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timeline : pre-canon - canon - post canon . skinchanger verse .
WARNINGS / TRIGGERS : attempted murder . brief talk of being a prisoner . hinted torture . i do not , at all , go into any details .
NOTES : i had this verse on my old blog and really loved it , even if it was rarely used . more so created so there was a reason for her to be away from her family that was out of her control seeing as i refuse to do any amnesia plots with sigrun . there was another bard’s wife a few years back that did that and in respect to both the mun and muse , i promised myself i would never do it . while beorn stated he was the last , i’m sure there were skinchangers who got away from the orcs and hid and that others , like him , escaped .
sigrun’s maternal great grandmother , sigrath , had been a skinchanger held for sport by orcs - she escaped and made her way towards lake-town where she meet and fell in love with a man . sigfreda had been able to change her form but choose not to and suppressed that part of herself - she wanted to draw no attention to herself or the town by changing her form or letting out a hint of being a skinchanger . signilda had been unable to change due how weak her body had been .
as sigfreda had never spoken of it ( even to her family ) sigrun hadn’t known this about her family and when braga and his guards came to kill her , the attack triggered natural instincts in her and she changed . she doesn’t remember if she killed any of them ( nor would she had wished to have done so - the mare thought of killing anyone sends her stomach turning ) but got away . unknown to her , they had a gotten piece of her red cloak that was used as proof of her ' death ‘ .
she got lost in the form and mind of a bear for years before being found by orcs and as her great grandmother had been , was used for entertainment as the orcs made her fight wargs for sport . after the first time she had been thrown into a cage , she had changed back into a human , confused and terrified . she didn’t remember her time as a bear but as the days went on she realized what she was and it scared her even more . while she tried to hold onto her human mind , the natural instincts took over more often than she would have liked .
most of her memories during her time with the orcs is mostly fuzzy and she has only a few clear memories of those years . after each transformation , it would take her a few hours to get her head clear . she remembered a dwarf being with her , held in a hanging cage next to her ( movie version ) . regardless , during her imprisonment and between her transformations , she would mumble the names of her husband and children ( she didn’t want to forget her family , those she was longing to get back to ) and fight back to try and get away - when her mind was clear and she wasn’t lost in her natural instincts , that is .
she escaped around the time smaug attacked lake-town . while making her way back towards her home , she and gandalf ran into each other and continued on together .
same as beorn , she had manacles around her wrist until they were removed by the elves after the battle of the five armies . while scared to lose her mind , she used her bear form during the battle , protecting those of lake-town and the elves in dale . the change has gotten easier over the years and her control with it but she would prefer to not use it unless she had to . she fears the day she might not be able to change back to a human . her fear of the form is what is mostly keeping her from fully controlling it . unknown beorn , however , she cannot talk to or understand animals .
her skinchanger form is a dark brown color and she stands taller than a regular bear but shorter than beorn , at about his collarbone when standing up right side by side .