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[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:
Name: Lady Coyote
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![]() [Childhood]
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.
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.
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.
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