Thanks to Chris for this marvellous piccy!

She stands, half-obscured by shadow, soft amber eyes watching with quiet apprehension. Her pelt, a satiny black edged in ash and detailed in delicate flame, covers a tiny frame; the fur is torn ragged by dozens of scars. Some of these grow beneath her thin black overcoat, others dig through it—all tell their own stories. She takes a meek step from the darkness, her eyes wide pools of emotion and depth, her features plain, her ears slightly too large. Regarding you, she allows the smallest ghost of a smile to twitch along her ashy maw, and then she backs away into darkness, body low and supplicating, as she retreats into the night.

[News]

Coy’s life has reached a relative calm—at least, as calm as her life has ever been, which is a mild shade of chaos. Her youngest child, Arumarna, is showing all the signs of darkness and shadow that others in Daverone’s family held; Jazovac has grown moody and resistant to contact. Kim and Anna are as happy and jubilant as ever, and for this Coy can be grateful…but motherhood is presenting her with challenges. Additionally, she is feeling a little lost within her pack—searching for a duty and purpose to give her solidity within those who effectively saved her life.

[Links]

:Friends & Family:
:Biography:
:Stories:
:Personality & Lyrics:

Name: Lady Coyote
Name meaning: None
Age: 30
Color: Fire
Markings: The normal black with tri-toned flames on paws, face, and tail; ashen grey muzzle, underbelly, and tailtip; dozens of scars
Eye colour: Amber
Physical abilities: None, really
Mental abilities: None, really
Personality: Sweet, loving, but quiet and shy; lacking in self-confidance and nervous around crowds.

[Friends & Family]

Coy, Daverone, and all of their family--pic by Chris

Will you be my friend?
Daverone:
Coy and Daverone have many things in common—hard childhoods, evil fathers, sweet dispositions, and a mutual, deep-burning love that has risen above all hardships they have faced together. She met the benevolent and easy-going lupe at her first meeting with the Fire Eagles, and they grew over time into first good friends, then good friends with sweet mutual crushes, and finally devoted mates. Coy owes her life and sanity to a large degree to Daverone and his gentle love for her, and she would have given up long ago if he had not been her stalwart hold to reality.


Irido_Kimeron:
Kim’s name means “the joining of a rainbow,” and that describes both his personality and appearance perfectly. Unequivocally bright in spirit, mind, and pelt, the little multi-flamed lupe takes after his father greatly: large-framed, gentle, loyal and kind. He is a moment of brightness in even the darkest times the family has gone through.


Anabael:
Equally joyous to her elder brother and just as distinctive in color, this violet-and-orange pup is tiny in stature and with a bold personality. Sweet, adventurous, friendly and intelligent, she is in many ways the collaboration of all the best traits of her parents.


Jazovac:
Thick and burly, not so tall as Kim but bulkier, Jazovac is a distinctively-marked and somber-natured child. His twin was stillborn, and though Jaz has never been told of this, he has always felt a quiet tug of pain in his heart—loneliness and the feeling of having been torn in half. This shows through in his nature, which is quite unlike his elder siblings; he is quiet, moody, and distrustful, disliking the company of others and greatly preferring solitude and wilderness.


Arumarna:
Arumarna, like Jazovac, is unfriendly and independent—but in a darker way, more promising of the evil threads that wind through Daverone’s blood. She has never gotten along well with her family, and Coy is deeply troubled by this dissent—knowing on some level that her youngest daughter will not be part of the family for long…

Will you be my friend?
Anackire:
Coy’s oldest and closest friend; it was Anackire who found her at her darkest moment, who taught her of the larger world, who imparted lessons of grace and wisdom upon her. Coy sought all her teen years to emulate the heroic figure of the flamed femme, and returns to her side for all the most important moments of her life. Anackire was there at the birth of Coy’s children, and she remains one creature who Coy can unquestioningly trust.

Will you be my friend?
Satin:
Coy does not know Satin as well as perhaps she should; they grew up in proximity to each other for much of their lives, and it was Satin who introduced her to his pack and, eventually, her mate. In this way, Satin is responsible for saving her life from the darkness it was steeped in.

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Coy as her sweet self--thanks Chris!

[Childhood]

