Tamsin "Lung" Alexandra Vancova

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## Personality

Nobody can say that Lung doesn’t have the best intentions. Despite her impoliteness, accidental insults, demanding nature, tendency to jump into dangerous situations without a second thought, selfishness, glaring overconfidence, and a firm belief that she will become God…. she’s still a kind girl. She thinks that helping others is the most important thing one can do. She is grateful for others and values community. In general, she’s a very happy girl, if not a bit childish, with big dreams and all the time in the world to fill them. She’s affectionate and social, but can be quite needy. If not closely monitored, she will find some way to make trouble– even if she feels bad about it afterwards.

Lung is incredibly highly-motivated. The entire world fascinates her, having never left her hometown as a child. She wants to learn everything and constantly has her nose in some outdated book or another. She rereads the same tomes over and over again and has difficulty retaining knowledge that she hasn’t utilized herself. Passing the fisher’s exam has, thus far, been her greatest accomplishment when you consider how difficult such a thing would have been for her. She has a lot of respect for other fishers, even when she doesn’t act like it, and loves pestering the older ones for stories about their quests and adventures. She has a deep love of humanity and a fierce interest in memories. Being on the Memory Sea is an absolute thrill for her, even though the novelty should have worn off by now.

## Biography

Tamsin Vlancova was born on April 14th, 20XX shortly after her twin sister, Abernathy. Vlasta, their mother, had not been expecting to have twins and was unsure of how to go about raising two babies at once. As they grew up, in an attempt to make them excel at life, she sponsored a sense of competition between the sisters, which prevented them from having a real relationship. Tamsin never felt like she knew Abernathy that well, only the perfect angel child that she presented to their parents. Tamsin retreated to books, particularly nonfiction ones, for some type of refuge from her unhappy family life and quickly became interested in science and history and the outside world. When the rare fisher would visit the tiny town of Berxley, Concordia, she was swift to pester them with a number of nonsensical questions, more based on her own imagination of what the Memory Sea was like than the facts she read in her books. At home, she simply felt like she was the surprise bonus daughter, some motivator for Abernathy to do better. Her name even meant “twin”. It was like she wasn’t her own person. She changed her name to ‘Lung’, thinking the word was pretty, in an attempt to make an identity for herself. Tamsin was who Vlasta had made, but Lung was who she really was– a grand psychologist!

As she grew older, she realized that she could not learn everything from a book. No, what she needed was a mentor! Some great explorer like the authors of the books she read who would teach her everything she needed to know! Then she would easily ascend to becoming the smartest person in the world.

Her mother grew concerned about Lung doing nothing but reading and tried harder to “inspire” her. After all, Abernathy was doing so well! Abernathy had a job! Abernathy had a boyfriend! Abernathy had prospects for the future! Lung had only the same worn books. She began to hate her life at home and began furiously studying for the fisher exam. It was the only way she could get out of Berxley and not die in an alley. After all, that’s what her mother said would happen to her if she wasn’t careful. Lung had no idea how to survive as a normal working woman after refusing to learn out of sheer spite. Perhaps… she had hurt herself in the process. So being a fisher it was!

As she studied, exclusively in the safety of her own home, she began to fall in love more with the idea of becoming a fisher as a way to help others than just a way to escape her family. She would grow and be kind and be ‘really good at emphasizing with people!’ Lung wanted to see all these things she read about for herself. When she was twenty-one, she took the test and somehow managed to pass.

Immediately after receiving her license, she struck out into the world, hoping to find a crew. She came across several on her way and did not join them for a myriad of reasons a la “we don’t need a babbling lunatic”, “we don’t need a bumbling idiot”... It got under her skin. Near Eastfall, she came across a small crew of people who seemed to be near her age. Ecstatic, she immediately asked to join and they were surprisingly receptive. They told her that she simply had to prove that she could pull her own weight. That seemed easy enough to Lung! Her task was to accompany a woman named Estella on a short trip to meet with an old friend and keep her safe. Without a second thought, Lung trailed after Estella and left the small town she had been staying in. Estella lead her to a meadow by a small cliff and told her to wait with a note, saying not to open it until the friend arrived and flounced off. Lung wondered why Estella didn’t want to meet her friend face to face, but she wasn’t going to mess up a clearly important fisher mission! Her entire career was riding on this! Estella could be a perfect mentor, after all she was observant and paid plenty of attention to her. But it was getting dark and neither Estella or the very rude so-called friend had returned. Maybe she should look at the paper, even though Estella had told her not to.

Of course, she ended up opening the paper– after all the sun was almost gone and if she didn’t now she wouldn’t be able to read it when it was dark. The paper bluntly informed her that she had never asked to see their fisher licenses and that this was important lesson. Lung conceded this and accidentally stepped off the cliff.

Although the fall was no more than seven feet, it was dark and it scared her and she landed in a pile of briars. Kept warm by her blanket of shame, she decided to stay the night in that bush and wandered to Eastfall in the morning. Her finger was swollen and hurt more than anything she had ever experienced in her sheltered little life. Thus, her next grand adventure would be to find a doctor! She painstakingly wandered through the town in search of medical attention and likely looked quite the site with her legs covered in scrapes and dried blood and her dress torn. Eventually, she found a clinic ran by Dr. Dolores Graves, whose name she simply could not pronounce correctly, and informed her in a pleased fashion that she had absolutely no money.

Well, the good doctor ended up treating her anyways. Lung happily told her the tale of her recent misfortune and Dolores mentioned that she was joining a fisher crew herself soon. Lung begged to come along, complaining about her mortal injury and insisting she needed to be monitored longer until Dolores relented. Thus, Lung ended up in Cor’s crew!

## Trivia

* Lung became a fisher because she believed that it would teach her valuable skills and because she wanted to get far away from her family.
* Although very few know her real name, she reacts incredibly negatively to being called it
* She has a small brain and carefully selects what information to retain in it. She usually chooses incorrectly.
* Bites her nails
* Desperately wants to find a mentor figure and is willing to harass anyone and everyone for scraps of knowledge that she could probably gain herself if she paid enough attention.
* Usually wears duller colors, knits, and skirts. Likes platform shoes or none at all. Wears a lot of sweatervests, sweaters, cowprint, patchwork skirts, etc.
* Much more likely to see other characters as sibling or otherwise familial figures than to see any as romantic interests, almost entire uninterested in romance
* Main love language is physical touch, closely followed by gift giving and then acts of “service” (meaning she does something that she thinks is sweet [such as tie-dying your favorite shirt] without asking)
* Has several piercings, including her bridge, septum, eyebrow, and several ear piercings
* Has a ladybug tattoo on the back of her neck with the number 333 under it