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| {{Quote|If I don't remember, the coyotes will. They always will. | Nebula-9}} | | {{Quote|If I don't remember, the coyotes will. They always will. | Nebula-9}} |
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| Nebula was resurrected by the [[Ghost (Little Light)|Ghost]] in the middle of a brutal winter. Naked and defenceless he would trudge into the forest, ignoring the Ghost's attempts at trying to guide him towards the Last City. Here, Nebula would make a home for himself, living off of the land and scavenging for survival, often avoiding nomad trails and camps. He would take up residence in a small cave near a river. | | Nebula was resurrected by the [[Ghost (Little Light)|Ghost]] in the middle of a brutal winter. |
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| During the spring of that following year when the thaw came, Nebula came across two coyotes stuck in a hunter's traps. One was already dead. The other beside it was still alive and struggling, with fur whiter than the melting snow around her and bright blue eyes. Struck by the animal's beauty and an overwhelming urge to help her, Nebula released her from the trap and hauled her over his shoulders, even though she snapped at him and thrashed. He brought her away from the traps so that she would not end up stuck again, and returned to the trap with the other coyote. He would take its pelt and bones.
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| Nebula would return to the wounded white coyote and carry her to a nearby cave he was staying in at the time, noting how she didn't flee, most likely due to the wound in her leg. Nebula would take it upon himself to nurse her back to health, anticipating that she will leave by the time the summer came if her wound does not kill her. While she remained in the cave, Nebula would hunt for her and forage for himself. Eventually, the coyote ended up bonding with Nebula, and he called her ''Bright-Eyes-Painted-Sky.'' She would give birth to four puppies under his care, presumably the pups belonging to the dead coyote that he now wore the pelt of. He would care for both the pups and their mother. One day, he would return to the cave to see his Ghost sleeping surrounded by the pups. This would earn the Ghost his name, Pup.
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| Come the winter, Nebula, Bright-Eyes-Painted-Sky and her four pups would leave the cave they were living in and head southwards. Along the way, he would procure more coyote friends, and even changed his mannerisms -- moving along the ground on all fours, howling and barking, and rarely speaking.
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| During this time and the subsequent years, Nebula would follow nomads from a distance, often followed by the yipping and barking of the coyotes that followed him. He would steal from them when they would stop at night and made a point to be rarely seen, earning him a mythological status, and both nomads and [[Hunter|Hunters]] alike told stories of a mysterious Coyote Man -- sometimes a half-man-half-coyote monster, sometimes a shapeshifter, and sometimes simply a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_man wild man] that wore the fur of a coyote. He still avoided contact, save for the time he ran into a young nomad girl sent to forage by her father, who offered him dried, salted meat.
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| Nebula's final settlement during his time living in the wild was in lush plains -- a large cave that disappeared under the earth with a yawning mouth and fresh groundwater flowing through it, with a small slit created by the rock above to let in light and air. Not long after their arrival, Bright-Eyes-Painted-Sky would pass away under his care. He would begin wearing her pelt and bones.
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| While living in this cave, Nebula would befriend a small herd of wild horses, a grizzly bear, and a small herd of bison, and it was not uncommon to see bats and birds in and around his cave.
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| His clothing was fashioned out of hide and held together with shards of bone. His tools and weapons were also made of bone and stone, one of which being the Horns of The Bison [[Exotic]] [[bow]]. He would pass time by painting the walls of this cave, now dubbed the Den, in a style similar to prehistoric [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting cave paintings]. These paintings often depicted animals he's encountered, but also nomads, [[Fallen|Eliskni]] and [[Cabal]].
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| Over the many years he spent in the wild, he would reboot eight times. Upon his ninth total reboot, he would resolve to finally leave his life in the wilderness and pursue what he thought of as his 'true calling,' the reason he was brought back by his Ghost. His Ghost would appear to chide Nebula for taking so long to decide to leave for the City.
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| While searching for a means to leave, he would run into a group of Hunters -- another Exo by the name of Cernunnos, a pair of [[human|humans]] named Fjalar and Gjalar, and a dishevelled-looking [[Awoken]] named Rosé. Cernunnos would bring him to the City, thus his days in the wild were mostly over.
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| ===Arrival To The City=== | | ===Arrival To The City=== |