Description
T H E // R U N T S
The Runts are a ‘pack’ of werewolves who occupy The Adandoned Warehouse in The Phantom Quarter, Lutetia City. Over the past few years there’s been a rise in the number of werewolf bites. The problem is concentrated in The Phantom Quarter, where lost souls often find themselves. The homeless are the most vulnerable to these mystery attacks – especially children. The current leader of The Runts, Cass, is an older sisterly figure who is dedicated to helping those who survive.
The Runts are not made up entirely of the victims of these attacks. Other outsiders are also welcomed. Foreigners, anti-socials and oddities make up some of the members.
Cass’s approach to members it to encourage their humanity. She prefers them to spend most of their times in their human forms, and does not run the werewolf pack in a conventional way. By supressing their newer instincts, often members can clash and lose control. But, as most of them were turned, they don't know any better.
An outsider has taken interest in The Runts, a werewolf by the name of Arman. He sees potential in the scraggly group of misfits; potential for his own gain. Arman challenges Cass's control, having an understanding of how things are meant to work. He tries to slyly manipulate the pack members, enlightening them to the real world of werewolf life, insisting that they'd be stronger, more natural if they were to support him. Cass, however, believes that these werewolves have been outcasted for a reason, and integrating them into an urban pack styled life would simply be what is worst for them. She still maintains most of the support within the pack. Arman forces himself upon the them, sometimes bringing gifts of food, clothing, and medicine. Against confrontation and in need of such things, Cass lets it lie... until it all gets too much.
Whilst encouraging their humanity, Cass herself is eventually forced to turn and fight this challenger who says he knows better. Arman is a brute, but due to their differences in wolf forms, Cass is usually able to run him off. But as these confrontations grow closer together, her physical strength is weaning, unable to regenerate fast enough, whilst Arman's form remains strong.