Ragni Stormbringer

Art by Jade-the-Tiger

Daughter of Róta the Valkyrie

### My "Magic" Touch

"I can manipulate storms...~~and I'm still learning how to control it, but besides that,~~ I also get to decide if you die or not. It's a Valkyrie thing."

### Storybook Romance Status

"Um, well, uh... maybe there's someone..."

### Oh "Curses!" Moment

"Ugh, when my storms go out of control - which happens a lot unfortunately."

### Favourite Subject

Ragnarok Sparring - "It's a given. Any fighting class is my favorite."

### Best Friends Forever After

Kjersti Frey

**Ragnhild Thora Stormbringer**, stylized as **Ragni Stormbringer**, [*she/her*, *they/them*] is the 16-year-old daughter and heiress of **Róta**, a Valkyrie from *Norse Mythology*.

At the time of the **Rebel Movement**, Ragni is attending her **Legacy Year** at Ever After High's *Mythology Program* and currently rooms with **Signy Battlebringer**. Excited for her legacy, Ragni sides with the **Royals**. She hopes to do justice for her mother when it's time for them to retire.

## Characteristics

### Personality & traits

Right off the bat, you might think that Ragni is someone that is strong, powerful, and outgoing... Well, that's partly right. Truthfully, Ragni is half of that, she is strong and powerful yes, but definitely not outgoing.

* She tends to keep to herself and only speaks when spoken or asked.
* Originally asked to room alone, but ended up with Signy.
* Still proud and excited for her destiny as a Valkyrie, but is still worried about her powers.
* Trains *excessively* both with her weapons and storm powers (often going to the Raiden twins for extra help).
* Ragni is very quiet about her sexuality and doesn't openly tell others *what* she is.

Ragni's powers are still in the area where she constantly has to concentrate so her powers don't go well wild. She's always worried she's going to hurt someone be it, family or close friends. As a result, she spends a large amount of time with the Raiden twins, Akira and Kiyomi, and Zain Chaostorm, all users of storm magic (powers?) with the main element of their power being lightning.

### Physical appearance

Ragni has long caramel-blonde hair with deep blue eyes that often say they look like the ocean and a lightly tanned skin tone. Due to the amount of lightning that she generates throughout her body, her hair is naturally frizzy; she cannot straighten it no matter what she does.

Like the other Valkyries, she has a tattoo of a pair of wings on her left forearm, though it's usually covered by her arm gauntlets. Her choice of color is purple and thus wears armor and accessories in that color and that relates to her Norse and Valkyrie heritage.

Her double-bladed ax, Styrmir is always seen on her back while Disperse is on her hand in its ring form. Because she is naturally generating lightning throughout her body, Ragni must wear gloves so she can lessen the shock she does when she touches people.

### Hobbies & Interests

#### *Pegasus Riding*

As a Valkyrie, Ragni is well-trained in the art of Riding a Pegasus.

#### *Battle Training*

Like her sisters, Ragni enjoys battle training. Unfortunately, she has a bad habit of training too much which often leads her to get hurt and Liv scolding her.

#### *Dragon Games*

Ragni never thought much about the Dragon Games. She originally only went to the practice to watch Liv but ended up bonding to the youngest of Kiyomi Raiden's dragons, a male Lightning dragon, who she names Stormchaser.

### Powers & Abilities

#### **Powers**

* **Valkyrie physiology:** Ragni's Valkyrie physiology grants her a number of abilities. However, as she is not a fully-fledged Valkyrie, some of her "Valkyrie" powers are still very weak.
	+ **Chooser of the Slain:** She is able to choose those who will die in battle and those who will win.
	+ **Death Sense:** She should be able to sense when someone's going to die.
	+ **Afterlife Transport:** Ragni can transport those who die and she chooses to Valhalla.
	+ **Semi-Immortality:** Unless wounded to the point that she cannot recover, she will be able to live forever.
	+ **Enhanced conditioning:** She possesses enhanced physical and mental conditioning beyond the peak of a human condition.
	+ **Enhanced strength**
	+ **Enhanced combat:** Through years of vigorous training both with her mother and the other current Valkyries, Ragni is extremely skilled in combat, both armed and unarmed.
* **Storm manipulation:** Ragni also inherited her mother's powers over storms, but leans more towards the lightning portion of her powers.
	+ **Storm generation:** She is capable of generating powerful storms. She often reframes from using the full potential of her powers, to avoid destroying anything or hurting anyone.
	+ **Lightning generation:** With lightning as the main source of her storm powers, Ragni focuses more on them. Even though she has control over her powers, she frequently meets up with other Storm Deity children, such as the Raiden twins, and Zain Chaostorm, for daily training.
		- **Thunderstorm generation:** Ragni has the power to generate thunderstorms, but because of the power, it makes it hard for her to control, so she doesn't try to summon thunderstorms if she can.

