Harley

Seava, Lidya, Beatrice, and Altaeya (Sisters)

Yamarashi, Cage, and Athens (Brothers)

Erin (Aunt)

## Application Sheet

Harley was a stormy gray male wolf with piercing pale green eyes, one of which has been blinded. Harley was born in the midst of the war with Vektren, to Aryn's senior Coursers, Hani and Lawson, alongside three siblings: Seava, Lidya, and Yamarashi. He vanished from the Domain for a time, and, after he returned, he brought with him an adoptive son, Johann, who went missing in another war - the Hive Wars. During this time, he became a big brother to his parents' second litter: Cage, Beatrice, Altaeya, and Athens. Harley was designed by Ammerlie, and minor alterations were made by Lotus-Wolfdragon, who adopted and RP'd him from his return onward.

## Personality

* ***Resilient*.** This wolf can take whatever is thrown his way without a budge or break in his resolve. If beaten down, Harley will just rise back stronger than before. He has a strong will to keep going, even if things don't work out in the way he would like them to.
* ***Reliable*.** Harley is a pretty reliable wolf where, if you ask him for an errand or to complete a task, he will do it. A part of this is selfish as he wants to make himself look good, but also it's because Harley doesn't like things done halfway. He knows his capability, so why not just ask the most competent wolf to take care of it? This could lead to him shouldering many burdens under the guise of 'it's fine, I can do this'. Once he's given his word, consider the deed done.
* ***Self-Assured.*** Harley never felt insecure about his being, nor disliked who he is as a wolf. He's quite comfortable in his skin, and jabs at his character are usually brushed aside. He feels he is the "bee's knees".
* ***Protective*.** He might not be the world's best brother, but deep below that cold exterior is a wolf who cares about his family, even if he may grate on their nerves or offend them with his words/actions. Harley will readily throw down with anyone who dares to insult his family or Aryn. The best way to describe his relationship with others is "No one else gets to insult them *but me*."
* ***Independent*.** Harley gained a sense of independence while he was gone from Aryn, which, while allowing him to grow up and learn how the outside world worked, may also make it hard for him to re-adjust to pack life. He had become accustomed to fending for himself, feeding himself, and answering to no one but himself, so this may spark conflict while attempting to re-assimilate into Aryn.
* ***Stubborn*.** Still as headstrong as ever, Harley will dig in his heels and refuse to admit he's made a mistake or he's wrong. If it ever gets to the point where he does see his fault, Harley will never admit it out loud. He is prideful and refuses to show a gentler side or confess that he made a mistake.
* ***Practical*.** Being more of a "do-er" than a philosopher, Harley doesn't waste his time with theories or ideas on things; he is more concerned with the actual completion or the answer to the problem. He has no use in debates over philosophies and morals when talking about it does not to solve it.
* ***Reserved*.** With age, however, Harley has become reserved. He's not the type who will open up readily about his feelings and instead keep to himself. It's hard to know what's going through his mind when he will never speak what it is, unless he's caught off-guard in rare moments. He doesn't go out of his way to make friends, or to talk to others, and thus it makes him isolated. Sometimes action don't speak loudly enough.
* ***Aggressive*.** Something that he picked up while gone is that Harley had unlocked a temper within him. He is impatient and quick to lose his nerve if prodded at wrong (jabs at his character will not invoke a response, though). Being as prideful as he is, Harley doesn't necessarily see this as a bad trait, for it means he's strong-willed and strong-minded should a conflict ever arise again. What he doesn't see, though, is how this could chase others away from him, thus losing what precious friends and allies he may have.
* ***Short-Sighted.*** Harley thinks of the now and not of the future. He doesn't consider how his actions in the present moment will impact his future, so as a result he may isolate himself from his family or others at the current moment, but then later bemoan the fact that he is lonely. He is not self-aware of his tendency to correct it.
* ***Condescending*.** Harley doesn't outwardly brag that he feels he's better than others, but his actions and sneers certainly show it. He looks down upon those who are 'weird' or don't match his idea of the social norm; meanwhile he thinks he's the greatest thing, or at least can become the greatest. He takes pride in his skills and will rub it in.
* ***Lost*.** Harley's whole purpose in leaving Aryn was to find his uncles and become stronger. Simply seeking the task of Warden wasn't enough - he wanted to be the strongest. And who better than to learn from those who didn't really align themselves under a pack sigil. However Harley's whole plan was operating under the assumption that the war against Vektren would still going on, and now that he's returned to Aryn in peace time, Harley feels deprived of a purpose. Sure he could take on the Warden task, but Harley feels somewhat deprived of a purpose, and he is resentful. He won't share that he's a bit disappointed the war came to an end.

