Nightingale

Bluebell and Rosemary (Sisters, NPCs)

Cactus (Brother, NPC)

## Application Sheet

Nightingale was a pale lavender-gray she-wolf with misty silver eyes. She was born to a pair of loners, but joined Highvalley as a young adult, slowly growing blind due to cataracts. Unfortunately, after becoming a Steward (though without being assigned a Master), Nightingale vanished from the pack. Her ultimate fate is unknown. Nightingale was created and RP'd by lilbeantrix.

## Personality

* ***Petty***. Nightingale grew up to be a bit petty, so she gets heated over the most dumbest things, like mud that happens to get on her body other than her paws. Let's say she lost a hunt, she would make a big deal over it and probably blame someone else for her loss.
* ***Emotional***. This trait is not the best one for her, it will cause her to get over emotional or she over reacts to something like a friend wanting to spend time with someone else for a while other than her.
* ***Optimistic and Positive.*** She honestly hates thinking of bad things, so if something bad was to happen, she would ignore it and think everything is butterflies and sunshine. Gale doesn't want to admit to anything negative if able.
* ***Friendly***. Gale is quite easily approachable most of the time, as long as she isn't being dramatic she'll do her absolute best make you happy, mainly in order for you to like her. She believes if others see her negative side, they wouldn't want to be around her.
* ***Humorous***. Despite her being a bit of a stubborn snob at times, she does have a sense of humor, though she finds more offensive things funny, she hates jokes dealing with anything romantic. She will do goofy things when she is alone, just keep herself entertained in a different way other than the way she was raised in.

## Pre-Group History

Long ago, there was a small pup named Nightingale, who was born into a small litter, from a of couple loners called Dandelion and Blue. Gale had 2 sisters and 1 brother, their names were Bluebell, Rosemary and Cactus, odd names right? At least that was what Gale thought, then again, she was named after a bird, but her parents mostly called her Lavender or Lavendula. She didn't quite understand why her parents named them after plants, though it never bothered her one bit. Growing up Gale was quite spoiled by her family, so she grew to have the word revolve around her, which caused her to look down on her siblings and even her own parents as time went on. Despite her attitude towards them, she still loved them dearly and would in fact give up everything to protect them.

One day, during early dawn, Nightingale started to feel more independent or at least more “mature”. She felt that she should be aloud to start living on her own, even though she had just became a juvenile and knew nothing of the world beyond her den. Gale didn't let this prevent her from confronting her parents though and saying her could byes to her siblings was hard, but she felt it was the right thing to do. So later that morning, Gale left her small family to fend for herself, feeling quite confident with the life plans she had prepared for herself. In all honesty though, this petty princess couldn't handle any of the life problems that were thrown at her. She was lost, couldn't hunt properly and even if she was to catch something, she had no way of defending it from coyotes, foxes or even bears. It wasn't until she had met another loner. This loner was called Rufus, he was a big, black and white wolf, with scarlet eyes, but despite his stunning appearance, his attitude was ugly.

These two did travel together for a while though, in fact, they became mates, they even wanted to have pups. Nightingale did get pregnant at a young age, but what did she care, as long as she had mate at her side, she wouldn't need to do much. At least, that's what she thought, not knowing Rufus wasn't at all committed to her, he one day up and left. Gale at first thought he was just on a hunting trip, so she waited, and waited and waited, till she could no longer wait no more. She assumed the guy had left her for another, maybe she wasn't good enough, maybe she was to lazy for him or maybe he was just a jerk. This pissed her off, she was used by the one she thought had loved her, obviously she was wrong.

Continuing on her journey without a mate and belly full on soon to be born pups was tiring for her. She couldn't hunt nor travel any farther, eventually she was in labor and gave birth to 3 stillborn pups. Though this made her sad and she grieved for weeks, she was also relieved she didn't have pups to take care of, Gale wouldn't be able to see them starve just because of her trouble hunting skills. Not wanting to dwell further into the thoughts, the young she-wolf set off once more, in hopes to find a place to settle down.

## Group History

Nightingale stumbled upon Highvalley, and though she was a Lowblood, High King Rodwen permitted her entry. The first wolf she'd seen was Mohawk, who warned her away from the borders, but when she told him she wanted to speak to the leader, he begrudgingly escorted her to Rodwen.

She was to learn about the various tasks, starting with the task of Seeker, from Gwyndolyn. Nightingale's chipper inquiries and belief that she would be treated as an equal were quickly put down by Gwyn, who made sure she knew she would never amount to anything because she was a Lowblood and a female. She would never be part of the High Guard, never be Queen, never be equal to the Highbloods. This irritated and angered Nightingale, who didn't understand why Highvalley were so misogynistic and obsessed with blood status. Gwyn was irritated by Gale's lack of proper manners and etiquette, but Gale eventually apologized and remained quiet for her lesson.

Other Lowbloods were friendly, though. Hemlock, for instance, was kind, making polite conversation with her about what task she wanted to take. She admitted her lofty dreams to him, and he was polite about it, not immediately shooting these dreams down. She was also delighted to meet a Meister named Eros, who was equally kind. Gale expressed interest in learning about Eros's legacy as a Havirian, and the two spent the day chatting.

She met others, too, like Vysariel, who she spoke to about her stillborn pups (he felt pretty bad for her about that).

At some point in the autumn, though, Nightingale vanished from the pack. Nobody knows what became of her, but she was never seen in the Domain again.

## Trivia

* At a young age, Gale got cataracts, and as a result, she is slowly going blind.
* She doesn't like being flirted with at all, so if you do it, don't make it obvious.
* Gale is scared of having pups again.
* Nightingale doesn't know how to howl.

## Quotes

* "Well, that's stupid, if I were queen I wouldn't discriminate against females or Lowbloods from being a part of the High Guard." (criticizing Highvalley's sexism, *Get to Work*)

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
* lilbeantrix's deviantART Gallery