QUIETSONG

Played By: Shadow

Character Name: Quietsong

Cub Name: Moth

Previous Names: Stillears

Race: Wolfrider

Gender: Male

Age: 438

Height: 4'1"

Build: Medium.. He has muscles of a reasonable definition and is by no means a weakling, but Quietsong is also not a hulking brute in any way.

Hair Color: A nondescript brown. He keeps it clipped short, usually above shoulder length.. His hair is soft and has a gentle shine to it.

Eyes: A pale shimmering blue. His eyes are very expressive and reflect what he is feeling as if they were pools of clear water.

Skin Color: pale creamy tan. He gains a darker tan if he is out from the shade of the forest for any length of time.

Facial Features: His face is gently rounded, though not pudgy. He has high, rounded cheek bones that lend him a certain attractive quality. Quietsong has a gentle smile and an overall good cheer. His brows are of medium fullness and are softly set on his face. He is rather good looking, though not the most strikingly featured elf you'd ever see.

Voice: He doesn't speak as he is stone deaf and has never heard the sound of a spoken voice. However, he is able to howl. He learned how to feel the vibrations through his wolf friend's throat and imitate the sounds. His howling is, by all means, not perfect, and he does occasionally hit the wrong pitch or use the wrong harmonics, but his lupine companions have learned to anticipate this and will often alter their howls to mimic his. He can read lips, by the way.

Mental Voice: Gentle and warm. Gains an edge to it when he's angry.

Scars, Birthmarks, Etc.: Random scars from a life of hunting and living in the wilderness.

Occupation: Hunter, Tanner/Mender

Lovemate: Castwell (alive), Silversky - off and on (alive)

Lifemate: none

Recognized: Silversky

Family: Riverfox (father, alive)

Latefrost (mother, deceased)

Children: Lark (male/deceased)

Usual Clothing: blue vest, short sleeved tan tunic, long brown breeches tucked into mid-calf length boots

Heavy Clothing: brown jerkin lined in brown bear fur, brown fur lined, thick leather breeches, sometimes a brown leather cloak lined with bear fur, depending on how cold it is.

Light Clothing: blue vest, cut-off brown breeches, brown ankle-boots or bare feet (All of his clothing is quite tattered and threadbare, no matter the season, with exception to his cloak, which is hardly used.)

Jewelry/Adornments: A highly polished, blue river stone with a small hole through the center, given to him by Lark. He wears it on a simple brown leather thong as a necklace.

Weapons/Tools: Spear, bow, tanning tools and implements - including several bone needles, scrapers, and an awl.

Magic: Sending, Wolf-bonding, ???

Fears: being ambushed by a predator or an enemy, becoming a burden, intimacy (makes you vulnerable).

Likes: the comfort of his three wolf companions, the warmth of a small fire, fresh meat.

Dislikes: being at a disadvantage because of his lack of hearing, folk who deliberately speak to leave him out of a conversation.

Personality: Quietsong is a laid-back elf, with an easy smile and a gentle sense of humor. He can seem distant at times, due to his deafness and his habit of getting caught up in his thoughts. He is quite patient and often will remain calm when all others have given up or given in to anger. He has buried the grief over his son's early death, but it still lurks at the edges of his thoughts, often taking the form of nightmares.

Sees Self As: Someone who is trying to forge a new way through life, despite the hardships and the loss of the past.

History: Quietsong was born of the Recognition of Riverfox and Latefrost. His happy birth soon transcended into a tragic beginning because neither of his parents was expecting their "perfect" cubling to be born completely deaf. After the initial shock, blame games, and tear-filled days and nights of frustrationwere over, Latefrost and Riverfox began to see that, despite his differences and lack of hearing, the infant Moth was capable of functioning as a "normal" child.

With the boundless patience of his parents' love, young Moth soon learned to send and communicate his needs and desires. Due to his father's determination,the youngling also learned to hunt and track. It was extremely difficult for him as he couldn't hear his prey,but Moth soon learned to take advantage of his other senses, as well as the senses of his wolf friend.

His life was fairly uneventful with mainly a name change (to Stillears) to mark his passing into adulthood, until he Recognized Silversky, a beautiful and loving huntress, full of life's fire. The only problem was she didn't love him. Though Silversky gladly consummated the bond of Recognition, she only wanted the cub. Devastated by memories of his parents' Recognition-induced closeness and the totally opposite reaction of Silversky, Stillears turned to his lifelong friend, Castwell, for comfort..

