Aja

Hera II and Zinnia (Sisters)

Ambrose and Hieronymus (Brothers)

Quinn (Uncle)

Hera (Aunt)

## Application Sheet

Aja was a golden-brown she-wolf. She was born as a loner, to her mother Dahlia, in the midst of the Hive Wars. After witnessing a battle to the death between her mother and father, Silvanus, she followed two of her elder siblings (Hera and Hieronymus) to live in Aryn, where she took the task of Ranger. She had two other elder siblings, Zinnia, of Riverfell, and Ambrose, who she never met. Her story is ongoing. She was created and RP'd by SilverPocky.

## Personality

* ***Bright and Sociable.*** Aja has the kind of energy of one described as someone who "lights up a room". Her smiles and good mood are a constant and she has no hesitancy when it comes to socializing. She thoroughly enjoys company and being in the middle of anything and everything social, if there's a celebration she's there, a small gathering? She's all over it, this seemingly stems from the fact that she was born a singleton pup and only had the company of her mother for sometime.
* ***Attentive and Focused***. Aja is bubbly and fun loving but has inherited the studious ethics of her parents and takes that fact very seriously, her studies and knowledge are just as important to her as having a good time. If for some reason she is found alone she is most likely practicing her skills, applying something she's learned, or observing the world around her. Her dedication to developing her mind also leaks into her personal affairs as Aja is very in tune with the feelings of others and can't help leaving a distressed wolf alone.
* ***Spiritual and Explorative.*** Being born from some of the remaining members of the disbanded pack of Havir, Aja was raised with the pack's traditional gods and values in mind. She is not as heavily devout as her parents were and instead channels her beliefs more into the world around her, believing every living thing and nature itself holds a kind of spirit. To her the gods are the ones that started it all but now mother nature has continued where they left off. With this point of view Aja is extremely curious about the world around her, she treats most things with an unusual respect and can't stand wasting or being cruel towards the world that she believes mother earth created.
* ***Emotionally Distant.*** While she is outgoing and can socialize with most anyone with ease Aja does not easily emotionally bond with others. Unconsciously she puts up walls around her heart that not many have been able to pass through. While she herself is not sure why she has difficulty bonding with others outside of her family, Aja is not particularly motivated to change this aspect of herself. Despite it all the distance keeps her from getting hurt.
* ***Non-committal.*** To come with age.

## Pre-Group History

Aja was the result of a bittersweet reunion between her parents Dahlia and Silvanus. When her conception was realized her mother traveled for weeks to make it to the mountains that use to be inhabited by the Havir pack. Thankfully the pair made it just in time as Aja came into the world the following night, to her mother's surprise her daughter was born alone. A sign from the gods above that Aja was special and that she was meant to be. When Dahlia finally submitted to sleep after Aja's birth she had a dream of her creamy daughter running through a lush forested area, when she awoke the mother was sure the dream meant something and elected to name her daughter according to her vision. Aja the forest goddess.

## Group History

For a few weeks after Aja was born, it was just her and her mother. Dahlia hunted for herself, kept her pup fed, and made sure to give Aja a beautiful start to life. Aja's first few weeks were filled with happiness, stories told to her mother about her elder siblings, and walks through the forest.

This happiness would grow when Zinnia, Hera, and Hieronymus arrived, along with their companions Silas and Seava. They helped Dahlia to care for Aja, hunting and helping to keep an eye out for threats, such as the Hive or...*Silvanus.*

He'd promised to come back and finish things with Dahlia, but the time he said he'd come for her - at the change of the season - had come and gone, without sight of him. Still, nobody believed that he had forgotten her. He'd come back. And he did.

Aja and Dahlia were on a walk together when Silvanus emerged. Immediately, Dahlia told Aja to run, to find Silas, and she did just that. Finding Silas was easy, and she tearfully, breathlessly confirmed that Dahlia desperately needed help, but Silas knew Dahlia would want him to keep her safe. Trusting Dahlia's older children to handle the situation, he took Aja somewhere safe, where they couldn't be easily seen or ambushed from behind. He figured Silvanus was there to take Aja, and he was determined to make sure it didn't happen.

After the battle was over, Dahlia, mortally wounded by Silvanus, asked for Aja, and Silas brought her, having come to the scene with the young she-wolf when the sounds of battle ceased. Aja went to her mother and begged her not to leave her, but Dahlia assured Aja that she would always be loved, and her siblings would take care of her. Then, she passed.

Aja was devastated - they all were - and after burying Silvanus and Dahlia, Aja went with Hieronymus and Hera back to their pack of Aryn. She was eager to make friends, but struggled to do so.

She grew up, quietly on the sidelines, attentive to her siblings, and then, as a young adult, her mettle was tested for a second time: this time, by the Hive.

They'd ambushed Aryn, and Aja obeyed her siblings when they told her to hide and *stay hidden*, but when she was spotted by a Hive wolf, she flashed back to memories of her father snarling at her mother...thinking about the blood and violence of that scene from her youth...

She refused to be a victim this time, and she leapt into action, making the first move on the Hive wolf and ripping its throat, killing the stunned beast while Hera watched, grappling with her own foes.

## Trivia

* Dahlia, having learned from her first litter, made sure to raise Aja with well-rounded boundaries and communication, so as not to stifle her daughter's natural curiosity and brightness, but also to have Aja's instinct to always obey Dahlia's instructions be guaranteed.
	+ This was of crucial importance when Silvanus came to kill Dahlia, and Dahlia instructed Aja to run and find Silas, possibly saving her life.

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
* SilverPocky's deviantART Gallery