Post by Lena Eva Aysel on May 26, 2008 1:22:46 GMT -5
((Wow, I apologize for the length. Also, if either of her fantasy races aren't all right, I'll change it and alter the story accordingly. I just wished to keep along the same lines as the original Lena as best as I could. And brownie points to anyone who recognizes the song I stole her alias/topic name from.))
Name: Lena Eva Aysel, goes by Eva as an alias
Age: Twenty-two (22)
Race: Caucasian
Fantasy Race: 1/2 Ice Maiden, 1/2 Angel
Ethnicity: Listed as Icelandic
Nationality: To match her ethnicity she is listed as hailing from Iceland, though where she was actually birthed is an entirely different kind of Iceland, located in Antarctica. As one might guess, her Iceland is no longer inhabitant after the environment took the deep slope downward.
Economic Class: Working Class
Gender Identity: Female
Sexuality: Unclear
Political Belief: Existentialist, Environmentalist
Religious Belief: Accepts the general ideals of the Manalist religion such as capability, self reliance, responsibility, and survival. Despite not believing so much in the religion itself, she claims to be a devote follower like everyone else who does not relish the thought of spending precious time in a filthy cell. She still follows some customs of her own specie's religion, either out of habit or because she still holds it dear.
Organization: The Invisible Hand
Occupation: Deals mostly in infiltration, occasionally elimination. (Spy/assassin)
Skills:
∙ Deceit
∙ Stealth
∙ Agility
∙ Proficient with a wide variety of weaponry, most adept with blades of small sizes and close combat.
∙ Singing
Weaknesses:
∙ Loves animals and cares deeply about the environment
∙ Heat, average temperature does not hinder her too much, but as the temperature rises her health suffers. If she stays outside for too long in temperatures above 90° Fahrenheit, it could be fatal.
∙ Terrified of large bodies of water.
∙ Race not meant to be physically strong.
Powers: Both of Lena's abilities come from her ice maiden blood, the first being the reason that she's stumbled down this path on her life. When she cries, her tears begin to harden into small oval shaped crystals once oxygen touches them. By the time they leave her face, they are beautiful things as hard as diamonds. Their shade is the same entrancing color as her eyes, a gray blue that sparkles in the light. They are worth much money to those who are even aware of their existence due to their rarity.
Her second ability is the power to spread frost through her hands. With this, she is able to turn amounts of water into ice by soaking the water up with her hands. Alternatively, she could spread a layer of ice over something. This is helpful since the ice is cold enough burn, though the spread is at a speed which someone would be easily able to break away before it became fatal. In a pinch, she could spread the ice over her hands to make a barrier of sorts. This renders whichever hand is frozen useless except as a shield until the ice begins to melt and becomes flimsy enough to break, which is why she prefers not to.
Weapon: Whatever gets the job done.
Appearance: A frail, young woman who appears barely legal, Lena is a large reminder that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Both her heritages are to thank for her thin, fragile appearing body, as if a fall would smash her into a thousand pieces. Her soft face and the finely defined features of her body do not help matters, indeed giving one the feeling that they were formed by the fingers of an artist. Many would see her as a weak and vulnerable woman if they judged by appearance only.
If one had a more trained eye, they'd be able to note her muscles were developed, after all. Developed enough to give her some strength, but small enough to not be overtly notable. Even with that fact, if an average human male were to grasp her while she was unarmed, she would not be able to escape with simple types of struggle. Her ice maiden blood gives her the height of around 5'3" and a light weight. If it weren't for the fact she had taken the time to develop what was in her opinion the perfect amount of muscles, she would probably only weigh a bit over 100 lbs.
Her silky straight hair is a pale blond, almost white, tone which reaches justpast her waist past her jawline. Most often she prefers to have it pulled back in a loose ponytail or up in a loose bun one side tucked behind her ear. Her smooth skin is a pale creamy tone, which results from the fact she can't really get a tan without risking her life. With an interesting blue gray eye color on all the pale tones of her body, her eyes are usually the first thing people notice. The last note worthy aspect of her body itself is that she likes to keep her nails a bit long, a potential means of defense if necessary.
