Username: Helix
Name: Hyae
Gender: Female
Small personality: Hunger defines and drives Hyae, and she's quite keen on always satisfying her gnawing hunger. She takes a bit of pride in her thinking skills, but really, her teeth do most of the work. One could say she prides her teeth too, with their almost limitless potential in breaking things. But still, Hyae thinks with her stomach, though in the rare times she is full, she relishes relaxing and making tiny mosaics with bone fragments, sticks, and leaves. Her art is childlike at best, but she tries.
If she manages to fully adjust to civilian life after being in the wilds for so long, she'd be the type to overstay her welcome at buffets. Most likely the singular person that causes the place to start a 4-plate policy, or increase the price. But, she'd find most modern technology fascinating, especially video games an internet, and especially... food blogging?
A whole career dedicated to eating: now that is what Hyae wants. Starting as a food critic, though... well, as someone whose body burns through food like a living furnace, the food was no problem. The journalistic part would be. She put as much fervor to learning to read and write as she did to eat, sometimes doing both at once!
Small history: All she knew of her formative years was kibble, sleeping, a small steel cage, and the faint itching under her skin. Eventually she noticed a fine latticework of nodes running pitch black under her skin, throbbing hunger through her body, and slowly she wanted nothing but to sink her teeth into anything vaguely edible. Hunger, hunger, and more hunger. Red meat had a tang to it, especially wild meat, with that smoky bitterness, and she craved to taste it. She just couldn't get enough, especially with the hole hunger gnawed into her. She bit at bars until, one day, she was able to break them, pattering down the halls, slipping her emaciated frame through a crack to escape.
Freedom to hunt, run, and eat. Hyae was more than happy to migrate as she grew older, her jaws turning into something that could crush bone, and she even relished cracking them open, the noise somewhat soothing to her. Locals abhored her, for she figured out how to slip her ever-starved body through, managing to land on cattle and devour one, sometimes even two, during the night, slipping out again or using her jaws to break open any locks or bars that blocked her exit. And, when the area was sufficiently decimated of livestock, she'd move on.
Ever hungry, ever hunting.
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Hyae eventually gets caught in something she cannot chew out of (specifically, she caught herself in an old traffic cone: unable to get the wide part of the cone away from her face) in a barn. The farmer was surprised to find the whole barn in disarray, Hyae still backing into poles and the occasional cattle. Instead of taking care of a well-known nuisance, though, the old Kalon farmer decided to get a tub of lard, as well as some fresh vegetables, and try to get Hyae's heard out.
Hyae had some suspicion, of course, but an offering of carrots, tomatoes, and various bell peppers quickly set the farmer into Hyae's graces. The farmer was very kind, offering his home, if Hyae needed somewhere to sleep and live, and, with the promise of more vegetables, Hyae's life as a semi-feral Kalon came to an end. Apparently the farmer had a granddaughter who stayed frequently, as her room was littered with books and dioramas of planets and stars.
Hyae didn't mind working at the farm in the coming days. Taking care of pests like rabbits and birds was easy enough! That, and not only did she get that to eat, but also a nice stew or salad with her new farmer-father in the afternoon and evening. What boggled her mind is that he kept quite a lot of produce that wouldn't sell because it didn't look traditional. Hyae was happy to inhale it all down, much to the farmer's delight.
It seemed Hyae now had a future, with an old Kalon bent on giving her a basic education, no less!
Current Kalon(s): Corneria((sorry if it seems a bit disjointed? I got the concept of her adult profession literally as I was writing more!))