Name: Barrow

Nickname(s): Barry

Gender: Male

Age: Three years older than Balto

Species: Siberian Husky 

Appearance: Barrow has dark brown fur and a medium brown underbelly. His entire face is brown with the exception of the borrow part of his muzzle. He has blue eyes and prominent freckles on his face. His body build is athletic and slender like Balto’s but a bit more dog-like, and he also has fluffier fur and smaller paws than his wolfdog son. His tail is very fluffy and usually curls upward.

Parents: Everest and Ruby

Siblings: TBA

Mate: Aniu (deceased), Ila 

Pups: Togo, Balto, Fritz (with Aniu) // Malakai, others (with Isla)

Personality: Barrow is a caring and brave dog with a strong sense of righteousness. He’s extremely loyal and would never turn on anyone. He’s a big family man and cares deeply for his family, even his three sons he had with Aniu that he has seen very few times. He’s very curious and likes to explore and try new things. He can easily adapt to new situations, though he doesn’t really like sudden change. He doesn’t like conflict, but will fight for those he loves and what he believes in. He’s also outgoing and enjoys making new friends. 

Likes: Exploring, dogsledding, running, the wilderness, meat, snow, playing, nature

Dislikes: Having to hide his relationship with Aniu, leaving his family, arguments, being lost, conflict, sudden change

History: Barrow was born in 1919 in Elim, Alaska. He came from a line of sled dogs, and was soon trained to be one like his parents. Eventually, he was placed on a team that carried supplies to other towns in the area. Being the newcomer of the team, Barrow was unaware of the tragedies that had occurred for the team the year before — while lost in the woods, the former lead dog was killed by a hostile wolf pack. As a result, the musher hated wolves and threatened to kill any more that got near his dogs.

    One day in late 1921 to early 1922, Barrow and his team were lost in the woods not too far from Nome. While the team stayed in a cave for shelter during a storm, Barrow went exploring and met a white wolf around his age named Aniu. Barrow was curious about Aniu’s way of life and began following her around. Aniu reluctantly took the eager dog under her wing but eventually the two became friends and developed feelings for each other. Eventually, the stormy weather had cleared up, and Barrow’s team was planning to leave soon and return to Elim. Barrow wanted to stay with Aniu — and his desire to be with her only grew when he found out she was having his puppies. However, he knew if he stayed, his musher would find him and kill Aniu and the unborn pups, so he made the difficult decision to leave his mate and go back to Elim with his sled team. Aniu promised she would meet him somewhere near Elim after the pups were born, but their plans were foiled when Barrow was off to be on a sled team in Koyuk. 

    Barrow never lost hope that he would reunite with Aniu. But one day, about eight or so months after Barrow last saw Aniu, he saw a white wolf in town laying outside near the fur trader’s house. Upon close inspection, he realized it was Aniu… but she was dead. She had been shot by a hunter, and the fur trader was going to use her beautiful white fur to make profit. Barrow was traumatized to see his mate like this, and was deeply saddened now that Aniu was gone and had no contact with any of their kids. However, he found joy in Ila, a young husky who lived in Koyuk, and he found himself moving on from Aniu as the two mated and had puppies. He never stopped loving Aniu, but knew his late mate would want him to find someone else and be happy.

    Barrow continued to be a sled dog in Koyuk, but his most important job was being a loving mate to Isla and a caring father to their pups. He was glad that he was able to raise these pups unlike the pups he had with Aniu, but he often wondered where his first litter was, and if he’d ever meet them one day. He was able to meet his two eldest sons, Togo and Fritz, who happened to grow up in his hometown of Elim. He had met them by pure chance while visiting the town one day on a small sledding trip, and they informed Barrow that he had another son named Balto who lived in Nome. Barrow wanted to see Balto, but he lived so far away, and Barrow wasn’t sure he’d be able to make the trip with how old and frail he was getting.

     However, his dream to see his son came true when one day, Balto visited Koyuk when his owner Duke flew there to deliver mail and took Balto along for the ride. Barrow was overjoyed to meet the youngest son of him and Aniu, but the feelings weren’t mutual. Having been separated from his family during a snowstorm at a young age, Balto never knew what had happened to his father, and grew up assuming he had abandoned the family. Balto was even more hurt when he learned that Barrow had another family of his own, and assumed that perhaps Barrow was unhappy with a family of “mutts” and ran off to mate with a purebred. Barrow tried to make Balto understand that this wasn’t the case, but the hurt wolfdog wouldn’t listen. Later that night, Duke decided to spend the night in Koyuk due to inclement weather, and Balto heard news that his father got stuck in a landslide. Despite the bad blood he had with his father, Balto set out to rescue Barrow anyway, and apologized for not listening to Barrow sooner. The father and son made up, and when Balto and Duke left for Nome the next day, Barrow promised Balto he would always love him and that Balto would always be his son. Barrow felt content knowing that he had finally met all his children he had with Aniu, and he finally felt that he had made proper closure to one of the most significant chapters of his life.

Relation to Balto: Balto’s father