As far as her wardrobe is concerned, Lena favors black ribbons or bows to keep her hair back or up loosely, since she likes strands to frame her face. On the left side of her hair, she always wears two soft pink hair clips unless she's disguising herself. They are the only two things she escaped from her homeland with aside from her life. Much like her body itself, the hair clips are always cold to touch. Her job usually requires that she wear dark tones, but she enjoys bright and vibrant tones when she can. As far as her style of clothing, it varies greatly. She obviously likes diversity.
Personality: No one's really sure the true colors of Lena's personality, since she's constantly switching facades as she's assigned missions. When not doing any activities that require a total remodel of her personality, she tends to be quiet and observant. One may be led to believe from her silence that she was timid and shy, but her eyes gleam with awareness. The truth of the matter is that she finds people peculiar and interesting, preferring to observe their actions and reactions to things. She is able to study people no matter what kind of mask she wears.
When she does speak, it is usually just loud enough for the person she is addressing to catch her words. Because of this, she is often soft spoken, but it'd be foolish to take her soft tone as any sort of submission or bashful behavior. She often bears a hint of lurking ferocity with an air of wildness to her, which is probably the reason most people aren't foolish enough to misjudge her.
She's usually a very straight forward woman, preferring to get to the heart of matters instead of beating around the bush. She says what she wishes, when she wishes. Luckily, she's clever enough to be defiant in her own way while keeping on the good side of the Manalists. After all, her job usually involves getting on the good side of people and gaining their trust.
Th side of Lena that most don't see is the one that feeds stray animals and enjoys indulging her sweet tooth. She often sings or hums whenever she's alone. In the mornings, she is cranky and snappy. She's one to hold an open mind and enjoy discussion, which isn't something she often tastes due to the oppression of the world. When all is said and done, she actually does have a good heart, even if one would have to dig some to find it.
Story: There once existed another place known as Iceland, located in a part of Antarctica were most other species could not survive. Temperatures reached below negative a hundred degrees in these lands, a place where an average human could probably only survive about twenty minutes. This was where her Ice Maiden village thrived, a place completely cut off from the rest of civilization. As a result, their culture was very primitive.
Instead of the oppression of women that existed in humanity's past, the oppression of men was what ruled her village's culture. Their religion revolved around the Goddesses, two young women who are said to have been the first ice maidens. They had been banished from their own mortal village when they refused to bow to any man's wishes. Seeking refuge in the winter wilderness, they traveled for miles, going farther and farther south. Eventually they came upon a place where no others lived, and their determination is said to have been able to alter their very existence. And the ice maiden race was birthed. (Like any religion, they conviently leave out things, such as how they procreated then to continue the line.)
The moon, twins, and water were all sacred in their religion, for various reasons. The moon was due to it being said that it was the representation of the Goddess's themselves, usually the same silver blue color as their eyes, but every so often the pale blond color of their hair. Water was seen as sacred simply because of the difficultly to find before they discovered fire. Due to its ideal of being sacred, being drowned was considered the most honorable death one could have.
Men were seen as taboo, something that could never equal to a woman. Because of this, women who gave birth to males often drowned them rather than face the shame of having had a son. If they did have a son, unless a new generation was needed, the priestesses would drown them themselves. The priestesses were only ever "twins", her village's idea of twins being two females born on the same day. (It was a relatively small village, and their oppression of men kept their numbers low.) Once born, they were "blessed" and trained. If there were no twins to replace the priestesses, the females born with the shortest time between them were chosen until another set of twins were born.
Much like humans though, the women of the village sometimes went against their religion, seeking males of other species outside of the village. They all had different reasons, some wanting to know the experience and if the tales of mating were true, others simply wishing to discover if men were really all that bad. Most times this occurred, the child bared no traits from the other species, so there was no suspicion. Like any good religion, the priestesses themselves sometimes turned a blind eye on these defiances, since it kept their numbers from going dangerously low.
