Pighead

Pighead was born into the pack Year 2 when her mother was one year and seven months during Friendly's reign. She is the daughter of chaser Mandy and alpha Friendly, mother to Sleepers, paternal half sister to Mud, Lisle, and Dusty. She is a a bitch of average height, though she's lean and wiry like a feral dog. Pighead herself is a stalker and leader of her own hunting party, something she waited a long time for.

Raised by the notoriously ruthless Mandy, Pighead was taught to push through any pain or fear she might've felt; Mandy taught her to be ruthless and untrusting and strong. Pighead is one of the most powerful fighters in the pack, able to take hit after hit after hit and get up again.

As a whelp, Pighead was one of the shyer pups of the litter. She didn't talk much and preferred to watch the going ons of the pack from the sidelines, which was something her mother refused to allow. Pighead swiftly had this behavior ironed out of her, turning her into a raging, hateful youth that frequently wandered off to destroy trees and slaughter anything she saw.

Over the years, she got more and more angry and hurt and nasty, as her littermates passed away or left the pack until only she was left, and as she was passed up for a hunting position in a party and told over and over again by the placating voice of her father that she simply needs to wait for the right time.

Pighead eventually decided to do something else with her life after being passed over ten times to many, and went off and mated with an adventurous and charming wolf outside the pack when she was around two years old. Though she had a litter of five, she followed in her mother's footsteps and kept only the strongest two, abandoning the others in the woods.

While initially unsure of being a mother, Pighead gave it her all. She focused on teaching Sleepers and his brother to be strong, powerful, like her mother did for her, but came to the sudden realization that she didn't want to be like Mandy. She didn't want her pups to grow up angry and hurt and nasty, afraid to show how they felt, hating their mother.

Pighead worked hard to outgrow the vicious streak embedded in her for her children, and was eventually rewarded with a spot in a hunting party and then a hunting party of her own. Despite having slighted her her whole life for being Mandy's daughter, wolves outside of the Rust Truck began to act kind towards Pighead after this, something she resented immensely.

As a daughter of the alpha, she should've been revered her entire life, just as her half siblings were; but because her mother wasn't part of Friendly's "inner circle", she was treated as an outcast and scorned until she changed. This knowledge caused Pighead to revert back to her old harsh and brash ways towards others, but she remained gentle with her own pups and even became closer with Mandy.

Pighead does not get along with anyone and is a primarily solitary wolf, much like her mother and much like her son, Sleepers. The three of them can commonly be found underneath the Rust Truck, watching everyone else with thinly veiled glares.
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Daughter of Mandy and Friendly, mother of Sleepers. Pighead's favorite hunting party was one in which she was the stalker while her mother Mandy was the chaser and Dione was the finisher. The two other chasers did not remain with the Yellow Dogs.

notes Pighead has never been altered - she was the first skarn wolf I ever saw and I loved her since she was born. She was actually planned to be my heir for a while until I realized she wasn't that much younger than Friendly. Then I wanted Sleepers to be my heir but decided last minute to make Procyon my next lead because he aged up the day Friendly died.