Quickly becoming lovemates, Castwell and Stillears anxiously awaited the birth of Silversky and Stillears' cub. When the cubling was born two turns later, the trio of parents named him Lark because he came into the world singing. Lark's birth brought a closeness to Silversky and Stillears, that previously had not been.. With Castwell's smiling approval, the three adults and the infant began to den together.

When Lark was merely six turns old, Stillears took him into the forest to teach him about tanning. The young cub gleefully helped gather barksand roots and berries to help replenish his father's supplies. As Stillears hunched over his work, sending detailed explanations of the proper steps to tanning a hide to perfection, Lark wandered off to chase something small, dark, and furry. His natural cubbish curiosity drew him from his father's side with neither a send nor a gesture to tell Stillears he was leaving.

After a small span of time had gone by, Stillears turned to give Lark a try at tanning, but to his surprise, the cub was nowhere to be found.In a panic, Stillears began searching for Lark, calling out to him in send, over and over. It was then that he found the crumpled and bleeding body of his cub, laying on the forest floor.

Clenched tightly in Lark's small, pudgy hand, Stillears discovered several leaves from a nearby tree.As he cradled the body of his cubling to him, Stillears began to look on the scene with a tracker's eyes. Upon Lark's clothing was the scent and baby-fine hair of a bear cub. There were light tracks to indicate the cubs had played together, and pressed deeper into the earth were the large, heavy tracks of the mother bear, searching for her wayward offspring. Looking up to the tree where the tracks stopped, Stillears could see the deep gouges in the tree's trunk where the female bear had clawed the bark as she tore the elfin child from the tree. Stillears had no need to examine the matching gouges on Lark's legs, for he already knew the silent story they told. Clutching his child to him, his heart broken and bleeding inside, he tilted his head back and called for tribe and kin.

When the tribe arrived, the accusations flew, first from Silversky, then from Castwell. It was then that Stillears first felt something drawing him away. He thought he heard…something, but his mind was too troubled to make sense of it. In the end, he could no longer stand the looks of accusation and the hushed whisperings from one mind to the next. So Stillears packed his few meager belongings and left for parts unknown.

One night, his wolf friend came to him with two unbonded wolves of the pack, and the three made it known to Stillears that he was now Quietsong, and that they were his companions now. After he had traveled for a moondance, he actually heard Riamis' call. Driven to find the source, he happened upon Griel's wanderers and joined them.

Quote: **Let me see if I can patch that up for you.** , ::You flea-ridden furballs! Where are ya dragging me off to now?::

Bond Animal: Wolf

Name: Deerdancer

Gender: Female

Appearance: She is golden brown touched with darker and lighter shades of brown. Her muzzle is golden brown on the top side, light tan/almost white on the sides and underneath.., light tan extending to her neck ruff where it is touched with darker tan. Her forehead is "ravvit" colored and her ears are golden. She has a "ravvit" colored strip running down the length of her spine to her tail, and her barrel is golden brown fading into light tan on her underbelly..

Personality: She is the Alpha in her small pack of three. Deerdancer keeps the two males in their place, but she also cares for them deeply. The bond between the three runs deep, extending to the common bond they share with Quietsong, though Deerdancer is his true bond. She is defender and protector, mother and nuturer, friend and playmate.

Companion Animal: Wolf

Name: Grizzle

Gender: Male

Appearance: Old, grey, and grizzled. He used to be a darker grey, but over the years, he has faded out. His fur is a variation of greys. Almost white down the sides of his muzzle, extending to his neck ruff, medium grey extending up the top side if his muzzle and his eyebrows, darker grey across his forehead, his ears are medium grey. His underbelly is almost white and his back and tail are a blended gradient of the different shades of grey. His eyes are a dark hazel greenish-brownish-amberish color.

Personality: Grizzle is old and sometimes snappish. He tries to keep the other two wolves in line, when it is truly Deerdancer, the female, that keeps them all in check. Grizzle is kindhearted but a bit overprotective of those he sees as "his".

Companion Animal: Wolf

Name: Dreamchaser

Gender: Male

Appearance: dark blackish grey, with white on the underneath of his muzzle extending to the front of his neck ruff. The remainder of his body is blackish grey with his paws looking somewhat frost-touched. Dreamchaser has bright golden eyes.

Personality: He is quite laidback when compared to Deerdancer and Grizzle. He is somewhat of a trickster, which often lands him in hot water with the other wolves and/or elves. He was named for his habit of "chasing" things in his sleep.


















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