Rollo {William Ian Alexander}

[``Jennifer MacKenzie]

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Nick Name: Rollo
Gender: Male
Species: Wolf
Personality:

This creature has a very conflicting personality. On one hand-er, paw, he thinks, feels, and acts like a human; on the other paw, he thinks, feels, and acts like wolf.

As a human, he was snide, arrogant, and incredibly disrespectful, towards humanity, nature, and indeed himself, at times. He thought that he was the most important creature in the universe, and didn't hesitate to let others know.
He flaunted his royal birth, and never spoke more than a few sentances to those of the very unfortunate and lowly stature of peasant birth.

This was tempered imediantly as he became a wolf. The wolf cared not if he was noble. The niceties of humanity be damned. And cooked meat was not better.
The wolf lived on instinct, and intuition. He loved his home unconditionally, and revered all life, even that of those that he took to sustain his own. Thanks was given after each kill.
God did not exist to the wolf. It was a human thing, created to absolve mankind of the blame of their mistakes and errors. Prayers were to give the humans hope, where they should have just perservered.

This melding of human nature and animal wisdom has changed the creature that was William into a being with a great capacity for compassion. He is more humane, as far as the word goes, and he has developed a concious. He does not take things and people at face value, and must uncover the true nature of the being before he will pass his judgement.
However, he is more ruthless than he ever was before. As a human, he was childish, and full of himself. He had seen little of the true world, and knew little, very little indeed, about the nature and devices of life. Now, he understands the value of life, and the awesome power to take it away.
He is now capable of love, and humility. He is willing to admit to his mistakes, and to allow room for forgiveness. And most of all, he is willing to run away, if need be.

History:

Rollo was born William Ian Alexander, a prince of Saor. He was the second son, and greatly resentful for it. His general attitude towards life was "Get out of my way". Very arrogant.
This all changed the year of the annual Hunt, where all the royals and nobles hunted the stag. The hunt had began as normal, cold, and with no sightings of the great stag. And when the stag was seen, they all gave chase. Whoever slew the stag would have a feast in his honor, and would recieve much prestige and honor, as well as the keeping of the stag.
Ian would be the one to almost kill the stag. He would be the one that got lost, and wandered for hours. And he would be the one that saw the white wolf.
The wolf, as prize even greater than the stag, was too much a challange for the hot-headed prince, and he gave chase. They hunt was a long one, but the young man astride the brilliant horse prevailed, and he slew the wolf, its white fur contrasting grusomely with the bright blood. And that was when the princes world shifted, for a darker turn. The white wolf was sacred to the Fae goddess Siobhan (of the Silver Hair).
The Fae goddess Siobhan would have massacred the despicable prince, but she was under a gaes set upon her by the very Queen of the UnSeelie court, and was forbidden to harm humans. However, nothing was said about altering the shape of the human. And so Prince William was refashioned into a wolf, a great gray beast such as the one he had so insolently slewn.

The wolf watched as his home and kingdom was ravaged by war and strife, by family betrayal and splits in allegiance, unable to act upon his desire to help save his home and forced to cower as the wolf he was; for if he were enter the halls he had walked with such arrogance and disregard, he would be slain upon sight. It was not a fate he wanted. The prince, for all that he despaired of the life of a wolf, could not bring himself to die. He still retained his foolish human fear of death, his want to live for as long as he possibly could.

It was in this here and now that he began to patrol the lands of the now Sceith, the realm of the pretender-king, the wolfs own many-generations nephew, Connor Alexander. It was as he finally tracked down a party of Sceithian warriors that he came across the young human. It had been a female, disguising herself as a male. She was being harangued by the very warriors he sought, and did not fare well.
He had killed the warriors, as was his intent, and saved the child from the fate of a sure and miserable death. And while he was just doing his duty, there was something about the red-headed girl that pricked his curiousity, and drew him in. However he left her behind, and believed himself that he would never see her again.
That was not to be the case, as they were reaquainted shortly after, when he was the hunted. She had saved him by means of claim, that the great gray was actually her hound. The girl child had been very persuasive, and he had found himself regarding her with interest, despite the fact that she had touched his fur.

Since then, he has sort of followed her around, attending to his own agenda, and keeping an eye on the willful young woman.

Age: human years - 23 // wolf years - 5 // years alive - 172 years
Color: mottled gray
Breed: cursed human - wolf
Markings:

none

Other:

Rollo is the companion to Jennifer MacKenzie. He travels with her, and assists her at times. However, Jennifer believes that Rollo is just a smart wolf; the reality would shock her.

In another year or two, unknown to Siobhan, Jenny, and Rollo himself, is the momentuos event, where the curse shall be broken, and William restored to his former human glory.
Which means that, eventually, he will be created as a separate charrie.

Also, I'm thinking that Rollo/Ian will become a romantice interest for Jenny; he'll fall in love with her as a wolf - oh, just thinking about the problems that might arise when Ian becomes human again is inspiring!

[Peregrine Alexander]

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