Annerly "Thorn" Belliveaux

Wolfram Redfang and Ampris Motorhead are separated from their warbands with a smaller tank that they had been working on (perhaps they took it for a test drive and fell off a cliff). They find a young human female (maybe 6 years old) who had been living feral for several months after her family were killed by harpies.

They joke about eating her but ultimately decide to help her find her way home after they find any place decent enough to have an Asura gate. They affectionately call the kid Thorn (in their sides), even though she remembers her full name, and at first don't know what to do with her. Ampris asks if she's old enough to eat solid food, to which she receives a sarcastic reply. At first Thorn is afraid of the charr, especially for as long as they are also unsure of her. She quickly grows to rely on them, just as they come to understand a great deal more about her and about humans.

The charr had talked about having a cub back in the huge tank her warband maintains, with Ampris almost winning the argument when they'd been separated from their convoy. Now, after living with Thorn, they mutually agree to. The cub is conceived at the citadel, but born in the tank, on one of their travels to human towns looking for Thorn’s family. Ampris' labor starts while she's driving the tank, so she switches out out with Wolfram. He parks the tank for the birth and shoos Thorn into the cockpit with Fiebi before returning to the bunks to assist Ampris.

So for a while, Thorn has a charr for a baby brother. Ultimately, he goes to a fahrar and she grows up old enough to make her own decision and decides to stay with her adopted family, as she now knows them far better than her human family. Eventually, she does find family in Lions Arch, and ultimately moves there herself as a teen for schooling, but the charr who raised her will always feel like her true family.

She wants to discover her humanity but keeps putting off any associated retrospection or introspection as it always brings up unpleasant memories of trauma and loss.Thus, she ends up feeling like she is taking too clinical a look at her own species, avoiding all emotional connection. This also makes her uncomfortable, and the resulting internal crises ultimately drive her to seek her species.

Ampris and Wolfram return to their warbands but continue to see each other (Eventually when they retire they probably live together). They have two more cubs together (twins). All raised in a progressive fahrar, and all well-adjusted. Both keep in contact with their offspring.

Thorn gets in trouble for yelling at a registrar at the college who used her legal full name. When they insist, she becomes distressed and eventually screams at the woman in an attempt to intimidate her, as a charr might do.

Thorn grows to be tough, excitable, good natured, and rational. She has a preference for the charr way of doing things at times, but is integrating her newfound humanity with it well.

[more to come as this character is developed]