Lena assumes her mother was one of these women, though she doesn't know the exact circumstances of her father. In truth, her mother had ran into her father while searching for water sources for the village. He was an angel who had fled from civilization, seeking a safe haven from the slaughter of his own species. Defying her religion, her mother housed the angel, giving him shelter and food. Eventually they slept together, whether it was out of loneliness or actual affection is unknown.
Before either of them were aware of her mother's pregnancy, her father moved on from the village, saying he needed to try to find his sister. He promised to return, a promise he never kept. A few weeks after he left, her mother was dismayed to find she was pregnant. Abortions or the such didn't exist then, and she actually hoped for a son, as an excuse to drown the child. She felt betrayed at the leaving of the angel who she had made love with, setting her heart on hating his child. As fate had gone though, she gave birth to a daughter... a daughter who was born on the same date as another newborn female in the village who would be named Ingrid.
Her mother's plans of drowning her child were ruined as the two children were "blessed" by the priestesses. Lena and Ingrid were bound to each other and begun their priestess training immediately. She grew to be a a spitting image of her father, and ironically enough a spitting image of what their goddesses supposedly looked like. She was loved by the village and hated by her mother, something that injured her emotions greatly. Like any child, she only sought her mother's approval and praise.
Meanwhile, the Manalist religion was covering the world and the environment was beginning its slope downward. Oblivious to this, her ice maiden village continued about its life like usual. Lena cared not that the village loved her, seeing it pointless without her own mother's love. The only other person's opinion that she cared about was Ingrid's, who she had grown very close to. The two told each other everything and villagers often joked they were glued to the hip. They both wore identical hair clips, a soft pink thing attached to the opposite side of their bangs. Lena wore hers on the left, while Ingrid wore hers on the right.
Everything would change as the young blond haired girl reached puberty, though. Wings begun to sprout out of her back, a gift to her from her angel blood. Scared and confused, she hid them from everyone but Ingrid, who thought they were awfully beautiful. Thanks to her cleverness, she was able to hide them successfully for four years until she was sixteen, terrified that she would be banished. Unfortunately for the poor girl, her mother decided on an off chance to visit with the two and see how they were doing. She caught Ingrid and Lena laying together like lovers, Lena's wings spread behind her, resting lazily. It had simply never occurred to Lena's mother that she may grow wings like her father, but she finally had the excuse she had longed for since discovering her pregnancy.
Running to the priestesses, her mother informed them of what she had seen, who discovered the two just as her mother had. They decided not to banish Lena, as she was obviously blessed in their eyes, even if she is mixed blood. Instead, they decided to cleanse Lena by ridding her of her mixed blood. Which, in their eyes, meant ridding her of the thing that made her different. Her wings were stripped and ripped from her back, leaving the two parallel scars that run down each side of her back in present day. They give the appearance of surgical scars, instead of the barbaric reality. She believes they never grew back for the same reason she lost the natural healing abilities an ice maiden should be able to give.
As for Ingrid, they decided to deal with her after the relocation of the village. You see, during this time they have been facing an increasing problem. Their environment was becoming more and more unstable, turning into a place where they could not survive. The day after Lena's mother's discovery of them was the day they would begin the search for new lands, and the priestesses decided it best not to be put off for such a trivial matter.
At midnight that night, Ingrid awoke Lena and begged her to run away with her to the outside world. They had heard stories of the outside world, horrible stories and beautiful stories. Lena agreed, because both of them would risk anything in order to stay together. To this day, she knows not the fate of her village, nor does she really care.
As fate would have it, they did made it to civilization, and joined an organization that valued religion and peace. Lena wished to help people, never wishing anyone to feel how she had by never receiving her mother's love. They both believed people should be allowed to find their own path in life, to make their own decisions for every aspect of their life. Lena also met a man who she begun to have emotions similar to what she felt for Ingrid, but all of that was torn from her. While she had been out, the organization was destroyed and its members captured, including her "twin."
