Pyxis

Velorum (Brother, NPC)

Stargazer/Lillie (Sister, NPC)

## Application Sheet

Pyxis was a female grizzly bear with silver eyes. She lived outside of pack lands, occasionally interacting with wolves such as Fate, but for the most part, she lived a solitary life until she vanished from the Domain. Pyxis was created and RP'd by Dellavayi.

## Personality

* ***Companionable.*** Pyxis loves company. In fact, she wants to have someone to travel with or a group to hang around for a while. She was in a situation that required her to be more social than most bears, and in a way, that worked out for the better as she would much rather welcome the company of just about any than spend her life by herself. She shudders at the thought of such things. With that, she has a much more welcoming attitude to just about everyone, as long as she doesn’t believe them to be a threat.
* ***Profound.*** When it comes to problems or situations others may be having, Pyxis has years of knowledge that allow her to offer a lot of insightful knowledge that may come of help to many. This can even stem into just general information on the world of nature itself, and she loves it when the opportunity to pass this knowledge on comes to meet her.
* ***Respectful.*** Pyxis is many things. But the one thing she will always be is respectful to others, especially to those who deserve it. She pays heed to mind her manners, especially in those of greater power, even if she doesn’t see them as standing on any higher shelf than herself. As for packs as a whole especially, Pyxis does well to abide by laws they may have and sticking to the outside of their borders unless permission is given. Overall, the last things she wishes to do is bring insult to someone by being rude or disrespectful in any way.
* ***Mama Bear.*** In other words, she extremely protective. Not only is she a female bear who has reared cubs, and who had her primary purpose to protect the pack she lived by, Pyxis wants to protect others. Knowing she can help keep another who needs it safe, nothing makes her feel more like she’s doing what she’s meant to in this world. However, in taking up on her offer, or in her just straight up deciding you need it whether you like it or not, she will go to no ends to go flat out angry mama bear on anyone who dares to harm that which she is protecting. Other animals may have some sense of getting this rage, but she’s no joke when getting into this state. So, it’s what makes this her best trait and her greatest downfall, especially if heaven forbid there is a misunderstanding.
* ***Unhurried.*** Never does this bear seem to be in any sort of rush of any kind. Whatever happens, will happen, and unless it actually is something that calls for her to actually hightail herself into a high gear, she’d much rather just take her time and enjoy the journey at hand. In her mind, she’s the kind that enjoys the road traveled over the final destination. This can be good for those she travels with as it allows her to show them a thing or two and allows for her to even learn from them. It can also be infuriating to those who are impatient (which she finds hilarious to watch if they stick around).
* ***Unsentimental.*** Pyxis has just never been one to hold onto items. Not only does she travel around too much, but they are little to nothing many of the memories she has in her head. In the events that led to the departure of her previous home, this has only increased as everything she ever had was turned to ash. So, why would she waste the time to hold onto something if the chance of growing attached to it and then losing such a pitiful item is more trouble than it’s worth?
* ***Humorous and Laidback.*** One of the most prominent features in Pyxis though is her overall free-living and humored way of living and looking at life. While she does take things seriously, she see's the better impact she can bring for herself and others with just having fun and going with what comes.
* ***Overly-Amused.*** While this could be a good trait, Pyxis takes this too far sometimes. With a lot of serious problems others have, wolves particularly, she just can’t help but laugh at how amusing or petty they may come off to her. Not to say she won’t help, but if she finds it funny, it won’t stop her from laughing and even joking about it to no end beforehand. This isn’t for all problems and situations, and but it’s for a good handful for it to be a problem.
* ***Distractible.*** This is actually a new trait to spring up in her recent time of traveling from her previous home and into the Domain. Little things here and there easily take the bear’s attention from her current goal or planned destination and over to wherever it is this little item of curiosity. It can cause her to get lost, get into situations that may bring trouble, or even cause problems for anyone she may be traveling with as she will just suddenly disappear for a little while.
* ***Unforgiving.*** Pyxis won’t actively seek out means to get back at someone who has done her wrong, but she has a majorly hard time finding it in herself to forgive them. This especially goes out to those who have not only come to harm her but those close to her. It is in this that she has a difficult time letting go of ideas on how to deal out revenge, even if she won't actively enact them. Not to say she may not push others to do it, or maybe even take it upon herself to deal it out if the opportunity steps right in front of her. But it's a trait she loathes about herself as it goes against many of the ideals she was taught. With age, she learned to have more restraint, but actually stepping forth to find a way to just let it go, she’s still learning.

