Luna

## Application Sheet

Luna was a dark reddish-brown female with yellow eyes, who came to the Domain as a loner after Alar - her ex-mate - banished her from her old pack. She lingered a short time, traveling with ex-packmate Theron, before both left the Domain. She was designed by Tazihound, created and RP'd by lightningspam.

## Personality

* ***Family Oriented.*** Luna's birth pack was a tight nit one. Family was - and is - everything to her so they come first always. She finds a world without family confusing and bleak. In the Brazeau pack, the family bond was always reinforced during large gatherings like the hunt. While not everyone was blood related, everyone was family. Without her Brazeau family, Luna feels largely lost and alone.
* ***Friendly.*** Luna was born with a friendly disposition and while she may be hesitant at times, she usually warms up to most wolves. Up until the demise of the Brazeau pack as she knew it, she would seek to be close to all wolves in her life. She felt it was important to trust those around her and what better way than to forge friendships? Luna tries her best to see the good in other wolves and assumes the best of most at the first meeting. This can leave her vulnerable to manipulation and betrayals.
* ***Persistent.*** The now lone wolf finds it difficult to give up. While she feels very uncertain about her future, she is compelled to go on living despite her difficulties finding enough food. It is perhaps this part of her that clings to life even though she now wanders the forest aimlessly. She has no goals other than to live. Luna can only chalk it up to fate telling her that her job is not yet done.
* ***Bitter.*** The events that forced her to become a loner left a bad taste in the back of her throat. The normally warm wolf finds herself gritting her teeth in anger at the memory and the one responsible. She isn't sure yet if she wants vengeance or not but she does find herself fantasizing about fighting the wolves who betrayed the pack. She may not be able to take on the two new alphas alone but Alar she could. Alar is a main source of her bitterness and she often sees him when she closes her eyes, helping the new alphas rule. It makes her both angry and sad.
* ***Dependent.*** Because of her upbringing, Luna is lost without others to rely on. She knows how to work collaboratively but not at all independently and this is harshly reinforced as a loner. She struggles with the most basic things - like eating - without the help of another wolf. This can come off as needy to those who are fiercely independent but she certainly doesn't mean to be so dependent on others. Activities with a pack were practically guaranteed and she was unable to think of or even see the possibility of losing a pack. She'd never perceived the need for such independence and Luna strongly believes her pack didn't either. They wouldn't have let her suffer in this way. She is simply a casualty of complacency.

## Pre-Group History

Luna was born to a pack called the Brazeau pack. Her parents were mid-ranking wolves of no significant descent but the packs structure was such that everyone mattered as equally as possible. Her young life was filled with rambunctious play. It was encouraged by the older members of the pack since they survived on Bison herds so the pups needed to get strong quickly. Luna's training began at a year old. She was taught how to cooperate and communicate with her packmates for a hunt. All members participated in the hunt regardless of their rank or task as taking down a Bison took the cooperation of every member. Hunting was also a key part of the Brazeau pack as it was a time when every member was together for one purpose thus creating a prime opportunity for strengthening bonds. It quickly became one of Luna's favorite events as her father spent his time patrolling the borders and the hunt was one of the few times she could see him.

Her life became largely repetitive and safe within her powerful pack until Alar showed up. She heard the whispers of her packmates about how he contributed nothing to the hunt but would reap the benefits of the kill. Her family found it difficult to accept him as he was granted exceptions no other member was permitted. Even Luna found herself feeling similarly at times but it was slowly replaced with curiosity. During slow times, she would sometimes see him speaking to a white raven. She'd never seen a wolf befriend a creature of another species like him. This was what inevitably led to their meeting. By this point, Alar had been given the task to be the diplomat between the Brazeau pack and the surroundings packs. She became friends with him, embracing him as member of the pack. Through this she was able to meet the white raven she so often saw Alar with. While she never quite became as familiar with Raban as she did with Alar, she still felt she knew him well.

Luna became smitten and it seemed her feelings were mutual to a degree. The two became mates with the Alpha pair's permission but they were not granted permission to have pups. The she-wolf was able to accept this with the hope in the future they would be given permission. However, no such future awaited her. Her life changed drastically with a huge shift in her pack. Wolves began to turn on each other, fragmenting the pack. Some of them began fighting and even killing each other until finally it became clear that two wolves of the Guard were at least part of the cause. The two usurped the reigning Alpha pair, killing them so they could never take their rank back. Luna could only cling to the fact that she still had Alar but even that came to an end. He abandoned her to take the former Alpha's daughter as his mate and exiled her.

She sought out the two remaining pack members, banding with them to survive. After a year, one had died. He succumbed to a severe infection caused by the horn of a Bison slashing his side during a hunt. Luna and the last wolf hunted Deer instead. They were more difficult to catch but easier to kill. They survived in this way, careful to remain within the no man's land between packs. Shortly before Luna turned six, the last wolf died. She was left alone to fend for herself. Deer were too agile for her to take down on her own - and those sharp hooves too dangerous. She resorted to scavenging and catching squirrels and other small prey if she could. Her skills were directly linked to group hunting and large prey. It wasn't long before she began losing weight from not being able to properly feed herself. Luna found it bitterly ironic that she began relying on ravens to find carcasses to eat.

Following these birds led her to roam the lands unoccupied near Vale where, unbeknownst to her, her past would come back to haunt her again.

## Group History

Luna struggled with her loner lifestyle, desperately finding other loners to work with to bring down large prey and have some degree of safety in numbers - though it didn't normally last long. Wolves she crossed paths with included Oruz, Ranna (who she did not know, at the time, was a daughter of Alar), and Theron (also known as Theo). Theo, as it turned out, came from her old pack, and the two were relieved to find one another, for a sense of familiarity, and decided to travel together.

She has since vanished from the Domain, but it is assumed she is still alive.

## Trivia

* Luna was Alar's mate for a time, but they never had any pups.
* She struggles immensely to hunt small prey by herself, as her former pack focused on hunting large game, and she never learned the skills. As a result, she's a bit underweight.

## Quotes

* "Ravens are messengers for the wicked." (to Ranna, *Scavenger*)

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
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