Castas

[meowmix]

(I have a picture I requested for him... unfortunately, it's 600 px wide x.x so I'm waiting to see if it can be resized a little bit. Otherwise, the app is finished)

Castas

the character

name: Castas
age: 18 months
gender: male
pack: Eira
rank:
appearance: Castas is fairly large; he stands 31 inches at the shoulder, weighs in at 127 lbs, and is 68 inches from nose- to tail-tip. The thick pelt covering his body is a mix of red, gray, cream, and black, with red running along his belly and coloring the backs of his ears. Black peppers the silver-gray in his coat, and the three colors form a mask on his face with clean white underneath. His legs are mostly cream, with a little white on the inside. His eyes, however, are the most interesting part—they are sometimes called ‘medicine eyes’, and most often appear a curious greenish-gray color, but tend to shift somewhat between blue, slate gray, and decidedly green. He is, actually, fairly handsome.

breed, Canis lupus occidentalis, or Mackenzie Valley Gray
eyes, ‘medicine’ green—they shift between blue, gray, hazel, and green, depending on his mood, surroundings, and lighting, but usually remain a sort of faded jade color
pelt, silver-grey, black, red, and cream
height, 31 inches
weight, 127 lbs
other, Some scarring on his right side, with a faint line running below his right eye.

personality: Castas is naturally a leader; of the four pups born in his litter, he was what would probably have been considered the 'alpha'. However, he also seems to do alright on his own. Largely introverted, he can sometimes come across as spacey when he's not paying direct attention to someone, and unusually social, submissive, or timid wolves bother him. However, he has a strong personality and tends to be more than a little blunt.

He has a good heart, and secretly longs to have a family of his own, but he views showing these longings publicly as weakness. Furthermore, he tries never to show grief or uneasiness, viewing these as either weakness or cowardice-- both of which he despises. Castas generally comes across as stern, though when in a good enough mood he can be playful and mischievous. He can sometimes be almost cruelly sarcastic, especially when annoyed, and he doesn't treat those he views as cowards well.

He is loyal nearly to a fault and would die defending any creature he truly cares about, most especially pack members, friends, and family (though he hasn't got much left). He'll do anything in his power to protect those under his care and can come across as possessive, which is really his way of showing how much he cares. Unfortunately, these qualities don't protect him from his darker side.

As mentioned above, cowardice disgusts Castas, to the point that he will run off any such wolf if given the chance, whether by physical intimidation or by constant verbal abuse. He is self-destructive when finding this trait within himself, and can be almost suicidal in an effort to prove he's no coward. He doesn't form attachment easily, and takes the absence of those few who do grow on him even worse, especially if they're the ones to do the leaving. He hates the prospect of being abandoned, and therefore will drive away those he views as trying to leave him rather than let them leave him broken. However, enough of an upset could give him a break with reality, setting loose a slightly psychotic part of him whose only driving motives are revenge, cruelty, and bloodshed. Should this side emerge, he won't discriminate between friend and foe, family or stranger, only lash out and aim to kill.

He doesn't even know this side exists. He sometimes can feel a tiny part of it when he fights, giving a violent edge to his thoughts, but otherwise he has no clue.

history: Castas initially grew up in a small pack, with only four adults in it and four pups (Castas included). Unfortunately, his pack lived in a valley rich in wildlife sandwiched right between the territories of two fairly large packs, one of which contained male wolves large enough to kill bison. When he was about seven months old, his pack was attacked by this second pack, killing three of the adults (both of his parents and the lowest ranked wolf) and running the pups and one adult from the territory.

To get out, the five remaining wolves had to run through 'enemy' territory, and in so doing lost two of Castas's litter mates, a brother and a sister. Though his remaining sister and the adult wolf were elsewhere, Castas watched as the two pups were killed, and the sight haunts him still. He and the two remaining wolves of his pack continued on, finally breaking into no man's land. He traveled only a couple more weeks with them before they went their separate ways.

The older wolf, his mother's sister, wanted to join another pack immediately; she was frightened of being alone, and even the pack which had run them out had begun to look appealing to her. She wasn't used to having to fend mostly for herself, for she'd always been with a pack and being alone scared her. Castas, on the other hand, was in no way ready to throw himself onto the mercy of a pack of strange wolves, and especially not those wolves which had killed his mother and father, or his siblings. Therefore, he and the female quarreled, until his sister couldn't take it anymore and left.

As he watched her streak away into the night, Castas felt something within him shift; all of his family was now gone, and the one remaining member had chosen to leave him, rather than stay. He turned and, in a fit of fury, attacked the older female; frightened by his rage, the female scampered, so that Castas was alone in the darkness.

He's been alone ever since.

lineage:
birthpack: Wide River Valley

sire, Quiretus (deceased)
dam, Irina (deceased)
siblings, Rona (sister, deceased), Koru (female), Corturus (male, deceased)

the roleplayer

ooc name: Meowmix
age: 17
gender: female
roleplay level: I’ve been playing a character on here, if it wasn’t obvious enough.. lol . Anyway, I’m pretty sure I’m at least intermediate, though I’m totally up for being reclassified one way or another if my mind is screwed up, lol.

[Nile Crocodile]

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I really like your character, man. <3 Do you want to do a roleplay with my Eira wolf Feste? He hasn't been doing anything and needs someone to bother.