![]() min kiyeon, age 21. lone werewolf. part of the alpha family. his family consisted of his father, mother, an older brother, two younger brothers, and a younger sister. he rarely saw his father, mother, or older brother since they were constantly busy maintaining the pack. that left him in charge of taking care of his younger siblings, and he was on "den duty" at all times when he wasn't at school. when he was sixteen, a rival pack of werewolves snuck into their city and killed his father, older brother, and anyone else who dared to lift a finger against the newcomers. kiyeon's mother handed over the alpha leadership without a fight to avoid more bloodshed and to keep her children safe. now the eldest child of the former alpha pair, the new leader saw kiyeon as a threat who could potentially stir up the other wolves to rally behind him and his mother. instead of killing him, the leader went about humiliating kiyeon at every turn, making a point in showing off how unsuitable the kind and bright-eyed kiyeon was for leadership. this treatment and abuse went on for two years. then, on a night before the full moon, a number of pack members shifted into their wolves and went out for a hunt. kiyeon, for the first time in his life, was made to go as it was customary for young wolves to make their first kill at the age of eighteen. his parents had always forbade him from tagging along on hunts to spectate, citing the reason as having to take care of his siblings. but his mother had been sent away days earlier on an errand and the hunt was a tradition. as he'd never gone along on hunts or been taught how to hunt, the alpha wanted kiyeon's nonexistent hunting skills on display to mock and ridicule. kiyeon was told to take down a red stag on his own and warned that if he failed the consequences would be dire. after two years of humiliation, the fear and reluctance faded and twisted itself into a deadly anger. he set off to do as he had been ordered and found a large stag. to this day he doesn't remember what happened, only that he had been blinded by red and when he had come back to his senses, he had a dead, torn up stag in his jaws. in a daze, kiyeon brought the stag back to the hunting party. the rest of the wolves were in just as much shock at what he'd managed to do, but it was the alpha that snapped out of it and set upon kiyeon in a rage at having been outplayed. instead of the usual rolling onto his back, kiyeon was stunned to find that he was fighting back. the blood in his mouth from both the stag and the alpha drove him into a mad frenzy. he was a creature possessed and the other wolves couldn't do anything but watch as kiyeon tore the alpha apart in a craze. it was exhaustion that finally stopped him and by then, there was little left of the former leader. when he came to and saw what he had done, kiyeon was in complete disbelief. the other wolves had long since retreated, too frightened by what they had witnessed. kiyeon returned to the city, covered in blood and alone. the other pack members made a point to stay away from him. even the wolves that had initially taken over the town with the former alpha kept their distance, their cautious minds telling them that this was a wolf out of his mind, one that was most likely rabid and infectious. he was relieved to find that his mother had returned home, but she met him with a grim expression. she took him to the back of the house, sat him down, and confessed that she had been dishonest with him. kiyeon was not, in fact, her son, but the son of a woman she had accidentally bitten and turned on the night of a full moon. the woman had been heavily pregnant and the shock of the bite and subsequent turning caused her to go into labor. the strain of it all killed her, a merciful death, she explained. the woman's body had started rejecting the bite. she would have been driven mad for blood as a turned werewolf and the other wolves would have had to put her down. so his adoptive mother had been left with a newborn child and right away she could scent that he was a born werewolf. this was a complicated matter, as she'd never dealt with a born werewolf from a turned werewolf. she took the child to the pack elder and there, she was told to raise the child as her own as punishment for turning an innocent woman and unintentionally causing her death. but, the elder warned, the child was to never hunt, as his turned mother's blood swam in his veins and would lead to an uncontrollable madness should he develop a lust for blood. his new mother took him back to her husband and son and they grudgingly agreed to keep kiyeon's secret. they decided to move to new city, begin a smaller pack as alphas, and that's how they came to be. kiyeon was, of course, shocked and upset. before he could fully process everything, his mother began packing his belongings and explained that he had to leave. the pack would decide to kill him, she said. he was dangerous and they couldn't chance keeping him around. kiyeon didn't protest, he knew she was right. he had seen the way they had looked at him as he'd reentered the city. so he wordlessly gathered as many things as he could take and quietly left in the middle of the night, unable to say goodbye to his sleeping siblings after all the years of practically raising them. now, three years later, kiyeon is doing his best to survive and control his bloodlust, especially around the full moon. but as the years go by, he finds himself less and less willing to hold himself back. |