Ash

Born out in the wild, Ash's mother and littermates died early on in his life. He survived the hardships, and in turn this made him stronger and hardened to the world. Often coming off as cold or aggressive, most don't try to know him well enough to learn his better sides, excluding his best friends Gallium and Beryllium. You'll rarely see the three of them apart, and they never hunt without one another. When he's not with those two, he's with Rusty, hanging out at the herbalist and just talking with the older wolf.

Lost Rusty, his mate, on 4/7/22. Rusty was 7 years, 9 months old. Rest in peace, you old legend. Ash will always miss you.

As fate would have it, Ash would suffer two more grave losses before he had even recovered from the loss of Rusty. Beryllium and Gallium, his best friends from a younger age and his hunting party, both passed on 4/24/22. Ash couldn't take it. He refused to believe it when he was told so by Kalio. The herbalist tried to put it as lightly as he could onto the poor older wolf, to explain the deaths and reassure him, but little could be done. Ash's heart broke that day. He became cold and distant afterward, his yellow eyes taking on a look of steely determination. He couldn't allow his pain to be seen. Instead, he devoted himself to his adoptive daughter, Rusted. Named after Rusty himself back when he lived, she was all he had left, and he would never allow anything to hurt her. Not after the pain he had gone through. He couldn't take losing another.