Months that felt like years crawled by before she was able to track the people who had taken Ingrid from her. She integrated herself into their system, patiently waiting while more months crawled by. Finally, she found Ingrid, tortured and alone in a cell. Despite her careful planning, her getaway plan fell through, and she fought like a mad woman to escape from the place with Ingrid. Unfortunately, Ingrid was injured in the fight... She died three dies later, taking the pink hair clip that she amazingly still had and clipping it under Lena's matching one.
Stricken with grief and lack of reasoning, Lena returned to the place where Ingrid had been held, seeking the man who struck the fatal blow to Ingrid. Knowing the layout, she was able to make it to the armory and pick up a variety of blades. Eventually, she was discovered, and it became more of a fight for her life than revenge. She doesn't remember many details of the whole ordeal, mostly because she had been relying on instincts and it all happened so fast.
She does remember perfectly well when she had been drenched in the blood of others mixed with her own, and a group of soldiers burst into the room yelling at her to drop her weapon. As it turned out, the group had been Manalist soldiers, there to bust an illegal organization that was searching for other sources of energy besides Manalist crystals much like Sampo. This organization had been an underground one with no cover, which is how it was discovered.
Lena pieced together that the whole reason her "twin" was taken was because they had somehow discovered she was an ice maiden, and wished to see if the crystals she cried could be a replacement. Apparently they weren't aware there was two, since they hadn't tried for Lena. After telling the Manalist soldiers her story, or at least a version close enough to the truth, they were impressed. They offered her a job with the Invisible Hand as a spy, and on occasion, assassin. Or she could choose death.
She isn't sure why, but she choose to work for them though at the time she saw no real point in continuing her life. It has been six years since then, during which time she has received some formal education and training. Due to her particular type of missions, she often moves around, which suits her fine enough. Her jobs may last from a day to a few months, since it is rarely as simple as sneaking in a location for some files. Most times she slips into the life of whoever she requires the information from, gaining their trust, and with that the key to acquiring the information she was sent to discover.
Lena does not always tell the full truth to the Manalist about what she discovers, sometimes keeping the information to herself. She tells enough to keep them happy, or something to save the life of whoever she's investigating. The last reason is a rare one, since people she considers saving rarely show up in her line of work. Often she is sent after people who only care about doing something the Manalist dislike for personal gain.
Name: Lena Eva Aysel, goes by Eva as an alias
Age: Twenty-two (22)
Race: Caucasian
Fantasy Race: 1/2 Ice Maiden, 1/2 Angel
Ethnicity: Listed as Icelandic
Nationality: To match her ethnicity she is listed as hailing from Iceland, though where she was actually birthed is an entirely different kind of Iceland, located in Antarctica. As one might guess, her Iceland is no longer inhabitant after the environment took the deep slope downward.
Economic Class: Working Class
Gender Identity: Female
Sexuality: Unclear
Political Belief: Existentialist, Environmentalist
Religious Belief: Accepts the general ideals of the Manalist religion such as capability, self reliance, responsibility, and survival. Despite not believing so much in the religion itself, she claims to be a devote follower like everyone else who does not relish the thought of spending precious time in a filthy cell. She still follows some customs of her own specie's religion, either out of habit or because she still holds it dear.
Organization: The Invisible Hand
Occupation: Deals mostly in infiltration, occasionally elimination. (Spy/assassin)
Skills:
∙ Deceit
∙ Stealth
∙ Agility
∙ Proficient with a wide variety of weaponry, most adept with blades of small sizes and close combat.
∙ Singing
Weaknesses:
∙ Loves animals and cares deeply about the environment
∙ Heat, average temperature does not hinder her too much, but as the temperature rises her health suffers. If she stays outside for too long in temperatures above 90° Fahrenheit, it could be fatal.
∙ Terrified of large bodies of water.
∙ Race not meant to be physically strong.