#### **Skillset**

* **Combat training:** She is excellent in hand-to-hand combat and can easily defend herself.
	+ **Electrokinetic combat:** Ragni has also successfully infused her lightning while fighting, which makes her a little more dangerous.
* **Ax proficiency:** She is highly skilled in wielding her ax, Styrmir. Her ax, also acts as a power restrainer, helping her limit how much power she can unleash at once.
* **Swordsmanship:** Ragni is capable in wielding a sword, but as the axe is her prime weapon, she doesn't use it much. Her sword, Disperse, is always seen on her finger in its ring form.
* **Pegasus riding**
* **Multilingual:** Ragni is able to speak Ancient and Modern Norse, Norwegian, and a bit of English. She has a heavy Norwegian accent.

## Relationships

### Friends

#### Storm Deity Kids

With her storm powers, Ragni automatically mingles with fellow Storm Deity children, in particular, the children of Rajin and Set.

### Pets

#### Allyster, pegasus

Allyster (*"defender of mankind"*) is Ragni's Pegasus, who's she had since she began her Valkyrie training. Allyster and Ragni have a lovely relationship and often watch as Liv and Calamity bicker, or try to in a Pegasus and Human way.

Allyster has a silver-gray coat with a dark silver-gray mane and tail. His wings have gradient white tips.

#### Stormchaser, dragon

Stormchaser is Ragni's dragon. Ragni wasn't looking to partake in the Dragon Games and had only come to the first practice to support her friend Liv. She ended up bonding with the son of Kiyomi's dragon, Black Beauty. Despite the unintentional bond, Ragni loves Stormchaser with her heart and adores him. Since Stormbringer is a young dragon with boundless energy, Kiyomi has to help Ragni train him.

He is a Japanese dragon with dark purple scales and light blue accents with brilliant amber eyes.

### Romance

Ragni identifies as **pansexual demiromantic**. She tends to keep her feelings to herself, not telling anyone, mostly due to how they might react.

She currently has a crush on someone, but has yet to reveal *who* that person is.

## Quotes

**Ragni:** *"Zain, think fast!" -sends a ball of lightning-*
**Zain:** *"This again? Well then, catch!"*
— Zain Chaostorm and Ragni training with "spark ball" Storm Deities Kids version of "Baseball"
## Etymology

Her full name is *Ragnhild Thora Stormbringer*.

The name *Ragnhild* is of Norse origin meaning "Goddess or Warrior". It also comes from the Old Norse name *Ragnhilr* which is composed of the elements *regin* meaning "advice, counsel" and *hildr* meaning "battle." Her nickname (and preferred name), *Ragni*, is means "Lovely Warrior" in Old Norse. The name *Thora* is the feminine variation of the name Thor, named after the Norse God of Thunder. The surname *Stormbringer* comes from the fact she has storm powers.

Her original name was *Ragnar Thorden Stormbringer*, being named after the Norse God of Thunder.

## Trivia

* Ragni is a transgender male to female. She still answers to female and gender natural pronouns.
	+ Though she is only half-transitions, due to constant training and other commitment, Ragni has yet had the final surgery.
* Her birthday is on March 3rd, making her a Pisces.
* Her Social Media name would be **@Stormbringer**.

### Notes

* Ragni was highly inspired by *How to Train Your Dragon*characters, Astrid Hofferson and Heather.
* Ragni is the third of Shadows' Mythology OCs that are transgender; the others being Vesper Divitiae and Blaze Vulcan.

## Timeline

* 28 December 2020‎: Ragni Stormbringer is posted on the Ever After High Mirror Portal Site.
* 27 June 2020: Ragni is changed to being transgender.
* 1 May 2018‎: Ragni Stormbringer is posted on the *Ever After Mythology High* Site.

## Gallery

Ragni as part of "Team Valkyrie"Ragni by the amazing Jadie!