## Pre-Group History

Harley was born from a place of love. His parents had been longtime friends who had been through trials and tribulations before it all accumulated into a little feeling called love. Their romance didn't start off like a fairy tale, but it soon became one, and everything else fell into place. Hani and Lawson's marriage was finalized under The One's gaze, and not long after Hani became pregnant. Even with the backdrop of war against Vektren, nothing deterred the inevitable joy that would be had raising a family.

Of course it wasn't so simple.

Lawson went missing before the birth, nearly killed by a Vektreni. Fortunately he was found by the then Lord of Aryn, Alcatraz, who delivered him home. By then the pups were already mobile. The reunion had a big impact on Harley because now he had a father when, before, he thought he might not have had one.

In spite of everything, they tried to raise the pups with a sense of normalcy. But during the harsh winter Harley came down with illnesses that afflicted him throughout the cold months. He never let this down, in spite of it stopping him from running with his siblings sometimes. His relationship with Hani deepened during this time as she was the one who comforted him during his sickness. It seemed that he outgrew this by spring as Harley no longer suffered from the illnesses of his puppy hood. By the time he became an adolescent, the tide against Vektren turned. Lord Alcatraz and Lady Athena were murdered, and their son Raphael was instilled as the new Lord of Aryn. With this change, however, came many things. Paranoia about those who would do harm to Aryn internally resulted in the rise of the Inquisition. The idea of family was gone. Harley watched how these events turned his family and silently vowed that it would not change him. He would be stronger. He would soon be a young adult and become a Warden, and everything would be fine.

But it wasn't fine. As the Inquisition went on, the atmosphere of the pack became utterly suffocating to Harley. He had no friends outside of his family, but there was tension among their fold despite their ties. He hated to see what Aryn was becoming and resolved that he had to be the one to, if not change it, then to lead the charge towards change. He wasn't going to become a Warden of Aryn, not yet anyways. He was going to learn from the outside world that Aryn now feared.

When Harley became a young adult, he confronted his family and explained his intentions. He was going abroad to find the Korgia clan - his maternal uncles - to learn from them. Aryn could teach him many things, but with them closing themselves off from the world, they were doing more harm to themselves than good. Harley promised he would be back once he learned everything and felt he was strong enough to fight back against Vektren.

It took him a while to find the pack, but once he did, Harley felt a sense of kinship and comfort that had felt so lacking in Aryn. He would never have said it out loud, but it made him miss how his family used to be. His parents had become former shells of themselves, and it was starting to morph his siblings too. He was going to save them all. So with that, Harley threw himself into training, learning, and growing stronger until his second year, when he finally felt it was time to return home.

Harley had so many expectations for what he would expect to see - the Inquisition still ongoing, the pack possibly at risk of dissolving or barely hanging on by its clutches, and Vektren still a prominent threat. What he didn't foresee, however, was that the world had changed significantly in the year he was gone, and Aryn had returned to its peacetime roots with Lord Raphael no longer at the helm. Returning to a place that Harley thought was long gone, the gray male has begun the arduous process of re-assimilating himself into Arynian society, and back into his family life.

## Trivia

* His eye scar was administered by a Hive wolf.

## External Links

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