Winema

Polaris (Adoptive Daughter)

Sparrow (Son, NPC)

Chunta (Half-Brother)

## Application Sheet

Winema was a deep red-furred she-wolf with sage green eyes and several scars across her body, as well as a missing rear leg. She served as a Healer in Blutwald, under Roman's rule, before falling in love with Stallion and being his alpha female. They had six pups together: Sparrow (NPC), Sylus, Estella, Sava, Bloom, and Caspian, and raised an adoptive daughter as well - the daughter of their enemy Ivan: Polaris. He abandoned Blutwald, leaving Winema as the alpha female. She led her pack through the trials of the Blutwald famine and the Blutwald-Aryn War, before eventually disbanding her pack, weary of leadership. She would later find her adoptive daughter Polaris in Fellfang, where she settled into the role of Beta Witch-Doctor. She lived in Fellfang until she felt her impending death approaching, and then took her leave from Polaris to die alone, her journey on this earth completed. She was created and RP'd by SeleneTheWerewolf.

## Personality

* ***Stubborn, Stoic, and Watchful.*** Since joining Blutwald, Winema has gone through many trials and tribulations. Most was due to her frequent stubborn nature, but since joining she has matured. No longer is she quite as reckless and thoughtless of her actions when it comes to fights. She has grown quite stoic and watchful—not quite as playful as she once was. Unless you have been a friend for a while or you are blood related to her, it is extremely hard for you to gain her trust. Since losing her best friend and mate, she doesn't trust so easily. She won't let anyone know if something is bothering, unless she has complete faith in them. Once you have gained her trust, she will open up and let you see the different sides of her.
* ***Vengeful and Untrusting.*** She is mostly quite silent and watches others. Taking over from her mate, she has learned to watch the faintest hints of emotion. Though it still hard for her to determine if a wolf is lying, if you lie to her she will find out and you'll pay for it dearly. After breaking her trust, she'll never be the same wolf around you again.
* ***Loyal, Dutiful, and Hardworking.*** To her friends, family and pack she is extremely loyal and will do anything to keep them safe. Even though she has a handicap, she is dutiful and works hard to keep her pack healthy and happy. She is still strong minded and find new ways to hunt, even only having three legs.
* ***Distant and Emotionally Detached.*** Mentally, she sometimes does not seem to be all there. She often looks as though she is daydreaming or is extremely tired. Though she'll never say it to anyone she doesn't trust or isn't family, she is plagued every other night by nightmares. This may lead to her being overly aggressive toward someone who gets on her bad side. Overly quiet and detached emotionally. She only reacts to wolves she's met before or her pups. It's unclear if this will last. Maybe if she finds the right wolf to coax her out of it.

## Pre-Group History

Winema was born into a small pack of wolves, where they praised and worshiped healers. At a young age, just as she was weaned the pack was invaded by a large pack, lead by an Alpha male named Chunta. Out of her entire pack, she was the only pup that was stolen away. The pack she was taken to believed in legends, their lead thought himself to a deity and that his mate will lead his pack to a new age, to build powerful and stronger wolves.

Apparently, Winema was born of the previous leader of the pack, her mother had taken her away from the deranged pack leader and the pack's silly legends. She was raised purely to make the new bloodline when she came of age. In that time, she was mostly sent to bottom of them totem pole in the pack—almost lower that Omega; it was to discipline her, but she never submitted.

An elder female saw her potential as not just a future mate for the alpha, but for a healer. When she was not being put in her place she accompanied the old female on walks through the forest in search of herbs to heal any sickness that went throughout the pack, and to help the elder's old bones not ache.

When she turned two years old, she was taken away from her den to be with the Alpha. It was tradition for the two Alphas to share a kill and before setting down. Winema slipped an herb inside of the meat to put her Alpha and future mate to sleep. When he slept deeply that night, she slipped away from the pack and never looked back.

Now, she searches for a new pack that can sustain her lust for strength, she'll never be taken advantage of again.

## Group History

Winema arrived at the border of Blutwald and found herself face-to-face with none other than the brutish alpha, Roman. She remained friendly, assuring him that she was not about to step foot in his lands, she knew to respect the scent markers of the border. However, she remarked that she knew a good deal about herbs, which caused Roman to propose a place in the pack for her. In exchange for serving as full-time healer in Blutwald, she'd have a pack to keep her fed and sheltered. She accepted the offer instantly.

