Darren

Name: Darren

Acquired: 10/27/19

Designer: InstantCoyote

Gender: Male

Species/Breed: Wolf / Shifter

Forms: Feral Wolf, Anthro, Human

Age: 24

Status: Loner

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Personality: Quick tempered, hostile, verbally aggressive and quick to snap and be physically aggressive. He bites first and asks questions later. He's overly defensive, snarky, sarcastic, and forward or blunt. All of these things are really just a defense mechanism, the walls he keeps up to keep himself safe from everyone else.

Design Information: He is completely symmetrical except the scars on his right shoulder. His eyes two shades of light green and very clear.

Backstory: Darren grew up in a large pack. His father was an enforcer for the pack and his mother was very respected. Darren was going to follow in his father's footsteps and become an enforcer himself when he was old enough and needed. He had begun training at the age of 7 with his father and the other enforcers.

When Darren turned 9 a rival pack came to his pack's territory and set fire to everyone's homes. Once the fires were set the rival pack attacked and killed nearly everyone in Darren's pack. Darren's mother tried to run with him as he was too young to shift into his wolf form but she was grabbed and killed in front of him. The wolf that killed his mother then turned on him and attacked. In a desperate moment Darren was able to force his wolf to the surface and bite his attacker and then managed to run off and escape. He hid in the woods for hours until the sounds of the attacks had died and the sun had come up. He heard the enforcers from his pack yelling out for survivors and slowly came out of hiding. His father had lived through the event with some of the others and his alpha but the majority of his pack had fallen.

The pack spent months rebuilding their homes and their territory. For a large part of that time Darren stayed in his wolf form. He had felt safer that way. His physical wounds healed leaving only a few scars, however, his mental and emotional wounds were still wide open. He no longer trusted anyone and had shut himself off from his pack and father. No one could reach him no matter what they said to him. He stopped training to be an enforcer and started spending most of his time in his wolf form alone in the woods.

At the age of 11 he ran away from his home, leaving his pack and father and everything he knew behind. He stayed hidden in the woods in his wolf form and only shifted into his human form when he needed things. He built his home deep in the woods from fallen trees and learned to live mostly from the land and what it provided. He went into the nearby towns only for things he had grown fond of and needed more of (such as coffee, clothing, and other things to provide comfort and convenience at home).

Because he had spent years on his own he never fully developed social skills and he also never got over the trauma from the night of his mother's death. He doesn't trust anyone and his first reaction when meeting or encountering a person is to be as sarcastic and mean as possible to push them away right away. He has no friends and prefers it that way. Sometimes he feels a bit lonely but he tells himself that it's better than the alternative - the risk of them turning on him. He continued training on his own, mostly teaching himself how to fight and to get himself into shape. He's lean with a lot of lean muscles and works regularly to keep it that way. He's been in a few fights and scraps but mostly over stupid or small things because someone said the wrong thing and his reaction was to beat their faces in. Though he knows he's a good fighter, he would rather not need to use it to defend his life. For that reason he keeps to himself and avoids as much contact with others as possible.

Purchased for: $55