Enzo/Introduction

Enzo didn't grow up in the traditional way most garou or kinfolk grow up. He grew up in a specialized lab just outside Los Angeles, where every sunrise was fluorescent and most of his early interactions with people came through a speaker and protective glass. The Cyber Dogs called it a "controlled developmental environment." Enzo learned to think of it as the place where people waited to see if he would turn into something useful.

His mother, Black-Eye, tried to teach him what she could in the early days before his first change: stories about Gaia, spirits, and the way garou were meant to live. Predictably, in this situation, his first chance wasn't a moment of destiny. It was a test. Nicodemus Ferro, the Theurge who bred him, pushed him into it with fear, noise, and pain. The frenzy that followed broke half the room and killed the people who weren't fast enough. When it was over, they called it a success. Then they started rebuilding him. Cybernetics were added piece by piece: reflex mesh under the skin, optic implants, nanotech that could reshape his bones and muscles if you pushed it hard enough. They called him the future of the tribe and he learned to keep quiet and survive the upgrades.

Everything else he learned of the human world came from the things his keepers fed him. Old televisions on rolling carts to play: Action movies, cop shows, late-night stand-up, and cartoons when they needed him calm. By the time he hit adulthood, Enzo knew more about sitcom timing and movie one-liners than he did about running with a real pack. It was clumsy socialization, but it left him with a sense of humor that stuck even after everything else was stripped away.

Once he was free of the lab he spent years in a mixed Glass Walker pack in LA, running raids and taking down Spiral nests until the night most of them didn't return. Only he and Frankie made it out, and neither of them likes to talk about the details. Houston came after that. Not because it was safer, but because they had kinfolk there who still remembered their names and could help them make a new home.