Valant

## Application Sheet

Valant (whose true name is Faye) was a brown-furred she-wolf with deep jade eyes. She arrived in Chandor after the Hive Wars, introducing herself by her alias, and her story is just beginning. Valant was created and RP'd by sshouryuu.

## Personality

Faye’s personality works on two levels. Outwardly, she will strike others as confident and out-going; inwardly, she is prone to fear and self-depreciation. These two sides of her personality make it so that her inner self is almost always in radical dissonance with her outer disposition.

* ***Resourceful, Clever, and Congenial.*** Loner life forced Val to develop the ability to look anywhere for opportunity. Her out-going and confident demeanor was developed more out of necessity to network rather than genuine desire to connect with others. Still, the entertainer handles herself well in social situations – exhausting as she might find them.
* ***Engaging but Hollow***. She talks a lot, though her words are always meant to earn the approval of others; given that she lives with the certainty that nobody would take her seriously even if she tried, Faye simply resolves to repeating whatever opinion she thinks is most popular or will make her look best. Her first impulse during a crisis is to boost morale with jokes and jabs. ‘*Lighthearted*’ is not only a safe space for her, truth is she doesn’t know how to interact with others if it’s not under the pretense of a joke.
* ***Well-meaning but Spineless***. She’s quick to take sympathy on strangers and easily won over by emotion; this makes her very forgiving even in situations most wolves wouldn’t be. As a wolf that struggles to set even basic boundaries AND desperately seeks the approval of her peers, Val gives easily under the influence of others.She doesn’t care about doing the right thing as much as she cares about being liked by everyone.
* ***Expressive, Deceptive, and Remorseful.*** Val’s expressions are deliberate and rarely ever genuine; she’s constantly grabbing and mirroring personality traits from past roles or current peers that she thinks might be useful in any given situation. She is not a stranger to bluffs and underhanded methods, and makes use of them liberally; she tends to feel deep guilt about lying and cheating but it rarely ever stops her from doing so.
* ***Catastrophizing***. Likely to picture the worst possible outcome to any given situation. Behind her confident demeanor there always is crippling amounts of pessimism and self-doubt. She’s very fidgety when the mask is down, and her inner reactions tend to be very dramatic.
* ***Cowardly and Unpredictable.*** Though there is no real telling what stupid decision Val will make next, the moment she sees herself in danger it’s safe to assume she will take the self-preservational route. Peppy as she may come across and gallant as she may act, you will find her turning tail the moment things start to look bad. She is, by all means, a *disappointment*.

## Pre-Group History

Faye was born far away southeast of the domain to a small family of entertainers and fortune tellers. Constantly traveling, the group would roll performances and tell stories in exchange for food and rest inside pack’s territories. Essentially like one big, moving theater company. Her small group really felt like a family throughout her puppy months, despite the fact that she was only blood-related to her mother.

Faye’s mother had been an entertainer all her life, and when Faye was born she immediately set her daughter on to the same path as her. Faye grew up singing and performing in front of crowds since very young; living up to any role her mother put her up to. With her mother acting as a sort of leader for their small group, Faye found herself constantly playing the lead to anything they performed, despite the complaints that began to rise among the rest of the group.

By the end of her juvies, she was a great performer but as dependent on her mother as if she were still a pup.

Had her mother not sheltered her from the drama, Faye would’ve seen it coming sooner. She only found out about all the conflicts inside their little group once it was too late. Tensions had continued to rise between members until a big argument finally broke out. There was no turning back afterwards. Everyone went their separate ways, and Faye and her mom found themselves traveling on their own from then on. Faye was forced into a great deal of maturing during the long months she spent traveling with her mom. And while she still lacked many essential skills most people had at her age (like hunting, or fishing, or surviving a day without mother’s help), at least now she was aware of it.

After her mother passed away of old age, Faye would spend some more time hidden, mourning her loss. She would try to survive on her own afterwards for some weeks before severe dehydration and malnutrition would force her to seek out the nearest pack for help.

## Trivia

* Knows a thing or two about fortune telling (with bones!!!). Is really bad at it. Every future foretells death and misery when Faye is in the one reading it.
* Loves stories. She is full of stories herself, though she’s a mediocre story teller at best. Her only real talents are singing and acting
* Very superstitious. She does NOT mess with ghost stuff.
* *Valant* is a folk hero that Faye used to play sometimes back when her still group still was together. She adopts this fake identity upon joining Chandor.

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