Inkeri

Apophis (Brother, NPC)

## Application Sheet

Inkeri was a cream-colored wolf with pale, sky-blue eyes. She was born into the pack of Hintertomb, before its arrival in the Domain, accompanied by her dearest friend and enkindled, Beryl. Her story is just beginning. Inkeri was created and RP'd by ThorinFrostclaw.

## Personality

* ***Compassionate*.** A good healer does not only need skill, but also empathy. Luckily Inkeri has no problem with being sympathetic to one’s problems and will do her best to help anyone who is in need of assistance.
* ***Ambitious.*** Like her mother, Inkeri aims to become a highly respected Core. From a very young age on, Inkeri has done her best to memorize herbs, to identify illnesses and to help with wound-care. She knows that there is still a lot left to learn, but she is more than willing to do so.
* ***Forgiving.*** Why hold a grudge if you can move on from it? No one benefits from lasting anger and it’s not healthy either, according to Inkeri, who is very quick to forgive even the worst misstep. In fact, she would rather help the other wolves how to be better, thinking of it as a learning experience, instead of feeling badly about them.
* ***Confident (LOCKED).*** Inkeri knows what she is doing. She knows which herbs to use and where to find them, which treatments to try and how to make sure that everything is healing well. After the catastrophe she unfortunately lost a lot of her confidence, making her temporarily unsure about her own skills.
* ***Pacifist.*** Perhaps it’s because of her job, but Inkeri very much dislikes all forms of violence. If possible, she tries to convince others to give talking a try, instead of fighting, but if it does not work, Inkeri will refuse to actively participate in battles.
* ***Perfectionist.*** Even if something she did turned out good, Inkeri is most likely not happy with it until she has adjusted it several times. This can lead to her spending much more time than she’d need for certain tasks.
* ***Devoted.*** Inkeri is very devoted to her pack, friends and family. If anyone asks her to do something, she will try to fulfill this request, even if it messes with her own tasks, freetime or resources. She’s a somewhat reliable help, but at the expense of her own well-being.
* ***Nosy.*** While Inkeri does not mean any harm, the she-wolf is incredibly interested in hearing all about the lives of her fellow packmates. Even the tiniest rumor is very welcome and Inkeri will try to find out more information about everything.
* ***Insecure.*** After “The Southpoint Collapse”, Inkeri started blaming herself for failing to interpret the signs leading up to the catastrophe, failing to find her brother and not being able to save her mother. While she still tries her best to be a good healer, she does not trust her own skills anymore and needs to ask for feedback all the time.
* ***Forgetful.*** As Inkeri tries to solve all issues that wolves approach her with, she tends to forget a lot of things. Someone asking her about help while she was collecting herbs? The herbs will have a high chance of being dropped and forgotten. She was given a message to relay to someone else, but was approached with another request? The message will most likely reach its destination with delay, or not at all.
* ***Manic.*** As she burdens herself with a lot of work, it can become overwhelming. While she’s not proud of it, Inkeri tends to have stress-related outbursts when everything becomes too much.

## Pre-Group History

Inkeri’s life started not with joy, but with sadness.

Only a moon ago her father had succumbed to an illness the Core’s had not been able to heal, leaving her mother to not only birth the children alone, but also to raise them on her own. What should have been the celebration of a new life, was shadowed by the absence of one parent, but the strong-minded Flame Core Louhi decided to give her children the best possible life she could.

Inkeri and her brother Apophis grew up very loved and were taught everything they needed to know about being a true Hintertomb wolf.

Soon the siblings began to make more friends as well, with the other young ones of the pack, forming groups, learning together and having fun. One of these wolves was a boy called Beryl, who quickly became Inkeris go-to-friend for everything. At home with their mother, the siblings were taught all kinds of survival skills to prepare them for a time when they would have to decide on an Attunement. While Apophis found himself growing interested in hunting, Inkeri, much to their mothers delight, showed great skill in healing.

And when time came for the young wolves to choose, Inkeri joined her mother with the Cores.

