from behind the Guild walls, the project is particularly secretive.

Abilities

Odin has managed to control the Law corruption in her favor combat-wise, but she rarely uses it. She is able to physically manifest her natural and corrupted aether combined into an aetheric familiar in the appearance of a raven. This raven can dissipate and reappear in another location within close proximity and act as a second pair of eyes, transmitting the information and images to her blind eye. The raven can last up to five minutes, but the more information Odin receives from the raven, the more physical fatigue arrives with it. The overload of information and witnessing two different "present-times" can be incredibly overstimulating, but helpful where needed.

The amount of sheer physical strength Odin displays assisted her in rising to the ranks of a squadron captain. Her weapon, lovingly named Guillotine, weighs around 10lbs/4.5kg of solid iron and is aetherically enhanced to react better to sudden change of momentum.

Relationships

Please feel free to message Dee on Discord to plan out relationships! Odin's a complicated character as usual, and is a personality sponge.

Korin

"Annoying, insufferable, and inconsiderate—is what I'd like to say, but without him, I don't know if I would've survived my childhood."

A fellow orphan of her impoverished home sector in Eversun, Korin and Odin are practically siblings. They get into trouble together, they share their overlapping woes, they bully each other constantly, and reciprocate each other's bad habits. The two also care for the small community of orphaned children back in their burned-down home sector, pooling their limited resources together and dedicating them to the children. Everything they both do is for this little makeshift community, and despite their butting heads and thrown insults, they happily work together to achieve their common goal. Outside of this, Korin and Odin are especially crude to each other. They partake in both verbal and physical altercations every time they see each other, and will often stop at nothing to prove one is superior to the other in all aspects. Since Korin is not working under the Guild title, they don't see each other very often. When they do, it's to either convene and discuss the orphan community and how they can better succeed in their goals, or to meet up for a long night of drinking at a tavern. In the end, they wouldn't be who they are without each other to keep the other's ego in check.

Raelynn Aquamor

"My best friend I've known for almost a decade. I want to be better for her. I want to be someone that she'll be proud to stand beside, for however long she wants."

An old wayfaring partner met at a tavern during Odin's worst bouts of bar-hopping. They get along very well, and despite being separated from wayfaring, still constantly spend time with each other as best friends. Rae will often beg Odin to join her weapons-licensing classes to spar with the aspiring Adventurers. Rae also donates to the Valhalla Project from the good of her heart, and wants to see the old sector thrive more than ever. Though, since they do spend so much time together, Odin began developing a crush on Rae, and constantly battles with her feelings about her. The only reason why Odin hasn't moved forward with confessing these feelings is because she has the worst clinical case of decision paralysis, and Rae frequently complains her love life is going nowhere until she meets a tall, handsome, rich man to marry into. Odin is, in fact, none of those traits.

Rin Kazashi

"Rin is strong. A comrade-in-arms with similarities I can't deny. I hope she finds what she needs, and I'll be supporting her through all of it where I can."

A fellow captain in charge of a different Law bubble excursion squadron, Odin highly respects Rin and her capabilities. Even if they rarely work together in their position, the two will often spend time together during their downtime weeks. Odin thinks she's quite pretty and noble, and feels she is different than the richer folks that would normally turn a blind eye to her struggles. Rin was one of the first supporters of the Valhalla Project, effectively also being the first Odin entrusted with her most safeguarded secret. While she wouldn't disclose any further information to Rin regarding the whereabouts and status of the sector, she still appreciates the support genuinely and wants to continue being friends.

Lyna Solai

"Dragons are so strong! Lyna is a joy to be around and even if I don't see her much, I know she's ready to help me with keeping up my form and shape during battle."

The first dragon Odin has ever met. The two often go out drinking together, as Lyna's alcohol tolerance impresses Odin. While it's rare that Odin ever requires an escort home, Lyna is sweet enough to ensure Odin drinks plenty of water before heading home. The two also enjoy sparring against each other; while Odin isn't as trigger-happy as Lyna with partaking in combat, Odin enjoys keeping up her exercise, and she'll take it in any form. Sparring with a dragon is pretty fun and different, anyway!

Nine

"I'm sorry. I failed you once, and we both suffered the consequences. But I'll show you that I'm competent, and we can save people. I hope you can trust me."

To Odin, Nine was, at first, simply someone more experienced than her in her squadron. When she gained her excursion legs, they went on a mission together which wounded them both and spurred their Law corruption. After Nine's transfer to the Contingency Division following the terrible incident, she still takes the time to convene with him and ensure he is doing well. She feels as if, without directly admitting it, she can confide in him about their similarities and have someone understand her struggles with growing up impoverished, becoming corrupted, and wrangling the idea of a shortened lifespan due to their time in the Outerworld Division excursions.

Monica Holst

"There's a well of potential hidden beneath her cool exterior. I'm happy to be a shoulder she can lean on, and that she has something to look forward to with the Valhalla Project. The kids seem to adore her!"

Their meeting was pure chance during Monica's Education Division curriculum, being one of the few people to see her prior to becoming a licensed Adventurer. Their introductory sparring match while Odin guested during one of Rae's classes caused a bit of a sour taste in Monica's mouth, in which Odin completely understood. When Monica joined the Outerworld Division, Odin properly reintroduced herself and apologized for her exponentially different behavior during combat, and the two grew into quick friends. Odin assists Monica in managing her chaotic aether corruption, and after a few rounds at the bar, was also convinced to allow her assist in the Valhalla Project. Odin doesn't regret this choice, at least, as the children seem to ask for "Auntie Momo" quite often.

Lianne Fennick

"Oh... yeah, Lianne. She's uh... she's nice. She really is pleasant, I promise! She's just...unique."

Odin has known Lianne since they were twelve and fourteen respectively, bonding through their shared pain of being victims of the fire from year 1209. Lianne ended up being orphaned much later in life comparatively to Odin and Korin, but she still managed to tack herself onto the two in their teenage years, learning from their criminal-like way of living in order to survive. Odin does trust Lianne, enough to entrust her with the "ownership" of the Morning Roost, and to run it as well as possible for a public space. The two aren't particularly close, they are friends, but she wouldn't consider her a sibling like Korin.

Trivia

• Voice Claim: Blemishine/Maria, Arknights (Ola Forman) [Listen here!]
• High alcohol tolerance - can likely drink a bottle of tequila alone and not feel much.
• Despite being a high-ranking officer in the division that pays the best, she is still very poor, as she budgets as much money to her makeshift orphan community.
• Odin is blind in her right eye, and has never shown anyone what lies beneath the bandages.
  • What actually lies underneath is blackened skin and plumes of feathers growing due to her Law corruption, which started at about age 22.
• She loves wearing cutesy and frilly outfits for casual wear.
• She has an excellent diet and a high-force exercise routine.
• Her hobbies include exercise, gardening, and reading fantasy-romance novels.
• Feathers shed from her wings and tail more often due to Law corruption.
• Due to lack of Featherfolk family when growing up, Odin never actually learned how to fly, and still struggles with keeping herself off the ground.