Why did your human character choose to become a Hunter?
While his family had been in the business of church restorations, Elio grew up surrounded by the grand cathedrals and by the rural countryside where his grandparents lived but also in the busy city of Florence where his mother's family worked and lived- he was more interested in street art that the art of restoring frescos. He developed a love at a young age for street art and so long as he took his art classes he could do one thing he wanted- Elio chose gymnastics, inspired by the limber dances of performance artists. As he grew this was only enhanced by the trips to the city and the travel his father took him on while apprenticing.

He never really noticed the shadows in his life as simply things that were apart of the churches he went to.

By the time he was 16 he felt he was at an impasse in life, and while he listened to his family and stayed with getting a degree in art restoration (minoring in the scientific process of it as well as business), his heart wasn't in it. Slowly falling off his given path a new one was offered.
And new was just the sort of thing he needed.