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Vincent Genio
= Who are you?
I am Vincent Genio, formerly of the Polizei Italia. These days, I wander the night to avenge the wrongs that are done to me and others.
How old are you?
33
When were you born?
31st August, 1976
How old were you when you underwent the First Change?
28
How long have you been a werewolf?
5 years
Did the Change affect your emotional maturity? For better or worse?
Since Changing, my maturity increased exponentially. That first night was a terrible experience, and it got worse from that point on. I’m not sure whether that was a good thing or not, I came out greatly changed, probably for the better…but the things that happened. I would change them if I could.
Do you look older or younger than your years?
On the surface, I look as old as I am, but in my eyes there lies the age of experience given by someone who’s seen more than anyone should have.
Are you more or less mature than you seem?
On first meeting, I seem quiet and solemn, a man who has suffered much. When you get to know me, you’ll notice my demeanor softens around people I can trust, I’ll laugh more and meditate less. On the whole, I’m probably less mature, but that’s because I seem extremely mature.
= What was unique about your childhood?
There wasn’t much that seemed unique to me. I was just one of the many children who’s parents fight all the time, who live in a world where a few lire off the street is a ticket to eat properly that night.
What do you remember about your early years?
I remember little of my early years. A few vivid images stand out, snapshots from an… interesting childhood. My parents shouting over me in our kitchen. The funeral of my best friend aged 16, dead from drug-induced suicide. Hours spent on the roof of our apartment building, watching the city, sometimes elated, sometimes irate, sometimes crying. A school trip to the Dolomites, the scent of snow and pines and the sight of soft prints in the white.
What was your home life like? Was it idyllic? Troubled? Abusive?
Troubled…you could say that. My parents seemed to be in a permanent state of near-divorce. They’d fight over me, over work, over the house, over the curtains. Whatever it was, they’d fight about it. They never physically abused me or each other, but every night there’d be a battle over the kitchen table. I don’t know how they lived with each other. They were foster-parents, I discovered at about 11 – I’ve looked for my true parents ever since.
Where did you go to school?
I went to a primary public school in Genoa, Italy, for my childhood schooling. There was nothing notable about it, besides a fairly high quotient of bullies and the dregs of society.
Were you a good student?
I tried as hard as I could. I wanted to get out of the pathetic apartment; I wanted to help other people like me get out. Other children bullied me, I was skinny and average in pretty much everything, but I tried. Sometimes, the kids got under my skin, but I internalized much of it.
What is your most powerful childhood memory?
The aforementioned ones. Additionally, my first kiss with my long-standing girlfriend, again, up in the Dolomites, after school ended. It was a beautiful, yet terrifying moment.
Did you go to high school or college?
I went first to a Genoa high school, which was a similar experience to my primary schooling, then to a police college, also in Genoa, where I trained to become an officer. That was much better, the one time in my life that I was truly happy.
Did you have a hometown, or did your family move often?
I had lived in Genua, Italy for my entire life, until I followed the trail of my parents here to Marseilles.
Did you run away from home?
No. As I said, I spent many hours on the roof, gazing at the sky, but I never ran away from home.
Did you play sports?
Not really. My family didn’t have the spare money, and I was concentrating on my schooling. I did spend time walking and jogging through both the city, and the wilderness, when I could get there.
Did any of your childhood friendships last until adulthood?
The girlfriend I mentioned earlier lasted nearly 10 years. Aside that, no, I had few friends in childhood and all of those drifted away from me or died. The rough parts of Genoa are very, very rough.
Did your nascent Rage affect your childhood?
Not really. I internalized most of it. The occasional person caught a blow from it, but mostly they accepted that I had just taken too much and bottled it up too long.
= What kind of person were you?
When? After childhood, before the Change, I was just a policeman. I fought with the pack…well, the department, to keep at least some degree of order in the city. I lived with my fiancée, the same girlfriend of all those years, and we loved each other more than anything. My Rage had never spread to her; she seemed to calm me down when no-one else could. I was basically just a hard-working, quiet, but happy man.
Did you like who you were?
Yes. I miss those days. I was happy, I had at least some effect on the city – perhaps not as much as now, but I wasn’t a monster, and I had my wonderful fiancée.
