Xani Family

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NAME: Bj?rn (Volkov) Xanilov

LITTER/FAMILY: KAISIN VOLKOV(M) x Genya

GENDER: I don't understand what you're asking for here... j/k, male

AGE: 1 year

APPEARANCE: The picture above is his design but for my own use a description:

Standing at a more than respectable 42" height and weighing a sturdy 200+lbs as an adult, Bj?rn will be huge and likely to draw attention no matter the less than flashy nature of his coloring or his personality. This massive wolf will be almost pure muscle with very little fat reserves. Bj?rn's base color is that of a pale silver from guard hairs to undercoat and will always remain as soft as bird down. Marring it is a slightly darker gray, pale ghosts of the royal markings that barely stand out against the silver. The royal mask covers his face running in a wide blaze from nose to forehead, winging out over his eyes. It covers the tops of his ears, then beginning at his shoulders it runs in a thick dorsal stripe down his back, engulfing his whole tail as well as forming thick bars down the front of his shoulders and hips. A more purely white snip cuts through the mask from nose to a couple inches up his muzzle and dips the very tips of his ears and his paws. White also marks beneath his eyes from the mask on one side all the way to the wings over his eyes, completing a ring around them. His eyes are a pale, lavender purple - but from the moment they first open they are slightly clouded by a film that restricts his vision, and his first foray into the world outside of the den will reveal a severe light sensitivity that will lead to painful, watery eyes and massive headaches. Over time the cloudiness and vision problems will improve but will never completely clear up, and he will always have some issues with sensitivity to light.


SIZE: Extra large

PERSONALITY: Raised knowing himself the bastard child of a King, despite the disability that plagues him he has no lack of self-confidence. But his arrogance is quiet, not flaunted about. He simply expects that he will get his way because he is right and acts accordingly, often simply ignoring rules and social boundaries to do so.



Solitary by nature, he has a hard time bringing himself to actually trust anyone other than his near-twin Birna, because he is easily hurt and strives to avoid the close bonds that could bring that pain. However once his word is given he will never deliberately break that, and if misfortune makes it so he cannot do as he said, his own odd code of honor will force him to make whatever reparations he can to fix it.



He strives to always do what he believes to be right, but what is right to him is not always moral or legal. He will not hesitate to break pack law to do what he feels he must, as he considers his loyalty to his close family to be one of the most important things in his life and little else could possibly compete with that. He will remorselessly threaten, hurt, con, and do many other rather unpleasant things in order to achieve the most sacrosanct of goals - protecting his family.



He is far from emotionless and uncaring - this boy will struggle to contain his emotions his whole life, quick to anger and love alike his emotions tend to run almost painfully high - but he will never wear his heart on his sleeve, always striving but often failing to keep those emotions hidden completely from the eyes of the world for they are his alone and he wishes no one to know what he feels. He strives to show merely a calm, collected, polite front, but it is something he will always struggle with.



To those he cares about, he shows a sweetness of personality at odds with his usual behavior. Always serious about everything, he will nonetheless often do small things for people that comes across as... a little adorable. Leaving them gifts, making extra sure that they're comfortable, being the quiet protector... yet if someone were to bring it up it would simply embarrass him.

HISTORY: Born after the bloody coup that had destroyed their father's family, they were haunted by that spectre. It was obvious they had more than a little royal blood, all three littermates bearing the Xanilov mask and while it was undoubtedly known in general who had fathered them they did not draw attention to it. They laid low, kept their heads down, and walked that fine line between submissive and scum. But as they grew older discontent grew within the single male. He wanted more for his sisters than his mother could - would - provide for them. So he began to slowly edge his way into a darker world... lying, stealing, bullying for what he wanted for them. Extra food, safety, respect... but he pushed too hard and caught the eye of Ebony's rulers. The bastard brats of a dispossessed king could be tolerated as long as they showed the proper humility, but this child's antics could no longer be tolerated. With death looming imminent Bjorn fled old Ebony with Birna, hoping to find any survivors of the exiled Xanilov family... and of course scam them into accepting them within their ranks.

HOW DO THEY FEEL ABOUT THE XANILOVS?: Personally, he is willing to give the Xanilovs the benefit of the doubt since despite all the stories they can't possibly actually be that much worse than the regime that would kill him and his siblings if they could manage it, but he's unwilling to fully trust someone he knows so little about so he is reserving judgement until he actually manages to find survivors.

PLANS FOR THEM: He plans to track down any possible survivors of the main royal Xanilov line, or the next best thing to them, and con them into accepting him and Birna as full family by claiming their last name to be Xanilov and hoping the survivor is gullible enough to fall for it, possibly earning Birna a rank within the exiled matriarchal house - then eventually, to guide the exiles into reestablishing their empire, with Birna as a royal.