Lanae

## Application Sheet

Lanae was a chocolate-brown she-wolf with warm gray-brown eyes. She served the pack of Tentaka as a Kage, before her eventual disappearance from the Domain after the earthquake. Lanae was created and RP'd by Aerial-Vew.

## Personality

* ***Dauntless, Social, Expressive, Empathetic, Proud, Independent, Stubborn, Awkward, Silly, Blunt, Sassy, Vain, Impatient, Temperamental, Arrogant, and Insecure.*** Lanae portrays a confident and reckless sort of persona. In many ways, she can come off as childish or naive, making light of more serious situations or acting uninterested in important matters. However, one glance and you know she's a spitfire, taking names, kicking tail, and living life to the fullest. Lanae does life her way, unafraid to try new things and get into conflicts. She's fierce and volatile, priding herself over her appearance and reputation among others. Indeed, it seems as if nothing could smother her fiery and regal attitude, but to some extent, it is a front. Her temperamental personality is really an unchecked coping mechanism: a disguise hiding a small and insecure creature who wants to be perfect at everything. She isn't quite sure how to make friends, and although she may seem aloof about such things, she is desperate for personal connections. Her ideas and understanding of herself are very loose and malleable, and she is frantically trying to figure it all out under her cool guise. She can be to be outgoing, charming, and social among others, but feels very disconnected, even if she is getting along well with someone.
	+ She's an emotional disaster trying to be a badass.

## Pre-Group History

Lanae was born to the alpha pair of her family pack along with a younger twin brother. The pack itself was fairly large, consisting of her aunts, uncles, grandparents, and numerous older cousins, and within such a family, attention was never limited. All throughout her puphood Lanae and her brother were pampered and babied by their extended family. At the time, Lanae loved the idea of being treated like a princess while everyone else carried on with the difficult and boring tasks. She began to hold herself above everyone else in her family and acted as if she ran the pack, bossing others around, talking back, and disrespecting the pack hierarchy as well as the adults of the pack, but always in a manner seen as a joke and thought adorable by her family. Even her violent nature was taken lightly, like something she would grow out of.

However, as Lanae grew, the privileges of childhood soon began to fade. Responsibilities and expectations from her family piled up around her. That being frightening enough, it didn't help that she was always compared to her elder sister, Begonia. In the pack, Begonia was accomplished and beloved by their family, talented, patient, level-headed: everything Lanae was not. It was a shadow that loomed over her every minute and set her up for failure no matter how hard she worked to fit the mold.

Over time, Lanae came to the realization that she could never live up to the image that her family had created for her. She was trapped in a pack that would always be against her. In response, she began to act out. Suddenly her disrespect and back-talk were no longer the silly antics of a child, but the challenge of a stubborn juvenile. She tried to act fearlessly against her family, tried to ignore the harsh response that her actions brought on her. Lanae wanted to be stronger than their anger and expectations, and yet she still harbored that feeling of not being enough. She couldn't be what *they* wanted. Her self-conscious manifested into vanity and violent outbursts to cope, driving an even greater wedge between her and her pack. Her actions and words became deceiving as she snuck behind the watchful eyes of her family to get away when she could, and soon she became as elusive as a ghost in their territory. Her home no longer felt safe or familiar; most days it was as if she was a stranger among her blood, hidden and alone, locked away in herself.

That wasn't what she wanted. Lanae had potential, she knew that. There was so much she wanted to do and offer the world if it'd just give her the chance. The only thing keeping her from it all was family- the tether that held her down.

She would let it hold her no more. When the chance arose, Lanae slipped away without a goodbye set off to carve out her own path in life without her family.

## Group History

She arrived in Tentaka and quickly set about taking a task - Kage. She also began collecting various knick-knacks and items...and her *favorite* item was a lynx skull that she'd found. Imagine how disappointed she was when an earthquake buried her den - and all her precious items, like her lynx skull - in loose soil! She searched for her packmates who were buried in the quake, but as soon as that duty was done, she was *desperate* to unbury her treasures!

Ultimately, though, Lanae vanished from the Domain, and has never been seen again.

## Trivia

* Lanae loves Tentaka's custom of collecting pretty little knick-knacks- her favorite thing to collect is small skulls and shiny river rocks.
* Lanae has an irrational fear of butterflies.
* Lanae gets along with kids pretty well - she has a commanding presence that they seem to understand.
* Lanae likes that in Tentaka, she can express herself in many different creative ways.
* Lanae's never really had a friend that wasn't related to her and isn't quite sure how being friends with someone is supposed to work.

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
* Aerial-Vew's deviantART Gallery