THE BASICS OF BRUNHILDE’S BACKSTORY:
she was abandoned as a baby. she doesn’t remember the exact scenario, but she knows that she was left because of her parent’s fear of dragons. she was either given up as a sacrifice in hopes of appeasing the dragons which plagued her village or was simply left behind - helpless- as her parents fled. regardless, she remembers being a baby and coming face to face with a dragon. it sniffed her, and picked her up by the blanket that was wrapped around her, and carried her off. the dragon must have known she needed roper human care as she was delivered to the doorstep of a hermit woman.
the woman, agaithe, took her in and raised her. agaithe was a little unhinged and paranoid, but cared deeply for hilde. she was consumed with her own problems, and had a habit of forgetting about hilde, but never when it mattered. so as hilde grew up and learned to fend for herself she spent more time exploring the woods.
when she was eight years old she came upon a baby terrible terror, blind and helpless, separated form it’s nest. she returned it to it’s nest but he creature imprinted on her. as soon as it was able to fly it visited her at her cabin. she had to keep it secret from agaithe, but over time she became friends with more and more of the local dragons.
when she was thirteen she met her next dragon companion, a timberjack - clearly full grown but completely malnourished. it was pale white with red eyes and veins visible through it’s wings - an albino. it’s lack of camouflage in the forest made it difficult to hunt. so hilde hunted for the creature and brought it food until it regained it’s strength. in return she gained his loyalty, and due to his pale appearance she named him ghost.
at sixteen she decided she wanted to see the world so she left home and started to travel with her dragons. she’d ride on ghost’s back with spirk resting on her shoulders. she grew comfortable int he sky, able to walk across ghost’s expansive wings and int he cool nights where ghost has enough energy to glide, she’d event fall asleep as they flew.
as time passed and her knowledge of dragons grew, hilde decided her purpose in life was to heal sick and injured dragons. she’d leave home and fly to new places finding dragons in need, ones that had suffered wounds form attacks or traps, and help them to the best of her ability. then she’d return back to her adoptive mother to restock her supplies.
dragons saved her life, and played a large part in raising her, she see no reason why she shouldn’t do the same for them. she has no concept of dragons as ‘evil’ beings, the only people in her life that have expressed that were the people who left her die.
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