Kichirou

Ronelle and Fatou (Adoptive Sisters)

## Application Sheet

Kichirou was a light golden-brown male wolf with dark brown eyes. He was adopted as a pup by Lykos and Oleander of Heyl (which swiftly became Heylguard, after an earthquake rattled the Domain), making him the adoptive brother of Ronelle and Fatou. He would, unfortunately, lose his life to the Curse of Pajackok, which ripped Heylguard apart. Kichirou was created and RP'd by spacepurrs.

## Personality

* ***Polite, Docile, and Awkward.*** Perhaps the first thing someone would notice about Kichirou is that he isn't very talkative. He's a bit reserved, and usually keeps to himself, speaking only when he needs to remember something (his memory is activated by audibly repeating to himself what it is he wants to remember, which some wolves may find a little weird, especially if they don't know what he's doing and think he's just rambling to himself), is performing a ritual, or conversing with Ronni. Other than that, Kichi isn't very open to speaking with others unless necessary.
* ***Superstitious, Submissive, and Resolved.*** Another very obvious thing about the wolf is how superstitious he is. Kichi was taught many things as a pup, most of those by his mother, and is very cautious as a result. He cannot go a day without doing certain rituals and avoiding a number of things, strongly affecting his everyday life. It's a little frustrating to some, as he'll refuse to learn to hunt certain prey and watch every step he takes, among other things. He doesn't particularly care if others judge him for his ways, though, which is a pretty good thing. Despite that, though, Kichirou is a very submissive wolf, and doesn't usually like to stand up for himself or even his friends, simply accepting that he's not cut out for a dominant life. Even assuming he moves above the omegas in a pack, he'll generally assume that they know better than him, and will essentially let everyone walk all over him whenever they want to. He's very bad at driving out outsiders as a result, and is better suited as someone in a more low-profile position, proving that he's near useless in a pack setting, really. However, he really does the best that he can with what he's given, and tries to do what he can to help out his friends and superiors, pretty much aiming to please as long as it doesn't go against his morals.

## Pre-Group History

Mine never spoke of her lover, and her pregnancy came as a surprise in their pack. Many suspected that perhaps he was a traveler who had convinced the she-wolf of his love, impregnated her, and left without a trace, and that she would come to despise any pups she bore from him- whatever the case, she loved her son dearly from the time he was born, hardly letting anyone near him once she had finished resting. He was her pride, her life, her sun, and she named him appropriately- Kichirou.

When the alpha and spirits came to assess him, he was deemed insignificant, not alpha material, and destined to a life of subordination. Mine disagreed- her son was special to her, and that was all that mattered. Whether or not he was ever alpha, she would love him, and he would make her proud. So Kichi was raised a normal, insignificant pup, though he still shone like a million stars in his mother's eyes.

Being an only child, Kichi got along with his mother ridiculously well, and she was his best friend in the entire pack, in the entire *world.* Though Mine had not been born in the pack, she embraced their customs with ferocity, and raised her pup to be the same. They were to devote their life to the pack, the alphas, and the spirits. Kichirou was taught rituals and traditions from a young age and was determined to make his mother as proud as possible of him. Mine made everything very clear and simple for her pup, laying out the rules for him, and he followed explicitly- until one day, the young male didn't watch where he was going, and accidentally stepped on a stag beetle, crushing the life out of it with one misplaced pawstep.

The same day, his pack was destroyed by another, and his mother, his best friend, was murdered.

Kichi doesn't remember much of what happened that day, but he knows that when he woke up, he was near the beach, and the alpha and some other wolf were guiding him to a raft on the ocean. There was another pup, one more significant than him, he remembered that, and he knew she was to be protected at all costs (the alpha sacrificing herself for the spirits to watch over them really only furthered that thought for him). So Kichi vowed, there and then, to protect the she-pup (who called herself Ronelle) once they were safe on land, and that he would keep their pack alive in himself until she was capable of stepping up and rebuilding it as the new alpha.

...Eventually, the pups washed up on shore, different than the one they'd left, and somehow still alive. Like the day of his pack's demise, Kichi doesn't remember much of that day, just that they were found and taken in by a pair of wolves from another pack, and that he was indebted to them as well as Heyl, so he began to attempt to balance that on top of raising Ronni under the rites of their old pack. Not too long after they were taken in by Anders and Lykos, the former stumbled upon another pup, Fatou, and added her to the new "family" as well, hoping she would get along with the others and fit in with the pack.

## Group History

It was shortly after they began to settle in to their new home that the earthquake happened, and Heyl was forced to evacuate their territory. With the assistance of another pack, called Dawnguard, they moved to uncharted territory and began to mold themselves around the new land. As none of the members of this new family of his had been around Heyl long, none of them seemed to have any remorse for the sudden change, but Kichirou was pretty sure he'd accidentally squashed an ant that day, so he was a little disturbed by the whole ordeal.

For a time, things were going well in his new home, but strange things were happening. Elk herds were dying. Prey was falling sick. Worse...the wolves around him were falling sick. He was nearly a young adult, just on the cusp, really, and he was scared of this Curse of Pajackok.

He and Ronelle tried to avoid catching ill, but it was no use. Kichirou would return to the den one day with red eyes and saliva dripping from his mouth. He was sick - *very* sick. Ronelle prayed he would recover, and desperate to care for him, she nearly came to blows with her packmate Robin over a small songbird.

It was all for naught, anyway.

Kichirou passed away from the illness that winter, in spite of the best efforts of his packmates and sister. He was grieved, alongside Nahimana, as a casualty of the temper of the gods.

## Trivia

* He smells strongly of various berry juices. This is due to small solo rituals he performs during the morning and evening.
* He absolutely refuses to step on or kill bugs, and is generally slower than the average wolf because he's constantly watching his every step to avoid crushing them.
* As far as he's concerned, Ronni is his only friend, and he'd do anything for her. He is dedicated to keeping her safe until she is old and mature enough to re-found their pack, and believes it's his purpose in life to guide her to be the wolf that will bring it back together and preserve the foundations of their pack until it can be rebuilt.
* He's trying not to get too attached to the wolves of Heyl, as he doesn't want his relationships to become an inconvenience when it comes time for him and Ronni to rebuild their pack. This is already proving difficult, because he actually really likes Lykos.

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
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