Greed
[spoiler]As odd as it may seem, Greed was born Dante Roa to a pair of caring parents within city walls. Born without many bestial traits, aside from sharp canines and the ability to control the carbon on his skin (his father's Beasthide trait), he grew up in a poorer neighborhood inhabited by other species that had come from the forests. As a shifter, and possibly tainted by the magics they had fled from, he and his family were treated in a way similar to dirt; it was there, and that had to be accepted, but you certainly didn't have to do anything special for it. Thus did he grow up, with his parents struggling to raise him well and keep themselves alive; his parents both worked in meat packing, where they were always under suspicion, but were (thankfully) tolerated.
However, public schooling did not work out well for young Dante, who showed average intelligence but an above average keen mind. He eventually dropped out at age 14, believing he wasn't learning anything of value anymore; having started a small street gang of young thuggish petty thieves, he angered his parents, who believed the city had tainted him in a way the magic in the forests had never done. Claiming that it had given him more than the "hick-life tree-hugging bullshit" of the forests ever could, he didn't so much run away from home as saunter out the door. Having been caught stealing from a store by trying to get one more item when he could have walked out with six, and refusing to give his name for fear he'd be returned to his parents in shame, the police questioning him only referred to him as "Greedy," with his friends being "stupid" and "scrawny" until their real names had been revealed. As his records had been kept poorly, as most poor families had been, he was unidentifiable, and so was sent to a juvenile prison under the name "Greed," which he himself had suggested at the offices.
Exiting after a short stint, Greed immediately started a street gang of thugs, whose specialty was all about guarding criminals and their belongings, Greed was repeatedly arrested and nearly arrested for many violent and petty crimes. One other thing he took to was underground boxing, where he met another shifter of the dreamsight variety. Serving the people in the "facility," she was a worker, not hired but bought, whose contract Greed eventually bought and destroyed. Together, Greed started to fall away from the world of crime and violence that he knew so well. He reestablished a connection with his parents, introducing the woman as his fiance, and claiming he was involved with business enterprises. Greed seemed to be going straight, despite his constant physical training and the emergence of a few bodily modification abilities that he could not account for, perhaps from the woodlands taint on his families genes.
This going-straight fact was missed by a number of his underworld rivals and boxing bookies, who thought of this woman as a simple way to get at him for being less beneficial to them. An attack on his home while he was out led to a brutally beaten, and possibly worse, dreamsight woman, who was begging for her life at the moment Greed walked in on his would-be assailants. Most of them died in the first few seconds of his furious counterstrike, Others beating him badly while he killed and maimed them. By the time the last had run or died, Greed was struggling down an alleyway, carrying his unconscious love while he came across a detective, surprised at the bloodsoaked man in front of him.
In an odd blur of time, this detective pulled Greed into hiding, delivering the woman to a hospital, where she has remained comatose but cared for by an anonymous patron. Greed disappeared for a long while, before appearing next to a private investigator, one with odd powers himself. Greed now has a (sort of) steady job, and seems to be as legitimately employed as one can get while still having an unclosed criminal record, seemingly forgotten in his time laying low. In fact, most of the police dislike or outright hate him, but he's been off the scope for so long, none have taken action against him.[/spoiler]
