H i s t o r y
ACT I: Second Son of the Seventh Son
Samuel Bergen was born to a small family of Lupines on the planet Ossus, where the family held a small business enough for them to all live a comfortable life. His Father owned it, his brother Benjamin worked alongside him while the rest of the children were still in school. His mother worked as an attorney in a small office. The family had been a happy one, with their Father telling them of stories of the Lupine past - the legacy of Lords, the Bergenfeld they would one day return to. It had meant as a fairytale of their past not as a warning of the future. Samuel believed those stories though, he believed he was destined to lead the pack back to Bergenfeld.
There had been a problem though - Benjamin was to be the next alpha of their pack, the next Lord. Not that any of these titles mattered outside their family on Ossus but it meant everything to Samuel. So much so, that at the age of twenty-two, he had challenged Benjamin for the title. Benjamin had laughed at him, mocked his human height, called him weak. All this had set off a rage within Samuel, made him lose his senses, the very thing that kept him human vanishing in an instant. He had changed before Benjamin had a chance to understand he was in any real danger and as such, Samuel murdered his brother. His parents entered then, Josiah trying to keep his wife away from the two brothers but he had failed, and the screaming woman in pain for the loss of her son launched herself at the wolf and the dead son in human form. Samuel had still not regained his senses and the wolf attacked the woman, killing her on the spot. It was only the sight of her dead eyes, the horror in her look that had caused Samuel to resurface beyond the beast. He’d killed his own mother and he had cried.
Josiah had said nothing, he too was wolf, but grief stricken at the two losses. Samuel had been ashamed by his actions and ran, leaving his Father to clean up his own mess. He’d spent the next two years in the wilderness, the wolf surviving by himself. And for those two years, the wolf was in control so it’s impossible to account for his death toll of either animals or humans. It’s most likely, his diet was completely animal or the occasional jogger had been harmed in the process. However, as the two years had passed, Samuel managed to regain himself and return to civilization to find Josiah barely functioning after everything. He had forgiven him and welcomed him with a father-son embrace but he was hardly the man he had been. His siblings feared him, only his younger sister having the guts to argue with him but was held back by their brother and sister to prevent more fighting. In the end, the remaining three acknowledged his claim; it had been as Josiah had often told them when they were children - the alpha was stronger than all of them, the alpha had beat even the one they believed was strongest among them.
In time, their relationships recovered. They were, for the most part, siblings again. Dynamics were still different, with Josiah’s fragile state, Samuel took over the family business to ensure it from crumbling. His siblings were welcome to express their plans for the future. His brother would soon prove to be more gifted in the business and Samuel accepted this, the two of them controlling the business together - as brothers. However, the fit of rage and the two years of solitude had changed Samuel. The aspect of the wolf had become stronger within; he began to believe they weren’t meant to have human forms dominate them. They were Lupine, not human. While on Ossus it meant nothing, somewhere out there, it meant everything. They had been cast out, exiled perhaps; whatever the story was, they belonged somewhere else. Samuel became obsessed with Bergenfeld Josiah always told them of but he found no records. It was as if none of it was real. Hardly something he would accept.
Sometime, in the next years, Samuel started a brief affair with a local woman, which resulted in the birth of his daughter Isabelle, and the woman’s death at childbirth. For the first time in years, Samuel showed a trace of his humanity again. He loved his daughter, there was no denying that. With the help of his sisters, he would raise the little pup, even begin her training when she was a youngling. He was, for lack of better word, content in his life now. Often, he hunted in the forests, his diet turning more to that of the wolf than human. His siblings would eventually find out and try to change his mind. They lived in human society, he had to reform. He wouldn’t listen.
ACT II: Behold, We Have Returned
The day Alwine Daye spoke before the projectors of the actions of Siskeen, fate would have it Isabelle had turned on the TV. He listened, captivated. Though he knew nothing of her, he saw something in her, in the way she held herself at the screen. She had the strength of an alpha, no matter what she was. It was a rare, almost impossible thing, but he had seen it even through the screen. Because of her, Samuel had decided it had been time to venture from Ossus - to find their ancestral home, as he had told his siblings, and to discover the woman from the screen. It was why he would seek the Agents of Chaos….
And behold, the Von Bergen’s shall enter the galaxy once more… and someday, return home.
