Ingrid Grimwall

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**Ingrid Grimwall** is one of the 16 students of Eden's Garden Academy and a participant of the Killing Game featured in Project: Eden's Garden. She is the Ultimate Blacksmith, and her animal motif is the **lion**.

## Biography

**"Forging the sharpest steel in the fires of her backyard, Ingrid was determined to brand her mark in history with her weapons. While most wars are fought today with ranged weapons, the Ultimate Blacksmith finds beauty in melee weapons of old, in both their shapes and fighting-styles. Great patience and attention to detail is required to forge the blades of warriors past, and those made by Ingrid are sure to slice cleanly through your opponents (or just look good hanging over a fireplace)."**
## Appearance

Ingrid is a young woman of very tall stature and muscular build. She has pale white skin with reddish-brown eyes. She also has short peach-colored hair that is combed to the right.

Ingrid wears a dark-brown apron with straps over her shoulders. Underneath her apron is a white shirt with a red tie. Tied around her apron is a brown handbag with a lion face imprinted on it. She also wears light-brown gloves.

Ingrid wears short tan pants with a white leaf pattern on them. She also has tall, light-brown boots as footwear.

## Personality

Ingrid is a kind woman with an enthuastic and friendly demanor, especially when talking about her interests, with her introduction to Damon and his group being one of the most energetic out of all the Ultimates. Ingrid is also very optimistic, with her suggestion that the kidnapping of the 16 Ultimates, including her, was a surprise excursion, much to Damon's irritation. In combination with these attributes, Ingrid has a very motherly-like personality, despite only being 18, occasionally calling people "hun" or "darlin'" as a form of an enderament, including to Damon. However, when Damon rants near the end of the Prologue about how most Ultimates have useless talents, Ingrid expresses her disappointment in Damon, not unlike the sternness of a disappointed mother. On top of this, she has a protectiveness to those she cares about. In the same scene, when Eva calls out Wolfgang for making the cast more vulnerable to murder by getting them to blindly trust each other, Ingrid immediately defends Wolfgang. While Eva suggests Wolfgang was possibly trying to make everyone vulnerable so it would be easier to kill them, Ingrid insists he did nothing wrong, and was only giving everyone a voice of confidence. With all of this in mind, Ingrid is shown to be a very affectionate and protective person who loves talking to people and also taking care of them in need.

As stated above, Ingrid has a very keen interest in smithing as the Ultimate Blacksmith. In her introduction, Ingrid not only happily talks about what she does as an Ultimate, but even has a level of strong confidence in her talent. When Eva questions whether her job has been made redundant by technology, Ingrid assetively states that she thinks she's better than a machine, as her creations involve the human touch. Damon is even jealous of her confident nature, as he has yet to be compared to a machine, showing that while Ingrid is proud of herself, she's not arrogant about it and can easily vouch about her skills in a way Damon can't.

On the other hand, Ingrid's obsession with her hobby also lead to some rather skewed priorities. During the investigation of Cara's murder, Ingrid casually mentions she uses illegal substances to clean her weaponry, as they do the job better due to less regulations about toxic chemicals, showing her love of metalworking can lead to her even breaking the law. During Cara's trial, when it's brought up how the killer didn't use the assault rifle found near the victim's body despite everyone initially assuming it belonged to the killer, with them instead using the knife to kill the victim, Ingrid states with a smile on her face that "Nothin' beats the sting of a sharpened blade". Despite the seriousness of the situation, Ingrid imagines that the gun didn't even work and that the knife was the surperior weapon, even though her statement is based more on her biased opinion rather than factual evidence, as lampshaded by Kai. While her obsesstion with blacksmithing can be concerning at times, she also has an enthuastic confidence in her talent some other Ultimates lack.

## Quotes

### Chapter 0:

* "My name is Ingrid Grimwall, and I am the Ultimate Blacksmith!"
* "Not just swords, but tools, armor, statues... If you can name it, I can forge it. It's never an easy undertaking, I will admit. Sprained muscles are par for the course, but... The same way climbing a mountain is painstaking, but reaching the top delivers a high you can never forget......the struggle is all worth it for the outcome. Teehee!"
* "Against modern machines, it's true I'm not an equal match... Because...I think I'm better than them! Those hunks of metal may look cool, but their creations lack the human touch. You gotta keep things natural, traditional...that's when amazing things happen. If my creation touches the heart, it's better than anything made by machine — imperfections be damned!"
* "Hmm, maybe it's a surprise excursion? Better yet, a surprise exam. The people running this program are just puttin' our abilities to the test!"
* "Well, you know...whatever it is, I'm sure we'll get out of here!"
* "Old chemicals do the job better, since there were fewer regulations on what's 'poisonous' and all that. Just don't ask where I got 'em. Don't want to alert the fuzz, heheh."
* "Nothin' beats the sting of a sharpened blade!"
* "I bet that gun didn't even work. These days, it's all about aesthetics over effectiveness!"
* "Wolfie's done nothing wrong. He's given us all a vote of confidence."
* "I'm disappointed in you... How are ya so concerned about makin' yourself look good when we're in the middle of a death game?"

## Name Etymology

"Ingrid" is a Scandinavian name often associated with "fairness" and "beauty", which could correlate with Ingrid's percieved attractiveness, although not in the traditional sense due to her muscular and tall appearance. There's not much history behind the name "Grimwall" in particiular, although it's familiar to the name "Grimwald", which is a German name which means "power" or "authority", possibly referring to Ingrid's build or mother-like personality.

## Trivia

* Ingrid has a Texan accent, which is used in combination with Southern slang and a way of speaking, showing she likely grew up in Texas, or has ancestors from there.