Gunner was born to a litter of four. He had two younger sisters, and one older brother. For a good portion of his childhood, he remained with his mother Lucia. He used to be a happy child who never complained, and liked to play pranks on his siblings. However, not all was well within the family. Unbeknownst to Gunner at the time, he had been born from a non-consensual encounter, and his biological father, Griffon Wilds, had begun badgering his mother to release the children to him. When his threats of what he would do to her if not cooperated with grew too much to bear, Lucia agreed. Using her shrewd mind, she bargained with him. In the end, he took only one child, alongside many trinkets and gifts.

That child was Gunner.

His father hadn't wanted to take the pups from Lucia to take care of them. Instead, he wanted them as test subjects. Griffon had steadily built a reputation as the most reliable medic in nearly all of Paris. Many flocked to his door when they had an illness, or an injury to be cleaned. Griffon did not care for power nor wealth. Instead, what made him so twisted was his passion for the craft taken too far. It fascinated him to see guts, entrails, blood—to see the way the Luperci body worked in all three different forms. Surely, not a bad hobby on its own. But the pup, from the rest of his childhood and into adulthood, became the subject of many different tests; some of which he barely survived. Griffon knew how rare it was to find a test subject he could so easily keep a secret from prying city eyes, and because of this he was careful not to push Gunner too far. One of the most gruesome tests was studying minor infections. For this, he preformed scarification on his son to an extreme degree, leaving his entire left arm covered in jagged, bleeding cuts. They resembled the crackle of lightning when they healed; this was so Griffon could claim that the storms were the true source of the wound.

Griffon also had an interest in studying psychology. He abused Gunner deliberately to see the effects it would have on his personality. He recorded all of his studies on paper, watching as Gunner twisted and changed due to the trauma. His greatest wish was to live to see Gunner's death (if not cause it himself eventually, once Gunner had finally run out of usefulness), so that he could examine his brain and compare it with others. He frequently tested mixtures on Gunner. This did end (though he wanted this to be temporary) when Gunner had a life-threatening seizure after drinking a poisonous substance. After this stroke, Gunner's brain shortly thereafter began epileptogenesis. Gunner did not originally suffer from epilepsy, but developed it due to the brain trauma from the original seizure.

He fled from home with much of his father's research with the help of a better guardian figure, Silent Dragon, whom mentored him in the art of metalworking.

Upon arriving at 'Souls he became acquainted with the King Iomair. He worked for him as a metalworker for only a short while before his plans went awry. Griffon had figured out where he had gone. Not wasting any time dragging his son back to Paris by force, there Gunner remained for one long, dark year until the early fall of 2021.

The door swung to Griffon's home swung open. Gunner recognized the pelt and eyes of his older brother almost immediately. Batyr had found him. And immediately, Griffon knew what he had to do. He had to kill him. Otherwise, he would end up with no test subjects at all. And he would die for his work: that was why he had chased Gunner to the ends of the earth and brought him back. He would do anything to keep his work alive. Anything.

Batyr had grown. Taller and bigger than either of them, and Gunner at first was intimidated and scared by his enraged presence. He hid in the corner as his father struck with honed claws, fueled by instinct, but Batyr had been far more invested in this than either of them realized. Before Gunner could piece together anything, an axe had embedded itself in Griffon's head, driven in by Batyr.

The residents of Paris had put up with Griffon for a long time. They put up with his atrocious personality, his tendency to abuse and manipulate. All because of his services: he provided medical assistance on the cheap, sometimes for free.

They would not be happy about this.

This, Gunner explained to Batyr. He told him of that start: a start of a new life he had once thought he'd found in 'Souls. And the two fled quickly, it being the second time for Gunner. He'd had two saviors, despite feeling all alone in this world. The year away changed him, although if it's for the better or worse that remains to be seen.

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