— 𝐍AME [ ... ] ███ › riley mason dunne. — 𝐌EANING [ ... ] ⁽ ᴵᴿᴵᔆᴴ ⁾ › courageous ; valiant. — 𝐍ICKNAMES [ ... ] rye, riles. — 𝐃ATE OF 𝐁IRTH [ ... ] july 15 › ᴬᴳᴱ 26. — 𝐏LACE OF 𝐁IRTH [ ... ] jackson, wyoming. — 𝐒PECIES [ ... ] werewolf. ⁽ ᴳᴱᴺᴱᵀᴵᑦ ⁾ — 𝐆ENDER [ ... ] trans man › he / himself. — 𝐎RIENTATION [ ... ] bisexual. — 𝐌ORAL 𝐀LIGNMENT [ ... ] neutral good. — 𝐑ELIGION [ ... ] self - directed. — 𝐎CCUPATION [ ... ] bartender @ 𝒏octurne. — 𝐅ACECLAIM [ ... ] andr3w g4rf1eld. — 𝐏HYSICAL [ ... ] lycanthropy, ⁽ ᵁᴺᴰᴵᴬᴳᴺᴼᔆᴱᴰ ⁾ lupus. — 𝐌ENTAL [ ... ] gender dysphoria. depression. anxiety.
⁽ + ⁾ 𝐏OSITIVE [...] sweet. authentic. trusting. open-minded. reliable. caring. resilient. innovative. ⁽ - ⁾ 𝐍EGATIVE [...] overextending. self-doubtful. passive. compulsive. melancholic. oblivious.
— born into a lycanthrope bloodline in the deep woods. insular, self-sustaining, rigid about who belongs. his birth was wrong by their codes. his mother refused to let them "handle" him & fled with a baby the pack had already decided shouldn't exist.
— she disappeared when he was young. not dead, supposedly, just gone. he doesn't know if she abandoned him, was taken, or is still out there somewhere. riley was adopted by a human family. warm people. real love. they had no frame for what he was, & they loved him anyway. that was real & nothing else mattered.
— first shift happened on a camping trip. scouts. he killed ten people — seven kids his age, three adults. his adoptive parents, the program's directors, were among those dead. riley came back to himself human-shaped in the wreckage with no memory of the wolf, just fragments: & copper in his mouth.
— the official story is animal attack. wrong wounds, wrong season, wrong animal, but there's no other explanation & nobody's looking for one. riley was found on the highway in shock. the world sees a kid who lost everyone. the sole survivor.
— after the massacre, 13 yr old riley went through the system. foster homes, group homes. he kept his head down & carried one question the whole time: where had he come from ?
— old enough to request his records, he found them. a bloodline living deep in the woods. barely a paper trail, but enough. he went to them. elders looked at him like something that should've stayed buried, but others were warm — an aunt who said he had his mother's eyes, cousins who wanted to hear about the outside. a room that was his. the belonging was real. he learned the pack's ways, shifted with them under the full moon, got stronger. the blackouts didn't stop, but he'd wake up with the pack's scent on him instead of his alone. he let himself trust it.
— angel was watching from the outside — someone who'd seen enough to know what was coming. he found riley & told him these people were going to kill him. a stranger with nothing to gain from lying. riley didn't want to believe it. almost brought the warning straight back to the pack because he needed it to be wrong that badly. something stopped him — a look from an elder he'd misread before, signs he'd chosen to ignore. he ran with angel. left behind people he loved, some of whom loved himback. he couldn't separate the ones who meant it from the ones who were waiting.
— riley settled far from the bloodline, deep in the city. away from the woods, but a short drive there once per month. he bartends night shifts. pours drinks & holds space for people falling apart the way he does. every stranger at nocturne could be someone who needs him. full moons he loses time. wakes up & checks the news, checks his hands, doesn't know what his body did without him.