Being a juvenile was hard. She was given responsibility, she had to remember all those herbs and treatments and still somehow had to find enough time to hang out with her friends, who all had similar problems like Inkeri. During one of these meetings, the group of young wolves found themselves talking about their pack's history, especially their shared fear of the Great Ones. The way every wolf was afraid of the time when they would be found and hunted down shattered Inkeri and the young Core tried to think of ways to save her pack.

Which led her to a desperate experiment.

Her hope to clear the pack of their curse, or perhaps at least herself, gave young Inkeri the idea to  challenge the Great Ones, to force them to vanish, to leave Hintertomb alone and to allow them to go on without fear.

A night asleep under the full moon was supposed to free them, Inkeri thought, making her sneak away from her family and friends to an open field where she waited for dusk to pass. When the sky began to darken, the juvenile still felt brave and curled up, openly visible on the grassy field, as comfortably as possible.

But when she woke up in the middle of the night, Inkeri realized her grave mistake.

The full moon, usually pale gray, had taken on a horrifying red color.

As if it was tinted in blood, it hung in the night sky above the open field, above the unprotected young she-wolf. A clear warning, as far as the terrified juvenile was confirmed, to never ever mock the Great Ones again, otherwise they would be able to hunt her down without any issue.

She fled the field, back towards the safety of her pack and swore to never let the full moon shine on her pelt ever again.

Seasons passed and Inkeri kept up her promise, which slowly turned into a real fear of the moon, forcing her to hide away every time the full one happened. The darkest caverns became her safe space, where she hid during the full moon night, never daring to close her eyes until the danger had passed.

However not everything was going badly and Inkeri was slowly becoming a knowledgeable Core under the strict teachings of her mother. With kindness and compassion she treated those looking to receive help and scolded those that got themselves hurt on purpose during play fights or stupid dares. Injuries that could have been avoided became a thorn in her eyes.

The juvenile had grown into a young adult with responsibilities and more unexpectedly, she had also gotten much closer to Beryl.

While their group of friends still hung out as often as possible, Inkeri and Beryl found themselves alone together much more often. Their friendship was quickly changing into something more, and when they both turned into adults, the pack only knew them as a pair.

Everything went downhill when the Omen vanished.

Being without the Tomb’s leader was an issue, a great and worrying one as fearful whispers between her friends spoke of a possible involvement of the Great Ones. Inkeri did not know what to think, yet she tried her best to keep an eye open for any possible signs, anything that could tell her what had happened to the Omen.

All speculations ended when tragedy hit Hintertomb.

The place that used to house them and keep them safe from the Great Ones turned into a mass grave when the walls gave in. Heavy rock broke, burying wolves underneath it, destroying the tunnels that had been their home, flooding the valley with even more debris. Inkeri had been lucky, she had been outside, collecting herbs together with Beryl, when the disaster happened, but others had not shared the same fate.

Desperately, the young Core dug through the rubble with other packmates by her side, that also had not been inside the caverns. They were able to find wolves beneath the rubble, many of them already lost, some of them only injured.

One wolf was her mother.

Despite Inkeri trying her best to keep her mother alive, the Flame Core passed away before her eyes.

After hours of unsuccessfully trying to dig out more survivors, another wolf was missing - her brother Apophis who was supposed to be inside of the tunnels, resting, when the collapse had happened. Even though her paws were bruised and bloody from all the digging, Inkeri clung to the hope of finding him. But it did not happen.

Like her mother, Inkeri had to accept that her brother was gone as well.

Without her rank, without her mother and brother, but at least with Beryl by her side, Inkeri followed Feldspar into a new future of Hintertomb.

## Trivia

* She enjoys to sing, but is not good at it.
* She is highly loyal to the Tomb. Friends and family rank lower than her packmates, as when a packwolf and a friend are hurt at the same time, Inkeri will treat the one that has more worth to Hintertomb with priority.
* Inkeri is terrified of the moon when it is at its fullest, fearing every cycle that the Great Ones would return through it. In the days leading up to a full moon, she becomes highly anxious and will actively hide in the deepest possible cave during the night of it. Only when morning arrives, she will begin to relax until the next full moon arrives…

## External Link

* Official Application Sheet
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