Kasiani

Kotori (Adoptive Father)

Arum (Brother)

Sabihah (Sister)

## Application Sheet

Kasiani was a ginger-brown she-wolf with vivid green eyes. She was born in Vale, to a mother named Lilly. The biological father was a loner named Locke, but Kotori offered to step in and serve as the pups' father, since Locke was long gone. She had two siblings - Sabihah and Arum. Though she grew up in Vale, she moved to Fellfang when Astir Loki decided to move the pack to new hunting grounds. She served as a Witch-Doctor and was extremely close to the Jarl's son Lincoln before she was tragically swept out to sea. She hasn't been seen in the Domain since. Kasiani was designed by SilverPocky, and created and RP'd by Koilada.

## Personality

* ***Fanciful.*** Though less cloud-headed than before, Kasiani still enjoys storytelling and lore. She has taken to absorbing herself in Fellfang's culture, but she fears losing mind of Vale's own history and lore, so she gratefully tells tales of her birth pack's culture and lore to any Fellfangir willing to indulge her, relieved to keep Vale alive in a sense.
* ***Quirky.*** While she tries to keep this trait under wraps nowadays, alas Kasiani is just as prone to her strange tendencies as before. The she-wolf still talks to the trees and foliage, but not as openly as she once would, instead opting to be more discreet with her silly beliefs out of a small insecurity that Fellfang would not approve, and she'd lose yet another home.
* ***Girly.*** A real girly-girl, Kasiani adores pretty things, smelling nice, and being groomed. She regularly collects said pretty things and stashes them about the den so it'll look beautiful. Still adoring to roll in herbs and flowers to don their scent, she, thankfully, no longer does as such to the healers' personal stores.
* ***Gentle.*** Kasiani has a soft heart, she loves her family, friends and packmates with intense fervor, which is part of the reason she has a hard time saying no when something is asked of her. She wants to help out and keep them happy in any way she can. Less boisterous than before, her overall demeanor is decidedly softer and more fitting of her gentle heart, now displaying a previously less-present maturity, as well as a recently-developed maternal side.
* ***Solemn.*** Kasiani carries a wholehearted sincerity in everything she says or does. You won't find her being deceptive nor ulterior, and she's resolved to no longer hide important truths from her pack. She believes that being genuine is a virtue, and has also come to the conclusion that her earnestness would endear others to her and convince them to stick close by. They wouldn't leave her then, right?
* ***Ambitious.*** Her desire to make her father proud has inspired a work-hard and determined side to Kasiani that has only doubled after Kotori's death. She'll stop at nothing to reach the goals she sets for herself, wishing dearly to reach the pedestal she put her dad atop of. Dedicated to her job as a Witch-Doctor and Medic, she throws almost all her effort into being the best healer and knowledge-keeper she can be.
* ***Clingy.*** The barrage of losses Kasiani has suffered in her short adult life has affected her deeply. When she becomes attached to someone, the happiness that relationship brings also imbues her with the fear that they'll leave like her mother and siblings, or be taken from her as with Kotori. So, out of this terror, she does the only thing she can - she clings. Though it may come off as endearingly affectionate, it is, in reality, an extremely unhealthy reaction that only perpetuates her worries and has the potential to escalate into overbearingness.
* ***Desolate.*** Though as kind at heart as she was prior to the loss of her family and pack, the bad turn her life has taken - her father's murder and brother's abandonment in particular - has left Kasiani quiet, melancholic, and rather lonesome. No longer the excitable, high-strung, and cheerful Vanir Medic of Vale, she carries a thick air of mournful sorrow in her posture and gait. The lack of justice for her father's death, Arum leaving her at the time she needed him most, and Loki decided to turn tail and run instead of facing the turbulence as the near-mythical Faust did has also burdened her with a bottled-up wrath that she *normally* keeps locked up in her mind. She may snap at packmates in misguided anger if they prick a negative emotion, such as jealousy.
* ***Clumsy and Graceless.*** Tripping, knocking things over and running into obstacles is Kasia's speciality. She has the balance and grace of a newborn deer, but without the bonus of springy, flexible legs.
* ***Selectively Vengeful.*** She will stop at nothing to catch Kotori's murderer and bring him to justice.

## Pre-Group History

Kasiani was born into Vale by the lead Medic, Lilly, after she was seduced by a loner named Locke. When her mother realized she was pregnant, hesitant to abort the litter and fearing the consequences of breaking her pack's laws, she pleaded with her good friend, Kotori, the Eir of Vale, to play as the father. Whilst worried about lying to their Alpha, he agreed for Lilly's sake.

## Group History

Kasiani was, like most pups, adored by her parents, and she adored them in return. She loved spending time with her mom Lilly and her dad Kotori. She and Kotori often went on little trips to bond, such as to the lake, to collect flowers.

She was very close to her brother Arum, and her sister Sabihah, too. She was so grateful to have them in her life. They grew up together in a peaceful time in Vale, after the chaos of the Dark Ages. There were some incidents, of course. Kasiani nearly lost her life when Sabihah brought her on an adventure to the river, and she slipped when trying to reach a flower. She fell into the rapids and would have drowned if Kotori hadn't been collecting herbs nearby, and heard her siblings' screams for help. She had severe aquaphobia ever since.

