LYCAON
"The moon wasn't made to be caged."

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Jun. 29th, 2025 11:59 pm
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Player Name: RCeus
Contact: RCeus on discord
Invited by: Azure Flute
Other Characters: none

Character Name: Von Lycaon
Canon: Zenless Zone Zero
Canon History: Here
Canon Abilities: I invite you to consult the wiki. Most of his powers are "dog"

Canon Personality:

Wolfishly Charming-Lycaon is a gentleman through and through. He speaks calm and collective in every interaction and handles each situation with grace and a professional demeanor. He's very reliable and to the outside eye he seems to have control of every situation at all times. This also places a lot of responsibility on him, as he will often be the one to assume control or fix problems so that other people don't have to.

Attentive to Detail-He is a bit of a perfectionist. If he has a slip up in any situation that might cause him mild embarrassment, he'll go to great efforts to correct the mistake to the point of almost overcorrection. He's his own worst critic and he won't forgive himself until his mistake is corrected.

Icy Demeanor, Warm Heart-He can be a bit standoffish if you don't know him, but once he warms up to you, you have a stalwart companion who will place his entire heart into your hands. He has no problems with putting his life on the line for the people he cares about, and not in a self-sacrificial way. He just knows he can do the job and keep his companions safe. Once you get to know him, he's a very sweet man who would move mountains if you asked it of him.

Doggy-Being a wolf, he is subject to his doglike habits, like ear twitching, tail wagging, and shedding. He'll do his best to curb all of these habits, but he is a slave to his emotions and they will slip through the cracks. This often gives him a cute side, and softens up the hard edges he might show. All of these embarrass him.

Tech Unsavvy - While he's not exactly "How do I send an email", he is not quite as up to date with tech as he'd like to be. Things like sending hyperlinks, using emojis, discord stickers, internet lingo, and specialized apps like online grocery shopping are out of his ballpark and he tends to prefer the old fashioned in person shopping or using the universal shopping sites if they can't be obtained any other way.

Edgy Past- Not many know this about him, but in his youth he was a little more rough around the edges and not the elegant wolf you see today. He would often solve things with his fists, speak more frankly, and have less patience than he does now.

AU Name: Lycaon (does not know his surname)
AU Age: 29
AU Birthday: October 4th

AU History:
CONTENT WARNING: Death, Mass Murder, Bodily Harm (involving eyes, legs), Child abandonment

Close to the border of France and Germany, a young wolf named Lycaon was born. Although the details aren’t stated, Lycaon was orphaned at quite a young age, before he could even remember the faces of his own parents. As a young pup, life had been difficult back then, as he was too young to know how to get his own food, let alone survive in the wilderness. He couldn't even communicate eloquently, often speaking in grunts or not at all.

As a means of survival, he would often take to stealing from the campsites of travelers, whether it was tools, clothes, or food. One day he noticed a lone, aging vagabond traveling and figured this would be an easy target. The traveler had noticed his presence, however, and just when he was about to ransack the camp, Lycaon was approached and asked why he was stealing. Lycaon, not wanting to actually hurt this person, and with no ability to speak, could only duck his head in shame.

The vagabond decided to take Lycaon in as their own, impressed at this young wolf's skill in thievery as well as his prideful soul. They traveled together, with Lycaon learning the human tongue from his mentor and the security of a good meal every night, and in return Lycaon would assist them as their body was starting to fail them. Soon his mentor would take in another soul who the world was unkind to. Lycaon became friends with them as well, and they were thought to be inseparable.

The vagabond, who had become an idol to Lycaon, taught them the ways of noble thievery. To take from those more fortunate and give to the less fortunate. To someone like Lycaon, who grew up with this mentality for survival, it made perfect sense. His friend, however, seemed to have darker thoughts.

One night, his mentor took him aside and told him to beware of his friend, and to be their leash, whether that meant to restrain them or to choke them. Lycaon didn't want to believe it at the time, but his respect for his mentor also meant that he couldn't ignore it either. That was his first mistake.

Time passed, and Lycaon had truly thought he had found his real family, even if his parents had abandoned him so long ago. But the peace wasn't meant to last, as the friend he'd become so close to revealed his true colors. After tailing his friend one night, he was soon wrapped up in a chaotic mess of bloodshed. He’d tried to help victims, but they were just as vindictive as they lashed out at him in any way they could, aiming for his eye and his legs to save themselves. Injured and trying to make sense of it all, once the damage was done he found his friend in a bloody hallway surrounded by what he'd later realized was own family. With his comrade standing there, dazed and confused, there was only one conclusion he could draw.

"Did you do this?"

His friend... They'd gone back on the pact that they had all those years ago, and anger boiled inside him. Betrayal didn't even begin to describe it. The words his mentor had said about his friend were true, no matter how hard he tried to deny it. With the seed of doubt already planted, Lycaon cut ties with them, taking his wounded self and leaving the person he'd let so close to his heart behind. His second mistake.

It wasn’t easy, but he was able to get medical attention after that massacre using the funds his mentor had left behind, and it resulted in the loss of both his legs and his right eye. As he recovered in the hospital, he realized he would need some way of surviving in this world, and reached out to a Zodiac representative. He had heard about their recent developments in prosthetics, and no sooner had he sent the text than a representative showed up in his hospital room.

Due to the severity of his injury and sheer size of his body at 6’6’’, he was quickly transported to Kaisou to get more specialized help. Although they were a bit crude to start, they were functioning legs thanks to the diligent workers there, and they offered him upgrades in the future as their research continued. As with all things, they came at a price, and Lycaon soon found himself emptied of his pockets, with mounting debts for his legs and the price of any future upgrades on the horizon.

Now wandering around with a patched eye and artificial legs, he looked for any work that would take him. Fortune smiled upon him as he was able to work his way up through bar tending, his devotion for refining his language enough to turn him into quite the gentleman.

However, his eye is always on the horizon, hoping to catch a glimpse of the person who broke their oath.


AU Personality Differences:
He's pretty much the same in personality, though since he's not a butler in this scenario he'll opt to use "mister" instead of "master". He's also a little more sensitive if he mixes up his words or if he sounds inelegant, since he takes pride in learning how to speak and communicate.

Element: Water
Purchased Powers:
Species Change - Bipedal Wolf - 3
FULL MOON Gauntlets -1
Elemental Imbuement (low) - 1
Freeze Water (low) - 1
Non Human Limbs - Prosthetic Legs - 2
THE PAINTING - 1

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