How would the people who knew you best describe you?
Much as I have above. Quiet, hard-working, introverted. My fiancée liked to call me romantic. I had a black sense of humour and a sharp tongue for things that I disagreed with, people often found it difficult to get past that. I was extremely loyal to my few close friends. I also had a tendency to come across aloof and arrogant, but that was mostly just a façade to cover up chronic shyness, something few people ever saw.
How would someone who disliked you describe you?
I had worked my way from a lower-class life in a terrible apartment in what were basically the slums of Genoa to a comfortable middle-class tenement by the river, and people often focused on that. Many new acquaintances disliked me on sight for my arrogance and quietness, misinterpreting it as an attempt to be rude. In my earlier years, people judged me by my appearance, my skinny body and long hair, but I got past that pretty quickly.
What about a total stranger?
On occasion they were intimidated by my sharp tongue, difficulty with trust and a tendency to wear black. Usually, however, they were friendly and often automatically trusted me, I had charm when I wanted to use it, and they saw I was a decent man.
Did you have an active social life?
Not as such. I kept to myself, went out with the force one or twice a month to dinner or something, or took milady to dinner, but usually I spent all my time at home. I was usually invited, I just found myself more comfortable alone.
A family?
I had severed ties with those who had brought me up. They had never been a family in any more than name to me, so it wasn’t hard. My family was just my fiancée, and I was happy like that. We had considered children, but decided it could wait.
A steady job?
Yes, I was steadily working in the police force.
Good friends, or simply acquaintances?
I had good friends or nothing. There were few good friends, two or three men and women who worked with me and a few others, neighbours and the like, who were close. Really, though, I was an antisocial guy.
How did you expect life to go before the Change turned everything upside down?
We were finally going to get married, just a few weeks after the Change, everything was getting prepared. My work was going brilliantly, I was expecting a transfer, we were going to move out of the city, up into a town in the Dolomites, where the pay was better and the work easier. Life was going swimmingly. Perhaps that should have been the clue.
= What experiences with the supernatural have you had?
I had had only slightly more experience with the supernatural than you would expect of a man who served for 10 years in a city with as much history as Genoa. Ghosts were common, I, if not believing in them, certainly knew that other people did and that was enough. I had seen my share of occult behaviour, I’d even studied it. Vampires. Undead. Mythology. That stuff had interested me right back to my school days and I had seen my share of it.
Did omens manifest before your First Change? Did you take particular note of them?
I suffered from insomnia in the couple of weeks leading up to it. My wife told me that I had been talking in my sleep, twitching. My Rage was bottled up worse than it had ever been, but I assumed it was the stress. Three nights prior, I had shot a man who had killed his wife dead, straight in the head, even though he was not struggling at all. I’d begun to feel uncomfortable and drowsy during the day and had felt bizarre bestial feeling at particularly passionate moments. I put all of this down to stress and anger.
Were you hunted and bitten prior to the Change?
Yes. At about midnight I was patrolling around the area I had used to live. An enormous silver wolf leapt out of an alleyway, sniffed me for a while, half-heartedly bit my left pectoral muscle and then darted back into the alley and disappeared. I was surprisingly unafraid by the experience.
Did you ever have an encounter with a manifested spirit, Ridden or other supernatural entity?
On occasion, yeah, I came across some supernatural stuff. I came across a demon once in the course of my duty, ghosts once or twice and stuff from the spirit realm. I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone, and I didn’t want to. The only person I told was my fiancée.
Were you sceptical of the supernatural? Is there anything you learned to fear?
It’s hard to be sceptical when you’ve seen your fair share of the stuff. I learned a few things about the occult, I learned which superstitions were true and I could pick up the signs of something…unusually evil coming. The main thing I feared though was silver. I never bought anything silver or had it in my house. I know why that was now.
= What was your First Change like?