Powers: Both of Lena's abilities come from her ice maiden blood, the first being the reason that she's stumbled down this path on her life. When she cries, her tears begin to harden into small oval shaped crystals once oxygen touches them. By the time they leave her face, they are beautiful things as hard as diamonds. Their shade is the same entrancing color as her eyes, a gray blue that sparkles in the light. They are worth much money to those who are even aware of their existence due to their rarity.
Her second ability is the power to spread frost through her hands. With this, she is able to turn amounts of water into ice by soaking the water up with her hands. Alternatively, she could spread a layer of ice over something. This is helpful since the ice is cold enough burn, though the spread is at a speed which someone would be easily able to break away before it became fatal. In a pinch, she could spread the ice over her hands to make a barrier of sorts. This renders whichever hand is frozen useless except as a shield until the ice begins to melt and becomes flimsy enough to break, which is why she prefers not to.
Weapon: Whatever gets the job done.
Appearance: A frail, young woman who appears barely legal, Lena is a large reminder that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Both her heritages are to thank for her thin, fragile appearing body, as if a fall would smash her into a thousand pieces. Her soft face and the finely defined features of her body do not help matters, indeed giving one the feeling that they were formed by the fingers of an artist. Many would see her as a weak and vulnerable woman if they judged by appearance only.
If one had a more trained eye, they'd be able to note her muscles were developed, after all. Developed enough to give her some strength, but small enough to not be overtly notable. Even with that fact, if an average human male were to grasp her while she was unarmed, she would not be able to escape with simple types of struggle. Her ice maiden blood gives her the height of around 5'3" and a light weight. If it weren't for the fact she had taken the time to develop what was in her opinion the perfect amount of muscles, she would probably only weigh a bit over 100 lbs.
Her silky straight hair is a pale blond, almost white, tone which reaches just
As far as her wardrobe is concerned, Lena favors black ribbons or bows to keep her hair back or up loosely, since she likes strands to frame her face. On the left side of her hair, she always wears two soft pink hair clips unless she's disguising herself. They are the only two things she escaped from her homeland with aside from her life. Much like her body itself, the hair clips are always cold to touch. Her job usually requires that she wear dark tones, but she enjoys bright and vibrant tones when she can. As far as her style of clothing, it varies greatly. She obviously likes diversity.
Personality: No one's really sure the true colors of Lena's personality, since she's constantly switching facades as she's assigned missions. When not doing any activities that require a total remodel of her personality, she tends to be quiet and observant. One may be led to believe from her silence that she was timid and shy, but her eyes gleam with awareness. The truth of the matter is that she finds people peculiar and interesting, preferring to observe their actions and reactions to things. She is able to study people no matter what kind of mask she wears.
When she does speak, it is usually just loud enough for the person she is addressing to catch her words. Because of this, she is often soft spoken, but it'd be foolish to take her soft tone as any sort of submission or bashful behavior. She often bears a hint of lurking ferocity with an air of wildness to her, which is probably the reason most people aren't foolish enough to misjudge her.
She's usually a very straight forward woman, preferring to get to the heart of matters instead of beating around the bush. She says what she wishes, when she wishes. Luckily, she's clever enough to be defiant in her own way while keeping on the good side of the Manalists. After all, her job usually involves getting on the good side of people and gaining their trust.
Th side of Lena that most don't see is the one that feeds stray animals and enjoys indulging her sweet tooth. She often sings or hums whenever she's alone. In the mornings, she is cranky and snappy. She's one to hold an open mind and enjoy discussion, which isn't something she often tastes due to the oppression of the world. When all is said and done, she actually does have a good heart, even if one would have to dig some to find it.
Story: There once existed another place known as Iceland, located in a part of Antarctica were most other species could not survive. Temperatures reached below negative a hundred degrees in these lands, a place where an average human could probably only survive about twenty minutes. This was where her Ice Maiden village thrived, a place completely cut off from the rest of civilization. As a result, their culture was very primitive.
