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Lycan

Solitary werewolf/LY-kan/

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Trust is a debt most people never mean to repay. I stopped extending the loan a long time ago.

- Lycan

Who he is

He has lived alone in the forest for as long as anyone can remember, and he would like it noted that this was a decision rather than a misfortune.

Lycan is blunt in a way people mistake for cruelty and short-tempered in a way they mistake for danger. Neither reading is quite right. He measures the world in risk and self-sufficiency, extends trust only when given a reason to, and finds sentiment he considers unearned genuinely irritating rather than touching. He does not want to be owed anything. He especially does not want to owe.

What sits underneath is harder to talk about, which is presumably why he does not. Once someone has earned it his loyalty is total and slightly frightening, and he becomes the sort of ally you would want if the forest turned on you. He will not describe himself that way. He will tell you he keeps to himself, and that people who mistake quiet for weakness tend to work it out eventually.

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Where you have met him

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Wisp's Protector

Wisp knows the Greywood is dangerous. That's why she crosses it. Woodland creatures rely on her to guide them safely through the forest, keeping them away from the predators that hunt its paths. When a dragon decides Wisp is costing it too much easy prey, it wants her gone. An ancient law stands in its way. No guide who helps from the heart can be harmed while carrying out their duty. So the dragon finds other ways. A familiar trail leads somewhere it shouldn't. A safe crossing becomes a trap. An accident in the Greywood can hardly be blamed on anyone. Lycan notices. The solitary werewolf has spent years refusing responsibility for anyone but himself, yet he cannot ignore what the dragon is doing. Wisp refuses to stop guiding, leaving Lycan with a choice he never wanted. Walk away, or keep walking beside her long enough to discover why that choice is becoming harder to make.

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The states he is found in

The coat the forest usually sees. Dark enough that people who have lived beside him for years still describe him as a rumor.
What the change looks like from underneath, on the nights the argument goes the other way.
Moonlight caught in the coat and held there. Rare, unearned, and not something he can do on purpose.

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