I was walking in a park in the early evening with my fiancée. We were attacked by a group of louts, I recognised their leader as the lieutenant of a major Mafioso I’d recently put away. A revenge attack, no doubt. They threw me to the leaf-strewn ground and held me down, on of the grunts holding a Desert Eagle to my head. My fiancée tried to run, but three of them caught her. The lieutenant and some grunts. They…they tried to rape her, and make me watch. The golden colours of autumn glowed in the park around me, and suddenly I felt a new moon rise above the horizon. I couldn’t see it, but it was there. I changed, I now know, to Urshul form and ripped her attackers to pieces.
How did your auspice moon affect your Change?
It didn’t directly affect me, I think, except in small ways. I changed to Urshul, rather than Gauru, thus retaining the sanity not to kill everything in sight. I recovered quickly from the Change and retained the presence of mind to dispose of the corpses of my victims. Finally, I didn’t realise I had truly Changed until later. This would be the greatest pain of my First Change.
What stress brought on the Change?
Must I describe it twice?
Did you do anything you regret?
Again, do I have to say it again? Of course I regret so brutally killing those men, deserving or not. Even more so, I regret Changing in front of my fiancée.
Did your Change have ramifications in the mortal world? Are you now hunted by the police, or by someone else?
No. I took enough care that no-one realised what had happened. The only ramifications were my fiancée becoming terrified of what I was. I had thought our love was enough to stand it, and perhaps it would have been in the long term, but she disappeared as soon as the incident concluded.
How does your First Change haunt you today?
I have lost the one time and place in which I was comfortable, I have lost the only person in the world I truly loved. Even worse, I have done this through my own rage, justified though it may have been. Of course I am haunted.
= Who taught you what you are?
Who was your mentor?
The Silver wolf that had marked me in the alleyway came to me shortly after I had finished cleaning the mess I had made. I was gazing at my reflection in the slow-moving river. She came to me and explained who I was, and when I didn’t believe her, she showed me the truth. I only ever knew her by the name of Argent.
Who brought you into werewolf society after your Change?
Argent took me to what I thought was an abandoned house in the city, threw me on the doorstep and ran off into the city. I saw only glimpses of her from that point on. Another reason I came to Marseilles. In the abandoned house, I was introduced to a tribe of Storm Lords, who inducted me and led me through those early days in the Hunt.
Were they expecting you to Change, or did they run across you by accident?
Argent was expecting me to Change soon. She had been loosely following me ever since she marked me, knowing that it was imminent.
Are you related?
No. Well, maybe. I don’t know.
Is your mentor one of the People or someone with wolf blood?
My mentor? Well, my mentors were the tribe of Storm Lords, none of them in particular. So yeah, they were all members of the People.
Do you come from a strong werewolf bloodline, or were you born into a family in which the blood was weak?
I don’t know. I have been told the scent of werewolf is strong with me, so I assume it’s fairly strong, but I don’t know. I’m trying to find out.
= Do you retain any connections to your mortal life?
Are you a “missing person”?
No. I have just severed – or had severed – all the ties I had with my previous life. I quit my job, knowing that I could not survive in an organisation like that with the Rage inside me so brutal. For the first few years, I was a private investigator, but even that was too ordered, and I became more of a vigilante.
Have you been presumed dead?
No. People just always think I’m somewhere else.
Do you retain contact with your family or friends?
No. None from before the change. It hurts too much to talk to them, or I hate them.
Have any of your loved ones been subject to danger due to your new life?
During my First Change, my fiancée was, but since then I haven’t had loved ones, so no.
Do you have any wolf-blooded relatives?
None that I know of. I know none of my family.
= What motivates you?
Do you have issues from your mundane life that still go unresolved?
Yes. I want to find my real family. I want to find my fiancée, see if I can make her understand. Finally, I want to find Argent, so she can explain more of my life to me.
Do you have loved ones to protect, or are you in search of someone who understands?
No loved ones to protect. Just me.
Are there wrongs in your past that need to be righted?
There are a few crimes I haven’t yet avenged, but mostly, I wish to find my real family, a place were hopefully I can belong.
Have your experiences as a werewolf given you new motivation?
They’ve shown me that in this form I can truly make a difference to the world. In this form I can make things right. That motivates me.
Do you want to hold on to a portion of your previous life?
I want to hold on to my love. But she’s already gone.
If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be?