Born in the midst of a massive family, Coy grew up barely knowing most of her family, and largely neglected. Her mother, a sweet but slow-minded femme, was the single-mother of a large litter when Aldath met and wooed her. He did not care for her personality or love, however; he used her nightly for the single purpose of churning out pups, heirs to his cause. He worked secretively as a trainer and kingpin of assassins, and he hand-picked the strongest and fastest of his children to use them. The rest he neglected and ignored, unless they had the misfortune to rub him the wrong way.
Coy was in the first dozen pups born, and she grew up surrounded by older and younger siblings. Though she never ran out of playmates, there was a certain loneliness that came with being constantly surrounded by others. Her mother was always busy nurturing to younger pups, and once a child reached age enough to either fend for itself or be led by an elder, their mother mostly forgot their existence.
Coy was further cursed in that, unlike most of her siblings, she was not neglected by her father. In fact, while he often unleashed his ferocious temper on children who interrupted his important work, he would actively seek his daughter Coy. She reminded him—though he told no one—of his adolescent beloved, whose abandonment of him had left him bitter, enraged, and slowly falling insane. Coy’s unfortunate resemblance to his lost love made her alternately spoiled and victimized by Aldath, who would give her special treatments and tender words, only to be lashed out at and violently attacked. When he was in a particularly vicious mood, he would call for her to come into his quarters so that he could beat her, often so violently that she would be semi-dead for days. He also humiliated her in the worst ways imaginable, torturing her mentally and spiritually as well as physically. The trauma, coupled with the neglect and malnourishment, stunted her growth. By her early preteens, she was as large as she would ever become and had been forced to do and see more than any pup her age ever should have, and she remained surprisingly and sadly sweet-tempered throughout her whole ordeal.
Finally, one night after Aldath’s temper had flared particularly violently and he had struck out at one sibling Coy was particularly fond of, Coy had enough. Earl, her brother, was tossed out of the pack, dead or near-dead; Coy, unable to deal with this, snuck away in the night—bleeding and weak—and ran as long and far away as she could.

[Adolesence]

Horribly injured and grotesquely disfigured by scars, tiny in stature and plain-featured, the little lupess had everything going against her. Lost, running blindly through night and day, she had no real hope for survival. On the third day of escape, she collapsed from blood loss, pain, and hunger. It was the depth of winter, and she nearly froze to death that first night.
In many of these situations, a kind stranger stumbles across the pained creature at just this moment to rescue her from the trauma. No such thing happened to Coy. She awoke from the shivering the next morning, and weakly drug herself further until she happened upon some carrion, and she tried to survive upon that. She pleaded for health from anyone who would come near her or listen; none would help her. She was weak, pitiful, and they wanted nothing to do with her. It looked so hopeless at one point that Coy was willing to turn back and go home. She would almost certainly be killed if she returned—but she no longer cared.
Before things grew too hopeless, however, she met one other creature who seemed to take an interest in her and stopped to care for her. Her name was Anackire, and she was a stunningly beautiful flame-lupess who Coy stumbled shyly upon one afternoon. Anackire was kind and patient, cared unquestioningly for the unattractive and brutally-scarred child, and a friendship built between them.
Also around this time, Coy met Ulryk, a powerful and elderly gentleman lupe who brought her to his home, where he lived with his mismatched adoptive family of a kougra, zafara, and gelert. He provided shelter and food for her, and introduced her to his adopted son Satin, who was connected with a lupe pack, the Fire Eagles, at the time. Coy grew slightly more comfortable with these few she knew, but remained painfully shy and apprehensive. Most nights she would not speak to those in her new-found family, and she barely got to know anyone but Ulryk, who she could not help but trust.
She introduced Anackire to Ulryk; it seemed natural to her that the only two friends she had should meet. They hit it off immediately and became instant friends, and due to both of their natures, they were very loyal and protective of each other. Eventually they professed their love and began their own family.
In the meantime, Coy was venturing away from Ulryk’s family to watch the outer world. One day she met a lupe named Acronis, a handsome beast who was confidant and took an immediate interest in her. Coy was flattered and taken in by his smooth nature, and he showed her the finer points of his life, treating her to pleasures that she had never touched before in her harsh life. She went home with him, and they became mates.
Unfortunately, Coy was both young and naïve, and she did not realize what Acronis was until it was too late. He, like her father, was an assassin. He was also fiercely dominating and frightening, and had a horrible temper. Every day they were together, he reminded her more and more of her father, so much so that it became unbearable. Acronis, once sweet, became forceful and violent toward her, and if she did not submit to him he would react violently—screaming at her, neglecting her, threatening her. Finally, she could not handle it any longer and she left him.
He would not allow her to go easily, however. He pursued her, threatened her life, tried to kill her on numerous occasions. She managed to fend him off and accidentally unleashed within him a demon, which turned away from her and began to ravage the world.
Coy, left in the cold now, turned back to her old family. After much thought, she decided to follow Satin to his pack and see if it appealed to her.
While in the territory, she made acquaintances with many of Satin’s friends and packmates, and was charmed at how kind all of them were to her. Among them was a very large and handsome lupe named Daverone, whom she gained an interest in after their first meeting and found herself wondering about him.
However, she was not ready to join a pack; she did not know herself well enough, she had too many questions left to be answered. And so she bid farewell to her new friends and escaped into the wilderness, going on a long quest for her own identity.
During this quest she found and took in a young and half-starved skeith, named Ryu, who had been tied up and abandoned in a cave. He was missing a number of his mental capacities, and could not speak, but was fiercely loyal to Coy and accompanied her on the remainder of her quest. She returned, months later, to the Fire Eagles pack with a slightly firmer hold on who she was, and picking up the title Lady Coy. Sometime over the journey she had stumbled into adulthood, and buried some of the horrors of her childhood. She never really explained all of her history to the pack, and likely never will.

