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[inagutterson]

NATIVE APPLICATION

PLAYER

Name: Mhairi
Age: 27
Contact: deathwailart @ aim/plurk, bansheesquad#0389 @ discord
Other Characters:
Araceli Bonaventura | foxsays | Original (rifter)
Morrigan | arcaneadvisor | Dragon Age
Interests: There aren't enough dwarves? There aren't enough dwarves who are happy with their murky gutter connections and make no bones about them? Yngvi is cheerfully the lowest of the low from Kirkwall, he doesn't have the traditional outlook on politics or anything: what's best for Yngvi is what matters and that means whatever fits whatever scheme Yngvi is up to at a particular moment.

CHARACTER

Name: Yngvi (Congealedinagutterson*)
Canon/OC: Original
Journal: inagutterson
Race: Dwarf
Nationality: Free Marcher/Kirkwall
Occupation: Mercenary/nebulously still Carta; you can take the dwarf out the Carta but you can't take the Carta outta the dwarf, that's how that old saying goes
Mage or Non-Mage: Non-Mage (Yngvi would try to somehow swindle you that he's some elfblooded-dwarven mage that'll win you back the Dales if you'll buy him supper tbh)
Age: early-20s (Yngvi does not have a scooby how old he is sorry)

*Adopted surname, Asher gave this to him when he was bestowed guest rite at Honey Badger Hold the first time, Yngvi obviously loved it, Asher no why are you rolling your eyes.

History

Note: Yngvi's life is the Gospel According to Yngvi and he will frequently contradict it, whilst daring people to call him out on contradicting it. Do not do that. He's Carta and a mercenary, don't you have self-preservation? Anyway, this is a story all about how...

• Young scamp years: Yngvi congealed in the gutters of Kirkwall, the lowest rung of the Carta with no Orzammar ties and indeed no ties that he actually knows of. He was raised communally with other such figures that he came to view as family, mainly one other boy his own age called Gunnar. He and Gunnar became brothers even though technically they all are. (Yngvi will not refer to any of the rest as siblings but he will refer to having a Dad, basically any older dwarf that was looking after them and showing them the ropes. Same with anyone he might call Mum. The stories won't always match up.)
• Teenage dirtbag years: Literally. Like, really really literally. Have you been to Darktown? Because that was the stomping/proving ground for young Yngvi where he was involved in your typical sort of Carta business: lyrium smuggling, illegal gambling, weapons smuggling, an uneasy overlap sometimes with the Coterie, a few protection rackets. Yngvi actually had a pretty bright mind and a tendency to get himself in trouble with too much energy but a few of the older guys took Yngvi in while a different few took Gunnar in. Yngvi got traps and how to be a confidence trickster and a grifter, Gunnar got alchemy and what passes for healing in the Carta. (Spoiler it's called chew the elfroot, down this lethal concoction that's mostly firewater and hope you don't die.)
• Boneflayers: After a few years honing his Carta stuff and getting to work his way up from Darktown to the quite frankly giddy heights of Lowtown, Yngvi (and Gunnar, from now on if I mention one that means both) met a man with a plan, and his awesome elf second-in-command, and the man's giant walking scar of a dog. That man was Asher Hardie. It was a chance to do something different. See the world. A young dwarf has a yearning okay. (Humans are really stupid, you don't leave the Carta, the Carta gave Yngvi their blessing, Yngvi sent back word.)
• After leaving Kirkwall post-Arishok losing his shit with the Boneflayers, Yngvi has since gone farther than he ever thought his little dwarf legs would go. Wheeling and dealing. Fighting. Getting up to no good, making trouble in your neighbourhood (Lex, Gwenaelle, looking at you.)
• Most recently he's spent some time in Skyhold in the refugee camp with Asher Hardie before disappearing off with Asher's body. Then he went to see his BFF/presumptive-papa-in-law Emeric. To make off with the silverware and get the Thedosian equivalent of a DUI.
• Look where there's a will there's a way.
  
  Relevant links to The Boneflayers 1 & 2

Personality

You know how small dogs don't know that they're small dogs and think that they're really big dogs? Well imagine that as a dwarf. But also roll the Old Spice Man in there. Boom you have Yngvi.

The one true home of Yngvi is not, shockingly, Kirkwall but rather his cosy retreat in the Refuge In Audacity. He is utterly ridiculous about his wheelings and dealings without a care in the world (see: rolling up to the home of Emeric Vauqelin to "liberate" his good brandy and silverware because they're family) and somehow he hasn't been killed. He excels in a particular brand of being over the top in a very specific sort of way. But then he's the confidence guy. The charming guy. (Though that used to just mean 'congratulations you're not Asher'.)

All of this does help to hide the fact that Yngvi is actually a very successful member of both the Carta and a mercenary organisation because he would've been dead long ago otherwise. He can talk his way out of many things, relying on his charm or his wits, though he does take care to have friends in as many groups as possible so someone will come bail out the poor dwarf.