I think you can work that out.
I am Vincent Genio, formerly of the Polizei Italia. These days, I wander the night to avenge the wrongs that are done to me and others.
How old are you?
33
When were you born?
31st August, 1976
How old were you when you underwent the First Change?
28
How long have you been a werewolf?
5 years
Did the Change affect your emotional maturity? For better or worse?
Since Changing, my maturity increased exponentially. That first night was a terrible experience, and it got worse from that point on. I’m not sure whether that was a good thing or not, I came out greatly changed, probably for the better…but the things that happened. I would change them if I could.
Do you look older or younger than your years?
On the surface, I look as old as I am, but in my eyes there lies the age of experience given by someone who’s seen more than anyone should have.
Are you more or less mature than you seem?
On first meeting, I seem quiet and solemn, a man who has suffered much. When you get to know me, you’ll notice my demeanor softens around people I can trust, I’ll laugh more and meditate less. On the whole, I’m probably less mature, but that’s because I seem extremely mature.
= What was unique about your childhood?
There wasn’t much that seemed unique to me. I was just one of the many children who’s parents fight all the time, who live in a world where a few lire off the street is a ticket to eat properly that night.
What do you remember about your early years?
I remember little of my early years. A few vivid images stand out, snapshots from an… interesting childhood. My parents shouting over me in our kitchen. The funeral of my best friend aged 16, dead from drug-induced suicide. Hours spent on the roof of our apartment building, watching the city, sometimes elated, sometimes irate, sometimes crying. A school trip to the Dolomites, the scent of snow and pines and the sight of soft prints in the white.
What was your home life like? Was it idyllic? Troubled? Abusive?
Troubled…you could say that. My parents seemed to be in a permanent state of near-divorce. They’d fight over me, over work, over the house, over the curtains. Whatever it was, they’d fight about it. They never physically abused me or each other, but every night there’d be a battle over the kitchen table. I don’t know how they lived with each other. They were foster-parents, I discovered at about 11 – I’ve looked for my true parents ever since.
Where did you go to school?
I went to a primary public school in Genoa, Italy, for my childhood schooling. There was nothing notable about it, besides a fairly high quotient of bullies and the dregs of society.
Were you a good student?
I tried as hard as I could. I wanted to get out of the pathetic apartment; I wanted to help other people like me get out. Other children bullied me, I was skinny and average in pretty much everything, but I tried. Sometimes, the kids got under my skin, but I internalized much of it.
What is your most powerful childhood memory?
The aforementioned ones. Additionally, my first kiss with my long-standing girlfriend, again, up in the Dolomites, after school ended. It was a beautiful, yet terrifying moment.
Did you go to high school or college?
I went first to a Genoa high school, which was a similar experience to my primary schooling, then to a police college, also in Genoa, where I trained to become an officer. That was much better, the one time in my life that I was truly happy.
Did you have a hometown, or did your family move often?
I had lived in Genua, Italy for my entire life, until I followed the trail of my parents here to Marseilles.
Did you run away from home?
No. As I said, I spent many hours on the roof, gazing at the sky, but I never ran away from home.
Did you play sports?
Not really. My family didn’t have the spare money, and I was concentrating on my schooling. I did spend time walking and jogging through both the city, and the wilderness, when I could get there.
Did any of your childhood friendships last until adulthood?
The girlfriend I mentioned earlier lasted nearly 10 years. Aside that, no, I had few friends in childhood and all of those drifted away from me or died. The rough parts of Genoa are very, very rough.
Did your nascent Rage affect your childhood?
Not really. I internalized most of it. The occasional person caught a blow from it, but mostly they accepted that I had just taken too much and bottled it up too long.
= What kind of person were you?
When? After childhood, before the Change, I was just a policeman. I fought with the pack…well, the department, to keep at least some degree of order in the city. I lived with my fiancée, the same girlfriend of all those years, and we loved each other more than anything. My Rage had never spread to her; she seemed to calm me down when no-one else could. I was basically just a hard-working, quiet, but happy man.
Did you like who you were?
Yes. I miss those days. I was happy, I had at least some effect on the city – perhaps not as much as now, but I wasn’t a monster, and I had my wonderful fiancée.
