☼ Totem ☼

You catch ☼ Totem ☼ whispering some nasty gossip to a packmate. They notice you but don't seem to care.

Parents: Anahera & Fanrik
Mate: —

Date of Birth: Winter, Year 19
Place of Birth: The Redfeather Pack
Join Date: ?

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    Totem was born to alpha, Anahera, at the end of her first year in power. She was a precocious pup, if rather surly and a bit cold from the outset. After her littermates left to become foundlings for other packs she was the sole focus of her mother's efforts. She was well trained by Anahera from a young age, becoming a precise and deadly hunter before some of her peers could even stalk a mouse properly. Her mother's high expectations and rigorous training came with consequences, however.

    As she matured and her skills were honed by extensive and often rough practice, Totem formed ambitions. During her adolescence she recognized that moves were being made and that the power dynamic of the pack was about to shift. Being the calculating and observant young wolf that she was, Totem decided that she would ingratiate herself with the schemers. When her fear came to pass and her mother and uncle were ousted— and thus, her bloodline dethroned— she elected to remain with the victors in hopes of clawing her way back to the top.

    It wasn't anything against her family. They had turned her into the powerful young wolf she was, after all. However, she did not fancy the nomadic and hunted lifestyle that they and the rest of the Opposed were setting out to live, and thus she remained in the newly formed Court of Moonlight. In truth, she liked the new structure of things. Her new king was quite a wolf, even if he was controlled, for the moment, by some tyrant from across the valley. That could be easily remedied, and then she could worm her way into Sorcor's ear and become his queen. Simple enough, she surmised. After all, it was her blood right.

    She was raised to full pack member soon after the Cereus wolves' takeover and it wasn't long after that that she was chosen as one of Sorcor's courtiers. She was uncompromising and devious. This was something that the king greatly required to keep both control over his new subjects and a degree of independence from the Cereus alpha, who, predictably as soon as power was won, relegated Sorcor to being simply another one of his own subjects. Totem, schooled in these things as an alpha's pup, had seen this coming a mile away, and she hadn't shied away from letting Sorcor know this. He was outraged, naturally, but had immediately recruited her as an inner circle member for her superior knowledge. Now all she had to do was make it so that he did nothing without consulting her first and it would be a straight shot to her rightful queendom.

    Totem was furious. She had been so close. She had had her birthright within her grasp and now she was relegated to hunting for the rest of her life and nothing more. Her own mother had given her such a tongue lashing in the center of the hollow the day she had returned that Totem had no hope of ever making it back into Anahera's good graces. Oh, of course her mother still loved her, but what was that compared with being queen? What's worse, her own pups had turned out to be complete failures. And on top of that, Sorcor had never even glanced at her again, and he had commandeered her rejected pups with his new mate who was a pupsitter!
    She could just about scream.
    Now she stalked through the hollow, shouldering through a bunch of lollygagging adolescents. "Idiots," she rumbled as she passed, and to her dismay they giggled.
    Her muscles bunched as she prepared to whirl and claw at them, but she caught sight of her sister nearby, raising a cruelly amused eyebrow at her as if daring her to go ahead and dig her hole that much deeper. Instead Totem stalked over to her sister and shoved her nose right into her space, daring her right back. Wytt just smiled and pawed her playfully between the ears.
    "You've really got to lighten up, little sister," Wytt drawled, "your great plan failed after we all told you it would. You gave it your best and stepped in the shit and now you've got to deal with it." She shrugged as she turned away, "why don't you try making friends already? We're here whenever you're ready."

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