Finally posting some art!
This is my first print-sized piece and it took me 2 whole days to finish, the damn thing is so big and I was fighting for my life with several different things (the lighting and background painting)
But it's all worth it in the end because I absolutely love it <3
Characters featured from left to right are my oc Amaruq and her horse Tamannuk of the Moon circle, Gunnar and Morrigan from the SSO comics by Elli, and finally Yrsa and her horse Ālka of the Lightning circle (belonging to the lovely @crawlingwithmagg0ts)
Expect to see so much more of all of these characters, because I adore each and every single one of them
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Full Name: Gunnar Akseli Pääkkönen
Date of Birth: June 16th, 1905. Lapland, Finland
Date of Death: February 1st, 1947.
Nationality: Finnish
Occupation: Finnish Defense Forces
Rank(s): Captain
Age: 42 years old (at time of death)
Family / Relatives:
-Unnamed father (Deceased)
-Unnamed mother (Deceased)
-Svetlana Attila - Wife (Deceased)
-Lars Pääkkönen - Son (Alive)
-Aleksi and Sveta Pääkkönen - Grandchildren (Alive)
Appearance:
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Brown
Height: 6'5 / 195 cm
Scars/ Beauty marks / blemishes: A scar across the bridge of his nose; his nose is somewhat crooked due to it having been broken when he was 15 and it never healed properly.
Faceclaim: Clive Standen
Personality:
To all those that know him, Gunnar is a closed book, metaphorically speaking. He is not one to be open with his emotions and wishing to keep them under wrap, nor is he someone you would seek comfort for. Due to his trauma from childhood, he has difficulty trusting people and opening up to them, but give him a good reason to trust you, and he will watch your back until the very end.
Background:
Gunnar was born on June 16th, 1905 in Lapland, Finland. By the time of his birth, Finland had still been under the control of Imperial Russia. His father was a soldier in the imperial Navy, while his mother was a sex worker whom his father had laid with for one night, and never saw the other again, the man being unaware of his son's existence. By the time the first World War engulfed Europe, his father would later die in combat, while his mother passed on due to illness, leaving him orphaned. He would later be brought into an orphanage with other children, of which various forms of abuse by the caretakers would take place. At age 14, Gunnar eventually ran away in the dead of night to start a new life for himself, although he would forever be left with the scars and painful memories of that place.
At age 18, Gunnar joined the Finnish Army.
In 1929, Gunnar married his wife Svetlana Attilan, a farmer's daughter who had been sweet on in their late teens. They had a happy marriage, and in 1935, they had a son, whom Gunnar would name Lars, his father's pride and joy.
In 1939, the Soviets invaded Finland, kick-starting what would be known as the Winter War, with Gunnar bidding his family goodbye to answer the call to defend his country. Into the conflict, Gunnar was captured during an ambush and sent to a POW camp in Russia, where he underwent physical and psychological torture. When the League of Nations had expelled Russian forces from the country, Gunnar was released alongside several other of his comrades, however, he would never be the same, following the Lapland War and watching many of his friends die in battle.
By the time Gunnar returned home, he was but a shell of his former self, broken and scarred from war. This dark cloud would overshadow the joy of his family, and would subsequently effect them negatively.
To cope with the grief and pain, Gunnar turned to alcohol, as a way to drown his sorrows and escape the nightmares, only for it to fuel the pain. There were times that Gunnar would become so drunk that he wouldn't recognize Svetlana's face, much less Lars'. There were times that he would also turn violent, and while Svetlana did her best to shield her son from it, Lars would still catch glimpses of it all, of his mother's tears, of his father's rage and pain. Something that would haunt him for years to come.
On February 1st, 1947, Gunnar's body would eventually be found in an old chapel a few miles away from his home, having been found by a passing hunter. The cause of his death is undetermined to this day, whether he drank himself to death, froze on the steps in the frigid air, or took his own life, but Lars speculates that his father had simply allowed himself to die, either out of guilt for what he had done or to finally rid himself of the torment.
Years after his passing, Lars looks back on his last years of his father's life, and only hopes that whatever afterlife there is, that Gunnar found peace after a lifetime of suffering.
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