Greely

Greely is a major character in Animal Jam and one of the seven main Alphas that protect Jamaa. He is the Alpha of the wolves, and often tries to work alone in his fight against the Phantoms, often having the player and the other Alphas interfering with his plans. He studies the Phantoms to understand how they function and their weaknesses, often acting as a spy to research them, causing suspicion in his teammates.
==Biography ==
As the Phantoms began to invade Jamaa and seal the animals away in their Heartstones, Zios and Mira sought out the leaders of the remaining six animal species to help them fight back. One of which was Greely, the leader of the wolves, who with the others was granted magical powers and bestowed the title of Alpha. With the Alphas, the Phantom queen was fought back and the Phantoms retreated, but not without taking Zios hostage with them. Mira flew after them to save her lover, leaving the six Alphas to defend Jamaa alone.
Greely first appears at the beginning of the adventure titled The Hive, urging the player to turn back while they can. When the player runs into Cosmo at the end of the adventure and informs him of seeing Greely, the koala Alpha seems shocked to hear that he was in the Phantom Hive.
At the end of The Great Escape, the player finds Greely sitting at the balcony on the top floor of the Phantom Tower. He tells them that the Phantoms are planning on filling an active volcano with their poisonous goop, polluting all of Jamaa when it erupts. He then tells them to stay out of his way and go back the way they came. When telling Cosmo of this encounter, he is once again surprised and a bit aggravated at what his fellow Alpha is putting himself in to.
He appears once again in the volcano at the end of Greely's Inferno, scolding the player for drawing so much attention to themselves. As the Phantom King arrives to stop them and the volcano is about to erupt, Greely then tells the player to distract the King while he tries to stop the eruption. Once the Phantom King is defeated, the wolf Alpha thanks the player, telling them of an omen that a brave animal would help save Jamaa, stating that he believes they are said animal, adding an apology for being so harsh in the past. His previous attempt to stop the eruption failed, he urges the player to leave him behind and escape. He succeeds in stopping the eruption this time by using his cryokinesis to freeze the lava, seemingly sacrificing himself in the process. After escaping the volcano, the player meets up with Liza, Graham and Cosmo, telling them what happened to Greely. The three Alphas mourn his supposed loss, honoring him and the player as heroes.
In The Search for Greely, Graham sends out the player alongside a search party of monkeys to find Greely, dead or alive. While in the Phantom Vortex, the player finds out that Greely has been captured after the events of the last adventure and locked up in a large, transparent purple orb. Two Phantom Kings arrive and try to stop the player from freeing him, and after their defeat and his rescue Greely thanks the player, commenting that he didn't know there were multiple Phantom Kings. The two then escape the Phantom Vortex and run into Liza, Cosmo and Graham. However, the three accuse him of being a traitor that working with the Phantoms due to the monkey search party finding research notes about the Phantoms in his den. Greely then explains that he was working as a spy against the Phantoms, before informing them about a place where all the Phantom Kings meet called the Phantom Fortress. The other three don't believe the Phantom Fortress is real until he shows them the Phantom Beacon, a device that can track the fortresses' location that he had been caught trying to steal. Due to keeping secrets from his fellow Alphas however, Graham no longer sees Greely as a noble hero and starts to grow suspicious of him.
He appears briefly at the end of Turning the Tide, where he asks Tavie - the recently made Alpha of the dolphins - what she knows about the Phantom's plans, though she admits that she doesn't know anything. Greely then tells they player that he sympathizes with Tavie being traumatized from being imprisoned by Phantoms, as he too was traumatized by his own imprisonment.
In Battle for the Beacon, Greely appears in the small town of Hidden Hollow, defending it from the invading Phantoms who attempt to steal back to Phantom Beacon that is being stored there. After the player defeats a wave of Phantoms Greely asks them to water the Chomper Plants to trap the Phantoms in should another wave attack.
Greely very briefly appears in a hidden area in The Front Lines, telling the player that the lost earring belongs to Peck.
In The Phantom Fortress, Greely disguises himself as a sheep to infiltrate the titular fortress to free the imprisoned sheep and shut the engine down. However, they player arrives and unlocks his cell before he can put his plan into motion, and he improvises by tasking them to guide the sheep to safety instead.
In Storming the Fortress, Greely makes it to the engine room and is about to shut the fortress down until the player sets off the security alarms, much to his annoyance. He tells them to destroy the engine while he fights off the oncoming swarm of Phantoms, yet the fortress keeps moving after the engine's destruction to Greely's confusion and dread. However, the Phantom goop powering the fortress is then replaced by pink paint, and the bunny Alpha Peck appears. Greely tells her that he's been trying to track her down ever since she disappeared before the three flee the fortress just before it explodes.
When the Alphas find a mysterious pink stone, Liza, Sir Gilbert, Cosmo and Graham all agree to keep it at the Alpha Headquarters for research. Greely however believes that the stone should be returned to where they found it, stealing it from them and intending to get it back by putting it on a raft and floating it down the river. In Heart of the River, the player encounters him and he entrusts them with helping him make sure the stone and its raft are okay and defending them from the attacking Phantoms who intend to destroy the stone. When the raft is blocked by a Phantom Gate, Greely tells the player that the Phantoms are trying to ensnare the raft and guards it while they search for a valve to open the gate with. As the raft continues down the river, Greely becomes wary of how easily guiding it is and leaves to player to continue escorting it while he searches the area for any Phantoms hiding nearby. While he's gone, more Phantoms ambush the player and Peck, who has been hiding in a sack on the raft the whole time, reveals herself and helps them. Greely soon returns, exhausted from having to fight two Phantom Kings at once. Peck tells him that she agrees that the stone should be returned, and reprimands him for always insisting on doing things alone, with him promising that in the future he'll ask for help more often. After the stone is finally returned and the other Alphas give Greely their own talking-to, the stone is revealed to be the Heartstone of the sabretooth tigers and the place they found it in is the lost city of Balloosh, and the wolf Alpha comments that some discoveries are better with friends.
==Appearance==
Greely is a dark blue wolf with his underbelly, paws and tail tip being light blue. He has bushy, light blue eyebrows, a large black nose, golden eyes, and grayish-blue eyebags with three small spots of matching color under each eye. He also has angular markings on his shoulders and thighs, and the fur on the back of his head is much longer, sometimes depicted as grayish-blue. He wears a torn purple cape attached to two large, round shoulder pads connected by a chain, which are gold (though appear bronze in adventures and some artwork). He also wears a brown leather brace on his tail and two gold bands on each front leg, either having two red gems on both ore one blue gem on the top band. he has a small swirl of fur on his chin and a hole in his right ear.
==Trivia==
*Greely was named after Adolphus Washington Greely, one of the founders of the National Geographic Society.
*Greely dressing up as a sheep in The Phantom Fortress is a nod to the idiom "a wolf in sheep's clothing".
*According to the National Geographic Kids magazine, Greely likes films about wolves and 3D action movies. He dislikes comedy, romance, films about romance, childish behavior, clowns, and films about werewolves. He's also not allowed to watch PG-13 movies for reasons unknown.
*Despite disliking comedy, it's been stated that he often watches comedies.
* His profile page during beta testing reveals that his favorite color is blue.
*As seen in an image AJHQ had posted of the Alphas in a band, he knows how to play the drums.
*Greely may have been born in July, as a ruby birthstone - the birthstone of July - can be found in his den. Alternatively, the ruby may be a reference to his beta design, in which his right eye is missing and replaced with a ruby.
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