Pathogen - Perjury's Daughter - Adoption

[Cascade]

Pride has officially given me permission to adopt out Pathogen since she won't be able to RP her anymore, so I am looking for an active player and strong RPer to adopt her. Here's her profile:

Name: Pathogen

Age: Pup (Cas note: Young adult now)

Gender: Female

Side: Evil

Eye Color: Orange

Coat Colour: Pathogen has a predominantly black coat, with a blaze of white streaking from her muzzle down to her shoulder blades. Her legs are a solid, murky red, with the color beginning to dapple as it reaches her torso. Spots of orange, yellow, and red splatter along her haunches and lower back, much like the distinctly fire-kissed markings of her mother. Her muzzle is adorned with three horizontal bands of yellow, orange, and red that end just over her nose.

Physical Build: Pathogen certainly takes after her father more so than her mother in physical build, though her musculature is more exaggerated than either of the two. The young she-wolf's frame is cut for raw, brute strength. Her physical prowess is beginning to bloom early in spite of her soft age, held evident by the cords of muscle beginning to develop along her thick frame. One day, she'll pack a nasty blow, but for now, she is simply the young promise of power.

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Personality:
In some ways, Pathogen is exactly what one might expect offspring from a royal lineage to be. Even in her youth, she is the picture of poise and leadership, with a sense of pride that flirts dangerously with the idea of becoming arrogance.

For a pup, Pathogen is not particularly playful or social, usually choosing to remain well away from her more boisterous peers. Do not mistake this avoidance for demureness, however, as she revels in attention when it comes her way. After all, attention under the right circumstances is a tool that can be used. And, like most born into a position of inherent power, Pathogen very much likes to play the game so long as it’s played by her rules.

She is cunning, ambitious, and driven. Though surprisingly, her goals are not wholly selfish. Pathogen would rather see her pack rise to power than solely herself. Though, that doesn’t mean that she would mind if she were the one who happened to lead it there. Being born in Frigid Plague is the wellspring of her drive, its members the core of her concerns. The whole is only the sum of its parts, in Pathogen’s mind. Her aggression in the pursuit of her quarry does not just apply to herself, but to all of her peers. Hellbent, Pathogen is determined to sweep the pack towards glory regardless of what might stand in her way. This includes the circumstances of her birth.

With a mind of steel and fire, Pathogen has nothing if not the unstoppable, excruciating ability to push forward. No matter how long a goal may take, she’ll carve through obstacle after obstacle just to reach the finer points of her plan. She was gifted with a silver tongue, the echoes of her father, that she uses to this to her advantage. But, be wary, for this silver tongue hides sharp teeth and an even sharper mind.

Lineage:
Perjury- Mother
Vanitas- Father (Deceased)
Narcotic- Sister
Shantias- Sister
Kiasra- Sister

Path is not heavily involved in any plots yet, but she will have a somewhat antagonistic relationship with Narcotic to start with that I would like to explore, since she got passed over for being the heir to FP by her (in her mind) less-qualified sister. I think they will be able to respect and support each other after significant character development, but for now they are at odds with each other. We were also exploring the possibility of a budding romance between Pathogen and my character Ashling (a neutral). We have a pretty defunct thread here that can optionally be finished, but I recommend reading it either way to get a handle on her characterization. Path is on track to become the beta female of Frigid Plague unless a more ambitious wolf appears to contest the title.

Since she has been unfortunately passed around twice now by players who ended up going inactive, I am going to be pretty particular about this adoption. I'm going to insist on an active member with at least 100 posts, and I'd like the RP to be consistently high-quality. If you're interested in adopting Pathogen, please post a sample post in this thread. It should be long enough and have enough substance that I can get a good sense of her characterization.

Thanks for reading this and good luck to all who apply

[emorli]

Hiya! Do I need to fill out a form to apply for her adoption?

[Cascade]

No form needed, just a sample post

[emorli]

Okie dokie! I'll get to it in a minute once I get home.

[emorli]

Sample post: Hope this is good enough! If you need any more I'd be happy to write another one.

The shade of the tree along with the forest floor being considerably damp, are all contributing to making the ground cold. The sun isn't as extremely hot in autumn as it is during summer, but it's not as cold as the winter or the beginning of spring. The nice weather always creates a comfortable feel in the air and even though Pathogen wouldn't be one to admit to it, the cooler seasons were the ones she preferred.

