Sergei Antonov

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Sergei's eyes glow like embers as he carves notches into his belt, one for each full moon he's survived. He hums an ancient lullaby, the same one his mother sang before she was torn apart by hunters.

Backstory

Every thirteenth full moon, the circus would arrive in whatever backwater town could afford their peculiar brand of entertainment, and Sergei would perform his "transformation" behind painted canvas while his mother sang haunting melodies that weren't entirely human. The Antonov Family Menagerie had been traveling for generations, hiding their true lycanthropic bloodline among trapeze artists and fire-breathers until the night federal agents posing as hunters infiltrated their camp, seeking to harvest werewolf DNA for military experiments. Sergei watched his mother die not in some noble forest battle, but strapped to a metal table under fluorescent lights, her final lullaby cut short by the whir of extraction equipment. Now he carves notches not just for survived moons, but for each agent he's tracked down from the classified files he stole, his ember eyes reflecting both the big top spotlights of his past and the cold institutional halls where he hunts those who turned his family's an

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