How would the people who knew you best describe you?
Much as I have above. Quiet, hard-working, introverted. My fiancée liked to call me romantic. I had a black sense of humour and a sharp tongue for things that I disagreed with, people often found it difficult to get past that. I was extremely loyal to my few close friends. I also had a tendency to come across aloof and arrogant, but that was mostly just a façade to cover up chronic shyness, something few people ever saw.
How would someone who disliked you describe you?
I had worked my way from a lower-class life in a terrible apartment in what were basically the slums of Genoa to a comfortable middle-class tenement by the river, and people often focused on that. Many new acquaintances disliked me on sight for my arrogance and quietness, misinterpreting it as an attempt to be rude. In my earlier years, people judged me by my appearance, my skinny body and long hair, but I got past that pretty quickly.
What about a total stranger?
On occasion they were intimidated by my sharp tongue, difficulty with trust and a tendency to wear black. Usually, however, they were friendly and often automatically trusted me, I had charm when I wanted to use it, and they saw I was a decent man.
Did you have an active social life?
Not as such. I kept to myself, went out with the force one or twice a month to dinner or something, or took milady to dinner, but usually I spent all my time at home. I was usually invited, I just found myself more comfortable alone.
A family?
I had severed ties with those who had brought me up. They had never been a family in any more than name to me, so it wasn’t hard. My family was just my fiancée, and I was happy like that. We had considered children, but decided it could wait.
A steady job?
Yes, I was steadily working in the police force.
Good friends, or simply acquaintances?
I had good friends or nothing. There were few good friends, two or three men and women who worked with me and a few others, neighbours and the like, who were close. Really, though, I was an antisocial guy.
How did you expect life to go before the Change turned everything upside down?
We were finally going to get married, just a few weeks after the Change, everything was getting prepared. My work was going brilliantly, I was expecting a transfer, we were going to move out of the city, up into a town in the Dolomites, where the pay was better and the work easier. Life was going swimmingly. Perhaps that should have been the clue.
= What experiences with the supernatural have you had?
I had had only slightly more experience with the supernatural than you would expect of a man who served for 10 years in a city with as much history as Genoa. Ghosts were common, I, if not believing in them, certainly knew that other people did and that was enough. I had seen my share of occult behaviour, I’d even studied it. Vampires. Undead. Mythology. That stuff had interested me right back to my school days and I had seen my share of it.
Did omens manifest before your First Change? Did you take particular note of them?
I suffered from insomnia in the couple of weeks leading up to it. My wife told me that I had been talking in my sleep, twitching. My Rage was bottled up worse than it had ever been, but I assumed it was the stress. Three nights prior, I had shot a man who had killed his wife dead, straight in the head, even though he was not struggling at all. I’d begun to feel uncomfortable and drowsy during the day and had felt bizarre bestial feeling at particularly passionate moments. I put all of this down to stress and anger.
Were you hunted and bitten prior to the Change?
Yes. At about midnight I was patrolling around the area I had used to live. An enormous silver wolf leapt out of an alleyway, sniffed me for a while, half-heartedly bit my left pectoral muscle and then darted back into the alley and disappeared. I was surprisingly unafraid by the experience.
Did you ever have an encounter with a manifested spirit, Ridden or other supernatural entity?
On occasion, yeah, I came across some supernatural stuff. I came across a demon once in the course of my duty, ghosts once or twice and stuff from the spirit realm. I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone, and I didn’t want to. The only person I told was my fiancée.
Were you sceptical of the supernatural? Is there anything you learned to fear?
It’s hard to be sceptical when you’ve seen your fair share of the stuff. I learned a few things about the occult, I learned which superstitions were true and I could pick up the signs of something…unusually evil coming. The main thing I feared though was silver. I never bought anything silver or had it in my house. I know why that was now.
= What was your First Change like?
