"Nah, no biting involved - I was just born this way."
She shrugs, folding her arms over her chest. Not too many people know this story, not because it's a big secret - well, not anymore, her secret identity effectively went out the window the minute she and Chris had been attacked by wendigos - but because not many people have ever asked. And back in her own world, that secret needed to be kept, if she wanted to stay alive. Here, among her fellow monsters, it doesn't really matter so much anymore. In Hadriel, Nick doesn't have to lie about who or what she is.
"Nightbane are 'developmentally atypical humans,'" she says, finger quotes included, "is how it was explained to me. I thought I was just your normal type of human my whole life, until a couple years ago. I was up in Canada on a random trip to Vancouver, got attacked by this - thing," she shudders at the memory of it, "in Stanley Park, and before I knew what was happening, I'd turned into what you saw earlier. But that's apparently pretty typical for a first time changing, it's called a Becoming - some kinda trauma happens, and it like, triggers the change in you, like turnin' on a light switch. For me, it was gettin' attacked by another Nightbane. The guy who taught me everything I know about Nightbane got blown up in 'Nam, stuff like that."
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She shrugs, folding her arms over her chest. Not too many people know this story, not because it's a big secret - well, not anymore, her secret identity effectively went out the window the minute she and Chris had been attacked by wendigos - but because not many people have ever asked. And back in her own world, that secret needed to be kept, if she wanted to stay alive. Here, among her fellow monsters, it doesn't really matter so much anymore. In Hadriel, Nick doesn't have to lie about who or what she is.
"Nightbane are 'developmentally atypical humans,'" she says, finger quotes included, "is how it was explained to me. I thought I was just your normal type of human my whole life, until a couple years ago. I was up in Canada on a random trip to Vancouver, got attacked by this - thing," she shudders at the memory of it, "in Stanley Park, and before I knew what was happening, I'd turned into what you saw earlier. But that's apparently pretty typical for a first time changing, it's called a Becoming - some kinda trauma happens, and it like, triggers the change in you, like turnin' on a light switch. For me, it was gettin' attacked by another Nightbane. The guy who taught me everything I know about Nightbane got blown up in 'Nam, stuff like that."