Finnegan

Shiloh (Adoptive Mother)

Sawyer (Sister)

Quill and Tate (Brothers)

## Application Sheet

Finnegan was a lavender-brown male wolf with cerulean blue eyes. He was born in the midst of the Hive Wars alongside siblings Sawyer, Quill, and Tate, and orphaned as a young pup. Fortunately, he and his siblings were found and adopted by Lady Shiloh of Riverfell, where he would be raised. His story is ongoing. Finnegan was designed by Quaylak and created and RP'd by iBadge.

## Personality

* ***Mellow and Unambitious.*** To truly understand the mindset of Finnegan, it’s best to take a step back to consider what he was like before the Incident™, even if he was still remarkably young. A mellow and easy-going young male, he was content to simply go with the flow and never felt the need to make a fuss or make things difficult. Was he curious and had the inkling to explore? Absolutely, but there was always an air of urgency about their family, and survival was the priority. He didn’t mind. If he had wants or needs, they were almost always met in the end, so he never really had to raise them to his parents or siblings. And if those desires weren’t met, well, at the end of the day, he still had his family, and that was what mattered, right? He was unambitious and simply happy to exist and bask in the affection of his family.

Fast forward to now.

* ***Skittish and Protective.*** Finn is a skittish pup; every small noise is a threat, and every sudden movement is a danger. As such, he’s a bit on edge at all times, always keeping an eye out for anything that could hurt his siblings. Perhaps it’s an instinct shared amongst them, but while he had never been particularly aggressive or physically imposing, Finn holds a particularly protective nature when it comes to his brother(s) and sister(s). They are all that’s left of a world he once knew, and while that protective circle may grow in time, he is especially keen on preserving and protecting the loved ones that have been with him from birth. Their parents died to protect them; Finn finds that it’s only fitting that he is willing to do the same. Where one of his siblings is to be found, Finn is more likely than anything to be a shadow in their wake.
* ***Reserved.*** He also seems like a difficult youngun’ to crack. Reserved and tentative, he very clearly puts the needs of others before his own - before, the survival of his family had been paramount, and Finnegan was used to putting off his own desires for the sake of making things easy for his parents and siblings. Something about that instinct has not worn off, and likely never will, so young Finn tends to mask his own grief and fear and suffering for the sake of never hindering Riverfell’s need to be on the move, or his own siblings’ wants and needs.
* ***Curious.*** Every so often, though, perhaps as time goes on, other aspects of Finn’s blooming personality will begin to peek through. For example, he’s curious. He does like to explore, and he does like to poke around and learn. After all, Riverfell is a pack full of traditions and wolves that are all brand new. It’s only so long before a natural curiosity will begin to peek through as he begins to learn what it means to be in a pack. And maybe, just maybe, he’ll love it.

## Pre-Group History

They were always on the move. That is, perhaps, the most descriptive that Finnegan could get about his early puphood. He wasn’t making much sense of the places at the time, or why they were on the move. It was simply the way things were, and he was in no position to argue or know any different. So, he went with his family and stayed close always, as prompted by his mother and father. A young Finnegan never saw a reason to argue.

It was a simple but adventurous kind of life. Finnegan knew the love of his parents, his siblings, and was happy to play and race as they traveled about. They never stayed in one place for more than a day or two before it was off on another adventure.

But then Sawyer got sick.

Finnegan was too young to really understand what was happening - Sawyer smelled odd, and their parents seemed keen on keeping their sister away from them. Had she done something wrong? Gotten into something she shouldn’t have? The small traveling family stopped in a meadow, where they set up camp. They had never stayed in one place like this before, and Finn was excited to explore. He was never allowed to go far, of course, despite a love for adventure, but he didn’t raise much of a fuss. He never did. After all, they would soon be on the move again as a family, he was sure of it, so there was no reason to be upset.

But that wasn’t true, was it?

That night, it was the birds, first. There was a scattering of them in the distance, the sounds of dozens of sparrows and crows and everything in between taking to the sky. Chirps and caws gave way to the sound of distant snarls and the thundering of paws against the earth. Finnegan didn’t know what it meant, but the look on his father's face was all it took. He pressed himself into the burrow with his siblings, struggling to maintain the same calm his father was exuding. He didn’t understand what was happening, and when the fighting started, Finn grew scared.

There was noise. Noise and a terrible smell and the sounds of his parents’ screams. Finnegan could say it was calm that kept him locked in place in that tiny borrow, or his father’s orders to stay put, or his mother’s bleeding body blocking the entrance… but it wasn’t. It was fear.

Fear would come to haunt him.

And it was that same fear that kept him so stock-still when the sound of other wolves approached, and there was no way to know if the danger had only just begun…

## Trivia

* Once he decides he'd like to look like Shiloh (and Dell), Finnegan will stop at *nothing* to get his mane to lay forward. Pinecones. Honey. Tree sap. Mud. The *works*. There will be varying degrees of mishaps and misadventures.
* Finn is absolutely terrified of large bugs and turtles. Don't ask why. (They're CREEPY.)
* Once Finnegan learns how to swim, he will *love it*. Near water of any kind will be amongst his favorite places to be!

## External Links

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