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ps. I have some really cheap games on my wishlist 😙

p.p.s The open commission window doesn't apply anymore

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The sillies by the campfire

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my rdr2 OC

Bergrós Lilja Mánadóttir

Bergrós Lilja Mánadóttir: bɛrkrouːs Lɪːlja Mauːnatouʰtɪːr

Rough translation: Mountain-Rose Lily Moon's daughter

(art by me)

Ramblings about my character and her story below the cut

Design

Inspirations:

upper left: Alice White

upper right: unfinished first concept of Bergrós by me

Lower right: Clara Bow

Lower left: Elena, a model for Voriagh

When I was designing Bergrós, I wanted for her to look like a person, like she could actually belong in the game, she has smile lines, eye bags, and moles. Not gonna deny that she isn't sorta a self-insert so I can indulge in my fantasies with Charles, can you really blame me?

I wanted her to have big eyes, I was really inspired by 1920s beauty standards. Big eyes, small, pouty lips, I also decided that she would have plump cheeks and a soft jawline and as you can see, she's had that kinda nose (straight nose with a nose bump?) since I started designing her.

One major change would be the eye and hair color, I changed it because I wanted to.

Character/Backstory

I'm Icelandic, and I can't make an OC without including my culture, so she's an Icelandic immigrant. (Which is historically accurate, look up Vesturfarar)

I'm writing a story, and my plan for her character arc is for her to start out sorta shy and meek, almost typical "small and tiny y/n" but I PROMISE that's not all she is.

The gist is, I want the only real change to be confidence. She's opinionated, passionate, kinda hotheaded and smart from day one, she just doesn't think she is or doesn't think that people want to listen or will listen, so she holds her tongue, and as the story progresses she starts to realise her strengths and starts being louder, firmer, but she's still super sweet and kind, like she doesn't lose that completely.

Also she's bad at english at the start of the story, because she's only been in America for maybe a year and a half but as the story progresses she improves, esp after the timeskip.

I want her to be just barely less reserved than Charles, she definitely talks more than him and initiates most conversations but they also have their quiet moments.

I personally hc Charles as autistic, I'm not diagnosed or anything but I definitely have traits, and I want them to have a quiet moment together in Clemens Point while they're both overstimulated, idk just something really sweet.

Random Factoids

Her favourite fruit is apples

She's scared of heights

Her favourite animal is bison, she likes their build, thinks it's silly

Before she came to America it was ravens

Kinda likes Pearson's stew, she's had worse

! SPOILER RDR2 STORY !

(rambling about my plans for my Canon x OC fic, fight me)

my fic:

(also don't read if you don't want spoilers for my fic ig, if you’re really, really interested because that's all this section is)

So she and Charles have a itsy bitsy romance right? and they're both reserved so it's all slow. My idea is that her and Charles kiss right before the big bank robbery in Saint Denis, after that, basically everything goes to shit for the next days/weeks so they don't really have time to really figure their feelings out before they get seperated for the seven years between the story and the epilogue.

And in these 7 years, Bergrós (nicknamed Rosie by the gang, Rosa by Javier) has a ton of shit happen to her in those seven years (obvi) I'm talking maybe Pinkerton kidnapping, attacks, bounty hunting, all that.

And by the end she's had to become this rugged and harsh persona to survive, (I mean being an nomad woman ain't easy)

(I also have a little idea of her being called like "the desert rose" or smth because she's had become this ruthless outlaw/nomad and I think she spends most of the 7 years in mexico or by the boarder and obvi not a lot of red heads there but Idk might be a little cringe)

By the time John and co come to Beecher's Hope she's also in the area and kinda watches over them, because she doesn't know how to approach them (esp Charles, she still loves him but she doesn't know if he still loves her and the potential hurt makes her hesitate to reach out)

And I kinda want her to be forced to reach out. Maybe she gets hurt badly by the skinner brothers and the Marstons and co are the only ones close enough that she trusts to help. And there's a sweet little reunion but...

What if I add an extra layer of conflict 😼

What if, she's still hesitant to talk out whatever is between her and Charles, and then in American venom (which she comes along for, duh), Charles mentions going to Canada and get a wife and whatevs and she gets all jealous in the sad way, like its some confirmation that he doesn't want her.

And she gets super sad and distances herself from him for a while blah blah blah, eventually Charles corners her and they work it out.

The rest would just be them building their life in Canada.

Side note: I'm also thinking of doing a chapter or two about Charles's 7 years post-gang? I've been writing a little and I feel kinda confined to following the script of the game and whatever so headcanoning and making stuff up might be more fun. Maybe I'll get better as I keep writing, this is my first time doing it after all.

Also, she does have friendships with other characters, don't worry, her life doesn't revolve around Charles lol. She's friends with the girls, Arthur, Javier, Sean, Uncle, and Hosea.