Morrigan

Ash (Brother, NPC)

Vieste (Adoptive Mother)

Ghislaine (Adoptive Sister)

## Application Sheet

Morrigan was a small, cream-furred she-wolf with chewed-off ears and pine green eyes. She was taken into Vektren, and placed in the care Vieste, alongside another pup, Ghislaine. She earned a place as a Gamma Scythe. Desperate to provide new life for her pack, she had a one-night stand with Wick, and bore three pups: Vanja, Titan, and Caramel. Unfortunately, Morrigan was among the first casualties of the Hive Wars, dying despite her packmates' best efforts to save her. She was created and RP'd by toboe5tails.

## Personality

* ***Blunt.*** Morrigan is a wolf who is damaged in a whole host of ways. Taken away from the pack she was born in before she could even really remember it, Morrigan never learned how to interact with other wolves. Her socialization was solely with her father, who only taught her the most cursory of manners. This has made her blunt, and despite her being well-meaning, its not uncommon for her to openly make rude observations. That lack of socialization has also made Morrigan very naive. While she can realize when she's in blatant danger, she's very vulnerable to being manipulated and even mentally abused. If a wolf isn't outwardly hostile towards her, generally she will trust them. Anything thats better than how her father treated her makes a wolf good in her mind.
* ***Morally Gray.*** She also doesn't have a very strong grasp of right and wrong, which certainly wasn't helped by her father eating the corpses of wolves he himself had killed. When tasked with killing a wolf, Morrigan has no qualms with doing so, perhaps even enjoying it.
* ***Desperate to Please.*** Underneath this instability is a wolf who wants nothing more than to do well by and please others. Morrigan is most driven by this deep desire to impress and please her superiors, friends, and loved ones. She's very eager to learn and help, and will jump at the chance to do something important. A wolf who treats Morrigan well will find themselves with a dearly loyal friend. She's a wolf who feels a lot of things, and her emotions are almost never subtle. She tends to vocalize her thought process more than she does think it to herself, sometimes even speaking aloud to herself when she's alone. While Morrigan is a young she-wolf who means well in all that she does, she has a lot of learning and growing to do before she'll be a stable and fully realized adult.
* ***Confident.*** As she's grown, Morrigan has gained a newfound confidence, mostly thanks to Vieste's guidance. She's still a bit blunt and even brazen at times, but she's learned the hard way that she has to respect her superiors. Her naive need to please others has grown into more of a manipulative tactic that she uses to catch wolves off their guard. She's playful and quirky, sometimes even flirtatious depending on the situation. If she doesn't like you though, she can be patronizing and downright condescending. She's become a lot more sensitive about her past, and especially about the state of her ears. Poking fun at them is a fast track to making her angry with you.
* ***Reserved, Emotionally Unstable, and Fearful.*** Being tossed into the pits was a serious wake-up call for Morrigan. She's more careful about her words now, and has retreated into herself, becoming less outgoing and more reserved. She still lives to please, if anything now more than ever, but it's less out of a sense of duty and more because she's afraid of what will happen if she doesn't make herself useful. She's prone to intense emotional outbursts, from lashing out in anger to recoiling in fear at the drop of a hat. In a way she's matured, but still feels wholly unprepared for the world she's stumbled into.

## Pre-Group History

Her father; a Highvallian highblood and cousin to the king. Her mother; daughter to an allied pack's alpha, arranged to be his bride. Though it was a political mateship, Darius and his mate loved each other dearly. Amani hailed from a pack that lived in a more temperate climate, and didn't acclimate very well to the mountainous Highvalley territory. She was sickly and a bit frail, but despite this the pair were thrilled when they discovered they were expecting pups. Amani gave birth to a healthy litter of two, Morrigan and a male pup, Ash, but that health didn't last long. Shortly after giving birth, Amani fell ill, and her sickness endured despite attempts to heal it. After a couple weeks, the male pup came down with the same illness, and after a month both wolves had perished. Darius was devastated by the loss, and left only with his daughter and pressure from his parents to remarry, he could no longer bear to stay in Highvalley. Taking his pup, Darius fled the territory and became a loner.

