Yao is a wolf of considerable height, long, ungainly legs support a thin, rangy frame; not wholly unhealthy but undeniably the ramifications of being sickly once upon a time. His fur is uneven, short in some places, and Arctic thick in others, indicating an artificial reason for his slow regrowth. With thanks to peculiar breeding, Yao sports a piebald coloring, darker shades of brown broken up by soft cream.
Yao is not an insecure wolf but an awkward one, unable to grow entirely comfortable in his own skin, he often holds himself as though he's trying to make himself smaller, potentially nonexistent. Due to this, Yao is hard to read; unconfident in posture though reactive in mind, they're hardly the most trustworthy creature.