Name: Imp
Meaning: Imperial Purple
Date: September 2017
Roleplay Status: Open
Breeding Status: Open (Roleplay preferred)
Obtained: Partner Personality RP Contest
Colorist: Marzipanz
Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown
Siblings: Twi
Mate: Looking!
Offspring: None
Personality:
Since taking on the role of replacement father-figure for his younger brother, Imp has been too afraid to let anything happen to his younger sibling. Often, Imp will take on the more terrifying roles of hunting and fighting in order to keep his younger brother from the harsh realities of the world. The relationship between the brothers is strong, resolute, and complex. While they both long to be independent, they both have a strong dependency on one another for comfort and out of fear of losing the other. However, both brothers have a penchant for trickery and joking around with each other, and other wolves - perhaps to distract themselves from their own minds.
While Imp may appear as the confident, level-headed brother, on the inside he is always second guessing himself and his decisions. Imp often believes that his efforts to replace his late-father, for Twi's sake, are all just an act that he is just barely holding together. Therefore, Imp is in a cycle of feeding his impostor complex, where he believes that he is not really fit for the role that he is taking. Furthermore, while Imp may be mature and confident, he often envies his brother's ability to have fun and make the most of anyvsituation, because Imp's own constant anxiety about his brother's mortality keeps him from relaxing enough to enjoy the present.
Yet, while Imp is ever the overbearing older brother, he is more apt to forming relationships with wolves (other than his brother) - while Twi is more likely to push back against forming those new relationships. Because of his ability to socialize more freely, Imp is beginning to recognize his attraction for other wolves and his desire to begin searching for a mate. This search will inevitably lead to quarrels with his younger brother, who will feel as if his brother is trying to find a replacement for him. However, Imp's luck with finding a mate will be very low - as each potential candidate will be driven away by Twi's pranks, insults, or snarky remarks. Similarly, Imp's attention for his potential mates will be split with his attention for his brother - where anytime that Twi does something stupid (thus getting himself in trouble) means that Imp would need to forego hanging out with his date in order to attend to his brother. This lack of attention for the potential mate would mean that Imp often gets dumped, or told, "You love your brother more than you love me!"
Desired Plots:
◊ Finding Imp a mate (and Twi getting jealous)
◊ Imp's potential mate's getting angry at the lack of attention
◊ Twi dealing with his feelings of inadequacy, and fear of being replaced
◊ Imp falling for a reoccurring potential mate
◊ Twi running away and getting hurt
◊ Imp and Potential Mate (who is a medic) finding and healing Twi
◊ Twi begrudgingly admitting to liking/tolerating the reoccurring potential mate
Backstory:
On a windy, wintry night the boys were born to two wolves who had been separated from their pack. Imp and Twi's parents were lost from their pack, due to the ferocity of the winter snow storm. The weather had been extreme as of late in the pack's usual territory, and the collective decision had been made to travel out of the range of the fierce weather. However, the boy's mother was heavily pregnant - but the alpha of the pack made the promise that she would be protected and had a guard close by to help with transporting the expectant couple. Yet, when the winds and snow picked up unexpectedly the couple was separated from the rest of the group, forcing them to have to find shelter fast. The commotion, combined with the stress of being pregnant while lost from the rest of her friends and family threw Imp and Twi's mother into labor.
With two young pups, one born hours before the other, the couple could not leave to search for their lost pack. The winter storm stayed whipping around them, even though it was late March. At the beginning of April, the boys were becoming more aware of their surroundings, loving their parents deeply and following their every order. However, as the days and weeks drew on, Imp and Twi's parents gradually grew sicker - being less apt to provide for their two young sons. While their mother was in a worse state than their father, both were obviously in declining health. Each was weak, disoriented - sometimes forgetting who they were entirely. Often the couple was too tired to move. Imp, being older, learned about the sickness from his father during one of his father's more lucid moments. His father called the disease, "Catching Midnight". A disease brought on by living too closely to a spot that had been overly decimated by the humans in their destruction of the world. Imp's father also pulled his son close, placing one paw over one of Imp's small dark-purple ones, warning him that catching Midnight was nearly always fatal.
Imp couldn't bear to tell Twi about the fate of their parents, and they were both forced to watch as their parents slowly wasted away into nothing. The boys spent days crying over the death of the parents before Imp was finally strong enough to bury them behind the small hovel that they had taken shelter in for the months since their birth. Imp forced himself to act as Twi's new father-figure, taking the lead when searching for civilization and other wolves, as they left their birth home. Twi followed his brother mechanically, too broken from the death of their parents, but resolved to hold ever tighter to his relationship with his brother.
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