Benjamin Kitangara

**Benjamin (Benji) Kitangara** is an infamous Lycanine from World 7, responsible for causing the great fire of Rotang.

## Appearance

Benji is a small male lycanine with deep brown longish fur fluffing up around his neck, he has darker brown patches on his legs, forehead, tail, neck, and pawpads, as well as cream accents on his tailtip and face forming a mask pattern. His nose and claws are a brownish grey, and his eyes are two-tone greyish blue. Around his neck he wears a red woven silk collar with two long ribbons flowing from it alongside a grey hook on the front, his tail is also permanently bent, having been broken long ago in several places by the bite of his angered cousin.

## Personality

A royal lycanine originally from Rotang, Benji lives in hopes of righting the destruction of his past that caused outcry in the capital. He is calm and collected never allowing anger to surface without dire cause, and beneath his usually unwavering expression he is friendly and warm to those around him, despite preferring time alone or with quiet company. Benji cares deeply for the cause of his peers to change the old laws of the land and is more than willing to devote himself to it in the name of justice, preferring their peaceful approach to resolution over anything violent, knowing full well hate and aggression will only cause more harm than good.

## History

### Pre-Series

Originally born Benjamin Kitangara in the kingdom of Rotang (Kyten, World 7) as cousin to the current ruler’s beloved son, Benji grew up in the palace alongside his extended family of lycanines there. He was a spoilt child and more than often got his way, and though on the surface he was friends with his royal cousin, the two would often clash, the prince embracing the worldwide religion of luck and proudly planning to continue it during his reign. Benji however renounced the tradition, claiming their practices outdated and on occasion downright barbaric, baffled by the prince’s readiness to support the massacre on guardian tails among other pressures put on the species when he himself as a lycanine would never experience their struggles. When Benji was 19 and the crowning of the prince was due the following day, the two found themselves in a violent heated argument over the future of the kingdom, Benji’s tail was broken by the prince’s bite in several places during the fight, and in defence he knocked over a large decorative firebrand onto the other. The prince’s fur set alight alongside the decor of the room and Benji fled the scene in terror, unable to face what he had caused as the fire spread throughout the palace, he managed to escape the grounds and over the kingdom walls as he watched the destruction from afar. Benji took one last look at his disgraced home before fleeing into the wilderness, he would never return to Rotang.

Benji spent the remainder of his life between the kingdoms, living alone outside their laws in the forests of Kyten, now going solely by his shortened nickname. He was never certain of the extent of the damage he had caused that day, only that the prince and many others inside the palace had perished to the fire, he took to wearing a red ribbon collar around his neck so the ruby flames of his past would always follow him, a reminder to never again allow his anger to cause such destruction. He would later befriend the ABT’s, a camp of guardians also living nearby and fighting against the kingdoms in a similar effort to change their laws for the future, and whilst they frequently offered him housing with their group, Benji would prefer to spend his days alone, only visiting on occasion or when his help was required. As such, he would accompany the ABT’s that fateful day for their final attack on the capital, waiting with the others for Vasa’s signal, one that would never come as the world began to break apart, and Benji alongside the countless others on his world were splintered across the void.