Buzzard

Buzzard has always been defensive and grouchy. Since both of his parents had melanism, so did many of their pups, and Buzzard was just another black-furred puppy among many. He was traded into the Mountain Runners pack as a young adolescent. Sure, his parents went on and on about how it would be good for him to get a change of pace and meet other wolves, but Buzzard saw through it. He was just a transaction to his parents, a way to get more valuables for themselves. As he grew up, Buzzard became even more distant and snappy, rejecting all attempts to get on his good side. He was paired with Onyx to have melanistic puppies, and that made him hate his mutation all the more. Why couldn't he choose his own mate? Why did everyone focus only on his black fur and not him? He didn't and still doesn't love Onyx, but he tolerates them, because they are similar in some ways. Almost kindred spirits, annoyed at the world, only noticed because of their fur. Over the moon cycles that he's spent in the pack, he and Onyx have had a few litters of pups together, and though most of them didn't stay in the pack, it was something of a bonding experience, he supposed, watching tiny scraps of dark fur wobble their way around the nursery under the watchful eye of the pupsitters and know that they came from him and someone he considered almost a friend. Even though Buzzard is still passively angry at the entire world, what he and Onyx have is the closest thing to a "family" that he ever got, and he appreciates them for that.