Random character info blathering!

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The 10th Kingdom mini-series can be somewhat vague and often contradictory about Wolf's past, and what exactly being a 'half-wolf' entails, so I'm going to be taking bits and pieces from canon and building a narrative for myself that makes sense. (If only House of Wolves had been made we would have more info!)

Wolves in the Nine Kingdoms

- despite saying he is half-wolf to the queen upon their first meeting, Wolf continues to refer to himself as a wolf and seems to identify heavily with that part of his heritage. Also the gypsy boy is referred to as a wolf, despite having to be at least part human to feasibly be the fortune teller's grandson. From that I've decided that being a wolf is something of a dominant trait - the child of a wolf and a human will still have all the powers and abilities of a full-blood wolf. However, the child of a half wolf and a human, the powers will start to be more muted.

- It was originally intended for Wolf to transform during the full moon, but the budget didn't allow it. Taking this into account, I've decided that Wolf CAN fully transform into a dire wolf - aka looks like a normal wolf but BIG. He can only transform in and around the full moon, though, and he can resist it if he tries VERY hard but it becomes quiet painful (hence the 'cramps')

- The other symptoms of the full moon are mainly just a shift to his more animalistic side - he loses more of his human reasoning and succumbs to hunger. His transformation in Little Lamb Village was more traumatic for him than usual as a combined influence from the queen AND it being his first full moon transformation outside of prison in several years

- Wendall's pardon for all wolves in the Fourth Kingdom implies that it was in some way illegal to be a wolf. Basically wolves are not considered Fourth Kingdom citizens, and are not given the same privileges and laws as other creatures. They cannot hold down jobs, own property, and have very limited legal rights. This is still an improvement to 2nd Kingdom laws, where wolves can be legally killed and hunted without having actually broken any laws.

Wolf's Backstory

- Wolf was born in the 2nd Kingdom

- Wolf isn't his real name - but it's been so long since anyone called him it that he doesn't particularly identify with it any more. After his parents died and he was on his own he was always singularly referred to as 'Wolf' by people, intended in a derogatory sense so he decided to embrace it as a name so it couldn't be used against him any more. He now far prefers Wolf to his given name.

- His parents were killed when he was seven (everything is seven in this series!). When the villagers came to smoke them out, his mother told him and his siblings to hide in the woods. Wolf was the only one of his siblings who were captured and forced to watch his parents murdered. He later escaped and has been on his own ever since. If his siblings are still alive, he has no idea where they are or how to get in touch with them.

- He's lived a pretty vagrant life since then. He was briefly fostered by a wolf couple (the 'parents' referred to in his therapy session) but they were on the more brutal side of the wolf mentality - people think we're monsters so we may as well take what we can from who we can. Wolf couldn't live with it for long so he ran away in his pre-teens.

- He was in Snow White Memorial Prison for three years at the start of the mini-series, two of those years in solitary confinement. (Hence how crazy he is for the first two episodes of the series - he was in MAJOR over-stimulation mode). He was, indeed, imprisoned for killing and eating someone else's sheep. In the Fourth Kingdom that gets a wolf a life sentence.

- He was put in solitary after several fights with prison mates, a combination of being provoked since the other prisoners were not happy to have a wolf in their midst and wanted him out, but some of it was also just pent up aggression and energy from being trapped. It was finally decided he was too dangerous to keep with the other prisoners and locked up on his own.

- He indeed has been living on baked beanstalk for three years, but he was given meat on the full moon to try to stop him from getting so wild he would escape

- He's in his early 30s, although he's not quiet sure the exact age since he's lost track a bit