Ilan

Adi and Alon (Brothers, NPCs)

Inessa (Cousin)

## Application Sheet

Ilan was a ginger-brown wolf with emerald-green eyes. He joined the pack of Aryn during the Hive Wars, where he served as a Gamma Ranger. He would also reunite with his cousin, Inessa. After the last battle against the Hive, however, Ilan vanished and hasn't been seen since. Ilan was created and RP'd by Skystar261.

## Personality

* ***Sociable.*** Not surprisingly, Ilan's out to make friends. He's friendly and outgoing, a bit of a social butterfly. Quick to befriend and even quicker to strike up a conversation, almost no one can escape his fun and bubbly persona.
* ***Open*.** What does he have to hide? Almost everything about Ilan is out in the open, and he's perfectly happy with that. Even though he understands that not everyone likes to roll that way, he's perfectly happy to have all the deets in the air.
* ***Well-Rounded.*** Normally, it's pretty good to do a little bit of everything... but not for Ilan. He's pretty ok at everything, and he just... doesn't know where to go from there. He sometimes wants to be a scout, sometimes wants to be a healer. Ugh! So many choices and he doesn't know which one to pick!
* ***Inclusive*.** Yea, everyone gets to be in his inner circle. Which, since not everyone can be as good-hearted as he is, that isn't always a good thing. Ilan can keep some pretty questionable company. But he just wants everyone to feel included.
* ***Soft*.** He's not just friendly, if the wrong wolf gets near him... poor Ilan. He's a pushover, too worried about making everyone happy to consider what's actually best for him. Because that's just his thing, and what's wrong with that?
* ***Protective*.** Though he normally gets along with everyone, Ilan holds his friends dear. And if anything, *anything*, hurts his friends... well. They'll sure have hell to pay. He's not actually malicious, but he doesn't want his friends to feel alone in their time of need like he did.

## Pre-Group History

###### CW: Transphobia

Her parents were a pair of convenience rather than love, but that didn't bother the only little girl in their first litter. She was happy, with her two big brothers, her supportive father, and her gentle mother. The rest of the pack hardly mattered to her, she just needed her family. And as she grew this fact hardly changed. She was shy, reclusive, she didn't want to go make friends. Granted, most of the younger wolves in the pack were males. There was believed to be a curse on all the females of the pack, and that any born would be stillborn or barren if they lived. It was a miracle that she was alive, but many of the boys just thought she was someone small to bully. So she stayed with her parents.

Until she had the brilliant idea... or more of an internal understanding. She hadn't liked playing with them as a girl because she just... wasn't a girl. Not inside at least, and pretending to be something she wasn't was growing old. Growing into a juvenile, his parents now had three boys. No more miracle girl for them.

Both of his parents were rather... off-set by this change, however. They wanted to love and support their pup, but they didn't understand how to. When he pushed too much, they would snap. When he acted too much like his brothers, they stopped him. They wanted to love him, but they couldn't.

And so one night when there was just too much tension, they exploded. He was cast out, no longer welcome to be a part of their family.

And so he was alone.

Not literally, he was still a member of the pack, but he didn't have a family anymore, not one that accepted him at least. And that was just... how it was. As he kept growing though, his heart urged more and more for him to leave. He longed to see the world, to find somewhere he belonged. Part of him thinks his parents were glad to see him go, but he can never be sure.

And so when he left his old home, he left his old life.

He traveled for a while. His journeys brought him far and wide, and he met a lot of different wolves. But it was lonely. He was lonely. And that's how he came to join Aryn. Does he know what he's gotten himself into...? No. But he's up for the ride, and in all honesty, he's excited to learn about the new characters and traditions of his new home.

## Group History

Ilan joined Aryn at the end of summer, and quickly found himself settling in to pack life. He made friends with Lorarii and Leviathan, and despite the pressing concerns of the Hive, Ilan considered things to be going pretty well. However, when Lora got injured in a Hive attack, Ilan began to put more effort into his duties in the pack, doing whatever he could to prevent further harm coming from his packmates. He eventually joined Lorarii as a Ranger, to help her adjust to life with her injuries. When visiting the Vicar's den, he also met a wolf named Sunrise, and they chatted a bit.

While he settled into his role as a Ranger, he met a packmate named Ezra. Their meeting started out well enough...until Ezra shared his name. Ilan was a bit taken aback upon learning it, and the conversation quickly ended with Ezra feeling confused. Ilan was triggered by hearing his father's name, but Ezra couldn't have possibly known that. His rank as Ranger made him originally a bit off-putting to Dyana, daughter of the former alphas of the pack, but she warmed up to him and was willing to show him a few special areas in Aryn's lands.

Later, Ilan would go on a hunting trip with Paimon. At first things seemed fine enough, but Paimon would slaughter a coyote when they found several eating from a deer carcass. The coldblooded murder of the coyote horrified Ilan, and he refused to partake in the meal, leaving Paimon alone.

Ilan got to know some other packmates, like Hieronymus, who was a bit of a grumpy soul! He had every right to be grumpy though, especially when, later, Hieronymus and Jaeger nearly lost their lives when Paimon frightened some elk. Despite his misgivings about Paimon, Ilan testified to Paimon's likely innocence because of the accident with the coyotes: if Paimon wanted a wolf dead, he would kill them outright, not resort to trickery.

Ilan was among the first wolves to approach Paimon when he brought back a small, supposedly orphaned young pup: Mewlin. He was stunned, and asked Paimon what his plans were, with Hiero at his side. Ultimately, Paimon would decide to keep the pup.

Around this time Ilan and Harley came across the fleeing Chandorian refugees, and brought them back into Aryn's home. There would be a big battle against the Hive, when the Chandorians and Arynians were ambushed. Ilan stuck close to Lorarii the best he could in the battle, to protect her, but received some severe injuries to his face in the process, losing a few teeth as well. After getting rescued by Harley, Ilan managed to survive the battle. His wounds would be treated by Cricket and Faucon, and he would mend bridges with Ezra while they recovered in the Vicar's den.

After the battle, Ilan would come across a severely injured loner. She introduced herself as Pyjama. Ilan offered to take her back to Aryn to have her wounds treated, but she had to find her traveling companion, Roddwen, and declined the invitation. After a few days had passed since she left, he couldn't shake the feeling she needed more help from him as he continued about his duties. Thus, the next time he found himself on that side of Aryn's territory, he figured it was best to go and check, to see if Pyjama was okay and had found her friend. Unfortunately, when he found her, she had already passed away of her injuries.

Later, though he didn't know it, he found the wolf Pyjama had been looking for. Roddwen and Ilan had a standoff concerning some medicinal herbs - a very uncomfortable meeting, though fortunately it didn't come to blows.

When the wolves of the Domain were called to band together to fight against the Hive at their home base - to kill their horrible Queen - Ilan was *ready.* He went to a Riverfell Young Feather named Orsu to help him sharpen his skills, and Orsu was happy to oblige. They would enter the battle a few days later.

However, after the battle, Ilan was never seen in Aryn again. Nobody knows what became of Ilan after the battle, but a body was never found. Perhaps he is still alive, somewhere outside the Domain, but his whereabouts are unknown.

## Trivia

* Ilan likes frogs, warm weather, flowers, and spending time with his family and packmates.

## Quotes

* "It's ok to be scared. I'm scared, but we can't let fear control our lives. Then we'll never get to see the beauty in living." (to Lorarii on their first trip out after her accident, *By Your Side*)
* "You're still perfect to me, and I'll be right here for you!" (comforting Lorarii, *Perfect to Me*)[1]

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
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