Instead of the oppression of women that existed in humanity's past, the oppression of men was what ruled her village's culture. Their religion revolved around the Goddesses, two young women who are said to have been the first ice maidens. They had been banished from their own mortal village when they refused to bow to any man's wishes. Seeking refuge in the winter wilderness, they traveled for miles, going farther and farther south. Eventually they came upon a place where no others lived, and their determination is said to have been able to alter their very existence. And the ice maiden race was birthed. (Like any religion, they conviently leave out things, such as how they procreated then to continue the line.)
The moon, twins, and water were all sacred in their religion, for various reasons. The moon was due to it being said that it was the representation of the Goddess's themselves, usually the same silver blue color as their eyes, but every so often the pale blond color of their hair. Water was seen as sacred simply because of the difficultly to find before they discovered fire. Due to its ideal of being sacred, being drowned was considered the most honorable death one could have.
Men were seen as taboo, something that could never equal to a woman. Because of this, women who gave birth to males often drowned them rather than face the shame of having had a son. If they did have a son, unless a new generation was needed, the priestesses would drown them themselves. The priestesses were only ever "twins", her village's idea of twins being two females born on the same day. (It was a relatively small village, and their oppression of men kept their numbers low.) Once born, they were "blessed" and trained. If there were no twins to replace the priestesses, the females born with the shortest time between them were chosen until another set of twins were born.
Much like humans though, the women of the village sometimes went against their religion, seeking males of other species outside of the village. They all had different reasons, some wanting to know the experience and if the tales of mating were true, others simply wishing to discover if men were really all that bad. Most times this occurred, the child bared no traits from the other species, so there was no suspicion. Like any good religion, the priestesses themselves sometimes turned a blind eye on these defiances, since it kept their numbers from going dangerously low.
Lena assumes her mother was one of these women, though she doesn't know the exact circumstances of her father. In truth, her mother had ran into her father while searching for water sources for the village. He was an angel who had fled from civilization, seeking a safe haven from the slaughter of his own species. Defying her religion, her mother housed the angel, giving him shelter and food. Eventually they slept together, whether it was out of loneliness or actual affection is unknown.
Before either of them were aware of her mother's pregnancy, her father moved on from the village, saying he needed to try to find his sister. He promised to return, a promise he never kept. A few weeks after he left, her mother was dismayed to find she was pregnant. Abortions or the such didn't exist then, and she actually hoped for a son, as an excuse to drown the child. She felt betrayed at the leaving of the angel who she had made love with, setting her heart on hating his child. As fate had gone though, she gave birth to a daughter... a daughter who was born on the same date as another newborn female in the village who would be named Ingrid.
Her mother's plans of drowning her child were ruined as the two children were "blessed" by the priestesses. Lena and Ingrid were bound to each other and begun their priestess training immediately. She grew to be a a spitting image of her father, and ironically enough a spitting image of what their goddesses supposedly looked like. She was loved by the village and hated by her mother, something that injured her emotions greatly. Like any child, she only sought her mother's approval and praise.
Meanwhile, the Manalist religion was covering the world and the environment was beginning its slope downward. Oblivious to this, her ice maiden village continued about its life like usual. Lena cared not that the village loved her, seeing it pointless without her own mother's love. The only other person's opinion that she cared about was Ingrid's, who she had grown very close to. The two told each other everything and villagers often joked they were glued to the hip. They both wore identical hair clips, a soft pink thing attached to the opposite side of their bangs. Lena wore hers on the left, while Ingrid wore hers on the right.
Everything would change as the young blond haired girl reached puberty, though. Wings begun to sprout out of her back, a gift to her from her angel blood. Scared and confused, she hid them from everyone but Ingrid, who thought they were awfully beautiful. Thanks to her cleverness, she was able to hide them successfully for four years until she was sixteen, terrified that she would be banished. Unfortunately for the poor girl, her mother decided on an off chance to visit with the two and see how they were doing. She caught Ingrid and Lena laying together like lovers, Lena's wings spread behind her, resting lazily. It had simply never occurred to Lena's mother that she may grow wings like her father, but she finally had the excuse she had longed for since discovering her pregnancy.