I was walking in a park in the early evening with my fiancée. We were attacked by a group of louts, I recognised their leader as the lieutenant of a major Mafioso I’d recently put away. A revenge attack, no doubt. They threw me to the leaf-strewn ground and held me down, on of the grunts holding a Desert Eagle to my head. My fiancée tried to run, but three of them caught her. The lieutenant and some grunts. They…they tried to rape her, and make me watch. The golden colours of autumn glowed in the park around me, and suddenly I felt a new moon rise above the horizon. I couldn’t see it, but it was there. I changed, I now know, to Urshul form and ripped her attackers to pieces.
How did your auspice moon affect your Change?
It didn’t directly affect me, I think, except in small ways. I changed to Urshul, rather than Gauru, thus retaining the sanity not to kill everything in sight. I recovered quickly from the Change and retained the presence of mind to dispose of the corpses of my victims. Finally, I didn’t realise I had truly Changed until later. This would be the greatest pain of my First Change.
What stress brought on the Change?
Must I describe it twice?
Did you do anything you regret?
Again, do I have to say it again? Of course I regret so brutally killing those men, deserving or not. Even more so, I regret Changing in front of my fiancée.
Did your Change have ramifications in the mortal world? Are you now hunted by the police, or by someone else?
No. I took enough care that no-one realised what had happened. The only ramifications were my fiancée becoming terrified of what I was. I had thought our love was enough to stand it, and perhaps it would have been in the long term, but she disappeared as soon as the incident concluded.
How does your First Change haunt you today?
I have lost the one time and place in which I was comfortable, I have lost the only person in the world I truly loved. Even worse, I have done this through my own rage, justified though it may have been. Of course I am haunted.
= Who taught you what you are?
Who was your mentor?
The Silver wolf that had marked me in the alleyway came to me shortly after I had finished cleaning the mess I had made. I was gazing at my reflection in the slow-moving river. She came to me and explained who I was, and when I didn’t believe her, she showed me the truth. I only ever knew her by the name of Argent.
Who brought you into werewolf society after your Change?
Argent took me to what I thought was an abandoned house in the city, threw me on the doorstep and ran off into the city. I saw only glimpses of her from that point on. Another reason I came to Marseilles. In the abandoned house, I was introduced to a tribe of Storm Lords, who inducted me and led me through those early days in the Hunt.
Were they expecting you to Change, or did they run across you by accident?
Argent was expecting me to Change soon. She had been loosely following me ever since she marked me, knowing that it was imminent.
Are you related?
No. Well, maybe. I don’t know.
Is your mentor one of the People or someone with wolf blood?
My mentor? Well, my mentors were the tribe of Storm Lords, none of them in particular. So yeah, they were all members of the People.
Do you come from a strong werewolf bloodline, or were you born into a family in which the blood was weak?
I don’t know. I have been told the scent of werewolf is strong with me, so I assume it’s fairly strong, but I don’t know. I’m trying to find out.
= Do you retain any connections to your mortal life?
Are you a “missing person”?
No. I have just severed – or had severed – all the ties I had with my previous life. I quit my job, knowing that I could not survive in an organisation like that with the Rage inside me so brutal. For the first few years, I was a private investigator, but even that was too ordered, and I became more of a vigilante.
Have you been presumed dead?
No. People just always think I’m somewhere else.
Do you retain contact with your family or friends?
No. None from before the change. It hurts too much to talk to them, or I hate them.
Have any of your loved ones been subject to danger due to your new life?
During my First Change, my fiancée was, but since then I haven’t had loved ones, so no.
Do you have any wolf-blooded relatives?
None that I know of. I know none of my family.
= What motivates you?
Do you have issues from your mundane life that still go unresolved?
Yes. I want to find my real family. I want to find my fiancée, see if I can make her understand. Finally, I want to find Argent, so she can explain more of my life to me.
Do you have loved ones to protect, or are you in search of someone who understands?
No loved ones to protect. Just me.
Are there wrongs in your past that need to be righted?
There are a few crimes I haven’t yet avenged, but mostly, I wish to find my real family, a place were hopefully I can belong.
Have your experiences as a werewolf given you new motivation?
They’ve shown me that in this form I can truly make a difference to the world. In this form I can make things right. That motivates me.
Do you want to hold on to a portion of your previous life?
I want to hold on to my love. But she’s already gone.
If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be?
I think you can work that out.
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