Zachary

THE LABS

Zachary was nineteen and he had been in college for a year by now. He found that he was difficult to get along with since his dormmates were band kids and he hated dealing with their practices and how overall loud they were when Zachary was trying to sleep... Not only was living with roommates annoying but he also found that his life was becoming a tedious struggle in college courses, feeling as though he couldn't find a stable career and the crippling stress of being an adult. 

One late night, Zach would be scrolling through his phone for side jobs and he'd find an opportunity. The opportunity was essentially 'new medication that needed to be tested' and the clinic needed volunteers to test their trials... Zachary would begrudgingly sign up... Unbeknownst to him the tests would be so much worse than he could've imagined.

SHAPE-SHIFTING

While he was in the labs, he was injected with a vaccine that gave him the ability to shapeshift into an animal. Zachary was given the ability to transform into a fennec fox. The laboratory had different precautions depending on the subject's Trigger (what emotions led the subjects to shape-shift in the first place)... Zachary's Trigger is Rage thus the scientists working at the laboratory would take safer procedures when running tests on him. 

As a result of his mistreatment, Zachary's anger issues would only spike to an unhealthy degree, and his Rage Trigger became a defence mechanism... Even after the ten-year age gap he still struggles to manage his anger. It's never his intention to hurt people by lashing out but it's an instinctual habit he's so used to.