Arrow France

**Arrow France** was a rebellious but loved Guardian who was against his mother's values and choices, now having a gravesite in his remembrance.

## Appearance

Arrow is a deeply scruffy and scarred male guardian, underweight and lithe, with a coat of longish tattered grey fur fluffing up along his back in a darker stripe that continues over his forehead and tail, his nose and hooves are a deeper grey, and his iris’ are nearly white making them quite hard to notice. He has notable scars on his right shoulder, lower back, forehead, and tail from Holly and Mica in 2016, and can often be seen followed by butterflies.

## Personality

Forever a controversial individual, Arrow has relentlessly fought his cause no matter the pushback. From a lifetime of feeling outcasted from his peers, he has grown docile and lonesome, his previous anger from his younger years dying away into sorrow, spending most of his days brooding alone. Arrow holds a deep hatred for humans and their cruelty towards his family, distraught with the willingness of the others to so easily bend and comply to their wishes. Though his methods of protest have always been unorthodox, his message holds more worth than he has ever been given credit for, an omen of an upcoming doom too many so easily ignored at the time.

## History

### Pre-Series

Forever a controversial individual amongst the island, Arrow is part of Holly’s third litter of fawns born June 2nd 2007 in the forests of northern England. From a young age he took to heart his mother Holly’s early caution towards humans, claiming how they never change and would continue to hunt and hurt the family no matter what. Despite explaining in later life this was more an exaggeration to keep her children safe, Arrow refused to believe as such, claiming humans were indeed a criminal threat upon the pack and should never be trusted. This would more than often land him in hot water with the others, such as when open trading between humans and guardians begun, as well as Holly being so willing to date and bring back another human to the island, eventually outright disowning her for her own human blood. After a frenzied fight between the family in 2016, Arrow would attack his siblings: ripping off Spring’s tail and Murphy’s back, and battling hard with Mica from whom he would sustain deep scaring on his head, lower back, and tail, and more on his shoulder from Holly. For his outburst, Holly too would disown Arrow, and banish him away from guardian civilisation across or off island, and so he would spend the next two years isolated in a cave across Custos.

From forever feeling outcasted from his peers, Arrow would grow docile and lonesome, his previous anger dying away into sorrow, spending most of his days brooding alone in the cave. On November 20th 2018, he was finally drawn back to the city upon hearing of Orizon’s attack on the island, only to arrive finding his mother under the god’s attack, having received a devastating blow to the face. Knowing in that moment he would never recover his reputation from his past actions, and feeling no worth in his own life, Arrow rushed Orizon to protect Holly from him, spurred on by ‘They’ to sacrifice himself to save something greater. In his last moments, Arrow attempted to tell his mother that despite everything, he did still feel some love for her, though sadly his speech was cut short as Orizon ripped him apart in front of her.

In present day Holly continues to be haunted by Arrow’s memory, still deeply disturbed by why he of all people chose to die to protect her, confused by her conflicted feelings of regret and to what degree she actually cared for him too. Further south of Altrum in a wooded area lies his grave, unbeknownst to most of the public due to his less than ideal reputation in life, only Holly and a small few others know of it’s whereabouts, and she often visits to sit in the grove nearby. Arrow’s legacy still lingers on Custos from the growing issue humans continue to have on the island, with many coming to realise his warnings may have held more worth than anyone ever gave him credit for. He is succeeded by very little other than his retained lifelong soft spot for butterflies, and many still swear they hauntingly see more appear wherever he is now spoken of.