Which is another thing: he'll sell you a tragic backstory. He'll sell you ten tragic backstories for a bargain. He's got no shame about that sort of thing because he wasn't raised to have any sort of scruples when it comes down to it, and all his stories? Well quite frankly he only trusts Gunnar and the Boneflayers, and even the Boneflayers don't know all there is to know about Yngvi. He likes to have a multiple choice past, and attempting to confront Yngvi on it isn't really going to get you anywhere. At all. Ever. Oh he won't hurt you he'll just be a pain in the arse and when that's coming from the Carta is that really something you want? Look at your life, look at your choices.

He has the haziest opinion/sense of what a family unit is due to his upbringing so people that fall into the close friendship bracket are considered family though that can usually extend to anyone he spends prolonged periods of time with. Likewise, friends of friends are automatically considered good friends of Yngvi even if they've never met face to face. But he does get to just comment on all your life choices at will, invade your personal space, and he'll expect you to defend him the odd time a deal goes bad and he can't sort it himself.

Also comes with the most annoying habits: bottomless pit and the internal monologue is stuck on external, you're welcome.

Opinions & Affiliations

Yngvi...does not care. Like he cares kind of but he cares inasmuch as it affects Yngvi, Gunnar, the Boneflayers, and the Carta. (That's how the loyalties go okay.)

Mages and Templars can shut up he'll get your lyrium stop crying you all look so ugly when you cry. Elves he just...literally doesn't care like wow shut up about trees you're making him want to take a piss is that the point? Do you want to see his dick there are easier ways? Any tall horned people do not step on him he'll bite.

Orzammar can get wrecked. Basically all nobles can get wrecked unless they give him money. Grey Wardens can get wrecked like you are not special shut up no one even cares???

Yngvi is cooler (in his tiny peanut brain) than anyone else, shut up everyone you're so annoying.

In short: allied to the Carta, Boneflayers, and anyone paying and/or feeding him. Everyone else fuck off.

Adaptation

N/A

Strengths & Weaknesses

+ actually stupendously loyal? Like if you do become his friend you have a bro for life he will be there for you.
+ also he's really good with his axes in a fight, really good. Two daggers, pfft, try two axes scrubs.
+ knows all there is to know about the underworld, like, if it's shady underworld stuff, he's going to know it.
+ it's pretty difficult to annoy/upset/offend him. He is very cheerful about who and what he is, look at the surname Asher gave him that he adopted with gusto!
+ actual charming bastard, no, not even lying. Yngvi was a damn good confidence trickster, grifter and even a honey trap sometimes. Orlais can say what it likes, pretty sure the Carta would've written the book on real tradecraft instead of fopping about in a mask and perfume.
+ really good at making traps.

- actually stupendously loyal? You will not get rid of him, he is a barnacle, I don't know how you would scrape this tiny dwarf off.
- able to eat about a week of food in one sitting because he had zero idea where his next meal was coming from as a kid so yeah he will just eat and eat and eat.
- literally unable to shut up. He is the DVD director's commentary that you cannot mute. You might need to break his jaw.
- short. Even for a dwarf he's pretty short. He had no food and no sunlight in frigging Darktown okay.
- really good at making traps means he does not use this power for good.
- lacks in tact so whatever is there in his tiny peanut brain will just come out with zero filter because wow why are you getting offended what's wrong with you wow you people, you're worse than Orlesians.
- pretty book dumb. He has many street smarts, and he can read and write but unless he is/was told 'Yngvi go learn about this thing' then he is going to have no idea what that is in any great detail but he'll pretend he does. Probably to upset you.

Going to roll with the Artificer spec for him, I'm so sorry.

Inventory

Asher Hardie's sending crystal
Bear slanket (and some bonus bear pelts)
Wolf slanket (look you need to switch it out sometimes)
Two (2) x axes and whetsone
Generic medium rogue armour, vaguely Carta-ish in appearance
A few changes of clothes, general all in some state of disrepair
Avvar mead from Honey Badger Hold
Traps, so many traps, how can he lug so many traps he's so small?
Trap components, don't be alarmed he knows what he's doing
Lyrium. The regular good stuff. He's not getting involved with weird shit he's not crazy. Not a lot but like a little taste, enough to wet your lips
Various contracts involved in his wheelings and dealings

Also:
Emeric Vauquelin's best brandy
(Most of) Emeric Vauquelin's silverware
Maybe some things Gwen might have requested of him?
A keg pulled by a team of nugs aka the getaway vehicle involved in procuring the above items

If that last one is allowed there's like an outstanding arrest warrant in Orlais for Dwarfing Under the Influence that also involved arrows being shot at him and hurled Orlesian obscenities.

Motivation

Someone has to be here to continue to represent The Boneflayers and Ygnvi is the man dwarf for the job! Also Gwenaelle is there and he needs to make sure no one is bothering her, and not at all troubling in any way past business relation Lex Luthor is also here. Yikes. Yngvi really likes Skyhold okay and well, the Carta also needs a dude there. For reasons. Carta business is Carta business keep your nose out okay.

Maybe he is also here to do some blackmarket lyrium. If that can maybe be A Thing we can work out.

SAMPLES

Various Yngvi happenings around Skyhold
Yngvi on the test drive