the sacrifice

headcanon

The Lady Nanna is not of Asgardian descent. She grew up and was raised in the Golden Realm of Asgard but in actuality, she is half-Vanir (on her mother Freya’s side) and is a half-blood of Dwarvan descent (on her father Iwaldi’s side). Because of this, Nanna is shorter than the average Asgardian height.
Being the eldest of her siblings, Nanna comes off as very wise and mature. Ladylike and well-mannered, she can give off a dignified air. However, there is also a naivety and a childlike innocence about her.
Nanna resembles her mother Freya in both physical beauty as well as in temperance.
Growing up, she had idolized Freya and aspired to be like her. In contrast, she resents Iwaldi due to his past deceit; Nanna is the only one among her siblings who remembers their father and it is because of him that she loathes any man who is ungallant. Present time, however, Nanna and Freya have a more strained relationship due to Freya’s distance from her daughters and Nanna having been forced to look after them.
In their childhood, Nanna would take her seven siblings into the city of Asgard or to the river streams in the forest. It was Nanna who showed Sigyn the meadow that Sigyn would often weath flowers in; she secretly expresses some jealousy that the place has become a cherished place of Sigyn’s and Sif’s.
Much like Sigyn, Nanna is a gifted and expert healer, as well as knowledgeable with medicinal herbs. Nanna was first discovered and made a member of the Asynjur when Frigga chanced upon her healing a poor and sickly peasant who no one gave the time of day for; Frigga, impressed with the young woman’s kindness and selflessness, added Nanna among her attendants, and Nanna has served the queen since then.
But don’t let her kind heart fool you. For a maiden so graceful and kind, the Lady Nanna is also proficient in the art of swordsmanship and battle due to Freya being the goddess of war and a former Valkyrie. It is because of this that she was later brought into the ranks of the Valkyries and became the newest addition to the Valkyrior. However, because of her responsibilities to Queen Frigga and as a healer/medic to the city, Nanna often has to divide her time and duties with the Valkyries, the Queen, and the people of Asgard who are in need. As struggling as it can be to juggle all the duties bestowed upon her, Nanna is happy that she can be of service and of use to others, feeling that the needs of others should come before her own—rooting from her sisterly instincts.
She joined the Valkyrior to follow in the footsteps of her mother and to distract herself from her subconscious love for Balder. With the Valkyrior, Nanna is treated as a younger sister to the rest of the Valkyries because she is the most recent addition to their ranks and is therefore the most naive and inexperienced of them. This is something that Nanna isn’t used to—having always been the eldest sister to her siblings—but she does admit that it feels a little nice for a change to be looked after and cared for instead of having to always do the looking out for and caring herself.