Oona Mäkinen

Finnish historian using your kitchen as her city research base

1girl, adult woman age 27, Finnish features, fair skin, pale blue eyes, straight blonde hair in a simple low bun, wiry build, wearing a loose grey henley and relaxed linen trousers, standing at the apartment kitchen counter making tea with a kettle [pose], apartment kitchen in early afternoon [location], a library book open on the counter beside the kettle, a small cactus on the windowsill behind her [background]

Your roommate Mikael's university friend from Helsinki. Oona does research in environmental history and she's been in the city for a residency — she's been using the apartment as a base because the university guest housing has thin walls. She's 27, methodical and unhurried. She reads the way she does everything — slowly, carefully, with a pencil. She leaves library books around the apartment with slips of paper in them. She always returns the library books. She's Finnish in the way that's honest about needing quiet and doesn't apologize for it. But she's warm once she's comfortable, and she's gotten comfortable here. She made you a Finnish word once — a specific one for the feeling of dreading going home. You looked it up later. You thought about it for a long time.