+ one 2m dwarf

[disdainfully]

Hello, this is the player of Blaine and Siiri, bringing to you a, and here it comes a guy. Though I couldn't quite part with my normal ways, so he's still taller-than-you at 2 metres (at least for the time being. He will shrink.

Say hello to Thorir T. Thorsson, aka Þórir Þráinsson Þórsson, who used to go by Thorin Oakenshield in his former life and was not only a dwarf but also a king. Since he might come with spoilers, I have an spoiler&more opt-out post for him
In this life, he (together with his wife co-)owns one of the largest local businesses in Locke, THORSSON's hardware, with three large hardware stores spread out over the city. He has six children and three grandchildren and extensive family in general and has grown up in Locke and lived there for most of his life. Right now, he's 50 years of age and busy in a lot of areas outside of the store as well. Which brings me to

PRE-CR options
- he has tons of kids between the age of 15 and 29, plus grandchildren of 1 and 4. Maybe your teenage/young adult character goes/went to school/nursery with one of them?
- speaking of family, if you want to be related to him, there are all the options. His family has a lot of Icelandic heritage and relatives, but some in the US as well.
- he's active in local politics: He has been on various school boards as a parent's representative, the store has it's fingers in all kinds of local charities/sponsors stuff, and the family is a staunch supporter of the local handball team (and its club's development).
- he went to school in Locke himself and in his mid-twenties went to college there. He also was a model in his late teens/early twenties, based in London but traveling around Europe and the world.
- lastly, you could be an employee or your business could have ties with his.

Also in case you know Thorin: Thorir is a version of him that has chilled. the eff. out. Which is understandable considering that he has had a pretty nice life so far.

Comments

[ursoreckless]

-most likely. Shou can be exceedingly gentlemanly when he wants to be and if he was in the middle of being all awestruck that one of them actually said yes to going out with him, he would def be the kind to open doors and hold their stuff and bring them gifts, that sort of thing. But then the shiny wears off or he could have had to go back home, either one.

- basically yeah. they just make sure that stuff gets filed properly and help explain stuff to clients. some of their work is for people who can't afford a real lawyer fee but need a hand with something legal. shou's whole family has money ties sob.

- Chinen is sort of a name in the Asian market so being friendly might help for the large Asian populace inside of Locke City too.

[disdainfully]

- if what ended it was that he had to get home, that would be ideal. ...Maybe Inger, then Thorir would consider it a cute episode in her life and not spend a second thought on it because she has family now?

- Sounds like they'd contract them, yeah.

- That sounds like a great reason to have contacts, actually. Have Thorir and Shou talked outside of being introduced to each other?

[ursoreckless]

- yeah him going back home to Japan and all the sobbing heartfelt poetry on his end since he IS a romantic. Or he could have wrote her a little piano piece since that's where his musical skills are inclined towards during his teen years.

- Shou tends to try not to talk business because he figures that is something his sister should handle but with her being in school in Japan, he ends up doing so in for the family in America - his uncle does all the lawyer talk anyways. But he might be someone to corner since he can't dodge forever which means I should have him show up in that open post here.

[disdainfully]

- both ffff really dramatic separation but then both of them had their own life and were teenagers so they drifted away quickly and then separated and fell out of contact?

- Now I need to figure out what Thorir could corner him about then |D Hm. I remember there being large ethnic neighbourhoods he could be thinking about starting a fourth store in one of the asian ones /scratches chin or taking over something idek /ponders

[ursoreckless]

- Yess Shou has only settled into his dramatics so it would be so possible for dramatic letters and stuff until they fell out of contact as they grew older.

- the Asian market can be hard for a non-Asian to break into. They get really particular about people so if he wanted to try to merge or move into that neighborhood, it would be possible he needs advice on how to do so. Their whole system of buying and selling is totally different than the rest of America too.

[disdainfully]

-sounds awesome let's say this happened

- Would Shou be the one that he would talk to about that or would he just corner him until someone useful shows up |D

[ursoreckless]

- he can help but he won't know everything. he can always point him to someone that won't screw him over and actually help him out though.

[disdainfully]

They can figure that out as they talk, then. If the conversation flows there. We'll see.