Name: Deverick
Age: 2
Gender: Male
Breed: 49% Common Eurasian Wolf, 51% German Shepherd
(Czechslovakian Vlciac, upper bound of Low-Content)
Rank: Subordinate
Desired Rank: Content
Appearance:
(I had to search up a lot of these facts :P)
Slightly small, just hitting 26 inches, and weighing on the lower spectrum of 66 pounds, Deverick could easily be mistaken as a large dog. Often, he has been.
But he isn't, is he?
With a muddy brown-ish coat leading to a light yellow underbelly, and a light silvery-yellow throat and face mask, Deverick sits exactly between the colourations of his two original breeds. Not as dark as his German Shepherrd roots, but not as grey and white as the common Eurasian wolf, his coat is - pretty much - a messy smush of colouration from his two breeds.
With a straight medium coat, and yellow eyes - it's honestly a bit impressive his genetics have managed to integrate themself exactly in the middle.
Personality:
Deverick is quite posessive. What he thinks is "his" will be defended to literally the last moment possible. It doesn't matter what the thing is - his possessiveness says that it belongs to him and he's not going to let it go at all.
Despite of this, Deverick... tries to be social. It's not like, as a wolf-dog hybrid, that he is - generally, he isn't that much - but usually he tries to be social... ish. Sometimes he does fail, and is left wondering what the hell did he do wrong? On occasion, this can even lead to a bit of an ego on his side saying "it was probably the other dog's fault" - something that, so far, no-one's told him otherwise, so how is he meant to know?
Deverick also seems to have quite a lot of energy - not in the way that he can run all day, but more of the fact that when he chooses to (and he doesn't always), he can annoy others all day. It's honestly up to him, really, whether that annoyance is in a good, playful way or it's just a petty little way in a feud.
Strengths:
- Processing and thinking. Deverick is able to think, and process, new scenarios slightly quicker than others, giving him a small edge when it comes to it.
- Scent identification. Likely due to his roots, his scent recognition is better than others - usually.
- Hard worker (when he wants to be). With what he's got, provided he actually wants to do it, Deverick can put his mind to something and actually really try to do it.
Weaknesses:
- Obsessiveness. His trait of working as stated earlier can sometimes lead to obsessiveness, as well as the fact that his possessiveness can get in the way.
- Sometimes unable to admit fault. Sometimes, he just can't see how is it his fault, and will blame it on someone else - even if it isn't their fault.
- Peanuts. He absolutely hates peanuts after someone fed it to him once and he kept throwing up.
Kin: Lidiya (Page 6) is his half-sister. Same Common Eurasian mother, but a different sire. His sire was pure German Shepherd, hers was mixed.
Crush: Tentatively open?
Mate: No.
Affiliations:
Echo - Deverick might mentally assign the label of "the quiet one" to her. Sometimes, a smidge too passive and quiet for Deverick's liking. This can sometimes annoy him (sometimes) alongside with just being able to do things that the superiors say.
Is he jealous? Not really. But it's more of a, "some things are meant to be questioned" kind of stance.
Merlin - Deverick respects the male. While his aversion to being the pet of the leader exists, Merlin's gained his respect, enough that usually he'll follow what's been given to him.
Essentially, just a lot of respect. Not adoration - Deverick is pretty clear that he's not a syncophate or anything. But just respecting the slightly older wolf-dog.
Doji - Quite like how Doji feels to him, he's neutral and distanced from her. Not really taking. Deverick will interact with Doji as and when is required, and while the brutal honesty sometimes irks him, he's content to just be ambivalent.
Anubis - Anubis is cocky. That's Deverick's first impression, and the ego grates with him the wrong way. He doesn't care how good Anubis is at anything else - if the ego gets too big, he's just going to walk away. Against such an ego, Deverick either walks away or becomes super petty just to try bust that ego - and Anubis is no different.
Nightingale - Deverick doesn't know what to think of her. She's kind, yes, but she hasn't exactly inspired respect or confidence in her abilities in him. Unlike Merlin, who he has confidence in, he simply lacks that in Nightingale. True, she is proud, and brave, but then it contrasts with her forgiveness at times, and the cunning and dominance asserted in other times.
In other words, she hasn't exactly inspired confidence in her in Deverick.
Other: Randomly, the Austrian Pinscher.