Denahi

Denahi

the basics

full name • Denahi

nicknames • Bonehead, Dog Breath

age • 22

primary standing • Cursed Thorns Soldier

secondary standing • Hunter

faction • Cursed Thorns

species • Human Ancient Inuit

gender • Male

sexuality • Straight

the appearance

origin • Brother Bear

height and weight •5’7, 150lbs

overall appearance •
A physically fit young man with broad shoulders and a chest that hasn’t quite finished filling out yet. He wears thick gray moccasins and a blue fur shirt trimmed with white. His skin is a reddish clay-brown, with high cheekbones and slightly slanted eyes. He wears his hair in a shaggy mop only broken by a braid of beads given to him by his mother. His brows are thick, black, and angry, and since going out on the hunt for revenge his body is more rugged, less cared for, having lost weight and grown the beginnings of a beard and mustache.

the personality

overall personality •

Denahi can be immature and insensitive on the surface, first and foremost, usually around his brother. Being the middle child, he enjoys antagonizing Kenai and being a smart-aleck to those he's comfortable with. He likes to amuse himself by teasing and pranking, which he finds funny.

To others, Denahi defaults to trying to make people laugh, not being careful with his words and his temper, which can be provoking and unwieldy, respectively. When his temper is riled, he isn't afraid to hurt feelings, acting rashly in the heat of the moment, but usually regrets it after the fact. This shows that he has a moral compass—he's just not always sure of what it's pointing to.

He tries not to cause trouble and lays low around his superiors, usually pretty submissive, but is perfectly okay reverting to his wise-cracking self afterwards. Although he can work hard and not cut corners, he doesn't enjoy it, and would rather get his responsibilities over with. He especially hates having to do something more than once, or wasting time on repeating something. There's a streak of laziness to him; if someone else is willing to do something hard, Denahi is just as willing to leave it up to them.

However, now that Sitka, his older brother, has passed on, Denahi’s brief attempt at taking on more responsibility and maturity was met with the death of his younger brother. Now he is confused, angrier than ever, and lost.

Another aspect of his personality is loyalty. He'll thrash his weight in tigers if he has to to protect those he cares about, no matter how much they get on his nerves or what conflicts come between them.

Denahi has become more insecure without his brothers. It was easy to respect Sitka and leave the hard stuff to him and tease Kenai. Now he tries to respect the spirits, feeling lost without his siblings, and wishes he could find his way back to following his totem.

Denahi's totem is the Wolf of Wisdom. He didn't need to take that seriously before, but as he gets older, and especially now that he is on his own, the importance of sticking to it has hit him hard. He wants to make all of the wisest decisions possible...but he doesn't know what they are. This insecurity leaves him susceptible to manipulation, especially coupled with his tendency to act on emotions in the heat of a moment. Currently he believes his brothers were killed by bears, and that because Kenai was killed trying to avenge Sitka, his younger brother must’ve been right and the wisest way to fill the gaping wound of loss is to finish what they started and kill the bear.

Therefore, Denahi’s actions are currently fueled by fury and pain. When he has moments to stop and think, he reasons that he must be doing the right thing, ridding the world of the monster that would kill Kenai and Sitka. Otherwise, subconsciously, he just feels lost and doesn’t know what else to do.

the history

overall history •

Denahi lived life in immature middle-child syndrome with his older brother, Sitka, and younger brother, Kenai. They were part of a larger Inuit Tribe in Alaska that based their lives and coming of age on many rituals respecting the Great Spirits. The trio were knit and did everything together, probably because they were so close in age.

As a kid, Denahi was the brother that usually took immature pranks too far and didn't know when to quit or admit that he was wrong. He'd do just about anything for a laugh. Maybe this was why, as a child, he didn't really have friends outside of his brothers. Sitka was content, but Kenai made friends even outside of their family, something Denahi envied. His adventurous brother even befriended a girl from a different tribe named Nita one winter, and they always went to Hokani Falls together when the two clans joined at the end of each year for the trading season. Denahi was never able to gain the same attentions from Nita, or make new acquaintances as easily.

After their parents died in a tragic fishing accident, he didn't need to worry about it anymore, because the three brothers became more close than ever. Even within their tribe, the teenaged boys were almost their own clique.

Despite coming of age to receive his spirit-given totem, the Wolf of Wisdom, which was supposed to be his first guided step on the path to manhood, Denahi trounced along through life, not taking much seriously. He didn't understand his totem and didn't see the need to make the effort. He remained always depending on his older brother's leadership and having the most fun as possible, which usually meant teasing and putting down his easily-ruffled little brother, Kenai. Maybe this was why the boy desperately wanted to become a man, feeling under appreciated and disrespected by his brother.

