Character's Name: Crane
D.o.B / Age: 79 Moons
Gender: Buck
Rank: Retired Scavenger/ Weather Forecaster
Describe what your character's appearance is - After having his fur stained with a Blue Silver Hair Dye, Crane found himself looking more and more like the running water that ran between his home warren and the Echerman Farm. He’s a pretty lanky looking buck with a slim body and even slimmer arms and legs, but this worked for him in his youth as he once worked as a Scavenger! Now he’s retired and is more seen as a weather teller around the warren, though his… predictions are sometimes off.
Traits
3 Strengths: Creative, Loving, Wise
3 Average: Fatherly, Calm, Old-Fashioned
3 Weakness: Becomes Mother Hen when granddaughter doesn’t come home, Gets Anxiety, Forgetful
Backstory: In the beginning of his life, Crane honestly couldn’t complain about how he and his family lived. This was during a generation when the 5 warrens weren’t unified and the leader of Junkyard wasn’t found hidden away in their home, sniffing sharpies. The leader of that time was clear headed, calm, focused on protecting his people from man. But he was also clever, teaching younger generations to learn man’s strange markings.
As he got older with time, Crane began to undergo the training of being a Scavenger, which allowed him to do more than just read and find new ways of living. This also taught him how to tell the differences between good human things and bad human things. Soon the roles of leadership changed, and this new leader brought forth new ideas on how to use these man things for everyday life. Collecting water from the rain, using the glass shards as a means of decoration, the sharpies for… some alternative medicinal purposes. While some didn’t agree to it, it did help in some way, shape or form.
When he reached his adult moons, he fell in love with a beautiful doe; Maybelline, she was so captivating and beautiful, her pelt as pure as winter snow and so soft to the touch that it caused Crane to swoon so heavily for her. The two became an item, wanting nothing but each other and ever so sweetly staying so close. However… not all good things come to an end. It was about 5 moons into their relationship, Crane was going to surprise Maybelline with a bouquet of clovers and dandelions… but as he came back from his hunt for flae’rah, the warren had been attacked by a fox and Maybelline. She was gone. From that moment on, full of heartache and misery, Crane had kept to himself; distancing from any rabbit. Though one night, he was graced with a familiar presence in his sleep, a familiar and beautiful doe who had honored him in his sleep. She spoke of sweet nothings to him and talked about their days of youth. This went on for several nights and it had come to a
Now old and bluish-grey, Crane spends his time trying to tell the weather and still be useful to his warren.