it all starts with a song... gifted with a stunning voice, even for the normal standards of merfolk, chan enjoyed much of his childhood in the pacific ocean with his family and friends. by day they would teach him how to hunt, feed, and make sure their fangs were sharp and claws ready, so by the time night fell they were well equipped to lull sailors in.

While chan did not enjoy the act of killing, and abstained from partaking where he could, he was used as their number one weapon. with his beautiful voice he would bring sailors in like moths to a flame, crashing their ships against the jagged rocks just to glimpse at he who sang so splendidly.

many a man and woman he has watched fall into the depths and never to be seen again, picked so clean that not a single morsel of flesh was left on the bones.

as he got older, chan thought he could convince himself this life wasn't so bad. they were predators, they needed to eat too and this was natural for them. unfortunately, he had no such luck.

with an increased hunt on merfolk, specifically for the precious goods they could produce (dead or alive), scales, tears, and desperately sought after organs, life was no longer peaceful and chan could no longer resist fighting back.

brokenhearted at the loss of his family to poachers, chan swore he would never forgive humans for what they had done to his kin, butchering them no better than livestock.

before he could continue his manhunt, the mysterious academy showed up on the shoreline, beckoning chan in towards its high, safe walls. there he has been ever since, learning under the house of wings and bettering himself, so he no longer feels quite as guilty for his past.

though he does not feed like before, he still craves flesh of a certain kind of man (humans) and on nights where the moon is particularly bright, he struggles with these urges more than usual.

personality chan is a bit of an enigma to those who don't know him so well. while he is kind enough and civil to those he meets, he often keeps to himself as his mind is overrun by thoughts of his haunted past.

to strangers he will remain unreadable and perhaps even a little intimidating, but to those who dare get closer to the merfolk, may glimpse into the horrors that make him who he is.

despite this, he is adept and a quick learner, willing to listen to people and learn to do things better, quicker, more efficiently. but get on his wrong side, and you can face the cold, unforgiving monster he really is.

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