Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable
And lightness has a call that's hard to hear
--Indigo Girls
Alas, I am remiss on collecting logs for Rik, so what you will see here is a sort of 'Rik In Review'. Rik started out far different than he ended up. This is the application for a brick, not very bright, who likes to hit things because that means that they can't hit him back.
He was sent to Arjun, the Glass Walker Sept Alpha, from Chicago as a sort of farm club excursion. He was to prove himself in the minors in St. Claire before being promoted to the Big Leagues back in Chicago as an enforcer for one of the main packs. He was Fostern in Chicago, but his reputation did not carry all the way to the wilds of Washington, and thus he arrived at the Wheel Renewed as a Cliath.
Instead of Arjun, however, he fell in with Vengeance, under Porthos, and became a much kinder gentler Ahroun, aside from killing a Panzer tank during their totem quest for Bull.
When half of the pack was brought under fire by the Sept for Litany violations and faded away, Rik became alpha of the remnants. And then Glass Walker elder. In his little log cabin in the woods. Which was when he fell in with Skie, a lovely young vampire who ghouled him and bedded him.
In an attempt to live happily ever after, he abandoned his non-existent pack and nearly non-existent tribe and returned to Chicago with Skie. Well. Until they had a prolonged and vicious argument too near the full moon and she ended up with a terminal case of Final Death before he realised he'd lost his temper.
He left Chicago again, returning to his little log cabin in Kent Crossing (The ancestral home of Vengeance, now with a hot tub, next door to Banestriker's old place), and swore to leave off forever his life as 'a fur-covered Cuisinart'; he would abandon Garou society and the death he saw it representing, instead taking up gardening and life. Oh. And lots and lots of valium, which he hoped would help control the rage in him. And the sept seemed glad to let him go his way.
His own way included meeting a former school teacher with her own 'cabin in the woods' and a garden of her own. Gardening, either at his cabin or at Glissa's where he slowly built a new family with her and two children. Until the Kinfolk Moot where Glissa witnessed a firsting which shook her badly. To the point where she told him she was leaving town, he would never see her or the children again, and he should make no attempt to find her again.
So, fine, he said, I'll just be a monster, if that's what life seems to want. The question at this point is what sort of monster he will become, and what faction he will serve.
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