Yufei

QUICK BIO

Yufei is a dogman (werewolf that doesn't transform) that found a corpse, was going to eat it, and then things went awry and he ended up in the dead guy's body. Yufei is actually the dead man's name which he started using because it was on the work badge attached to his belt, read for him by a helpful hiker totally perplexed why a guy dressed like a janitor was ten miles into the forest.

He's been human for about two weeks and it's not going great! He thought this would be so easy too.

WORLD / BACKSTORY

Dogmen are what people call bipedal werewolf like creatures, approximately eight feet tall. They're not humans that can turn into wolves, the dogman form is their natural state. Living in small packs they roam the forests hunting, deer, cougars, stray humans that wander too far into their territory. Whenever they're hungry, anything is food, but they hunt for fun as well, for the thrill of the kill. They're vicious, territorial, and intelligent.

In the pacific northwest the packs are extremely spread out, though they'll attack each other on sight. For the most part they're the apex predator around, and they'll live until they're killed, usually hundreds of years. There's a few roads that cut through the forest, single lane, sometimes dirt, always treacherous. Generally the packs avoid the roads, there's nothing there for them, but for one member, who was more curious than others, the road was a constant source of fascination.

While padding along one of the dirt roads during a severe storm he came across a car, mangled and smoking, the doors torn off the hinges from colliding with a tree. Sniffing around he jumped on top of the vehicle, ripping it apart with his claws to get the tasty treat of a human out of it. Grabbing the corpse in his jaws he headed into the forest to chow down. But something felt strange, like he was being watched; setting the body down he put a paw on it, ready to defend his dinner from whatever this was. Probably one of those big hairy people that liked to throw rocks.

Instead what he saw were dozens of black shadowy figures peering at him from the edge of a clearing. For a moment they stood there, watching then all as one they charged owards him, though they didn't seem interested in him, they wanted the corpse, and seemed very focused on that specifically. So while the dogman snarled and snapped and swiped them with his claws, they managed to get the body away from him and literally vanish into the woods. Being a cryptid himself he was used to supernatural things, but this was completely different.

Even though they had disappeared, he had their scent and could track them for miles with only that. He tore through the woods, bursting in on them as they were doing some sort of ceremony, the corpse laying in the middle of a strange glowing sigil with blood flowing out of it. Dug into the ground beneath it were channels leading to small dishes collecting the blood. As that happened there was sand starting to pour into the body from nine hourglasses that sat shattered around the edge of the circle. The dogman had no idea what the intention was here, but he also didn't care, entirely focused on his stolen snack.

And that's how a dogman charged into a demonic possession ceremony and knocked everything over, ruined the ceremony, and got himself trapped in a dead guy's body.

One moment he was slashing and snarling, shoving one of the shadow figures down into the blood and causing an unholy shrieking sound before it was consumed into ash. But the next moment he felt like he'd jumped into a frozen river, his body completely stiff and numb. He tried to wail and yelp, but no sound came out.

Then he woke up.

Startled he flailed, elbowing the steering wheel and causing the horn to sound, then jerking backwards because how was he in the car? He hadn't been in the car, he couldn't even fit in the car.

There was a lot more scrambling and he tumbled out the open door, catching himself on his hands in the dirt, and finally actually seeing his hands.

Well, there's that screaming he had tried to do earlier.