Hunting was good close to Highvalley, but Darius desperately wanted not to be found, and thus Morrigan was brought farther and farther away. As they left the familiar lands of Highvalley, her father's hunting skills faltered, and the two ate less and less. Passing through the mountains was especially hard, and Morrigan grew to know hunger as the norm in her life. As they entered more populated areas of the domain, Darius's desperation drove him to the breaking point, and he began hunting down other lone wolves whenever he found one weak enough to ambush. While Morrigan found it hard to stomach, she kept enough of it down to stay alive and strong enough to travel. Her father's mental state deteriorated as flesh of the dead became his only nourishment, and as Morrigan grew old enough to hunt herself, she found his expectations turned on her. However, she wasn't strong or large enough to hunt big game. Even rabbits were too fast for her to catch, and what little she could find she usually kept for herself in a bid to stay strong enough to continue hunting. She was punished with harsh words and painful nips at her heels every time she returned with so little.

After many months of killing and eating his own, and his daughter being unable to provide, Darius turned his fangs on Morrigan. Attacked by her own father, Morrigan struggled, but he managed to eat off some of her ears before she could wiggle free. Driven by adrenaline and fear, Morrigan fought back against him. They were both malnourished, Darius a degree more so than Morrigan, and as they clashed she managed to pin him down. With little hesitation, Morrigan hooked her teeth into her father's throat and bit hard, squeezing the very life out of his flesh. As he died, Morrigan found his blood tasted sweet on her tongue, and couldn't stop herself from tearing into him like fresh prey. She was strangely satisfied with her victory, partaking in his flesh until her belly was finally full and then leaving him to rot. She didn't keep her meal down for long, being sick several times as she trudged away until she finally collapsed, just outside of Vektren's western border.

## Group History

Morrigan was welcomed by Vieste, who was mortified by the conditions young Morri had been conditioned to. Morri, eager to please her new guardian, was boastful of the fact she killed her father when he tried to eat her. She was also very straightforward about the things her father had fed her. Ultimately, Vieste tended carefully to the little pup, making sure she had good, fresh, *prey*-animals to eat, and comfort, and healing herbs applied to her ears.

Morrigan was not the only pup under Vieste's care, however. A pup had been given to Vektren as payment for their services, and this pup - Ghislaine - was also given to Vie to raise. If that wasn't enough for Morri to feel like 'one of the family', there were several other pups, a bit younger than her, in the pack. Mistress Hekate had borne four pups: Helh, Hestia, Phaeton, and Orpheus. Another pup had been paid to the pack - Acheron. Last, there were Solitaire's two pups, Damon and Demogorgon. Morri was one of the eldest of this bunch, but at least she wasn't alone!

She grew up, determined to serve the pack however she could. Eventually, she began leaning towards taking on the task of a Scythe.

Morrigan joined a patrol under the Mistress herself, to seize some captives from Aryn. Hekate led Morrigan, Janus, Seraph, Epione, and Ambient to attack an Arynian patrol, led to where they waited to ambush by Nimh. They managed to capture three wolves: Nero, Tzuriel, and Raghaalr. Morri had teamed up with Janus to disable Tzuri. Another, Dyana, was expected to be killed, before Hekate's ally Hedge intervened.

Three plagues swept through Vektren, putting their seemingly endless war with Aryn on hold. Morrigan, unfortunately, fell sick from the first plague, and had to be quarantined after working herself to exhaustion.

She slowly began to recover, suffering an allergic reaction when the water hemlock spread through the territory. Morri was also stable enough to maintain her sanity when the sun didn't appear for three days. Fed up with being cooped up around the Nest, and irritated with everyone's terror over the disappearance of the sun, Morrigan stepped away from camp to hunt - and got into a brawl with a loner, Braigiel. Still, the little Vektreni kicked butt, and Brai ran away as fast as her paws could carry her.

Once the pack had recovered from the plagues, Hekate enacted her most daring plan yet: an assassination attempt on Lady Athena of Aryn. The plan was a success, and as the Vektreni returned the hearts to the camp, Morrigan joined Nimh, Miron, Fornax, and Acheron in defending the victorious retreat. Morri fought valiantly against Hera of Aryn, viciously holding her own against the larger she-wolf until the Arynians called for a retreat.

While they retreated, Morrigan spotted a gray wolf slinking into Vektren's territory, and moved to give chase - only she was too tired to do so. This was Storm, following Raphael to retrieve the second heart, while the rest of their packmates raced back to their home territory.