Winema was a lot friendlier than most of her new Blutwald packmates, who all seemed very cold towards her at first, except Emelia. Eventually, she'd meet Stallion.

While working to tend to some injuries he acquired, Winema allowed herself to open up a bit to the large male. He was concerned to see that she was getting injuries from the guards, on her tail and on her nose, but was stunned to hear her say that, if Ivan took over the pack, she'd stand by *Stallion* against Roman's son.

And why didn't she support Ivan? The pair of them got into a vicious battle, completely unprovoked, and Ivan ended up ripping part of her ear off.

When she and Stallion went on a trip to gather herbs for Roman's failing eyesight, Winema broached a sensitive subject. She knew that Stallion was seeing another female outside of the pack, but she couldn't help asking if there was even a chance the two of them could end up together. Stallion admitted that he wasn't sure - better than Winema expected, for she feared he'd outright tell her no.

She continued to tend to Roman, giving him herbs to help his joints and eyesight, managing to stay on his good side mostly because he feared what would happen if she hated him - she knew poisons, after all! She also kept her relationship with Stallion a secret from Roman, as long as she possibly could. But it wasn't a secret she could keep from Ivan - at least, they weren't able to keep their closeness a secret. Ivan approached her one day and accused her of being a traitor, plotting to kill Roman with Stallion. Winema told him it was a preposterous thought, and before long, things dissolved into a physical attack, as usual between the pair.

Ivan vowed to kill Winema, and she only escaped because she was smaller and lighter than he was, and able to climb up a tree out of his reach.

When Stallion overthrew Roman and managed to get Ivan tossed from Blutwald territory, Winema was pregnant. She feared Ivan, watching them out in the forest, and she told Stallion that they should go to Chandor and ask for aid, to protect them from Ivan while she was incapacitated with pups. Stallion refused to entertain the idea, so Winema slipped herbs in his meal to make him sleep, and went to Chandor alone.

She gave birth to five pups, who she and Stallion decided to name Sylus, Estella, Bloom, Sava, and Sparrow. Unfortunately, Sparrow would be killed a few days after his birth, at the fangs of Ivan.

Shortly after the pups were born, and Polaris had been adopted, Stallion decided to enact a new law in Blutwald: males were allowed to have more than one mate. This, he insisted to Winema, was to encourage that the numbers in Blutwald would remain healthy and strong. Winema told him, begrudgingly, that she accepted this rule, though in reality, she was disgusted by it. She spoke about the issue with her friend Gypsee, who told her of her own fears that her mate Caidan would want another female as well. Gypsee alleviated Winema's fears somewhat, insisting that Stallion was completely devoted to her.

She worked on training her daughter Bloom about herbs. One day, she and Bloom were out gathering herbs when they were found by Ivan and Chunta. Winema managed to get Bloom hidden, and she ran to draw the males away from her daughter, before they captured her. Ivan and Chunta wanted to use Winema as bait to get to Stallion. To make sure she didn't run off, Chunta broke her leg and ripped the lower part away, effectively crippling Winema. When he went off to find herbs to take care of the wound he inflicted, Bloom crept out from her hiding place and asked her mother what to do. Winema told Bloom to fetch Stallion and let him know what had happened.

Another 'challenger' to emerge was Agatha. Though Winema was willing to met Agatha and judge the black she-wolf for herself, when she saw Agatha playing with Bloom, she realized that Stallion would potentially see *her* as a good mother, and want her to join his harem. Winema quickly interrupted their play, insisting it was time for Bloom to take her nap.

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## Trivia

* Winema has many scars from her encounters with male wolves: she lost her ear, and got many of her body scars, from Ivan, and her leg was removed by her half-brother Chunta.

## Quotes

* "I believe all should pay their respects to those who've lived longer than they have dwelt upon the land. There is much to learn from those older than ourselves." (to Emilia, *Winema Meets Emilia*)

## External Links

* Official Application Sheet
* SeleneTheWerewolf's deviantART Gallery