Gareth

Five Unnamed Siblings (NPCs)

## Application Sheet

Gareth was a sandy gray and white she-wolf with leaf green eyes. She lived for a time in Vale, before moving to Damasca when Loki moved the pack away from the Domain. She lived in Damasca until it was moved from the Domain, never to be seen again. She was created and RP'd by toboe5tails.

## Personality

* ***Sassy, Teasing, and Energetic.*** Gareth is a wolf with a bold and energetic sort of disposition. She's mostly quite casual and enjoys friendly banter with her packmates, though her jokes don't always land as well as they'd hope. She can be snarky and teasing, though she usually doesn't mean it unless you've drawn her ire, in which case you should probably watch out anyways.
* ***Stubborn, Blunt, and Quick-to-Anger.*** Gareth can hold a hell of a grudge, and is rarely quick to forgive when she feels she's been done wrong. It's not uncommon for her to get into small tiffs, given her gossipy nature and how stubborn and defiant she can be when confronted. She hates to admit she's wrong, and usually doubles down hard before she'll admit to anything. Gareth can be a bit blunt and forward as well, unafraid to tell it like it is.
* ***Ambitious.*** Ever aiming for the top, Gareth is a determined fighter and always looking for ways to hone her skills and grow stronger. She's deeply ambitious, and determined to get what she wants however she may need to do it. This can surface in unhealthy ways, as when she feels she's failed to live up to her own high expectations she may train herself obsessively, desperately trying to break her own limits without considering the bodily consequences of pushing herself too far. This stems from a deep seated insecurity of hers, that she will never reach her goals, that she may never be good enough no matter how hard she tries. She would never admit this out loud, but privately it is the one thing she fears more than anything else.
* ***Self-Guided.*** What Gareth admires and values most is strength and physical prowess. A surefire way to earn her respect is to defeat her fairly in a 1 on 1 duel. She has no particular respect for rules though neither does she actively desire to break them. It's more so that she doesn't feel held down by them, and if breaking the rules would save the day she would do it in a heartbeat. Overall, a she-wolf who's rough around the edges but great fun to be around if you can tolerate her sass.

## Pre-Group History

Born to a reclusive pack to the east, Gareth was one of hundreds of pups who were born with no name. Her litter had 3 other pups in it, the second litter of her parents Aldwyn and Vienna. The pack's laws were very strict, and the structure rigid. Pups were assigned temporary names and their lifelong task as soon as they were weaned, and they were rigorously trained in that task for the entirety of their youth. A pup would not receive their true and permanent name until they had completed their training and taken up their task officially. Gareth was no different, originally being named Red Cadet of the Mage task, a task that mixed the duties of a lorekeeper and healer. The assignment didn't particularly suit her, she had no patience for remembering long historical tales and often mixed up which herbs were which. Despite her poor performance she had to continue the training, routinely failing her tests and frustrating her instructors.

As she grew to be a Juvenile her parents and her pack lost their patience for her failures. There was no process to change tasks, and no forgiveness for a wolf's failure to conform. The pack's cruel alpha mandated that if she couldn't prove herself useful in the next cycle of the moon she would be severely punished. Even when threatened, the Red Mage cadet simply couldn't keep the information straight in her head. The day of her final test came, and once again she failed. Aldwyn and Vienna castigated her for her incompetence, their own places in the pack threatened by her inability to do what she was told. Brought before the Alpha, he proceeded to scar her face, and exiled her from the pack forever, condemning her to death if she ever returned.

Bitterly she left, and as she left the territory behind she decided as petty revenge to steal the name of the pack's Alpha: Gareth.

In the wilderness on her own, Gareth managed to survive well enough for years. Despite the injustice she suffered, Gareth was a lot happier once she left her birth pack behind. In whispers on the wind from other lone wolves she encountered she heard of a great and strong pack to the north. A pack that was rumored to be strong and brave, that had an Alpha without match. Her interest piqued, Gareth sought out that pack, and arrived in Vale not long after.

## Group History

Shortly after Gareth was accepted into Vale, one of the Valerians - a critically important and respected Valerian, Kotori the Eir, or spiritual leader, of the pack - was found murdered. Nobody knew what to make of the Eir's death. Though she didn't know Kotori personally, she understood it was a heavy loss for the pack, and she was quick to snap at Kolya when he haughtily insisted that a *Valerian* must have killed Kotori.

In the end, she focused on other things, rather than murder conspiracies. She joined Solveig and Quinn in a group hunt, and was generally settling into life in Vale.

However, this wasn't going to last. The weather in Vale grew steadily worse in Vale, and Astir Loki, believing there were obvious signs that the pack needed to go, assembled the pack to leave the Domain. Many wolves remained behind, including Gareth. However, unlike these wolves, who remained in Vale's old lands, Gareth traveled south, until she encountered a roguish pack in tough terrain: Damasca.

Welcomed into Damasca, Gareth set about making a place for herself. She tested her mettle against packmate Sheranee, and started to find friends within the pack. Gareth liked the landscape and the wolves there, rough as they were, and when prey shortages caused Vargas, the alpha, to move the pack away from the Domain, she went with them.

## Trivia

* Gareth bears serious resentment towards her parents, but mostly her father. There is a possibility, if she saw her mother again, they could make some kind of a relationship work. But never with her father.
* Gareth's retirement placed her as a background character in Damasca, and it is only assumed that she left the Domain *with* Vargas and the rest of Damasca when they left the Domain.

## Quotes

* "What, you expect us to treat you like our savior while you're telling us we should suspect our packmates of murder?" (to Kolya, *Winter is Coming*)

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
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