Name: Fen
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Rank: Elder
*Desired Rank: She's content (but she might miss the good ol' days)
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Appearance:
Fen is less-than flashy in appearance, with the exception that she is quite tall. Her exceedingly slender frame is covered in a thick coat of mahogany-dark fur, the only marking being one dime-sized smear of white between her pale yellow eyes. As she's aged, the fur around her muzzle and eyes has begun to gray, though less than you might expect for a wolf of 12. Everything about her face and bearing speaks of geniality and wit.
Personality:
Once upon a time, Fen had been a healer, though her time has long passed. Her joints do not bend as well, her eyes are beginning to go, and she cannot travel the distances necessary to collect the herbs necessary. Despite this, the she-wolf is a veritable fount of knowledge with mountains of experience, and it is this prowess that ears her respect in her pack.
Even if they did not respect her, they would like her very well. She's exceedingly kind and forgiving, always a mediator, even since her youth. Though she has a wry, sarcastic streak, it never bites deeply. Slow to anger and nearly impossible to ruffle, Fen is somewhat known for her unflappable nature, even in the face of strife or panic, taking everything in stride in a way that approaches apathy. She does tend to treat situtions with less gravity than they deserve, on the grounds that she's lived a long life, and if she dies, she dies.
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Strengths: Highly intelligent, silver-tongued, cool & collected, adaptable.
Weaknesses: Apathy, decreased vision and hearing ability, prone to stiffness and pain, would do literally anything to keep a pup safe (including give her own or others' lives)
Increased Ability:
Heightened Senses- While she was not gifted with the regaining of her perfect vision or hearing, much to her chagrin, her ability to tell when she is being watched has increased significantly. She is also highly sensitive to vibration, and between the two, she can tell who's coming from where to a high degree of accuracy.
Enhanced Stealth- What it says on the tin. Fen has become preternatually light-footed, despite her age. Excluding her packmates, she's nearly impossible to detect as she moves.
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Power(s) that will be gained:
Third Eye:
Not a literal-third eye, but moreso an over-enhanced perception of her surroundings. While Fen's regular vision is quickly leaving her, followed by her hearing, she will possess the preternatural ability to percieve her surroundings. It functions almost as if she is detecting energy fields, or if you're the spiritual type, as if she is so deeply connected to the world around her that she is the world around her. It does make everything quite loud and occasionally overwhelming, as she percieves not only her packmates and their words, but also the heartbeats of field mice miles away. While this power also comes with what she will coin as "intention reading", or not the ability to read minds but the ability to tell when one is lying, nervous, or duplicitous, it's largely a useless offshoot, as it is quite difficult to glean whether whoever she's speaking to is being duplicitous or whether she's picking up the frequency of another creature. It must be quite flagrant for her to know the difference.
Prognostication:
It will take Fen a considerable amount of time to realize she now lives a few steps ahead of her packmates. Those around her assume her secondary power to be increased agility or reflexes, when instead it is that she has the ability to "see" the future. She will presume, correctly, that there is a strong interation between her prognostication and third eye. On rare occasions, her prognostication will allow her to see farther than a few seconds ahead, most often in the dreamscape and always resulting in hellacious body aches that no herb can cure. These events are not always "big" events (she may see that a hunter brings back an extra squirrel, or that the pups will go to the fields to chase birds), nor is it always obvious when exactly they will occur, or to whom.
*Likes: Camraderie, banter, large groups, reminising, pups, plums, swimming (especially in slow-moving rivers), venison.
*Dislikes: Darkness, soft-spoken wolves, battle, bloodshed, nettles, hot days.
Other: Dark green has always been my favorite!