## Pre-Group History

For generations, the bears had lived by their side. An ally. A protector. Even considered a guardian. The pack of wolves, their name lost to the ashes, only now known by the few that managed to escape, was one built on the balance set up of their ancestors, and in that balance, stood the bears. The grizzlies and the wolves thrived in this time, despite the challenges that came to face them. In this time, a mother bear brought two Star Flowers into the world. Sisters, she named them Stargazer and Windrose. Although, as time would come to pass, the nicknames Lilly and Rose came to be the more commonly used for the two cubs. Their father was a rare figure at the time, only coming and going every so often, always long enough for them to miss him by the time he returned. As for their mother though, she was a constant presence, taking on the responsibility of raising them and teaching them all that she could in the time she had with them. For the first few years of the two sister life, they were practically glued to their mother's side, sticking to her much longer than any wolf would in this kind of stage. Perhaps it was through this though that the three of them would be so close later on in life, never ones to turn on each other, or at least not in the way so many wolves did as Pyxis would come to see.

By the times she was a few years old, she was well acquainted with just about all the wolves of the pack. It was her and her sister’s duty to not only learn the means of their own survival but to learn the customs that had been developed over generations of the bears and wolves living and working together. It was through this that as with the other bears who took part of this balance, she grew to have a deep love for the wolves. Many of the things they did were confusing, but it was fascinating. Especially as she grew to bond with one wolf in particular. They were a year or two older than her when they first met and as she came to find out later on, the next in line to take on the lead position for the wolves. That mattered little to the pair, and for those watching, it was only another thing to bring the two species together as a deep trust formed between the bear and wolf. It only came to grow as the years passed.

Pyxis came to have her first litter of cubs at the age of five. With twins to open their eyes, it was a shining moment for a bear who was a mother at heart. Finally, she had little ones to protect, raise, and call her own. It was something the female never even imagined she would cherish so much. As the trio rose from their den though, the mother bear would come to find much had changed in the home she lived in. The first news to reach her brought joy to her heart. Her long time friend had assumed the position of alpha soon after their father’s death, and now, after several years had passed since, they had brought the pack the gift of pups. Two sisters, one of their mother's brown coat, and one of their father’s pale white coat. The new faces to that would be the lead of the pack. With that news though came another sting. Arrivals not far from the pack had arrived. A pack of wolves, an unfamiliar to any that had been seen or heard of. Whispers of worry and suspicion rose up for none had moved so close, but as nothing but silence came from the pack, they soon disappeared from the minds of all.

A few more years came to pass, in which Pyxis’s first two cubs grew up to be just as she had hoped they would come to be, and with it, she was to bring three more into the world. But as she watched life grow for both wolves and bears, others came to an end. The friend she had cherished for so long, took a sudden turn as age came to catch up with them. When Pyxis was at the age of 8, barely hitting the years that would mark her halfway through the potential life she could live, she watched as old age claimed the life of the wolf at her feet. It was a lesson most bears that lived here alongside the pack had come to learn at one point or another, but it was especially hard on Pyxis. Grief, while not unfamiliar, came down hard on her as she mourned for the life she would have to continue on without.

More time came to pass, in which Pyxis came to distract herself with in the raising of her children. Two was a bit tough, but three was more a bit more of a challenge than she bargained for. It was a good distraction, but perhaps too good as one of the daughters stepped up to take their place in their parent's place. Perhaps if she had come to be closer with the two daughters, things would have been different. Perhaps she could have come to see the what was coming, and if not have protected the pack, but maybe her family. But, she didn’t, and instead, she had to sit idly by as the true nature of the wolves she loved shined through as family turned on family in the war against the pack they had just about forgotten.

By the end of it, Pyxis stood in a forest of fire, with everything she had held dear to her burned to ash. Everything was gone. Everything was taken away from her. But she still had something as she ran from the scene. It was at that moment that she realized that no...She couldn’t have done anything to stop this. No...This was all of their faults.

