#daeren

When he was 19, Daemon was kidnapped by a criminal organization and kept captive in the frontier between Mexico and the US. Due to his beastkin nature, at first they were keeping him as an “exotic pet”, but eventually they decided to have him participate in dog fights. They cropped his ears, docked his tail, and threw him in the ring. He managed to win practically every fight -even if he resulted badly injured- and little by little the fights escalated, first to bigger animals, and then to humans (by the time he was in his early 20’s). Sadly these fights were always to the death, for which Daemon had to learn to kill people to survive. He became really good at it, but didn’t particularly enjoy it.

Luckily, after a while, armed forces arrived to dismantle the safe house where he was being kept, and in the commotion, he escaped to the US (he was afraid he’d be condemned for the murders he had to commit). Through 10 years he made his way up north to avoid being found, hiding his ears and his identity, until he reached Canada. There, life stabilized a little bit, but he continued to keep a low profile.

Until one day, at a bar, he met Ren.

I was thinking the way they’d meet would be different than in the game, as this AU is shared with Azalea, and, well, she was the one to interrupt Law and Ren’s meeting 🤣 So I guess they’d just meet by chance. Daemon would go to the bar for a drink, and Ren would be there trying to get himself a new victim, since Law had gotten away. Then Ren would then approach Dae, convincing him to let him buy him a drink, and well… drug him and take him home.

Finding himself chained and abducted once again REALLY triggered Dae (as his previous captors kept him chained by the neck for years), for which he reacted very aggressively against Ren (despite Ren’s attempted kindness, and despite being surprised to meet another beastkin). But he really couldn’t do much about his situation, due to the collar. So when Ren brought someone (not Lawrence lmao), for Daemon to kill them, Daemon did it without hesitation to show him that he wasn’t afraid to get his hands bloody.

As per the game, Ren gets spooked by this, tries to use the control on him again but they struggle, Daemon overpowers him and strangles him with the chain, but only enough to knock him out. Then puts the collar on him, which freaks Ren out a bit, but being now the one in the position of power helps Daemon calm down a lot. He starts being more gentle with Ren, and when he asks him what does he want, Daemon says that maybe he wants the same thing as Ren does, for he’d never met a beastkin like him before. Tells him that they could try to be friends, WITHOUT the chains and the collar this time, and, well, Ren happily accepts.

So I think that’s all for now, thanks for reading if you did ❤️ Have a cookie 🍪

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