Interests

• Likes: Healing, talking, singing, his bandana, nicknaming people, Killer, Chief
• Dislikes: Horses, Luperci, Optime form, running, being asked to sing

Traits

Lethally cynical, unfeeling, coldly professional

• Outlook: Pessimistic
• Expression: Jumps between being a motormouthed extrovert and a contemplative introvert depending on the situation. Never afraid to speak his mind.
• Alignment: True Neutral pre-scar; Neutral Good post-scar

Fears

• Having a patient die under his care
• Horses
• Dying slowly
• Losing his pack (Post-Scar)

Motivations

• Abiding to his personal healer's code
• Reuniting with his family in the afterlife
• Secretly wishes revenge on the wolf that infected him
• Loyalty to his pack (Post-Scar)

Biases

• Species: All are equal under a healer's care.
• Non-Luperci: Envies their purity.
• Gender: Has been taught to overlook petty discrimination such as gender.
• Sexuality: Is quick to tease those interested in the same sex, but holds no serious bias either way.
• Age: Dislikes young children and has very little patience for them.

Sexuality

Once a deadset abstinent, after the events of the March bear hunt, Decker's new, broadened perspectives have lead him to become mildly interested in romantic persuasions. Despite his snarky-yet-professional exterior, he is almost comically underinformed when it comes to intimacy and romance, having spent his entire adolescence in varying states of trauma and withdrawal.

Substances

After witnessing his birthpack being slaughtered before him and escaping with his mind in turmoil, young Decker turned to natural drugs such as mushrooms to help mitigate the trauma. After coming down from a trip to find himself trapped in the embrace of a stranger that infected him with the Luperci virus, he swore off all recreational substances for as long as he lived. Post-scar, he retains this view, being totally uninterested in any druglike substances.

Spirituality

Decker is thoroughly convinced that whatever is up there, he/she/it/they want to see him squirm. He attempts to defy the gods through displays of numbness and lethargy whenever possible, figuring that if he stopped reacting to the torture, they would become bored and move on to some other sap, or better yet, kill him off so he could finally escape the mortal realm. This belief is reinforced by various random acts of what can only be defined as 'slapstick' (falling off small cliffs, running into trees, etc.) Post-scar, this hasn't changed, although whatever has been tormenting him this long is eagerly taking advantage of his newfound self-confidence to kick him around a little harder.

3.1  Key Relations

• None

3.2  Family:

• Mother: Deceased
• Father: Deceased
• Siblings: One sister, likely deceased

3.3  Minor Relations

• Killer (Altair Amarok): The first Dawner to greet him after Zalen welcomed him to New Dawn. Having teased him numerous times, healed him of grievously infected leg wounds, and been threatened by him should Decker's past come back to harm his family, Decker considers him a friend.
• Chief (Zalen Damaichu): Alpha of the pack he swears himself to. Started out viewing him as more of an equal than a leader, violently cussing at him when the Alpha saved his life by yanking him out of a shallow river, and otherwise regarding him the same as he would any other wolf. Post-scar, Decker is more outwardly loyal, and keen to view Zalen as a friend and a proper leader.
• Twinklepaws (Fayne): Pre-scar, viewed as an overly compassionate acquaintance at best, occasionally projecting his fuming hatred at the world around him on her in futile attempts to seek help for his deteriorating mental state. Post-scar, Decker sees her more as a fellow healer, an equal partner in the healing arts.

4.1  Residence

• Medical Hut, New Dawn

4.2  NPCs

The Stranger

• Species: Canis lupus
• Age and DOB: ???
• Description: A shady man from Decker's painful, traumatic youth that had taken advantage of the young healer and forcefully afflicted him with the Luperci virus. Decker can't recall anything about him, other than that he was definitely male, definitely bigger than him, and definitely a Luperci. Even post-scar, Decker secretly wishes to exact revenge on the Stranger in the most painful fashion he can imagine.
• Personality: ???

Strengths

• Healing (Master): Decker's self-proclaimed reason for existing. From the moment he was old enough to learn, Decker displayed prodigious talent in the healing arts, only growing wiser and more effecient as he aged. It is also arguably the only aspect of him that has improved because of his traumatic youth; being kicked around different packs his whole life meant he could train under different healers, learning far more than he ever could by staying with one pack. He is deadly serious when it comes to this skill, as well, tolerating zero interference in healing procedures from any source.
• Evasion (Journeyman): The second thing Decker picked up very, very quickly. His diminuitive size and build made survival as a loner a daunting task, to say the least, and so he spent much of his adolescence pushing the limits of his endurance and agility to escape from nearly every threat a lone wolf could possiby face.
• Foraging (Journeyman): Learned naturally alongside healing, with some bonus experience from scrounging as a loner.
• Combat - Lupus (Apprentice): Though his formal training in combat amounts to nil (he prefers flight over fight), his studies in healing and anatomy have bestowed upon him knowledge of subdermal nerve clusters, or 'pressure points', which he can apply sharp, prolonged pressure to in order to subdue nasties or rowdy patients. Also, loner experience has taught him one thing about combat: go for the eyes.

Weaknesses

• Decker is socially numb, which makes conforming to pack customs and rules difficult. His acidic disbelief in the permanence of pack structure can easily come off as hotheaded insubordination.
• Though able to keep up a sprint for an impressive distance before tiring, his physical strength is lacking severely; manual labor exhausts him fairly easily.
• Despite it supposedly coming naturally to him, Decker lacks fine dexterity in Optime form, and is stubbornly reluctant to use his 'mutant' forms.
• Decker is incapable of remembering names, instead assigning susperficial nicknames to those he meets.
• He is a horribly clumsy hunter and knows little about stealth other than that his white coat blends easily with snow, resulting in his emaciated appearance when Zalen first encountered him half-drowned in a shallow riverbed.
• The extensive trauma he has suffered so early in life has had profoundly negative effects on his mental health; he is prone to hearing a disembodied feminine voice and witnessing vivid hallucinations of deceased pack members or relatives. Post-scar, the voices have hushed and his madness appears to have ebbed, but his mental state continues to deteriorate gradually, and he is prone to occasional night terrors and minor hallucinations.