Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello and welcome to explorers of elsewhere's Meet the crew series. Hi. I am DM dad. And I am joined today with the wonderful, magnificent Meg. Hello. Hello.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: I'm the crew.
[00:00:16] Speaker A: You are all of the crew.
Yes.
We're chugging through, and this will be our fourth revealings.
We've had some consummate masterminds. We've had some weird and eccentric casters.
I feel something that we've been sorely missing is some raw, unbridled, brute strength. So, with that in mind, Meg, please, could you tell us everything we need to know about Frida?
[00:00:56] Speaker B: Yes. So, Frida is a wolf kin.
So as Dan's previously mentioned in other episodes, which you'll have to go back and watch, the wolf kin, as a people, are very passionate, very headstrong, and I thought that would pair really quite nicely like a bottle of Chianti with the.
Yeah, Frida is a cutter. Who is the fighty person?
And I'm definitely styling her as a sort of muscle. Mummy answers with a fist first kind of. Kind of gal.
[00:01:44] Speaker A: Yeah. It's not like sometimes some people will be like, violence now, questions later. But I think I get the idea that Frida is a bit like violence now. Violence also later.
[00:01:59] Speaker B: Yes, pretty much, yeah.
I think personality wise, quite dry, quite forthright, with a little bit of sarky undertones at times.
She doesn't do very well with authority.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: I mean, sounds very like a distant call from who you were playing in year.
[00:02:33] Speaker B: So, yeah, Addie was very flowery. Well, not that flowery, but Addie could be quite flowery. Quite eager to please the people around her. Not Frida. Frida couldn't give you sausages. What? Anyone?
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Sure?
Okay, so, yeah, we have this picture painted of a very kind of straightforward and aggressively to the point kind of person. Was there any inspiration or anything in particular that influenced you to create Frida, as we know?
[00:03:16] Speaker B: So on your recommendation, actually, I got quite into watching the series arcane on Netflix, based on league of legends. So I think there's a little bit of Vi in there. Definitely.
There's a little bit of the, like, oh, gosh, what's her name? The female hentrum. Yeah, that's the one. There's a little bit of that, I think sort of humor and personality wise, there's a little bit of, like, Nessa from Gavin and Stacey and maybe an accent to match. I haven't quite decided yet, but I might subject the masses to my terrible welsh accent.
Yeah, I think those. And maybe, like. I don't know. I've started watching Peaky Blinders. I watched it like, ages and ages ago and I don't think I ever finished the series, but I'm sort of going back through that and sort of picking up little inspos here and there on that as.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Whole?
There's that scene in arcane, isn't there, between Vi and Sevika towards the end of the series and just watching that.
Yeah, I can imagine if that's the sort of thing that Frieda's going to be catching up, like getting herself caught up with.
Yeah. That's going to keep everything kind of ticking along.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I'd say one thing to say about Frida is although she's aggressive and although she's very, like, I guess, quite violent, she's not stupid. I don't foresee her as a stupid character. I think actually she's got quite.
Especially when it comes to people, she can kind of cut through the bull crap a little bit.
But, yeah, I'm so excited.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Amazing. I mean, what is it in Frida's past that's kind of led her to be the kind of person she is?
[00:05:30] Speaker B: Okay, so, yeah, there's a few things. So Frida sort of comes from. Well, we don't really know her full history. So she was sort of dropped off at the doorstop of a church as a baby and sort of doesn't really have much connection to her sort of previous family before that.
And kind of, I guess, as a child, sort of fell into the wrong hands.
Ended up growing up in a bit of a workhouse setting, like the victorian workhouse settings, and kind of has very much had to fight to survive her whole life, really.
Sort of fell into fighting rings and things like that as a teenager in order to make coin to survive.
And, yeah, got involved in those sort of underworld circles at an early age in Alicia. So it's brought her up to be very scrappy street wise, but not in a way that has left too much of a chip on her shoulder.
I'd say she's been molded by her circumstance, but she's not a victim of her circumstance.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: So, yeah, you mentioned sort of like the workhouses that Frida grew up with.
I assume we're looking at Alicia's lesser known indentured kind of factory spaces, right?
[00:07:05] Speaker B: Yeah. So Frida grew up in a place called Dustry Hill, very much known as the industrial area of Alicia. And this is even before the eschaton and before the great bubbling, it was already known as a pretty rundown, sketchy area in places. And, yeah, Frida grew up in a, you know, if you want to get a flavour of that, like, think proper victorian Britain, Oliver twist type vibes.
And, yeah, essentially she was plucked from the church, put into the workhouse, overseen by this delightful gent called Caleb McNulty. And I say that with all the drippings of sarcasm because it turns out he was quite the evangelist. So his sort of business model for his workhouse was for every year of care that he placed on his workers or the orphans that he picked up. They would then have to pay back a year per year of work and labor. So that meant that Frida, in her younger childhood days, would have spent a lot of time sitting in incredibly boring and incredibly preachy sermons, like evangelicalized sermons, and then a lot of know, teenage and later years essentially laboring on factory floors.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: Yeah, that sounds rough. Yeah, I could imagine why Frieda would want to get out of that. Which from, as I understand it, she was about to.
Moments before the bubble happened.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: Well, yeah, that's the thing. So when I'd say Frida was in a sort of early to late know, because the only way to really make money was to do crime, because the workhouse ain't going to pay for you. The way they see it, they're already playing your room and board and they'd already paid for your care for sort of 14 plus years.
So, yeah, she sort of falls in with the fighting rings, manages to build up quite a princely Sum alongside her sort of long term friend and confident, really, chap called Joshua Ormond, who is genuinely quite a nice lad, even if he is a bit rough and ready around the edges.
But, yeah, she manages to sort of get that wealth together. And then as soon as she's making plans to leave Alicia behind forever, boom, the world falls apart.
[00:10:12] Speaker A: It do be like that sometimes.
[00:10:15] Speaker B: All she could do was just do more crime.
[00:10:18] Speaker A: Right, okay, so now we kind of have an idea of where she's come from over the past, kind of however long.
What has Frieda's biggest brag been? And I bet this is going to be a big brag.
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Okay, Frieda's biggest brag is being the last woman standing in a pretty notorious, and you could even say infamous, bar brawl in the middle of night market. Not nightmare. It is nightmarket, isn't it?
[00:11:02] Speaker A: It's Haverly and Duskland.
[00:11:07] Speaker B: Do you know what? I'm going to have to try and flush all of the blades in the dark name places out of my brain and sort of inject them with Alicia place names. But, yeah, so basically this massive bar brawl in the middle of heavenly and Duskland. Think like throwing chairs. Think like sort of 50 patrons just whacking each other with whatever they could get their hands on.
There's chairs over the head, there's switchblades in the ribs, and it's going on. And the city watch are called and the church are called and everyone's called.
But there she was at the end of the night, stood there battered and bloody, but still conscious. And that is why Frida is not to be trifled.
[00:12:06] Speaker A: See? Amazing.
Well, I very much look forward to the carnage that she's going to unleash on the streets of Alicia.
And if that sounds interesting to you, which hopefully it does, you should definitely make sure to catch the second campaign, Alicia Rising, which is coming up very soon. And the best way to do that is to subscribe to the channel and hit the bell icon for notifications of when we release new content, because that's going to be happening very, very frequently. We wouldn't want you to miss out.
Yeah. So thank you for watching. Thank you, Meg, for giving us a little shining a little spotlight on Frida.
[00:12:55] Speaker B: No problem at all.
[00:12:57] Speaker A: And we will see you next time, Tara. Bye.
