Hanako

## Application Sheet

Hanako was a light brown she-wolf with sage-green eyes. She served Tentaka as a Kawa for a brief time, before ultimately vanishing from the pack, never to be seen again. Hanako was created and RP'd by C3lestialWolf.

## Personality

* ***Personable*.** Largely due to her upbringing and the integration of Sora’s values into Hanako, she isn’t one to be rude or aggravating without reason. She tries her best to remain consistent as a reliable member of Tentaka.
* ***Disciplined*.** Once she sets a habit in place, she isn’t one to easily break it. This is doubly so for her task; she won’t hesitate to complete anything for her task, or any task for those above her.
* ***Optimistic*.** It takes quite a bit to dumb down Hanako's optimism. Despite her history of some downfalls, she isn't one to let go of the bright side that she clings to. It could also be considered a coping mechanism for the years she spent outside of the pack and in loner life, where tough times frequented them just as much as positive times did.
* ***Sensitive*.** She would adore to think of herself and be seen as as a strong wolf, filled to the brim with less feeling than she has, but her reality is quite the contrary. Hanako is sensitive to most wolves, and abhors being yelled at. She is also quite prone to crying in both wonderfully positive and horribly negative situations.
* ***Absent-Minded.*** Although she can set her focus to a single task and hold it, remembering various amounts of tasks doesn’t come easily to her. One may have to remind her about something several times just to get her to remember to do it; her short term memory can be sub-par. When she doesn’t have her focus directed on something, she is prone to spacing out or dissociating.
* ***Finicky.*** Hanako believes that most things have their place, and if they're not in that place, she'll seek to set them right. Although, she won't be too aggressive about her endeavors.

## Pre-Group History

She had been on the run since her legs could carry her.

That was what her father, Sora, had told her. His short story was one of many which he had so lovingly recalled to her time and time again before she slipped into slumber, curled against her mother. As soon as her stubby legs gained footing on the ground beneath her, she had been walking; her mother had found herself troubled with keeping her in the den! Once her mother allowed for ventures to the land surrounding their den, Hanako had walked to the bright light that pooled on the den’s floor, and right out onto the grass. Her brothers and sisters soon followed in her footsteps, all giggling and jovial as she.

See, Hanako’s childhood was quaint and quiet, her fall from grace not near. The group that Sora and Natsumi stowed away in was stable yet small–they had built their family there from day one, embracing every aspect of it while still honoring old traditions. They retained the values ingrained in their heads from the stories they learned from the fallen culture of Tentaka.

As she grew, Hanako had gained the nickname of “Sora’s little shadow” among the older wolves, a nickname which she took a liking to. As she trailed along with him, practically nipping at his heels, Sora began to scatter in lessons about Tentaka, the pack that their ancestors had proudly been in. Each time she went on a walk with him, she looked forward to each new story, each new name, each new ending. In time, Natsumi began teaching her about Tentaka’s culture in private as well. Whatever Sora omitted in his task, Natsumi filled in, and Hanako’s interest with her heritage grew and grew. In her pack, nestled deep in the woods, she found herself thriving.

So, Hanako diversified her studies as she grew. Although she adored the stories her father told, she couldn’t see herself sitting around, collecting words for others to keep. Finding herself enthralled by hunting, though, she persuaded her father to take her out on the group’s hunting missions. This! This was what she wished to do with her life.

Days shifted into months, and months into a year or two. As their group grew, so did the tensions and strains. Their leader hadn’t anticipated their growth, and their lack of territory didn’t lend itself well to survival.

The leader called them together to discuss the state of the pack. Sora jogged alongside Hanako and the rest of the family, reassuring her in a jovial voice that cut through the crowd of quiet. Once they sat, she couldn’t shake the chill that repeatedly settled on her spie. There were talks about evicting some wolves from the pack to conserve their dwindling resources, and those suggestions shifted into demands from a select few within days of discussions. The leader was stern; nobody would leaving, for he stuck by his belief that they could persist through these difficult times. Although Hanako was worried, she showed none of it to her father or mother; Sora acted similarly, and assured his small family that they’d be fine. Surely they would stay here.

Hanako and her family had been chosen among the evicted.

When she heard wolves at their den, Hanako was the first to rise. They looked… harsh. Wolves she once looked to as friends now showed no comfort. When Sora demanded an explanation, standing in front of Hanako and his family, they only mentioned taking things into their own paws. They would fix this pack, whether the leader appreciated it or not.

Instead of fighting with tooth and claw, resisting the unfortunate events that fell upon them, Sora sought out a more peaceful exit. They would leave this pack as they wished, and as he nuzzled Natsumi and the rest of his family awake, they began to make their procession out of the territory.

They became renegades for a time, not growing prosperous but still living regardless. The land provided what they needed: nothing more, and nothing less. However, as Sora and Natsumi grew older, they knew they wouldn’t be able to last much longer. They both grew ill as winter took its grip– as a final lesson to their children, however, they told one last story. They wove in the names of their ancestors, and the location of the territory that had been passed down as well. Tentaka… she was being sent to Tentaka! But it was so early, and without her parents–her parents. A chill rattled down her spine as one fell into death’s grasp after the other.

Her siblings refused to take the trek after their passing, instead setting out to forge their own paths instead of following the old ways of Tentaka that they grew up on. Hanako, however, honored her parents last wish, and set out to find the old pack.

Although it took a great many days, she found the territory. It wasn’t easy to convince any of the wolves in Tentaka that her lineage included Tentaka’s noble wolves, but after enough unprompted information she managed to be at least allowed in the territory among them. She now lives a life guided by the traditions she learned long ago, and newly formed ones that she cherishes today.

## Group History

Hanako spent only a brief time in Tentaka, going about her duties and enjoying the unique environment around her, and learning to be a skilled Kawa, before she disappeared, never to be seen again.

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