| Else Jorgensdatter | |
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Age: |
Seventeen |
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Appearance: |
Hair- Blonde, Complexion- Pale, Height- 5'3" |
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Affiliation: |
MHS Hysteria |
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Position: |
Cook |
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Duties: |
stocking the larder, preparing meals, maintaining the galley, tending the greenhouse |
Else Jorgensdatter is the Hysteria's cook and gardener, preparing crew meals and tending the ship's greenhouse, source of both oxygen and produce. Else grew up in rural Denmark at the turn of the twentieth century, and she feels compelled to care for and nourish the crew as she cared for her many siblings and livestock back home.
History[]
Else was born in Ribe, a small rural town in Denmark, in 1893. The town's stubborn (well... Danish) inhabitants had preserved their simple way of life exactly the same way for over three hundred years, living in an isolated medieval world well into the Edwardian era. Else grew up on her family's land, collecting eggs, milking goats, cooking, braiding all of her seven siblings' hair, and dreaming of finding a friendly troll in her mother's vegetable garden.
Else always knew that her family's way of life was different than the growing world around her tiny village, and she treasured the girfts her father would bring from nearby cities, especially stories of the great trains, ships, and other machines that could tame the seas and bring a girl around the world.
One morning in 1908, while picking lingonberries in the the field behind the barn, Else stumbled upon a very bewildered stranger- a man calling himself 'Captain' and mumbling in an unkown language. She, smiling blankly at his incomprehensible words, curiously walked to his ship. She begged to be taken around the world in a magical steam ship, walked onboard, and watched the world disappear from outside the window. She fainted. Two years later, Else has slowly learned English (though never to read it), and the crew has grown. Though Else loves adventuring through the skies, she can never truly leave Denmark behind. Tending the earth reminds her of the home she left behind, where she knows her mother is waiting in the kitchen, expecting a basket of berries.