Kenai made plenty of mistakes trying to prove himself and stand out, and Denahi was perfectly fine with never letting him hear the end of it, even right up to the day of Kenai's manhood ceremony. It was just too easy to tease him when Tanana, the tribe shawoman, bestowed upon Kenai the Bear of Love. The boy was disappointed, and Denahi had zero sensitivity towards this. The jokes could have gone on endlessly if Denahi hadn't discovered that Kenai had neglected to tie up a basket of fish he'd spent weeks weaving. As a result, a bear came into the village and stole the entire thing, ruining both Denahi's hard work on the basket and their whole fishing expedition earlier that morning.

The middle child was enraged at having to face the consequences of his younger brother's carelessness, and even Sitka's calm words couldn't tone him down. Kenai, having a bad day already, decided he'd prove himself a man no matter how disappointing his ceremony had been and try to retrieve the basket, taking off into the wilderness.

Denahi didn't want to, but Sitka insisted they go after their sibling, knowing how reckless and rash Kenai could be. To the blue-shirted Inuit's horror, they found him dangling precariously from the side of a glacier. Sitka reached him first, hauling the boy up to momentary safety, only to discover that it had been the huge bear culprit who had knocked Kenai to danger in the first place.

Throwing rocks and shouting, Denahi tried valiantly to distract the predator, and it worked until the ice cracked beneath him. He would have fallen if Kenai hadn't caught him. They were both prone to the bear's attacks...but Sitka distracted it, engaging the animal with nothing but his spear to protect his brothers, leading it to the edge of the glacier.

When he was defeated and saw that the bear would turn on his younger family members, Sitka sacrificed himself, stabbing the ice be earth him and causing it to shatter and collapse into the lake below, taking himself and the bear with it.

Denahi and Kenai were distraught. They witnessed the frightened bear escape the water and shamble off, but Sitka never reappeared. They searched late into the night. It was Denahi who accepted that their brother was gone for good first when they recovered his hood. It was burned in his memory that night along with his totem, the Eagle of Guidance.

While Denahi was left broken-hearted and trying to accept his new role as the oldest brother, Kenai was furious. More than ever, he wanted revenge on the bear. Denahi tried to stop him, convince him to follow his totem of love, but when Kenai bit back at him hurtfully, the young man lost his temper and snapped, telling his younger brother outright that he blamed him for Sitka's death.

Furious, Kenai tore away into the stormy night to take out his heartache on the monster. Denahi hesitated, still numb, but followed eventually to stop the boy, knowing that killing the bear would anger the spirits.

He arrived too late. Hearing Kenai's scream and seeing signs of a struggle atop a mountain, he climbed desperately to reach the younger man. Sounds of conflict and strange flashes of light were breaking through the stormclouds encasing the peak, but Denahi didn't care. All he knew was that he was caught in the same horrific situation; his brother was in trouble and he couldn't reach him in time to help.

When he finally achieved his goal, Denahi found a rain-soaked plateau battered by the storm and fight, shreds of Kenai's tattered clothes, his totem of Love, and an exhausted but victorious bear.

Assuming the worst, Denahi had no chance to make a decision before lightning struck the mountain and the bear was blasted right off, into the river and swept away.

Denahi remembered the last heated conversation he'd had with Kenai. This one bear had taken both of his brothers from him. He had to avenge their deaths...what else was there?

For days Denahi fracked the bear relentlessly, disregarding sleep, food, and rest, through the Alaskan landscapes. He chased it through geysers, ice fields, over mountains, through forests, across lakes and even jumped a canyon in his pursuit. For some reason, the bear never stayed and fought, only ran away with it's cub.

After falling into a river and losing it's trail, Denahi reached the end of his wits. He spoke aloud to the spirits of his brothers, not even sure what he was doing anymore.

This is where a messenger from the Cursed Thorns found him. He was led to the Black Keep, at first believing it was all some kind of twisted vision from the Spirits or his own descent into madness until everything was explained. There was a war on. The Worlds were Merged. If he served these supernatural Queens, they would help him to find the demon bear that had killed his brothers and maybe, even, resurrect them. At least, this is what the newest soldier of the Cursed Thorns believes.

the role player

alias • Spot

age • 23

pronouns • She, her

how did you find us? • MY FRIENDSSS!
other characters •Simba, Tarzan, Aladdin, Lilo, Taiwo, Basil, Rani, Dodger, Kron, Leroy, Denahi, Beast, Janja, Connor, The Evil Queen.