With Athena and Alcatraz dead, the Arynians turned inward, giving Vektren a bit of breathing room. Morrigan was often called upon as a pup-sitter when Nimh and Kiero Koi bore pups for Vieste to raise: Eris and Ivar. She looked upon these two pups as adoptive siblings. One day, while watching the pups, Vieste asked Morri if she ever planned to have pups, and Morrigan was immensely flustered by this. She decided just to focus on her duties.

Things in Vektren changed. Months passed, and her adoptive siblings grew up. She ranked up to a Gamma Scythe, and was valued for her skills. And the pack suffered a great loss, when Hekate was killed by her son Hellion. Nimh took over as leader of the pack.

To encourage pack unity, the new Mistress decided to host a brawling event: SoQeth. Morrigan was to spar against Honiahaka, one of Vieste's recently returned children. She obliterated the gray-furred male in their brawl.

Even though she was successful in SoQeth, Morrigan gradually began to struggle with hunts...and other endeavors. The pack needed fresh blood, and Morrigan was all-too-willing to offer her services to the pack, but nobody else seemed willing to help. Frustrated, she found herself hunting away from the Nest, looking for time and space to think.

On one of these hunts, the howling of a wolf (not a Vektren wolf) scared away her quarry, and she ran to confront them. The wolf was Wick, of Xassa. However, he kept his identity secret. He offered whatever he could to make it up to her, and Morri had a brilliant idea: a chance to be a mother. And so, Wick agreed, to leave the interaction without being scathed.

Morri returned to Vektren and waited to see what happened. Fortunately, it was a success. Morrigan was pregnant, just like Ghislaine (who was expecting pups with Thayer), Vieste (with Kiero Koi), and the Mistress, Nimh, herself (with Monty). She was delighted, and went to report to her mother right away.

Unfortunately, Vieste had been with Nimh at the time. One simple query - who the father was - led to Morrigan admitting that it was an outsider. Like a viper, Nimh lashed out, ready to kill Morri for her transgressions, staid only by Vieste's reminders of Morri's loyalty, and the noble goal which had driven Morri to break the laws.

Nimh decided that Morri would have to be punished, harshly, and was taken by some of the pack's Enforcers to the re-education pits, to be punished until it was nearly time to birth her pups. This relieved Morrigan, until she was actually *in* the Pits.

She struggled in the Pits, with her own transgressions and with imagined horrors, and the pain and sickness brought on by her pregnancy. Fortunately, she wasn't alone the entirety of her sentence: Ed the snake visited on occasion, as did her mother, Vieste, though nobody was aware of this (it would have been punishable, if she were caught).

When the time came to bear the puppies, Morrigan had a lot of difficulty. She had two puppies who were of average size, but then an enormous male pup arrived, and Morrigan could barely bring him to the world. Exhausted, she looked over at her children...and her heart melted. She named them Vanja, Titan, and Caramel.

She was a loving mother, invested in the lives of her children, supportive and proud as they took on tasks of their own. Life was good in Vektren.

Then the Hive arrived.

Massive white wolves were encroaching on the territory, putting up fights like nothing any Vektreni had ever seen before. While patrolling with Amaris, Ophion, and Judith, Morrigan was attacked by the Hive, and severely wounded. Ophion carried her back to the Nest, bleeding profusely, and she was immediately rushed to the care of the Magisters.

Kiero Koi, Theodosia, and Vanja - her own daughter - worked tirelessly to try stopping the bleeding, but all of their efforts could not stop the inevitable. Realizing the Scythe was on death's door, Vanja went away, and Koi told Theodosia to tell the Mistress that Morri was dying.

Nimh entered the little cavern where Morri was resting, and, feeling utterly horrible about the harshness she judged Morri with in the past, assured a dying Morrigan that she had served the pack well, no one could have done better. At peace, Morrigan breathed her last, and died: the first victim of the Hive.

The entirety of the pack were sent reeling in the aftermath of her death, and everyone grieved her loss. She left a mark on Vektren that simply could not be matched - even if nobody realized it until she was gone.

## Trivia

* Despite being a Scythe, Morrigan was extremely proficient in battle, holding her own against a variety of enemies larger than herself, including Hera of Aryn, Braigiel the loner, and Honiahaka (who wasn't a real enemy, only a SoQeth opponent).

## Quotes

* "If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get!" (to the Hive wolf that killed her, *No Choice to Make*)
* "I was...good...'m so glad...thank you..." (her last words, *A Life Well Served*)

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