As they became juveniles, Kasiani felt left behind by her siblings - Arum and Sabihah were doing very well in their chosen tasks as Sentinels, but Kasi was struggling, thinking she wasn't as strong as they were. Arum criticized her, bluntly saying that, as the daughter of two high-ranking wolves, she should aspire to be something respectful. When she overheard her parents saying they were low on herbs and needed to borrow some from Aryn, she decided to run off and get the herbs from Aryn herself.

Kasi struggled to travel in the winter as a juvenile, and ended up getting attacked and injured by a lone wolf. Fortunately, some Arynians rescued her and brought her to the camp. They told her how reckless she'd been, but she was sent home with compassion and the herbs her parents needed. Kotori explained to his daughter that she didn't have to be strong like her siblings - Medics were strong in their own way, and she was good with herbs and injured wolves, and would make an amazing Medic with some training. Taking heed of her father's advice, she began training as a Medic under her mother, Lilly. One of her first duties was pulling quills out of Sabihah's flank, after she bothered a porcupine!

She tried to give basic healing lessons to Alarion, with Hieronymus at her side, but he didn't seem to take to it very easily. Arum didn't like her fraternizing with Alarion, who several of their packmates thought of as odd and dangerous. Kasi ignored this, finding him to be a nice friend. But when Sabihah and Lilly vanished one night, and Valerian search parties never turned up trace of them, Arum became even more fiercely protective of his sister.

Kasiani was promoted to a Gamma Medic, growing ever more confident in herself and her abilities, and she felt her family's pride glowing around her. She vowed to follow her mother's footsteps and become a Lead Medic (Theta), wanting to work alongside Kotori as an equal.

Alarion vanished from the pack (he was actually chased off, but that's another story). Kasiani grieved the sudden vanishing of another wolf who was important to her, and she began clinging to Arum for support. The two were exceedingly close, and one night, when Arum came to her, covered in blood and wounded, he told her he'd killed a wolf, but asked her not to tell anyone. Out of loyalty to Arum, she remained silent, keeping his secret close to her chest.

But as much as Lilly, Sabihah, and Alarion's disappearances hurt her, Kasiani was far from prepared for when news arrived that winter.

Kotori had been murdered.

Kasiani's grief was *so* strong, she couldn't believe her father, her beloved papa, was killed. Who would do such a thing? She cried, she clung to her brother, and the pair vowed to find whoever had killed him and exact revenge. She looked to Arum for answers, for guidance, but when Loki decided shortly thereafter to move Vale to new hunting grounds, she was the only one to stay in Vale's land, to look for her father's murderer.

Arum, on the other hand, vanished.

World-weary and heartbroken, she set off to find a new pack, and arrived in Fellfang. Upon her arrival, she spotted Lincoln, a young male who'd gotten stuck in a prickly situation - tangled in brambles! She helped him out, and the two became fast friends.

Kasi had a lot to deal with, though, and she wasn't always bright and bubbly. She became a bit gloomy over the course of a few days, and Lincoln worried she had stopped liking him, so he recklessly tried to take down a moose in order to impress her. She explained that she sometimes had bad days, and she hadn't lost interest in being his friend, feeling terrible that she'd made him so unhappy without realizing it.

Kasiani was able to continue working as a healer, a Witch-Doctor, in Fellfang, and she was soon asked to help teach a new Witch-Doctor named Gustave.

But Lincoln...Lincoln was always her dearest friend and packmate. The two spent so much time together, they began to feel little flutterings of something special in their hearts for one another. She was even willing to play a little in the tide pools with Link one day, when he asked. They were having fun, Kasi enjoying the shallow pools and spending time with Link.

It went so wrong, though, when a massive wave came out of nowhere. A rogue wave - the stuff of legends, waves that came out of nowhere, it seemed, without any warning - crashed into the two of them. Kasiani and Lincoln were swept into the sea by the powerful wave, but while Lincoln, a Fellfang-born swimmer, was able to barely pull himself to the shore, Kasiani had avoided water practically all her life, and the current was so strong...

Lincoln did everything he could to save her, but she was swept away. He ran up and down the shore trying to find her, trying to spot her head bobbing above the waves, but she was just...*gone.*

It was widely believed by everyone back in Fellfang that Kasiani had drowned, and Lincoln and Gustave grieved deeply, but understood that they *had* to keep living. For her.

What they didn't know, though, was that Kasiani had miraculously survived. But what became of her, and where she is now, is yet unknown...

## Trivia

* Kasiani is deathly afraid of water and goes to great lengths to avoid any that is above her carpals in height.
* Since she was a pup, Kasiani has believed that plants listen and are lonely as no-one talks to them, so she makes time to.
* When flustered, embarrassed, or otherwise bashful, Kasiani presses her chin into her neck-fur, partially obscuring her muzzle.
* Kasiani often sings softly to herself. Those who overhear her have noted that she has quite the nice voice.

## Quotes

* *"Don't shout over my father, be quiet, be quiet! You didn't know him, nobody would ever hurt him, stop yelling, please, please-"* (her thoughts upon the pack discovering Kotori's body, *Winter is Coming*)

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
* Koilada's deviantART Gallery