Gerda Úldurfsdottir

Gerda - coloured pencil, pencil, and ink

Gerda was a charachter that I thought up all by myself for a larp. Usually that doesn't happen in a larp but I was one of the GMs of the game. It was a vampire larp, the setting came from Vampire the Masquerade, so the vampire clans and sects are the same as in Vampire the Masquerade RPG. It was not the first larp I "hosted" but it was the first larp I could invent my very own charachter and be a GM. The first time I was a GM was actually a part two in a series of larps so I played the charachter I had in the first game.

Gerda is quite a typical clan Malkavian vampire. Malkavians are the lunatics of the vampires. They are honestly crazy and their craziness can from one malkavian to another: one can have two personalities while another might see huge and slimy talking slugs in random places. Gerda's speciality was talking with objects. If you have the chance, do play a pc-game called Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, it shows the difference between vampire clans. For instance if you play the game through with a malkavian you can argue with a stop sign.  However, the malkavian madness isn't necessarily just a bad thing: they can see things from a different point pf view and come up with surprising solutions for difficult situations.

I used ink, pencil, and coloured pencils in this picture. I actually startet drawing this picture in a train and you should have seen the look on the conductor's face when he saw the picture. The larp was held during the winter and thank god it was situated indoors because otherwise I would have frozen with those clothes.