Ruby (Riverfell)

## Application Sheet

Ruby was a warm brown-and-cream furred she-wolf with dark indigo-colored eyes. She lived in Riverfell, where she served as a Sage through the Hive Wars. She took a familiar and companion in a hedgehog named Hazelnut, and her story is ongoing. Ruby was created and RP'd by EternalHusky.

## Personality

* ***Nurturing***. Ruby herself is very nurturing, but stern with it. She'll be sure to provide any nurturing your wolf may need, but that usually comes with a stern lecture on not foolishly jumping off rocks or getting pummeled by deer.
* ***Selfless***. With her failing body she wants to do anything in her power to help, she lost her parents because she felt useless, so now because of that she wants to show she can do things, and is willing to help anyone in need. She knows there's things she can't do, but what she can she will do without question.
* ***Stern***. As noted above, Ruby is very stern when it comes to her care of others, she's friendly, but isn't afraid to speak her mind, or give a scolding to anyone who does what in her mind seems stupid or foolish.
* ***Defensive***. This comes at a fault, if she, or someone she cares about is in some type of trouble she becomes very defensive about it, which gets her into trouble sometimes.As generally she won't back down if she knows somethings wrong and she doesn't agree with it.
* ***Lazy***. Ruby can be very lazy at times, she’d take sleeping or lounging around all day then working, she’s been spoken to about this a lot. This is also largely to do with the pain she feels in her legs, as well as to not overstrain her heart, which as caused her to collapse in the past, so she tends to err on the side of caution and take it easy.

## Pre-Group History

Born to two wolves whom had their share of harsh experiences, Aurum and Sapphire where timid at first on weather to have a litter or not, but after quite a long talk, and pressure from Sapphire's parents they caved and bore one single litter, a litter of large strong puppies with bright futures. It wasn't until a few weeks that they noticed Ruby wasn't keeping up well with her siblings, she was short winded and seemed to always be in pain, Sapphire was worried and immediately brought her to one of the packs medics. the news was heartbreaking for any mother to hear, Sapphire was crushed when she heard the words uddered from the healers mouth **"she has a very weak heart... It will likely be a problem her entire life."**

The pair had no clue what to do with the growing pup, she had grown lazy and was gaining weight faster than her siblings, but had also had multiple episodes where she'd collapse after rough play, It was getting to be too much. "**Maybe we should let her go, being on her own might teach her."** This caused a divide between the pair, Sapphire wanted to do anything in her power to help her daughter survive, but Aurum had grown tired and frustrated with his daughter's health, as she had healthy siblings who could definitely use the attention their mother was showering onto her. A pup that may likely not make it, nor be of much use to the pack. Constant fights ensued at a distance as to not worry the pack, nor their children, at least for a time.

Eventually the divide had slowly became visible to Ruby, she felt terrible for the strain she was putting on her parents, they didn't deserve it. Her siblings had grown jealous of the love and care she was getting too, it slowly began to ebb at her mental state, she wanted her family to be happy... and they wouldn't be with her here. So after some prompting after an argument with her older brother Helix she had run away, it was a lot for young Ruby living on her own, after awhile she had found herself unable to hunt much due to her fainting episodes and had begun to loose weight, luckily for her at the time she had it. She began to live off the good graces of others, and scavenging, staying in packs off and on through bartering various things, like work, herbs or companionship. But she longed for a place to stay, some place to finally rest and become useful again. It wasn't long until she found herself alone again, wandering aimlessly though the wilderness when she found Riverfell, a pack! She was ecstatic and quickly asked to join, she'd try her best to help and give whatever she could, she knew she couldn't keep going, so this was her only shot.  Though shortly after she joined a sort of revolution had started, Ruby wanted no part in this, whatever was to happen wouldn't change much for her, as she had just freshly joined just days before, it would have no effect to her on who led the pack, things would likely change sure, but who knows, it may be for the better.

## Trivia

* Ruby LOVES to swim, it's a low impact exercise that she absolutely loves to do.
* Ruby has bradycardia, or a small heart. Ruby's heart is unable to push enough blood to support her large body, and this can cause dizzy spells, fainting and fatigue. Because of this she tends to avoid heavy exercise.
	+ Despite her weight loss, she feels that her heart is continuing to tire itself, its weakening, slowly, but it's making her nervous. Her life expectancy would likely be around 6-10 years, can vary depending on stress, availability of food and care, and travel, can live longer if taken care of well though.  But having pups would lower this drastically, but she'd do so if given an incredibly good reason.

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
* EternalHusky's deviantART Gallery