Running to the priestesses, her mother informed them of what she had seen, who discovered the two just as her mother had. They decided not to banish Lena, as she was obviously blessed in their eyes, even if she is mixed blood. Instead, they decided to cleanse Lena by ridding her of her mixed blood. Which, in their eyes, meant ridding her of the thing that made her different. Her wings were stripped and ripped from her back, leaving the two parallel scars that run down each side of her back in present day. They give the appearance of surgical scars, instead of the barbaric reality. She believes they never grew back for the same reason she lost the natural healing abilities an ice maiden should be able to give.
As for Ingrid, they decided to deal with her after the relocation of the village. You see, during this time they have been facing an increasing problem. Their environment was becoming more and more unstable, turning into a place where they could not survive. The day after Lena's mother's discovery of them was the day they would begin the search for new lands, and the priestesses decided it best not to be put off for such a trivial matter.
At midnight that night, Ingrid awoke Lena and begged her to run away with her to the outside world. They had heard stories of the outside world, horrible stories and beautiful stories. Lena agreed, because both of them would risk anything in order to stay together. To this day, she knows not the fate of her village, nor does she really care.
As fate would have it, they did made it to civilization, and joined an organization that valued religion and peace. Lena wished to help people, never wishing anyone to feel how she had by never receiving her mother's love. They both believed people should be allowed to find their own path in life, to make their own decisions for every aspect of their life. Lena also met a man who she begun to have emotions similar to what she felt for Ingrid, but all of that was torn from her. While she had been out, the organization was destroyed and its members captured, including her "twin."
Months that felt like years crawled by before she was able to track the people who had taken Ingrid from her. She integrated herself into their system, patiently waiting while more months crawled by. Finally, she found Ingrid, tortured and alone in a cell. Despite her careful planning, her getaway plan fell through, and she fought like a mad woman to escape from the place with Ingrid. Unfortunately, Ingrid was injured in the fight... She died three dies later, taking the pink hair clip that she amazingly still had and clipping it under Lena's matching one.
Stricken with grief and lack of reasoning, Lena returned to the place where Ingrid had been held, seeking the man who struck the fatal blow to Ingrid. Knowing the layout, she was able to make it to the armory and pick up a variety of blades. Eventually, she was discovered, and it became more of a fight for her life than revenge. She doesn't remember many details of the whole ordeal, mostly because she had been relying on instincts and it all happened so fast.
She does remember perfectly well when she had been drenched in the blood of others mixed with her own, and a group of soldiers burst into the room yelling at her to drop her weapon. As it turned out, the group had been Manalist soldiers, there to bust an illegal organization that was searching for other sources of energy besides Manalist crystals much like Sampo. This organization had been an underground one with no cover, which is how it was discovered.
Lena pieced together that the whole reason her "twin" was taken was because they had somehow discovered she was an ice maiden, and wished to see if the crystals she cried could be a replacement. Apparently they weren't aware there was two, since they hadn't tried for Lena. After telling the Manalist soldiers her story, or at least a version close enough to the truth, they were impressed. They offered her a job with the Invisible Hand as a spy, and on occasion, assassin. Or she could choose death.
She isn't sure why, but she choose to work for them though at the time she saw no real point in continuing her life. It has been six years since then, during which time she has received some formal education and training. Due to her particular type of missions, she often moves around, which suits her fine enough. Her jobs may last from a day to a few months, since it is rarely as simple as sneaking in a location for some files. Most times she slips into the life of whoever she requires the information from, gaining their trust, and with that the key to acquiring the information she was sent to discover.
Lena does not always tell the full truth to the Manalist about what she discovers, sometimes keeping the information to herself. She tells enough to keep them happy, or something to save the life of whoever she's investigating. The last reason is a rare one, since people she considers saving rarely show up in her line of work. Often she is sent after people who only care about doing something the Manalist dislike for personal gain.
