Shadepelt

Shadepelt wasn’t always the super friendly sweetheart we all know and love. Once upon a time, she was a little pup named Twilight, who her mother had great plans for. She was protected in such a way that kept her life sheltered and relatively easy, and the little one oblivious to what was happening around her. At least, for a while. It gave her a sense of importance, and for a while, little Twilight was rather bratty.
As time went on, though, she started to wander away from her mother, and began to look up to the wolves older than her. She started to see things, things that began to tear down her image of the perfect world that her mother had conjured in her mind. She saw the prey the pack hunted, and for the first time she saw the wounds, the effort, the exhaustion it took to get it. Her eyes were really opened when her pack got into a fight with opposition and a few wolves didn’t make it out alive. It caused her to gain empathy for the others, so she started secretly working with the acting healer to help those wounded and sick wolves. All this time, her mother had been hiding these things from her, and she hated her all the more for it.

Her temper finally exploded one fateful day as an adolescent wolf. The other wolves had noticed that her sheltered life had led her to be not as capable as them, and had recommended that she try to learn, lest it be too late when the pack truly needs her most. That day, she had wanted to go on a hunting patrol, just as she had been sneaking out and doing for a while, and her mother found out and tried to stop her. The two got into a fight. Fangs were bloodied, claws shredded pelts. In the end, Twilight emerged victorious and got her mother to back down, despite a wound on her left hind leg which would leave a permanent limp.

Upon seeing what she had done, the young wolf decided she wasn’t fit for the name her mother gave her, and, following her transition into a nameless loner, left the pack. As time went on, though, she decided she would make a new name for herself. To this day and onward, she is known as Shadepelt, and even though she's the alpha, she strives to prove that she's just as valuable as her packmates. Especially since she never got the chance to when she was young.