She wasn’t them though. She didn’t chase after them. Instead, Pyxis walked out from the ashes of her family and home and walked. And walked until she found something else that called to her to come.

## Group History

Pyxis enjoyed both moments of solitude and time with others. She heard whispers of a war between two packs, and decided to stay far away from it! While she was making her way around the Domain, she crossed paths with a lone wolf named Fate. Pyxis needed to find a place to settle down for hibernation, and ended up with Fate, outside the borders of Fellfang. They remained together while she found food and prepared for hibernating, and then, she fell into her deep slumber. Fate would run around and enjoy the solitude while Pyxis slumbered.

When Pyxis awoke, and spring arrived, the two of them realized just how much of polar opposites they were. Fate was always on the go, rarely stopping to enjoy the sights and whatnot. Pyxis was more of a 'stop and smell the roses' type, and Fate needed to learn a bit from the big bear about appreciating life!

Eventually, though, Pyxis decided to leave the Domain. Fate, too, would leave, and neither have returned to the Domain since.

## Trivia

* Pyxis no longer goes by her old name. It not only brings back bad memories for her, but she doesn't want any ties back to her old home. However, she will still respond out of habit to Windrose or just Rose.
* Pyxis still has a great loving perspective for wolves despite what happened with the previous pack she protected. While she has herself in a position of never protecting any wolf relating to that pack, she will put everything aside to help out, guide, or protect a wolf/wolf pack or group in need of her assistance with no price needed.
* This, however, does not mean that she will just protect any wolf. If she feels their intentions or goals/morals are questionable, she will sometimes try to help and lead them on a better path, but often times, she’s learned that some simply don’t change. She has no interest in putting herself in a position like that again willingly.
* Nothing, and I mean just about nothing will stop Pyxis from flocking to a river that has a migration of salmon. To have so much of her favorite food in one place, and to have it a sure source to offer her a great amount of food, it’s an opportunity she would dread to miss.
* With the way she grew up and lived a majority of her life, Pyxis is not all that territorial unless something really digs into the instinct she still has in her. She can be really tolerable to other predators as long as they don’t threaten to harm her, wolves especially, and even bears as long as they mind their manners.
* Pyxis actually seriously loves black bears. Since many are more temperamental than her own species of bear, and she had one who was a good friend of her for many years, if one is ever in the area around her, she’ll seek them out for company. She finds their oftentimes more relaxing behavior to be good break from basically everyone else.
* Pyxis also adores rabbits. Basically everything about them, she finds just way too adorable and it just melts her.
* Is prone to scaring the living hell out of most creatures upon first meetings. She takes no offense to it though having met her fair share of more brutal bears of her kind and instead finds it beyond hilarious.
* While she can rough play with bears no problem, she can also do so with wolves having learned to do so in a way that doesn’t harm them. It was actually a good bonding exercise from her previous home that helped in keeping the connection between the bears and wolves strong.
* Pyxis by no means has moved on from the events that took away everything from her. In fact, it still deeply haunts her and brings a lot of anger and grief that isn't shown to others. It's a subject she avoids above all else, and is something that she seriously puts her foot down in not talking about if prodded.
* Pyxis has her own little form of howling that she got to use to partake in the howling sessions the wolves started. It was among her favorite things to do with them, and it's still something she'll do by herself out of grief or just to try and make herself feel better. She also will use this as a sort of signal to lead other's to her, pass on a warning, or etc.

## Quotes

* "Now, I'm no wolf. But, whether you're a rabbit, a crow, a wolf, or a bear. No matter who you are, I think you should value every moment of your life. It means something. There's always something to look back and gain from it, be it knowledge, laughter, grief or joy over a memory. Even that which we look back to hate, be it for what was done to us, or what we did, or who we were even. It's in this that we see growth. It's in this we can deem acceptance. Never is it good to stay living in the past of course. It keeps us from making new moments. But, always, no matter what they are, cherish them, for it makes up who we are and who we wish to grow to me. For no one, no matter how old, never stops growing." (answering the question of what a wolf should value most, *Aesthetic Meme*)

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
* Dellavayi's deviantART Gallery