The sun breaks through the tree's canopy creating speckled sunlight, which rained down onto the built female, spotting her with bits of bright yellow/white spots. Pathogen lists her head from its position where it rested on her paws as she was interrupted by the sun beating against her eyes. Her dilated pupils take a moment to go back to their normal state and she blinks a few times as an attempt to even her vision. Taking a moment to reach her paws out and in front of her to stretch herself awake a bit more. She stretches each leg, bringing one after the other beneath her body, pushing herself up onto her paws and standing up completely. With a newfound energy from a recent nap, she briskly walks to the outer edge of the small forest. Her eyes scan the area and her stance shows that she's not a force to be reckoned with. She not only looks strong and sturdy, but her stance is just plain intimidating. She stands with her paws slightly wider apart the look plastered on her face is both ambitious and respectful, but it had this underlying feel like she was looking down on someone, which wasn't entirely wrong. Her fire-like, orange eyes spotted a small rabbit in the distance causing her stomach to growl at her.

Ahh. Let's see... Let's see. She crouches down, cranking her neck down, setting her head lower on her shoulders. She moves with agility and grace as she darts toward the unexpecting rabbit, snapping her jaws at it, catching it in between her sharp teeth. She shakes it around, putting it out of its misery, and carries it back to where she had recently taken a nap.
At the arrival of her previous resting place, she drops the limp corpse of the rabbit and sits down, curling her tail around to her side. "Well, I guess this will have to do for now." She lets out a small sigh before starting on her meal.

[Cascade]

Emorli, I think the quality of your RP is very good, but with the sample posts I was really hoping for more of Pathogen's characterization to be on display, and with just describing the weather and hunting a rabbit I don't really get a good sense of that. If you are up for taking another crack at it with that in mind, it's totally fine to include other characters for Pathogen to interact with in your sample, even if they are just "NPCs" who don't really exist

[emorli]

((Oof hope this was a little better. I used a little of my first post in the beginning if you don't mind. Ps. I put the NPCs dialogue in bold and italics))

A rustling in the dead autumn leaves cause Pathogen to raise her head and find the origin of the noise that interrupted her nap. Her dilated pupils take a moment to go back to their normal state and she blinks a few times as an attempt to even her vision. In the distance is what seems to be a pair of yearlings. She quickly stands from her position and walks to where the pair of pups stood, not noticing her presence just yet.

"Hello. Do you need something?" Her voice is silvery but slightly honeyed voice, and the two turn toward Pathogen. She has an empty smile on her face as she looks at the two. They both shake their heads causing a little annoyance to the she-wolf as they turn back to playing in the leaves... Loudly. "What are you two doing out here by yourselves?" They once again turn looking more annoyed at her rather than her looking annoyed at them. "We wanted to play, so we came out here to play." Pathogen signs at the reasoning and look at them with a serious tone. "Do you know if any of your parents are nearby?" One of the two nod and point to a direction causing the female to turn her head in the direction. There she sees a larger wolf that looks extremely similar to both pups and by the looks of it, that wolf had spotted Pathogen questioning his pups. In a sort of hurried manner, he walks over to where the three were.

"Oh. I'm so sorry! Were they bothering you?" Pathogen was not amused by the situation whatsoever, in her mind, the father should keep a handle on his pups. They shouldn't have had the opportunity to bother her as she slept. "I must ask you to take these two somewhere else." The father of the pups look at Pathogen in an offended way, "They were just playing! I see nothing wrong with that." This is definitely not how the female wanted to spend some time alone. "I'm sorry, but, I wasn't asking. Please take them somewhere else." The aura that consumed the she-wolf gave the air a heavier feel, she was tired and annoyed. She spoke slowly and maturely, but the undertones of annoyance poked through a bit. "I don't care if your pups play anywhere else but, it's not going to be here." That last sentence was what had finally gotten the family to decide to leave. Pathogen isn't one to be easily annoyed, but today just wasn't a day she wanted to be messed with.

After watching the three make their way away from the forest, the female makes her way back to where she was sleeping previously and, finally, the newfound peace allows her to fall back into a nice nap.