Vanamo & Varpunen

Vanamo and Varpunen - pencil and ink

This is one of the most interesting charachters I have ever larped. My charachter was the other half of twins and what was the most curious thing was that they shared a soul. This basically meant that when, for instance, one would get hurt, other would feel the pain too. They also constantle spoke of 'we' and 'us' and never used the word 'I'. Actually me and my friend chose the names of the charachters and came up with all kinds of little manoeuvres our charachters would do. By the way, their names in English would be Twinflower and Sparrow but they don't have the alliteration which was the basis of their names. Their soul's name was Miranda, if my memory serves me right.

Vanamo and Varpunen were... well, I wouldn't call them assassins or anything, but at the time of the larp they at least posed as a circus. Who knows what had happened before the larp began. They worshipped the Owl god and that is one  of the reasons they went out for a walk during the night (the game lasted for two days). Perhaps the funniest thing in the game was making other people confused. For instance, we clearly stated that Varpunen could read and Vanamo could write but we weren't able to learn the other's ability. We also sang this song of a crow gettin killed and we called one charachter a crow during the whole game.

As we pretended to be a circus, we of course held a show in which we actually juggled and did acrobatic tricks. I have a background of apparatus gymnastics, so I was glad to show a few tricks as well as how to make a split. Also the situation in the picture actually happened, because we had honestly practiced this pose. My charachter is the bottom one. I used ink and pencils in this picture and it took quite a while to figure out, how I was going to draw this pose.