Kairos Backstory
Short Backstory I wrote for Kairos, it has both Real life events and Fiction.
The Story of Kairos.
Born in the northern upper peninsula of Michigan, Kairos had a good mother, Kind and caring, and while he did not know his father well, his father provided for him and his mother his biggest priority being his mate and his son, until one night when playing out in the woods he saw approach their house a group shadowy forms, before he could call out to his father, his mother grabbed him and told him to run. as he ran, he could hear screams and fighting from behind and tried to run back until his mother picked him up and continued to run. three days later he snuck back to the house, all he found was blood and torn fur, and his father, torn to bloody shreds, knife still in hand dead on the floor. Kairos was never the same after this event and what he had seen, haunts him to this day. his mother drowned in grief, and no way to tell who murdered his father, only keeping his knife, and vowing one day to get revenge on those who took his father from him. He mostly raised himself, not going to school until close to being a teenager, as a result he was bullied for being different, even though he did not understand how. At the age of 13 he started to realize that he would notice the other males at school more often than the females, most in the locker room he found himself looking upon his classmates in their underwear with an odd interest. He Struggled with this odd fascination with boys and have never received any sort of sexual education he kept these feelings and fascination to himself not knowing quite what they were. A few years later in high school he slowly started to learn about what he might be and while keeping it a closely guarded secret, is was not until the end of his high school day that he accepted himself and his sexuality. After Graduating High school, Kairos went off to collage for his passion of cooking and baking, something he had become proud of as cooking awesome food and making other happy and joyful though his cooking inspired him to open his own restaurant after graduating, aptly named The Cheese Wedge for his love of cheese and meats.
Despite his success with cooking and his restaurant, at age 20 he began to feel more lonely, while he had friends in school and had by that time, plenty experience in bed his life felt empty and hollow, and he began to experience some bad depression, he had kept his feelings to himself and they were starting to surface, from bullies in school, to friends claiming to be friends but then just abandoning him. This pattern continued and he kept his issues to himself, to the point of harming himself, pulling fur, cutting himself, not eating at all. His work performance suffered as a result and because he did not want to see his restaurant fail, he sold it off, and moved back to the upper peninsula and became a recluse. While in his dark thought he chose to dig more into his father past, still wondering who had murdered him so brutally. After months of research he found his father had been part of a group that got blamed for many deaths, and while found to be untrue, someone clearly had held a grudge against him.
A year later, war broke out overseas and seeing a chance to get revenge against the possible group that has murdered his father, he jumped at the opportunity and being loyal to his country he signed up and trained for combat, despite this new purpose he still felt out of place, unwelcome, even though he knew his fellow men would sacrifice themselves for him, he thought of himself as only an expendable fox, at this point he had little reason to live anyway, and half hoped he would never return home. A month later, not even seeing any combat under his paws, his service was cut short after being stabbed in the chest by a drunk wolf, in the same company as his, and who he thought was a good friend, only to find out that he had been a defector but blew his cover after the amount of drink. He had all but lost and just wanted the doctors to let him die. Until during his recovery he made friends with a battle scared Hyena that came in and out of the med tent a few times, he has clearly seen plenty of combat and had his own darkness inside of him, but the friendship he provided gave him the strength and will to keep pushing forward, and not seek revenge that in the end would just get himself killed, and while his father may not have been avenged, he took solace in the fact that life is hard, and seeking revenge is not the best option. A few months later after his recovery and discharge from the armed forces, he decided it was time to embrace who he was, and what he wanted.
When he came out as pansexual to a surprisingly good reaction from the few friends he did have, he felt so much better now that he is able to be open about himself and slowly started the process of making more friends and confronting the darkness he had held in for so long. Now at age 25, he still struggles with his dark past and depression, however, he realizes that he has been strong enough to push though so much in his life. He wonders though if he will ever find happiness in life. He yearns for a mate, but has also accepted the fact that, despite being a kind and loving fox, that he may just always be alone, and it causes great conflict within him to this day.