[Adulthood]

Within a short period of her return, she had found Daverone once again and realized, with a pleasant surprise, that he too was interested in her. A close friendship grew closer every day, and they realized they had a lot of common ground—namely, both of their fathers had violent relationships towards them.
Coy’s was more violent than she had ever imagined.
Not so long after becoming mates with Daverone, she gained the knowledge that her father was searching for her—searching to kill her. His band of mercenaries had scattered, and in his insanity he had set fire to and destroyed most of his territory shortly after Coy’s leaving. So far as she knew, her mother and any siblings still living with her were dead; other family groups and packs, too, were dead. Aldath, meanwhile, had hunted down his most skillful assassin, Senova, who had retired years earlier, and forced him on the hit. He agreed, but was secretly scheming against his leader all the time. Meanwhile, Aldath had learned of Coy’s pack affiliates, and allied with the Fire Eagle’s enemy, an evil pack whose alpha was none other than Daverone’s father.
Open war broke out, and Coy found herself face to face with her father. He was larger than her, powerful and muscular despite his years, and she fought against him desperately and bravely. The rage of all the many injustices she had suffered was intense in her, and led her finally to kill him, though not without grievous energy to her. At the last moment of the war, Senova the assassin had turned on Aldath and the Evil Shadowed Lupes and began attacking them, and he became an ally to the Fire Eagles though remained a wanderer.
Coy, meanwhile, was grievously injured and spent a long time recovering. The open war between the Fire Eagles and ESLP raged on, and she clung to Daverone with everything she had.
In the midst of the war, Coy became pregnant and both she and Daverone agreed that they should leave the territory to give birth, knowing their children would be under great risk so near their mortal enemy. And so they made the journey to Ulryk’s territory, where they would stay until the pups were old enough to somewhat fend for themselves.
Coy gave birth to five pups; she, being a third the size of a normal lupe and Daverone twice as large, was disadvantaged. The pups were too large for an easy delivery. Lying with Anackire as her midwife, Coy gave birth to the first two with relative ease; the final three, however, were predicated by twins and very large. She nearly died before the last were born, and she was exhausted and weak when they finally arrived. One of the twins was stillborn; Coy was overcome with guilt, not knowing if this had been caused by the delayed delivery, not knowing if there was anything she could do. She and Daverone mourned and buried the pup, promising they would never tell anyone of the misfortune—including the child’s surviving twin brother.
Kim, Anna, Jaz, and Arumarna grew in Ulryk’s lush territory, watching the dramas unfold around him; Ulryk and Anackire’s life was filled with love and complication. Eventually, Coy and Daverone decided it was time to bring the children home, and they did so, returning to a pack stressed by war but still holding onto its optimism. Coy, for better or worse, was home.

Coy and Daverone--pic, once again, by the ever-talented Chris

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"Name"
Goo Goo Dolls
:Coy's Song:

And even though the moment passed me by
I still can't turn away
Cuz all the dreams you never thought you'd lose
Got tossed along the way
And letters that you never meant to send
Got lost or thrown away

And now we're grown up orphans
And never knew their names
We don't belong to no one
That's a shame
But you could hide beside me
Maybe for a while
And I won't tell no one your name
And I won't tell 'em your name

And scars are souvenirs you never lose
The past is never far
Did you lose yourself somewhere out there?
Did you get to be a star?
And don't it make you sad to know that life
Is more than who we are

We grew up way too fast
And now there's nothing to believe
And reruns all become our history
A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio
And I won't tell no one your name
And I won't tell 'em your name
I won't tell em' your name
Oooh, oooh, oooh
I won't tell em' your name
Ow!

I think about you all the time
But I don't need the same
It's lonely where you are
Come back down
And I won't tell 'em your name

Family has nothing to do with blood--family is defined by the people closest to your heart, and no more.

"Daddy"
Jewel
:To Aldath:

My bones are tired, Daddy
I don't get enough sleep
I don't eat as good as I could, Daddy
What's that say about me?
Sometimes I sleep past noon, Daddy
Drink lots of black coffee and I smoke like a chimney.
Yes, I left the refrigerator door half open, Daddy.
What's that say about me?
Sometimes I want to rip out your throat, Daddy
For all those things you said that were mean.
Gonna make you just as vulnerable as I was, Daddy
What's that say about me?
Sometimes I want to bash in your teeth, Daddy.
Gonna use your tongue as a stamp
Gonna rip your heart out the way you did mine, Daddy
Go ahead and psycho-analyze that.
'Cause I'm your creation, I'm your love, Daddy.
Grew up to be and do all those sick things you said I'd do
Well last night I saw you sneak out your window
With your white hood, Daddy
What's' that say about you?
I'm sloppy, what's that say about you?
I'm messy, what's that say about you?
My bones are tired, Daddy

My inner child is six years old today

My inner child is six years old!

Look what I can do! I can walk, I can run, I can
read! I like to do stuff, and there's a whole
big world out there to do it in. Just so long
as I can take my blankie and my Mommy and my
three best friends with me, of course.

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